What gay movies are: attractive, but shy guy meets attractive, but shallow guy. There's a lot of sex and it probably ends sad.
What lesbian movies are: blonde girl who is about to marry her loving fiance suddenly falls in love with the dark haired wild lesbian. There's a high chance that at least one of them dies at the end (probably the dark haired one).
What other queer movies are: ???????!? Do they even exist?
What queer movies should be: Bisexual space pirates save the universe. Genderfluid kid is the protagonist of a teen rom com. Transboy travels the world to make good music and meet interesting people. Asexual demigirl kicks ass in her secret super hero identity. Polyamorous squad goes on a fantasy adventure with dragons and quests. Not everyone is white and able-bodied and a walking stereotype. Queer ladies live. Happy Endings.
Luisa (aka: Kommissar) secretly loves drunk Beca. She’s too cute for words.
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I will paint this some day…maybe tomorrow). So…I made the mistake to watch Pitch perfect 2, and now I’m Becommissar trash. I love them…I loooooveeee theeeeem. I’m dead right now. R.I.P to my social life.
Ps: I’ve read so many fanfics of this couple and I kind of loved Luisa as a name for Kommissar. All the credits goes to whoever invented that name. Thank you.
“In older media, when there were rules forbidding overt displays of homosexuality, writers who wanted to create gay characters would often resort to homosexual subtext.”—TV tropes
Let me reblog this again, and point out that writers openly queer bait, where queer baiting means indicating that this pair is a couple by code BECAUSE this is the ONLY way they can, by:
Then let’s not forget the ads for marriage equality OUAT so kindly produced in Season 3A.
Oh and let’s not forget
If you read the original article carefully, JANE ESPENSON, who writes for Once Upon A Time basically said that this is what writers do when they want you to know that you are watching a super gay ass couple, but the studio execs lack balls and will not allow it.
So Jane was like “Yeah, it is queer baiting. All writers do it. We know we do it. The actors know we do it. The studios know we do it. Now you know we do it, and guess what…”
In conclusion, the writers want you, the watcher, to know that Emma and Regina are super gay for each other.
Anything else is the beards, misdirection, and character development that happen on the way to…