#. i can see what he's going thru 24/7 and bc i see a big potential for character development

[eohachu]

as someone who mostly only comes out to other queer people, 99% of the queerphobia directly directed at me has been coming from queer people. it doesn't even happen rarely. the first queer person I came out to aside from my bestie was a trusted friend. you know what she said? sO yOuRe Bi ToO nOw?? as if it was some trend. it took her a long time to accept that I was queer, much longer than say my (supposedly cishet) parents.

on another occasion another lesbian friend looked down on me for not knowing my sexuality until my 20s. internalised queerphobia is a bitch and unfortunately it hurts queer people in spaces that are supposed to be safe.

I'm not defending Jim here, I just want to make clear that for a lot of people aggression coming from other queers is a very real experience. so maybe in your eyes it doesn't make sense (congrats, maybe you never experienced a situation like this), but to me it very much does and is nearly 100% in character. Jim wants to protect Li Ming so much that he absolutely does not realise how it hurts him. Like we speak about the cycle of abuse/violence/trauma all the time irl - voilà, there it is.

I believe that Jim will resolve or at least begin to resolve his internalised issues by the end of the drama. And you can like or dislike this writing choice, but at this point of the story and with the relationship between Jim and Li Ming that we've seen so far in mind, it's neither ooc nor does it generally not make sense that a queer person exerts queerphobic aggression towards another queer person. thanks for coming to my ted talk

#. sorry for the slightly pissy tone #. when ppl said it didn't make sense i felt very un-seen so that's why i had to make this post #. also ppl need to learn to accept that their fav characters can be flawed... i still like Jim bc #. i can see what he's going thru 24/7 and bc i see a big potential for character development #. alright that's all for now bye #r watches #moonlight chicken spoilers #moonlight chicken meta #r.txt