[ SECRET POST #3892 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3892 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

Lately whenever there's any sort of reference to one of the guys in one of my M/M ships liking women I get sad because it means obviously he's not actually gay and secretly in love with the other half of the ship.

In the past I never used to care if characters I shipped with dudes were straight in canon, so I don't know why I do now, and I know this is a really, really dumb thing to be sad over.

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

Can you just headcanon that he's bi?

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

Standard reminder that bisexuality is a thing.

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

It is, but that's almost never what the writers are going for when a character who's in a popular M/M ship suddenly starts going on about his attraction to women. It's usually an attempt to discourage the slash shippers. Headcanoning a character as bi seems to fix everything, until you realize the lengths the writers have gone to discourage you from interpreting them as anything but straight. It can become demoralizing.

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, exactly. Especially when the dude in question specifically says he doesn't like guys (which rules out him being bi) or goes on about how he's so into women and makes it clear he's not gay (and I mean, *technically*, I guess he could still be bi, but I can't imagine a bi dude wording it that way).

But there's always the "he does like guys, but he's in denial or lying about it or whatever" headcanon.

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

To me this is such a bizarre way to view entertainment, like I automatically assume all characters are bisexual unless it's explicitly stated they DON'T like men/women that way. But I'm bisexual so *SHRUG*

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

What if he specifically says he's not into guys, though? (But I guess there's still always the option of headcanoning that he is but is in denial about it.)

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

It's bizarre to sometimes feel disheartened when writers go out of their way to ridicule you for daring to think that one of their characters might possibly be like you?

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, this level of paranoia is bizarre to me.

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

Paranoia, seriously?

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, it's not paranoia. Get over yourself.

Re: Fandom Secrets you're too lazy to make!

[(Anonymous)]

Headcanons are almost never what the writer is going for. That's part of the point of them. If we decided to only read characters as the sexuality they're probably supposed to be, there would be an unrealistic amount of straight characters.