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Also, might I add, you are privileged as a straight man. Producing and reading these fanfictions, and plugging your ears the second a queer person tries to call you out on the ideas that it encourages, is privileged. You are actively suppressing their voices, much like they are suppressed in real life. Media is how queer people can find representation that they lack, and how they can challenge the societal norm of straightness being the only acceptable sexual orientation. Taking away this representation reveals your bias and privilege as a straight man. Trying to pass this off as "not that deep" reveals your lack of media literacy, because it *is* that deep. Art is a form of communication.
          
          ​To claim art is "just for fun" or "just to look pretty" ignores centuries of human history where stories and images have been used to shape how we treat people in the real world. Every creative choice is a reflection of the author's worldview; if you choose to take the one canon lesbian in a show and "fix" her with a male character, you are communicating that her identity is an obstacle to be removed. He is using his platform to validate the same "corrective" logic that causes real-world harm to queer women.
          ​Art doesn't exist in a vacuum; it acts as a mirror. When you produce content that mirrors the erasure of marginalized identities, you are contributing to a culture where those people are seen as less important than his personal power fantasies. Dismissing this as "just fiction" is a convenient way to avoid the moral weight of his work. If you truly believe art "isn't that deep," then you are admitting that your writing is hollow and lacks any real understanding of the characters you claim to like. Real media literacy means understanding that what we write reinforces what we believe—and right now, his writing reinforces the idea that queer voices don't matter.

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Is acting like an entitled cunt on Cosmin24Dosoftei's message board the only thing you know how to do? I don't know why you're so adamant on reading such a poorly-written fanfiction that erases Juleka's identity to just revolving around Lloyd. "But it's his story" he may have the *right* to write it, that's true—but that doesn't exempt him from the fact that his fanfic is objectively misogynyistic and homophobic. Juleka is turned into a satellite character, everything about her revolves around Lloyd. She is also a lesbian in canon, an "AU" does not excuse that. Why was her lesbianism the only thing he decides to erase? There are multiple characters who are straight. He took the *only* lesbian character in the show, and made her straight. Even if he didn't *intend* to be homophobic, the impact still matters. Shipping a canon lesbian with a man mirrors the real-life invalidation that lesbians go through, that they "just haven't found the right man yet" and his fic is directly mirroring  that. All of Juleka's problems are fixed by just finding the "right man"
          
          Just "having fun" isn't an excuse either. If your fun includes erasing an already underrepresented marginalized group, then I think you need to rethink that. Neither is "its just Fanfiction" the message it's sending about queerness is real, despite it just being Fanfiction.
          
          If you were to take a black character and make them white, any sensible person would take it as measure, even if it's just an "AU"
          
          Moreover, the harem trope is misogynistic—it strips female characters of their agency, and making them revolve around a boy that they like, further mirroring real life attitudes towards women—how they're only valued for their looks, rather than what's inside.
          
          If you're going to use your Christianity as a shield, then I know you're too ignorant to be reasoned with. The clobber passages (the ones that are used to condemn homosexuality) only condemn pederasty, there was no concept of healthy and consensual