This “they betrayed the queer community by killing a queer character” take some people have irks me so, so much as a queer person…The Bury Your Gays trope does not mean what many of you think it means.
First of all, OFMD is literally full of queer characters. One of the most important and refreshing things about this show has always been the fact that the characters aren’t Queer™️ characters, they’re characters who are queer. No one ever makes a big deal out of it, the characters are allowed to exist as themselves and that’s great! The show and the people who work on it have always highlighted that. No one in this show is punished, tortured, bullied, killed, or tomented because of their sexuality.
So I find it quite strange that some people are now blaming the show for doing exactly what it has always done and gotten praised for – it's treating its queer characters the way it treats its straight characters. That's what equality is. Every character, queer or straight, has gone through good and bad things this whole time. It would be against the show's core principle if queer people got special treatment, and only straight people were allowed to die and suffer. It would also make the show incredibly boring and predictable if the nonstraight characters magically survived every single situation every single time.
I get why Izzy’s death has made people upset, but these “how could they do this to the queer community!!!” posts where people attack the show and basically call it homopohobic just because they killed Izzy sound straight up ignorant. Killing a queer character in a show full of queer characters doesn't mean they're homophobic or betraying their audience. Sometimes characters just gotta die and sometimes those characters happen to be queer.
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a friendly reminder that jgy doesn’t “tell nmj that he’s more important than all those people he’s killed”.
nie mingjue asks two questions.
one, “are you saying your life is more valuable than theirs?” (高贵),
and second, “are you saying you’re different from them?” (不同)
to which jin guangyao says, “yes. of course we’re different!”
he doesn’t say, “of course my life is more valuable!”, note.
these are two separate questions, and he only answers the last one that, in my opinion, is the most mindboggling one.
nmj asks a son of a sex worker, reviled, harassed and bullied just for existing, if he’s any different than other people. nie mingjue, who’s SEEN the way he was treated and stepped forward himself to confront those people.
the same nie mingjue who thinks he’s a l w a y s killed people for a reason, and that it’s fair for him to kill, but when jgy kills it’s always cruel, needless spilling of blood. yknow, despite the saber.
this nmj gets so furious at jgy stating that he’s not like other people that he kicks him down the stairs.
🆗🆒👍
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ham ranting
where did ANYONE get the idea that Hamlet ENJOYED the aesthetic of death, his father died, he killed someone, he held a skull of someone he used to know, he asked a suicidal girl "should people kill themselves or no".
im like 50% sure that Hamlet is still just some guy !! he probably went to a cemetery and cried over his father, left flowers, never went back again, never explored the aesthetic views of it. "its a cemetery" he thinks "dead people lie here." and its tragic sure, but what can you do? and then he leaves with the image of his father's grave fresh in his mind, because, wow, my dads in there!
maybe hes not very phased by death, that's okay!! but to think he ENJOYS being around death? like are you completely sure?! all death has ever done is cause him suffering! because of his dad's, Polonius', and Ophelia's death HE ENDED UP DEAD! it wouldn't be crazy to assume he hates the idea of death! all its ever done is hurt him!
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Forever annoyed that "don't speak over marginalized people", the notion that marginalized people are already spoken over, and their oppressors need to actually listen and learn before speaking about complicated topics and need to do so in support of not OVER them, so quickly turned into "I'm not x so I can't speak on x issues". Like the "don't speak on this if you're not this" started out so well meaning because it was about people needing to actually take the time to learn before talking about issues they didn't previously understand! Now it's just an excuse for people to never learn about the issues minorities face or to actually stand up for them in any meaningful way
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Hey just a PSA! I know a lot of people are having reactions to Annabeth's casting and they don't want to think their feelings are based on racism, but if you're more upset/concerned about a character's skin colour than their personality, if you're more attached to a character's race than their actual character, it is a racism thing, and you should be spending more productive time unlearning that than defending it <3
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I think queer people, like if us LGBTQ people, showed more advocacy for the “other letters” within our demographic, we’d get a lot more done.
Idk i just know that I appreciate when I see my Ls, Bs, Ts, and so on, voice their support for my G-ness. I try to return the favor as best as I am able to.
Not really poking at any one identity, because I think it’s pretty much commonplace for all “Letters.”
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