coming from a blog who specializes in writing âdirtyâ imagines for underage characters that entirely center around the idea that the person reading the imagines is an able-bodied cishet girl this is really fucking rich
*sighs and rolls up sleeves* here we go
âI can understand where she is coming from, and you would too if you read everything that she has been posting. I donât see any of this as homophobic. From what I can see the tweets have been deleted but you can still find them on the internet. Look guys, Iâve been insulted and called out for writing a majority of straight fanfictions for the outsiders. And itâs got nothing to do with homophobia.â
people have tweeted at her that there are countries in which you can be punished with death for being gay and her response is âthat happens to women tooâ so dont even tell me she isnt homophobic lmao. also if people have called you out so much maybe you should re-evaluate yourself and listen to them.
also shes literally complaining about âbeing attacked for being heterosexualâ
âSomeone wrote itâd be âcuteâ if Johnny and Dally were together. Cute? No it wouldnât cute. Itâd be disastrous. Letâs think about it. The Outsiders was written in the mid to late 60â˛s, the whole book is written in that time period. People were getting shot and savagely beaten for being gay, people still are. But it was worse back then. If they were a gay couple in this time period, it wouldnât of ever been cute. It wouldâve been hard. It wouldâve been constant lie after lie.â
gay people still existed in the 60s and saying that gay love isnt pure just because of the hardship it faces is homophobic and youre just grasping at straws looking for reasons why they arent gay. next.
âAnd we are still living in a world were people are being tortured and killed for being gay, people are still feeling ashamed for being born this way. So no, Dally and Johnny being gay for each other wouldnât be âcuteâ and she isnât a monster for writing her characters to be straight. They are her characters. They are her intellectual property. I wouldnât like it if someone wrote one of my OC into something completely different from who they are. Iâd be pissed and we shouldnât hate her for insisting they are straight.â
if you dont want people interpreting your fiction in their own way then you shouldnt publish it. with such a wide audience her pulling this shit is petty at best.
âSE Hinton is a long term supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, she isnât doing this to be a monstrous human. She is doing what you and I would do if someone tried to change our much beloved characters. She has said that she doesnât mind us doing fanfiction, so sure, write slash fanfictions to your hearts content. I have. Just stop sending her messages like this.â
nobody is attacking her for making her characters straight theyre attacking her for arguing with teenagers on the internet. also âlong term supporter of the lgbtq+ communityâ citation please.
âAnd do we really need to describe LGBTQ+ couples as âcuteâ. Like really? Itâs not cute. Itâs what it is. Itâs two people who love each other. Would you describe a straight couple as cute? Probably not. So why is it so much more cute to be in a gay relationship? Their sexuality isnât cute. Itâs normal. Itâs not cute to be who you are.â
i honestly feel really sad that you as a gay person feel this way about gay relationships and i hope whoever taught you to think that way gets their ass kicked.