#away entirely. both can exist. kiamei being sexualized and the girls' sexualities being treated awfully can coexist in the same game where
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i think about the hi3 queer rep a lot honestly.
benghuai 3 the depths of yuri hell you've dragged me through.
#like i do completely understand people being wary of it (again i was one of those people when i started the game!!!!)#and they have every right to be concerned!! gacha games have always sexualized women for profit and sapphics are always sexualized for men#its an awful thing we've had to deal with forever.#and yeah. a lot of houkai's history has included sexualizing young girls + women + lesbian relationships and that sucks a lot!!!#and nothing should ever take away from the fact that those things happen!!#but its also impossible to accurately claim thats all this is to mihoyo when so many writers are involved in these games spanning across#nearly a decade!! including some writers who are queer themselves!!!!!!!! and i think its really shitty to cast their good contributions#away entirely. both can exist. kiamei being sexualized and the girls' sexualities being treated awfully can coexist in the same game where#their romances are treated with so much genuine love and care within the writing and narratives that you can tell the writers genuinely#thought of this wlw romance as something with substance. it was written with narrative and story in mind and not just as 'yuri bait'#like im not saying mihoyo the fucking company is my friend for having queer characters but i am saying that their queer rep means a whole#lot to me and i consider large portions of it to be really well done#mhy criti
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