🌈Ranibow Sprimkle🌈

Congratulations to Kit Connor on his first-ever Emmy award for his performance as Nick Nelson in Heartstopper!

the attention to detail on heartstopper will always blow my mind

the attention to

detail on heartstopper will

always blow my mind

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Anyways, this is fucking disgusting.

^ Becky Albertalli author of Simon vs. the Homosapien Agenda

^ Dove Cameron

Listen, I understand being curious about celebrities' lives. If you see a celebrity doing a bunch of gay things you might think "hey, maybe that artist is queer" but that's as far as it should go. You should never harass, or threaten, or force anyone to come out. That is fucking disrespectful and wrong. Queerness is about including anyone who feels that they do not fit into normal society, there is no one way of being queer. It's not a box, it's free and open and that's the beauty of it, so how about we fucking stop forcing queer people to come out, or label themselves, it's none of your business.

This has become a pattern and it needs to STOP

bi ppl especially in public spaces are just completely fucked no matter what huh. come out and you're lying/actually gay/actually straight/want attention. don't come out and you're 'queerbaiting', or 'appropriating queer culture'

an 18yo being forced to come out bc a bunch of ppl wouldn't stop harassing them. constantly talking about how him holding hands with a girl makes him straight. accusing a real live person of queerbaiting.

ppl don't owe you their sexuality. they don't owe you shit

This is what I was talking about.

This is exactly why the whole "Queer characters can only be played by queer actors" argument, or the queerbaiting celebrities argument is not only unhelpful, it is actively harmful. You are not entitled to other peoples identity. You are forcing people to come out in order to protect their careers, when they may not have wanted to share that with the world. Real people can not queerbait. Real people can not be bad representations of themselves. Do not conflate how you treat fictional characters with how you are allowed to treat real people. We can not keep having the same conversation. Forcing people to come out or else face social consequences is Bad. Always. Everytime.

In this case, Kit is literally a teenager who has been facing overwhelming amounts of online abuse for not being open about his personal identity.

Im seeing it with other queer media too. With nicholas galitzin and taylor zakhar perez in the red white & royal blue movie, people demanding that they should have been recast with "actual queer actors" despite the fact that we do not know if they are or are not queer. We can never know until they tell us that they are, which they have not.

Im also seeing it with young royals. With the new season coming out later today, the speculation on omar and edvins sexuality and relationship is incredibly harmful and toxic. They are real people, please treat them like people instead of fictional characters you can write rambling, speculating paragraphs about.

I'll say it one more time.

You are not entitled to other people's identities.

YET AGAIN another episode of “the public refuses to mind their own business” -kit connor is an 18 year old kid who has publicly stated that he is unlabeled and that he does not like people ignoring his boundaries… SO STOP IGNORING HIS BOUNDARIES

people accusing him of queerbaiting bc a STRANGER took a picture of him and a woman holding hands WITHOUT ANYBODY’S CONSENT is ridiculous to me, even if they’re together not only is it not anybody’s business but theirs, it also does not invalidate kit as a queer person as he has previously stated that he is unlabeled

as someone who has been part of the LGBTQIA+ community for pretty much half her life it still baffles me how we are supposedly fighting for acceptance and freedom for people to be who they are and yet some of us seem to be the least accepting ones, so bc he might be in a relationship with a woman that means he is not part of the community?!

i am also completely ignoring all the comments i saw about how he should be with joe bc “they’re soulmates” since these comments are idiotic and not worth my time especially since they’re made by people who don’t know either of them personally and who apparently confuse reality with fiction

nick nelson + bi text posts [insp.]

kit connor is gonna deliver this line

charlie & nick + hugs 

#nick’s bisexual journey