(Kudos to Xenosaga’s Captain Matthews and his famous hat for my title reference.)
Right, so I somehow managed to not get up in time for my math class this morning. I seem to have slept through my second alarm. I blame my subconscious–apparently, instead of making me dream more so I don’t wake up, it just makes me do things in reality (like turn off my alarm completely) so that I won’t get up. Tricksy.
Anyway, obviously this meant I had some time to kill this morning. I did not want to sleep anymore, so I got up and checked deviantART for a little while. And I noticed a curious trend that I need to comment upon.
Apparently no one on dA knows what a straight couple even is.
Of course I am exaggerating, but–well, let me demonstrate.
There’s this meme going around on dA called the kissing meme, I think. Basically it’s a little blank slate where you have the title at the top, then four rectangles arranged 2×2, each labelled with a type of kiss–or a location of a kiss, rather. I think it’s ear, nose, neck, and lips, perhaps? I could be wrong. Anyway, I have seen a few of these pop up either on the main page or in my browsing of people’s favorites. And I kid you not, I have seen one straight couple of the ones I have seen. One.
Now, I’m not saying yaoi isn’t cool by me. I mean, I am not particularly a fan (the only time I am okay with it is FIRSTLY when it is a canon couple in a show or something…or someone’s fancharacters and SECONDLY when they are cute–which are more or less my specifications for liking straight couples, too, funny how that works, right?). I think it is great that people have gay characters, just like I think it’s great if people are gay. But I do not go around making all of my characters gay. I do not have an obsession with boys making out like seemingly the population of girls on dA.
I’m not gonna go off and say “EUGH STOP DRAWING THAT GROSS YOU LOSERS” because that is not what I really want. Do what you like, I don’t care, but SOMEONE for the LOVE OF GOD, draw a straight couple SOMEWHERE ON DEVIANTART. I’m not joking, I don’t see them NEARLY as much as I see yaoi couples. Hell, even in Org. Nu, half of the characters are gay. It’s cool to be gay, guys, but how did the organization collect such a large percentage of the lgbt community? That’s downright remarkable.
If I have to fill my gallery with drawings of straight couples just to balance this out, I very well might. Come on guys. Diversity is cool, too.
(Which reminds me that I need some characters who aren’t straight. I’m kinda being hypocritical now.)
And yes, of course I’m exaggerating a bit. I have seen straight couples drawn on dA before. I’m just growing a bit weary of seeing yaoi almost everywhere I turn. You’re entitled to what you like, I guess, but why is there so MUCH of it? I don’t get the OBSESSION with it, really.
Anyway. I should get ready for Maya now. Enjoy my rant. Don’t be offended, I’m just annoyed about yaoi art taking over dA, haw.
