#yesterday I was actually collecting screencaps of 'holy cow this show is gay' tbh rotflhhhhh do I need to share them?

[kingofthewilderwest]

@bovivinator hope you don't mind me responding on main!

Gosh. I feel for you. Sympathetic high five. I also had a decade long queer journey starting my senior year of high school. While I've since let that side of me depart because, among other things, I realized it wasn't giving me satisfaction nor improving my own life, I will forever feel a full and overflowing heart to everyone who is stuck in this situation with religious institutions' poor outlets to safely question, analyze, and think for themselves.

It's extremely uncomfortable having a foot in two worlds where each side is condescending and antagonistic about the other. You can't get all your questions, help, and emotional needs met either place because both may hold strong negative thoughts against what's inside you. I know for many of us it can feel scary, isolating, intimidating, painful, turmoiling, with no answers or help in sight.

Given your context, I think you may be interested to know that Moral Orel is a show with attention to queerness. There are multiple main explicitly queer characters, each with their own way of handling the juxtaposition between their sexuality and their relationship to the church. Now: there are absolutely jokes where the homosexual characters sorta get the butt, in line with the show's black humor, especially at the start. I won't say anything more because that'd get into minor spoilers, but there is far more nuanced and heartful stuff, too, and there is no point in which queer characters are treated as any morally different or distinct than anyone else in Moralton. I could talk a long time about how interesting Moral Orel's treatment of queer topics is. There's lots to process.

Regarding Moral Orel, I do want to clarify to anyone following the conversation: I wouldn't recommend this show to everyone. In fact, personally, there are more people I wouldn't recommend it to among my irl and url friends. I think it's a masterpiece and I hope others will be able to draw to the show and love it. (I'm already rewatching and I NEVER re-binge a show immediately upon finishing!) But I want to be upfront many will be uncomfortable with how the show centers on and portrays religion. And even if that doesn't bother, the show's black humor pulls no punches and will target anything and everything. I see the fandom get angry when it's compared to South Park, but analogously to South Park, a person shouldn't watch it if they're gonna get offended over that stuff. And if anyone needs answers to questions like, "Does the dog die?" Moral Orel is a show to check on that, either for its jest or serious moments.