imagine a horror movie where all the characters are gen z and not particularly scared of dying
killer on the phone with a character: i’m in your house and i will kill you
character: alright lit hurry up tho
The fakest part of this is a Gen Z kid answering the phone
killer via dm on ig: i’m in your house and i will kill you
character: alright queen👏🏼💖 hurry up🔥🔥💦💦
The only “adult” in the movie is a millennial who’s also not scared of dying, but is somewhat grumpier about the situation bc “if I die I don’t have to pay loans anymore but I just found a barber that doesn’t judge me for crying sometimes so idk what to do anymore” and is just like mildly inconvenienced by it
thinks about how the reason straight people put maybe only one gay couple or one gay character in their stories is because thats how many gay people they have in their life and they assume that their insular homgenous experience must be the norm
like im absolutely certain authors and creators sit down and go “how many gay people do i know? not many? that must be the norm, if i put anymore in it just won’t be believable”
“im scared to and don’t know how” if an artist said that about their inability to draw hands, they wouldn’t get very far. its your responsibility to talk to lgbt people about their experiences and do some learning and studying, but if you constantly cop out with “I don’t know how.” or that you haven’t been well receieved in the past, do more work. take criticism into account. if your excuse is that you don’t know about that perspective, i don’t know how to tell you this, but perhaps you shouldn’t be writing a story set in an alternate universe, since you don’t know that perspectiv, either.
lgbt people arent asking you to make every single character gay. we’re not asking you to go play by play and write our own perspectives for us. we just want you to realize we’re not actually a whole other species and to include us as a demographic in your stories, considering we do you the favor as including you in ours.
the single Most Relatable harry potter characters is, by far, Peeves. i too want to have no discernable past or origins, and have an existence based entirely on manifesting at random to float around and inconvenience people while laughing at their woes
on a different note, the reason peeves has no origin story or particular plot (unlike the Gray Lady, who was killed by a fuckboy who felt entitled to her and he was cursed to roam the halls chained up as penance) is because peeves is a poltergeist, a corporeal manifestation of a supernatural disruption related to pubescent children/teenagers with psychic powers – which obviously hogwarts has a lot.
Meaning, peeves has no story because he is not a ghost, just a manifestation of pure chaos.
Remember in like 2013 it came out that Samsung smart TVs were revealed to be “always listening” and the data collected being sent to Samsung and it was an entire whole scandal about home privacy and the unethical collection and sale of marketing information.
Then the very next year the Amazon Alexa comes out and its practically sold as Your Friend The Data Collection Device, but its ok because this one has a soft human voice and is literally designed to be anthropomorphised. Who could stay mad at Alexa? “She” even has a people name!
Gay Ryan 