[ SECRET POST #5201 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5201 ⌋

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


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[xkcd]


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[Medea]


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[Stooges vs Marx Brothers]


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10. [SPOILERS for Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 1]



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11. [WARNING for discussion of abuse]



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14. [WARNING for rape/sexual assault, cannibalism fetish, etc]

























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #744.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I would imagine that they want bi content *that they like*, not just *any bi content whatsoever*

[(Anonymous)]

This is exactly it.

[(Anonymous)]

It reminds me of that tweet about, like. "It's dumb when girls say they can't find a guy yet they ignore me. It's like saying you're hungry when there's a hot dog on the ground outside"

[(Anonymous)]

And that's always coming from guys who would always ignore a girl who wasn't 100% beautiful by society's standards. Any suggestion that any average looking girl liked him would be met with disgust.

[(Anonymous)]

Lmaooooo was that written ironically or just that oblivious?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it was a joke.

[(Anonymous)]

"Here, check this out, it's got a bi character!"

"Cool. What's it about? I like urban fantasy and horror with adult leads. Make it spooky. Are there angels and demons? Vampires?"

"No, it's a mundane-world YA rom-com. But it's got a bi character!"

[(Anonymous)]

Shadowhunters? Is that what that show was called?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Shadowhunters is significantly worse than Supernatural

[(Anonymous)]

THIS. As a big ol' bi type person, I find it very easy to read Dean as bi, and as someone who figured my sexuality out much later in life than my peers, he resonates for me in a way some characters don't.

I don't know ANYONE who's into the bi!Dean interpretation who flat out doesn't care about 'actual' bi characters, but... Dean was a main character on basic cable for *fifteen years*. We don't HAVE canon bi characters who you can say the same of. Why is it so shocking that some of us care more about Dean than about a character who hasn't had the same screentime and focus?

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose by the same standard you could argue for the importance of Kirk/Spock and Homles/Watson. A lot of the frustration for me is that shipping it doesn't make it text or even subtext, and fandom culture tends to add another layer of stereotypes to the equation as well. Shipping something for 15, 50, or 100 years isn't really representation, and Supernatural was aggressively oversold by shippers as something that was perpetually about to happen sometime next season. Often this came from the same people who were tinhating the fuck over the actors, which I'd argue demonstrates a certain flavor of homophobia. Creative staff clearly signaled at different times that it was just a fan theory for most of the run, and the final big reveal ensured that they wouldn't have to actually deal with writing bi men beyond "gay guy confesses true love to a cardboard cutout of a bro."

In my experience, SPN is one of those shows that was aggressively pushed on me as something I should care about as a bi man (along with Sherlock, and Shadowhunters.) And I honestly get really frustrated when people in fandom exaggerate their pet things as a Big Fucking Deal in the LGBTQ phase.

Especially when, for 99% of its run, SPN did the same erasure as 90% of the rest of the industry.