hi! i’m actually not straight! i’m a bisexual girl who is represented positively in fucking nothing at all, and could not relate to anyone growing up. every protagonist I saw like me was either an indiscriminate sex monster or a home wrecker. and I don’t like the constant fetishising of gay men in fandom! also, every female character in naruto fucking sucked, and i related to none of them.
but the best part out of all of this is that if you don’t like my stuff you don’t have to read it because at the end of the day I tagged it as what it is and you don’t have to click. have a good day.
Ok then since you're bisexual, you could've bent ALL of the characters not just Naruto. And I don't see why you have to make a gay pairing straight. This is not about fetishizing, I know that's rampant in the shipping community, but making a gay pairing straight is not any better.
I get where you're coming from, but I wanted to do what I did. I /did/ consider gendershuffling every character, but I wanted to keep the (frankly sexist) context of the original series intact. I wanted to have a character who had to overcome the sexism of the original series and find herself as a person, a fighter, and a bisexual teenager. sorry that this is so offensive to you, I genuinely am, and I'm not trying to erase anyone's gay male ships or invalidate your feelings, but I'm writing this for /myself/ before anyone else, and I'm not making any money off of it. I'm not going to get famous and I'm not going to alter the way /anything/ or /anyone/ is represented in media at large because I wrote a gender flipped fanfiction.
at the end of the day, this was for me, to make me feel better about what I was robbed of when i was a kid: a hero i could relate to. If you don't like the way i went about it, then with all due respect, write your own and ignore me.
Yeah, i don't know man. I still think that you could've genderbent both Naruto and Sasuke, and still keep the ship as is but different.. Like I wouldn't mind reading about female issues and sexism, but I still don't like that a gay ship is straight now. Yeah I get where you are coming from, I honestly do. But most of the people reading are homophobic people who like to ship Naruto and Sasuke but not as a gay ship but as a straight one. This fic enables them to do just that. If this was for you, you would've wrote it and just not publish it. But you wanted someone to see it, and now anyone can. This still holds some influence, even if it's not much..and it's still uphold homophobic ideals, even if it's not what you intended.
The same, however, can be said of anything anyone writes. If i were to write a Ino/Hinata fic, you could have some nasty straight boy come along and read it as an objectified token. Same as if i were to have wrote this with a male naruto. Some straight girl could extrapolate it into her own twisted fantasies while maintaining that ~real life queer people~ are disgusting. The amount of times i've seen straight women fetishise gay men and then act disgusted by me and queer women like me is insane, and vise versa for straight men. is that a reason for me to not post a work about a gender non conforming, bisexual, twelve year old girl because someone could enjoy it who was a bad person? I don't know. maybe.
but if one teenager reads this and maybe thinks 'hey, i like girls and guys and relate to this' or 'people confuse me for a gender i don't align myself with, because of the way i present,' and feels a little less alone, then its worth it. maybe i'm wrong, and maybe it wouldn't happen, and maybe i'm just a shit writer and none of this translates in the work at all, but if there's a chance this'll make some one like me feel better then i'm leaving it up.
gender is weird and fake and made up anyway. I'm just gonna stay here in my corner and mind my own business. and that's my #hottake .
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