[ SECRET POST #3519 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3519 ⌋

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have mixed feelings on this. If the character in question is explicitly straight, then I agree with you. Handwaving away someone's canon sexuality is not only dumb, but it doesn't make a lot of sense from the perspective of the story their fic is trying to tell.

...But when the character has no defined sexuality or it's left ambiguous, I am really not a fan and I'm glad it's starting to become less popular. As a queer person, it's always reeked of casual homophobia to me. ie. People refuse to believe their fave could be gay, therefore their relationship with this other same sex character is JUST an exception.

If the character is canon straight? That homophobic implication isn't there. But otherwise, it reads just as unrealistic as suddenly handwaving a straight character as having a gay past, and it seems to hint that the author has some problem with a character just being gay or bisexual without strings attached.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who really likes the tropes described in the OP, how prevalent is the latter thing you describe? If a character has an ambiguous sexuality I nearly always see fandom default to "gay" or "bi". For instance, I'm OPM anon in this secret thread. Genos has no "canon" sexuality. He's nearly always defaulted to either gay, or more usually he's pansexual, or even demisexual. Anything but cookie-cutter straight. I see this with basically every character who doesn't have a definitively laid out straight sexuality in canon.

(Not to mention I'm personally annoyed because in OPM fandom, if you read my other comments, people handwave canonly-straight Saitama's straightness away like swatting a particularly irksome bug. The dude is a mid-twenties social recluse, plain-faced loser (I swear I like him, he's an awesome character, but these are all traits you're meant to pick up about him) who reads hentai for fun and wears a shirt that says "boobs", while also canonly stating he doesn't "swing that way" about sexual contact with a man.

Seeing characters like that suddenly being retconned into a gay lothario just grinds my gears. It's as weird to me as if someone retconned a canonly gay character into a straight ladies' man or something.)