#but I thought I'd try to clear out this obvious misconception of the words handsome since I was also making the same mistake

[fangswbenefits]

This line is often used as a gotcha moment or weaponised by those erasing Astarion's pansexuality:

As a non native English speaker, I initially thought he was exclusively referring to men since 'handsome' is an adjective that I would solely use for men.

However, one of my lovely mods on the Astarion discord server pointed out that it was used for women as well back in the day.

And then I remembered this line from Pride and Prejudice:

I wanted to clear this out in case other non native speakers were unaware of it 😅