[ SECRET POST #3420 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3420 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've noticed this too. I follow someone who has thrown fits over two characters she headcanoned as ace (Pearl and Poison Ivy) being confirmed as gay, and I'm just like... first of all, you can be homoromantic and asexual anyway, and second, do you complain about straight characters the same way? (For the record, I used to identify as aroace, and now see myself more as 'super gay with a hilariously low sex drive'.)

I think a big problem is that--especially in children's media--it's hard to confirm a character as ace unless they're aroace. I'd be all for cartoon characters saying they were fine with being single and being surrounded with friends rather than romantic partners. It'd be great! But I've seen people say it'd be great if Elsa was homoromantic asexual and... yeah, sure, but if Disney gave her a girlfriend I don't think she's gonna wink and nod to the camera and say "don't worry! I'm asexual so I'm not sexually attracted to her!" so the audience doesn't think she's your run-of-the-mill lesbian.

[diet_poison]

Did the creators actually describe Pearl as gay? She's...gem-sexual? Gems don't really have genders...I wouldn't call Rose straight just because she was in love with Greg.

[(Anonymous)]

Pearl was never confirmed as gay. Anon is an idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about.

[diet_poison]

That's pretty unfair. Anon was talking about their friend's response to something; it seems pretty likely it was the friend who claimed it was canon and then overreacted. Anyway, calling someone an idiot over misinformation is over-the-top.

The anon above

[(Anonymous)]

Uhhh sorry? I'll admit I was pretty tired and slightly drunk when I wrote that, so I apologize for not being more specific. She was reacting to the tweet one of the staff made in regards to Pearl and Rose's relationship (The one along the lines of 'their relationship isn't just platonic' or something?), and was throwing a fit over how it didn't match up with her headcanon of Pearl being asexual.

[(Anonymous)]

Not only did they never describe her as gay, some of them have drawn their own fanart of her with men. But then a very vocal part of the fandom backlashed at that and at other fans who ship Pearl/Dewey, so you see lots of posts from them casually calling Pearl a lesbian and angrily telling the fandom to stop shipping the "canon lesbian" (who also "hates men" canonically, they claim) in het pairings.

[diet_poison]

Man, if Pearl hates men, what is she going to do when Steven becomes one? :O