Awh, don't worry! I did say "possibly" so it's not definitive but I approve of bi Raymond!Don’t say that, my straight fangirl heart can’t take it ;w;
He’s either bi or pan. Now everyone can be happy
What is going on with the prices for Raymond?
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Yeah, people are CRAZY about this guy. Honestly I get it, he's a cool new villager, and a cool new cat villager to boot. Combine that with the fact that he has no amiibo card and you have people paying hundreds of millions of bells for him. But... REAL money? In the triple digits? Honestly that just seems so wrong. Especially since a lot of younger people play this game. I feel bad thinking that some kid might be spending all their Christmas and birthday money combined on a villager that the seller just got lucky getting.
Personally I'm not that crazy about him. Smug villagers aren't my favorite in the first place and Raymond looks like he'd mansplain to me. Also I don't want to repeat species in my town and you can pry Punchy from my cold dead hands.
Personally I'm not that crazy about him. Smug villagers aren't my favorite in the first place and Raymond looks like he'd mansplain to me. Also I don't want to repeat species in my town and you can pry Punchy from my cold dead hands.
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I get the craze, but wow, I never expected him to go for thousands of tickets. It makes sense though. Supply and demand. Still doesn't make it any less wild.
Honestly, I'm a little weirded out by the obsessive speculating over the sexual orientation of a chibi-looking character in a children's game with no mention of romance or sexuality whatsoever. I don't mean that like "being gay is inappropriate!!!11!! think of the children!!!" More like . . . I dunno, sometimes it seems like the cutesy Smug villagers who are not as traditionally masculine, like Raymond and Marshal, are claimed by overwhelmingly female players as being "my cutesy gay boi!! <3" despite the fact that canonically, none of the villagers have any sexual orientation whatsoever, and sometimes it comes across to me as just more of the typical fetishization of gay boys that women so often engage in. It's weird to superimpose an entire orientation on a cartoon cat and then treat him like a "collector's item" because of that orientation.
Really not trying to be a killjoy here, just thinking out loud. This is something I've heard my gay and bi friends talk about in real life, feeling almost like trading cards that other people are proud to have, the token non-straight person in a friend group or something similar. I know this is just a game but it feels like the fetishizing of LGBTQ+ orientations is pervasive enough to be pretty common even here.
Not accusing anyone in particular of anything; I can't now the gender identity or orientation of anyone here and I'm sure there's a lot of valid counterpoints to be made! I just wondered if anyone else had thought about it at all?
It's compounded by the fact that only the most "kawaii" of male villagers are typed this way, and only from one personality type, and thus the stereotype of "cute boy who likes clothes = gay" continues; I've never once seen anyone enthuse about how excited they were to get gay Hamphrey or gay Broccolo or gay Cesar in their town.
Anyone else have thoughts on this? I know I'm personally uncomfortable with introducing romance into AC in general (seeing fanart of, say, Rosie and Marshal on a date also makes me feel just kind of odd, like why do we have to shoehorn romance into everything all the time, especially in a series originally designed for children where almost everyone looks underage), so I'm sure I'm not looking at this specific trend through an unbiased lens.
Really not trying to be a killjoy here, just thinking out loud. This is something I've heard my gay and bi friends talk about in real life, feeling almost like trading cards that other people are proud to have, the token non-straight person in a friend group or something similar. I know this is just a game but it feels like the fetishizing of LGBTQ+ orientations is pervasive enough to be pretty common even here.
Not accusing anyone in particular of anything; I can't now the gender identity or orientation of anyone here and I'm sure there's a lot of valid counterpoints to be made! I just wondered if anyone else had thought about it at all?
It's compounded by the fact that only the most "kawaii" of male villagers are typed this way, and only from one personality type, and thus the stereotype of "cute boy who likes clothes = gay" continues; I've never once seen anyone enthuse about how excited they were to get gay Hamphrey or gay Broccolo or gay Cesar in their town.
Anyone else have thoughts on this? I know I'm personally uncomfortable with introducing romance into AC in general (seeing fanart of, say, Rosie and Marshal on a date also makes me feel just kind of odd, like why do we have to shoehorn romance into everything all the time, especially in a series originally designed for children where almost everyone looks underage), so I'm sure I'm not looking at this specific trend through an unbiased lens.
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Tbh I don’t really mind headcannons and ships in AC. I feel like every fandom is going to ship someone with another person and that’s okay as long as they aren’t trying to say it is canon. I do have and issue if it’s involving irl people though *shivers from Hamilton*
However, on a real note though, I have faced irl fetishization as someone who is both gay and East Asian (I’d gaysian for short lmao). It’s kinda gotten to the point where I am able to tell all the red flags whether or not someone is trying to befriend me only for the sake of having me as their weird token-friend fantasy fetishization or they actually genuinely want to get to know me. I’ve also had people use me as a way to make themselves look progressive or to say stuff like “I’m not racist/homophobic!!! I know a gaysian person so it’s fine!!1!1!1!!”. I’ve kinda learned to just pick up the signs quickly and get myself away from those people before $hit hits the fan.
I don’t have a problem with yaoi or gay ships, but I do have a problem when people start thinking it’s reality or that gay people are like that irl.
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Why is it such a big deal? Let other people spend their money/NMT/bells/whatever however they want. Would I personally ever spend that much on a villager? No. Do I care to understand the reasoning behind why other people would? No. He is cute, has alot of fans, and has no amiibo--people are going to continue going nuts over him for a while. I just wish we could stop making these threads every 5 minutes. Let people play how they want to.
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