Sorry to say this anonymously; I've been going back and forth on whether to say something for like a while and ultimately decided maybe this would be a good way to do it? This way you don't have to respond to this; you can just delete it if you want, and I don't have to field any hate from anyone who sees it if you DO respond.
I think I just wanted to like confirm that you are aware that outing is not something that is ever done lovingly or affectionately (I forgot the exact word you used)?
I'm in college now doing well, but when I was younger I grew up in a severely red area and once got outed by friends and it caused a series of vastly unfortunate events haha so I think perhaps this just hits closer to home for me. And obviously it's fine! I don't have to like deeply relate in a positive way to everything I read, obviously. I'm not the target audience for this particular AU, I think.
But I guess I just wanted to make sure you're aware that outing is like a massively dangerous and cruel thing to do to someone, not something a friend would do to their friend just to be silly.
Maybe you're already aware and maybe you've even made a post about it somewhere that I just missed. It's just been eating at me ever since I saw your posts, especially the Kandriel one where Kevin is genuinely begging them to stop and they keep doing it anyway. I had to at least make sure you know, and this is just fiction, and your readers are also aware this is not like a real thing friends do?
Really sorry to bother you--I just haven't been able to get it off my mind.
I'm absolutely aware of the harms that can come with being outed. And I understand how my posts can be harmful, and I apologize for that. Thank you for the respectful message and I'm absolutely sharing this publicly so people can see the more negative side of my posts. I'm sorry that was ever something you had to go through.
To explain this from my side, I've always said that I was 'lovingly outed' because I came out to one or two people then either I would talk to them about my sexuality in front of others or they would make jokes about it and it just became a fact of life. I admit that I was lucky with this situation and, despite being in a conservative area, the people in my life were able to just take it in stride so I've never viewed it as a negative thing. I had people talk about my sexuality for me but it wasn't malicious and that's how I wanted to portray those posts but I'll absolutely change wording for it.
That being said, I also wanted to more portray it as something the Kevin would've preferred being private but was inevitably fine with his friends' posts, especially with Neil and Andrew joining in.
Nonetheless, this is an important message and I'm glad Anon brought it to my attention.