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⌈ Secret Post #6378 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

To be clear, I don't want people to be disallowed from telling those sorts of stories, especially if they want to. Rather, I want it to not feel like those sorts of stories are what's expected, because that sort of fetishization of suffering that I mentioned above often does come through. It feels sometimes like these sorts of stories are used as a way for people to assuage themselves of the guilt they feel over their privilege, rather than as a way for people to work through their struggles and speak to others who have experienced similar things.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a fair point and honestly: perhaps some people are coming from a place of guilt, but I ultimately think it's difficult for either of us to say that authors are or aren't doing this as we're not in their heads. Hell people can write something from a place of misplaced guilt without even realising it a lot of the time.

I don't personally feel like the queer-suffering stories are really the default anymore, and haven't been for a while. We don't have a hundreds of shows with us as the central characters in a plot about something else certainly, but I no longer expect queer characters to die randomly for existing in a story. They may be part of an ensemble but they get the same chance as any other character. And if you go to books, my gosh there's loads of queer stories out there, not all of them are good mind you, lol. But that's kind of the beauty of it for me, we have our guilty pleasure trash as well. xD