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'll put this as best as I can. I'm an odd man out in the FF community. I don't like canon characters in the first place, but I feel like if you are gonna do them you do them as close to canon as possible. I can't stand outside random shipping.

So when it comes to this I feel it's basically the number one F U to the character. Most often it's done to fulfill some sort of ship and not because it actually adds to the character or makes a good character.

To a degree, I get what's going on here. I for one grew up on the original PJO books. Never had anything about Nico's sexuality so when I wrote him he was straight and that character was MY character that's what he meant to and was to me. The second series not only felt like a betrayal to the original series (seriously so many retcons and plot holes) that whether it was intended or not in the first series I saw the Nico story as a retcon.

Same time I'm also a catholic and honestly I don't support the whole LGBT idea (It's not like I'm out there stopping anyone. I can disagree. If you're gonna do something in your home I can't stop you, but I also have the right to keep it out of my life.) So if I find a character I like and they turn out to be in that category yes I have ignored it or changed it. Partially because if I portray it as wrong I'd get even more flack.

There was a time when I genuinely sat down and thought about whether or not I supported these ideas and in the end, I don't see them as positive or useful in any way, so they are either negative or not important. I'm certainly not going to support them then in my work. At best I see it as a mental disability where the body has reactions to the same gender instead of the opposite. It's not a crippling disorder, but it just sounds like a disorder to me. (You can be happy while having a disorder. Plenty of people here are on the autism spectrum or adhd or plenty of other challenges, but they aren't things to parade around like they are distinctly good. At best they are not bad.)

TL:DR I don't support the LGBT, so I make everyone straight, but typically avoid canon characters so I've only done it twice. Deal with it. My right to disagree is just as strong as yours. I'm not stopping you from doing anything, so you can't stop me.

. As someone who is both on the autistic spectrum and gay: those two are not even remotely the same. One of these has caused major issues in my life, makes me depend on other people for help, causes disruptions in my relationsips with other people, among other things that I'm not going into here.
Being gay has done none of those things. I don't want to say it enhances my life, either, because it's just something that I am. It's an inherent trait that I can't change, just as much as I can't change that my eyes are blue or that I'm really short.

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I know its inherent. But you decide whether or not to engage. Same way there are ways to lessen symptoms of other conditions. I was on medication for years to gelp with my adhd and aspergers. Now ive developed the self control and communication skills that I dont need the medicine. I still get distracted and find it hard to talk when shouted at, but im high functioning now.

Im not saying a gay person is bad I just see it as a more negative condition. In the same way youd treat a disorder i feel homosexuality should be treated. The discrimination where people were stoned or institutionalized is cruel, but it doesn't mean i think the condition is good.

If there was a cure id see it as a universal requirement.

We cannot simply deal with zoo haters. They have a brain disorder. They see only one side of the picture due to a one side dominance of their brains function.
They cannot fathom the idea of sex without love, or sex at all because they are split to one belief that "Love is all you need" In order to understand what zoo haters are thinking, we would have to look at the situation from the perspective of somebody who has a sexual dysfunction resulting from trauma.

In other words, a person who has been castrated, has gone through degenerative hormonal changes, or otherwise was born without sex organs and abused by or for it. They are living in a state of sex-free bliss or nightmare, where they do not have to think about or feel the urges of sex in a functional way and they want everybody else to be in this twisted bliss like them.

Degenerative and dysfunctional bliss. They're like the cartoon characters on television, who love and play and make friends and get into all sorts of innocent antics, with the twist that everything else is considered to be evil. Life is not a childrens cartoon.
However that too is only one small portion of the zoo hate picture. There are more unfortunately.

As people were growing up, they were hand fed stories of the "rightness" of same-species and heterosexuality, while the stories contained a hidden "wrongness" of cross-species and homosexuality by the threat of impeding doom. Noah's Ark, for example. More recently "The Last Man on Earth." These stories induce the feeling of "Doom" if one were to choose their own path of love and sex, instead of the path to procreation with their own kind.

Fear mongering extinction, even though we live in a modern time where such an event is unlikely. Those people who were traumatized by these extinction stories might go on to invade the choices of others, playing the role of a divine savior, to save the human race. Zoophilia, homosexuality, mastrubation, anal sex, oral sex and anything that is not heterosexual, same-species, or procreative sex acts as a "trigger" for this trauma. These acts can trigger the feeling of extinction, impeding doom, anxiety. It is similar to PTSD.

The afflicted might feel as if they need to "save" the people from this doom, by putting zoophiles, homosexuals, etc in prison or torturing them away from the trauma triggers with abusive therapies and drugs. Conversely, some people might deal with these feelings of impeding doom by murdering the people who trigger these traumas, as it is felt that anyone who is not heterospecial are "causing" the extinction of the human race. This is the leading cause of things such as "conversion by rape"..."honor killings"..."electro-shock therapy"..."cultural, racial, genocide" which are all caused by traumas being triggered in people who were not properly reintegrated into the reality of the modern world.

In order to "deal" with zoo haters, they must be introduced to zoos in real life, away from the internet where the plague of lies and corruptive degeneration are obviously plentiful. Introduction by internet serves no purpose other than recruitment into groups of hateful, destructive, doomsday cults.
The ideal solution is to remove from influence anybody who does not respect the personal choices of others or aims to corrupt and punish people away from their own choices, from anybody who is in the process of being healed and released from their trauma inductive prisons.

People need to be rehabilitated to know they have a choice, and that their choices will not be punished as long as these choices do not greatly impede on or sever the choices of others. There is nothing wrong with healthy bigot free discrimination, that is what gives us our choices. Hate is different. All hate is the product of trauma, whether accidental or deliberately induced, and in order to free themselves from it they must first accept that their hate is not themselves speaking.

They were played and are being played like puppets, to induce these traumas on others to conserve this degenerative cycle of unhealthy bigoted discrimination.
Do not be discouraged this year. The advantages given to the negative influences serves the purpose not to hurt us, but to illuminate them. Use it to your advantage.