[ SECRET POST #5866 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5866 ⌋

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


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[Sergio Sendel vs. Endeavor from My Hero Academia]


















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[(Anonymous)]

I'm the inverse of you OP where I love reading about characters being able to be open and accepted by their loved ones because that's not a reality for me, so I'm using fiction in that way to escape if you will. But your way is no less valid and not wrong: it's what speaks to you most and thus is what you should seek out.

And honestly sometimes I also want stories like you as well because the catharsis of it can weirdly feel good.

[(Anonymous)]

That's fair. People like relatable characters and scenarios.

I will say it's annoying to me in fanfic if a character comes out and everybody is super-accepting, when I'm pretty sure the canon dad or friends wouldn't be so. Like, okay, it's OOC. It might be enjoyable for the writer and some readers to give the character an accepting dad, but it's still OOC. Put "accepting dad Fred" in the tags, ffs.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with you-- my *family* is wonderful. They're totally accepting, and I'm not the only queer person in the family, so it's great. But, I've lived in a couple places where being out was dangerous, and where even when I was so deep in the closet I was having tea with Mr. Tumnus, growing up, kids KNEW. Even if they couldn't know precisely *what*, they knew enough to make my life hell, and I was trapped in a world of terrified and confused denials.

If I'm reading sci-fi, yeah, I want queer characters to be totally open in a 'why wouldn't I be?' way, and fantasy worlds can go either way for me, but if it's set in modern times, things are getting WAY scarier again, and if it's historical, like... I want it to feel authentic. (my favorite genres aren't period/setting locked, and I have a strong preference for contemporary historic settings-- from within living memory but not modern, just because I grew up on so much 80s horror. And BOY that's a decade that I associate with needing to be careful with who you come out to)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have a dog in this race but I'm happy there can be enough stories about queer characters so every preference can have some media.

Hell yeah, people as individuals with their own tastes and preferences in fiction will never stop being cool.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 million, I love that you can have both and every shade in between. I grew up in the 80s in a rural town and had never to my knowledge met another gay person before I went to university. So seeing people write bland 80s casually queer fic in, say, Stranger Things, is weirdly comforting. But sometimes I'm looking for something more realistic, and that's around too.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally feel you, OP.

I'm still in the closet with my family and likely will never come out to them.
I live in a fairy homophobic country so I'm not out and proud if not with my close friends.

My most read tags on AO3 are "period typical homophobia" and "internalised homophobia".
Therapy through fiction, I guess.
I can't relate to "everyone is gay and happy and every single character is a proud shade of queer" stories because that's too painful for me to read.

Sending you love. <333

[(Anonymous)]

This author is also the one who wrote an Alexander the Great bio from the pov of his pleasure slave and made it the most openly gay thing you'd read in mainstream media...in the 1940s.

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DA

I know, and I love her for it. Bagoas is such a fantastic narrator.

Thread lurkers might want a heads-up for that specific kind of misogyny that you get from a guy who's constantly in danger of being treated with the sort of condescending, patronizing, 'you're not tough enough to do what WE REAL MEN do' that was generally reserved for women (and hated it), but he is so compelling.

And, like ... I'd written a fanfic that featured a eunuch OMC (in a canon that would never, ever have such a thing) well before I'd ever read about any, and in retrospect I felt much less self-conscious about some of the characterization things that went along with that. I even don't know why it felt so fraught to begin with, but wow did it.

[(Anonymous)]

Just want to say, OP, that finding catharsis does not have to be justified.

[(Anonymous)]

Your secret shows that we all need different stories. So there should be more stories, because we all have different needs. And there is no perfect or right way.