#quasigai

[william-s-churros]

when I first got back into vbs like... one year ago exactly I guess lmao (it was after otakon and my friend Chuck and I watched the diving bell and the butterglider together in the room and I was like SHIT! I love this FUCKING SHOW it has been YEARS!!) like at work I was so hashtag desperate for content I read tons of like, straight up articles about it bc the fandom is so small and I had been in it from like 04-13 basically and had already seen most of the fancontent produced in that 9 year span... there's just an amusing number of articles about how gay the show is actually and I think that's legit, but it's bizarre to me that literally like every single article brings up white alongside the actual gay characters on the show???? some people were even so bold as to like state as though it is a canon fact "he is a repressed homosexual clearly in love with his roommate and coworker Billy quizboy" and I'm a bit lmao I mean I too Want To Believe but that's like.... a bit of an extrapolation actually...

unrelated (kind of) but it recently dawned on me wrt to these two that like... all the quasigay shit between these two is like, maybe legitimately intended as fanservice??? like the fact that they are pretending to be dating now (causing other characters to refer to them as boyfriends, etc) the times when they like, have vaguely intimate contact (i.e. spanikopita waking up in bed on top of each other) shore leave insinuating that they aren't "just friends"- like that shit can kind of fall into the category of ah yet another tired gay joke (which this series is totally rife with lbr), but Jackson and doc are like... aware of shippers and fandom and stuff. bizarrely enough the art book is peppered with references to how much "people [who?] don't like Billy and white" and I remember one of the journal of venture studies articles mentioning something similar about them mentioning during a panel/commentary or something that network being like "please god use them less" at some point- they also talk about how much they love them a lot in the book and I think that coupled with the knowledge that some of their fans (apparently a minority??? lol) are super invested in them (as boyfriends or not, like honestly i just love them and i know other ppl who are pretty vocal about them being their faves as well and I know a lot of us are like "we poppin the biggest bottles when petebilly becomes canon this season" but like, don't have super high hopes lol but regardless just enjoy their interactions and storylines bc they're great) and this is like... their weird way of saying yeah, we see you, we're throwing you a bone here, this one's for you guys lol which is kind of nice, I enjoy being serviced as a fan, altho i guess this falls under the whole "queerbaiting" umbrella tho I have forgiven this show for worse crimes so... idk

seriously tho who are these people who don't like Billy and white tho? obviously I am biased but it's difficult for me to wrap my head around lmao. I can honestly MAYBE understand not liking white bc he is a very bullshit person but Billy? Billy rules lmao. even his character design has the quintessential eyepatch-robot arm combo that I live for lmao who are you people and why do you hate joy? I guess there are ppl out there who hate hank for gods sake so anything is possible...