No, please, tell me again how ‘the possibility that their character might be queer/in love with someone of the same sex/gender is too shameful & wrong of an idea to EVER even mention to an actor/writer, & you are a horrible/crazy person if you want it to happen onscreen or on the page’ isn’t at all rooted in homophobia.

Homophobia, and the idea that straightness is normal & right & default, & anything else is an aberration that needs justification for its mere existence, and that queer people don’t deserve to have hope of representation.



Please do tell me.

I’d love to hear it.

I’m tired of people saying ‘queer shipping is fine, wanting characters queer is fine, just keep it in fandom, don’t expect it to happen on screen, don’t mention it to the actors, you have no proof, stop, ew’, & pretending that isn’t exactly what they are saying, then gas-lighting when we point it out.

Especially not when non-canonical m/f ships with far less narrative basis? Are talked up in media constantly, treated as normal & inevitable, & actors not supporting them is a reason to send hate to them.

Please.

Give me another reason that I shouldn’t talk about the possibility that characters I love might be queer.

Give me another reason why wanting them to be queer would ruin their characters, hurt the actors involved, destroy a story.

Give me another reason that I should be fine with having homophobic slurs thrown at me for wanting this, why the idea that someone might be like me is delusional, wrong, bad, harmful.

Give me another reason why ‘these characters might want to kiss/fall in love’ gets labelled ‘dirty’ & ‘gross’ & that we need to ‘get our minds out of the gutter’ & ‘stop ruining everything’.

Give me another reason.

Please.

Because I need one.

Because it’s that or live with knowing that this many people still ultimately think that there is something wrong with me, something so bad & horrible that it insults them to their very core to think that a favourite character of theirs might share that traits with me.

That an actor I’m supposed to respect would be willing to play characters who have killed people, but the thought of them acting queer, as I am queer, would destroy them.

That a writer should be horrified at the notion that some people saw hints of queerness in their writing, right after the torture scene & before the murder, and that it must have been by accident, for no decent person would write something like that on purpose, they should deny it at all costs.

That queerness, no matter how quickly some laws change or attitudes, is still ultimately unwanted, still wrong, and I don’t deserve to have stories with people like me in them.

That just because in certain contexts, in the past, because of laws or regulations or social pressures, a character literally could not have been written queer when they were first created, changing it now to reflect the new possibilities & social norms? Well, that’s simply a horrible concept, it would ruin everything.

That, ultimately, I don’t deserve to have heroes that I can identify with, the way other people deserve that.

I don’t deserve to see people like me fall in love, or have a happy ending, or be anything but a peripheral character or someone whose life falls apart or ends because they are queer.

Please.

Tell me why that isn’t what you are telling me, when you try & shame me for shipping things or wanting better representation.