[ SECRET POST #2952 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2952 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Tales of Zestiria]


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03.
[Strange Magic]


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04.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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05.
[Star Trek: TNG]


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06.
[Person of Interest]


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07.
(Dangan Ronpa)


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08.
(Splash, Daryl Hannah)


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09.
[Once Upon a Time]


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10.
[VH1's Hindsight]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 044 secrets from Secret Submission Post #422.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Shaw isn't attracted to Root in that way. (She doesn't feel that way for anyone.) But it's canon that Root is in love with Shaw. They even kissed.

Don't you watch the show?

[(Anonymous)]

Shaw definitely seemed physically attracted to the Chinese gymnast lady in Season 3, though, so I wouldn't say that Shaw's physical attraction to women was out of the blue, even if her emotions haven't really caught up.

[(Anonymous)]

I do. I'm even bisexual **GASP** if you need the Internet cred points for me to prove I know what I'm talking about.

Making the subtext text doesn't stop a show from being queerbaity, especially if there are canonical elements that doom a relationship (like gee, a conveniently timed separation from Team Machine).

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you understand what queerbaiting is.

[(Anonymous)]

da

to be fair, though, they did the exact same thing with a straight pairing when Reese kissed Carter right before she...well, you know. I think the only reason either pairing became canon (if you can call one kiss becoming canon) was because the writers knew they would not have to follow up on it.

[belacqua]

For what it's worth, the Reese/Carter kiss was improvised. I get what you're saying, this show doesn't do romance, but idk, because the show isn't in a vacuum and all that, I wish they'd at least made Root/Shaw canon (even if they were just hooking up) more than five seconds before Shaw left.

[(Anonymous)]

agreed

like, there are two significant canon romantic storylines in the show, and they're played almost exactly the same way, despite the fact that one is gay and one is straight

i'm honestly baffled how someone can consider that queerbaiting

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand that logic. If it's canon that Root is in love with Shaw (or it's mutual, or whatever), but canonical elements doom the relationship, that doesn't make it 'baiting'.

Canonical elements doom relationships all the time. Het too. It's nothing new or specific to just queer relationships. It all the het relationships 'lived happily ever after' and all the queer ones got doomed then maybe I could understand feeling baited (though I'm still not sure that word works), but it happens to a lot or relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not what queerbaiting is though? Queerbaiting is dangling the possibility of a canon same-sex relationship and then going "BUT REALLY GUYS, NO HOMO." Having a canon same-sex relationship that gets fucked up due to other things in the narrative is just...treating a same-sex relationship the same way TV treats a lot of het relationships.