• Clocks [They/Them]@lemmy.ml
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          Queer people usually have bad childhoods either by abuse or by simply having been lost or disassociating, by watching cartoons again with other queer people they reclaim those experiences — now in a healthy way.

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            I don’t think that’s a big proportion, I assume most just weren’t allowed or too anxious to express how they felt about the media.

            (Just a hunch, I’m likely cis; I also haven’t been exposed to anime or emotionally heavy cartoons until 15, and even then very sporadically)

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              Yep, this is me. I felt a lot of pressure (from outside and the inside) to conform to what “real boys” liked. And kept my true interests hidden.

          • theresa (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Trans people who are on lemmy/reddit, I’d say. Plenty of less chronically online trans people I know are quite extroverted. (I’m not disagreeing, just offering another perspective)

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            People here are nerdy. You are using shortcut. That like : Count Dracula have a castle because he is a count not all vampire got castle.

            • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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              If you are immortal and eat for free, you have no excuse not to invest your food budget in index funds and wait a couple of hundred years. If a vampire doesn’t at least live in a stately home, they are making very poor investment choices. What I wouldn’t give to have invested in Nintendo back in 1889.

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                Truly, but do you really expect vampires to be up to news, the guy lived through every major crisis, he probably is pissed about human made crisis

            • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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              Truly? Why? It’s a beautiful story of a missfit’s journey towards self acceptance and has strong LGBTQ characters. And it is all accepted as normal. A blueprint for how society should function. A world in which your identity or romantic preferences aren’t given a second thought by anyone. On top of that it’s a classic underdog tale of a struggle against authoritarianism. The characters are well written and grow and develop throughout the seasons. I just don’t see why you wouldn’t like it.

              • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                There are all kinds of people out there. I once knew a guy who wrote drum corps music but literally hated all other kinds of music.

                That being said, I’m also curious about their reason(s).

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            The what now?

            I mean owls are cool birds and all but that’s probably not what you meant

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      That the normal amount… Ypu are just used to the “normal” comics which are always straight. Same thing as autism didn’t exist in 1800.

    • I think I personally have an aversion to live-action partly because trying to avoid looking at people because of self-denial. IRL, that’s easy to avoid, but you can’t really watch a show without watching it. Can’t say I’ve heard others express similar reasons though, but I supposed there’s a reason why “I want to be a cute anime girl” is such a popular webtoon (relevant panel).