#of course) being spat at on the street. & rainbow capitalism shows that queer people & allies are seen as a viable market | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bastard-sweet · 2 years ago

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Image ID: Two light-mode screenshots of three Tweets by dear @/planet of deer. They read,

‘“fill harry pitter with trans rep”, “fill disney movies with gays”, “queer the mcu”, etc. all miss the fact that these corporations will never ever see you as anything other than a demographic to exploit. the queer art you want is being made by your peers.

the queer art you want is in 19th-century novels and pre-code silent films that you won’t read/watch because they’re old and “problematic”

queer art is all around you but one place it is not is in the multiplex of the newest four quadrant superhero film’ End ID

#i believe there should be mainstream rep #especially for our main reason to have mainstream rep: kids!#its all well and good that 20-year-olds on the internet want superhero x/superhero y to be canon #but the *point* we always make for x/y is because kids (closeted queers & unrealised queers & allies & future allies & even queerphobes who #realise THIS WILL NOT BE EASY FOR YOU) see x/y #kids dont see 1910s silent gay films #sometimes they cant because of their parents #n i feel like this is a similar situation to pride month:#it is rainbow capitalism!!! its shallow #but i cant bring myself to hate it #because my time in online queer spaces has connected me to people who are so happy whenever they see a rainbow logo #because before it was rainbow logos and pride merch it was (and sometimes still is #of course) being spat at on the street. & rainbow capitalism shows that queer people & allies are seen as a viable market #yeah its dystopian but it means we dont get spat on. & it means we are (yes circumstantially BUT) protected over bigots #yes its shallow yes id rather disney donate to The Trevor Project or something than the Don’t Say Gay Bill & make stucky kiss or whatever #but theres always been multiple reasons for rep. at least one can be satisfied by webcomics. others can’t be #i think its okay to want mainstream rep. and also fanfiction. and also non-hypocritical profiteers of queer rep. yeah?#fandom null #sweet whisperin'#image id #text post #also this user very clearly has twitter brainrot #'problematic' actually means something yknow #e.g. racist! thats what it often means #n quite a lot of the queer community #(n queer people's communities) r POC!! wow!! its almost like when they want rep #they want at least passivity for fellow POC instead of racism #like maybe u mean problematic as in 'they say slurs' in which case i agree but that was NOT clear mate

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