#hzekjxkd lmao i doubt that so hard

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your tags on the friends to enemies to lovers post....you put it into words, the layers of it. nimona has this trope too but with two men. while there are some romance books with this trope with het couples going from childhood/highschool sweethearts to fallout to lovers, it's def not a popular genre in het circles -and every author of it ive seen is a bi woman- while queer readers and writers have popularized it

RIP the resentment borne from repression of love rly is a characteristic of a first crush for queer people isnt it? Omg. Its SO interesting to see examples of it pulled up from fiction to even that post going around in which the tags are full of people describing their first gay crush in hs on their best friend and how that friendship ended badly... it rly is a common theme in queer narratives.

It makes so much sense that het people might not connect to those stories as much because their italicized "oh" moment doesnt mean they change the way they see themselves with respect to the world because their love isnt seen as abnormal. Gays rly end up having to navigate through resenting and lashing out at the person we really care about because we have to rearrange our entire identity around those feelings and accept that we will always be a minority after that.

I wonder if there will ever be a time when putting names to those feelings wont terrify us so much

#hzekjxkd lmao i doubt that so hard #but its nice to think of it #maybe one day gays in the future will look back on all the gay art we're getting now and be like #god why were the gays in 2020 making such depressing shit xkxjdkdk #the way we might look at older gay art #it rly is a product of its time huh #also fkdjdkd #this is why i dont vibe with it at all when straight ppl are like 'gay love is just like ours' or anything #like i appreciate the sentiment cause at least theyre looking at us like humans xkdjdkdjfk #but no. our experience of love is different. shut up. #i feel like friends to enemies to lovers trope is relatively new?? but also xdhdjd might be that ive only recently #started getting exposed to more variety in original queer content yknow? #i was wondering if this is a solely queer characteristic tho #because i feel like it might be common in lots of repressed societies too #but then the whole 'FRIENDS to enemies' thing #it makes sense. #you get rly close to a person... and then you get too close dkdhdkdj #first gay love in a nutshell #ask #also djdkjf nimona is interesting because the gay men are doing the whole rivalry thing for their reputation #but secretly do care for each other and they both know it #nothing gayer than that zkzhzkdj