i hear cr is being awful about the ball-eater joke again so it seems like a great time to say that i’m watching unsleeping city where they made two talking lion statues gay and boyfriends just because they could
That Joke Was Never Funny And It Gets Less Funny Every Time They Make It After What Happened To Gay People In Their Fandom Last Year Thank You
this might be the complaint that causes me to dip below 3,000 followers, which would be a terrible shame. 😔 but i just really want y’all to know that there are actualplay shows out there that dont blatantly male homophobic jokes to cheering from a live audience.
hey again, gang! i’m not done talking about this yet! the same player who got a huge live audience to yell everyone’s favorite gay joke doing a “maybe it’s gay, maybe it’s not” thing to another male character for the reaction is literally violence, and i can even tell you how.
making gay jokes okay for a huge crowd and then smoothing it over with queerbaiting is not actually allyship. this isn’t about shipping - ship your thing - this is about corporate interests and cr having homophobia in its fucking DNA.
by presenting himself as someone who actually cares about queer characters or queer relationships on the show (spoiler: he doesn’t), lob is inserting his stupid balleater shit into how WE as queer people talk to each other.
that. is. violence.
that. is. violence.
this is the exact same shit that happened with the first arc on the squall-eater that convinced other queer folks to argue about how c*cksucker isn’t a slur for gay men, how it’s a fine thing to say and joke about. (IT ISN’T.)
people were hurt. people will get hurt again.
people were hurt. people will get hurt again.
last year put me through hell. i had to have a legal team on standby. i had to prepare for being doxxed. i was being harassed every day. i did some of the most brutal consulting of my career and didn’t even get paid. and critters STILL downplay it. my patience is GONE.
if you really give a shit about #CriticalRole, if you really believe that it’s special and unique and what everyone says it is, the least you can do is call them out on their bigoted horseshit. if the critter family is a real thing, prove it by standing up for marginalized folks.
i am past the point of civility with this garbage. there is no excuse.
also since this thread exists: i’m seeing stuff lately about how lob “has the fandom’s back” about shipping or whatever.
if he had the fandom’s back he’d have stepped in to support a visible queer artist for the show when i was getting abused. end of story.
if he had the fandom’s back he’d have stepped in to support a visible queer artist for the show when i was getting abused. end of story.
selective support that mostly amounts to rewarding artists who get called out for whitewashing is not actually support. he does not care. if he did, things would be different, and we all know it. that’s all i’m saying.
