Thread:Trigger009/@comment-16581186-20151128172836/@comment-995426-20151129043609

UltimateTitan6: I'm sorry for getting so heated earlier. I've been under a great deal of stress. It's Thanksgiving, my family's been visiting, and I believe I've been having a. Alternating nausea during Thanksgiving is not fun, especially when so much rich food is constantly being passed around.

To be honest, the reason I told you I don't categorize Slash as an LGBT character, isn't the only reason. It's just a surface reason, and not a very good one. The truth is, it's simply less complicated dealing with other editors if I don't.

You see, the logic is pretty sound&mdash;you just don't have yandere characters without it being a love interest trope, and there's just no two ways about it. The problem is dealing with editors, including you, who seem ingrained not to expect it when they see it. Even after the end of Legend of Korra, with its blatantly romantic ending, there wasn't enough viewer concensus to call it because "that doesn't happen on Nickelodeon," among reasons. It took a formal announcement from Bryke to confirm it. But during those few days inbetween, it was a frustrating interplay of a discussion that seemed to boil down more to politics than to tropes. I loathe trying to get work done with that kind of pushback, so it's simpler not to try.

But you really, really do have to realize how gaping the double standard is. Editors constantly presume that because there's chemistry between between a man and a woman, that they're designated love interests. But when two men or two women display that, a lot of people fall back on the most tortured logic to reason it away. Do you have any idea how frustrating and infuriating that becomes, especially in 2015? I'm sick of it. I'm sick of feeling invisible. I know that if there's a confirmation, the usual suspects will swoop down and scream "corrupting children" and "boycott" all that ruckus. I can understand Nickelodeon trying to avoid that. But there's a huge difference between wanting to maintain an uncontroversial appearance, and actually not writing or producing something in the first place. Korra and Asami went past official radar for two years before the announcement. Ren and Stimpy went past Nick's radar for its entire duration back in the 1990s, when it was even more taboo.

You have to realize that deductions like the one I made go way beyond I-think-I-saws. It's more a matter of "Oh crap! Did they actually just do that?" and finding that all my other friends saw the same thing just as plainly. And we're all like, "Wow." And no matter how much we boil it down, we can know and prove why it happened. That's the easy part. The hard part is this&mdash;the discussions like what I'm having with you right now. A person can compile all the most decisive facts in the world, and yet there's no limit to the human capacity for denial using the flimsiest alternative explanations. At some point, we realize that the reason the argument continues has nothing to do with facts and everything to do with denial. It's complicated by the additional fact that shows can be easily retooled in such a way that they can pretend it never happened&mdash;creating two different and contradictory sets of facts on the ground. The cognitive dissonance becomes staggering. At the end of the day, it becomes easier to have not tried. That's why I say that season 4 doesn't necessarily have anything to do with season 2, and so forth.

So please, do me a solid. Don't treat me like I'm delusional. I can't deny the facts I know. They were true once, even if someone decided later they shouldn't be true now. That's part of the plasticity of fictional portrayal&mdash;it can be changed later on at the mere expense of a plot hole.