selfihateyouithink reblogged
literally at what point did everyone decide that “never textually confirming a gay love story but instead paying lip service to the idea of one extra narratively in order to placate gay fans while having no canon delivery” go from “the closest definition of queerbaiting that exists” to “not queerbaiting at all” and in fact “praiseworthy” and can someone please get me some “weed”
#Literally this is what's primarily ruining my experience of#Neil Gaiman#Good Omens#This fucking#Crowley.Aziraphale#Queerbaiting#and people gaslighting people about it#And furthermore#D'you have any fucking idea how grating it is to be an aro and ace -spec person#And a nonbinary person who CANNOT FUCKING BE HETERONORMATIVE#(In addition to a person who DOES feel romantic and sexual attraction)#Who's already perceived as an attack on the pure joy of [gay or queer in m/f pair] sexuality and romanticism in so many fucking spaces#Already perceived as a stumbling block akin to heteronormativity#In terms of representation#And then have this motherfucker say#That the reason he doesn't represent the characters with undeniable markers of gay affection and attraction#is because they Could Be Whatever Dehumanizing Bullshit Words for Ace Aro Agender or Nonbinary as a default setting of not being human#And not only have people BELIEVE HIM that the only way Aces Aros and Agender or NB people need to be represented is in LACK of anything#But literally defend both the ambiguity and the supposed Absolute Rep exhaustively to both people who want those markers and people#Who want markers of NON-attraction NON-touch NON-binary things#Who want to exist as SUBSTANCE and not LACK before they accept it as representation#Like#DO YOU#IT IS FUCKING INFURIATING#GSRD#Lol GO fandom#Fandom is#Fandom