#only technically bi

[feychild1225]

why is Love in the air doing this to me

[agentoffangirling]

"Okay but aroace people can still date!" would you ship a lesbian with a man? I'm not talking about those weirdos who ignore everything canon, I'm talking about the vast majority of the fanbase. Do you think most of them would ship a gay man with a woman?

It's not just about the shipping, it's the fact that y'all will use every single loophole in existence to justify why an aroace character should be shipped. Can you literally respect one singular thing? GODDDD

[sunlight-shunlight]

also this is not meant as a slight to anyone who enjoyed the vg solavellan content, but. ouuugh. to me it was. not enjoyable lmao.

like ok. lavellan never gets even an option to be openly pissed off? bitter? or even just... a bit stoic, and not willing to yap about a really painful, personal issue to a near-stranger? she HAS to be sweet and mild and "uwu but i still love himmm 🥺" about it? not even a crumb of being able to express negative feelings?

and then just the concept of "yay! lavellan is now fully fluent in elvhen, speaks in the same cadence as solas, and is totally fine with ditching thedas and her entire life, to go eternally sit with him in the fade jail!! :)" is just. so dull. it deprotagonizes her imo, and if lavellan is a playable, customizable character, it's really grating for her to have to be funneled into such a specific characterization. and frankly speaking, combined with how flat and useless every other female character in the game is... i do just hate it haha. it is very Sexy Lamp to me.

personally this is just my bias towards heist missions, but can you imagine how fun and emotionally affecting it would be for EITHER a romanced or friendly pc if it's like:

solas can be peacefully convinced of a [better plan than what he initially had to violently drop the veil] after the pc puts effort into learning about the blight/fade/elves/titans, and formulates something less damaging.

and then solas says something like "thank you so much for stopping me. i'm glad to be wrong about this. however, i was not kidding about the dinan'shiral thing. i DO still have to lock myself into the black city to seal it, and inside i will get blighted and die. please don't be sad about this, it's truly been an honour, dareth shiral, etc" in a very nice and sweet speech, and then goes in there resigned to sacrifice himself and die alone.

but then, if you fulfilled some other prior requirements, the pc has the option to go "hey, fuck this actually? this is my bestie/lover and i don't agree with this?" and do a last-minute, extremely convoluted fade jailbreak to Rescue Solas from his self-imposed martyrdom mission.

which is actually!! extremely sweet!! like it goes full circle - solas started off on his whole arc bc he wanted to break people out of captivity. his flaw is that he's prideful and doesn't trust others, underestimates the competence of mortals, and unilaterally makes these huge decisions on their behalf. one of the very first flirt lines is offering to protect him. and throughout the entirety of dai, on high approval or romance, the main theme is that he remarks on being surprised by the inquisitor.

and perhaps the most surprising possible thing they could do, is disagree with his Unilaterally Decided Plan, then successfully go extremely out of their way and take on huge dangers to rescue him, purely out of affection rather than any strategic benefit. opposite of mythal, one might say! rather than locking him into something he didn't want to do bc they needed his expertise, they remove him from a fate he's miserably resigned to, just bc they like having him around as a person.

[cripplepunkbarbarian]

My kids with their varying level of canon “compliant” labels…

[flashhwing]

I'm bad queer rep because it bothers me when a fantasy book goes out of its way to be queer friendly, normalizing queer relationships with every side character and even establishing the main character as queer and then the main romance is m/f

[biff-adventurer]

"What's manlier than lovin' a man?" -Biff Guy, Bisexual Disaster

[toreii]

I know I’ve said this before, but I do appreciate seeing my favorite MK character again. It was not the best installment. I wish things had been handled differently, and that Bi-Han had a better opportunity to really shine instead of being massacred. I love Sub-Zero. I love Noob. I wanna see my boys shine. I really was hooked by the Lin Kuei trailer, enough to want to give this game a chance. Sadly, that was not the case. I’m not pissed, I’m not bitter anymore. It’s simply utter disappointment of what could have been. I could revisit my KR post, and maybe iron out my thoughts better. But, I won’t. I’m going to let this game die (as it should have). I shouldn’t hope too much for the future, but may the next MK game be handled a lot better than this one was. May Bi-Han finally have a better story to his character.

[accirax]

Did you know? The letters in LGBT actually stand for Leden G Bwhit Tnico

[echowithpain]

I just woke up so I'm still a little loopy and was scrolling through Tumblr and saw this post and it made me think of that time Maddie and Chim invited Buck and Josh to dinner at Chim's old apartment and Josh said if he didn't know any better, he'd think Maddie was setting them up. And honestly??? That actually would've been really fucking cute???

Can you imagine if Buck and Josh had started dating??? Buck going to the call center and using the excuse to see Maddie and take her to lunch only to "accidentally" run into his boyfriend and starting a happy flustered conversation with him before he has to go back to work. Oh my god I can actually see it so clearly:

Maddie’s typing away on her computer and glances up, looking over her monitor and seeing Buck in his civies walking through the door (cause he's all legs lol) and she stands up and goes over to him asking,

"Hey, what’s going on?"

And he's like "Nothing! I just thought I'd come by and treat you to some lunch." all while doing that thing he does with his hands and looking around the room trying to be casual about it.

And Maddie’s like, "Uh huh. So there's no other reason you could possibly think of that would bring you down here?"

And as Buck’s about to deny it then Josh walks over, having just finished a call and he sees him and is like, "Buck?"

And Buck perks up and turns to face him and is like, "Josh! Hey!"

And Josh is like, "Hey, good to see you. What are you doing here?"

And Buck starts explaining, "Oh, you know. I just came down here to see if... Maddie, wanted to grab some lunch with me. Y'know with the heatwave, people are probably going crazy out there." all while Maddie’s playfully rolling her eyes

And Josh of course finds this amusing and is playing along and starts telling him about a few calls they took, and Buck would be happily listening and nodding along and even giving a few comments here or there before Josh finally tells him, "Yeah, it's been a day. While it's finally slowed down, we're still a bit busy. But don't worry, I can cover for 'Maddie' until she gets back from her lunch break." While nodding at Maddie

And Buck would be like, "Oh, uh, yeah. Sorry, I should uh, let you get back to work."

And Josh would go, "Yeah, probably. See you later, Buck." and give him a wink while walking off and taking another call "911 what's your emergency?" all while Buck's watching him go with his big puppy eyes

And then Maddie would put her hand on his shoulder, getting his attention, and be like, "Hey. I know you're just using me as an excuse so you can come down here and talk to Josh in person, but I just want you to know... I'm holding you to treating me to lunch today."

And Buck would be like, "Yeah yeah, okay." and give a final look at Josh while Maddie’s laughing and getting her things and then they leave.

CAN YOU IMAGINE????? 🤩💖🤩💖🤩

Oh my god this started out as a sleepy ramble that turned into writing fanfiction and me actually getting upset over what could've been. Seriously think about it!

Buck and Josh are already good friends. If they started dating we could've gotten:

more Buckley siblings interactions

more scenes of the call center

more Josh, Linda, and Sue

Eddie and Josh "conflict/rivalry" (im still tired so idk the right word but I'm talking about when Eddie worked at dispatch and took over the call with the speed reference and Josh stepped up afterwards with the "You're a guest in this house" and how Eddie threw that line back at him when the place caught fire. Ever since, I like to think they have unserious beef, every now and then trying to one-up each other lol)

Buck constantly using Maddie as an excuse to visit the call center to see Josh until he's able to work up the courage to go up to him on Maddie’s day off and ask him out on a date (this could've been so fucking cute holy shit)

It could show a bi man and a gay man going out with each other and having fun and good chemistry, but ultimately deciding to break up and still remain good friends afterwards

HELL!!! YOU COULD EVEN HAVE JOSH BE THE ONE TO POINT OUT THAT BUCK IS IN LOVE WITH EDDIE AND HELP HIM REALIZE HE ACTUALLY HAS FEELSINGS FOR HIS BEST FRIEND AND HOW TO SORT THOSE FEELINGS OUT!!!

Honestly, fuck Tommy for leaving Buck on their first date. Josh would've understood Buck’s panic because he's been in Buck's shoes. Also knowing Buck and Eddie’s relationship, and how based on Buck’s reaction could piece together that he's not out to him yet, Josh could've played along and had a bit of banter with Eddie, and then reassure Buck that they would go at his pace, and NOT LEAVE HIM STANDING ALONE ON A STREET CORNER BECAUSE HE PANICKED WHEN HE SAW HIS BEST FRIEND WHILE OUT ON HIS FIRST DATE WITH A GUY!!!!

Damn, now I'm actually getting mad.

I've said before that I didn't like Tommy's character but accepted him as a way for the GA to get used to the idea of Buck being bi, but now I can't even say that anymore. Their scenes feel so awkward except for when they're making out, and they've only kissed twice, both kisses only to be establishing something. The first was to show the GA Buck was bi by having a guy kiss him and him liking it, and the second was to show the other characters he was bi by kissing a guy and getting soot on his mouth from it.

While I know they were gonna do the bi Buck storyline this season, I do think Tommy was shoehored in it. They originally said the person flying the helicopter to find the cruise ship was gonna be Lucy (miss her) but they couldn't get her actress because of scheduling conflicts or something, so they got Tommy and made him a pilot instead. I'm almost certain if they were able to get Lucy's character to fly the helicopter, Tommy wouldn't be here.

Josh actually would've been a great bi realization for Buck as well as a great first boyfriend. I've already listed reasons above but here's some more:

The GA already knows who Josh is and know that he's gay

He's an established character people already like

He's actually nice and funny but can be firm when he needs to be

He's really smart and is skilled at what he does (need I remind you of when Sue got hit by that car and he lead the police through a freaking maze with no helicopter support. bro's a badass!)

He's shown to be friends with the main cast (they all know and like him (except maybe Eddie lmao))

We already know part of his backstory (why he joined the call center and how he met Sue)

He can be vulnerable and cares about his friends

He's not above pulling pranks/getting pranked (when Linda and Maddie tried to make his schedule crazy cause he kept giving himself time off whenever there was a full moon, and he found out but let them think he didn't know until he tricked them into confessing)

Josh deserves to go on a date with a guy without getting beat up halfway through (still pissed about that storyline)

I could go on and on but I'd get even more upset and I've got shit to do today. So I'll leave you with this:

Fuck Tommy, Josh would've been a better choice

Oh, one more thing. For the people who are inevitably gonna bring up Carson or whoever it was and say Josh is dating him, we don't know for a fact if they're dating or not. Josh asked Sue if they do background checks for people working for them (again fuck that storyline) and when she said yes he went over to the ambulance and they have a small talk. We never see him again lmao. For all we know, they could've dated and broken up by now, or Josh could've asked him out and he kindly turns him down. We don't know cause we haven't seen him, and I'm not gonna argue with people who's main complaint is "What about that one guy Josh liked in season 5 that we haven't seen since that one episode?"

Shush and think about how cute Buck and Josh would be.

[pocketramblr]

I always found it slightly awkward how media makes siblings or people who see each other as siblings call each other brother/sister all the time as in real life you almost never see people do that with their own siblings (maybe someone out there like that)

In the case of Arkham Shadows I see why they did though because Bruce quite literally tells Harvey he loves him and Harvey says it back. Can't have the audience think Batman is in love with the DA.

They had Bruce pay for his college, pay for his campaign, pay for his surgery, pay for his therapy and had Harvey have him as his best man at his wedding. Wow..... Sugar baby Harvey is real.....

The calling sibling title thing is less common in English than in some other languages for sure- me and a couple of my siblings do it on occasion, but it's for a bit then. More common is when I call one of my close family friends "my sister" or "my nephew" when talking about them to someone else because it's faster and easier to say that than to say "my friend who I've known since she was born and lived with for a few years and consider a little sister" or "child of a close family friend who considers me an aunt" to someone who doesn't know them. Which is a lot of words to say that if they wanted to fully sell me on the brothers thing they should have either had a different bit or should have referred to the other as "my brother" when talking to an unrelated character instead.

But "oh no we have to make Bruce not look gay" has been a problem DC has struggled with more than once for many decades and it basically never works so I guess at least they didn't try to solve it this time by having Bruce pick a lady love over Harvey or cutting the holding hands thing

Because I saw that scrapbook! I know Harvey has been Bruce's sugar baby since he was ten years old! But we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him the love of his life because ok technically that's Gotham but also because gay. And we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him his best friend because they're not ten anymore and somehow that seems gay also. So brothers it is, I guess. Even if I think my brothers would bite my finger if I ever tried to pay for everything for them on that scale, guess it's different at billionaire levels

[notmoreflippingelves]

Diversity win: the thief who stole every piece of religious art in your town and his equally-criminal dad are both bisexual.

[rubyscarbuncle]

Honestly at this rate with all the communities I'm a part of I feel like I'm collecting flags like a pirate stealing Jolly Rogers with each conquest. Like this is my spread. What the fuck. God really said "yeahh put all the neurodivergent fagginess in that girlthing" and I am here now like this as a result. Not a complaint! I love being an incredibly sapphic queer girlthing who does stimmy and would frankly pass on sex but just wow like people like me exist so cishet neurotypicals can exist too I guess. I had to hog it for myself :3

[doomed-era]

...actually on that note (keep thinking about this. urge to yap grows) I find it SO funny how aro I write non-AU BOTW Link. Like even when I write him in a relationship he's just sort of aromantic about it. I wrote a miphlink fic a while back from Link's POV where he's just like "huh we are a fetching couple" and he thinks it in like, the most detached way possible

[please-let-this-work-oh-my-god]

For as much as I like to complain sometimes about how fucked Reverse 1999's meta is, I have to give Bluepoch props for not only making it so that not only can you put Marcus, Isolde AND Kakania in a team but also the fact that these three actually have somewhat decent synergy with each other

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

Would Bart count as bisexual or is he another, ethereal thing?

id say he's probably similar to fergus, ie absolutely bisexual just bc of how hes done but in the way where it's clear the writers included it more as a joke abt how the person in question is dtf for anything/anyone because they only care about having sex (in barts case as long as they hit his strike zone of having the bangs)

[oblivious-aro]

Really stupid question, but are Sora or Arin ever referred to with they/them in Dragons Rising? I recall having heard rumours of this around when the show was first releasing, but I can't tell if it's actually the case or if it was just somebody's headcanon.

Kinda curious as to what Ninjago's gotten up to representation-wise these days, especially since I heard there was a Hijabi character at some point.

No stupid questions in my inbox :)

(From you, at least)

None of the new main characters in DR use they/them pronouns, sadly.

There is one episode with a non-binary background character. I don't think their pronouns are used in dialogue, and I don't remember them being named, but...

...the arm flags pretty hard to miss. Again, they are just a background character in a single episode, but they're there.

Euphrasia's probably the Hijabi character you heard about. She wore a hood/hijab type garb in srason 1, but she seems to have stopped wearing it in season 2, so it seems to be a 'no' on that end.

(Might be for the best. I'm not an expert on muslim characters, but Euphrasia is one of the Writer of Destiny, who you may remember from season 5, and I did see a post going around expressing concern about having the only notably Muslim-coded character being strongly affiliated with what basically amounts to a fake religion. Would be very cool for a different character to wear a hijab, though.)

Lego does seem to be going for more curly hairstyles in general though, so that's cool.

(Arin and Euphrasia. Yes, that was the best season 2 image I could find of her on Google images.)

I know Dreamzzz has got some more curly hairstyles, and there's a main character with vitiligo. I know that's not Ninjago, but it is Lego.

Oh, and in case you missed what was going on in later seasons of the original Ninjago, there was one scene in the last season where a named side charater (Sally) had a Quasar flag on her guitar:

And now you're all caught up.