How would you feel if Wenclair will actually become canon?
If romantic Wenclair became canon, I would feel like Millar & Gough caved and capitulated, allowing their vision for the non-romantic sister/friendship of Wenclair to be influenced by fans, and that artists/creatives are no longer allowed to create something without being severely pressured by a whacky minority of fans.
Because while romantic Wenclair makes up a big chunk of online fandom, it's not the majority of viewers, which are who the very straight M&G are writing for. These are the creators (AND some crew!) of fucking Smallville, FFS. These guys aren't looking to tell our stories (which is another thing that irritates me...why are we even looking to straight cismales like M&G and Burton to tell any of our stories?) and the people in charge are still awkward as fuck around the issues that surround 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️ issues.
Creatively, I'd probably ignore it. I'm already going to ignore Wednesday 2's storyline because Afterburn has a specific story written over several years in the future and includes the character of Xavier Thorpe. Wednesday 1 canon is the only thing I'll be using.
But honestly, all them bitches will become a million times even more insufferable, like spoiled kids who keep screaming until they get what they want. It shouldn't work that way, because when you force people to go off their scripts (especially awkward cismale writers like them 💀 and the women who help write their cisstories), that force will show. It will be obvious, especially to the unsuspecting masses who aren't looking for that in an unserious tweenie teen show like this one.
I have a couple of people expecting me to have Xavier get together with Wednesday if she fucks Donovan to death Donovan keels over on her, but that's not in the AB Bible either (a very strong Wenclairish sisterhood is, however) and I'm not seeing a path towards it given what ABW's life trajectory is. I'm different though, I'm fan fiction, and I can literally do anything, I can wish fulfill if I wanted to...but I don't want to. I want to tell the story/my story/the story of Wednesday and Donovan, and I'm gathering from everything that Millar and Gough have said about it even in the face of romantic Wenclair, they want to tell their story of Wednesday and Enid's friendship.
Maybe yanno...just let the creatives do what they're gonna do? Netflix's Wednesday was not meant to focus on or even hint at queer representation. Wednesday Addams's queer rep is allegorical, not literal.
ETA: Politically it would be a disaster and make things worse for us as well, because the right wing will be able to use it as an example of how the "gays are pushing their agenda" on kids/entertainment/etc. Fact: There never has been a gay agenda that's been pushed anywhere on anyone. That's been a fabrication of the right wing for decades. But this? This would be [yet another, the first one being the Wenclair response to the novelization] a gift to the right wing because it'd be true: By successfully pressuring a media entity to make a primary IP character who's been straight up until then to be gay, the 🏳️🌈 will have successfully pushed the writers into changing their story. I really wish the fucking left would stop giving the right gifts to trample us with. We made so much goddamn progress but then started getting ripped backwards. I'm not sure humans even know how to behave towards one another anymore, in terms of sex and sexuality.
