#saw some very annoying posts on twitter about this re: heartstopper

[mymlody]

consider the fact that "BL/yaoi has a precedent of being written by women for women, and with that tend to romanticize tropes that are usually considered toxic in m/f media because it's instead being acted between two men" and "the assumption that any piece of media (whether described as BL/yaoi or not) coming from countries like japan, china, or korea that includes a relationship between two men automatically suffers from this issue and european/american media with gay relationships don't and are better somehow is just straight up racist" are statements that can and should coexist

#txt #saw some very annoying posts on twitter about this re: heartstopper #where self proclaimed Profic proshit whatever idc what they call themselves were like #see this is why BL/yaoi is SUPERIOR LET QUEERS BE MESSY #or whatever #and im like. my brother in christ you live in delaware first of all #the orientalism and exotification is showing #and also like. Theres gay media from EU/US where gays are messy youre literally just not looking. #Just say you have an obsession with upholding BL/yaoi as the ultimate media made by the oppressed #while ignoring BL and geikomi written by like actual gay men #or asian media explicitly depicting other members of the LGBT community that you ignore bc like #its not from japan or korea or china bc you have a weird colorist bias you havent considered #Theres like a fuckton of Thai films for example like way more than youd expect #and even in EA there are documentaries like shinjuku boys which is about trans men in JP #but youre too busy caring about your freedom to write boku no hero omegaverse slave fic to actually care about real LGBT people lawl #but whatever what do i know im just a stupid fancop right giggles