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I haven’t read a Flash comic since the end of the Trickster arc which was...30 issues ago. I have no idea what anyone is doing anymore. What’s Bart up to? Who knows. Wally and Wallace are...somewhere. Avery seems to be around in this arc again, I did glimpse her. But literally all it took was someone saying “hey, Thad is in a comic that came out today” and I lost my goddamn mind. Because I mean, it’s more than just him BEING HERE, which honestly would have been enough for me in 2015. Hell, it would have been enough in 2010.

But for him to be here and for a character DC actually cares about to say to Thad “your future isn’t set in stone, you don’t have to follow the shitty path that was laid out for you”...that’s amazing, that’s my heart clenching in my chest. That’s the kind of thing we wanted to have happen all the way back in 2000, that’s the kind of thing I never expected to see.

I have been saying, for the majority of my life at this point, I’ve been saying, that teen villains whose backstory is “we were raised to believe this, we were placed on the road to great evil from the start”...they don’t have to be like that. Especially clone characters like Thad. “I’m going to live out my creator’s wishes because I don’t know what else to do or how else to live” slowly morphing into “I’m going to live out my creator’s wishes in my own way, because I like everyone else that my most hated enemy is connected to and I want to still live among them and be loved as my own person” was such a good idea, executed so heartbreakingly that it’s like. Of course this character has stuck with me all this time. Of course I’m 30 years old and, having suffered through Thad’s character being mangled and his subsequent murder, I’m so excited to see him, the real him, again after all this time.

                               leaves you cold

                                        so broken 

                                                and lost

                                       there’s no comfort found there                           not the peace of mind i’ve been searching for

last evening, we learned that cheryl blossom on riverdale is a lesbian who has been struggling with comp het. today, the rpc has decided to loudly support the continued portrayal of cheryl as a non-lesbian despite lesbian roleplayers, many of whom are part of the riverdale rpc themselves, expressing how this feels like a slap in the face. lesbians were already dissatisfied with their level of acceptance within the rpc (doubly so if the muse they play is a lesbian as well) and this refusal to accept canon when it means celebrating a lesbian character has caused a lot of pain as yet another example of how unimportant they are. as a bisexual woman, i can understand a moment of hesitation when it comes to changing your muse’s sexuality from bisexual to lesbian if you are bisexual yourself. however, what matters is the choice you make on how to continue. if you come back from reflecting on this update to canon to make excuses for yourself, you have turned your back on the lesbian community and told them that they are not important. cheryl’s story specifically relates to experiencing comp het and for roleplayers to refuse to allow her to be her truest self reflects the refusal of society and individuals to allow lesbians to be their true selves. that is why this hurts, and why so many lesbians in the rpc are taking this seriously.

but this issue is not isolated to riverdale. lesbian roleplayers are confronted with rules/guidelines pages that specify the mun’s dislike of f/f relationships every day. if f/f relationships are allowed, they are subject to specific rules and hurdles that must be jumped over. why do we exclude lesbians, both muns and muses, at every step of the way? why do we feel the need to qualify them as the other?

bisexual muns and those portraying bisexual muses must be better. if your muse is a bisexual woman, but you will not roleplay f/f then change your muse’s sexuality or do not roleplay as them. stop giving lesbians in the rpc false hope that you will interact only for you to characterize them as “ship wh*res” or force-shipping. this is unacceptable. 

lesbophobic statements like the below should never be included in your rules/guidelines pages and you should unfollow people who do this.

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            ❝ You don’t know ME? That’s okay!                      DC doesn’t know me anymore either! ❞

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