honestly i think if there is one art opinion that i vehemently viciously disagree with and think holding it is a sign of like a genuinely incompatible worldview with mine it’s “it’s morally wrong for a work to feature a trans character’s deadname”. every time i see that take i get mad. just the apotheosis of a certain type of narrow-minded policing of queer expression in any way that might possibly be challenging for anybody
and just to be clear if you as an artist want to tactfully or overtly or ostentatiously or symbolically omit/censor/blot out your trans characters’ deadnames from your story i love that for you. i’m talking about people going out and harassing artists for including their own fictional characters’ deadnames in their own fucking story. genuinely betrays an insipid and poisonouns worldview