#sydstan

Hmm I don’t know I find it kind of problematic that people are so insistent that Stan is a bicon despite him being straight in the show. Like, I doubt they’d call him a bicon if he expressed actual interest in men, most people would just call him gay then. 

Like, if a straight boy has certain affectations of queerness then he’s automatically labeled queer and celebrated for it. Definitely feels cheap. It’s not real representation! You give a straight boy a quirky wardrobe and a semi limp wrist and you dust off your hands while the fandom goes wild. 

It’s like how people are disgusted by fem gays but the moment a straight boy wears a dress they lose their fucking minds. 

I guarantee if they actually wrote Stanley Barber as queer, someonewould be bitching about how he’s a stereotype and bad representation. But for now, it’s genius and brilliant storytelling. He likes girls, but he “brings a fey presence to the show,” so of course that means he sucks up all the attention re: lgbt representation that should be for Syd and Dina. 

And no, I don’t consider this a part of normal headcanons. People genuinely think Stan shouldbe bi come next season, or that they’re actually building up to that. Like, I have multiple headcanons about Stan being bi and gay alike. But I’m not deluded. They’re not going to do it for real on the show. The show is about Syd. She is the queer character as well as the main character. 

Like all things, put a skinny white boy the egirls want to fuck on screen and make him act slightly “fem” (I refuse to think straight boys can even be fem) and watch as he completely takes over the fandom and overshadows the story of a gay (or bi) girl’s discovery of herself and coming out.