#also reminds me of people saying bbs subverted BLs trope of making everyone gay by not making waikorn canon

[celestial-sapphicss]

I have seen someone say that pat pran dynamic was too quick and pat should have been made gay like in the novel and i am like ???? because pat is an unlabelled character, bi or pan call him what you want and for someone who can relate to pat so much and have grown in a very heterosexual household being confused about your own sexual orientation is quite relevant and the fact tht pran shower sexual fludity like people have problem with this diversity????

hi anon! im sorry but haven't really heard about this, but i did read some people's apprehensions when the show just started, about the show possibly doing injustice to novel!pat explicitly being gay and make him the "im not gay, i only like you" archetype in BLs. (thinks about pa making fun of this trope and giggles)

(I've talked about the pacing of the show here, and i really don't think patpran dynamic was quick.)

so, coming to why apparently people now think its necessary to label show!pat as explicitly gay. if it's because of the novel, I think it's been pretty clear that the show diverges from it, from the very beginning. (more about it here by @shortpplfedup)

you're right "growing in a very heterosexual household being confused about your own sexual orientation is quite relevant" (sends hugs 🫂). i think we left the sexual orientation is binary in the middle ages and it was common knowledge that sexuality is fluid and one can be anywhere on the spectrum, or on the extreme ends of it, or no where on it, so I'm not really sure what's the issue about 🤷

i personally think it was amazing that we got a canon m-spec character, and an acknowledgement that sexuality is indeed fluid.

most BLs, unfortunately, avoid discussion around sexuality like the plague, which is why unlabelled characters leave a bitter taste. it feels like a rejection of the queerness of the characters.

but here, we got a healthy discussion about sexuality and we got characters who are unbashedly open about their queerness.

due to the cishetallonormative & patriarchal society that we live in, exploration of sexuality is quite taboo (especially for men, toxic masculinity & stuff), and queer people are expected to immediately figure out their sexuality (and gender identity) and put a label on it. it creates a lot of internal struggle when one's feelings and perception changes upon introspection. (been there done that lmao)

so the show saying, "you know what? it's okay if you haven't had it all figured out, it's okay if you probably never do, what matters is how you feel NOW, in this moment, and future can wait", was honestly a breath of fresh air.

look at pran's expressions, look at pat & pa, look at ink, this scene? honestly a blessing.

we have pat, who is sure that he likes all genders, but isn't sure of how/what/where/when that started (you know how some queer people look back at their lives/childhood and think "how did i not know i was queer?", yeah that). and we have pran saying that maybe he might like girls in the future, even though he might not now.

AND WE HAVE INK SAYING IT'S (LIKING GIRLS) SO GAINFUL (i will forever be screaming about it smh)

(i don't think this much nuance could've been possible without a queer person running the show, in p'aof we trust)

other than that, i honestly do not like labeling other people/characters who are unlabelled, because why? labels are extremely personal, for some they can be liberating and a source of identity, for some they are suffocating, let people decide how they wanna label (or not) themselves 🤷

(I'm not talking about headcanoning, that's honestly fun. that's how queer people identify themselves with characters when they can't find canon characters like themselves, i think that's tragically beautiful.)

I'm really not sure where I'm going with this post anymore but yeah anon you're right and wanting show!pat, who is unlabelled, to be explicitly gay invalidates him actually liking girls which seems a little biphobic 👀🚩