Please interpret "favorite" however you like. Could be your favorite pairing that you like to rage against the network for refusing to make canon. The pairing you love to hate. The pairing you hate to love. The pairing you watched a whole entire series for even though you knew that the creators following through on their queerbaity nonsense was a pipe dream. Your favorite pairing to read/write/make fanfiction or fan art or gifs or manips or fan art for. Etc...
I tried to limit it to pairings with lots of canon chemistry but no canon romance. I'm sure I missed some and hope you'll add them in the tags.
did y'all know someone wrote their whole dissertation on queerbaiting & used ouat, supernatural, & supergirl as their main sources?? you queen, if you see this just know i read it & i respect u
filipino twitter describing 2022's darna and valentina dynamic as "supercorp meets miraculous ladybug but make it pinoy" is the funniest thing i've seen today because holy shit they are correct!
With season 2 of Wednesday confirmed, and all the promo interviews being said, older sapphic fans are hearing the beginnings of a tune and dance we've seen before. "Not writing out the possibility of (x female ship)" all the while giving more promo to the het ship; personally reminding me of Supergirl using queer fans for views all the while having a good majority of air time be spent dragging Lena and Kara's relationship through the ringer.
And yet despite that, Supercorp fans who were there from the start managing to keep creating wonderful works of fanart to keep the ship alive, despite the show itself desperately trying to make heterosexual relationships the ship(s) to "root" for despite the people making the show knowing people wanted the sapphic ship over a hetero ship.
Wednesday and Enid's relationship may follow along like Kara and Lena's or maybe in an unexpected twist Netflix allows the showrunners to make it happen; regardless I think that as long as fans don't let questionable decisions about the show and their characters kill the want to create fan-works for WenClair, Wenclair shippers and the ship will be fine. (once again look at Supercorp as an example, it might not have been canon, but the fan-works are still happening, and it's hard to deny how close Lena and Kara were at the end of the series.)
Canon may be one thing, but it's not like Fanon is less valid now a days. So whatever is headed towards Sapphic Wednesday fans, keep creating that good sapphic juice.
writing a supergirl fanfic and it is a very strongly worded ‘fuck you’ to canon. CW, i hope you go bankrupt and that both sides of your pillow are always warm and your stock prices are shot to oblivion <3
gay fic writers be Normal about affection challenge. ssstop making me fall in love w yall. im gonna write love letters and propose to every single one of u
Would anyone be interested in my tier list of “queerbait ships” but the categories are:
Actual queerbait
Queercoded not queerbaited
Not actually queerbait because there is actual queer rep in the show/movie but what you wanted was the 2 white characters to kiss Nd you got mad when they didn’t
I don’t watch a lot of TV but I’m assuming people are throwing Talder into the queer baiting pile right next to Supercorp or..? I dunno guys, I stopped watching Supergirl after season 5. I kept a few tabs on it, but I know they didn’t become canon. They’re on my list with Bechloe.
I love the ships, but I swear it’s like they get a bunch of scenes that make us say “okay, now kiss,” and then one of them just gets thrown at a guy or something at the end.
Sorry to all those new to queerbaiting, it’s a sad road.
Sorry in turn, to all those who have been here before and who haven’t given up hope.
And finally, sorry to all those who had to give up hope, who went through it so many times that they don’t even hope for the best because at this point it probably is just more queerbaiting.