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libations-of-honey-and-milk:
You know, I ship some het pairings, but I’ve never been able to be comfortable in the shipping circles of fandom for those pairings because in my experience they ALWAYS have a sizable continent of members who:
1. Are straight up homophobic
2. Go out of their way to very unkindly remind fans of a popular queer ship that their ship will never be canon, but the het ship will be full of open-mouthed kisses and sex and stuff
3. Act like the only reason anyone would ever ship queer pairings is because they want to fetishize queer people
…Like, those spaces are NOT comfortable.
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Oh goodness, yes. I mean, I have a huge largely-het WIP and that’s the basis of the anxiety I was recently expressing of wanting to have a threesome scene in it. I mean, mostly this is fine, mostly people are great, mostly yadda yadda, but you’re not wrong. As a queer person writing a het pairing, I sometimes feel that same way.
It’s a little better with this particular pairing, which is canon in the comics but it looks like will never go canon in the movies, so– at least some of that is off the table.
But my goodness. Yes.
libations-of-honey-and-milk:
You know, I ship some het pairings, but I’ve never been able to be comfortable in the shipping circles of fandom for those pairings because in my experience they ALWAYS have a sizable continent of members who:
1. Are straight up homophobic
2. Go out of their way to very unkindly remind fans of a popular queer ship that their ship will never be canon, but the het ship will be full of open-mouthed kisses and sex and stuff
3. Act like the only reason anyone would ever ship queer pairings is because they want to fetishize queer people
…Like, those spaces are NOT comfortable.
____________________________
Oh goodness, yes. I mean, I have a huge largely-het WIP and that’s the basis of the anxiety I was recently expressing of wanting to have a threesome scene in it. I mean, mostly this is fine, mostly people are great, mostly yadda yadda, but you’re not wrong. As a queer person writing a het pairing, I sometimes feel that same way.
It’s a little better with this particular pairing, which is canon in the comics but it looks like will never go canon in the movies, so– at least some of that is off the table.
But my goodness. Yes.
