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marzipanandminutiae:
mswyrr:
cryptiboy:
nonbinarypastels:
hot take: the answer to the Bury Your Gays trope does not automatically have to be only having the purest, softest coffee shop au kind of queer media and only the most uwuified queer characters. we can have dark queer media, queer media in the suspense and crime and horror and any other genres, morally grey and morally bankrupt (or at least not one-dimensionally heroic) queer characters — all without killing off every queer character that shows up in the media in question for no damn reason.
queer characters don’t have to all remain saints in G-rated comedies in order to stay alive in their media or to be worthwhile to the people viewing that media.
example: recently one of my college professors did a stage parody of The Maltese Falcon, and the only real big plot change was making Spade a woman, who had romances with mainly women. The only person who died in the play was a straight dude, and while there was still a lot of the grittiness retained (blackmail, murder, double crossing, etc) the queer characters came out on top in the end, and none of them died
I didn’t know until this moment how much I needed to imagine a woman delivering that line to Brigid: “I hope they don’t hang you, precious, by that sweet neck.”
also like…having multiple queer characters also helps. if you have more than one or two, you can kill some off without it being Bury Your Gays
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marzipanandminutiae:
mswyrr:
cryptiboy:
nonbinarypastels:
hot take: the answer to the Bury Your Gays trope does not automatically have to be only having the purest, softest coffee shop au kind of queer media and only the most uwuified queer characters. we can have dark queer media, queer media in the suspense and crime and horror and any other genres, morally grey and morally bankrupt (or at least not one-dimensionally heroic) queer characters — all without killing off every queer character that shows up in the media in question for no damn reason.
queer characters don’t have to all remain saints in G-rated comedies in order to stay alive in their media or to be worthwhile to the people viewing that media.
example: recently one of my college professors did a stage parody of The Maltese Falcon, and the only real big plot change was making Spade a woman, who had romances with mainly women. The only person who died in the play was a straight dude, and while there was still a lot of the grittiness retained (blackmail, murder, double crossing, etc) the queer characters came out on top in the end, and none of them died
I didn’t know until this moment how much I needed to imagine a woman delivering that line to Brigid: “I hope they don’t hang you, precious, by that sweet neck.”
also like…having multiple queer characters also helps. if you have more than one or two, you can kill some off without it being Bury Your Gays
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