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⌈ Secret Post #5646 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fandom thoughts/rants

[(Anonymous)]

OP/ayrt

Oh, god, the whole "think of the children!" crowd (especially since that same group tends to not give a fuck about "the children" in other contexts, but that's a whole different subject) drives me nuts. It seems like that whole mindset has gotten even louder lately (at least in the US; I'm not sure what it's like elsewhere) and the idea of being so scandalized by the fact that non-straight people just *exist* is just...so fucking stupid.

Yeah, that's just dumb and annoying. I mean, for fuck's sake, just let people enjoy whatever they enjoy as long as they're not hurting anyone.

In this fandom it seems to be older people (that have described themselves that way, and some of them are queer, too, it's not *just* straight people, they're just the ones that annoy me the most with their gatekeeping) who act like there needs to be One True Acceptable Narrative.

The main character and one of the more minor characters have both had relationships with men in canon, one has had relationships with women too, and the other has been heavily implied to have had a relationship with a woman in the past, so there's nothing to contradict them being bi, but from interviews I've seen with the writers, they seem to be a bit...oblivious about identities other than gay and straight and I'm expecting a "they were only with women because they were in denial/because of social pressure" kind of situation. (And I mean, don't get me wrong, it's cool to have gay characters because a lot of writers don't seem to want to write about *anything* non-straight, but there are other things than just gay and straight.) So the "they must be gay" people are probably right, actually, but until it's confirmed, let us headcanon them as bi, dammit! lol

I hadn't heard about the ending of something being changed because of whiny incels, but that's just ridiculous!

Thanks! I really love this fandom and I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised but if not, hopefully there will be something better somewhere down the road!

Re: Fandom thoughts/rants

[(Anonymous)]

(AYRT) Yeah, this. Thanks for wording it nicely, lol.

Hmm, got that. Awwww that sucks. I feel like, oddly enough, even in BL/GL fandom (which is technically written for/by young cishet women although it's obviously not always the case and probably hasn't been even the majority for the past 20 years but w/e) bisexual characters seem to be a common-ish trope? They weren't just "experimenting", they were in a satisfying heterosexual relationship before getting into a satisfying homosexual relationship (and I have seen even the opposite, too). If anything, self-identifying gay kids may go "omgg they're so gayy" almost jokingly, but nobody disagrees that canonically they are... not. I hate being reminded that "they were in denial" is a thing in fiction. It feels to me like it validates those crazies who believe that "bisexual people are just secretly gay!", and makes it seem like queer people just... get into false relationships for selfish reasons. Not that this kind of thing doesn't happen IRL (*cough* I did talk about what I got myself into) but it's not The Universal Experience and bisexual people exist, absolutely. Now I kind of hope they end up making it so one of these characters ends up being canonically bisexual and the interviews were just deliberately misleading lol.

Yeah, me neither. I was/am horrified.

Best of luck!!

Re: Fandom thoughts/rants

[(Anonymous)]

OP/ayrt

I'm not super familiar with BL/GL but I have seen several fandoms where the writers are kind of notorious for biphobia/bi erasure (like, a gay character will start dating someone new, find out they identify as bi, and then what follows is a ton of negative stereotypes and BS about bi people). I feel like a lot of older people, even "liberal" ones can sometimes be a bit...narrow-minded when it comes to other aspects of the community than the L and G (I know a lesbian who thinks "you're either gay or straight" and that bi people are confused, she's also said she hates *all* gay men so she has some issues). Hopefully as time goes on there will be a bit more representation for those of us in the community who are something other than lesbian/gay. (Sorry if I'm whining, it's just frustrating that society is SO much better than it used to be when it comes to queer people overall, but still ignorant in certain ways.) And yeah, that would be a nice surprise!