#cishet representation

[goodluckclove]

i have a habit of writing short-term side characters and immediately falling in love with them.

guys he's here. it's dean and he's here. he's probably the one cishet white guy in the entire goddamned series but look at him his wife won't let him eat hot dogs.

[luthanraels-bignaturals]

Gay rep in a netflix show: Hey there. I’m Nolan, and I’ve got a kind of small, huge, enormous problem. I’ve got a crush,,, on another boy??? Am I gay?

Flamboyant drag queen friend: Nolan!!! You’re gay?! Let me be your mentor, you’re gonna slay so hard queen! Makeover time babe!!!! Slay!

Guy in a Cronenberg movie: I need another man to finger my bloody gash so badly I’m actually shaking

Guy #2: I have a vagania on my neck

[wen-ning]

seeing such unabashedly, wholesomely gay media in the mainstream is still so. jarring to me? like having grown up in the transition between lgbt media being not necessarily frowned upon, but like….. not loved either and the point where it really started becoming prevalent? i was arguing tooth and nail with kids in middle school defending glee even tho it’s a pretty piss poor chunk of representation because it was all we Had in the mainstream and now cherry magic is on the front page of crunchyroll on my tv.

[mundifinis]

i pray the day never comes when tiktok discovers gregg araki's films (specifically the teenage apocalypse trilogy ones) because the amount of discourse i can already picture.... oh my god

[himedanshicult]

for all the rants i read from transbians as a teenager abt how overrepresented str8 tgirls are in media, i feel like i havent ran into a depiction of a tgirl dating a guy in literal years :(

[billystorm]

very cool this pride month to see the coldest take on wctwit that somehow chinese wc fans are to blame for wc not having LGBT+ characters.

anyway please support poc lgbt creators this month esp in this fandom. godbless

[beyblaiddyd]

Stayed up really late last night teaching a naruto fan how to stop being a lesbophobe in case you're wondering how my life as a naruto forum moderator is going

[overthemoonwithme]

it's still wild to me that Jameela was essentially forced to perform a "coming out" ritual for gay men to accept her as a judge in Legendary because didn't all of us who follow her from the Good Place know that she was bi for years at that point? And many of them still argue that she was "gay for a day" and whatnot. It's giving heteronormativity, comphet and misogyny disguised as "queerbaiting"

[ninadove]

Transmasc Felix propaganda let’s go 🏳️‍⚧️

Amelie never even got a chance to voice an opinion about her child’s name during her pregnancy. Colt chose a name that would evoke power and ambition, because these were his reasons for wanting an heir in the first place.

Felix started transitioning right after his father died and insisted on getting his mum involved in the name-picking process. At first, she tried to get inspiration from Shakespearian characters, thinking it would strike a chord with his theatre-loving nature; of course, they were all horrible names, and the poor kid had to sit through the entire list in utter suffering.

Finally, they settled on something they both liked; somethong that seemed attainable for the first time in their lives.

[mx-loar-tev]

Sometimes I think I'm not actually bi, that I only like girls and not guys.

But, no. It's just that heterosexual couples in media suck big times and that I don't recognise myself in those portrayals. Also those male love interest are either bland or toxic or both. Meh.

[steevejr]

the transgender liberal agenda got to me so bad that I have restrain myself from making every character transgender 😑

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

r/fantasy recommend books other than by the same 7 cis white guys challenge: level herculean.

It's genuinely disgusting to me how myopic their recommendations are. No wonder we keep getting posts asking for books with good female characters or POC or Queers because the image of fantasy you project is cishet dude mantasy slop where women are rape doll incubators(the more underaged the more "realistic") and poc/queers are more mythical than dragons.

I swear to God if I see one more neckbread bleating about The First Song Of Wheel Storm Name Winds Law by T.R.M McWhiteman I'll b*mb an orphanage.

Seriously if the only "zomg must read most epicest bestest fantasy everrrr!!!" Are ALL the SAME cis white men, your reading tastes are shit, your literature pallet is unrefined to the point of non-existence, you have no idea what you're talking about, you have no ability to give actually good book recommendations, you're just shovelling the same mantasy slop that the ur-neckbreads shoved at you, your recommendations are bad and you should feel bad.

Are you giving worthwhile recommendations that fit the brief or are you just throwing your uwu favourite books at a person, damn the fact that it doesn't fit or might even be the exact opposite of what the OP is looking for? Hmmm???

[flower-zombie-rob]

Me wondering when people are going to stop expecting every piece of queer media to deeply adress every nuance of the queer experience when it was actually just built to be the happy tv show etc fluff that the gays never seem to get in the media

[whoviandoodler]

I can't stress enough how important it is to draw characters with physical traits you find ugly, unattractive and/or repulsive, especially if you yourself share those traits. Nothing will make you more accepting of diversity in yourself and others that engaging with it during the creative process and giving it to characters you love.

[boyquiet]

What counts as queer rep? If you're only talking about subtext then you have to ask if it's really rep or if you have a colored view of the character in question. The thing about MGS is that it's not afraid to label it's queer characters as such, like vamp, Dr Strangelove, Volgin. Confirmed in canon is what I consider representation otherwise the plot gets misunderstood or motivations are misunderstood. Everything else is just interpretation, which is loose and subjective so not true rep since the subtext may be unintentional. A character isn't queer just because fans think so or want it, it has to be confirmed before it's Valid representation.

I get how you feel but the point I’m trying to get at is that too many people are concerned with what counts as Good and Valid Representation and scrutinizing every character who might be queer under a microscope so they can determine whether or not the character said enough gay things and give the work Validity Points. I agree that there is a difference between intentional and unintentional subtext but at the end of the day there’s no true way to tell aside from word of god, and subtext is subtext and not text for a reason, so the viewer can come to their own conclusions without having everything spelled out for them, and I think it can be degrading to storytelling to suggest that subtext is an invalid form of representation. I agree that it is important to have more textually canon queer people in media, but to me the idea that every queer character has to be confirmed as gay on screen and behave in an acceptable way to be considered Valid is harmful to storytelling—subtext is an important tool for all writers. I like MGS because there are queer characters on all levels of text ranging from “up to the viewer” to “confirmed by word of god” to “explicitly canon” but the levels of “canon” are pretty hotly debated when it comes to characters like bb, kaz and ocelot, so my point of view is to be less concerned with how much evidence there is and try to recognize for myself why the storytelling decisions were made, why some characters get to say they’re bisexual or lesbian but some don’t. And a lot of all of this has to do with the context of the media and the time period and all, like a lot of people try to pick apart every character under a modern lens of what’s acceptable by our current standards. like ocelot doesn’t say “im gay” or kiss big boss because aside from that not being fitting for his character or appropriate for their story, it likely would not be allowed to be made (kojima had to fight his own team to include shots of venom and kaz standing close together), but some people would only be concerned with the fact that he’s not “textually” canonically gay. anyway this is a very long winded way of saying that the “validity” of someone’s textual queerness can be very much up to interpretation, but there are many reasons why a character might be subtextually queer and trying to qualify characters as either Canon and Good or Not Canon and Queerbait is a waste of time that could be spent enjoying a character, and that character sexuality debates should be handled on a case by case basis instead of trying to make a quantifiable scale of how canon something is

[rejector-of-mortal-flesh]

By the way, if there's a post about how it shouldn't matter if a character is queer, that there is no reason why a character can't be lgbtq or if there's a post joking that everyone in star wars is gay or some thing like that and you reply with okay but the words "lgbtq+ pushing agenda" you deserve to be fucking obliterated from the internet.