[ SECRET POST #3774 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3774 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I understand the frustration, and at the same time I would have agreed with it 4-5 years ago and I'm a lot more sympathetic now. I ended up falling into series and fandoms that were ridiculously het-biased and as a queer fan after a year or so of that I realized it was taking a serious toll on my mental health. I was having a lot more negative thoughts about myself, I started feeling a lot of anxiety about bringing up past girlfriends and considered pretending they were boyfriends. I got really down every time I had to listen to well meaning fandom friends talk about how they just couldn't understand why anyone could see characters as gay they just didn't read as gay to them, and remembering every single time I've mentioned having a girlfriend and gotten told that I don't look gay, don't seem gay, they never would have expected I was gay.

I ended up taking a break from these fandoms and going to slash friendly ones where I wasn't constantly surrounded by default het. Until I could hear friends bring up past fandoms and how they just don't see how anyone could imagine Trowa and Quatre as Gaaaay they're so obviously heterosexual, with just me quietly eyerolling instead of feeling like a freak.

So... I don't think they're doing the world a huge favor by slashing pretty boys, but I do think they're unintentionally making queer-friendlier spaces and as long as they're not being huge hypocrites towards queer fans while praising queer fiction of fictional characters then I think they're fine.