• mossy_@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Blue Eye Samurai, where the mc binds her chest and hides her neck, talks about being born different from everyone else, and insists on he/him pronouns. Then the producers are like “yeah she just pretends to be a guy because it makes her life easier”.

    • asceticism@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I think you’re underselling it a bit. The implication is mc would be killed for not following customs etc… Not so much “easier” as “possible”.

  • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    I can’t believe the amount of people in the comments that have never seen queerbaiting, I guess none of them watched Supernatural

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 months ago

      You can’t convince me that Naruto and Sasuke were not meant for each other. Hinata and Sakura have like 0 chemistry with them.

    • Traegert@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      I never finished supernatural. What was the qieerbaiting in that? I swear to the gods if you say “Dean didn’t fuck Sam” I’m gonna lose all hope in humanity.

        • Traegert@lemm.ee
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          4 months ago

          …Wat. Dean is VERY straight and Castiel is an amorphous asexual agender “beyond human comprehension” concept possessing a human body. Just because Jimmy the dude he’s possessing is a dude doesn’t make it a dude. That’s been a thing the whole series with demons swapping from male/female bodies and seducing people in both. Cas doesn’t have a gender, or sex, or preference. Did tumblr go THAT fucking crazy over gay sex in supernatural they turned an agender asexual philosophical embodiment of an idea into a romantic love symbol? Holy reaching, Batman. Literally

          Also I got to like, two seasons before the end, I think

          • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            4 months ago

            If you watched that many seasons and you didn’t see the Castiel and Dean queerbaiting, you are never going to see queerbaiting

            • Traegert@lemm.ee
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              4 months ago

              Have you tried entertaining the thought that you’re expecting things where they don’t logically make sense? If you want a real example of queen baiting look at The Magicians. It had one of the most emotional deepest bonding episodes between two of the male main characters who -

              SPOILERS AHEAD

              lived an entire life together, decades, kids, I sobbed. And then they killed one of them right before they could get together. THATS the shit you should be upset about. Not this weird ass very clearly fanfiction between a straight man and an asexual.

            • exocrinous@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              4 months ago

              Haven’t seen Supernatural but Traegert says the character is ace and that makes me feel the need to weigh in. It’s not queerbaiting if the character they don’t make gay after all is canonically ace. Putting them in a gay relationship would be ace erasure, and would be acebaiting. Sure, maybe it’s gaybaiting, but revealing a gay-coded character is actually ace doesn’t in any way diminish the amount of queer in the show.

                • exocrinous@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                  4 months ago

                  Okay are these the explicitly “I love and want to fuck you, a woman, because I am a straight heterosexual man” kind of love interests, or are you just interpreting them that way?

  • ako946659663@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    For manhwa readers, Antagonist’s pet is so much this!! Arth’s okay, but they did Rebecca dirty. :(

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    I don’t know why, but I read her voice the same as the hydraulic press guy saying “what ze fuck”

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ah It doesn’t matter what gender any person is, but if two people have a strong bond, and one of those people has a strong bond with someone else too, an unfortunate part of being human is that there’s only so much of one person to go around. Can’t spend all your time with everyone. You have to pick someone. I know a magical man like that, there’s not enough of him to go around. Everybody wants him. He has to pick someone. Otherwise the best he can do is have parties all the time so everybody can be around him all the time.

  • fireweed@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I can think of literally zero examples of this. Apparently I’m watching the wrong shows? (Or perhaps, the right shows?)

    • Custoslibera@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Do you mean Kerning?

      But by spelling it Keming you’re making a meta joke?

      This is some level of obscure typographical humour that I’m surprised so many people get.

      Am I just a word format humour Luddite?

          • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
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            4 months ago

            I recently read an interesting article about a team of anthropologists researching this matter. Before, everybody thought that reddit was this completely fictitious mythical thing. Their work showed that there very likely was an actual interweb platform called reddit. Some even believe that it might still exist, hidden in a corner, a mere shadow of its anecdotal glory. It’s interesting how this - superficially - myth shaped our language. I’m a tad vary of that article though, because it feels like it could have been the hallucinations of a language model. Or, it could have been my hallucinations. How am I supposed to know? What even is reality? For all I know, what ‘we’ call reality could be nothing but the fabrications of my mind with you being a subconscious projection of a conflicting fragment of my self. Or as the cool kids call it, an NPC. I won’t claim that I understand the lingual leap from that concept to the Nuclear Pore Complex, but, anyways … where was I … ah, yes: devilled eggs are an abomination. Why on Earth would my subconsciousness, or any demented part of it, invent devilled eggs and then fabricate people who, at least pretend to, like them, when they factually taste bad, and I am allergic to mustard? I think it’s safe to conclude, that my subconsciousness is an asshole. Q.E.D.

      • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        Technically, no. The kern is/was the overhang of part of a letter over a type block’s edge. But, if we can make the jump and can apply the concept to digital fonts, then I can make the jump and apply it to handwritten text.