Now That The Julie And The Phantoms Fandom Is Starting To Grow, This Goes To The Fic Writers Like Me,

now that the julie and the phantoms fandom is starting to grow, this goes to the fic writers like me, i’m begging you:

don’t make alex bi/pan/straight for the sake of your story.

he is canonically gay, which means no, you CANNOT pair him with a female love interest. i’ve already started to see fics for him with girls as his love interest (surprisingly, they were both portrayed by sabrina carpenter?).

one of them even said, and i quote: “i thought you were gay.” “maybe i’m only in love with a certain girl.”

yes, you read that right. and when I girl tried to explain to the author that what she was doing was wrong, the author just muted/blocked me? so let me explain why this is wrong:

“the lgbtq+ cummunity rarely gets accurate representation and it’s not often done with protagonists/characters that are truly relevant to the story. changing alex’s sexuality just so it can fit the concept you have for your story is plain wrong.”

“changing [alex’s] his sexuality from homosexual to bisexual is just as harmful as making him straight. alex is gay — changing his sexuality changes the essence of who he is.”

“[...] like i said before, accurate representation for smaller communities is already scarce as it is. but this can be used as an opportunity to fix things! you can change your character’s gender to male so it can fit alex’s canon sexuality, or you can simply change the love interest!”

in summary:

change your oc’s gender, not the canon character’s sexuality.