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gayofthefae · 2 months ago

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Queer ships are universally different and not comparable to straight ships in ship wars because without the ship/feelings/reciprocation all characters involved would still be queer because their queerness exists and is represented in them independently from specific romantic feelings and that queerness would still deeply affect their characters' relationships to themselves.

Queer ships are not the same as straight ships because queer ships are inherently indicative of something deeper in the individual that is affects their character arc to the core and straight ships are love stories.

Basically, the queer experience and the straight experience are not the same. I feel like people should know this, and I feel like people do, so I assume they just don't realize that that's what the conversation is. But I'm not fighting for the ship. I'm fighting for the characters to be queer. Your characters were already straight. You get what I'm begging for regardless. You think we'd have equal things - love stories - taken away but you're wrong.

If two people don't get together I don't have a love story to live vicariously through anymore. If two people aren't queer I'm not in the story anymore.

Hope this helps.

#lgbtq #stranger things #byler #buddie #sorry you like milkvan better than j@ncy that is upsetting if you dont get your fave #genuinely #but you can still have CHARACTERS you are represented by #you got a love story taken #i got a person #diff.er.ent.#i'm not fighting for mike to reciprocate will's feelings on will's behalf common misconception #i'm fighting for mike to be both queer and happy #and that in his own right requires will #if it didn't that'd be cool too #but 1. queer 2. believably happy #i never said a ship name even once there #but actually it's one of the reasons i find queer stories more interesting #because regardless theres something to rewatch for #oh mike didn't develop feelings for will until season 5 episode 5? that's fine! he was still queer the day troy screamed about fairies in hi #s face though. he was still queer when he described attraction in non gendered language. he was still queer when will said it's scary to tel #l people deep truths about yourself they might reject.#no matter what there is a retroactive recontextualizing fact about them that influences everything they do.#rewatch power!!!

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