Why the fuck does he talk like this? 🙄 Do you think he ever spoke about poor Mark with this kind of verbose affection? Anyway I think Mark should have gotten to stab Seth.
It's not that it's offensive.
It's not that it's poorly-written.
It's not that it's self-indulgent nearly to the point of being pornographic.
It's not even that it's unrealistic, plenty of people have fluid sexualities and use terms for themselves that a third party might think are "wrong".
...it's that the entire gay character arc of this gay character is about him a) being gay and then b) being so overcome by a feminine attractiveness of this woman that c) he escapes the restrictive social expectations of his gayness that were holding him back from true heterosexual happiness.
Don't get me wrong, some queer communities can have some restrictive and proscriptive assholes in them, but 9CL is a world in which the closet doors are mounted the wrong way around.
I think he was briefly entertaining the idea of turning this into an Addams Family fancomic and just decided to try it out with a pairing with Thing and another hand.
I just don't know how many times McEldowney flirted with this "Seth isn't really gay, Edda just isn't his type even though he once unprompted offered to fill her with babies" motif.
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It's not that it's poorly-written.
It's not that it's self-indulgent nearly to the point of being pornographic.
It's not even that it's unrealistic, plenty of people have fluid sexualities and use terms for themselves that a third party might think are "wrong".
Bisexuals don't exist.
I am not even here saying this right now.
so i don't think the tags know what gay means either
so very sorry
ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum
If I weren't a gayyyy man
You decreed I should be what I am