Stop y'all, Kishi knew what he was doing.

It's not so much that heterosexuality matters, closeted people choose to remain closeted because of their fear of losing social currency and getting estranged from their loved ones/families. In many countries, homosexuality is still illegal, and conservative societies ostracize them too. There are just too many odds against it. It's not that black and white.

A hundred years is way too late. I think it's a shame that it's denied even in this timeline. It's been a long time since the manga ended and yet SNS hasn't been normalised. I still see reels where people either mock the 'queerbait' or suspect there is something weird about Naruto and Sasuke's relationship but won't give it a name. They know what it is, they are either insecure (about sexuality in general) or closeted themselves.

This is all fiction, I don't read a lot of non fic. My favourite authors are O. Henry, Kafka, Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Saadat Hasan Manto, Premchand, D.H. Lawrence, R. K. Narayan, Ismat Chugtai, Virginia Woolf, Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Austen, Maxim Gorky. I also like sci-fi, so Ursula Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Issac Asimov. I love thrillers so Agatha Christie, Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca, My cousin Rachel), Devotion of suspect X by Keigo Higashino (if you like the devotional aspect of SNS, you will like this one too. I named my boy cat after the titular character hehe), Higashino is a very good thriller writer, also his thriller called Malice. Lolita by Nabokov, yes I know it's controversial but his is the most beautifully poetic prose I have ever had the pleasure to read, I read Alexander McCall Smith when I want to just chill, especially his Sunday Philosophy Club and 44 Scotland Street series, I know Roald Dahl is problematic as a person but I like some of his crazy stories. I like Albert Camus's The Stranger, Kafka's Metamorphosis, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Amrita Pritam's Jebkatrey, I love Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery (my comfort read), I love Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, Guide by R.K. Narayan, Godaan, Mansarovar series and Nirmala by Premchand, short story collection called 'Mera Parivar' ( this one's autobiographical) by Mahadevi Verma (I just read it and cry my eyes out). I am probably forgetting some, but these ones have been a large part of my reading experience since I learnt how to read.