“Fjord isn’t gay” WELL THEN HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE FACT THAT HE WAS BOYFRIENDS WITH SABIEN I KNOW SO IT SAYS RIGHT HERE IN MY 2000 WORD THEORY FIC THAT CAME OFF OF TRAVIS SAYING “THEY HAD A LONG HISTORY”

losebetter:

well… honestly though. if critrole was a planned, scripted show with even a single queer person on a massive writing team, the fact that fjord is a charming, boyish cowboy/sailor combo (i mean, fucking really) who wears a lot of leather, is the constant canon butt of jokes about seamen and swords and you name it; that he has intimate connections to other men in his past, including a mentor who evidently raised him (”my mentor, my captain, my – “) and indeed a male peer that he has a ““long history”” with, and expresses immediate, consistent discomfort when women flirt with him (which they do, often at the will of the game master) –

– and that he’s a monster boy, who grew up surrounded by people who weren’t like him, who viciously teased him for being different until he internalized it so badly that now he’s thirty and doesn’t know how to act in any way that isn’t making himself useful and more palatable to others, that he’s never met or even seen another person like him, probably hadn’t realized they even existed until he was older –

…my point is that if all of these things collided in a single character on purpose over the course of these nine months, the writing team behind him would be BEATING US OVER THE HEAD with it. it’s not subtle! again, maybe it’s my experience studying this stuff talking, but honest to god, this is what queercoding is. fjord is like four of the fucking village people rolled into one dude.

BUT (and this is important) all the meta and Knowing The Code in the world won’t make a lick of difference in an improv show like this. my personal opinion is that it’s entirely possible they have no idea the amount of explicit gaycoding they’ve stumbled into, which… really wouldn’t be their fault. it’s just something i’m sick and tired of fandom calling me bonkers for, that’s all.