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gayspock · 2 years

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i will say tho its weird sometimes when ppl talk abt idk... like, heartstopper, yah... & its not for me it is notttt i dont wanna watch it stop telling me its not 4 me.

BUT on tumblr - amongst this crowd -ive seen one or two ppl like "WEEEEEE dont need this" like ehh man cmon. i think a lot of younger kids do and i think its like... so counterproductive to try and push for, like, exactly "one type of show" for "THEcommunity" like. like say oh we dont need happy gay teen shows we need more for this, more of this- yadda, yadda like?

you know its not mutually exclusive, yah. like it isnt an actual factual "finite resource" - perhaps an imposed limitation that can be challenged, but even then in the most abstract of terms... like alice oseman's heartstopper isnt the reason the content u want doesnt exist, not really

. & thats not absolving criticism of, like, other actual aspects of this content vis a vis diversity- im not talking abt that, bc yah fair enough when ppl vent their frustrations abt the more genuinely sanitised aspects like how white some of these shows are, etc. but like... wrt just disliking it bc its a "happy teen show and i dont want that im an adult" like idk what the point of getting grumpy at a younger audience watching sth for them will do in the long run & it feels like a very weird misdirected vitriol for 0 reason...

bc yah its not for me either its cooool & irritating when ppl push it onto you but . just getting mad unprompted. its like idk... especially in 2022 its like. absolutely an important aspect of the whole: its time to move past the whole "there's an lgbt person in this!!" as a category of media pleaseeeee bc its kinda weird the way that categorisation starts to cannibalise itself when its like help... that isnt the enemy here i dont think<3

#Egg.txt #also this wasnt @author's post ofc it just reminded me of others ive seen like it ^_^#bc its like i gettt the frustration bc im a littl e frustrated too when ppl insist i watch certain media just bc its gay etc etc but then #some people so counter intuitively get this idea that like??? the hell??? thats the thing thats an attack on the rest of the media #like naur its not babe dont worry about it...#idk ive just seen some ppl so MAD abt it and its like-#idk i dont want to be like ''ohhh ppl flip on a dimeee''' bc that isnt what happens at all & i hate that sentiment bc it never makes sense #blah blah blah- BUT what i mean is and i say this carefully is like #ive seen a lot of ppl say so much of gay media is sanitised and full of happy endings & is unrealistic #and so many other ppl say that its all cold and depressing and bury your gays #& i think both of those things exist at the same time absolutely and paradoxically #and theyre both valid frustrations but its also like the odd . staunch opposition to the other ''type'' of show when #its honestly otherwise kinda harmless when its like i dontknow i think frankly its like..#kinda odd . kinda weird

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