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⌈ Secret Post #6000 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I get wanting more recognition of canon queer characters, but sometimes characters who don't have a textually explicit canon sexuality wind up being the ones that people relate to more.

I have one fandom where there are textually canonically gay characters that... I can relate to a little bit, and I really appreciate seeing the way they have two different stories and experiences, but I find both of them less interesting than an older man who FEELS gay to me, and who, if so, has a totally different set of life experiences that I can relate to more deeply! And, between those, a character who's INTENSELY relatable to me on pretty much every level, and of course I do think he's gay, and that makes him more relatable to me, just like headcanoning him as trans would make him more relatable to me. The canon gay characters are important to me, but they aren't personal to me. The story they tell is important to me, but it's not my story. (I mean I don't use Pride to hold up my guys at the expense of the canon gay characters, I celebrate canon queer characters when I get them, but, when I can't find canon gay characters that I relate to as deeply as I do to characters who are presented ambiguously/not given any romantic interests whatsoever, I mean... I can celebrate what canon gave me, but what I make for myself based on who speaks to ME is who I'm going to actually spend my time writing about all year round)


Neurodivergent characters... tbh, nine times out of ten, a character who is clearly autistic but the creator didn't have a label for is relatable on a level that a white boy who loves trains isn't? The characters who get labeled are STILL too often written as stereotypes, not as people-- meanwhile there are so many characters who are CLEARLY ND but sometimes they were written at a time when different diagnostic criteria and labels were in use, or if you read older stuff, when there WASN'T one, and they're fleshed out and interesting and easy to connect to. And it doesn't mean I don't appreciate some canon ND characters-- sometimes just for being a stepping stone on the journey to getting ones who are real and well-written.