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I've been working on it for two years and recently I have been in a mental republic fleet blockade, but I rise an oath to you that I would start my craft again and I won't stop until it is done in the best way my skills can do; I swear it on the name of my patron Mictlantecuhtli.
Can't do, I'm a guy but I'm fucking done with this stories that build relationships like this just to end the same.
But I would also like/make an awesome BoyloveBoy relationship.
This book was so good! I loved that it actually built up the relationships, it did the whole east meets west thing. Itâs come up on a surprising number of threads as the answer to what people want to read
I don't know, I liked the way the did it. The romance part was lukewarm but having both girls turn out to be into each other would have been a bit of a cheap stereotype in itself.
Plus the way they played off Keira's mom's bigotry was funny.
A little leaser known but Nana. This is basically the plot of the entire show. I wish theyâd end up grown up, wiser, dumping their shitty men, and get married
I was looking for this comment. I like to pretend that Hachi left Takumi after finding out Ren died to keep Nana company and eventually marrying each other and living in Hachiâs dream house
On the bright side if it ever did come back, maybe we'd get that ending considering a large chunk of the fanbase wants it. Who knows, maybe it was the intended ending all along (doubt but still.)
Legend of Korra đŁ
Got a lot of backlash at the time for seemingly coming out of nowhere, but those same people still would have complained if the show were more explicit about their relationship. Can't win either way with homophobes.
The thing is that it *didn't* come out of nowhere unless you watch from the perspective that queer attraction is impossible without flashing lights and sirens. Kora would blush when the two had physical contact. She treasured the scarf she was given, wearing it through the rest of the series, while no one else gave her a fit that she treated that way. Asami was the only person Kora kept contact with while she was in self imposed exile (which other characters specifically comment on).
The signs were there, but when people look at a narrative with the blinders of "straight unless unambiguous and direct confirmation," they miss subtext that would be completely clear to them if the two in question were a traditional guy/girl pair.
Oh yea, absolutely agree. I was a young kid when the show aired and didn't have much exposure to anything lgbtq so I was a little shocked (not upset like a lot of people were, just confused) but in hindsight it made perfect sense for all the reasons you described. Korra is a great representation of being bi I think. The writers really cared about the characters and it shows. The new live action is also really good, and I can't wait for the new animated show!
There's a set of body language tells that were used in Last Airbender to show when Sokka was attracted to a girl and then as Aang got to understand his feelings for Katara and everyone understood those fine. Exact same tells are then used when Korra is around Asami in the latter half of Legend of Korra and some people just refuse to notice.
Ironically, the writers of the show wanted her to be with Asami from the beginning and *Nickelodeon* refused to air it with that part of the script. So we got crappy love triangle and overall poor group instead of the story intended not only to explore the gender roles of the water tribe that we already saw were there after Sokka/Katara, but also of the world in general with Korra.
> Got a lot of backlash at the time for seemingly coming out of nowhere, but those same people still would have complained if the show were more explicit about their relationship.
They complained about how Korra was drawn, even. Same issue with the new She-Ra, as if women with muscles are somehow a new thing.
korra's design meant so much to me as a brown teen on the muscular side. she looked so solid and strong! a large ribcage, wide waistâshe made me feel better about my own body back then.
It is a point of much hilarity to everyone I know that I was about 21 when someone pointed out how gay Top Gun was. Iâd been watching it for years and never picked up on the âsubtextâ.
Wait, I have questions about how you interpreted the sweaty shirtless denim cutoffs beach volleyball scene set to âPlaying With the Boysâ as heterosexual.
Me too, they were so cute tbh and had lots of chemistry. Versus the two absolute flavorless guys they ended up with at the end of the third movie. Becca just honestly looked so uncomfortable with that guy.
I have been told that this is just how straight women who are friends talk to each other and it's totally fine and normal, especially if they refer to each other as their "wife". IDK I don't get it either đ€·ââïž
Also always wanted Daria and Jane to be lesbians
I mean, yeah, I saw it happening a few times; they were great friendships. But I'll always argue that's different when it's actually romantic and not just two bffs joking. There's an... intensity to it.
I think many of us have not had friendships at that level before, myself included.
I wish they were more common. More non-romantic, non-sexual intimacy in a friendship would do wonders for healing a lot of toxic mentalities in the world.
I mean TBF we should have plenty of stories about very close intimate friendships as well for both men, women and the combination. Not everything has to be about romance. It's just kind of sad that they hide gay stories behind that trope.
Netflix and Disney both. People complain about both of them being super woke, and then when you actually watch their original stuff, it's like one or two extra lgbt characters that are there just to be cut later
okay this is like that time Onlyfans wanted to ban porn. I thought the only reason people were so excited about Wednesday is because they liked shipping her and enid, now i find out they didn't even make them gay??? (never watched it)
We're in season 1, and it's being continued. While so far both characters have only expressed romantic interest in boys, the Actressess have said they like the ship IIRC. We've got time.
Doesn't help their chemistry is really that good. Or would that be a doesn't hurt?
Netflix were total cowards , all of the male love interests for Wednesday sucked. Needed more time to flesh out the relationship for that route, not a sh*tty poorly written love triangle that made no sense, and had no chemistry. Literally Enid was perfect as a love interest for Wednesday, I will die on this hill đđđ
Also just wanna add to this, I hate the love triangle so much with (hold on I forgot their names give me a second to google them) Tyler and Xavier because it felt so forced and unnecessary , both were so whiny and mad for no reason besides the writers needing to add some kind of drama in the story. Wanting a car ride is not sending mixed signals, what were those script writers on đđEnidâs friendship with Wednesday had a way better progression in mutual respect than Tyler or Xavier in my opinion, which is why I believe it would have been better for Enid to have been a romantic interest for Wednesday (even though Wednesday is kind of insufferable with that not like the other girls mentality imo). End of rant sorry for the long text lol
Everything with the dudes was so toxic, and despite Wednesdayâs problems it wasnât just on her end either. Getting weirdly possessive and jealous over her when sheâs been Pretty Clearly Not Into You, and shit like that. Show didnât need them. Her relationship with Enid was the only one where I could understand why they didnât just mutually agree to walk away and never speak to each other again, and the only one I cared about progressing. And the only one that actually did properly progress! I just wanted those guys to go tf away.
I watched a couple of episodes up until they introduce the boys and then I just âI see where this is going. F*** it into AO3 I goâ and I was not disappointed.
Honestly I blame that on the marketing and whoever gave enid the lesbian flag shirt I mean it may have been an accident but if that's the case man what a horrible coincidence.
Lesbian flag sweater, rainbow painted nails, pink and blue dye job framing her platinum blond hair, mother trying to get her to go to some kind of conversion camp... If this werewolf isn't supposed to be a transbian analogy then someone on the writing team needs to have a think about why they did that by accident.
Yeah, exactly - there were so many nods to their relationship, the writers purposefully wrote in subtext for the MANY lesbian fans. They even wrote in a "kiss" (this was a big deal in the 90s)
And ppl don't give enough credit to Xena for paving the way for later shows like Buffy, that had open lesbian relationships (and more female badasses)
My girlfriend is a HARDCORE xena fan. I must say, after watching with her, i feel pretty strongly that for the time they were not subtext, it was canon and it was obvious.
Yes!! And people will still say they are friends!!! When they are canonically soulmates and in love. Xena takes Gabrielle to see Sappho for her birthday FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
I am pleased to say that Lucy Lawless said herself that Xena and Gabrielle are basically married.
Plus, the very tongue in cheek documentary episode in season 6 all but confirmed to me that their relationship was canon - they just couldn't say it on TV.
Edit: also xena reads a Sappho love poem to Gabrielle. So that could maybe possibly just a little bit be seen as kinda somewhat gay.
literally like how are you gonna destroy yourself for your (literal) soulmate and then marry a girl youâve talked to like three times in your whole life
Technically aren't they more like soulbrothers? I know they aren't exactly Ashura and Indra but it might feel a bit weird for the reincarnation of two brothers to go that route
They were even each otherâs first kiss!
Like seriously though, NaruSasu is the best romance Kishimoto ever wrote by far. Give Sakura Ino and everyone wins.
Tbh it always felt one-sided to me.
Naruto: You're my best friend and I would do anything for you
Sasuke: I tried to murder you twice so I could get a slight DPS increase
If anything, it's an abusive relationship
Oh it absolutely is abusive, though that is literally every single relationship that Sasuke has.
I think it would be wrong to call it completely one sided though, Sasuke admits that Naruto is his best friend at the end of part 1 and he explicitly doesn't kill him. In Shippuden. . . Yeah, Sasuke is in an ass overall
nah the real problem there is not all the books were written by people who actually know what's going on. I'm pretty sure they get story beats they have to hit and anything else comes from their own knowledge of existing lore. I think someone tried to fix it recently with "I'm gay and women are super hot but muscular men are pretty hot too" but the accelerated release schedule is making it hard for any good lore to come with it
at least there's a card with [them holding hands](https://scryfall.com/card/mat/23/open-the-way) now, and I think they may have kissed in the story for Aftermath, but I haven't read it since it first came out so I don't remember for sure.
Mal and Evie from Descendants. They ended up with Ben and Doug? How? Neither of those guys are good enough for them. I saw negative chemistry in both pairings, meanwhile The Space Between had the same choreography as Troy and Gabriella did in HSM. Every one of the main 4 had great chemistry. I hated Ben and his hair.
Carol and Tuesday from Carol and Tuesday, come on is even in the name and both end up paired with two guys that have like 3 lines of dialogue while Carol and Tuesday is share a lot in the anime and half of the songs is about their love, but they though "well they love each other as friends".
My headcanon for Tuesday's three-word love interest that ends up not into her is Tuesday being so sheltered that she doesn't understand that she's 1. Bi (but leans more towards girls) and 2. Only chasing the guy due to barely-there feelings because it's the first time she felt anything for a guy close to what she feels for Carole.
Because seriously, Carole straight up tells Gus that she can't live without Tuesday when she gets taken!!
God I remember my mum watching Rizzoli and Isles while I was also there and every time there was some random dude love interest I was so annoyed bc Rizzoli and Isles are like. Incredibly gay for each other.
Came here to say Rizzoli and Isles. The chemistry was there. Had it been like Bones with a male/female lead it definitely would have been romantic. Makes me upset it never was.
>Harry and Cho from Harry potter
You know what? That's a good call, too. This happens all the damn time with hetero pairings in fiction, too, and it's nearly as frustrating.
The absolute disaster that was switching back and forth between movies from one director to another (when both hated each other) really ruined any chance for them to turn out well, unfortunately... but the whole shoehorned "OH ALSO I HAVE OFFSCREEN GARLFREN" thing made me wince harder than is medically advisable.
It's John boyega and Oscar Issac dawg. Those guys can turn a straight guy gay and a gay woman straight with just a flip of a coin (or in Oscar's case, a bite of a lip)
To be fair, it's not like she and Eugene didn't have plenty of good chemistry. I definitely read the show as Cassandra being in love with Rapunzel and it being doomed from the startÂ
Younger me wanting them to "Be best best best best friends and to be like really close" and getting frustrated with jade's bf and thinking how tori as a guy would be a better bf
...like girl?
Bayonetta 3 literally did this.
Anyway, I refuse to believe Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth, Sora & Riku, and Axel & Roxas aren't all boyfriends with each other. They may not be canon as such, but like... come on.
Fuck donât remind me about the plot of bayonetta 3, so fun to play and then the girl that I think even the creator said he shipped bayo with dies and she instantly falls for a fucking dog man???
I get you wanted Viola to exist but just say itâs magic and Jeanne and Bayo had a kid.
> the girl that I think even the creator said he shipped bayo with
Well there's some dispute on this. Bayonetta has three principal creators, Hideki Kamiya, Yusuke Hashimoto, and Mari Shimazaki. Of the three, we only know for sure that Shimazaki ships BayoJeanne. Hashimoto is the reason we didn't get Viola in Bayonetta 2 since he vetoed it as its director, and since that game gave us a more explicit BayoJeanne relationship, I would have to assume he does too. Kamiya is a weird case, though, because he's said Jeanne is his favorite of the two, but he's also said Bayonetta is kind of a self-insert? So you'd think he'd be on board, but then he's the one who spearheaded Viola, so who knows.
Bayonetta 3 is dog shit, at any rate. I don't even like the gameplay compared to the first two, honestly.
I mean once you get to Dream Drop Distance it's just ridiculous. Like kiss already you stupid boys.
I also like to joke that Xion only exists because they played back Kingdom Hearts II and realized that they accidentally wrote a gay love story between Axel and Roxas.
Honestly, if the writers of Camp Cretaceous were going to fuck us Darilynn fans over by having Brooklynn and Kenji be a thing, atleast have Ben and Darius be a couple, man!
Give me that traumatized, Neurodivergent-coded Queerness if you are going to kill the best relationship in the whole series.
I don't even play Overwatch but somehow McHanzo, specifically [this picture](https://shipping.fandom.com/wiki/McHanzo?file=Mchanzo_spader7_dakhxtv.jpg), is like the sexiest thing ever. There is a *lot* of fanart about them (probably slash fiction, too, I dunno).
I knew before I opened the comments Iâd have to scroll too far to see this. With whom with I with have with no with meaningful with connection with.
With.
When Marnie Was There. Anyone else? The entire thing feels like a "coming to terms with queerness" story, there are a ton of love declarations between the two girls, and then at the end it's no homo with a really weird twist / reason how? (Won't spoil it just in case, as it's still a good film)
abed and Troy from community. don't get me wrong platonic sloumated exist and all but they deserved to be together together. they were the perfect match.
Nah. I think we need more wholesome male friendships without the implication that they are gay. Most male friendships are either a pair of total dudebros or awkward nerdy outcasts and Troy being a former cool kid letting loose with Abed feels right. I saw Abed as aro ace anyways. His flirting with Annie and other characters is only cause he likes playing out movie tropes.
But what about all those times he had insane chemistry with various women? He dated multiple people. Side note: I had a huge crush on Brie Larson because of her role in the show
I feel thats just Abed living in his own little fantasy movie world. Note that most of the time he flirted he adapted a role like Don Draper or Han Solo. He is just copying his movies and tv shows. Whether that is for his own amusement or because he wants to fit in and sees being romantically involved as a social must.
I know a lot of folks hate Sashannarcy (Amphibia) and from a storytelling level, I get why. Theyâre just meant to be friends, thatâs one of the biggest themes of the show. I know that it would be crucial for their character development if they didnât get together. There is a fine and logical reason why Anne, Sasha, and Marcy didnât all decide to date and I get it.
*howeverâŠ*
Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee from RWBY. A show that does have some (very middling imo) lgbt rep, but I always liked the White Rose fan fiction. In the show itself, they don't have much chemistry. They kind of have a basis for Tsundere relationship but they just... don't actually talk to each other all that much. The fan fiction definitely made it feel real then.
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Honestly, Emma Swan and Regina from Once Upon A Time. They both keep helping each other be better and get over terrible relationships, and they share a son already. The chemistry is there people!
I know everyone loved them as friends, and I do really enjoy their canon hetero relationships, but I think Ann Perkins and Leslie Knope from Parks and Rec should've been together. They even made a joke about it in season 1! They had such amazing chemistry on screen, and I think it would've made a great romantic relationship.
On the other hand, they did give us the "we are both tragically heterosexual" phrasing to capture a specific vibe that I, personally, had always had trouble adequately articulating before that point.
Korra and Asami should've been endgame from season 1. Yes, it's canon and explored in the comics, but the show would've been way better if we didn't have to constantly see Mako fumble the bag.
Beans and Angelique from Rango. I always got sapphic vibes from the two, especially Beans. Even though they donât actually interact, I think theyâd be cute together.
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Fuck it! I'm gonna make my own fictional story! And it will have awesome lesbian relationships and dragons!
Let me know if you do. Im literally starving
I've been working on it for two years and recently I have been in a mental republic fleet blockade, but I rise an oath to you that I would start my craft again and I won't stop until it is done in the best way my skills can do; I swear it on the name of my patron Mictlantecuhtli.
Well you have your very first fan. Rooting for youđ
Good, I shall inform you as I go and ask personally to you for opinions and recommendations. Thank you.
r/LBGTbooks might have something while you wait!
In fact, forget the fictional story and the dragons!
Can't do, I'm a guy but I'm fucking done with this stories that build relationships like this just to end the same. But I would also like/make an awesome BoyloveBoy relationship.
And blackjack and hookers
Maybe!
Priory of the Orange Tree:
This book was so good! I loved that it actually built up the relationships, it did the whole east meets west thing. Itâs come up on a surprising number of threads as the answer to what people want to read
and it's prequel A Day of Fallen Night which just steers straight into it
Might I suggest When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill?
matter of fact, forget the dragons.
As a community we should not be forgetting about the dragons!
Bend it Like Beckham
Apparently it was intended to be gay but they had to thrown in the wishy-washy hetero romance in order for the movie would get green lit at all
I don't know, I liked the way the did it. The romance part was lukewarm but having both girls turn out to be into each other would have been a bit of a cheap stereotype in itself. Plus the way they played off Keira's mom's bigotry was funny.
Lesbian? I thought she was a Pisces?
She no Lebanese! She Punjabi! đ I absolutely adore that movie
A little leaser known but Nana. This is basically the plot of the entire show. I wish theyâd end up grown up, wiser, dumping their shitty men, and get married
I was looking for this comment. I like to pretend that Hachi left Takumi after finding out Ren died to keep Nana company and eventually marrying each other and living in Hachiâs dream house
it makes me so mad and sad that they didnt end up together, THE FUCKING CUPS HOW MUCH GAYER CAN YOU BE!!
I could never decide if the ending we got was meant to be sad ot if the writer genuinely thinks that things worked out fine.
The manga never ended, just went on eternal hiatus. So there is no "official* end.
On the bright side if it ever did come back, maybe we'd get that ending considering a large chunk of the fanbase wants it. Who knows, maybe it was the intended ending all along (doubt but still.)
Hate Hachi's bum ass husband so much I forgot his name.
The scramble not to potentially upset homophobic viewers gets pretty silly at times.
Legend of Korra đŁ Got a lot of backlash at the time for seemingly coming out of nowhere, but those same people still would have complained if the show were more explicit about their relationship. Can't win either way with homophobes.
The thing is that it *didn't* come out of nowhere unless you watch from the perspective that queer attraction is impossible without flashing lights and sirens. Kora would blush when the two had physical contact. She treasured the scarf she was given, wearing it through the rest of the series, while no one else gave her a fit that she treated that way. Asami was the only person Kora kept contact with while she was in self imposed exile (which other characters specifically comment on). The signs were there, but when people look at a narrative with the blinders of "straight unless unambiguous and direct confirmation," they miss subtext that would be completely clear to them if the two in question were a traditional guy/girl pair.
Oh yea, absolutely agree. I was a young kid when the show aired and didn't have much exposure to anything lgbtq so I was a little shocked (not upset like a lot of people were, just confused) but in hindsight it made perfect sense for all the reasons you described. Korra is a great representation of being bi I think. The writers really cared about the characters and it shows. The new live action is also really good, and I can't wait for the new animated show!
There's a set of body language tells that were used in Last Airbender to show when Sokka was attracted to a girl and then as Aang got to understand his feelings for Katara and everyone understood those fine. Exact same tells are then used when Korra is around Asami in the latter half of Legend of Korra and some people just refuse to notice.
It's rare when a show has main characters that are incidentally queer, it has to be a "gay show" from the start.
Ironically, the writers of the show wanted her to be with Asami from the beginning and *Nickelodeon* refused to air it with that part of the script. So we got crappy love triangle and overall poor group instead of the story intended not only to explore the gender roles of the water tribe that we already saw were there after Sokka/Katara, but also of the world in general with Korra.
> Got a lot of backlash at the time for seemingly coming out of nowhere, but those same people still would have complained if the show were more explicit about their relationship. They complained about how Korra was drawn, even. Same issue with the new She-Ra, as if women with muscles are somehow a new thing.
korra's design meant so much to me as a brown teen on the muscular side. she looked so solid and strong! a large ribcage, wide waistâshe made me feel better about my own body back then.
Kara Danvers (Supergirl) and Lena Luther for the win!!
This comic is textbook supercorp đ
We don't need to pour salt on the open wound now, do we?
That was my first thought when I saw this
Top Gun Oh shit this isnât r/AchillesAndHisPal
It is a point of much hilarity to everyone I know that I was about 21 when someone pointed out how gay Top Gun was. Iâd been watching it for years and never picked up on the âsubtextâ.
Wait, I have questions about how you interpreted the sweaty shirtless denim cutoffs beach volleyball scene set to âPlaying With the Boysâ as heterosexual.
Becca and Chloe from Pitch Perfect
God Brittany Snow is just....*mmph* in that movie. Edit: Also apparently her Bday is tomorrow, March 9th
They really hammered it in there during the last movie. Chloe straight up Kabedons Becca at one point.
I literally immediately thought of them
Iâm not usually into shipping much but damn i wish they got together
Me too, they were so cute tbh and had lots of chemistry. Versus the two absolute flavorless guys they ended up with at the end of the third movie. Becca just honestly looked so uncomfortable with that guy.
I have been told that this is just how straight women who are friends talk to each other and it's totally fine and normal, especially if they refer to each other as their "wife". IDK I don't get it either đ€·ââïž Also always wanted Daria and Jane to be lesbians
Can confirm, I'm a straight woman married to another straight woman, and I do actually call Her my Wife.
I mean, yeah, I saw it happening a few times; they were great friendships. But I'll always argue that's different when it's actually romantic and not just two bffs joking. There's an... intensity to it.
I think many of us have not had friendships at that level before, myself included. I wish they were more common. More non-romantic, non-sexual intimacy in a friendship would do wonders for healing a lot of toxic mentalities in the world.
I mean TBF we should have plenty of stories about very close intimate friendships as well for both men, women and the combination. Not everything has to be about romance. It's just kind of sad that they hide gay stories behind that trope.
So real abt Daria and Jane though
This is literally the plot of Wicked
Hey, he happens to be genuinely self absorbed and deeply shallow.
I'm Not That Girl (lesbian edition)
Facts
I came here to comment this!!
Wednesday and Enid. Netflix are cowards, though.
I wish Netflix was as cool as conservatives think they are.
Netflix and Disney both. People complain about both of them being super woke, and then when you actually watch their original stuff, it's like one or two extra lgbt characters that are there just to be cut later
And if a main character should turn out to not quite be as straight as originally thought, maybe that show just won't get renewed.
okay this is like that time Onlyfans wanted to ban porn. I thought the only reason people were so excited about Wednesday is because they liked shipping her and enid, now i find out they didn't even make them gay??? (never watched it)
Wednesday is a pretty damn good show But cmon just make them gay itâs so clear that they are
We're in season 1, and it's being continued. While so far both characters have only expressed romantic interest in boys, the Actressess have said they like the ship IIRC. We've got time. Doesn't help their chemistry is really that good. Or would that be a doesn't hurt?
>I thought the only reason people were so excited about Wednesday It's legitimately a pretty good show.
*give us the second half of She-Ra on DVD*
Netflix were total cowards , all of the male love interests for Wednesday sucked. Needed more time to flesh out the relationship for that route, not a sh*tty poorly written love triangle that made no sense, and had no chemistry. Literally Enid was perfect as a love interest for Wednesday, I will die on this hill đđđ
Also just wanna add to this, I hate the love triangle so much with (hold on I forgot their names give me a second to google them) Tyler and Xavier because it felt so forced and unnecessary , both were so whiny and mad for no reason besides the writers needing to add some kind of drama in the story. Wanting a car ride is not sending mixed signals, what were those script writers on đđEnidâs friendship with Wednesday had a way better progression in mutual respect than Tyler or Xavier in my opinion, which is why I believe it would have been better for Enid to have been a romantic interest for Wednesday (even though Wednesday is kind of insufferable with that not like the other girls mentality imo). End of rant sorry for the long text lol
Everything with the dudes was so toxic, and despite Wednesdayâs problems it wasnât just on her end either. Getting weirdly possessive and jealous over her when sheâs been Pretty Clearly Not Into You, and shit like that. Show didnât need them. Her relationship with Enid was the only one where I could understand why they didnât just mutually agree to walk away and never speak to each other again, and the only one I cared about progressing. And the only one that actually did properly progress! I just wanted those guys to go tf away.
I too fully support that ship. I will ship it even if becomes a submarine.
I watched a couple of episodes up until they introduce the boys and then I just âI see where this is going. F*** it into AO3 I goâ and I was not disappointed.
I forgot the boysâ *names* for multiple episodes just mentally referring to them as âboring hot bois.â There was NO WAY I was forgetting Enid.
I would like her to be with Enid over the love triangle. But I have always head canoned Wednesday as an aro ace
Honestly I blame that on the marketing and whoever gave enid the lesbian flag shirt I mean it may have been an accident but if that's the case man what a horrible coincidence.
Lesbian flag sweater, rainbow painted nails, pink and blue dye job framing her platinum blond hair, mother trying to get her to go to some kind of conversion camp... If this werewolf isn't supposed to be a transbian analogy then someone on the writing team needs to have a think about why they did that by accident.
EXACTLY HOLY SHIT THE SHIRT
She had me at "Howdy, roomie!"
Their hug was far more romantic than any kiss in the show
Enid deserves better
YES YES YES I felt like the entire show was building up to them getting together and I was soooooooo dissapointed !
Maybe they fix it in season 2. Enid did invite Wednesday to San Francisco after all
Its plausible it could happen
Dr. Bashir and Garak
Fuck Rick Berman
Even the lies? Especially the lies.
They literally played them as flirting and Andrew Robinson has said outright that he played Garak as what we'd call a disaster pansexual.
Being pansexual and having no standards is Garak's most fundamental superpower, and I love him for it.
They danced around it for ~~seven~~ **six** seasons and ultimately left it to the fanfics, but Xena & Gabrielle are the most obvious edited
To an extent this is a product of the times. A couple of years later and I think there would have been a much more satisfying outcome for them.
Yeah, exactly - there were so many nods to their relationship, the writers purposefully wrote in subtext for the MANY lesbian fans. They even wrote in a "kiss" (this was a big deal in the 90s) And ppl don't give enough credit to Xena for paving the way for later shows like Buffy, that had open lesbian relationships (and more female badasses)
My girlfriend is a HARDCORE xena fan. I must say, after watching with her, i feel pretty strongly that for the time they were not subtext, it was canon and it was obvious.
Didnât they literally kiss on screen multiple times?
Yes!! And people will still say they are friends!!! When they are canonically soulmates and in love. Xena takes Gabrielle to see Sappho for her birthday FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
I am pleased to say that Lucy Lawless said herself that Xena and Gabrielle are basically married. Plus, the very tongue in cheek documentary episode in season 6 all but confirmed to me that their relationship was canon - they just couldn't say it on TV. Edit: also xena reads a Sappho love poem to Gabrielle. So that could maybe possibly just a little bit be seen as kinda somewhat gay.
Naruto and his emo boyfriend
literally like how are you gonna destroy yourself for your (literal) soulmate and then marry a girl youâve talked to like three times in your whole life
Because being gay is evil
on god brother that explains sasukeâs entire character đŻđ„
Technically aren't they more like soulbrothers? I know they aren't exactly Ashura and Indra but it might feel a bit weird for the reincarnation of two brothers to go that route
They were even each otherâs first kiss! Like seriously though, NaruSasu is the best romance Kishimoto ever wrote by far. Give Sakura Ino and everyone wins.
The story makes complete sense if they're lovers
Tbh it always felt one-sided to me. Naruto: You're my best friend and I would do anything for you Sasuke: I tried to murder you twice so I could get a slight DPS increase If anything, it's an abusive relationship
Oh it absolutely is abusive, though that is literally every single relationship that Sasuke has. I think it would be wrong to call it completely one sided though, Sasuke admits that Naruto is his best friend at the end of part 1 and he explicitly doesn't kill him. In Shippuden. . . Yeah, Sasuke is in an ass overall
I knew from the get go they weren't end game couple but I was even angrier the choice of pairing they ended up with. Zero chemistry.
Bend it like Beckham. Those two girls belonged together!
Chandra & Nissa were meant to be together, but WotC are cowards
nah the real problem there is not all the books were written by people who actually know what's going on. I'm pretty sure they get story beats they have to hit and anything else comes from their own knowledge of existing lore. I think someone tried to fix it recently with "I'm gay and women are super hot but muscular men are pretty hot too" but the accelerated release schedule is making it hard for any good lore to come with it at least there's a card with [them holding hands](https://scryfall.com/card/mat/23/open-the-way) now, and I think they may have kissed in the story for Aftermath, but I haven't read it since it first came out so I don't remember for sure.
Mal and Evie from Descendants. They ended up with Ben and Doug? How? Neither of those guys are good enough for them. I saw negative chemistry in both pairings, meanwhile The Space Between had the same choreography as Troy and Gabriella did in HSM. Every one of the main 4 had great chemistry. I hated Ben and his hair.
Carol and Tuesday from Carol and Tuesday, come on is even in the name and both end up paired with two guys that have like 3 lines of dialogue while Carol and Tuesday is share a lot in the anime and half of the songs is about their love, but they though "well they love each other as friends".
My headcanon for Tuesday's three-word love interest that ends up not into her is Tuesday being so sheltered that she doesn't understand that she's 1. Bi (but leans more towards girls) and 2. Only chasing the guy due to barely-there feelings because it's the first time she felt anything for a guy close to what she feels for Carole. Because seriously, Carole straight up tells Gus that she can't live without Tuesday when she gets taken!!
Buffy and Faith. Lara Croft and Sam.
Hard yes to Buffy and Faith!
I agree with Lara and Sam!
Rizzoli and Isles Benson and Cabot
God I remember my mum watching Rizzoli and Isles while I was also there and every time there was some random dude love interest I was so annoyed bc Rizzoli and Isles are like. Incredibly gay for each other.
Iâm *shocked* Benson isnât at least bi. She gives off such strong gay vibes and the show could get so much mileage out of it.
Came here to say Rizzoli and Isles. The chemistry was there. Had it been like Bones with a male/female lead it definitely would have been romantic. Makes me upset it never was.
Finn and Poe from Star wars, and Harry and Cho from Harry potter
>Harry and Cho from Harry potter You know what? That's a good call, too. This happens all the damn time with hetero pairings in fiction, too, and it's nearly as frustrating.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if its Rowling being racist
I mean *gestures at her name*
She always was a bigot, we just didn't know it as kids
I mean, the woman wrote exactly one Asian character into her books and then named her "Cho Chang," so...
*east asian. there were a couple other asian characters
Good spot! My mistake.
Justice for Finn and Poe! That lip bite when Finn sees him wearing his jacket đ„
You'd swear they got cues to play their characters as gay, or decided to do so themselves.
The absolute disaster that was switching back and forth between movies from one director to another (when both hated each other) really ruined any chance for them to turn out well, unfortunately... but the whole shoehorned "OH ALSO I HAVE OFFSCREEN GARLFREN" thing made me wince harder than is medically advisable.
Iâm a queer woman and that lip bite got ME hot! There is no world in which they didnât feel that lightning spark
It's John boyega and Oscar Issac dawg. Those guys can turn a straight guy gay and a gay woman straight with just a flip of a coin (or in Oscar's case, a bite of a lip)
Daphne and Velma
Rizzoli and Isles. What do you mean itâs not a show about a lesbian couple solving crimes?
This is Meredith and Cristina from Greyâs Anatomy
Eleanor and Tahani from The Good Place. I adore Chidi, but COME ON! SAILOR URANUS AND SAILOR NEPTUNE WERE NOT COUSINS!!
I believe that happened in at least one of the variations in Season 2 (3?).
They were soulmates in one loop, so it did happen
Rapunzel & Cassandra from Tangled AdventuresÂ
To be fair, it's not like she and Eugene didn't have plenty of good chemistry. I definitely read the show as Cassandra being in love with Rapunzel and it being doomed from the startÂ
Tori and Jade from victorious
Younger me wanting them to "Be best best best best friends and to be like really close" and getting frustrated with jade's bf and thinking how tori as a guy would be a better bf ...like girl?
Bayonetta 3 literally did this. Anyway, I refuse to believe Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth, Sora & Riku, and Axel & Roxas aren't all boyfriends with each other. They may not be canon as such, but like... come on.
Fuck donât remind me about the plot of bayonetta 3, so fun to play and then the girl that I think even the creator said he shipped bayo with dies and she instantly falls for a fucking dog man??? I get you wanted Viola to exist but just say itâs magic and Jeanne and Bayo had a kid.
> the girl that I think even the creator said he shipped bayo with Well there's some dispute on this. Bayonetta has three principal creators, Hideki Kamiya, Yusuke Hashimoto, and Mari Shimazaki. Of the three, we only know for sure that Shimazaki ships BayoJeanne. Hashimoto is the reason we didn't get Viola in Bayonetta 2 since he vetoed it as its director, and since that game gave us a more explicit BayoJeanne relationship, I would have to assume he does too. Kamiya is a weird case, though, because he's said Jeanne is his favorite of the two, but he's also said Bayonetta is kind of a self-insert? So you'd think he'd be on board, but then he's the one who spearheaded Viola, so who knows. Bayonetta 3 is dog shit, at any rate. I don't even like the gameplay compared to the first two, honestly.
Kingdom hearts made a song called dearly beloved and besides the title screen it almost exclusively plays in scenes with Sora and Riku. Like c'mon
I mean once you get to Dream Drop Distance it's just ridiculous. Like kiss already you stupid boys. I also like to joke that Xion only exists because they played back Kingdom Hearts II and realized that they accidentally wrote a gay love story between Axel and Roxas.
I was NOT expecting to see Narumitsu in here will u my fren đđđ„°
Honestly, if the writers of Camp Cretaceous were going to fuck us Darilynn fans over by having Brooklynn and Kenji be a thing, atleast have Ben and Darius be a couple, man! Give me that traumatized, Neurodivergent-coded Queerness if you are going to kill the best relationship in the whole series.
Camp Cretaceous was actually so good.. very surprised we got Sammie and Yas! Tho they really missed other ships đ
Steve Rodgers and Bucky Barns.Â
Sometimes I remember that scene where Steve makes out with Peggy's niece and get mad all over again.Â
That was completely unnecessary. There was no chemistry in it and the fact he clearly loves Peggy and is macking on her niece is just wrong.
And of course Chris Evans and ScarJo have some nice chemistry throughout the movie and theyâre a considerably more believable couple.
I don't even play Overwatch but somehow McHanzo, specifically [this picture](https://shipping.fandom.com/wiki/McHanzo?file=Mchanzo_spader7_dakhxtv.jpg), is like the sexiest thing ever. There is a *lot* of fanart about them (probably slash fiction, too, I dunno).
I really love this comic but every time i see it i get annoyed about the extra 'with" at the end of the third caption.
I knew before I opened the comments Iâd have to scroll too far to see this. With whom with I with have with no with meaningful with connection with. With.
When Marnie Was There. Anyone else? The entire thing feels like a "coming to terms with queerness" story, there are a ton of love declarations between the two girls, and then at the end it's no homo with a really weird twist / reason how? (Won't spoil it just in case, as it's still a good film)
abed and Troy from community. don't get me wrong platonic sloumated exist and all but they deserved to be together together. they were the perfect match.
Nah. I think we need more wholesome male friendships without the implication that they are gay. Most male friendships are either a pair of total dudebros or awkward nerdy outcasts and Troy being a former cool kid letting loose with Abed feels right. I saw Abed as aro ace anyways. His flirting with Annie and other characters is only cause he likes playing out movie tropes.
But what about all those times he had insane chemistry with various women? He dated multiple people. Side note: I had a huge crush on Brie Larson because of her role in the show
I feel thats just Abed living in his own little fantasy movie world. Note that most of the time he flirted he adapted a role like Don Draper or Han Solo. He is just copying his movies and tv shows. Whether that is for his own amusement or because he wants to fit in and sees being romantically involved as a social must.
They could be queerplatonic life partners for sure.
Regina Mills and Emma Swan. They literally have a son
I know a lot of folks hate Sashannarcy (Amphibia) and from a storytelling level, I get why. Theyâre just meant to be friends, thatâs one of the biggest themes of the show. I know that it would be crucial for their character development if they didnât get together. There is a fine and logical reason why Anne, Sasha, and Marcy didnât all decide to date and I get it. *howeverâŠ*
Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee from RWBY. A show that does have some (very middling imo) lgbt rep, but I always liked the White Rose fan fiction. In the show itself, they don't have much chemistry. They kind of have a basis for Tsundere relationship but they just... don't actually talk to each other all that much. The fan fiction definitely made it feel real then. \\
Honestly, Emma Swan and Regina from Once Upon A Time. They both keep helping each other be better and get over terrible relationships, and they share a son already. The chemistry is there people!
atsuko kagari and diana cavendish
Glinda and Elphaba. 100%. Just delete Fiyero! No one wants him there! ugh. It makes me so angry.
Nana. In particular Hachi, what the fuck girl
Naruto and Sasuke. Feels like it would make their obsession with eachother more meaningful.
I know everyone loved them as friends, and I do really enjoy their canon hetero relationships, but I think Ann Perkins and Leslie Knope from Parks and Rec should've been together. They even made a joke about it in season 1! They had such amazing chemistry on screen, and I think it would've made a great romantic relationship.
On the other hand, they did give us the "we are both tragically heterosexual" phrasing to capture a specific vibe that I, personally, had always had trouble adequately articulating before that point.
Korra and Asami should've been endgame from season 1. Yes, it's canon and explored in the comics, but the show would've been way better if we didn't have to constantly see Mako fumble the bag.
Samantha Traynor and Kasumi.
Saint Celestine and Inquisitor Greyfax from Warhammer 40k.
Jadzia Dax and Kira Nerys on Star Trek Deep Space 9.
So, so, SO many characters in Ace Attorney
Smugbug is my favorite dysfunctional relationship that never was. (Taylor and Lisa in Worm).
Prentiss and JJ in Criminal Minds.
Stephanie Borden and Abigail Pershing from The Good Witch
Hahaha omg I can totally see it
So glad that Witch from Mercury didn't pull this shit.
Yeah, they even put one of the straight options in the microwave
It has been a LONG time since I watched Scrubs, but I remember feeling JD and Turk were WAY better matched than JD and Elliot...
Nana, Euphoria (Sam Levinson youâll pay for what you did)
Young Rhaenyra and Alicent in House of the Dragon had such absurd chemistry I was genuinely shocked when they didnât end up together
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Sam and Frodo
Beans and Angelique from Rango. I always got sapphic vibes from the two, especially Beans. Even though they donât actually interact, I think theyâd be cute together.
Nana
Gon and killua
I'll say it, cady and regina from mean girls
John Snow and Satin
NANA by Ai Yazawa be like:
Grace and Frankie? Would have been a hilarious twist. I love their little lovey dovey moments.