Content notes for non-specific, non-graphic mentions of sexual assault and child sexual abuse. ‘Messy queer art’ discourse comes around every other week or so, and I’ve always found it frustrating because no one can really agree on what it means. In fandom spaces, peopled tend to say it to mean ‘art where queer characters aren’t perfect and/or queer art that isn’t soft pastel fluff’ (sometimes without regard to whether the art is made by a queer person!), which I find flattening. ‘Messy queer art’ is supposed to mean art where queer characters can abuse, be abused, die, commit suicide, rape, get raped, whatever is being positioned as the opposite of fluff—it’s sometimes synonymous with ‘edgy’.
Messy Art
Messy Art
Messy Art
Content notes for non-specific, non-graphic mentions of sexual assault and child sexual abuse. ‘Messy queer art’ discourse comes around every other week or so, and I’ve always found it frustrating because no one can really agree on what it means. In fandom spaces, peopled tend to say it to mean ‘art where queer characters aren’t perfect and/or queer art that isn’t soft pastel fluff’ (sometimes without regard to whether the art is made by a queer person!), which I find flattening. ‘Messy queer art’ is supposed to mean art where queer characters can abuse, be abused, die, commit suicide, rape, get raped, whatever is being positioned as the opposite of fluff—it’s sometimes synonymous with ‘edgy’.