sovereign-slayer:

yaboybigbadguzma:

revolutionarygays:

revolutionarygays:

also can i just say i’m so tired of how hard ppl try to make kanaya fucking BLAND

i get that gay ppl esp on tumblr are obsessed with “representation” being “wholesome” and “unproblematic” or whatever but kanaya maryam is a fantastic, funny, interesting lesbian whose personality meshes well with the story she was written into. she’s morbid. so is terezi. she’s funny and sometimes petty and dishonest. rose too!! rose and kanaya are full of incredibly human flaws, bad jokes, insensitivity, misunderstandings, and bad decisions… they’re interesting because they’re realistic. they’re funny and engaging.

stop making them bland and fucking boring to fufill some fantasy of whatever boring bullshit you think “gay representation SHOULD be”. i get where this is coming from (and i get that i occupy Camp Problematic Lesbian) but it genuinely doesn’t help. it doesn’t push back against harmful gay stereotypes like… at all. nobody needs or wants cardboard cutout ~wholesome~ lesbian couples to fill some shitty quota. nobody – esp not young bi and lesbian girls trying to find themselves – will engage with that in a meaningful way. don’t reduce interesting and funny gay characters to bland, “unproblematic”, and forgettable side characters. most “gay representation” already occupies this space, esp since they’re the easiest for other cishet creators to shoehorn into their otherwise mediocre content lol

as a side note this happens a lot in davekat circles because only m/m ships are allowed to be tragic and complex and beautiful, whereas w/w ships are background one note bland stories that exist to prop up the Yaoi. this happens in like every fucking fandom too LMAO but that’s another conversation for another day!!!

Like let them be PEOPLE.

Let Kanaya get uneasy about Rose hanging out with her old crush (John).

Let her say something that gets taken wrong.

Let her be Human (or, Troll, whatever) and make mistakes.

Make their love real. Not perfect and flawless. Make it healthy and strong because they worked at it.

^^^