[ SECRET POST #5184 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5184 ⌋

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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

It was a simplification, admittedly. But I didn't necessarily mean to imply "villains" in that, I more meant like... people who you (using the royal "you" here) find personally repugnant, I guess? Are just as likely to be LGBT as anyone else. It's gatekeeping a nonexistent gate. How you personally feel about a person/character has literally no bearing on their sexuality, or yours for that matter. Like, imagine a straight person not wanting a character to also be straight because they didn't like them. That doesn't make any sense.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000000

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but: Not really IMO. Considering there aren't many canon LGBT characters (in pop media at least) compared to het characters, naturally one would want to relate at least a little bit or feel at least a little bit that they are relatable, not the other way around. But I guess these kinds of reasons justify why OP says it is a secret anyway. Sometimes, there isn't a moral judgement to things. Sometimes it's just: I don't like it, period.

[(Anonymous)]

Just try it with anything else. "I don't like that character, why does she have to be Asian like me?"

[(Anonymous)]

... Sounds perfectly fine to me? Or, rather, for better wording: "I don't like that character so I wish people didn't see her as representative of Asian people because I am Asian and I am nothing like her".

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[(Anonymous)]

Considering there aren't many canon LGBT characters (in pop media at least) compared to het characters, naturally one would want to relate at least a little bit or feel at least a little bit that they are relatable, not the other way around.

Except that OP's secret specifically references fans' headcanons as the source of their irritation. LGBT canon characters are relatively rare, but LGBT interpretations of characters in fanfic and fanart absolutely aren't. (In fandom as a whole, anyway; there are obviously particular fandoms that are very cis het heavy.)