what fetishization of queer people in fandom feels like for me
it doesnt manifest in people treating queer ships as better/more interesting than het, and it doesn’t manifest in people caring the most about canonically gay white dudes
what its like is watching people in a fandom, like sherlock for example, constantly treat the intentional subtext like its actual queer representation and watching them continually call any homoerotic moment GAAAAAAY or “totally heterosexual”.
GUESS WHAT. IT IS HETEROSEXUAL. especially in a fandom like sherlock where pretty much everyone involved continually says they’re not gay, they’re not any kind of queer just two regular cishet dudefriends man why would you think their queer its not like were intentionally putting in a lot of homoerotic subtext in to lure fans in or make gay joke totally not. They are, for all intents and purposes, not an actual queer couple and at least one of them is straight. Not gay. Totally heterosexual. and i am being genuinely sincere when i say that.
its totally cool to ship them or appreciate the subtext but as a queer person i am so fucking sick of seeing “no homo” homoerotic subtext treated as actual queerromantic/erotic (sub)text instead of a device to titillate the audience. because thats what it is in nearly all of tumblrs favourite fandoms.