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god forbid i eat a bagel without my blood sugar going above 400 ever

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NO BECAUSE WHAT IS THIS GAY ASS DELETED SCENE WHAT WHAT AAAAAA OH MY GOD I FEEL LIKE I'M IN HEAVEN WHERE ALL MY YAOI DREAMS HAVE COME TRUUUUUUE

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I have nothing against trans girl headcanon stuff where people are like "this character would dress and present exactly the same as they did pretransition" but its always applied to characters it absolutely would not apply to

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don't like auto-flush toilets. like excuse me I'll tell you when to swallow

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I think the big issue with the mutant metaphor or other such attempts at allegory for diverse characters in the modern day is that you can now tell stories about racism with black people. It isn't the 60s anymore where the comics code authority was very cautious about that kind of thing. You can put gay people in a comic. Scott Summers does not need to experience fictionalised racism anymore, you can actually center on the people with those experiences. And as we do get more stories by black authors and by queer authors, both those about oppression and those that are not, it becomes increasingly ludicrous that the mutant metaphor actually has any use, particularly when it increasingly becomes treated as the only axis of oppression that matters with intersectional characters.

These kinds of metaphors and analogies had their use in a time where the kinds of stories you could tell were more regulated, but it is the year 2025 and I do not need to see Rogue go like "Wow, I can't believe they made a MUTANTPHOBIC HORROR MOVIE 😱😱😱" as if this is the first and worst time this has ever happened. I find it really obnoxious but equally I don't really know how they could fix it. Like, the metaphor has served its purpose. We can move on now. But the iconography of the characters remain and you can't really separate it from them, even when it becomes ever more unwieldy in a post-comics code authority comic book world.

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You know. I can understand thinking there are relationships Wanda has had that are happier and healthier than her and Vision. Like I can appreciate that, especially when it's Jericho. But sometimes I see people say things like "Wanda and Simon are MADE for each other he is her true love" and I'm like well I just don't think that's true. Or fucking, Wanda and Clint being the best Wanda ship and I'm like I'm sorry but you are objectively wrong on that one. Don't lie to me like this.

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being poly with no bitches is a little funny

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listening to a man break up with his partner on the train and the first sentence I heard was "I just don't appreciate you cheating on me six different times, once with my own father."

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happy pride month

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has vision had notable love interests other than wanda?

Vision's most notable non-Wanda love interest is Mantis, who Vision was obviously one of the central characters in the Mantis/Vision/Wanda/Swordsman plot of Englehart's Celestial Madonna series. Obviously, Vision and Mantis did not truly date in this comic, but they had their moments.

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They eventually got a proper relationship in Avengers: Celestial Quest, but they ended up having to break it up by the end for some nonsense about Mantis needing to biologically have a child to fufil her duty as the Celestial Madonna, or whatever. Still, it was lovely while it lasted.

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Other than this, the options have been very sparce. There's Virginia, but she has Wanda's brain patterns, so I don't think she counts. There was Eve from Uncanny Avengers, but she has exactly four appearances and that similarly went nowhere, and that plot ended with Vision choosing to stay on earth and nominally with Wanda. There's also Jocasta from Earth-943 in Vision (1994), but she has 8 appearances and all were in the year 1994. None of these are particularly notable.

I will choose to mention Sam Wilson, who Ultimate Vision had a romantic relationship with, and I consider 616 Vision and Sam to be quite close themselves.

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But anyway, as far as genuine attemps for an actual romantic relationship independent of Wanda for Vision, there's basically nothing there. While Vision isn't exactly an unpopular character, she doesn't really scream relationship potential to a lot of people the way a She-Hulk does, and because Vision is so tied to Wanda (but not necessarily vice versa), people kind of assume she's "taken" already despite not having actually been in a proper relationship since the early 2000s. Also, Vision just has very particular theming and narrative uses as an android character, so writers tend to default to other android characters, which seriously cuts down on options, particularly when Vision is basically related to half of the Marvel robots already.

Anyway. I hope one day someone will try to give Vision an actual love interest! I mean, Wanda and Vision are potentially getting back together (I doubt in the current Steve Orlando series, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Jed MacKay or someone else made moves), so it's probably too late, but still. It would have been nice!!!

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Art museum priorities are in order.