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Futile devices- Sufjan Stevens/ I know you - Faye webster/ Silver springs - Fleetwood Mac/ Merry-go-round - Bts/ Mystery of love - Sufjan Stevens.

However, while capturing the personhood of queer people; Danmei also captures the queerness of people because none of these stories would work if the characters weren’t gay/queer

Wei Wuxian’s absolute buffoonery of misunderstanding Lan Zhan’s feelings in a decade long telephone game in which neither of them open their damn mouth would never work in a non-queer story because between a man and a woman romance would be the natural assumption of everyone around them and therefore wouldn’t leave space for confusion. The misunderstanding of their romance is so closely tied to the plot succession that the plot would be… non existent without it

In TGCF Xie Lian and Hua Cheng’s absolute aspirational love is literally in the backseat and front seat of the story. Not too different from a classic hero’s journey but instead of the hero being one person, it’s two people. They are so intertwined with eo that they become one character and witness a lot of the story together. Witness being a very interesting word choice. Their queerness doesn’t drive the story but replacing one of them with a woman would dampen the effect— it’d remove the uncertainty, the confusion from everyone around them, the genuine slow burn of the romance. There’s also this idea of Hua Cheng falling in love with Xie Lian so far separated from concepts such as gender or whatever which wouldn’t have been hammered home in a straight romance where those conversations aren’t always had between the audience and the story

And Erha.. well obviously. Half of Chu Wanning’s “this is so inappropriate” spiral wouldn’t exist if he was a woman. And, the idea of Mo Ran being a “cut sleeve” builds up the under current of his character being so far dismissed by society because he’s seen as immoral. Which just wouldn’t serve to the same effect if he was into exclusively women because so was every other character.

When Shang Qinghua asks about it in the 100 questions extra, Binghe straight up says he wouldn't want to have sex with someone unless they were into it

In the RPF extra, Binghe said he'd stop at a furrow of Shen Yuan's brow and Shen Yuan agreed

And we even see this this in action when Binghe steps down the second Shen Yuan says no to something

Even when Binghe was out of his mind at Maigu Ridge having a qi deviation, Luo Binghe still asked Shen Yuan why he hadn't pushed him away or killed him