#might need to write a whole paper about 'gayboring' as a concept because it is....it's so prevalent rn.......

[spooksier]

also btw that passage about media consumption as activism and the idea of "gayboring" (this post) are twin sisters to me because when you see media consumption as activism and therefore as a reflection of real life, any gritty or unsavory or "weird" aspects of any marginalized culture/community gets completely sanitized in favor of portraying an "ideal" form of that community in the eyes of consumerism (i.e.: boring and safe and non-confrontational)

#text! #might need to write a whole paper about 'gayboring' as a concept because it is....it's so prevalent rn....... #ofmd s2 and wwdits post-s2. who said that. #not to say they're bad stories just that they (in my humble onion) are using queerness to avoid actually writing plots #bc who needs plots when you have ao3 tropes lol #it's literally why i stopped advertising myself as a 'queer artist/trans artist/black artist' bc its being turned into a selling point #rather than a real life #(again in my humble onion) #sorry im working on my final research paper im in a writing mood