#those posts that say Karlach and Astarion are wlw and mlm solidarity are just worded that way to work around using the terms lesbian and gay | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sad-endings-suck · 1 year ago

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“I see Karlach and Astarion as having such a sibling dynamic.” 😝😃

“Karlach and Astarion are f/f and m/m solidarity!” 🥰🤪🤗

They both talk to each other, other companions, and the player character about being attracted to each other. Y’all are weird wtf.

Nothing annoys me more than people “jokingly” calling Astarion gay or Karlach a lesbian. Like… ya’ll consider yourselves to be the “progressive” demographic, and yet you still cannot understand basic queer stereotypes and how they are evidently rooted in hetero-normativity and not “queer culture”.

“The tall muscular woman must be a lesbian for no reason other than her physical appearance and the over-dramatic pretty man must be gay because how could he be frivolous and also like women? Only big strong stoic men can be attracted to women.”

Y’all hear how that sounds, right?

#make your headcanons #it’s fine #but don’t put labels on these characters for no reason other than your own bias and and then act like your headcanons are canon #those posts that say Karlach and Astarion are wlw and mlm solidarity are just worded that way to work around using the terms lesbian and gay #so that the poster can passively let it be known how they actually view Karlach and Astarion without being called out for bi/pan phobia #oh and also #your unwillingness to view these characters outside of queer stereotypes and archetypes is not proof they are X sexuality or X gender #it’s just sad #I thought we moved past big and strong = masculine and well groomed and svelte = feminine but of course not #Samantha is non-binary and used their own gender expression to imbue Karlach with a mix of masc and fem energy that makes her stand out!#that is so cool !!!#let’s discuss that and how dynamic identity broadens the expression of gender and sexuality instead of putting these characters in boxes #and why are people so obsessed with categorizing a man and woman they don’t want to see in a relationship with one another as sibling-like?#where does that even come from?? so random #bg3 #bg3 astarion #bg3 karlach #astarion #karlach #baldurs gate 3 #baldur’s gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #baldur's gate #baldur’s gate astarion #baldurs gate karlach #karlach x astarion #karlach x tav #astarion x tav

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