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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-01-26 03:05 pm

[ SECRET POST #6596 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6596 ⌋

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ariakas: (Default)

[personal profile] ariakas 2025-01-26 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Hobb has "no homo" flailings? Pray tell me more. I thought for sure she would have been a dyed-in-the-wool yaoi fan given her two dudes are endgame and basically have a baby together (plus a bit of weirdness re: female characters that has always been a bit head-scratching to me, but less so from the yaoi fan angle).

(Anonymous) 2025-01-26 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
nayrt but same.

(Anonymous) 2025-01-27 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't it basically sidestepped though? Like "I love the guy but not in the icky improper gay way" (pretty sure the word improper was used)? Sounds kinda lowkey homophobic to me.
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[personal profile] ariakas 2025-01-27 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh, kind of? Fitz himself was pretty obviously always straight and written to be that way, and the Fool was also very clearly in love with him (and he clearly reciprocated albeit platonically). Their relationship has been like that since the start of the series and it ended with them literally soul-bonded in the afterlife forever with a daughter by magic. It was always the other characters around them who assumed they must be banging and Fitz got affronted by that at times in the story. But Fitz is a character, not the author, and Hobb has (actually) gay characters in other books with seemingly no problem with it whatsoever.

I could imagine people back when the first trilogy came out when gay rep was rare in fantasy getting very excited by Fitz/the Fool only to be utterly let down when it turned out to be platonic, though, for sure.