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look. i am Extremely Tired of hearing people pretend like "it doesn't have to be sexual" is any kind of valid criticism of people wanting to see gay male romance in mainstream media, because explicit sex is not even what we're asking for in the first goddamned place. 1/?
we have, and have literally always had, plenty of fan-created works which go into every kind of sexual activity you could want. we do not need canon for fucking. it's always better in fics and art anyway. so honestly, i don't want anyone trying that part 2/?
but it's really, really frustrating to have our hopes for certain characters so greatly misinterpreted and mocked constantly, when we're literally only wanting things the show itself presented to us. 3/?
what do we actually want? the shows to deliver on their own promises, and that's not a crazy ask. we want a romantic arc. a proper one with the same amount of care, time, build and depth which we've seen 1000+ times for straight couples 4/?
if any one of these people bothered to wade into our fandom world they would easily see that most of what we talk about isn't sex. a ship has more than a bed on it, to coin a weird ass phrase here. 5/?
our content covers EVERYTHING about a relationship. meeting. dating. pining. proposals weddings. breakfast conversations. fights. breakups. separations. saving each other from mortal peril. illness. death. birthdays. inside jokes. halloween. grocery shopping. hair styles. 6/?
it's preposterous and boring to reduce gay male relationships down to ~just sex~. like, i'm sorry you believed the fucking panic videos from the 60s about gay men basically living in bathrooms looking for a dick to suck and so you think that's all there is. update yourself. 7/?
again, we did not ask for nor do we need them to fuck on screen. it's sad how little we'd actually take and be happy with. it's like someone shouting that we cannot have an entire cake when all we asked for was to taste the frosting. which was already on the fucking cake. 8/?
i cannot, obviously, speak for all, but i am personally not asking for sex. no show or movie will ever top (heh) the millions of words of filthy, artful, brilliant erotica already there for free on multiple websites. we don't want that. y'all aren't even GOOD at it ffs 9/?
i just want Will "Smells Like Doggo" Graham to tell Hannibal "Too Fancy Pants" Lecter that he romantically LOVES HIM to his face. maybe while it's raining on them. maybe a two second closed mouthed kiss. that's it. is that really THAT RADICAL? 10/?
but whatever happens. stop calling us stupid or gross or delusional or silly for asking for what was dangled. it's misogyny as much as homophobia and y'all need to stow it. just let the smitten boys hold hands on a beach goddamn. 11/11
