Haha, that's gay

some nights are harder than others. sometimes it feels like he was just here.

Me: “yeah zuko would totally propose first”

when a fic has alternating povs, but with the same scenes rewritten:

when a fic only has one pov but there's an entire full-length sequel dedicated solely to the second character's pov:

I had a few doodles of izumi lying around so piled them all together

Yes izumi is a sweet, shy, soft spoken kid, yes she knows how to use 27 different weapons

which of your otp is showy, bright and illuminating, always visible and dramatic, lights up the earth, usually looking for a fight -- not subtle at all and truthfully, not very threatening

Me: Guess it's time to drop everything and go read fanfics. I don't make the rules. It is how it is.

Literally almost every single peace of media has platonic male friendships in it and almost none of them ends up in a canon relationship. So there IS representation. Some people shipping those characters don’t take away their canon friendship.

And it doesn’t only happen to the male friendships. Every close female and male/female friendship you see on screen will always have people shipping them.

Because guess what? That’s how fandoms work. It doesn’t only happen with male friendships.

Are we really ignoring all the people who assume every man and woman who breaths the same air are canonically in love with each other? But somehow it’s only a problem when queer people do it.

Are we really ignoring how we get so little male/female friendships in media without writers turning it romantic at some point?

But we never get to see two close male leads of an action movie kissing at the end do we? So shut up about “friendship representation” You have tons of platonic friendships.

And the thing is, a lot of people who say this don’t even care about platonic friendships or mlm fetishization by straight girls. They’re just trying to find a way to put queer ships down. They never say “I think this two specific characters are good friends so I don’t like it when people ship them”

Instead, it’s always “these characters showed a little pinch of interest to opposite gender so they’re straight. just let people be friends and stop making everything gay”