[ SECRET POST #3070 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3070 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Turning gay characters straight is the ultimate turnoff for me, because it reminds me of the awful history of people attempting to "correct" queerness.

[(Anonymous)]

That's obviously fair, as an individual reaction to something, but I don't think it's necessarily what the writer is actually doing and, again, I find it hard to see it being inherently problematic for that reason.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't actually think that's what they mean to do either (well, at least I hope not), but then again the case people make against whitewashing/straightification isn't usually about intentional malice, but the unintentional contribution to the erasure of minority groups? So they're not active bigots but not exactly helping to fix representation issues either... and as a bonus their artwork also incites reactions of distaste in people due to gross associations (intentional or otherwise). That explains why not a of people want that stuff around.

[(Anonymous)]

There is a difference between "He's gay? I must not have gotten that far." and "THAT IS THE ULTIMATE SIN!"

I mean one is the best reason to insablock someone.

[(Anonymous)]

I can give a pass when the person honestly has no idea, as would most people, but I don't think that's the situation we were talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

DA, but I don't think it's bad even if they do know, provided it's just a matter of writing/drawing them straight for fanwork purposes. I mean, you'll get fics and art of characters who've never interacted in canon, living characters getting with dead characters, humans with sapient animals and aliens etc. Then there are all sorts of stories where a character is written as abusive, a rapist, or even a serial killer. It seems a bit daft to draw the line at a canon gay character falling in love with someone of the opposite gender.

It's gross if they try to claim the character is actually straight in canon, but fanwork is just fanwork.

[(Anonymous)]

Daft or not, it's a turnoff for me. Can't say I'd be happy to see fanwork about a character I like being an abuser, a rapist, or a serial killer either. Would anyone? Unless canon supports such portrayals, I think interest in them are kinda niche.

[(Anonymous)]

A turnoff? That's fine, same here. I thought you were suggesting it's inherently wrong or problematic.

[otakugal15]

Man, I've liked only ONE pairing in all my years of fandom where a gay guy ended up falling for a girl (this is in fanfiction, obviously. the character in question was undeniably gay in the source material and i wouldn't have him any other way). But I liked the dynamic between these two characters that, if things had been different and she aged up (though honestly, the next time we see this character any where near her, she was in college and marrying her sweetheart), I think it'd work out, in a wish fulfillment kind of way.

But I have yet to find another one that clicked that way for me. They usually come off as platonic.