Weird nerds who insist it's "unrealistic" for queer people to exist in dark fantasy are so full of it, when queer people exist now, in incredibly dark times.
We are and always will be, regardless.
We are and always will be, regardless.
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If they argue against it. Point out they must have had their head up their asses with all the Queer characters.
But ofc knowing that would require weird nerds to give a shit about actual history instead of their made up versions.
They use fantasy and speculative fiction to escape to a world without us (or where we don't matter); that's why they get so pissed when we show up with any prominence.
Dark fantasy is FOR queer people, it's for the people who have been marginalized to express their feelings and fears in fictionalized ways
Neither of these get the history of queer people surviving persecution.
Like, what does the concept of fantasy darkness have to do with queerness? There’s no inherent connection, the stupid bastards just made it up.
They assume the dark times would mean evil people who got rid of all the queerness.
And if we extrapolate *that* out, it's a hell of a self report.
But as Casey points out, a lot of folks aren’t living in luxury right now and it sure as hell hasn’t made them straight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXKncbNSJqA
We exist, and have always existed, *in spite* of them.
Like do you think people shooting lightning out of pointy sticks is any worse than anything we've been through in history?
Avada Kedgayo!
Oh! The horror! The shame! The fashion sense!
(r/arethestraightsok?)
it's kinda like high school dramas when the "school bully" characters are dressed as punks and metalheads, whereas real school bullies look like the protagonists of those shows
It shifts things quite a bit, depending on accessibility and such, if oppression meets channel lightning.
and geralts response is a forlorn look of like "i get that" being a mutant and also shunned.
also there's magic fighting dudes.
its never like actually super invested nerds who care deeply about the games or dork stuff, its *always* some asshole tourist who like played the game when they were 6 once deciding that "minorities shouldnt be included in this" when they always were