#canon subtext

[weepingpeachdragon]

After all the Merlin fanfics I have now read, I’m genuinely surprised that none of them ever considers that Morgana didn’t turn evil naturally. It literally says that her bitterness spreads like a disease and is consuming her in the show. That and after what happened to both Gwen, and Uther, but especially Gwen, it’s pretty much canon substext what happened to Morgana.

Now, it is possible that the exact thing happened to Morgana that year she was gone as it did to Gwen, but personally what I think Morgause did was more subtle. She didn’t intend to make her a mindless puppet, she simply wanted to induce her need for revenge, to feed her bitterness.

Morgana isn’t stupid, she would realize something was wrong, she would have to be locked up. Except. Maybe she didn’t?

Do you remember that bracelet Morgause gave her? The one that is to give her a dreamless night? It’s entirely possible a piece was hidden in it, but more possible, is that it was hidden in her bed. Morgana had all the induced dreams, the ones showing her the hate of those around her, what they would do to her if they found out. What Merlin did. All bad things, all burnings she witnessed. How much Arthur was Uther’s child. And. She never remembered them come morning.

But she remembered a growing bitterness.

#Morgana #good morgana #Morgana done wrong #merlin #merlin fanfic #merlin fandom #canon subtext #Poor Morgana #Unlike Gwen she was never rescued #No one ever realized her actions weren’t her own #I like to imagine the effects lift as she dies and her last words are an apology or love yous #I’m sorry #I loved all of you too #peachdragon

[strawlessandbraless]

I mean we already knew, but it’s still beautiful. Still destiel.

#i mean we already knew #but it’s still beautiful #still destiel #it was never just subtext #it was text #dean winchester #destiel #castiel #spn #supernatural #deancas #misha collins #jensen ackles #spn crack #ben edlund #spn writers #spn cast #destiel meta #destiel canon #spn memes #destiel meme #supernatural memes

[booasaur]

Special Ops: Lioness

#specialopslionessedit #special ops lioness #special ops: lioness #aaliyah amrohi #cruz manuelos #stephanie nur #laysla de oliveira #special ops lioness 1x06 #special ops lioness spoilers #aaliyah x cruz #femslash related stuff #muslim lgbt #lol putting this together made me realize three things #they keep being vague and wrong about the date and time of the wedding #there are so many things that seem to be pointing to aaliyah not making it out of this :< #and that aaliyah is actually just so very lovely and kind and stephanie nur really is doing so well with all her different layers #but man this is one of those ships that has what people love about popular subtext f/f pairings but is also canon #a central transformative dynamic the whole show hinges on #a connection unlike any either has with anybody else #let's see now that they've set it up where they take it #lol I mean we'e all absolutely expecting a bad end but can at least they both survive...

[gayofthefae]

The meme distracted from it and the rewatches desensitized it but Will canonically said

"I feel like being gay makes me a mistake, broken, like I need to fix myself...until I remember that being gay means I get to love you"

#not endgame my ass are you kidding me #unrequited love is like 'i have feelings for him he doesn't have feelings for me i vewy sad' #it isn't 'the love i bear for you heals my mind and soul' #wtf #stranger things #byler canon #byler #will byers #i love the way you love #WHAT THE FUUUUCK #subtext

[harbingerofsoup]

people who claim nbc hannibal was “queerbaiting” or “not explicitly queer” lack basic media literacy

#nbc hannibal #hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #it’d be one thing if it was all subtext #but it’s in the text #the actual goddamn text #like if you miss it and say it’s not clear enough to be called canon then that’s on you #i don’t belive in gatekeeping but

[sunny-rants]

I cannot emphasize enough how much August is for the gays

#and like this isn’t just queer subtext #all of these have canon queer main characters #rwrb #hearstopper #bottoms movie #bottoms 2023 #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #rwrb on prime #heartstopper season 2 #heartstopper s2 #heartstopper netflix #heartstopper show #film #movies #queer movies #lgbtq movies #lgbtq film #lgbtq books #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia #gay #lesbian #bisexual #mlm #wlw #queer characters #lgbtq characters #lgbtq+ characters

[redysetdare]

It's all "you guys need to understand how SUBTEXT and CODING are usually the only confirmation of representation queer people get in media especially in older media" but once that subtext and coding is used to say a character might be aro or ace coded/have aro/ace subtext then suddenly it's not a valid way to claim representation. Then it's only "headcanon" or "not confirmed" like do you all hear yourselves? It'd be so much easier to say you hate aro/ace ppl at this rate!

#text #aro #ace #aroace #aromantic #asexual #'thats not what the creator intended' when has that ever stopped queer ppl from finding queer rep? #its just obvious a lot of queer ppl dont include aro and ace ppl as queer #it was so blatantly obvious with out everyone threw the idea of subtext and coding out the window #when it came to ppl complaining abt riverdale erasing jugheads aroace identity #suddenly subtext and coding didnt matter when it was an aroace character #suddenly 'different iterations always change the characters sexuality! there is no canon!' #and it only happened to shut up aro and ace ppl who were rightfully upset #that our identities were thrown to the curb on one of our only representation in medua

[b0tster]

subtext is an avenue for plausible deniability to worm its way into your art imo

#liliths mind #this is an opinion #you are allowed to disagree #re: fascists trying to reclaim starship troopers THE SATIRICAL MOVIE for themselves over on twitter #subtext (yes even as blatant as ST THE SATIRICAL MOVIEs subtext) can always be ignored if the viewer doesnt want to see it #im sure a lot of u have had internet fights over 'this character is/isnt gay' that stopped immediately as soon as the gay became canon

[ki-flor]

Yeah them:

#Funny enough they've each had two major break ups and everyone around them thinks they're dating/like each other romantically + #<- The second thing not so much canon for byler but like subtext wise

[tomboyyyaoi]

sometimes i really sit and stew on the fact that over every trigun canon out of the main characters milly and wolfwood are the only two to ever fuck or who have ever fucked like thats absolutely wild to me sometimes.

milly got dicked down like canonically while meryl was staring out her window like "oh dear i wonder where she is". shes getting piped girl.

#vash and meryl have romantic subtext across all canons and have never even come close to fucking #milly and wolfwood are yet to be seen in tristamp but had nothing in the manga and fucked raw in the 98 version.. they gave us that for fun #big up to 98 milly and wolfwood for that they did what vamery couldnt across 2.5 canons

[reasonably-annoyed-fog]

I’m not much of a shipper, especially compared to other people on tumblr, so let me tell you I saw the gif set of the scene with Hugh Grant before I saw Glass Onion, just vaguely skimmed it and went “oh? he’s playing a gay husband? how nice, OH this is from Glass Onion? That’s Blanc’s husband? Fucking Neat gotta watch this soon now don’t look at the gifs too hard so I don’t get spoiled any further”

so I am terribly sorry but I gotta say, people’s reaction being “I thought that was his butler” has me like ????? You thought. That  was. his BUTLER? You saw a frazzled looking man in a t-shirt and tie-die apron holding a sour dough starter in the may of 2020 scolding another man for being in the bathtub too long and went “this seems like an emploer employee relationship”? If that had been a fictional english butler Jeeves’ ghost himself would have jumped out from the pages of a Best Of P H Woodehouse collection and politely tossed him out of a window WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS HIS BUTLER why would someone’s BUTLER complain to ANgela LANSBURY about his boss not leaving the bathtub Where did you get that idea from he wasn’t dressed as a butler he didn’t talk like one There are Movie Conventions that will tell you if someone is a butler Hugh Grant telegraphed None of them

what you did there was you gal palled them, you looked at two queer people and went against all evidence for the straightest explanation. “Well why didn’t we see them kiss and stuff” Because they didn’t have to they really didn’t. There is No Fat in that script it’s Yes he’s in a relationship let’s move on. We didn’t even get to see Helen’s makeover! Frankly I had assumed that Blanc is just living alone like so many famous fictional detectives do, Sherlock Homes has his famous flatmate but that’s as far as it usually goes, Columbo has a awife but we never even get to see her, the fact that they just gave Benoit Blanc a spouse and we got to see him in the second installation of the franchise on screen was enough of a shock for me to take in if they had shown us any more domestic stuff I would have dropped dead on the spot

#Glass Onion #you all are so good at media analysis why are you also so bad at it #this is 'Xena and Gabrielle is gay subtext I wish it was canon' all over again THEY KISSED YOU IDIOT THEY GOT MARRIED IN THE FUTURE #I will throw a shoe at someone Oh My God #I'm having an anoyrism or something #anyways watch Glass Onion it's a banger 10/10

[marimeeko]

So, CONFIRMED: Izuku never gave up on Katsuki because he "chose the heart deep inside"...he knew that Katsuki had good in him and never gave up in that heart.

I mean It was always confirmed since DvK2 when Izuku himself said that if he really hated Katsuki he wouldn't want anything to do with him, but you know, just in case anyone needed it said again.

#bakudeku #he fully knew that Katsuki had it in him #we all knew this #bnha spoilers #bkdk #yo its not subtext it is TEXT #this is not a bkdk delusion its canon #izuku doesnt hate Katsuki live with it #izuku never gave up on Katsuki #sorry to burst anti bubbles #not sorry #hori said it #we said it

[lecter-lioncourt]

I COMPLETELY fucking forgot that in her first introductory scene, Missy refers to 12 has her boyfriend. Absolutely fucking insane behaviour

#so many things in this episode make me insane lmao #Missy in general. my 2nd favourite ever Doctor Who character #the doctor translating a sad dinosaur #the doctor in general in this episode fucking everything about him #his vulnerability with clara when they land back in Glasgow. aaaaaaaa #the dubious morality of the doctor. dark!doctor hints. #callback to The Girl in The Fireplace #VICTORIAN COSTUMES. #the doctor getting rid of the horses pet. #so many things. #idgaf Deep Breath is one of my favourite Doctor Who episodes of all time #top 10 for sure. #mine #doctor who #missy #the master #thoschei #look ok Moffat had to make them straight presenting in order to move them from subtext to canon #but thank fuck he did #also I call them straight presenting for a reason lmao #in my heart they're both transfem lesbians ❤️

[demontobee]

At what point did it dawn on you that Aziracrow would be canon not just in the subtext? I got suspicious at Aziraphale's "I have no idea what that feels like" panic in the bookshop with Gabriel S2E1, but I started to know at the eyebrow raise in the car...

#good omens #good omens s2 #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #go2 #crowley #good omens 2 #neil gaiman #crowley x aziraphale #thank you neil gaiman #aziracrow #canon #bamf aziraphale #good omens spoilers #gay subtext

[frogtrenchcoat]

everytime i remember almost no-one in the fandom seems to think guillermo de la cruz is ace i get so mad. it's partially about my own expectations bc watching the show i just sorta assumed everyone would bc it's so very obvious to me. like you can't tell me he was tryna come out as gay at that table lmao. he would not feel the need to make it into such a thing, they never expected him to be straight. coming out as asexual however? to these sex-obsessed vampires? of course he'd feel the need to explain and justify himself with a long speech, if he didn't they wouldn't believe him, they would not understand it as a real possibility. there's plenty of other stuff too that i don't remember specifically enough 2 talk about. also it just seems like poor media literacy to me. i can't say that with certainty cuz i don't actually know the writers' intentions either but to me it's rly just canon that he's ace. i know queerbaiting is an issue and we need explicit representation and in my ideal world he is explicitly stated to be asexual in a future episode of the show but im also a strong believer in not needing characters to look at the camera and state their identities for them to have those identities as a written part of their character.

#i feel insane!!!!! every time i think about this i feel insane!!!!!! #b4 i looked at the fandom i seriously thought this would be accepted as basically canon by the vast majority of people!!!!!! #i viewed it as canonical subtext! but now i feel like i just deluded myself into believing my headcanon is canon????? #it's barely even subtext tbh! actual subtext im very bad at (take everything literally on account of the autism) #this is textual implication! how r people not seeing this am i insaaaane #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #do tags show up this far down #guess we'll see

[a-hobit]

It's horrible to be utterly convinced that Katsuki is in love with Izuku without really being able to say definitively that Izuku is in love with Katsuki...aghh there's so much to say about certain hints and very overt things for Mr. "Kacchan Bakugou" but I feel like I haven't seen...or more accurately heard how Izuku feels. I know he loves him but Is he in love with him? Can I say that without thinking I could be wrong? No I don't think I can...but damnit! The parallels to other straight and gay couples in media is so interesting like the Berserk ref in cover 37...or the pretty constant references to taro cards...Izuku the devil in between togachako's lovers ((WHAT DOES THAT MEAN SERIOUSLY)), the three of swords in the blackwhip explosion...the "WAH--CCHAN!!" ref to a romance trope as well as to Blue Flag...the "share a crepe with" line also potentially Blue Flag..."TROY" and the battle being referenced OUT THE WAZOO with Achilles and Patroclus playing out almost exactly as the Illid described ((Literally THE most famous couple of gaybos in all historical literature--they are well known for being speculative lovers! It's mentioned in English classes when you read it))...Katsuki's parents...Katsuki's parents...the way other manga like "name I can't remember..." where they would reference MHA outright with the girl falling down and then refusing to take the male lead's hand to get up. It feels like so much but also nothing at all because all of it (( no matter how overt)) is STILL being read into from subtext. idk I think I just needed to vent.

#I always flip between thinking “wooooww they are so canon and endgame it hurts!” and remembering that most of izukus feelings are assumed #through the subtext #bkdk #bakudeku #dekubaku #I feel like katsuki has been written as so clearly gay or at the very least not at all interested in women that it's much easier to say tha #katsuki is in love with izuku than say izuku is with katsuki