pop song for us rejects

The point is, "queer" isn't a rigid box applying only to two men in love. "Queer" doesn't apply only to romance either. Sometimes, being queer even includes an explicit LACK of romance.

As a queer person who took seven years to become confident in my queerness because I felt like I was supposed to shove myself into a box to "count," the whole meaning behind being "queer" is that we're different from what the society thinks we ought to be. We're not "normal." And even as being queer and out becomes more common, it's STILL SOMETHING THAT MAKES US DIFFERENT. ITS STILL SOMETHING THAT CAN GET YOU OSTRACIZED FROM YOUR COMMUNITY. ITS STILL SOMETHING WE ARE HAVING TO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE AS.

And this post is specifically about Wu. The fact that Pete and Niran aren't making out on your screen doesn't make it not queer. Trans rep? Check. A story about a boy who disappointed his grandfather because he wasn't exactly what his grandfather expected and wanted? He didn't behave how he ought? Well, that's something we in the queer community are quite familiar with. Group of outcasts coming together? I mean, come on, that's textbook queer allegory.

Just leave it by the door.

International fans congratulating each other and themselves on successfully carrying out "unsubscribe campaigns" that bullied a queer-owned Asian platform to remove a series that no one has seen yet is bonkers because it does have queer content. It doesn't have to be romance to be queer. Not all queer content has to be romance.

"Shadow" is also on Gaga presumably because Fluke's character, a side role, is gay. "Shadow" was also labeled "BL" and is still labeled "BL" probably to draw in BL fans who know and like Singto and Fluke from their roles in BL series, so the lack of outrage or even awareness of this exact thing happening three years ago with "Shadow" tells me this is some weird interfan grudge against SkyNani for refusing to kiss each other on camera.

Like, should "Shadow" and "Wu" have been labeled "BL"? No, obviously not. Is this the stake through the heart of all queer people that interfans are making it out to be? Also no.

Godji's character in the series is openly trans. Did anyone complaining even look into this series beyond SkyNani's casting? This is Godji's first serious role as an actress. She's almost always relegated, like many trans actors, to comic relief or MC roles. This role is a big deal and is enough for me, personally, to see "Wu" have a place on an LGBTQ+ platform.

It's not like Fluke had the main role in "Shadow"! He was also playing a queer side character!

So queer interfans saying "Wu" has No Place on a Queer Platform before they've even seen or looked into the series is breathtakingly shortsighted and petty to me as a queer nonbinary fan.

Because literally no one complaining or bullying Gaga has even seen the series yet.

What would have been so dangerous about giving this series the benefit of the doubt?

The director, Waa, is an openly gay man whose literal next project in June is a BL series. He directed "Boys in Love" and "Be My Favorite" too. How has he not earned the benefit of the doubt?

Or did no one look into that either?

Like, sure, maybe Godji's queerness isn't enough for others, but no one knows how queer the show is because it isn't out yet. "Bromance" isn't even the official term for SkyNani's brand! Which I only just found out because interfans keep repeating it as if it is. So interfans literally made up a term and then got mad at it.

EDIT: SkyNani and DewTee are called คู่หู in Thai, which translates to "close friends," which has ZERO percent of the baggage that interfans put onto them by assigning them the term "bromance." Even their concert later this year is called fucking Friendcon.

Okay I guess this is a Wu fan account lmao?

So after sitting with this episode for a while, I just find it so funny that so many were calling this show 'not queer'. BESIDES Godji's casting, the mere idea of parents deciding that putting DEMON ESSENCE in their child was a more fitting solution than accepting their differences, can so clearly be taken as commentary on homophobia/transphobia AS WELL as ableism. Maybe more details will appear in future episodes, but so far, those parents are something else lmao.

Like, as I understand it, Sky and Nani (and presumably Dew and Tee) don't want to star in BL series or market themselves as imaginary couples. They seemingly don't want to do the company-prescribed loveydovey song and dance the BL actors do, so GMMTV made them their own category with a stupid name.

I mean, is it the "bromance" descriptor people take issue with? Because, yeah, "bromance" is a ridiculous word and it does sound stupid to a lot of people (including me!), but I wouldn't consider that, like. Grounds for accusing SkyNani and DewTee themselves of queerbaiting? (becauseyoucan'tqueerbaitrealpeople)

I strongly suspect that the downfall of OhmNanon and the subsequent rabid tornado carrying around their memory served as something of a cautionary tale to everyone in that company if not the industry. Nanon also said he didn't want to do BL, and he was overridden, so I'd say it's a very good thing Sky and/or Nani put his foot down and kept it down.

Especially with GMMTV increasingly treating their BL and GL actors like circus animals, good for them for having and keeping boundaries?

Now people are pressed the show’s on the lgbtq streaming platform, when it’s a “bromance.” Has anyone considered that the series with a lgbtq novel being put on the lgbtq streaming platform, might in fact be lgbtq???