shouldve trotted this out this morning but i spent all dang day flyin to texas. now that i am settled i am here to let you know barnes & noble is having a sale on preorders that includes BURY YOUR GAYS so great time to order if you have not already
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Okay, listen up.
And listen WELL here.
Can we FREAKING NOT wish the death of Tommy on the show?!
Idc if you're a buddie fan, if you hate Tommy for whatever reason, or etc; wanting to kill a character who is confirmed canonicaly queer is messed up and I'm pretty sure the LGBT community has had enough of the "Bury your gays" trope to last a life time here.
I also get that there's a confirmed dead person on the show that 911BTS let slip, but again wishing or celebrating that it could be Tommy is messed up.
You're excited about Bi Buck but wish him more trauma of having his love interest killed off? You're excited about Bi Buck but applaud and or wish the death of a queer character? Seriously?
Reevaluate your interest in actually wanting to see queer characters thrive in media.
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A (5 star) review of Bury Your Gays, by @drchucktingle!
I read this book in one sitting. I did not plan to read this book in one sitting, but I could not put it down, accepting that my lunch break was now an extended reading break. Bury Your Gays was just that good.
It starts simple. Screenwriter Misha has been told by his exec that the season finale of his show must out, then kill the two leads. He needs to bury his gays because the board has determined it's where the money is. Misha says no. Then starts getting stalked by his (definitely fictional, right?) characters from other shows. Either Misha developed some incredible supernatural powers in that meeting, or something more sinister is at work…
Bury Your Gays illustrates why queer people should be allowed to tell the stories they want to tell, instead of being made to use queerbating, tragic tropes, or fake relentless optimism in the name of corporate Pride. It's a story about the queer struggle to find oneself in a world that makes it so, so hard. There's a lot of love for the queer community poured into this book, and oh does it shines. I especially adored the ace rep - and the concept of ace rep as a plot point. I shall not explain further. However, I am more scared than ever of the corporatization of Pride.
Bury Your Gays also criticizes capitalism's monetization of tragedy and exploitation of workers. It explores what happens when ethics are ignored in the name of an ever-growing profit margin, to the point where the bottom line becomes a near-sentient thing. It leans into the horrors of AI and data-mining by combining the two and going all the way with it. Chuck Tingle has acknowledged all my fears of black box algorithms and also made them ten times worse. Truly a feat! I will be sleeping with my router off!
It's a masterpiece of horror, both visceral and psychological. Since the main character is a horror writer, the story is very genre aware. There's a lot of fun to be had in the tale of "writer being followed by the monsters he wrote," and certainly no small amount of terror. It gets gory here and there, with plenty of suspense in between. Hints are laid out for the reader, enough where I was occasionally able to predict what was coming just a page or two before it landed. My jaw dropped multiple times! The writing is descriptive enough to pull you right in (and gross you out!), and it's paced near-perfectly. There's all these little moments sprinkled in that elevate the whole story, from fun references of other work to subtle clues you'll only catch on a reread.
This book will be living in my head rent-free from now on. It's about so many things and yet has interwoven them all perfectly. Fans of classic horror movies will love this story. Those of us fed up with AI generated trash will love it. Anyone who joined a WGA picket line will love it. Asexuals fed up with lack of representation will love it. People who watched multiple seasons of Supernatural will love it. Is that you? Go pick up Bury Your Gays. Be scared, be sad, be angry. But also validated, loved, and joyful.
TLDR: Read this book when it comes out on July 9!
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I love how Isobel and Dame Aylin flip a few tropes on their heads but I just realized one trope we all hate to see that gets obliterated by them is "bury your gays"
Isobel was dead in the ground and Aylin was imprisoned in Shar's domain to be killed and resurrected over and over again for a century. Isobel gets resurrected by Myrkul and Aylin is freed by the player (depending on your actions) and the two are finally reunited to presumably live happily ever after.
BG3 said fuck you, unburies your gays.
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We went from “Bury Your Gays” to “Just Cancel the Show Instead” real quick and I honestly can’t say which is fucking worse at this point.
Honestly, finally giving the queer community good, wholesome, and non-toxic content only to have it ripped away for no articulable reason (WN has the highest critic score of any Netflix show ever) is feeling worse than outright killing queer characters.
At least we knew not to get attached when they were shooting us.
Disrespectfully, fuck you, Netflix.
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it is only a matter of time before tumblr understands what this means
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The latest episode of Our Opinions Are Correct is about queer horror...It's a scary time for LGBTQIA+ folks — and many of us are seeking out queer horror stories to help us get through it! To find out why, we talk to @drchucktingle, author of the upcoming Bury Your Gays. Plus what makes a soundtrack scary?
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"Ah, the adventurers are finally coming to fight me? Well then. I guess I'd better get ready for the tumblr hatemail"
"Because I'm about to bury some gays"
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