Anonymous #2 3d

Yeah the "shared looks" (canon queer flirting tactic) that was a callout between cast and crew members for when they noticed shared looks between Finn and Noah... Ross duffer getting it tattooed... yeah I'm reading into it you're right. they point it out as a way people flirt, specifically noted between two characters but I'm dumb for thinking it could apply to them

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Anonymous OP 3d

not to mention finn always looking DISGUSTED every time he talked about mileven 😭

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Anonymous OP 3d

logically there was just no way it was gonna happen, it just didn't make sense in a season that already had tons of loose ends to tie up. if they had actually set up for it prior to season 5 i wouldn't be saying anything at all

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Anonymous #2 3d

They did set it up, that's what season 4 was. It started in season 3, season 4 is when it became obvious, season 5 volume 1 was intended to make it clear but at that point they had already decided to queerbait. Make no mistake I am blaming Netflix, they did it to klance they did it to byler too

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Anonymous OP 3d

i took it as will figuring out his sexuality and having a crush on his best friend was part of that. personally i didn't really see any point where it seemed like the feelings were reciprocated by mike. more about wills internal journey, which especially makes sense given the time period. he may have had an imperfect relationship with el but that doesn't mean he's gay. and also strong platonic love is very much a thing, mike obviously cares for will very much just not in that way

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Anonymous #3 2d

Explain the shared looks, a canon queer flirting tactic, that was established pre season 5 as a callout cast/crew would use when they noticed looks between Finn and Noah. There was no reason to write that into the script they could've used anything else

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Anonymous #3 2d

And that's literally one example there's so many

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Anonymous #3 2d

Also (there are multiple posts from different Netflix accounts that refer to them as a couple/in love)

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Anonymous OP 2d

They’re literally just friends looking at each other oh my god. There are different kinds of love. Mike loves Will very much but he is not IN love with him

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Anonymous #3 2d

Can you read the caption it literally refers to them as bfs even if it's a joke that still falls under the DEFINITION of queerbait 😭 marketing tactics used to draw in queer audiences

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Anonymous #3 2d

Also that post isn't even them looking at each other like they are very clearly separate scenes did you even process what the photo was or did you just type out a reply as fast as your fingers could move genq

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Anonymous OP 2d

They’re just playing into the joke that you people started. If anything you queerbaited yourselves

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Anonymous #3 2d

Queerbait cannot be done by the audience. Queerbait can only be done by the people making the form of media, hence my examples (which again, isn't even the half of it. It's just proving that it IS queerbait which you are choosing not to believe)

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Anonymous OP 2d

Okay. You’re entitled to your opinion I guess

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Anonymous #2 2d

Your interpretation is valid, my issue with that being the true explanation is that they humiliated Will using his queerness to further along a straight ship which then leads to rovickie being used to only further Will's arc which then in turn furthered mileven. The queer characters existed to help mileven. Like why did rovickie just disappear from the ends? We got one exchange between them in ep 8 and it was robin being snarky to her gf. It's a disservice to the queer characters and honestly

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Anonymous #2 2d

I think I'd prefer the queerbaiting being the worst thing as long as we actually had an established queer couple that we knew and loved (despite giving us little to no content in the actual show) in the epilogue. They couldn't even give us that?

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Anonymous OP 2d

i totally agree with the robin and vickie critique, i would have liked to see at least some explanation for how their relationship turned out. the writers hint at it but they switch back and forth from assuming the audience can figure it out and blatantly telling us things so it's a little difficult to tell... idk

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