So, when I was scrolling through TGCF fanfics. I managed to come across a Hualian x FEM! Reader fic.
Seriously, who in the world would do such a stupid thing? I remember about boundaries being set and not being crossed. But, guess what? Some people really don't know how to clearly listen.
So, I talked to the author and tried to tell them that what they did was wrong; they only ignored me and blocked me, plus removed all the comments I posted. Which said; this work is fetishizing the mlm romance work of MXTX.
When the author replied, she told me that there wasn't anything wrong with what she worked on. Which is clearly; bullcrap.
Of course, I explained to her that canonically shipping gay men with a woman is straight up fetishizing the said gay characters. But, she ignored me and blocked me.
So, fast forwards to now, I came across it once more. I looked at the work and it had two new chapters. One of them was labeled; ''Hiatus? Discontinued? I'm unsure honestly''. In this chapter, she talked about me. She told me that she was sick of (my) comments. That she was 'fetishizing' (which she clearly is) Both Xie Lian and Hua Cheng.
She said that she didn't intentionally meant to and only did it for fun. I don't think fetishizing gay men is fun. Even though I had told her that she can just fix it she said no and continued on with the story. (When I first commented the story had been 15 chapters in).
And, when she got my comments. She ran to her sister who was a huge supporter of LGBT. Her sister said that it was okay since they were 'fictional characters' and not 'real people'. Which didn't really help out with the fetishization.
She also claimed that when she wrote the story, she did not know they were lovers. Because, in her words. It was because of the;
1. Chinese censorship
2. She thought that were just genuinely flirty friends
The reason for the thought of HuaLian being friends is because she claimed that she had guy friends who were always acting so flirty and fruity with each other. But, the question is, how could you not know they were lovers when the show itself is labeled as romance.
Plus, I believe that the description of the novel is proof itself that the story would most likely be a romance between the two male protagonists.
And by the time she found out, she kept them as lovers but still changed their sexuality for a polyamorous relationship with a female. Which in my view, didn't really actually elevate the fetishizing.
Some commentors sided with her. And agreed with her statement that her story was not, ''fetishizing''.
I may be a moron, or just a complete war freak. But, I want to see the TGCF fandom's insight in this matter.