#also arguably there's lots to love about allugon too. for instance i think it's a beautiful queer ship because alluka is trans

[trashsketch]

I have a complicated question: I used to follow this person who didn't feel comfortable drawing or writing about Killugon in a romantic way because "they're too young," and preferred to label them as queerplatonic, which is 100% valid (although I still lack more research on my side about it, I admit that). The part that seemed confusing to me and made me think is that the same person was completely okay with drawing Gon x Alluka as a romantic pair. While I don't think there's anything wrong with the latter, and people should express themselves, I wonder why 'being too young to be in love' might or might not be an obstacle depending on which pair we're talking about, even among queer fellows. Would that count as homophobic in some way, even though we're talking about the LGBT+ part of the fandom? What do you think that might cause this kind of roadblock for a pairing that is, in my opinion, far from inappropriate? Sorry for the long ask and it's okay if you don't feel comfortable on sharing your thoughts! I'd love them to be either romantic or queerplatonic in canon, though.

oh boy, I've stared at this and tried forming an answer for a couple of hours now. I had a long draft at first and everything. my one gripe with this is that I don't think this is homophobia? and even if it is homophobic....there's nothing you can do to change their mind even though i agree with you that killugon is a very innocuous ship!

for someone to say "i don't ship killugon because it doesn't sit comfortably with me because they're young" and then ship gon with alluka is more hypocritical than anything? but there could also be so many other reasons why they prefer one ship over another. We can't read minds no matter how much we try, so why do we keep trying? we can't change people's minds either, so why try to find a "roadblock"? we care a lot because that's our ship and that's okay, but there's also a myriad of other things we can do with our limited time being alive on earth. and I'd like to draw more killugon instead.

I want to have good faith in judging a stranger on the internet and just conclude that killugon just doesn't resonate with them as it does for me, and that's that! and yknow the usual, if it sucks hit da bricks! just walk out, you can leave!!! I've slammed the block button real hard on some ships or some tumblr blogs that make me feel very uncomfortable, but thankfully it is all just fiction and it's something i can actually step away from!

but I think this is something you can ask yourself about too. if you see someone say that killugon is too young to be shipped romantically, why does that not sit right with you? PERSONALLY, as a bisexual, seeing many movies show boy-girl romantic attraction while growing up have influenced me to think that it is okay to have romantic feelings as a child! so it feels like an attack on my part if someone dismisses romantic killugon and then ships romantic allugon. BUT THIS IS ONLY A FEELING! it is not an actual attack! it is only an attack if people flood my dms or inbox saying that it's wrong and with the occasional death threat!