[ SECRET POST #3034 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3034 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if a lot of the backlash, for want of a better word, against the "But they're just really deeply platonic friends" is also a backlash against the increasing amount of queerbaiting in media.

There are so many shows that make a deliberate point of being "they're bros, totally no homo" as though that would be insulting or devaluing to the characters that some amount of subverting that is understandable. Add to it the sheer amount of (esp. male) platonic friendships that already exist in media, and having someone come along and tell you that even in your fantasy fanfic imagination these characters are still platonic friends and couldn't possibly be romantic, and well, it gets old. Fast.

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Well, I definitely understand backlash against that (and tbh, the more creators insist that they're totes not gay, the gayer they look IMO, because if they're really not gay why should it be constantly clarified? It's so gratuitous.) What I mean is backlash against fans and fanfic who simply choose not to portray them as romantic, even those who never go around arguing that slashing them is doing it wrong. Or even backlash against the gen fanfic, or meta that happens to not imvolve slash, of people who write both gen and slash. As if nonslash = antislash, which just seems really insecure.