#i think it also has to do with the fetishizatiln/extreme sexualization of lesbians by straight men for the last idk forty years

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the only reason one last stop wasn’t the biggest release of the year is because people would rather read about uwu capitalist gay boys than wlw

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#you really said this one with your whole chest huh #listen. i think IN GENERAL audiences find mlm relationships more accessible/digestible than wlw relationships #i will give you that. i think it in part has to do with us treating men/masculinity as a default #i think it also has to do with the fetishizatiln/extreme sexualization of lesbians by straight men for the last idk forty years #i think those two things combined made mlm pairings ‘safer’ for queer people to project onto/fixate on for a long time ?? #think about the biggest fanon pairings of the last twenty years. johnlock. destiel. fucking kirk/spock. drarry. idk there are so many more #i’m blanking rn #but i can’t even think of ONE pairing like that that’s wlw #in general people who aren’t wlw don’t seek out wlw content. but people who aren’t mlm will seek out mlm content. #that’s what seems true to me based on absolutely no research and just vibes #i think that CONTRIBUTED to the success of rwrb and also the less resounding success of ols #BUT i truly think what tanked ols for so many people wasn’t that it was wlw. it was just timing. #it came out like four or five months after what i would call the height of the rwrb craze. #OLS came out like two weeks or so after mcquiston was on twitter not apologizing for the netanyahu thing #i think people just… got tired of hearing about mcquiston and rwrb at just the wrong time #that’s my two cents #but i feel like you have a lot of negative feelings about this that you should maybe process lmao #anon #asked and answered #hot takes