#queer tropes

[gaypirateslife4me]

I survived Buffy and Faith. (BtVS)

I survived Dean and Cas. (SPN)

I survived Olivia and Alex. (SVU)

I survived Sherlock and Watson. (Sherlock)

I survived Bucky and Steve, AND Sam and Steve, AND Bucky and Sam. (MCU)

I survived Clark and Lexa (t100).

I am currently surviving Will and Mike, Steve and Eddie, AND Nancy and Robin. (Stranger Things)

I have suffered through: queerbaiting; "everyone experiments in college"; queer coded? - they must be the villain!; "the inherent tragedy of gayness" (repression, AIDs, violence, hatred); girl-on-girl male fanservice; "pray the gay away"; and, most personally painful, "bisexuals aren't real, they just need to pick a side". (I mean, I am though?)

I have been fully and irrevocably traumatized by having to watch my beloved queers be buried over & over & over.

I have literally spent three-and-a-half decades in a toxic, abusive relationship with (not so) queer media.

Upon recommendation of multiple queer friends, I (skeptically, cynically, borderline angrily) watched their so-called "GAY PIRATE (affectionate)" comedy, and was gobsmacked.

Our Flag Means Death gave us: well-rounded characters that are 'no-room-for-guessing, even-your-deeply-repressed-insufferable-republican-uncle-can-see-it queer! Multiple queers with disabilities! Neurodivergent queers! A genderqueer pirate so slay I lose my breath every time they are on screen! Sex between mlm not reduced to 1) tittilation or 2) the raunchy punchline of a mean joke! An unapologetic celebration of Found Family! Drag treated with respect, and as a catalyst for openly queer joy! A fabulous gay wedding! And that's not to mention the loving, romantic, complicated, vulnerable, beautiful relationship between the two male protagonists!

I saw it. with my own two eyeballs. for the first time ever. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I assumed everyone must be as thrilled, honored, and overjoyed as I am for all the rep, positivity, and LOVE.

I was wrong.

It breaks my queer little heart that so many people on this glorious hellsite are furious, indignant, and quick to cancel the characters, the actors, the writers, and the showrunners for not being spoon-fed perfect queer characters in perfect queer relationships for perfect queer rep in ACTUAL queer media that exists! In canon!

It hurts to be vilified for being a fan who refuses to condemn the show and for loving concerningly imperfect and deeply-flawed queer characters.

I am sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, LOVE WON. We won. Please stop coming into my house (blog) and pissing all over my rainbow parade.

#our flag means death #ofmd #about me #please just let me have this #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #queer media #meta #cancel culture #things cancel culture has killed #queerbaiting #queer tropes #bury your gays #queer representation #izzy hands apologist #edward teach apologist #ofmd meta #drag #love wins #love won #long post

[redheadbigshoes]

“Lipstick sapphic” trope (a feminine sapphic) and the movies/shows books about it

*Reminder that all the media included here does not necessarily portray the characters as something positive, this is just about which media has this trope.

*Pls check parental rating if you’re a minor.

MOVIES:

Lesbian characters: 88 Minutes, 100 Girls, Alto, Bit, Breaking The Girls, But I’m a Cheerleader, Jack & Diane, Life Blood, Life Partners, Margarita, Margarita with a Straw, The Roommate, She’s Gotta Have It, Dear White People.

Sapphics: Alena, Carmen Y Lola, Compulsion, The Duke Of Burgundy, Elena Undone, Gia, Girls Like Magic, The Guest House, Kaboom!, Loving Annabelle, The Perfection, Princess Cyd, Room in Rome, Rough Night, Saving Face, She Hate Me, Side Effects, Steam, Summerland, Thelma, We Are the Night, When Night is Falling, With a Kiss I Die.

Trans characters: Bit.

Bisexual characters: Chasing Amy, Colette, The Haunting, Jennifer’s Body, Kiss of the Damned, Kissing Jessica Stein, Love Is Not Perfect, Sappho, Sweet Sweet Lonely Girl, The White Orchid.

LITERATURE:

Lesbian characters: Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Manifestation, Odd Girl Out, Rollerskater, Tell Me How You Really Feel.

Bisexual characters: Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating.

Sapphics: Just Juliet, Of Fire and Stars, Zara Hossain Is Here.

TV:

Lesbian characters: American Horror Story (Asylum), Batwoman (2019), Chasing Life, Dark Desire, Das Boot, Degrassi: Next Class, A Discovery of Witches, ER, Nancy Drew (2019), Riverdale, Supergirl, The Owl House.

Bisexual characters: All Rise, The Boys, Heroes (season 4), Pandora, Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Sapphics: Almost Family, The Baby-Sitters Club, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Burden of Truth, Cold Case, Control Z, Cursed, Dickinson, Don’t Look Deeper, Dracula (2013), Euphoria, The L Word, The Magicians, Orphan Black, Pretty Little Liars, Sense8, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Shadowhunters.

Trans characters: Euphoria, Sense8.

#long post #queer rep #queer tropes #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lesbian #bisexual #sapphic

[ellapastoral]

In the many shows and movies, it was common for LGBTQ characters to be killed off as a plot device, a trope known as "Bury Your Gays." However, Star Trek: Discovery has subverted this trope by featuring several prominent LGBTQ characters who not only survive, but are also integral to the show's main storylines. This video will discuss this.

#star trek discovery #star trek: discovery #star trek discovery scenes #star trek discovery best momets #star trek discovery 2020 #star trek discovery 2019 #star trek discovery season 4 #bury your gays trope #bury your queers trope #trope talk #lgbt tropes #toxic tropes #queer tropes #romance tropes #romantic tropes #character tropes #queerbaiting trope #queer tropes in media #queer coded villain trope #bury your gays #bury your gays explained #bury your queers #tvtropes #Youtube

[zoi-no-miko]

Kinnporche is Really Gay

Guys. Thailand being here showing all of us up when it comes to queer media. It’s so gay. Like, the tropiest fanfic levels of gay. Like EVERYONE is gay gay.

Get on this!!

#kinnporche #kinnporche the series #thai media #queer media #queer tropes #queer love stories #gay shit

[not-avril]

The trope I appreciate very much

#artists on tumblr #queer artist #art #illustration #ocs #oc #oc art #art meme #comic #comics #comic art #tropes

[gaesnek]

You know what

Fuck getting a pysc degree and becoming a therapist

I wanna be that queer librarian that knows everything and helps progress the plot

#lgbtqia+ #lgbt #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia #lgbtq #queer #queer tropes #librarians #queer books #books and reading

[thephantomgeek]

#uquiz #queer tropes

[jupiterslifelessmoons]

#our flag means death #Ofmd #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #text post #text posts #ofmd text post #ofmd meme #Blackbeard #Ed teach #edward teach #taika waititi #rhys darby #stede bonnet #the gentleman pirate #our flag means gay #queer rep #trope #found family #lovers #pirates #gay pirates #ship #jupiterslifelessmoons #renew as a crew

[cinnamon-stixs]

Huskerdust enjoyers wya?!

#hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin husk #hazbin angel dust #hazbin hotel #huskerdust #angel dust x husk #husk x angel dust #lgbtqia #queer artwork #artwork #queer artist #Shared trauma trope ghfjifpsojfhd

[redheadbigshoes]

LGBTQ+ Latin-American of the day:

NITZA QUIÑONES ALEJANDRO 🇵🇷

She is a district judge born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, in January, 1951. She’s the first lesbian Latina to be a federal judge.

#lgbt #lgbtqia #queer rep #queer tropes #lesbian #lesbian pride

[bodhrancomedy]

Well, I thought I was funny.

#deaf #queer #tiktok #funny #video #horror films #horror tropes #tropes

[direquail]

One of the many things I find funny and irritating is the slant of a lot of interpretations of Alecto's name (that it's about feminine rage)--on this here wlw internet in the year of our lord 2024, it's easily made to figure as rage against God, or rage against patriarchy, or religious oppression, and therefore an allusion to the idea that she's going to get her vengeance on John for betraying and oppressing her somehow, but like

John is the one who named her Alecto. He's the one who named her that. So, naming her "Alecto" is alluding to the embodiment of John's rage--their rage, since they are joined inseparably (John even explicitly says that when he first perceives her: "You wouldn't stop screaming. You were so scared. You were so goddamn mad").

He says of Alecto to Harrow, "In a very real way, you are [Alecto's] children". At a very surface level, Alecto is (depending on the text or tradition), one of the Furies--famously, in several surviving Greek tragedies, who punish Orestes for the crime of killing his mother. In fact, in Aeschylus' Oresteia, they declare that they are specifically bound to avenge matricide.

So the name "Alecto" alludes to the nature of John's mission and how he sees it.

It also implies that his divine rage, the rage that gives him power, the power that makes him divine, that he either represents or wants to represent, is feminine rage. He was chosen by Earth (which, Furies are sometimes the daughters of Gaia); he is her champion, however he's managed to fuck that up. Once the truth of that comes out, it becomes clear that all of his power comes from her.

And that's why you get statements from Tamsyn Muir like:

“[T]he God of the Locked Tomb IS a man; he IS the Father and the Teacher; it’s an inherently masc role played by someone who has an uneasy relationship himself to playing a Biblical patriarch. John falls back on hierarchies and roles because they’re familiar even when he’s struggling not to. Even he identifies himself as the God who became man and the man who became God. But the divine in the Locked Tomb is essentially feminine on multiple axes – I think Nona will illuminate that a little bit more."

So yes, he plays the role of Emperor and God and Teacher, with all of the things that implies. And I don't think it should be discounted. But he also is (and partly sees himself as) the chosen champion of a goddess, or what is for all intents & purposes for a human like him a goddess. He is her avenger, and while she sleeps, her avatar.

And I don't think we're meant to read him purely as a parasite who's taking advantage of her to gain power for himself, either. Or an oppressive, Kronos-like figure. Especially if you consider Palamedes' theory of the Grand Lysis, even if he was purely motivated by desire for power before (which I really doubt), there are parts of each in the other, now. What was clear and separate before is uncertain and interpenetrated. Is his rage his own, or hers? Is his mission of revenge his, or hers? If he wants power, is that his own selfishness, or her desire to survive?

And does it matter?

#the locked tomb #tlt meta #john gaius #i really wish there wasn't such an intense desire to find the worst possible interpretations of johns' actions #because like. they're plenty hurtful on their own! they're plenty shitty! #there IS however something tamsyn muir is trying to express through the series and it's fairly complicated-otherwise it wouldn't be a serie #and i don't think it actually helps us to turn john into a cardboard cutout labeled 'evil' #or apply tropes we've marinated in from radfem-informed segments of online wlw culture about how men are parasites on the Divine Feminine #or apply the messages of other shows with a big emphasis on queer and wlw themes--like spop--to something that just fundamentally isn't the #there is more than one way to talk about lesbian religious trauma and there is more than one narrative around it #and more than one perspective on it #i wish that people would try harder to experience the story on its own terms

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Find out if RUNNING AWAY INTO THE WOODS is right for you!!

#blazing this as a book birthday gift to myself 🎉🎉🎉 #video #one night in hartswood #queer books #lgbt books #tropes #mlm #mlm books #romance books #writerblr

[seeminglydark]

‘God, you’re so neck deep trying to live up to all these expectations ev’ryone puts on you, ‘look perfect, act perfect…’ you can’t even see how good y’are under all that. Sometimes I wonder who Carrie Greensboro would be without all the pressure, if she could just be herself.’

‘A boy…’

‘What?’

‘I…I think I’d be …not this. Not a girl.’

‘Oh! Oh…Carri…Angel, I’m sorry! I wasn’t tryin’ to…

‘No. It’s ok. I want you to know…I want someone to know…’

A redraw from Caro’s coming out moment in my mini highschool horror story Prom Night. Because once again, the best time to reveal your true self to the neighbor boy is while being chased by An Otherworldly Creature.

#original characters #coming out #prom night #the horrors of being known #he loves you always in every form in every universe #queer romance #transgender #redraw #webcomics #monsters #horror comics #romance tropes #the punk and the cheerleader

[shyjusticewarrior]

#dc #dc comics #comics #comic books #tim drake robin #tim drake: robin #comic pages #comic panels #comic characters #canon queer characters #mlm characters #bernard dowd #batman characters #lgbtq+ #twitter #tweets #memes #character analysis #tropes #robin comics #tim x bernard #timber #timbern

[frankieburieshisdead]

ℬ𝓇𝓊𝒸ℯ 𝒲𝒶𝓎𝓃ℯ 𝓍 ℳ𝒶𝓁ℯ ℳℴ𝒹ℯ𝓁 ℛℯ𝒶𝒹ℯ𝓇

cw: NSFW

~ You liked modeling enough. It was exciting, and new, and you got to meet a bunch of people you otherwise wouldn't. For instance, if you could go back to the skinny, slightly effeminate brace face in rural Smallsville and tell him he would be hanging off the Bruce Wayne's arm at a promotional after party in Gotham he would laugh in your face. But here you were, and here he was, all 6ft (6'7? 6'8? God he was intimidating) wrapped around your shoulders, two of the girls from the shoot on his other side. You didn't know either of them very well, but they we're kind to you whenever you crossed paths, and it was always nice to see more black models in the industry.

~ So why did you feel so much vitriol towards them? This ugly feeling curling in your stomach every time Wayne leaned slightly towards them, slightly away from you. You chopped it up to star power, pure unadulterated charm that came with being one of the richest men in the Americas, but as long as it had been, you still remembered what it was like it have a crush.

~ It was hard to not have a crush on Bruce Wayne. He was confident, ridiculously so, but not the kind of confidence that made you feel small. When you arrived, he asked you "Do you like dark chocolate? I can't stand the stuff but for some reason people keep giving it to me." You could see he was lying, and that maybe he had just wanted to give you an expensive box of chocolate without making you feel like you owed him anything. It made you feel special.

~ It didn't take him long to invite the whole party back to his manor. His home was beautiful. Like a castle in one of the picture books your gran used to let you borrow from her job at the library. You told Bruce that, and he had smiled so genuinely you hadn't stopped blushing for the rest of the night.

~ You ended up asking yourself up to his bedroom. One of the bottle girls had popped the cork right over you, drenching your pants in sparkling cider. She had been so apologetic, and you hadn't wanted to make a scene, so you stumbled up the stairs in into the nearest unlocked door you could find. You closed the door behind you, stripping out of your soaked jeans to dab them clean in the joining bathroom.

~ "Not that I'm complaining, but I have to say it's not everyday I find pretty boys stripping out their clothes unprompted in my bedroom." You must have jumped about a foot in the air, hiding behind your thread bare trousers. "Oh god Mr. Wayne I'm so sorry, I just needed- there was this champagne girl- and well-"

"Relax, I'm just teasing." You looked at him properly now, his weary tone bleeding past your initial embarrassment. He was propped up against the bedpost, shirtless with one hand clamped firmly over his ribs. There was a mean purple blotch under his fingers, and his chest rose and fell in stutters. He was in pain.

"What happened?" You were across the room the next second, pants forgotten on the floor as you scooted next to him in your briefs. There was a slight blush across his chest and cheeks. Maybe he was drunk. Maybe you were.

"Got into... a brawl. Nothing serious don't worry." You got the feeling he liked that you were worried. You wondered how many people worried about Bruce Wayne. You had seen an older man in butler attire fussing over him when the party first got here. You hoped he was looked after.

"Well... I best get going." You were inches apart now, you could feel his harsh breath against your top lip.

"Best." He replied, curling his lip to mirror your Midwestern accent.

You fell into him first, crashing your lips against his as his arms came to grip your biceps. He lifted you with an insane show of strength, you squealed into his mouth, ending off in a giggle. He gave that genuine smile again.

~ You were straddling him now, grinding down on a ever hardening length. He gasped into your mouth, squeezing almost painfully as he pressed you firmer against him. He was massaging the v on your waist, teasing just above where you wanted him.

"Can I?"

You nodded manically against his shoulder, the both of you generating a frantic energy. He dipped down, palming you through your underwear.

"Protection?" You managed to pant out, remembering every talk your granny had drilled into you since you came out.

"Bedside drawer."

~ 3 hours. You kept going for 3 hours after that. He had taken you, knees pressed up against your shoulders, hitting all the right spots until you had come dry and untouched. He was still hard inside you, panting and you squeezed your way through your orgasm. He was kind, clearly straining to not thrust forward while you were so sensitive. You hooked your legs behind the dip in his waist and tugged him forward. A dare. The result of which had you on your hands and knees panting and keening after your third, fourth? climax. He was good afterwards as well. Sweet. He held your head up as he poured water from a sealed bottle down your throat, petting through your slim locs. You woke up tucked against his side, unsure if he had even slept a wink as he stared down at you. He had to go, but he had arranged one of the cars for you as soon as you wanted to leave. The butler, Alfred, had cleaned and dried your jeans while you were asleep, although Bruce had made it clear you were welcome to his extensive wardrobe. You giggled, imagining getting back to your apartment in a pair of 1000$ tracksuit pants with the ankles rolled up to your calves.

~ When you finally made it back to your apartment, you patted down your jeans, pleading to whoever was listening that you hadn't lost your keys in the chaos of the previous night. Instead, you pulled out a neatly folded parchment paper, thumbing it open to find barely legible handwriting reading:

555-0199

Call me if you liked the chocolate.

END

#dcau #dc #fanfic #bruce wayne #queer bruce wayne #bruce wayne x reader #bruce wayne x male reader #x male reader #x male y/n #oc #y/n #dc smut #x reader #might make this a series idk #romcom tropes