[ SECRET POST #6442 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6442 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mean sure, we can count that one. Seems like the exception that proves the rule, though? The predominant trend being that most of these examples are canonically non-queer characters that fandom wishes were queer instead of calling queer characters queerbaiting.

Even the main/POV characters that once got the "queerbaiting" calls, once they turned out to be actually queer later, the calls stopped because they're actually queer. No bait.

So it's not really a surprise that Deadpool isn't really being called that.

[erinptah]

My rule is "plenty of fans will accuse a thing of queerbaiting because their ship isn't together, yes even if one of the characters they're shipping is canon queer, yes even if that's the main character."

...and I searched "deadpool queerbaiting" to see if it actually wasn't being called that, and, welp, turns out it is.

It's not a majority view -- only got 20% of the votes in this poll, for example -- which is promising! But it's not not happening.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have a screencap of the poll or something? Or can recap it? It’s locked.

I think part of the differing views on this particular movie is that the tumblr fandom isn’t the fandom; they’re not even a blip on the radar of the main fandom. Deadpool has a huge fandom, Wolverine, X Men, X Men movieverse…there are billions of fans across the main characters. Just because 20% of an insignificant corner of the fandom that is literally blocked from the rest of the fandom seeing is too stupid to understand that Deadpool is pan or doesn’t understand what queerbaiting means doesn’t make it surprising that there isn’t some large scale (or at least noticeable) outcry about something that doesn’t exist.

[erinptah]

Now I feel like you're trying to argue with me about things I already agree with.

Since you asked, here's a screencap:

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image1.png

[(Anonymous)]

Ah yeah I think I misinterpreted what you were saying.

Thanks for the cap!