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[Jordan]

I think we can all agree that particular fan fiction and fan art which depicts the characters in various sexual situations is a bit creepy, but as someone who is gay, I'm more then a bit peeved when people declare that Jay, Tim, Jessica, etc are clearly canocially straight.

The problem is: they aren't. To an extent, Jay and Tim are given a motivation and a bit of a back story, but are still very much blank slates for the audience to project themselves onto as the narrative progress and we view the narrative through the camera. This may or may not have been a concious move by Troseph, but given that neither Jay or Tim are shown to be in a relationship and we never see, might have been part of Troseph's plan to enable members of the audience to project themselves onto the protraganists, including people who are clearly not heterosexual.

And I don't get why people say they are clearly canocially straight, either. Not all gay men act particularly effeminate (not that there's anything WRONG with being effentive) and it's just sterotyping and heteronormative assumptions that this fandom could do without in places.

Not saying everyone is like this, it's a very small minority, but bah, it's annoying.

[twistedpuppet]

Why are we even discussing the sexual preferences of the characters? It has never been discussed in the narrative. It's not important to the plot.

I don't see any reason to project any kind of sexuality onto the characters because sex, in general, has no relevance to the story. So, if sex has no relevance to the story, it would stand to reason, that sexual preferences have no relevance either.

The only time any kind of boy/girl relationship type thing ever comes up in the entirety of the Marble Hornets universe is in the story of the student film Alex was working on. The main character moved back home to try to win back his old girlfriend. That is the absolute only time and it didn't have anything to do with sex either. It was lovey-dovey stuff.

[Jordan]

[twistedpuppet]

Well, sexuality is not series canon, so, I don't know why people are pushing hard for one way or the other. Besides, when a 8 foot tall eldritch abomination is chasing you where ever you go, who has time to think about the opposite sex, the same sex, or that poodle down the street? :V

[onetruepurple]

[Ztakk]

[TheOperator]

[Master of Octopi]

[Zarggg]

IMHO, the characters' sexual preferences are ultimately irrelevant to the series except for Alex's, for whom we know he is at least interested in women (or pretending to for Amy's sake).

I understand the desire for more positive portrayals of non-heterosexual preferences and relationships in fiction (and am all for it, myself), however this is a horror story, not a romance story.

Edit: My point is really that unless Trosephim come out and say what the "canonical orientations" are, there are none, except maybe for Alex, but even then there's some wiggle room because we can only say for sure that he has had at least one girlfriend.

[Felloffalot]

Oh god, not this shit.

The whole "jay and tim are totally gay for each other xDD" shit is why I find the Marble Hornets tag on Tumblr to be incredibly obnoxious and why I stick to Unfiction when it comes to all things Slenderverse. WHY DOES IT FUCKING MATTER? It's a horror story. Not a romance story. As long as Jay and Tim aren't sucking each other off in a hotel room, the sexuality of anybody in the series is, quite literally, the least important thing anybody could mention, so I don't see why anybody debates about it. It doesn't have much to do with "representation" when people see Jay and Tim as gay, anyway; most of the people who do that are teenage girls who just want to see the two half-decent guys kiss. No matter what, their sexualities just do not matter, but that just seems to be what everybody loves to talk about when it comes to Slenderverse series.

[GameGodOfAll]

Ya'll a buncha fools! There is only one sexual orientation in this series that matters! And that is the Operator!

Think about if the Operator had a sex tape.

Or if TTA had a sex tape.

[Jordan]

[Jordan]

On another topic, just out of curiosty to all of the Americans here on this forum:

Would you prefer most of your TV seasons to be shorter - say - thirteen episodes for a tighter narrative for season arcs or do you prefer the twenty-six episode format with side stories along the way?

[twistedpuppet]

[device]

It all depends on the subject matter, really. I seem to prefer the shorter seasons myself. I kind of hate the longer seasons that end up milking a show to f*cking death just because it's popular.