Protect your straights! We might corrupt them!

[palominocorn]

If you write a book portraying a historical figure, like, oh, Leonardo da Vinci, as a vampire or robot or alien, no one will bat an eye.

But write a book in which Leonardo falls in love with another man and you'll wake up with an angry mob outside your house.

Comments

[palominocorn]

1. Yep! Leonardo was accused of sodomy, and many historians believe that he was gay. In particular, he had some extremely close relationships with a few of his male students.

2. I've never read any RPF, but I'm really not surprised. I mean, god, we alllll know that every single person in the world, given the opportunity, would prefer to be a bloodsucking creature that can't go out into the sun and is said to have no soul, than a gender other than the one they were assigned! Gasp! Quelle horreur! Bring me my smelling salts! /s

[stardust_rifle]

1: (knew it)

2: I mean, it kinda gets ridiculous when the fandom agrees that yes, writing Japanese Rock Musician X as a sexy bloodsucker is a natural extrapolation of his stage persona and is de rigueur in certain circles, but to write him as transgender/nonbinary as an extrapolation of the fact that he wears fancy dresses on stage all the time is HORRIBLE AND OFFENSIVE AND WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT-

"Ahah fuck you they're all genderqueer now"

- Me, writing my vampire AU.