#a world where gay is a norm and straight is a minority

[fruitface]

CRUSH (2022), aj campos x paige evans + cliché romcom tropes

[suddenlymicah]

i out too much effort into a meme

[truly-deceitful]

absolutely ridiculous how everyone came out the closet before the world ended and how the love triangle is not only canon but is quite literally a line: luzu crushes on quackity but quackity crushes on rubius but rubius crushes on vegetta but vegetta crushes on willy and that's how wigetta became canon

[c10v3r]

Silly anon how can silver be homophobic if he likes men? /j

sillier anon hes straight have t u heard! /JJJJ

[vicsuragi]

it’s very strange seeing con playing a straight character (or at least, implied to be straight via one off-handed line about a woman being “fetching”).

[kydoesthings1]

in my mind palace every fictional character is lgtv+ unless otherwise specified

[keineahnung-ichhalt]

a world where being gay is the norm and straight is a minority

[parosu]

somehow did not click for me until just now that albert in part 5/6 is the same albert as the little blonde boy in zero

[bigbazoxngas]

A world where gay is the norm and straight is a minority

[the-golden-kingdom]

A world where gay is the norm & straight a minority

[yuriwarrior]

[ID: An edited YouTube thumbnail. The video is called "A world where gay is a norm & straight is the minority- HD." The thumbnail picture is of the arrowfam.]

[clingyduoapologist]

Clings ngl you literally were a transhet icon in my head, i was like haha what a cool guy I'm always glad when transmen are so proud and open about their heterosexuality. You're cis. This is devastating to me clings

You're like that one dude in the video of a world where being gay is the norm and straight a minority wth

[yume-fanfare]

Okay I don't care about the netflix please tell me about the importance of all-girls schools in Yuri it sounds fascinating

ok so first of all i recommend reading the wikipedia page for yuri because it really is fascinating and talks abt stuff i won't, cause then this would get Too long

but let's start this saying that in its origins, yuri wasn't necessarily a Romance genre as we know them, nor were the girls in it necessarily lesbians. it follows a literature genre called Class S (from around 1900-1930 i believe) which depicts intense relationships between girls that sort of blur platonic and romantic lines. in fact, i'd say a lot of yuri manga are a rather good example of queerplatonic relationships

the appeal is that, despite homosexual relationships being very much forbidden then, in an all-girls school setting, it Is seen as normal to be in a relationship with a girl. schools are written as if they're havens, separated from the outside world, and where usual society rules don't apply. like some world where gay is the norm and straight is a minority

but because these rules are school-only, same-sex relationships were also seen as a (at times childish) phase that one grows out of, and once they graduate they're expected to go and find a husband anyways. which is often a source of conflict in more modern yuri manga, finding a way to maintain that school-only relationship in the outside world, or find if it's something that can survive post-graduation. because while not all characters are lesbians, some of them are indeed "that kind of girl"

[takaraphoenix]

There is something that feels inexplicably... straight... in a way that’s uncomfortable, stiff and also just unenjoyable for me, personally, about the narrative of “bravery and inspiration” when it comes to coming outs.

We all - who we have been there and come out - do know that there is an angle of feeling inspired. Sure. Of course. Knowing there’s others like us out there gives us strength. That can come from a place of fiction, when you see yourself represented in media for the very first time. That can come from a place of connection, when you get to interact with another queer person for the first time.

The arc of having The Gay One Of The Main Characters have their coming out and then, down the road, have other, minor characters come out too, and have them express that they felt inspired by the bravery of the Gay Main. I hate that. I hate that so much. Urgh, that just tastes icky to me.

It tastes straight to me. Because straight people love to imagine us as brave, because they often struggle to imagine us as just existing. Our existence must be brave. Our existence must be hardships. And they are, obviously do we face those things. But this framework feels so reductive.

It reduces the coming out to bravery, when a coming out story can be about so much more. Should be about so much more. We deserve to have stories told about so much more than just our hardships and struggles, we deserve to be more than just brave.

Why do the minor queer characters need to be inspired to come out? Why do they need to be so desperately closeted, so incredibly afraid to be themselves that it takes this act of bravery? Why did the author feel the need to create a fictional world that is so oppressive, so harmful and constrictive? That’s a deliberate choice that’s being made.

And sometimes, it’s a choice that makes me feel tired, to be honest. I mean, we can accept werewolves and witches being real and all of that, and bend reality, but let’s not get too unreal, we should definitely keep the homophobia.

Even in a world where we do keep the homophobia, the act of bravery of one singular queer character... ain’t gonna actually change that. Honestly, your choice here is worse than if you just... decided to write about a world where there isn’t any homophobia?

Genuinely. I’d much rather read about a world where we say acceptance is the norm from the get-go, rather than “and all the queers lived in fear, until The Chosen Queer One finally found the bravery to come out of the closet, and every other queer character followed them out of the closet, inspired by their bravery, and... everything was just dandy, actually”.

Because - because - there isn’t any homophobia here, in the end. Everything was just fine, in the end. Nobody faced any homophobia. You just needed the queers to be afraid until the Queer Main was “brave”, so they could all come out and realize that all the straights are actually really nice.

And that’s what makes it taste real straight.

Because the straights aren’t a threat. The straights are actually real nice! There is nothing bad happening here. The queers are being oh-so brave, but they have nothing to fear from us, we’re the good straights. We wouldn’t want to write about uncomfy things like actually bad straight people and actual homophobia. No, that’s going too far, we wouldn’t want to do that.

And I’m just kind of... tired, that just existing is enough to be seen as brave, and that the straight authors still need to feel comfy enough in their little worlds to not go too far, and that we do ridiculous shit like pretending nobody was ever out before the Queer Main. I’m just tired.

[wariocompany]

"A world where being gay is the norm and straight is the minority" has done a lot for the gay community but not how they think it has

[iveneverbeenmorestressedinmylife]

yayyy i got tagged by @whenthesunn :D

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favourite colour: powder pink....deep sea blue. deep green....i could never pick just One favourite colour.

last song i listened: at the time of posting this im listening to. erm. uhm. yeah.

last film i watched: ........straight story (2006) (A WORLD WHERE GAY IS A NORM & STRAIGHT A MINORITY-)

currently reading: finished the memory police by yoko ogawa today! and i was thinking of starting cujo tomorrow.

currently watching: iq 160 </3. i have to be obsessed with a random silly greek tv show at all times, its good for me.

currently craving: tortillas.....tahini too.

coffee or tea: i love tea and hate coffee.

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