And also the way Barbie and Ken are role playing heterosexuality without any inherent sexuality of their own, without any understanding of what it means, or even any genitals at all! Just pretty-girl + handsome-guy = obviously a couple. And the way it fucks them both up! Because they’re both stereotypes, neither of them is a specialist version, no brain surgery or pilots license or Nobel prize for either of them. They’re just assigned the roles of Every Man and Every Woman. And Ken ends up doing Way Too Much because he’s hanging his entire self-worth on being important to Barbie. And Barbie just isn’t interested in him, she was assigned a boyfriend she didn’t ask for and doesn’t want and doesn’t know what to do with, just because that’s what society expects of men and women, that they will necessarily couple up and fall in love because… that’s what they do. Regardless of any personal quality of either party.
It’s about heteronormativity and amatonormativity and the unrealistic expectations society sets boys and girls up for from infancy. Barbie and Ken are every pair of toddlers sharing a sandbox while the adults around them call them each other’s little “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” even though neither party understands or is capable of understanding the implied meaning of that. Or wants to.
It’s a literal funhouse mirror of that weird pressure put on kids to perform heterosexuality from an early age. It examines how that leaves us unprepared for the complicated reality of actual relationships even if it turns out that you are heterosexual and do want sex and romance. Boys and girls aren’t really allowed to be just kids on the same team, so they grow up into men and women who generally want very different things from each other and are trained to look for it in everybody because anybody is better than nobody, and try to force it to work.
Barbie and Ken letting each other go in the end was perfect. Barbie the Every Woman realizing that she doesn’t have to be special, she just has to be, and Ken the Every Man realizing he has to seek validation elsewhere and lean on his fellow Kens for emotional support, WHICH THEY GIVE.
I really mean it. Apparently Anonymous Sudan is getting desperate because this isn’t the out come they’re hoping for and are trying to do a DNS attack! Which means they will try and redirect you to a malicious website to obtain private information!!!! SO DO NOT GO ONTO AO3 AT ALL FOR YOUR SAFETY!!!!!!!! FOR YOUR SAFTEY DELETE ALL AO3 TABS NOW!
the character dynamic of nimona is that falling in love with the monster is OUT, becoming a protective, supportive, concerned big brother to the monster is IN
A friendly reminder as the RWRB movie approaches that none of the actors or actresses are obligated to share their sexual orientation with you. I don’t know if either of the two leads have come out or spoken publicly about whatever their sexuality might be, but let’s not have a repeat of Heartstopper and bully someone into submission.
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something’s going on I’m not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term “Pet Play” is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I’m not mad about using the term “pet play”. That’s a perfectly fine term. I’m mad because they didn’t use that term: they used “pet p!ay”, a censored version
Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.
To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 
For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.
You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them
Every FICTIONAL characters sexuality is open to FANON Interpretation by anyone. Your precious FICTIONAL Gay characters are NOT immune to that. More power to people shipping Steve x Robin and Alec x Clary.
Straight people aren’t oppressed for being straight so changing a CANONICALLY queer character’s sexuality isn’t remotely the same thing but sure Jan…
And Alec and Robin’s respective sexualities are so integral to their characters and journeys on their respective shows, you take that away well they’re not Alec or Robin anymore, they’re basically an oc self insert who stole their name. You don’t actually like or care about those characters or other queer characters if you want to headcanon that they’re actually straight.
And since YOU stated that they’re MY precious fictional gay characters, I claimed them and now own them. No take backs! Oh Robin and Alec say fuck anyone trying to force them into heteronormativity, and Steve says he’s bi and anyone who thinks he’s anything more than his bestie’s Robin’s platonic soulmate, can go to hell.
