whatever you want for whatever reason but I think I’m just sick of seeing “a straight person wrote this” and honestly sometimes I fall into that thought pattern at times myself. Someone might literally just be new to it all!!

to understand your own queerness. I barely thought of queerness until I got into yaoi shipping with hetalia. Still didn’t really “get” real queer culture for years but that doesn’t mean I’m NOT queer. Same goes for other authors who unintentionally fumble the experience. It’s fine to not like

as drama BUT when mainstream media overwhelmingly pushes queer stories about sexuality drama to the forefront, can anyone blame the average person for being ignorant? “They should do more research” it just doesn’t happen for many people. Sometimes you need an involuntary push to learn and/or come

Killing your internalizations is a bitch and it’s pretty well established now that many of these “straight” authors turn out to be queer. And regardless of whether they are or not we’ve all got to learn the culture. I’m not trying to defend cishet authors that intentionally use the queer experience