#susan delgado

[ka-tet]

Roland Deschain is bisexual

Saddle up.

Let’s start with Susan Delgado. She is canonically Roland's first love and girlfriend. And you can argue that Roland is straight because he liked a woman…but then I present you: Cuthbert Allgood, Roland's best friend.

But hey! You say, Cuthbert is only a friend. There are no hints in canon of anything romantic between them, or an attraction from Roland's part.

And then I'd tell you: you're wrong.

So, let's talk about Roland's loves.

Is no coincidence Eddie and Susannah end up in Roland’s ka-tet, since we all know ka is a wheel. We even get a canon confirmation that Eddie is Cuthbert’s twinner. It’s also no coincidence that Susannah chose to have that name, so close to Roland’s first love, Susan.

What I’m trying to say is these characters are supposed to mean something to Roland, so they are the people he loved the most: Cuthbert and Susan. These two meant the world to him and both their deaths dramatically changed Roland, once as a child and then as a adult.

In The Drawing of the Three, this happens:

When Roland thinks about loving, he names three people:

1. Allie. The woman Roland slept with in the first book, that got killed by the Man in Black.

2. "The girl in the window" that we later find out is Susan, Roland's very first love.

3. …and then Cuthbert. Roland's best friend since childhood.

So he names two love interests and then Cuthbert.

You could argue this was an idea of love in general…but if it was, shouldn't Roland name someone else like Alain or his mother? I think his mother should be more important than Allie, a woman he spent some time with before she died.

So that leads me to believe the people he listed here are all his romantic loves he had in his life.

And if you have any doubt that Susan and Cuthbert are equally important in Roland's mind, might I point out an interesting fact: Susan and Cuthbert get at least mentioned once (sometimes more) in every book, even in Wind though the Keyhole and The Little Sisters of Elyria.

I believe his friendship with Cuthbert ran a little deeper. Roland and Cuthbert were friends, but it is obvious his death affected him as much as Susan's. Sometimes their interactions feel romantic in nature. This is difficult to prove, since The Dark Tower is about platonic and family love, and the characters can be very expressive, devoted and even affectionate. Nevertheless, I wouldn't ignore:

- Roland reaching out for Cuthbert's hand.

- Cuthbert kissing Roland after they confronted each other.

- The whole Cuthbert being jealous and disapproving of Roland and Susan's relationship.

- The comics.

Aside from that, there are also some interesting moments about Roland and sexuality:

- When Callahan reveals he was in love with a man, Roland is the least surprised and scandalized of the entire Ka-tet. And he belongs in a Western/Arthurian mash-up universe.

- Also you can't forget to mention that the man Callahan falls in love with is named Lupe Delgado. Delgado. Like Susan Delgado, Roland's first love. If this isn't a hint to bisexual Roland, I don't know what is.

- When Roland meets King, for a reason that I don't remember, Roland asks Stepehn King if he likes men (yes, in a gay way).

In conclusion, not only Roland is not faced by same-sex attraction, there are possible hints and subtext about him being attracted to both men and women.

[ungoliantschilde]

Susan Delgado by Jae Lee, with My Inks.

[sharoscylla]

I’m not married to this design for Susan but I am definitely decided on everyone’s favorite horse girl surviving the narrative and being brought to NYC to live with April. Also I don’t think this 16 year old girl from Fantasy Apocalypse Texas/Fantasy Apocalypse Mexico got pregnant. I know Roland thinks she was and that she thought so but consider: she’s only had Horse Sex Ed and he’s a doofus.

Anyway when Roland gets here he’ll be over the fuckin moon!

Also I colored a picture of everyone’s favorite trouble-making fast-talking Spanish speaking trans boys. (Bert and Leo are going to commit every crime)

[jjjjabberwocky]

Jake & Susan 🕺

[ka-19]

roland deschain🥺

DEAR WHOEVER SENT THIS I LOVE YOU SM!!!!

i can go into more detail on what i think his gender is if you want (and by god do i have so many hcs about all the dark tower people) but This Man Is BISEXUAL! zero doubt in my mind!!!

[schadie]

I'm reading wizard and glass now. And it's specific kind of pain, because you know about Susan's fate and her awful death. But S.King be like "are you seeing? Roland and Susan are so young and beautiful and brave. And now you must hurt *evil laughing"

[slowestdeer]

"If you love me, then love me.”

[glueboy-19]

rip susan delgado you would have loved taylor swift

[gifs-of-puppets]

Sesame Street (1969-Present)

[natalieironside]

Tumblr has always had this weird hive-mind thing going on where when a post blows up the notes will be full of different people all independently telling the exact same joke or relating the exact same fun fact.

My favorite is when I'll post what I think is a fairly anodine opinion and people start responding to it with utterly disproportionate rage, which is scary at first until I notice that they're all using identical turns of phrase so what's happened is I've transgressed this group's acceptable-opinion-du-jour and I know if I google that weird turn of phrase it's gonna be the headline of a Gizmodo article or something.

And by "favorite" I mean it's fucking terrifying to see adults behaving like that.

[your-own-scifi-nerd]

made some more

[wallapology]

The Master: I had something that I had been meaning to say to The Doctor for a long time now, that I just had to get off of my chest—

Jo, watching with binoculars behind a nearby bush: He’s gay.

Susan, also in bush: *cackling*

[therighthandofvengeance]

Sheridan: What is her name?

Ivanova: Chelsea, the prettiest barista who’s ever served me a double shot half-caffeine caramel macchiato with a dusting of cinnamon. I want to talk to her, but whenever I do, all I can say is “mmmm.”

Sheridan: Maybe you used up all your words ordering that coffee.

[jjjjabberwocky]

What year is it!?! Where are we!?!? So they have rice here!?!?!?!?

[ka-19]

!!! the gunslingers!!!!

i will most likely srb in the morning because i really have to work on a speech for english right now!!!

[data2364]

via Trekcore.com

Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway) with Tim Russ (Tuvok), Ethan Phillips (Neelix) and Christine Delgado (Susan Nicoletti) 1999 in Star Trek: Voyager "Someone to Watch Over Me“

https://data2364.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/daily-star-trek-11-oktober-2019/