I think we share most of our unpopular fanfiction/shipping-related opinions and I’ve ranted about them before so, something else related… 

I’m starting to think “queerbaiting” might not be the best term for what people took issue with in the specific shows that inspired that term. Like the issue was less “unfulfilled subtext” and more “people textually joke about the characters being together and that’s played off as some wild ridiculous accusation.” It’s less “bait” and more the presence of a “switch” to that bait (the explicit reminder that It Could Never Happen, How Dare You Get Your Hopes Up) that makes it Problematic, at least for me. Even heterosexual couplings on TV can have unfulfilled subtext! But you don’t get it shoved in your face how dumb it is that you responded to wanting this man and woman to get together, etc.

And that vagueness is what leads to “queerbaiting” applied to everything from shows that do have canon gay relationships but it’s not “explicit enough” for some fans, somehow (like Yuri on Ice), to shows where the fandom confuses their intense desire to see two characters hook up with what’s really there, which is nothing, not even subtext (as I’ve been told is the case with Voltron).

Title / link: bigmouth strikes again (i was only joking)

Author: anandrine

Rating: Mature

Pairing(s):  Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky, background Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov

Characters: Yuri Plisetsky, Otabek Altin, Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri

Additional Tags: Rated Mature due to Yurio's mouth, implied BDSM, Implied Daddy Kink, Implied Rimming, none of this actually happens, Crack, Crack Treated Seriously, as in it's mostly crack but a lil more serious towards the end, Fluff and Humor

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary: 

anya pls why would you tell us this, i could have lived in ignorance

naked pole dancing w/ chris definitely makes me believe he is aware men are sexy and wants to touch them T B H

It amazes me that people doubt that Yuuri is gay when he chose to naked pole-dance with a man who looks like this

Oh man probably the one where the chick was faking a disability to solicit donations and get an “LED tank with all the fixins’“ and also she had a boyfriend who was a daddy dom and they may or may not have accidentally enclosed their cat in a wall. I think she was also the same person who doxxed herself accidentally while trying to claim trans women did it?