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bigskydreaming · 4 months ago

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Me venturing briefly into 911 fics after Buck came out as bi: I am BEGGING people to stop basing their entire view of two men having later-in-life gay or bi awakenings on that one fucking reddit post about the guy thinking he's homophobic after his roommate came out.

#like im sure this story was cute the first or second or even fifth time #but when you see twenty variations of it in a fairly cursory search its not cute anymore. its actually really fucking annoying #that dynamic is not representative of the vast majority of mlm experiences and the fact that #the general impression of not just this fandom at this point but a number of big slash fandoms #would have you believe it is.....is kiiiiiiiiinda at the very heart of the problem that is this is what happens when you say your fiction #ABOUT a certain group - ANY given group - doesnt have to actually prioritize their voices or experiences or takes in any way shape or form #because what you're writing is just ABOUT them its not FOR them #its fine if i tune out the voices of anyone this fiction nominally represents because just because im writing it about them doesnt #mean it has to be written for them or even written with the actuality of them in mind or as any kind of goal #....I dont care what marginalized group youre talking about or how their marginalization stacks up against other identities in any way shap #or form....the point is very simple. get the fuck over this belief that fandom can in any way pride itself on being progressive or #transgressive or anything BUT regressive if it insists on deluding itself that the idea that you can write about people but convince #yourself that you dont have to view them as members of an actual group possessing an actual identity with actual real world experiences #and its fine for them to exist in your mind as just an abstract idea that doesnt need or deserve to be represented in fiction with any #effort made at actually representing them - is anything but a shit for brains take

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