it makes me super uncomfortable/irks me QUITE a bit to see AUs of shows/films/books/whatever that replace the heroine/female POV/female main character with a male character for slash purposes, especially when the show/film/book isn’t a romance

off the top of my head: Princess Mononoke AU, Spirited Away AU, hell, every single freaking ghibli AU, hunger games AU, etc

there are so very few female lead/POV characters in non-romance media, I don’t like seeing them erased :/ especially with ghibli etc I like that oftentimes there IS no romance, or just super lowkey/barely there, and the female leads are fulfilled characters, I just really don’t like losing them (even if it’s just a fan AU lmao)

fun aside, I didn’t read Princess Mononoke as romantic until ppl told me it apparently was?? I still don’t rly get it, like, yeah they liked each other and he told her she’s beautiful but why does that have to be romantic .........