#brb - going back to work on my Death of the Author video because this is a PROBLEN

[kai-keda]

Omg people on twitter are actually saying it’s lesbophobic to not see Dragonfruit as a lesbian ship I -

Holy fucking shit I need to lie down.

Here’s a rant I narrowly avoiding actually sending them cause I realized they were possibly saying that “thinking Dragonfruit isn’t a lesbian ship is lesbophobic” rather than saying that “telling them it’s invalid is wrong.”

I think anyone who views Red as sapphic is super valid and should be allowed to make content or talk about her as such if it makes them happy.

I get kinda squicked at seeing how many people are treating “Red Son is genderfluid!” as canon fact based on one storyboard artist putting “Any Pronouns” on a fun Pokémon Trainer ID card that also had xim listed as “420 Years Old” because it’s the funny number.

I get squicked by it BECAUSE I’m genderfluid and I don’t put “any” pronouns as any descriptor of myself because my fluidity doesn’t work that way. It’s fluid because it changes moment to moment and day to day. On one day I can be all in on being a woman, the next I could be “a man but in an Uno reverse card kinda way”. And in the former, I want be referred to exclusively with she/her and in the latter I’ll take anything BUT she/her. I don’t go by “any at any time”. And the fact that people use that as their definition and “proof” of Red Son being “canonically genderfluid” is, well, squicky af for me.

At the current moment, the only canon fact is that we have only seen Red be referred to with he/him in canon. Everything else beyond that is headcanon. They’re all VALID headcanons, don’t get me wrong. I’d be a hypocrite for saying otherwise when I have a whole fic dedicated to her being Agender literally titled “Could Not Care Less” which is a headcanon based on that same ID card and someone close to me being Agender.

Idk man - I’m just genuinely concerned about how many people in this fandom are taking their headcanons as fact and forcing them down peoples throats.

You see Red Son as sapphic and consider Dragonfruit a lesbian ship because of it? Right on! Don’t listen to people being asses about “Well CANONICALLY” cause whatever they’re about to say most likely isn’t canon atm cause none of the characters have discussed any queer identities in the show.

Thanks for coming to my essay, it’s all love for you and your lesbian Red headcanon ❤️

#Kai Keda rants #I’ll probably delete this later I just #god I’m so fucking tired of people treating headcanons as fact #brb - going back to work on my Death of the Author video because this is a PROBLEN