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wearevillaneve · 2 years

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It's not your imagination. A LOT of people hated the finale of Killing Eve. (KilltheTrope.org)

#killing eve #killing eve reactions #killing eve reviews #i hate it so much #you do too #everybody does #ke s4 #epic fail #bury your gays trope #killing eve billboard project #i blame sally woodward gentle #no forgiveness #fuck laura neal

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annemarieyeretzian · 2 years

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ellapastoral · 9 months

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In the many shows and movies, it was common for LGBTQ characters to be killed off as a plot device, a trope known as "Bury Your Gays." However, Star Trek: Discovery has subverted this trope by featuring several prominent LGBTQ characters who not only survive, but are also integral to the show's main storylines. This video will discuss this.

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tweekscoffeebean · 2 years

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Milkvan fans on youtube and face book. “ I m a Will fan , but , I hope he sacrifices himself in season 5 to save El so she can be a normal girl and have a happy ending with mike. It would be so poetic and romantic. “

I have a better idea, why don’t we stop killing gay characters to further ‘straight’ characters plot lines.

How about we have repressed Mike wheeler break up with El after Will is put in danger and he realizes he is in love with his best friend. Why don’t we have El realize she needs friends and family bonds more then forced romantic ones.

How about we don’t want to kill our so called favourite character just cause he’s gay.

This isn’t just about Byler or Mileven anymore for me. This is about the disgusting homophobic idea that its ‘romantic’ for a gay character to sacrifice himself so the ‘straight’ boring forced straight couple can ride off into the sunset like some kind of damn Disney fairy tale.

This is why the bury your gays trope is so dangerous. It not a only tells queer people that we aren’t worth love or happiness, but it also tells the straight audience that we aren’t either.

Enough is enough.

Sorry for the rant im just so disgusted a so called Will fan thinks it would be neat to sacrifice him for El’s happiness.

#stop burying your gays #blyler #serously #i m disgusted #stranger things.#byler tumblr #bury your gays trope

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orionsangel86 · 4 days

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I like the new twist on the bury you gays trope

They are still dead, but we unburied them. Their ghosts are now haunting the narrative forever. Yeah they are still being gay and dramatic but they have eternity to figure it out. Literally can not get rid of these gays now. They don't even have bodies to bury. Can't send em to superhell they'll climb right back out.

#dead boy detectives #bury your gays #oops wait no they are undead now #immortalise your gays #its a favourite trope of mine #edwin payne #charles rowland #payneland

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gayingawaythepray · 2 years

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huefaced · 29 days

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IDK how to describe it but you can literally feel the difference between gay characters being killed off due to the creator being homophobic (implicitly or explicitly) versus gay characters being killed off bc the creator is gay but loves rubbing their angsty little hands together while their audience cries.

#angst #bury your gays #tropes #alien stage #<< the series that prompted this post btw #writing

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tsugarubecker · 2 years

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screenshots taken from this beautiful gifset

Broke: bury your gays

Woke: gays do the burying 😎👉

#not me wondering if this was a PURPOSEFUL SUBVERSION OF THE BURY YOUR GAYS TROPE akfkgkgk #st spoilers #stranger things spoilers #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #stranger things season 4 #fuck bury your gays #st s4 #st s4 spoilers #st4 spoilers #1k #1000 notes! :)#2k #🥳

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regicidal-defenestration · 6 months

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"Bury your gays" is out "strangle your gays with hope, string them up with visions of a life where they can be happy until they rot away, have one of your gays fight against this god of hope and letting it bleed out on the floor, him and the man he loves breaking free as the sun rises but leave us with the possibility that your gays aren't free at all" is the hot new trope

#*not implying that anything close to the bury your gays trope happens in tsv #but like WHAT AN EPISODE I love it I things when we take a moment to explore how the world is kinda fucked up to everyone not just ourr #main cast #the silt verses

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starport-rodeo · 2 years

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all i’m saying is the duffers better keep that “bury your gays” shit out of vol. 2 because i won’t lose them

#I can’t keep doing this with this trope #eddie munson #steve harrington #robin buckley #nancy wheeler #will byers #mike wheeler #steddie #ronance #byler #stranger things #stranger things 4 #stranger things 4 spoilers #bury your gays

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wearevillaneve · 2 years

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#killing eve #killing eve reactions ke s4 #bury your gays trope #end it already #fight the good fight #killing eve twitter

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waywardtfw · 6 months

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You know what??? Screw tumblr era fan-fiction. I’m going to start writing fan fiction about the Epic of Gilgamesh. Clearly we need to tackle this issue at the root. Team Gilgamesh/Enkidu for life!!!!!

#bury your gays #enkidu #gilgamesh #enimies to friends to lovers #fridging #destiel #merthur #spirk #clexa #supercorp #heros journey #tropes #fanfiction #stucky #let them be happy

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hannibal-is-my-comfort-show · 6 months

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#suffering is his middle name BUT being a cockroach is his game #stuck in an eternal limbo between tropes #plot armor vs bury your gays #and neither is winning anytime soon #*dreamy sigh* hes sooooo tortured 😍#anyway #love my unkillable cockroach twink of a wife #god bless yall #<3 #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #netflix #hannibal netflix #frederick chilton #frederick chilton supremacy #renew hannibal #revive hannibal #hannibal crack

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allieangel44 · 1 month

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If Johnny really wants to tell the full story of mk1 via media then hes fighting a battle for so much lgbt+ rep

Like yeah Liutana and Ashroth are there but Taleena and Railao are there as well! Not to mention Johnny's own bf. Fighting for a Taleena kiss, more Railao bantering like a married couple, any scene with him and Kenshi

#mortal kombat #johnny cage #taleena #railao #johnshi #also an uphill battle against the bury your gays trope #kung lao survived this time but the hollywood execs are eyeing him up #( つ ◕‿◕ )つ

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chirpsythismorning · 9 months

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Just watched Brokeback Mountain for the first time and I need to talk about it.

Throughout the movie, we see Ennis experience a lot of intense discomfort and fear at the idea of being intimate with a man, despite it becoming abundantly clear in the details and based on his actions that that is indeed what he wants. He even admits to Jack that this fear stems from an experience he had at a young age, when his father showed him two men who were presumed to be lovers (they were roommates vibes), murdered and castrated, with him basically using it as a lesson to show Ennis that being gay was wrong and would get you killed.

Jack on the other hand was a little less discomforted or fearful at the idea of being with a man, in that we actually saw him return the following summer to Brokeback Mountain hoping Ennis would be there, only for him to show up alone. We saw how after this he confidently approached a man at the bar hoping to get to know him, only to get rejected and risk getting hate crimed (foreshadowing 😭). And we saw how, over time, Jack’s struggle had more to do with being hurt over Ennis’ unwillingness to commit or even just consider the possibility of them being together long term, even despite the risk of being gay in the 60’s.

Near the end of the film, upon Jack’s death, Ennis discovers from his father that over the past 20 years since they met at Brokeback Mountain, Jack constantly brought it up to his folks, how Ennis, his friend, was going to move up to their ranch and they were going to build a cabin and live together and take over for the family.

Jack was often the one in the moment taking the chances for them to be together. He was the one who mentioned that they could go to Mexico, with Ennis furiously rejecting it saying ‘you know what happens to people like you there??’

But what’s even more painful, is that in this same scene, Ennis’ acknowledges the truth more directly, and why it’s so painful is because it ends up ironically coming true:

Here, Ennis is basically saying that if he decides to be with Jack for real, aka faces his queerness head on, that’s going to be the thing that gets them (Jack) killed. Shortly after this, Jack loses it and has that infamous ass monologue, followed by Ennis breaking down over how it’s Jack’s fault that he’s this way in the first place.

In the end, when Jack dies, Ennis finds out about what happened from Jack’s wife, Lureen Newsome, who said Jack was pumping up a flat out on a backroad when his tire blew up, with the rim of the tire slamming his face, breaking his nose and jaw, and knocking him unconscious on his back. By the time someone drove by on the deserted backroad, he had drowned in his own blood.

The audience might’ve believed this story, if it wasn’t for how rehearsed it sounded coming out of Lureen’s mouth, but it also doesn’t help that images of Jack being hate crimed as his true cause of death are flashing across Ennis’s mind in real time while Lureen is telling him about the ‘accident’.

While it’s left up to interpretation, it’s implied from what his wife and father said, that Jack was hate-crimed by his father in law, with it being covered up.

Broken nose? Broken jaw?… Those are the kinds of wounds someone endures after being beaten up. And if it’s happening to the point of death, then he was essentially beaten to death.

This then fits into what Jack’s father said, because apparently, shortly before he died, he’d told his father he’d found a different friend that was going to come up there to the ranch with him. And so it’s very likely Lureen’s father caught wind of this as his plans to leave neared, leading to his murder (Jack also bitched his father in law tf out in an epic way, which on its own felt unnecessary in the moment, but within the context of this makes a whole lot more sense).

Either way, it seems Jack waited for Ennis to change his mind. 20 years he waited, and when Ennis didn’t, Jack finally moved on with someone else who made an offer of his own years before, only to get murdered just as Ennis feared he would if he decided to live his life authentically.

Ennis initially found out like this, in a postcard that bounced of him inquiring Jack about seeing each other again after that last massive fall out where they had, only for Ennis’s worst fear to be realized:

Nov 7th with deceased stamped across it has me spiraling 😭

Now, obviously Brokeback Mountain is one of the most well known queer films of all time, like there’s no denying that. So it’s fairly easy to assume ST could be taking some inspiration from this film just like they have with hundreds upon hundreds of other films. But especially if they are planning to go the queer route, homage to this film is pretty much guaranteed (there’s also one more reason it might be guaranteed, but I’m saving that for the end 🤣).

Regardless, as you can probably already tell, it’s very easy to see similarities between Ennis with Mike and Jack with Will.

Mike getting the ‘you see Michael? You see what happens?’ treatment from his father, in the first episode in the series, is very Ennis coded in that this is a TV show that follows that up with seasons of Mike pushing Will away from him, with it leading to a boiling point where he says, ‘What did you think? Really? That we were never gonna get girlfriends? That we were just gonna sit in my basement in play games for the rest of our lives?’ with Will responding, ‘Yeah. I guess I did. I really did,’ aka extremely Jack coded.

The really epic thing about this though, is that ST is clearly going on a different journey than Brokeback Mountain did, in that it’s simply subverting the bury your gays trope. While they are acknowledging the risk of being queer in the 80’s, they’re not letting it end ‘realistically’ like many people have insisted it must because that is the only option. And this will be a satisfying ending because it’s coming as a response to all those heartbreaking stories before it that have reinforced this idea that happy endings just aren’t an option for gay people who simply want to be together.

While Ennis and Jack didnt get their happy ending like they wanted, Mike and Will on the other hand 😏

And last but not least, on a more hilariously ironic note, the guy who Jack was going to settle for in the end instead of Ennis, was a guy named Randall Malone, played by none other than David fucking Harbour.

#byler #stranger things #brokeback mountain #am I late to the party #yes yes I am #but I was puny when this movie came out so I am just catching up 😭#anyways #I balled my eyes out at the end when Ennis’a worst fear came true #it sucked #although it followed the bury your gays trope #I will say it was still good in that it presented the risk from the very beginning #so the foreshadowing was there at least 😔#anyways will is so jack coded 😭#the way he excitedly drove to meet up with ennis after he found out about his divorce bc he thought it meant they could be together now #only for ennis to be like nothing changes if anything we have to see each other even less 😭#and jack just drives home balling 😭

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gaypirateslife4me · 6 months

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I survived Buffy and Faith. (BtVS)

I survived Dean and Cas. (SPN)

I survived Olivia and Alex. (SVU)

I survived Sherlock and Watson. (Sherlock)

I survived Bucky and Steve, AND Sam and Steve, AND Bucky and Sam. (MCU)

I survived Clark and Lexa (t100).

I am currently surviving Will and Mike, Steve and Eddie, AND Nancy and Robin. (Stranger Things)

I have suffered through: queerbaiting; "everyone experiments in college"; queer coded? - they must be the villain!; "the inherent tragedy of gayness" (repression, AIDs, violence, hatred); girl-on-girl male fanservice; "pray the gay away"; and, most personally painful, "bisexuals aren't real, they just need to pick a side". (I mean, I am though?)

I have been fully and irrevocably traumatized by having to watch my beloved queers be buried over & over & over.

I have literally spent three-and-a-half decades in a toxic, abusive relationship with (not so) queer media.

Upon recommendation of multiple queer friends, I (skeptically, cynically, borderline angrily) watched their so-called "GAY PIRATE (affectionate)" comedy, and was gobsmacked.

Our Flag Means Death gave us: well-rounded characters that are 'no-room-for-guessing, even-your-deeply-repressed-insufferable-republican-uncle-can-see-it queer! Multiple queers with disabilities! Neurodivergent queers! A genderqueer pirate so slay I lose my breath every time they are on screen! Sex between mlm not reduced to 1) tittilation or 2) the raunchy punchline of a mean joke! An unapologetic celebration of Found Family! Drag treated with respect, and as a catalyst for openly queer joy! A fabulous gay wedding! And that's not to mention the loving, romantic, complicated, vulnerable, beautiful relationship between the two male protagonists!

I saw it. with my own two eyeballs. for the first time ever. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I assumed everyone must be as thrilled, honored, and overjoyed as I am for all the rep, positivity, and LOVE.

I was wrong.

It breaks my queer little heart that so many people on this glorious hellsite are furious, indignant, and quick to cancel the characters, the actors, the writers, and the showrunners for not being spoon-fed perfect queer characters in perfect queer relationships for perfect queer rep in ACTUAL queer media that exists! In canon!

It hurts to be vilified for being a fan who refuses to condemn the show and for loving concerningly imperfect and deeply-flawed queer characters.

I am sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, LOVE WON. We won. Please stop coming into my house (blog) and pissing all over my rainbow parade.

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