Hey! Just a quick clarification, "bury your gays" trope refers to when writers quickly write characters out of…
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"bury your gays" is a trope that stems from censorship. It's a result of people fearing backlash for including LGBTQ+ representation. There is a lot of history and culture surrounding this trope. You can read more about its history here: https://screenrant.com/movies-bury-your-gays-trope-explained-history/
Yes, Tara & Willow fall under the "bury your gays" trope despite their romantic storyline spanning several seasons. It's about the timing of her death, that it comes directly after their moment of happiness and unity. Killing Eve, another *very queer* show, also falls for the "bury your gays" trope for a similar reason. It's about giving hope to your audience that queer people can be in love and happy, and then taking it away for no real reason.
Eien no Kinou (I would argue) is a metaphor for grief and terminal illness (giving the death meaning). The leads are not unexpectedly robbed of their happiness just as it is finally made. It's also *not* a lesson in why its dangerous or bad to be gay (the alternate use of "bury your gays"). And it's also *not* done because the writers have no idea how to write gay people (another use of the word).
I'm glad you liked this show! To be clear, I'm not attacking you for your opinion. I just want to clarify this bit of terminology and history. I also loved it! It really was so precious and beautiful T_T
Hey! Just a quick clarification, "bury your gays" trope refers to when writers quickly write characters out of a story once they've been identified as queer. This does not fall under that category, and the story opens with the premise that one of them is dead. It's good to call out this trope, but this is not an instance of it.
I'm glad you put together this list! How do you have such a good memory to remember your reasoning for characters…
Haha! You'd think it's good memory but it's also partially because I take notes in my watchlist >:) Some of these I'm kind of shaky on... but yeah ^_^ Thanks I'm glad you're enjoying it
Also I just took a look at your list! Thanks for noting Suiyobi 22-ji dake no Kare because I was like, "I feel like this fits on this list but I'm not sure why" which is why I didn't end up putting it on here. Do you mind if I quote you and add a link to your list as a hyperlink?
Wow! Thanks for elaborating on the mythology. I had looked it up before, but didn't make some of the connections you did before reading this. Your review was a treat!
episode 7 was so bad and the unnecessary confusion about ''liking'' him is so odd to me
i didnt mind it because he has super low self-esteem so that blatant misinterpretation made sense to me, but what *did* bother me was that Issay wasn't like "stop being dense." They're childhood friends! Issay should have figured out by now that Nekoyashi will purposefully misinterpret anything to the worse outcome. But also I'm just tired of Nekoyashi at this point. If the next episode wasn't the last I'd probably drop it T_T
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"bury your gays" is a trope that stems from censorship. It's a result of people fearing backlash for including LGBTQ+ representation. There is a lot of history and culture surrounding this trope. You can read more about its history here: https://screenrant.com/movies-bury-your-gays-trope-explained-history/
To be fair, there *are* several different meanings for the trope. TV Tropes also has a good (and short) analysis of it that includes some of its other uses: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/BuryYourGays
Yes, Tara & Willow fall under the "bury your gays" trope despite their romantic storyline spanning several seasons. It's about the timing of her death, that it comes directly after their moment of happiness and unity. Killing Eve, another *very queer* show, also falls for the "bury your gays" trope for a similar reason. It's about giving hope to your audience that queer people can be in love and happy, and then taking it away for no real reason.
Eien no Kinou (I would argue) is a metaphor for grief and terminal illness (giving the death meaning). The leads are not unexpectedly robbed of their happiness just as it is finally made. It's also *not* a lesson in why its dangerous or bad to be gay (the alternate use of "bury your gays"). And it's also *not* done because the writers have no idea how to write gay people (another use of the word).
I'm glad you liked this show! To be clear, I'm not attacking you for your opinion. I just want to clarify this bit of terminology and history. I also loved it! It really was so precious and beautiful T_T
Also I just took a look at your list! Thanks for noting Suiyobi 22-ji dake no Kare because I was like, "I feel like this fits on this list but I'm not sure why" which is why I didn't end up putting it on here. Do you mind if I quote you and add a link to your list as a hyperlink?
https://mydramalist.com/profile/Shini/feeds/BKxEEhE
Helpful article that I *think* is for the same series? https://mydramalist.com/article/a-guide-to-the-grave-robbers-chronicles-2nd-edition