absentlyabbie:

relevanttosomeone:

marieduplessis:

i feel weird because i don’t think anyone is obligated to care about fictional het relationships regardless of the sexuality of the participants but i’ve definitely noticed a trend where any canonically bi character’s het relationships are treated as far more problematic and damaging than straight relationships between two straight people and it’s treated as a total progressive imperative for canon to de-emphasize them or write them out as much as possible

and i’ve noticed a trend in saying that any character whose sexuality is semi-ambiguous or who displays even a slight preference for same-gender partners has to be interpreted as 100 percent gay/lesbian and a lot of vitriol directed at fans or creators who interpret or state those characters are bisexual

i mean, i don’t know if that’s people’s intention but the end result here would be definitely be…. bi characters not existing at all

i don’t at all want to say that bi rep is more important than gay rep or that people don’t have a right to pull for confirmed gay/lesbian characters but like, if these are the rules for portraying bi characters, we won’t have any bi characters and in some cases i think that’s exactly what people want