Entering a small close-knit fandom like: half these people reblog each other so what arcane combination of tumblrs do I follow for the best content/reblog ratio? I wanna see the good posts but I don't want to see them four times.
Its really so amusing to see anti rhetoric in the its always sunny fandom of all things, when its a show where all the characters are horrible horrible people
Have not seen the show and have not engaged with the fandom, but I remember hearing someone mention seeing antis stanning a character who's a canonical serial sex predator?
man why does half the tma fandom seem weirdly ableist. like. there's some VERY UNCOMFORTABLE attitudes towards things like drug addiction or anxiety.
Spoiler: spoilers for latest RWBY so the RWBY fandom is calling Bury Your Gays and queerbaiting over a recent character death. except said character is only "gay" in the sense that he had positive, friendly interactions with another male character and the fandom declared it a ship. which is what we do for every character interaction but thats not the same thing as the character actually being gay! the death absolutely could have been set up better but its not fucking byg or queerbaiting bc it sank your precious ship!
Idiots. Bury Your Gays didn't mean "you're not allowed to kill off gay characters", it refers to the trope where "good gay" characters were allowed only if they died tragic deaths to inspire the straight characters. It's a moral censors trope.
yknow the term queerbaiting was useful for a while and now its one of those that ppl will pull out at the drop of a fuckin hat and im getting real annoyed at it being leveled at any male character who isn't steeped to his nostrils in toxic masculinity
also very annoying when people don’t understand the difference between queerbaiting and legitimate intentional subtext.
tfw people don't understand what the fuck gay coding in japanese media looks like and assume that claude is it
I'm still not over people throwing fits about Bury Your Gays in Critical Role because a bisexual player character with abilities that damaged himself rolled badly and died. He wasn't even the only not-straight party member.
I think people were less mad that he died at all and more mad that the DM didn't hand them an NPC cleric to resurrect him and/or that the other PCs didn't try hard enough to find an NPC cleric to resurrect him. Also, that the player (a bi man himself) chose to move on and play a new character that hasn't so far given any clear indications of what his sexuality is. I've even seen people get mad at the fact that the player decided to symbolically let go of this old character by having the new one (a grave cleric) do a lil magic trick on the old one's grave that speeds decomposition and promotes plant growth. Cause it'd destroy the body and they need that when they level up enough to cast resurrection!!! That character's been dead for a year and a half's worth of episodes, and people are still like "but they could bring him back!!!!!" It's pretty wild. Obviously the player himself doesn't want to do that. He's moved on.
Oh, but now I'm curious as to what it does look like! Do you have any resources/knowledge to impart onto me?
Oh no, I’m wincing so hard. Hassling a bi person about the possible bisexuality of their character(s) is intrusive as hell. Bi people already get so much shit about not being visibly queer enough. Demanding confirmation of queer representation from a bi person is several layers of awkward and uncomfortable.
One of the most common is what would read as a macho straight man in the states. Buff. Big. Got facial hair. Very manly. Chunky hairy dudes are another type. If you want an offensive stereotype get a guy with five o clock shadow and lipstick with effeminate mannerisms. These are usually weirdly sexual at men, often at their discomfort and often show very little concern for the comfort of the straight guy. So like Leeron from ttgl is the offensive gay stereotype comedy character to be laughed at. These characters may also crossdress, usually very poorly.
PuriPuri Prisoner from One Punch Man is a good ("good" here meaning "offensive") look at some of those particular stereotypes. Though it's also much more explicit with him.
Oh yeah he is. He is a really fucking blatant example. Also if you're wanting to know like how the Japanese gay community reacts to some of this shit look into the drama behind the revival of Homoo Homooda. An infamous o-ne character that was really popular on tv 30 years ago. The outcry was so extreme that it got pulled from tv and the station issued an apology.
