[ SECRET POST #2890 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2890 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Slash pairings becoming canon

[(Anonymous)]

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So, no, it's never going to be a thing where they air Supernatural (or whatever its future equivalent is) for 15 years, and then at the end Dean and Castiel (or whoever their equivalents are) totally bone. Of course it won't, because that's not how people write things. Like, can you think of any het romances in media that actually work like that?"

Yes, I absolutely can think of het romances that are confirmed in the end, but throughout the series are much more ambiguous - could be friends, could be more.

It's fine - no, it's not "easy" but it's more or less okay - to have canon gay characters. Ones that are introduced as gay, and get together with another "gay" character - maybe an episode or two of drama and coming out of the closet, but they are specifically "the gay characters".

It's much different to have a character who isn't defined by their sexuality to have an ambiguous relationship with a close male friend only to later confirm their feelings and sexuality - a media relationship not defined by their gayness from the start.

And I don't see the media recognizing that real life sexuality can and does work like that. Because yes, it just is too risky to have gay characters who surprise at least portions of the audience with their homosexuality (or bisexuality or whatever). It's much safer to introduce characters as gay and put them safely in "the gay role."

Re: Slash pairings becoming canon

[(Anonymous)]

I guess it just seems to me that, even if that happens with het characters, it seems to me like it's very much the exception and not the norm. I agree that the way gay characters are written is far from perfect, but I just think that even in the best case scenario, having a reasonably subtle, well-written, ambiguous relationship is still going to be the exception rather than the norm, because it seems to me that's just the exception when it comes to relationships on TV.