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Tommy featured on a newly-released variant cover for Marvel United: Pride Special by Mateus Manhanini

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Literally none of the Young Avengers are straight

America is a lesbian

Kate, Noh-Varr, Tommy and David are all bisexual

Billy is gay and dating Teddy

Loki is genderfluid and bi and I doubt that Eli and Cassie are straight either

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Tommy shepherd simply but cute wallpaper I made on Pinterest

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Check my Patreon out if you’d like to support the comic, even a little bit helps. Or just to check out the reward tiers, there’s some neat bonus stuff and I tried to make them fun: https://www.patreon.com/waitingforthet

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This year has been quite trying, but I'm happy that I discovered a love of making these horse animations in 2023.

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No cops at Pride, just Elton John with his Gucci shirt and a knife

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you are 16. you are talking with a gay man in his 50s or 60s, a friend, huge and gentle with a scarf and short fluffy curls of gray hair, who has directed you in two plays staged in your mid-size artsy town. (he has not yet asked you to be in his production of The Laramie Project which will change your life. this conversation will also change your life.)

he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, "of course, it was AIDS then." in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and "straight," you ask him. what was it like.

he takes a moment in which his face is not like a person's face. "there was a time," he says, "i'm not sure how long, years. when i went to a funeral every weekend." he tells you about two funerals in a day, and choosing between friends when you couldn't make it to both. he does not look at you, he looks at them. his wet grey gaze is so clear that you start to see ghosts. it will be years before you understand why it feels like your grief too. why the ghosts call you family.

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Every detail of Jonathan Joss's murder makes my stomach turn. Its sickening. He had just married his husband on valentines day THIS year, and every day, they had to be hounded by homophobic neighbors and let down by the local police who did nothing to stop the harassment. Then these sick fucks burned down his house and kidnapped one of their dogs. June 1st, he and his husband returned home to collect mail only to find his dogs skull and harness on display. Then a man came over, calling them slurs before shooting him.

To make matters worse, almost no news site is calling it what it is. A hate crime. A hate crime against a gay, native american man. The headlines are passing it off like it was some tragic disagreement between neighbors.

This is what happens when the right takes power, dont ever forget who they are deep down. No matter how sociable or indifferent they try to come across. If they aren't the ones killing you, they're the ones who can excuse your death because they never agreed with your identity in the first place.

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How about those new heartless (?) huh

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If Sora wakes up in Quadratum still remembering Riku but over the course of the year he forgets more and more until Riku finds him he no longer remembers at all. Maybe nothing more than a vague feeling that he has forgotten something important.

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Thinking again about the end of CoM as a metaphor for repressing trauma vs facing it to heal and grow as a person and I really just

It really does feel intentional that what Sora goes through in CoM — losing his memories and almost losing himself — is a lot like what Sora describes being a heartless was like: “I was lost in the darkness. I couldn’t find my way. As I stumbled through the dark, I started forgetting things — my friends, who I was… The darkness almost swallowed me.”

Both halves of CoM are visual representations of what Sora and Riku each went through when they fell/almost fell to darkness in KH1. Riku’s memories are devoid of people because he cast them from his heart. Sora’s memories are full of people he forgets because he sacrificed his heart. And if we are supposed to see CoM as a near-death journey/an exploration of the unconscious, it is pretty on point for Marluxia to have a grim reaper aesthetic. Sora’s battling death.

Anyway, that’s why Data Sora’s decision to accept the loss of the memories of his friends and face that pain in Coded, live with it, is so significant.

Because that’s what the real Sora failed to do in the real Castle Oblivion. He never should’ve forgotten what happened there. He should’ve accepted those losses — and the pain attached to them — knowing that even if he can’t remember his friends, they remember him. Even if he doesn’t know them, he remembers caring about them. And even if he can’t recall specific memories, they’re not gone. He’ll remember them, some day. And in the meantime, the people he loves will help him shoulder the burden.

In a figurative sense, Sora has never left Castle Oblivion because he’s never accepted this pain. He has never moved on past this point, unlike Riku who decides to face Ansem, the representation of his trauma, and leave the castle, leave the darkness, to begin walking the road to dawn — the road to recovery. Sora’s still there, still under that dark night sky.

And now, after sacrificing himself again, there’s a very real chance he’s forgetting things and losing himself again, and surprise, surprise — look where he is.

Tied to a new character whose name means “night sky�� to boot… Trauma has a way of biting us in the butt when we don’t deal with it properly. The past has a way of chaining us when we don’t move forward… Sora’s gonna have to do it right this time. He’s gonna have to face his pain and accept it if he wants to step forward into the light and exist again.

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Thinking again about the end of CoM as a metaphor for repressing trauma vs facing it to heal and grow as a person and I really just

It really does feel intentional that what Sora goes through in CoM — losing his memories and almost losing himself — is a lot like what Sora describes being a heartless was like: “I was lost in the darkness. I couldn’t find my way. As I stumbled through the dark, I started forgetting things — my friends, who I was… The darkness almost swallowed me.”

Both halves of CoM are visual representations of what Sora and Riku each went through when they fell/almost fell to darkness in KH1. Riku’s memories are devoid of people because he cast them from his heart. Sora’s memories are full of people he forgets because he sacrificed his heart. And if we are supposed to see CoM as a near-death journey/an exploration of the unconscious, it is pretty on point for Marluxia to have a grim reaper aesthetic. Sora’s battling death.

Anyway, that’s why Data Sora’s decision to accept the loss of the memories of his friends and face that pain in Coded, live with it, is so significant.

Because that’s what the real Sora failed to do in the real Castle Oblivion. He never should’ve forgotten what happened there. He should’ve accepted those losses — and the pain attached to them — knowing that even if he can’t remember his friends, they remember him. Even if he doesn’t know them, he remembers caring about them. And even if he can’t recall specific memories, they’re not gone. He’ll remember them, some day. And in the meantime, the people he loves will help him shoulder the burden.

In a figurative sense, Sora has never left Castle Oblivion because he’s never accepted this pain. He has never moved on past this point, unlike Riku who decides to face Ansem, the representation of his trauma, and leave the castle, leave the darkness, to begin walking the road to dawn — the road to recovery. Sora’s still there, still under that dark night sky.

And now, after sacrificing himself again, there’s a very real chance he’s forgetting things and losing himself again, and surprise, surprise — look where he is.

Tied to a new character whose name means “night sky” to boot… Trauma has a way of biting us in the butt when we don’t deal with it properly. The past has a way of chaining us when we don’t move forward… Sora’s gonna have to do it right this time. He’s gonna have to face his pain and accept it if he wants to step forward into the light and exist again.

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WHERE’S YOUR WHIMSY?? WHERE’S YOUR SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF??? IM PUTTING ON 3 MORE BELTS THAT DON’T DO ANYTHING AS WE SPEAK AND HITTING YOU WITH A BLUNT OBJECT THAT ACTS LIKE A SHARP OBJECT. GOOFY! TORNADO THIS FOOL

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WHERE’S YOUR WHIMSY?? WHERE’S YOUR SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF??? IM PUTTING ON 3 MORE BELTS THAT DON’T DO ANYTHING AS WE SPEAK AND HITTING YOU WITH A BLUNT OBJECT THAT ACTS LIKE A SHARP OBJECT. GOOFY! TORNADO THIS FOOL

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"Who'd want to change the future, anyway?"