FLARE ON FURY

Sara Lance who died before she could redeem herself.

Sara Lance who lost her soul.

Sara Lance who got her soul back but struggled with bloodlust.

Sara Lance who lost her sister and couldn't bring her back because time wouldn't let her.

Sara Lance who became the captain of rejected heroes, villains, and outcasts because she is the epitome of a troubled soul who couldn't find their place in the world.

Sara Lance who regarded those misfits and outcasts as her family and trusted them with every fiber of her being as they held that same amount of trust in her.

Sara Lance who had every right to kill her sister's murderer but didn't because she knew the importance of family.

Sara Lance who had to watch Zari go through the same grief she went through when she couldn't save Behrad with time travel (the first time).

Sara Lance who lost the only person who knew her before the terrible accident that changed the entire course of everyone's lives.

Sara Lance who woke up as a completely different species with all the scars of her past erased clean off her skin, as if she never went through it in the first place.

Sara Lance who never thought she'd have a peaceful ending.

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She kept finding women in laboratory photographs from the 1800s. Then she read the published papers—and every single woman had vanished. Someone had erased them from history.

Yale University, 1969.

Margaret Rossiter was a graduate student studying the history of science. She was one of very few women in her program.

Every Friday afternoon, students and faculty gathered for beers and informal conversation. One week, Margaret asked a simple question: "Were there ever any women scientists?"

The faculty answered firmly: No.

Someone mentioned Marie Curie. The group dismissed it—her husband Pierre really deserved the credit.

Margaret didn't argue. But she also didn't believe them.

So she started looking.

She found a reference book called "American Men of Science"—essentially a Who's Who of scientific achievement. Despite the title, she was shocked to discover it contained entries about women. Botanists trained at Wellesley. Geologists from Vermont.

There were names. There were credentials. There were careers.

The professors had been wrong.

But Margaret's discovery was just the beginning. Because as she dug deeper into archives across the country, she found something far more disturbing.

Photograph after photograph showed women standing at laboratory benches, working with equipment, listed on research teams.

But when she read the published papers, the award citations, the official histories—those same women had disappeared. Their names were missing. Their contributions erased.

It wasn't random. It was systematic.

Women who designed experiments watched male colleagues publish results without giving them credit. Women whose discoveries were assigned to supervisors. Women listed in acknowledgments instead of as authors. Women passed over for awards that went to male collaborators who contributed far less.

Margaret realized she was witnessing a pattern that stretched across centuries.

Women had always been present in science. The record had simply pushed them aside.

She needed a name for what she was documenting.

In the early 1990s, she found it in the work of Matilda Joslyn Gage—a 19th-century suffragist who had written about this exact phenomenon in 1870.

In 1993, Margaret published a paper formally naming it: The Matilda Effect.

The term captured something that had been hidden in plain sight for generations. Once you knew the term, you saw it everywhere.

Her dissertation became a lifelong mission.

For more than 30 years, Margaret researched and wrote her landmark three-volume series: Women Scientists in America. She examined letters, institutional policies, individual careers. She gathered undeniable evidence that women in science had been consistently under-credited and structurally excluded.

Her work faced resistance. Many dismissed women's history as political rather than academic. Others insisted she was exaggerating.

Margaret didn't argue emotionally. She presented data. Documented cases. Patterns repeated across decades and institutions.

Eventually, the evidence became undeniable.

Her research helped restore recognition to scientists who had been erased:

Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray work revealed DNA's structure—credit went to Watson and Crick.

Lise Meitner, who explained nuclear fission—omitted from the Nobel Prize.

Nettie Stevens, who discovered sex chromosomes—received little credit.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered stars are made of hydrogen—initially dismissed.

And countless others whose names had nearly vanished.

Margaret changed the narrative. Science was no longer just the story of solitary male geniuses. It became a story of collaboration that included women who had been written out.

Let’s talk about them

It’s the last day of Pride Month and I’ve spent everyday talking about a different Queer characters, where I provided info and lore about the character and what comics they are currently in or even what events they might be apart of

But I thought on the last day it would be fun to talk about all the different DC characters that are kinda sort implied queer or are only queer in different worlds like the Arrowverse or Young Justice so on

Just cause. It’s actually a pretty weirdly long list. I honestly never realized just how many character are only Queer in these shows

this might not be everyone, but it's at least a good amount, I will also be noting the specific ones I wish were queer in canon runs

Let's get to it

Jackson Hyde

While yes he is queer in canon dc, in Young Justice (Earth-16) he is Bi and Poly, which is just an interesting change so I thought I would not it

Captain Cold

Is Pansexual in the Arrowverse CW show The Flash and specifically stated as Gay and with the Ray in Earth-10 within the Arrowverse. I would be fine with him being Pan, and I'm gonna be so real with y'all I love Captain Cold he's gotta be one of my favorite villains and him and the Rogues are so much fun

Mr. Terrific

Is gay in the Arrowverse, and if I'm being real I don't know how well I think this would work if it was at all canon, but in the Arrowverse then sure since I know he had basically very different lore in the show

White Canary

Is bisexual in the arrowverse in both the show the Arrow and DC Legends of Tomorrow and honestly I do not know about her outside of this world to say my feelings about it

I will also say there are insteresting choices they made with her in this world

Bart Allen

Impulse is described as Achillean in Young Justice which I actually find like an interesting choice, that made more sense then anything else. Plus I do feel as though you don't here enough about achillean all that much)

El Dorado

He is also described as Achillean in Young Justice, where much like Bart its canon but never outright said, but you can see him and Bart go on dates

I kinda like his design in the Young Jutice show, but I don't know a lot about him in general so I'm not sure if its weird considering this lore or anything but the outfit kinda fucks ngl

Halo

is nonbinary and queer in Young Justice

The character is redesigned and the storyline changed. Halo is now the reanimated body of Gabrielle Daoa, a Quraci refugee who had been kidnapped and used for metahuman trafficking.

Lagoon Boy

Bi and Poly in Young Justice. much to his dismay, saying Gamma always gets the "soft job". When he talks he uses many atlantean slang words. He is also shown to have the abilities to breath underwater and Enhance his strength with rune like tattoos, like Aqualad's

Nora West-Allen

XS is a Lesbian in the the Flash tv show, and I will be honestly I lowkey thought she was a Lesbian in canon. Also I forgot how much I love a lot of her art in the comics, she has such a good design

Joshua Williamson has stated that XS will show up at somepoint in the upcoming Legion of Superheroes book, so if you do like her as a character checking that out might be worth it

Penguin

Specifically queer and has feelings for the Riddler in the later half of the Gotham tv show. I would also like to mention that I really liked this show and his character within that show

Lena Luthor

Is interested in women within the Smallville tv show, I also thought she was queer in the supergirl show, but maybe all those edits got me

Tess Mercer was born as Lutessa Lena Luthor as the daughter of Lionel Luthor and Pamela Jenkins. After a few years, Lutessa was give up to an orphanage, run by Granny Goodness. Granny trained Lutessa to become the leader of her personal team - the Female Furies

Livewire

Is a lesbian in both the Harley Quinn show and in My Adventures with Superman

A popular vlogger who was well known for her makeup tutorials and pranks, Leslie Willis attempted to pull her biggest prank yet by rerouting Metropolis’ power grid to spell out a dirty word that could be seen from space. Her device was taken by Superman, but she insisted on attempting to carry out her plot anyways. When it went awry she was electrocuted, and so gained her electrokinetic powers

Stephanie Brown

Is specifically Bisexual in the Gotham Knights tv show.

Stephanie Brown is the daughter of Cluemaster. When he comes back into her life she finds her father back to his old tricks, except he no longer feels the need to leave clues behind. In an attempt to try and stop her father she created a costume of her own and began to call herself the “Spoiler”

Personally I love Stephanie Brown and I vote they make her Bi in canon and the reason dc won't do it is because they are cowards

Dr. Light (Hoshi), Big Barda, Lois Lane, Supergirl, Vixen, Hawkwoman, Mera, and Nell Little

Are all Sapphic or Bisexual are all in DC Bombshells, I'm not sure what was going on in that series that so many characters where queer but honeslty good for them

I LIKE it

someone else might LIKE it

it is FUN to do

I get those THOUGHTS out of my head

it's fun to look BACK on

have I mentioned it's FUN?

it's CATHARTIC

it's nice to see what I CAN DO