spreading the gay agenda with glee

computa that’s too doomed computa what have you done

straight from the tortured poets department

A male and a female can just exist together and people will ship them, but two boys or two girls can have an exceptionally deep relationship going back years and people will fight you tooth and nail and say there's nothing romantic between them and you're sexualizing their friendship.

Can anyone really say Jopper was romantic in season 1? Maybe there were some hints in season 2, but Joyce had a boyfriend, which was one of the biggest arguments against Byler: Mike is with El. That didn't stop people from shipping them, and there was little to no pushback on it. Nobody was called delusional or stupid.

Now here we are with Holly and Derek, where there was no canonical reason to think they were interested in each other. Holly was even mentioned as having a crush on someone else. But, no, they're a boy and girl character who interact. That's literally all it takes. That's how low the bar is, and society just accepts it. It's not even exclusive to media. Just pay attention to how many people say things like "oh, <insert name here> has a little girlfriend" if a boy interacts with a girl (or vice versa), regardless of age. I can only imagine the atom bomb of a reaction if anyone did that with kids of the same gender.

The bar is so low for hetero pairings that it's an automatic assumption in everyone's minds. The bar is literally on the floor. It doesn't matter how bad the relationship is, or if there even is any relationship. But two people of the same gender with a deep, close bond who are shown to treasure each other's presence in their lives are just friends and it would be ridiculous to even wonder otherwise. That bar is so high it's invisible from sea level.

I watched a lot of TV shows between the finale of Stranger Things and now, and after being called delulu for shipping Byler, I paid more attention to how romantic couples are set up (also to see whether my „compass“ for romance was broken and I was just delulu for shipping Byler. Spoiler alert: I wasn't. I was right with almost everything that I saw as being romantic-coded actually turning out to be romantic. Whoo!)

For a heterosexual couple, just glancing at each other, bickering a little bit, just the tiniest bit of fucking interaction is enough to set them up as an endgame, or at least tragic lovers.

They have to have like three scenes together, and it's clear for everyone that this is supposed to be a romance. Heck, usually it's clear from their very first interaction what the intention is.

(Jopper is a good example since, while there was nothing overtly romantic about their interactions, the hint of them having backstory, the way they worked together, and frankly just the fact that they were both single hinted at them being intended to be a romance later on in the show. Just because they are of the opposite gender. It's like a set-up seen in so many TV shows over so many decades that it's recognizable what they are doing without there having to be a hint of romance. Now, Jopper not being endgame would have been a subversion of expectations.)

Good shows do this for queer ships as well, but unless it actually pays off, people who pick up on it are called delusional, like we have been.

How dare we look at the exact same character interactions and relationship building that we’ve been bombarded with for heterosexual pairings for decades and see it in a queer ship and recognize it and come to the conclusion that it's supposed to mean something! (even if in the end it's just queer baiting)

“He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?” 🫠

The fucking glowing red frame, knew I’d seen it before:

(The Truman Show)

It’s sudden appearance in S5 promo and beyond had me side eye it, because it’s giving corruption more than a stylistic choice 😆

But there you go. The red frame in the Truman Show is from the broadcasting room

BROADCASTING LIES YA’LL (who said that)

I don't know if it was a thing in other places but in comunnist Poland we had those sound postcard which is lowquality songs meant as a cute postcard to send to someone. Paid 5 zł for it which is a bit over a dollar. They were made in 60s and 70s

Wait what is it hm

Simon and who now