(Sorry this is long) I wish there was a way you could reblog an ask with another ask but to summarize my last one was about how I think the queercoding in tadc is unnecessary because they should be able to be gay explicitly.
Also note im bad at words and this is out of order
But anyways. Tadc isnt queer enough to be the show it wants to be. It isnt queer enough to have such a predominant yet subtle trans character take up so much screentime, it isnt queer enough to earn the label of good representation and it SURE AS HELL ISNT GAY ENOUGH TO A CHARACTER TO DROP THE F SLUR SO CASUALLY. Tadc is undeniably mainstream and its queer rep is too vague for it to be noticed by the average viewer
While most of the characters are queer, it feels like the show dances around that fact. I personally think if a homophobe can watch the show and ignore the gay stuff, it isnt gay enough. And this show does that bullshit companies/creators do when they don't wanna confirm a character is gay by not only confirming their identity in a social media post but also does that bs where they dance around using words like transgender and gay in the proper context.
Every single reference to a characters gender or sexuality is met with a mean-spirited joke (and im not saying thats homophobic because tbh thats how gay people talk to eachother)
I think i prefer the cringe heartstopper flavor of gay where characters are allowed to just say theyre bisexual than this vague bullshit of hiding it in the background. Too many indie shows do this shit where its like therapy speech but for being gay. "I-i dont like girls but im not misogynistic I i like girls in the way boys like girls.." i mentioned in my previous ask but ill say again, man what's the point of zooble having a gay bar if they call it a hip alternative bar. Whats the point of gangle having a sapphic webcomic if they just show it on screen for a second. Every instance of undeniable mention of gays is reduced to a single blink and youll miss it segment. Why was ragatha confirmed to be a lesbain in a random Tumblr post.
Jaxs coming out wasnt that bad......if it was written for a gay show. Its too vague that a cishet could reasonably miss it and the queer fans need to point it out
Tadc didnt attempt to cultivate a queer audience at all. Not only that but it seems to even alienate its gay fans with the continuous 'there will be no romance' Twitter being twisted/used by homophobic fans to discourage gay shipping and the push of funnybunny as a ship by the company while other gay ships were ignored. (And before you say funnybunny is sapphic, we both know damn well glitch isnt gonna acknowledge that.) Ive mentioned before but for a company that loves making merch out of every little interaction or scene theres a horrible lack of pride merch. The show repeatedly dances around the idea of saying gay all while trying to have deep themes of gender and sexuality and you cant have that with a show thats so mainstream like tadc, people are gonna miss half of it.
A single positive is the zooble turning straight joke
"Our cartoon bodies all do goofy stuff when we hold our breathes. For example kinger starts glowing, gangle masks starts to spin, ragathad hair sticks up and zooble turns straight."
"Wh- My limbs straighten up, fuck off"
I think that was a great joke and I wish we had more explicit sexuality references like that rather than the weirdly mean-spirited jokes like jax being into the maid costume.
I don't wanna put all the blame on gooseworx for this. Maybe she put in jokes that were cut but the idea of Glitch cutting the gay jokes to appeal to a wider audience annoys me more
Anyways tadc doesnt have queer representation. It has the implication of the concept of an insinuation queercoding
whethet gooseworx or glitch prevented the lgbt rep, it pisses me off soo bad. using the f slur, using gay characters for jokes, but being too scared to say gay or non-binary. it’s not 2012, you don’t have to pull a hirsch and wait until the last episode to canonize an lgbtq couple/person. if they DID have to wait, then Glitch is even worse then we thought.
