It can be really traumatic to have your emotions denied growing up. For example, hearing things like “don’t cry,” or “it’s not that bad” or “stop being so sensitive” can be damaging and invalidating. This teaches us emotions are “bad” and we may suppress, hide or deny our own emotions as we get older which has its own consequences.
Your emotions are valid and you’re allowed to feel them. And if you have trauma from having your emotions denied, your trauma is valid.
setting up, advertising, or alluding to queer relationships in media with no intention of actually depicting that relationship in order to capitalize off of queer viewers without scaring away general audiences.
what queerbaiting is not:
popular fandom ships not becoming canon
ambiguous or unconventional queer stories
real people experimenting with their gender or sexuality
and anything else that doesn’t fit the definition above
actually not to like be like this again but can people like or respond to this w/ an emoji or something if you dont hate me or if you just care in any capacity about me as a person
