Saying his character is queer coded implies intent. I think people analyzing the goblin king and coming away believing there's some villainization of queerness are simply wrong.
Within any field. The fact that it's called coding implies an attempt to communicate something indirectly. Of course within the context of this post it literally says conservatives queer coded these characters for the purpose of making kids think gays are going to hell, which is what I was responding to.
I just don't think that was the intent with his character.
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Saying his character is queer coded implies intent. I think people analyzing the goblin king and coming away believing there's some villainization of queerness are simply wrong.
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Within any field. The fact that it's called coding implies an attempt to communicate something indirectly. Of course within the context of this post it literally says conservatives queer coded these characters for the purpose of making kids think gays are going to hell, which is what I was responding to.
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Completely agree with you there.
It's never ever used that way when analyzing media. No one gives a fuck about authorial intent because that's a really boring way to discuss things.
Ok but that's literally what it means. Also authorial intent is interesting and obsessed over in academia.