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saltycharacters · 3 years ago

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God I am so tired of modern media slightly evolving bury ur gay tropes to be like "yeah ok i guess it could be worse, but why are most of your cishet couples still well and alive and have their physical affection get plenty of attention and screentime, while all of your queer couples have at least one party dead / get to be the "tragic romance" story progression fodder and are not only outnumbered by all the other couples but also get their time together significantly stripped"

#im still tired after dragon prince and psychonauts 2 what is it with developers like. thinking theyre deviating from the trope but instead #they like. essentially do a balancing act before shoving them off a cliff #like yeah some of these you could make the argument that techincally theyre not dead but. i cant explain it its not that much better #like you can tell theyre still making a physical discinnect and the treatment they get is so obviously different from the other couples #who get simpler happy endings. i dont want some dramatic roamntic tradgety if the gay couples are the only ones getting this treatment #i dont know. once again the owl house just does this all better #most other media is like. holding up their queer rep with tongs & being like yeah heres ur l g b tees whatever. they got some development #anyways back to making the overwhelming cishet majority fall in love with each other after looking at another for one second #i wouldnt be made if these couples were obviously trans or ace or bi or pan or queer as well. heaven knows we need good queer m x f rep #but its painfully obvious theyre not. you can just tell the creators think that itd be too much #idk im mad im mad #like fucking CHILDREN get more romantic development and happy endings than the gay couples. CHILDREN #i got my own critique on putting this weird emphasis on child romances and making it some deep thing when theyre not even out of school yet #but what especially makes me livid is that these child couples get more screentime / development / happy endings than queer couples #oh you can write some forced shit with 10-16 yr olds where girl and boy cant be friends so they gotta fall in love for ur entire run #but not kill off some of ur only lgbt+ side characaters who only serve to progress the story? yeah ok

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