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I think people on this platform need to respect the set sexualities of characters more. It's fine to imagine whatever you want with whoever you want when the sexuality of a character is not set or clear. But when a character has a set sexuality and you write shit with the love interest being someone who doesn't fit whatever is part of that set sexuality it's disrespectful. If a character is explicitly straight, let them be straight; don't bring your fantasy of "if they were LGBT+" to fruition. If a character is explicitly gay, let them be gay; if your a female and don't know how to right gay ffs then just DON'T. And the same goes for men vice versa, if you don't know how to write Lesbian ffs, DON'T. I'm tired of trying to find a ff about a character that is canonically gay or lesbian or straight and having to flip through the thousands of top stories representing them as the opposite. If I'm looking for Ian Gallagher ffs, the top 52 stories shouldn't mostly be him and a female partner or love interest; being gay was a major part of his character development. Dr. Strange is canonically Bi or Pan according to the comics, so write whatever stories you want. And so on and so forth. Y'all get the point.