I love stock photo sentences. This has been the new thing to repeat for me when things go wrong. A mentally ill man with psychological disorders is going crazy at home. The crazy man who is alone in his house is yelling.
What does it mean to be queer in Alternian Society?
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This is a weird question to some people, who will obviously point to Kanaya being a lesbian, all of the other trolls being some flavor of pansexual seemingly
My issue with that reading is that Alternian Society does not care about gender or sexuality in a meaningful enough way that would give credence to homo/lesbo/bi/panphobia being A Widespread Massive Thing and example of such a thing are very few and far between (Sorry Porrim)
So what does it mean to be queer in a society where us human’s definition of queerness is the norm, well it comes down to a simple statement:
Alternian Society is a Puritanical Fascist Nightmare where there are literal empire sanctioned ways you are supposed to love each other.
The Quadrant System itself is alien heteronormativity
Now does that mean that quadrants are bad? Does that mean that everyone needs to stop using labels to define how they love/hate someone? No! Of course not
Clearly these labels work for certain trolls, having a definition for something can be really helpful and comforting and that is OKAY. What isn’t okay is the fact that the government and society is built not only around the idea that there are only four distinct kinds of affection that NEVER cross over, but the addition that any bleed or cross over between them is DISGUSTING AND WRONG.
PDA is disparaged in troll society as we see a couple times in the main comic but also any kind of complicated feeling between two quadrants as simple as matesprits having an argument is called out as a perversion
“Vacillation”
That word is used to shut down any kind of emotion that is outside the four walls of a quadrant. You are a disgusting weirdo for having emotions outside of the ones you’re supposed to have.
I believe it’s one of the many tools the empire’s propaganda machine uses to keep people apart to stop critical thinking and emotional development to keep all of the worker bees in line and disgusted with any outsider to the societal norms
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What this mindset does is drive people towards on direction: Shameful Obedience
Being told you’re wrong and being forced into a box will break a spirit and have them keep their head down and keep their feelings inside, as the empire would want
The few that rise up, that ask questions or choose to define themselves outside the norm (The Signless and The Disciple) are dealt with the same way the empire deals with any insurrection, they are culled, or the lucky ones, likely highbloods, will face being socially ostracized, and if all goes well for the empire they will shut up and follow the status quo like they’re supposed to, and if they don’t?
I’m sure the empire isn’t likely to give second chances.
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So what does it mean to be “quadqueer” “quadbreakers” or “quadsmearers” what does it mean to be more
It means that you don’t feel comfortable in a box, it means sometimes you feel more than hatred more than love or pity you feel so many things a rainbow of emotion.
It means your relationships don’t need names (unless you want to give it one, a special name or general indication) you just have people you care for, instead of quadmates you just have, mates.
And to reiterate doesn’t mean that liking the label of quadrants is wrong, it’s okay to want to have a definition for your feelings. Labels are not the problem, the government using labels to stomp out the unconventional is the problem
i am super sick of pepple who hate things because they dont like the people who like them rather than because they actually have any opinion on the content of the thing
You don’t remember that at all and frankly you find the notion a bit absurd. You are in fact quite sure that nobody, least of all yourself, would ever have indulged in such a ridiculous and unnecessary affectation.
Yes, you are absolutely and positively one hundred percent convinced beyond any doubt that this probably never happened.
You quickly put the notion out of mind, and resolve to never think of it again.
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