lierdumoa:

rexalogy:

There is a conversation to be had here about the encroachment of respectability politics into queer art.

We should talk about how queer artists are increasingly pressured to depict queer characters in a way that fits into a claustrophobically narrow mainstream conception of “good representation” that is palatable to neopuritans. About how those who don’t bow to the pressure are accused of self-fetishizing, and “making the community look bad” and their perspectives are sidelined.

There’s a reason so many queer people continue to flock to queerbait narratives and project their their identities onto ostensibly straight characters, instead of embracing all these new Disney Channel-esque shows with their family-friendly depiction of gay representation. There’s a reason so many queer people find themselves unable to connect with these gentrified queer narratives.

I can only watch so many gay suburbanites hold hands in the park and eat ice cream and talk about what they learned in therapy.

Let blorbo commit warcrimes.

We were talking about this all the way back in like 2000 or 2001 in the first Star Trek slash fanfic group i joined.

I pretty clearly remember how one of the fans there described what the romance subplots of Trek episodes would be like if Kirk/Spock were canon and got written like canon romances: “Kirk is brooding about something. Can Spock find out what it is? Meanwhile, Beaver needs math tutoring.”

…although now that I think of it, there are definitely fanfics that have done better with that premise than anything canon would have done.