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Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Community (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dean Craig Pelton/Jeff Winger, Annie Edison/Original Female Character(s), Frankie Dart/Britta Perry Characters: Dean Craig Pelton, Jeff Winger, Annie Edison, Britta Perry, Abed Nadir, Frankie Dart, William Winger, Willy Junior, Ian Duncan, Ben Chang Additional Tags: Bisexual Jeff Winger, Emotionally Mature Craig Pelton, Drag Queen Craig Pelton, Jeff Winger Has Issues, Jeff Winger Character Study Kinda, POV Jeff Winger, Past Annie Edison/Jeff Winger - Freeform, Bisexual Annie Edison, Bisexual Britta Perry, everyone is gay basically, Greendale Community College (Community), Ensemble Cast, Jeff is hot for Dean, Jeff finally sees Craig’s Value (hot and good kisser), Bets are made, the lgbtqia name is used in vain, just to best city college tho dw, mushy videochats, they’re all fruity your honor, Post-Season/Series 06, Daddy Issues, Accidental Voyeurism, Masturbation, Shower Sex, Craig Fucks, Anal Sex, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Recreational Drug Use, Excessive Drinking, So many Craig Costumes, Denial of Feelings, Slow Burn, Jeff’s dad is a homophobic and transphobic asshole Summary:

“No.” Abed had asserted. “Craig is Craig now.” He had shrugged. “Like Steve Urkel or Jessie Pinkman. A character that was supposed to be written out but stuck around because audiences love him.”

Jeff had just sighed and said, “There are no audiences, Abed. Because this is real life.”

Abed had given Jeff a shrewd look. The kind he pulls out sometimes when he seems to know more than he’s saying but isn’t sure how to express it. After a moment of eye contact, Abed had shrugged carelessly. “I’m just saying that makes him a viable love interest now.”

We hear him say outright that there's no retirement for people like Izzy & Ed, only death, which is itself a hugely loaded analogy next to the title statement "our flag means death" when you consider our history & our use of flags throughout. And Izzy's so focused on pure survival that he ends up nasty, manipulative, violent—the only way men like him can survive in his mind, or in the genre he's from, if they don't have a Strong Leading Man best friend like, say, a Blackbeard to protect him from the narrative. When Ed starts to live in Stede's world, Izzy is both losing his subtextual boyfriend and also acting as though Ed's going to get himself (and Izzy) killed if he keeps going down this path.

trade baby blues for wide-eyed browns / I sleep with your old shirts / and walk through this house in your shoes / I know it’s strange / it’s a strange way of saying that I know I’m supposed to love you

Waititi: You’ve just got to just smash people over the head with it, I guess.

But there’s also been so many films and TV shows where a queer love story is subtext that never becomes text, whether that’s the filmmaker’s intent or cowardice from the powers that be.

Waititi: Yes, absolutely. Also, I think people probably don’t expect it to ever happen because they’re used to the Mulder and Scully relationships, where it’s just, “We’re never going to let you see this, even though it’s all very obvious what we want to do.”

Jenkins: We’re steeped in bromances, too — where bromance is the language of two guys together [on screen]. Take Butch Cassidy and Sundance. If you add one extra reaction shot into that movie, it’s a love story because it’s all already there. So I think we’re just [used to], “Yeah, it’s going to be bromance. Cool. These bros are really ‘bro-ing’ out and it’s ‘bro-tastic.'” And that can happen. But they can also actually be in love. We can do that.