[ SECRET POST #5723 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5723 ⌋

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


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02.
[365 days]


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03.
[Dragon Slayer]


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04.
[Pathologic]


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05.
[Sean Astin]


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06.
[The Path]


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07.
[John Barrowman]


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08.
[Our Flag Means Death]


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09.
[James Woods]


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10.
[Big Trouble in Little China]


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11.
[MCU]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 34 secrets from Secret Submission Post #819.
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)]

Most of the uses of 'queerbaiting' I've seen are about canons where two friends were friends without any hinting from the creators that they'd become more or anything like that, though. (Hell, I've seen it thrown at series that do already have same-sex romances in them.) I can only think of two cases that I've seen where the creators seriously implied or said that a character was going to be queer only for that not to happen.

[(Anonymous)]

Need to know the cases.

[(Anonymous)]

WWE (professional wrestling i.e. the kind with storylines) had two characters, Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo. One of them proposed to the other. WWE told GLAAD that the two characters were gonna get married (well, committed, it was 2002) and so GLAAD helped promote the upcoming wedding episode. Come the episode, they start getting married! Then halfway through the ceremony they suddenly reveal that they're 100% totally het just friends this was all a publicity stunt lololol.

The other was how the Loki TV show had promotional articles beforehand where they said that Loki was totes going to be genderfluid in the show like he is in some comics. I mean, it's Disney, so the expectations are on the ground, but multiple people in charge of the show said that it was 'important' to them and they 'worked really hard' on the representation. When the show came out, not only was there not even an implication that Loki was genderfluid anywhere to be found, the existence of one (1) female 'born a goddess' Loki is treated as unique and called terrifying. Even after the show finished, they were still saying they had made him canonically genderfluid despite... the show not doing that.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh don't get me started on Loki. There was also the song and dance about him being canon bisexual, which was one easily missed line before he was forced into a nonsensical relationship with his female self. (for the record, I'm not a Lokius shipper).
I was accused of being "anti-bisexual" when I complained about this on Reddit.