lol i try to remember their names but all seem the same if its smth like mark or cain or idk simpler korean names then sure but if you give me some complicated then yeah its uke and seme
Wait yeah I thought I was the only one who thought it was weird to call them only seme and uke. Especially if it's not a one shot or something with only like 5 chapters. Their names aren't usually too hard to remember anyway ┐(￣ー￣)┌
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i'm gay but i also have a very bad memory so if i can't remember their names i do use their position to talk about the characters. it's not about sexual orientation i think
omg you people be psychoanalyzing every single thing
Agreed. Like, is it too complicated to use their hair color? Their job? Literally anything else? I guess it can be difficult for some series though, since the story shows almost nothing apart from the f*cking
if you can't see how it's degrading to refer to someone as their position relative to sex then I wonder if there's privilege there. if someone did that to me, they'd never see me again. but I do see the case for bad memory. if you can't recall a character's name when it comes up multiple times in any given chapter, in that case it would be a literacy issue and I think the only thing that helps w that is to continue reading w concious effort.
why are you assuming people would treat real person the same as fictional character? its not like i go around the streets calling every gay people i meet with their sex position, of course id put more efforts when interacting with real people. maybe expand ur horizon bc some authors do this to their own characters, especially in the danmei novel sphere
as an author myself, there's a lot of effort that goes into our stories. we travel, meet new people, listen to their stories, tell them ours, we see each other through those shared experiences, and through those connections we form obnoxious bonds. the characters are fictional but they represent the experiences of real people. maybe expand your horizon bc why would you refuse to use their names?
I dislike how readers refer to characters by their positions related to sex like they're some nameless autobots and I see this literally only in the discourse of queer fiction. just heteros talking "this bottom" " that top" "this uke" that's how you can tell queerlit, and by extension queerness, is only a fetish to them. then they go on to express the disdain they feel as if discomforted by the complicated but very genuine human experiences unfolding within the story. the sheer arrogance and homophobia of it all like do you even realise what you're saying.