#if cisgender heterosexual straight ppl can have 100k+ movies about their differing representations then I WANT IT FOR ME TOO

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Y'know, looking back at all the fanart of Joker with Kirby or Inkling when he was first announced in Smash it's pretty funny to me in insight since both the Kirby and Splatoon series unironically have something that Persona doesn't: actual good LGBT representation.

bruh, I didn't know Kirby and Splatoon had lgbt in it 👀 (though, now I guess I understand why my friend's sibling calls it yasstoon huh)

and about good lgbt rep hmm, like p2 has a canonical bisexual relationship, p3 with hamuko's route, p4 and all of that, like i guess... what makes representation good? is it making the rep explicit, named, known? is it a specific portrayal? is the representation about palatability?

this isn't a dig or whatever, it's something that I genuinely think about all the time, esp as someone who likes to create for fandom and for personal projects. representation does matter, of course. but sometimes i'm wondering if we're so caught up in the representation checklist aspect, that we are constrained in our own storytelling. what makes xyz better rep than abc of another thing? can we not just have it all, and choose for ourselves what we personally like and what we don't? obviously, there's a whole lot of nuance to this topic. like, of course i wish persona had more gentleness towards queerness, of course i want to play a protagonist with more freedom. but those are my personal feelings, and I'm not Atlus. what I CAN do is create fanworks to satisfy myself, or seek lgbt rep elsewhere that suits my desire (which, I want to say is so much more accessible now! go ham! the internet is your oyster :D)

i apologize for how wordy and serious this answer(?) is, esp when i'm sure your ask was phrased in a more humorous way kdlfjalsdj but I guess this reminded me feelings and thoughts about representation, and how that plays into my life