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Broke: bury your gays

Woke: gays do the burying 😎👉

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.

"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

Seriously, and I can’t stress this enough;

FUCK. THIS. SHIT.

It’s the fact that in MW3 Ghost puts his hand over Soaps’s heart when he checks his pulse. It’s the fact that he checks his pulse when he’s been shot in the head. It’s the fact that he shakes his head, does a double take when he confirms that he’s gone.

It’s the fact that Ghost lost him

youve heard of bury your gays, now introducing unbury your gays, where every tv show that has ever killed off gay people is law mandated to remake the show from that point onwards

Happy November 5th to those who celebrate

Okay alright maybe I'll read the comics now that I know Aaron and Jesus couple-up and kill Beta together and get married, that's fuckin rad

absolutely love van surviving the woods in yellowjackets bc u know she did that out of spite. like first no air mask during the crash, then stuck in her seat almost set on fire then eaten by wolves 😭 if i was her i would’ve been the first to start eating people idgaf

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

I have never watched supernatural and I will never watch supernatural everything I know about supernatural has been told to me against my will. and I absolutely love learning about it when it trends again every time there’s an important anniversary or literally any other show has a similar plot point

I am once again BEGGING folks in the critrole fandom to understand that terms for problematic queer tropes have actual meaning and context.

Queerbaiting cannot exist in the context of "the queer relationship I prefer didn't happen but another one did." Nor does it mean "a queer character doesn't get into a relationship with someone they're implied to be attracted to." It cannot exist because one character you wanted to be queer was not confirmed as such and did not have the chance to explore a relationship the fandom wanted, in spite of a plethora of other queer characters and relationships in the media.

Because queerbaiting means an intended, marketed implication that there would be a central queer relationship that was never actually going to be delivered on, in an effort to attract queer audiences without alienating straight/homophobic ones.

Bury Your Gays cannot exist in the context of "character I ship in a queer relationship died." It cannot exist in the context of "other characters of canonical queer status lived." It cannot exist if the story and setting otherwise strongly and repeatedly refute the idea that any experienced queer happiness must be punished. It cannot exist if the character you're talking about has not been confirmed queer.

Because Bury Your Gays is a term for introducing a queer character into an otherwise straight work (usually in a tokenistic way) and then killing them off without ceremony or purpose—often or, depending on the definition, exclusively just after they have started or consummated a relationship, as it is an implication that queer happiness must be punished as a cosmic rule of the setting.

These tropes virtually cannot be present in a work if they are otherwise refuted by the work itself due to the presence of other queer characters. They suggest a rule of the narrative that queerness is anathema to the narrative and world, and cannot be allowed to exist, which cannot apply if the world and narrative is otherwise very supportive of queerness. In fact, the context of these tropes when they were established implied that this was applicable to the only queer person or relationship in a work, because in the context of their inception, it was nearly unfathomable to have even a semi-mainstream media with numerous queer characters and queerness normalized and expected within the setting.

EXTREMELY specific parameters would have to be met to have either of these tropes in particular present in Exandria at this point, and even then, the question of whether or not it would still apply given the conceit of the setting's relationship to queerness and gender as well as the improvisational format of the medium is something that would take whole dissertations to discuss and come to anything approaching a definitive answer.

Like tbh I knew the finale was gonna be a hot mess bc HBO cut 2 episodes out which is already insanely rough to fit all the content needed for a narrative tv series, but the fact that HBO didn't even let them have 40mins to an hour for their finale episode and had them finish it off in 30 MINUTES is ridiculous.

Fuck publishing companies, I hope if they do get renewed for the final season they get back 10 episodes and are allowed to have more time to write before principal photography, they did their best with what they had but it's hard not to mourn the loss of the little moments and the time to breathe between scenes.

Fucking blank staring at my screen at the shit dc is doing with trinity. Why cant women exist without making it about men. Why are they making DIANA’s daughter be defined by her relationship with damian and… jon🤢. Instead of with the amazons.

Fuck the important themes of sisterhood and family among the amazons wonder woman needs to be about men

It’s been said before and the fact that I’m an Izzy simp aside like having a character who survives the most certain death shit ever (shooting himself in the head at point blank) and literally being nicknamed by another character “indestructible” and then become a symbol of protection for a whole group of people die from a fucking bullet to the side that was established in universe to have no vital organs in order to “atone for his sins” or however you wanna spin it and have him say he wants to go after (see point one) literally trying to kill himself in the show that is literally about growth and betterment of the self in a cruel world that wants you dead and where the main (and mostly queer) characters survive the most batshit insane injuries is like COSMICALLY stupid writing like I don’t even understand how you get there and the fact that it’s supposed to be a kind/ happy/meaningful ending is beyond me

im literally one gifset away from writing a fix-it fic for tae-ha and yeon-ju