im not trying to police the way people write and interpret characters’ sexualities, because that ain’t me, and i don’t really care as long as you aren’t directly contributing to the erasure of gay and bi characters by making them straight, or making canonly gay characters bi, or canonly bi characters gay

but i will say that there’s a problem with the “this character must be canonically straight because their sexuality is never discussed / explored” rhetoric. if your immediate assumption is that somebody is heterosexual just because you don’t ACTIVELY see them attracted to somebody who is on (or closest to) their end of the binary, that’s a problem. that’s heteronormativity in action. that’s saying “you’re straight unless you’re actively in a gay relationship,” or “everybody’s straight until proven otherwise,” whether that’s what you INTEND to say or not.

it’s a subtle aggression, but it’s there. and if you fall along those lines, i understand that it’s probably just because nobody ever told you how or why that was a bad way of looking at shit – i get it! it’s not something a lot of people tend to notice. but it does happen, it does exist, and is does CONTRIBUTE to erasure indirectly.

please re-examine the way you look at sexuality as a whole, even in regards to fiction. esp. if you’re straight.