u/Candid-Oven2951

Something I've noticed is gay or mlm representation in media WRITTEN by or with support from LGBTQ+ supporting people is kind of rarer than wlw or other forms of LGBTQ+ representation.

Usually when you do see it, it always has a very heavily sexual or "rough" connotation behind it. I guess some examples would be the cartoons I grew up with I'm 22 if that helps, most of the writing that I read will be from Archive of our own, fanart, community support, games. Most portrayals of wlm by LGBTQ+ authors are sweet, genuine, it feels like a real relationship while mlm it feels like it's either stereotypically aggressively sexual or flamboyant.

Not sure if this aligns with other people's experiences, I'm generally bisexual so I'm open to all media and "new gen" LGBTQ+ so to speak.

I'll let you guys weigh in and maybe change my pov, because I'm unsure if this is a common or uncommon thought. I want more mlm that feels real!!

Hyperbolic titles aside, this shit is cooked.

Graduating in tech degree this semester and everything is so shit. 3/4 of my 400 level classes completely revolve around groupwork. At the start of the semester I could tolerate the constant excuses, apathy, and blatant AI being forced into our projects across so many different formats (code, presentations, lab answers).

I'm just tired of it now, one of the projects was so infested with this shit I had to completely redo it from scratch, it didn't compile, it didn't act even as the original project proposal we had (it was supposed to be a web application sorrounding a gig style job requesting and accepting app), one of the group members halfway through just merged a branch into master with an entirely different web application discarding the entire planning phase and it was blatantly AI and completely irrelevent to how we were setting it up.

This was the most infuriating, at least if you're going to do nothing, then do nothing, but don't completely demolish the work we have and write your 300 bespoke if else statments over top of it.

I'm still mad about people doing nothing though don't get me wrong, thats the other 2 projects, just you're expected to do everything. I started waiting until 10:30PM before its due to actually finish it up. MULTIPLE times they don't even message! Sometimes they are like "Yo so whats the plan", when I say it in class and hear "oh ok yeah I can do that", then whenever the time comes around its always crickets.

Then it comes to class time, whether its in person quizes, in class group assignments its so incredibly discouraging to watch everyone just cheat, even your own group members sitting beside you. Whats the point? It feels like I am the idiot for literally not taking the easiest route possible.

Sorry for the long rant, shit is just annoying.