#i think the main difference here tho is. disabled voices in regards to these topics feel a lot.... smaller | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

arcaneyouth · 2 months

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(in regards to my last post but now its not about fictional blorbo) there is a larger discussion to be had about how queer and disabled themes have so many overlaps. how we relate to the same coding in the same way. and how (from my knowledge and perspective), these themes in fiction are not given the same weight in discussions about them. sometimes i see a character that is even directly for disabled people, ill people, people who cannot be at peak health and how we're treated by society for that, and i have seen these characters being pointed at by fandom like, oh shit that's really queer coded. and. i mean yeah! you're right! there is an overlap between us and it's really severe! reading that character as queer isn't wrong! you are still looking at the themes of disability right? you are still acknowledging them... right? you're not... you're not taking an ill/disabled character and reading all of the themes as queer ones exclusively just because that overlap happens to exist.... right??????

#queued post #and in an opposite direction i tend to see queer themes and take them as disabled ones very often #i think the main difference here tho is. disabled voices in regards to these topics feel a lot.... smaller #if they're even there at all #so the queer reading is the prominent one almost every time #and im so desperate for themes of disability that dont treat me like a monster or a lost cause or a side character to someone elses tragedy #i find myself pulling those themes from queer coding in stories more than i ever do disabled ones #because being queer is a lot more normalized than being disabled #and we still have a long way to go on good disabled rep #so i feel like i'm just. taking my crumbs where i can get them #i like this overlap we have. i think there could be a lot of beauty in acknowledging and embracing the fact that we are so similar #but we're not there yet #and i will continue to be a lil bit sad every time something like this happens

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