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*sobbing* eddie munson would have loved the byers twins *back to sobbing*

I need Will to have a gun and for Mike to just have a full blown gay panic in the next season

Steve helpfully offering his hand to everyone boarding the boat, only to get ignored or unnoticed every single time. that’s it, that’s the post

ever get anonymous homophobes in your inbox and don’t know how to respond? fear not, i’ve made a meme for that

This.

“queerbaiting” vs “straight-baiting”

with all the recent “controversy” surrounding the whole “mike likes el” thing, i just want to say this so that people don’t get in over themselves. 

as others have said before, doubt is important for both sides to stay engaged. they need us to remain hooked in so we’ll watch s5 and generate revenue and blah blah blah. 

but just remember (looking at u heteros) queerbaiting is a very real thing, and “straight-baiting” does not exist. like at all. 

queerbaiting is a term used to describe our very real exclusion from mainstream media. it’s honestly quite malicious, because showrunners and filmmakers use queer audiences as a pawn. they never intend to represent us, they just want to lure us in so they can maximise their views and profits. 

which just means, yet again, that mainstream media will invariably pander to the GA, which is why “straight-baiting” can’t exist. ur already the majority, everything is already made for u. why would mainstream media need to hook u in, when u already make up a significant portion of their viewership anyway?

like lets not forget that stranger things currently has a 0:4 ratio of leading queer couples and leading het couples. they currently have a 2:12 ratio of explicitly leading queer characters and leading het characters. 

this means that yes, if byler doesn’t happen, it will be queerbaiting. why? queer audiences do not have rich, complex, fully developed relationships in this show otherwise. sure, we have will, who is indubitably a complex and rich character, with seasons-worth of development, but… 1:12? is this really the type of representation that queer audiences deserve? and if byler does happen, that’ll change the ratio to 1:3, which really isn’t that significant because yet again, u are the majority. 

u cannot be baited with rich, complex, fully developed representation pouring out the show for u. u cannot just use a term that is rooted in our historical prohibition from media, just because the ship u want isn’t canon. ur personal disappointment cannot even begin to mirror the collective betrayal and rejection that is felt when queer audiences are intentionally mislead and cast to the side. 

I might be alone on this but I’m *not* excited for the ST Twitter script snippets. Idk it just feels weird that they’d dump the scam tweet and then immediately try and replace what we thought was the script with their own “real” snippets (I say “real” in quotations bc as the writers they’re at liberty to hide anything they consider a spoiler. What they give us could totally be doctored). Like they haven’t explained why the script through 8flix was fake and they didn’t reach out to Nick first? This has been going on for years. He’s in the industry AND in the Netflix circle. I’m not saying the 8flix script is real but I’m not convinced it’s fake and I also feel wary that they are just posting snippets weekly now. It’s SO fishy

And the longer they wait to post it the more sus it all seems to be perfectly honest.