#some of my fav queer films are horror/thrillers where characters die and kill and r just generally fucked up | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

dangerliesbeforeyou · 2 years

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call me a lil bitch or whatever but i really can never get behind those posts that r like ‘enough normal queer characters i need INSANE lesbians and FUCKED UP trans people and EVIL gays’ because tho i get wanting interesting & nuanced stories of queer characters written by and for the queer community, the way that some people online frame it as ‘queer characters that r just normal/everyday people are boring’ rubs me the wrong way, ESPECIALLY given that 90% of queer characters in cinema prior to the 90s WAS evil queer characters/villain coded queer characters/etc...

like, if one of those ‘boring’ queer characters helps a young queer person figure themselves out and gives them some kind of hope in this godforsaken hellscape of a world then i don’t really see what the problem is pfft

#idk #like... people who complain about sanitised queer content can't have watched literally any queer films from the mid part of last century lol #personal #like dont get me wrong i LOVE queer characters who r fucked up and evil ok lol #some of my fav queer films are horror/thrillers where characters die and kill and r just generally fucked up #BUT i also acknowledge that it would b nice to have just some queer characters in films that r just 'some guy' u kno?#making this in part cos of the criticism people had for things like love simon or heartstopper #often got boiled down to 'ugh boring queer characters are boring where is the murder' which just bugs me #idk i dont think i'm making sense lol #i've been trying to juggle today and it's made me annoyed because i just CANT do it :(((

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