• yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    If you watched that many seasons and you didn’t see the Castiel and Dean queerbaiting, you are never going to see queerbaiting

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      8 months ago

      Have you tried entertaining the thought that you’re expecting things where they don’t logically make sense? If you want a real example of queen baiting look at The Magicians. It had one of the most emotional deepest bonding episodes between two of the male main characters who -

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      lived an entire life together, decades, kids, I sobbed. And then they killed one of them right before they could get together. THATS the shit you should be upset about. Not this weird ass very clearly fanfiction between a straight man and an asexual.

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      8 months ago

      Haven’t seen Supernatural but Traegert says the character is ace and that makes me feel the need to weigh in. It’s not queerbaiting if the character they don’t make gay after all is canonically ace. Putting them in a gay relationship would be ace erasure, and would be acebaiting. Sure, maybe it’s gaybaiting, but revealing a gay-coded character is actually ace doesn’t in any way diminish the amount of queer in the show.

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          8 months ago

          Okay are these the explicitly “I love and want to fuck you, a woman, because I am a straight heterosexual man” kind of love interests, or are you just interpreting them that way?

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            8 months ago

            I don’t know about love but that man fucks. There was this one steamy kiss with a woman, mentions of him having lovers, and he even had a wife