#why r authors and show runners and filmmakers scared to have explicitly queer characters

[arospecsyourblockdudes]

When it comes to queer rep in media, I have what I like to call the Grandma Test. If my grandmother sits down to read a book or watch a tv show/movie and can come away from it understanding fully that a certain character is queer, then it passes as decent representation for me. If she doesn’t understand it fully, then it could still count depending on the circumstances but usually I won’t think highly of it

#this is just my personal test #but I’m legit sick of having everyone online say that actually subtle coding and little hints and social media confirmations are - #- GREAT queer rep actually #I don’t want to try and find queer characters in the sub-subtext or looking thru an authors qna on some random news site or here on tumblr #I want it to just be there and be open for everyone to see #could also be renamed the Not Terminally Online test #where if someone who doesn’t spend ages on social media can get that a character is queer #like . idk . I’m kinda sick of it #cishet ppl never fuckin have to tell themselves that it’s a real cishet character bcus of how they looked at this lady for 3 seconds in ep4 #why do I have to do it. why do I have to settle for searching around for clues #why r authors and show runners and filmmakers scared to have explicitly queer characters #I’m lowkey vagueposting a specific fandom but this is very much an in general type thing this reaches far and wide