angryspace-ravenclaw:

Before I disappear on my hiatus, I want to say one thing about the Check, Please update (mostly cos I have seen some critique of the impending kiss already, and I know there’s more)…

I’m not here for hyper critique over unrealistic coming-out scenarios in Check, Please.  Because it’s a fictional world where a sport team is 100%, unrelentingly supportive of their gay captain.  It’s a fictional world where an NHL team can know that their leading scorer and Alternate Captain is bisexual, and invite his boyfriend to family skates to make them all pb&j sandwiches and pie, and no one is uncomfortable or bothered.

Straight ™ romance has unrealistic scenarios all the time.  And I don’t just mean fantasy, human falls for Vampire/Werewolf love triangle or whatever.  I mean theoretically realistic scenarios where Straights are shagging their teacher, seducing their boss, their customers, their clients, their sibling’s partner, their sworn enemy, the nerd getting the Most Popular Kid in school, make-overs that change your entire social status.  The most popular Christmas movie of all time has a PA snogging the bloody Prime Minister in public on a stage and there’s not a sudden, public outcry and demands that he be removed from office.  People didn’t demand to be shown the realistic moment when every piece of trash publication started defaming their characters, and ultimately their relationship falls apart because they can’t handle the pressure and constant criticism.  No, they just thought it was sweet, and wished them well.

So ffs, let Jack kiss Bitty on ice, and maybe things will be a bit mad, but ultimately let this fantasy world have this LGBT+ romance.   Because how many pieces of LGBT+ media end in tragedy, heartbreak, death?  So many that we have a literal trope called bury your gays, and the majority of our media fits into that trope.

I don’t care if Ngozi doesn’t write a single moment of Jack facing homophobia or critique after The Kiss, because goddamn it, we deserve that piece of media with that happy ending.  And so do Jack and Bitty.