(I have a Secret Theory that the Cap/Bucky 'ship was a major turning point in terms of, for lack of a better term, queerbaiting in mainstream media. Disney let themselves acknowledge it, but learned the hard way that you couldn't put the genie back in the bottle)
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Replying to @kdotfuey @BootlegGirl
captain marvel also had extreme queerbaiting energy, like seriously, and that also broke through into mainstream understanding of the movie
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
I vividly remember leaving Captain Marvel and thinking that they didn’t even TRY to give her a male love interest and how that was probably some bizarre sign of progress
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Replying to @kdotfuey @BootlegGirl
i mean, the thing about captain marvel is i don't think the queer reading is even subtext, it's literally the most straightforward interpretation of "hi we're just two gals living together raising a daughter together and also we love each other," it's just nobody says it out loud
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which i guess is extremely period-appropriate for a movie set in the 90s
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
*side eyes Winter Solider* I mean, when has “the narrative framework is literally that their best friend is their new love interest” actually stopped Disney
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TWS literally started with Cap’s canonical love interest forgetting him and ended with Bucky fighting to remember him as human bookends to the “the past is gone but the future worth fighting for” theme, yet the same writers still had him go back to the past
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Replying to @kdotfuey @BootlegGirl
yeah, exactly. his arc with peggy is melancholy and bittersweet and *resolved.* then the russos (or maybe the mouse, who knows) decided to reopen it out of nowhere because "cap can't be gay!" i guess
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Fwiw the writers of TWS and Endgame (Markus and McFeely) are the ones who say their intention was always that Peggy's unseen husband was Steve time traveling from the future, though they may be lying about this
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i mean, this also barely makes sense? like, he's captain america, literally everyone at shield and also anywhere would recognize him, how does nobody notice
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Yeah he'd have to be her secret husband in the attic
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