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⌈ Secret Post #2926 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fandom/fic trends that annoy you

[diet_poison]

It's not necessarily OOC to write a character as queer - only if a character is confirmed straight, which doesn't actually happen that often, I don't think. And even then, if it's well-written, exceptions to one's orientation can be a thing - they happen in real life, too.

To me, it's about bending probability to the extreme when you write all the main characters in a large canon as queer at the same time, and going out of your way to write same-sex pairs just for the sake of it, without regard to whether the couples in the fic actually work and without regard to any residual effects of broken-up canon ships. (To be clear, I don't mind writing ships that contradict canon ships, but if it's done at a point in canonical timeline after the ship has been established, acting like it never happened breaks canon and isn't realistic. And again, I'm talking about fics that are touted as being realistic and well-written, not just written for fun indulgence.) Chances are if you pick 20 people at random they will not all be queer. In fact chances are pretty low. Chances are high that one or more of them will be queer, of course, but low that they will all be queer. Compound that with the above-mentioned OOC-ness that sometimes has to be used to force this, and...it doesn't come off as good writing at all, but rather as possibly fetishistic or, at best, lazy.

Now if a canon presented itself with all the characters being queer, then it totally could work. But (for better or for worse) most canons don't. So again - it's about realism, to me.

Re: Fandom/fic trends that annoy you

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Basically I agree with you. I'm just hugely invested in the canons of the works I like and I don't like things that do, or even *seem* to, challenge it's existence. So if you can convince me that so-and-so character is gay based on something in canon, then I'm likely to go along with it. When you start making every character gay I go, "huh?", because that is so completely unrealistic and is at odds with the canon universe (assuming it's not the canon of something about the queer community, of course), especially universes that are supposed to be slices of the real world. The more fantastical the universe is, and the less sexuality is discussed within canon, the less likely I am to be bothered.