subtext is something that is entirely dependent on the time-period for me, if it's say a 20 year old+ piece of media, yeah i'll probably forgive any gay-content being subtext bc the likelihood they had to mess around with restrictions of the time is high, so i can forgive that. or if it's media from counties that still HAS censorship issues wrt gay-content.
but now? in 2020? in the north-west especially? no, 'subtext' gets nothing from me bc all you're doing it toeing the line so that homophobes won't get mad, or you want to string a subset of fans along with the promise of something you'll never deliver on, bc you don't actually want to. and that can fuck off.
(or what is also likely: that 'subtext' doesn't actually exist and it's just 2 dudes standing next to one another that fandom has declared 'gay' despite them having canon FEMALE love-interests, like snooooooooore to that tbh)
lgbt stories get to be in your face and every bit as explicit as hets have had for decades, and if you're not going to do that then you can piss off and i'll go look elsewhere for media that actually TRIES.
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subtext is something that is entirely dependent on the time-period for me, if it's say a 20 year old+ piece of media, yeah i'll probably forgive any gay-content being subtext bc the likelihood they had to mess around with restrictions of the time is high, so i can forgive that. or if it's media from counties that still HAS censorship issues wrt gay-content.
but now? in 2020? in the north-west especially? no, 'subtext' gets nothing from me bc all you're doing it toeing the line so that homophobes won't get mad, or you want to string a subset of fans along with the promise of something you'll never deliver on, bc you don't actually want to. and that can fuck off.
(or what is also likely: that 'subtext' doesn't actually exist and it's just 2 dudes standing next to one another that fandom has declared 'gay' despite them having canon FEMALE love-interests, like snooooooooore to that tbh)
lgbt stories get to be in your face and every bit as explicit as hets have had for decades, and if you're not going to do that then you can piss off and i'll go look elsewhere for media that actually TRIES.