>>463947Sure! Nu Pagodi's a fairly standard "bad guy tries to eat the good guy" show, that when watched in its original cultural context has absolutely no homoerotic undertones. Soviet Russia was even worse for gays than modern Russia, so there's no way anyone would even try to sneak any gayness into a children's cartoon. However, when modern westerners watch it, it's clearly about a scruffy masc dude trying to pursue his femme twink love interest.
Wolf is limp-wristed, dresses as a sailor or in a pink top (sometimes cropped!), and brings flowers to and dances with Hare. Clearly a massive homo right? If anything, Wolf's actually a Stilyagi, who were counterculture youths that wore fancy western-style clothes (kind of like Mods, but more Punk) and liked to dance.
I'm obviously biased when it comes to homoerotic undertones in media (if Sonic and Knuckles are ever standing near each other, they must be in love!), and like to read Silver and Stripes as romantically involved, but they might just have a close homosocial relationship (i.e., a bromance).
A lot of people come to the conclusion that because the artist's Russian, they don't want to get in trouble by having an explicit gay relationship, but they've actually made several drawings poking fun at the situation. It's obviously awful for anyone not straight in Russia, but I don't think it's at the point where you'd get in trouble for having gay themes in your art so long as you aren't showing it to kids and don't get wildly popular (their anti-LGBT laws are mostly centered on not corrupting the youth). KrazyELF and TooDamnCycle (along with many others) are Russian artists making a living drawing homoerotic smut, so it's certainly possible to make that sort of art.