let's dance to joy division

leg so hot

hot hot leg

leg so hot u fry an eg

*touches ground*

And one of my favourite holidays came about because one of my oldest friends was sad cos she had to cancel some big fancy international trip for a Big Birthday for some reason and I was commiserating with her and she said, the main reason I'm sad is I'd really hoped to see the lemurs, because I love lemurs.

And so I said, no way! I also love lemurs. Why don't we do a joint Big Birthday trip (we're around the same age) to Jersey, as it's less than an hour on the plane, they have a nature reserve specialising in lemurs and you can actually buy "backstage passes" for the lemur enclosure.

And it turns out: she didn't know this place existed. Neither of us knew the other really loved lemurs. We went on holiday together and saw lemurs, and it was pretty much the best thing ever.

And now occasionally for random reasons send each other lemur GIFs and tiktoks and it's a nice little slice of joy none of that would have happened had she not mentioned she loved lemurs.

(There's even an update: she has to cancel another big trip - she's a big international traveller - during COVID and was gutted because it was to a country famous for its puffin population and she loves puffins.

And when she was telling me this I said, ok, well I also love puffins (who doesn't love puffins!) So come visit me because there's an island less than an hour's drive from where I live and you'll never guess what bird species it famously hosts... So I guess the motto is also don't assume your better travelled friends necessarily know what's happening in their own country either...!)

in fact by the end of each book you’re usually left more confused than in the start

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.