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When we call something queerbaiting, we're essentially saying: "source material X doesn't count as real or valid queer representation." Here is a thread on why we need to be cognizant about which real-life queer people & stories we're erasing when we expand our use of that term.
First: actual queerbaiting, in which art-creators hint at queer representation in order to attract viewers and then insist their art was 100% hetero all along, sucks a lot. I am not advocating getting rid of the term.
Nor am I saying it's not valid to feel jerked around when a show uses the promise of a specific queer relationship on their publicity circuit, and then doesn't follow through on it in the actual source. (Or follows through only to write out a character, a la #TheMagicians)
I'm about to subtweet certain segments of #TheMagicians fandom so hard, ready?
Sometimes, I see self-professed fans of the show having a chat here on the twitter. Now, this is not my first fandom rodeo. I'm a born n raised fangirl myself, from the olden days before the advent of worldwideonlinecommunities, and also I write stuff for the Comic Con crowd. So.
It goes without saying that my knee-jerk impulse is to quickly avert my gaze, out of some, like, Prime Directive type personal creed, and also cause-- not to blow your mind-- there are folks on the internet who are kinda... mean?
On tonight's #themagicians we've got The Dragon Riders of Porn. As the room's resident comic book vet, the second I knew we were doing a dragon porn comic prop, I KNEW EXACTLY WHO TO REACH OUT TO.
Cover art: Emirain
Words: @jhgard & @araiman21
Cover art: Emirain
Words: @jhgard & @araiman21
#TheMagicians Dragon Riders of Porn interior pages.
Lineart and colors: Emirain
Writer: @jhgard & @araiman21
Lineart and colors: Emirain
Writer: @jhgard & @araiman21
Even though everything's censored, I guess they're still a little NSFW??? I don't know-- whatever, "PORN" is in the name.
It’s interesting to watch some of my favorite TV shows from times past and realize that someone who looks like me has no place in those worlds except as a background character or as someone “exotic.”
And then realize how much that generally hasn’t changed.
And then realize how much that generally hasn’t changed.
We rarely see Asian-American characters in pop culture whose roles aren’t as “the other” or whose stories aren’t about overcoming that other-ness.
It’s like we can’t exist as normal in any way.
There’s no Black Panther for us.
It’s like we can’t exist as normal in any way.
There’s no Black Panther for us.
That extends into other areas of life too - Asian Americans are rarely discussed in politics or social conversations.
None of these are new observations, but very much present after binging TV and comics over the last day.
None of these are new observations, but very much present after binging TV and comics over the last day.
