Payton is simultaneously obsessed with River in a gay way and not attracted to him in a gay way, but he wants to be close and intimate with him, hmmm 🧐🏳️🌈
Sounds kinda gay to me! Look at them, they are so boyfriend-coded (real)
Why did season two imply that River and Payton were actually straight when it was made clear that neither of them were in the first season it completely invalidates their relationship and also kind of messes with Astrid too like why the fuck was that necessary to do
River did have a lot of lines compared to Dave and Connor, but most of them were from AFTER he died, and technically, that wasn't really him, that was Payton's imagination.
@turniptitaness and I were talking the other day about how films and shows can change songs for us (make us think of specific scenes or moments ANYTIME we hear a certain song)… well… I did that backwards! Hearing an innocent song and making it about my blorbos is what I do best! Especially with these two!
i feel like the politician put every single lgbtq character in the show in either a straight relationship or no relationship, and i might be overreacting, but it’s pride month and i think they could have gone about it better.
especially river and payton who we’re just supposed to believe are two straight men who fell in love and wanted to have sex with each other???
Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed the 2nd season of The Politician but the more I think about the way they handled Payton and River’s sexuality, the angrier I get. There was no good reason for them to deny they were sexually or romantically attracted to each other when that was implied throughout the entire first season.
They kissed, (almost?) had sex, said they loved each other and they decided to explain all of that away by stating they both just ‘wanted to be close and connected to each other in a different way’ WHAT KINDA BS is that?
Right before River took his own life he literally told Payton “He really did love him” and then at his funeral Payton sang a song for him that included lyrics such as “he loved me so naughty, made me weak in the knees” that does not happen when both characters are straight.
Not to mention they released promo posters like this one???
In conclusion, I don’t care what the canon says: River and Payton are queer and Ryan Murphy should really consider fixing this in the next season.