[ SECRET POST #4276 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4276 ⌋

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

01.



__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________


03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 19 secrets from Secret Submission Post #612.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

04. https://i.imgur.com/ST8dIKo.png

[(Anonymous)]

I see where you're coming from but I also feel like... Let kids be kids, let the world change for the better, right?

[(Anonymous)]

Flustered and shy is one thing, but PANIC is way another, and as an old-enough queer, I totally get where you're coming from.

Someone being flustered and shy over flirty contact can be cute regardless of gender, but can be particularly relatable for those of us who grew up not quite understanding how to deal with same sex attraction. Someone reacting to same-sex flirtation by getting upset with the person, shoving them away or being verbally derogatory? Never cute, but definitely uncomfortable-and-beyond when you take the gay panic defense into account.

(I think there's room for a tsundere thing, for those who like that dynamic, and for characters who are grappling with their feelings, but it can't feel like it's tied into sexuality in that way, it has to feel like the character doesn't know how to respond to affection but, like... I don't know. I mean I know there are times when the push-pull works, and I know for me it DOESN'T work if I feel like there's even a whiff of 'Character X might react violently in the wake of a romantic/sexual encounter out of fear of their own sexuality', that's just... skin-crawling)

[(Anonymous)]

+1 as another old queer. The word "panic" alone with gay content gives me a nasty jump.

[(Anonymous)]

You know I'm so used to seeing this for fictional characters without putting much thought into it... but when it's done with REAL people it gets super creepy.

I know those bands are probably told to act in fanservice-y ways but it's still so weird that fans a micro analyzing every single thing they do and interpret however they want.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder how much these fans have seen of male interaction. A lot of straight men flirt with each other (and with gay men). A lot touch each other in what I would argue to be a flirty way. It doesn't mean they are in the least gay. They are having fun and mucking around. It annoys me that everything is sexualised nowadays.

[(Anonymous)]

what's wrong w sexualizing it a little bit

maybe it's just course-correcting for a previous lack of sexualization, you ever think of that

[(Anonymous)]

Because these are, you know, real live people, not your fictional fucking Barbie dolls.

[(Anonymous)]

But couldn't the exact same point be made about any kind of fandom that's directed towards living human beings?

It's a difficult line to walk in general and you always need to remember that your idols are human beings. But I don't think that looking at people and thinking they're flirting is uniquely evil somehow because it's "sexualizing" them.

[(Anonymous)]

But then they can't get their real world yaois, dude.