Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140818053714/@comment-25122143-20170528104503

Phantomlink959 wrote: I tend to tune out when people use the word "queerbaiting" because most of the time when I look into it there's absolutely no hinting going on and it's just the fans trying to enforce head canon then getting pissed when they're wrong Well, in terms of Sherlock, Gatiss and Moffat outright admitted to "flirting" with Homoerotic tension between John and Sherlock, without ever intending to follow through. It's likely this was meant to attract LGBTQ fans to the show with a hint of representation, without having to actually give them the representation they so craved, which is just a dick move. Regardless of intent, though, it's still creating homoerotic tension between two characters without ever following through, which is the definition of queerbaiting. It's incredibly creul to dangle equal representation in front of the LGBTQ community, only to snatch it away at the last moment, regardless if if it's done to get more viewers, out of petty creulty and homophobia, or both.

I hope you understand why queerbaiting is a very real and very harmful issue now, but I'm not here to rant about Sherlock.

@WC-83 I'm personally hoping that Ruby remains an example of the Celibate Protagonist, if only because romance wouldn't really fit with the narrative I think the future Volumes of RWBY will have. As has been said numerous times, RWBY is not a romance show, by any means. Also, as Nuts and Dolts, much like Arkos, has been sunk barring Penny and Pyrrha respectively being resurrected, the only real serious possible romances for Ruby would be either Lancaster, or Team SSSN being like the Rowdyruff Boys and her hooking up with Scarlet, both of which would suck IMO.

As for TLoK, I know exactly what happened with Mako x Korra vs Korrasami, and that's why I'm using it as an argument against Black Sun shippers who say that any romantic tension we see between Blake and Yang is grasping at straws.