#I’m not even exclusively t4t tho I do prefer it

[cyb3r-mutt]

Sorry but why do some cishet men genuinely think DMing people “hey slut” is a good opening line for anyone?? Let alone a nonbinary transmasc???

[musicalmoritz]

I don’t really think there’s any problem with queer people wanting to stick to queer ships, as a lesbian I definitely prefer queer ships to het ones (tho I obviously still love het ships). Heterosexuality is everywhere in society and some queer people just don’t care to have to see it in their escapism. Like you said, people can headcanon the ships as queer if they want but not everyone is gonna want to do that. My thing is more-so that I don’t personally understand how anyone can hate the canon TBHK ships because they fit my exact taste for ships, like people are fully allowed to hate whatever ships they want but it’s just not computing in my brain lol. And Mitsukou was like the main one I was thinking of besides AoiAoi lol

The problem for me arises when people try to claim the ships are bad just because they dislike them, or try to say they aren’t canon. I have had someone fully argue me that Aoi doesn’t love Akane; and I once saw this creator who was like very insistent that HanaNene and Mitsukou aren’t canon because “Kou likes Nene” and “just because HanaNene kissed doesn’t mean they like each other.” That is where the bias comes in imo, and it happens uniquely with both queer and straight ships. People are quick to dispute any canon queer ship just because it’s queer, and people shut down canon straight ships because they aren’t willing to admit they just don’t like them. I’m not in the Sailor Moon fandom but I have seen the “calling it problematic” thing happen with MamoUsa, and from what I’ve heard their relationship is perfectly fine

Not trying to argue with you btw, sorry if my response came out that way!! I just wanted to add a bit of nuance here because this is a subject I love to yap about, your perspective is 100% valid. Sometimes the exclusion of straight ships does feel a little biphobic, I’ve seen some tbhk fans write off Kou’s feelings for Nene as comphet when there’s literally no indication of that in the manga and AidaIro make it pretty clear when a character is fully gay. And I would LOVE to see more transfem/transmasc/t4t headcanons for ships that are straight in canon. I personally headcanon Sakuhiko as sapphics (genderfluid bi Natsuhiko and nonbinary lesbian Sakura ftw). Fandoms tend to be very rigid about trans headcanons and I would absolutely love to see more of them

I also agree that people miss out on a lot of great relationships when they don’t like ships just because they're straight (or just because they’re gay). I understand where they’re coming from ofc but sometimes those biases lead them to miss key elements of the story. Such as AoiAoi haters missing Aoi’s entire character arc and Aoi and Akane’s canon personalities and development just because they refuse to admit the ship is well-written. On the flip side I deadass saw someone try to argue that Mitsuba isn’t important to Kou because “he could’ve easily been replaced with Yokoo or Satou.” I swear this fandom is braindead

And sorry to yap even more but omg you’re SO REAL for the “why watch a media so heavily focused on romance if you hate the romance.” Like again, people can hate whatever ships they want but why make yourself watch something that focuses so heavily on a relationship you hate??😭 If a romance in a show doesn’t look cute to me and it’s a prominent element I simply won’t watch it. This is very much aimed at the people who call MadoHomu abusive but shhh

Anyways yeah I get why some queer people don’t care about straight ships but me personally?? The more women the merrier

I’ll never understand how ppl hate any of the canon tbhk ships. That’s like being cooked a full course meal by a five star chef and saying “nah, I’ll pass”