#we have got to stop drawing impossible lines around what kinds of stories queer people can tell then tearing them apart

[shinesurge]

at this point anytime i find good queer media i am instinctively bracing for the fandom to villainize the queer creators for writing queer stories more complex than a disney film because it's a When not an If

like everybody is constantly going on about how media is their Safe Space and they're trying to use it to process trauma and shit and that's why they're justified in lashing out at creators for writing Upsetting Stories but FOR SOME REASON nobody considers that the writers are ALSO fucked up queer people using media to process their own grief. the stories were theirs first??? we have GOT to get better at applying critical thought to who made something and why instead of just doing cinemasins trope spotting and calling it media analysis then using it to act like queer storytellers only write things to hurt the audience holy shit