Dec 10, 2025
My desire to add more interesting relationships in my story means at least one of these bitches ends up nonbinary and several become ace. You wanna see what you are in the world~
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My desire to add more interesting relationships in my story means at least one of these bitches ends up nonbinary and several become ace. You wanna see what you are in the world~
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Part of me feels like the reason for Beyond Canon's conceit of being as canon as the individual person wants it to be is some sort of "have your cake and eat it too" get out of jail free card for avoiding criticism for writing decisions they knew would be divisive and controversial.
What do you mean this is only as official as a fan work. You were handpicked by Homestuck's Creator personally to join the Homestuck Company to continue the Homestuck storyline with all final approval going to the Homestuck Creator. This is about as close to an official Homestuck sequel as is feasible. How is this comparable to fan works?
Like, they knew confirming Roxy was transmasc was going to illicit a Reaction from transfems who.saw ourselves reflected in her character or that the Davekat breakup and...whatever's going on with Kanaya/Rose/Jade plotline would get rightful criticism for undermining all the meaningful gay rep in the end of the original Homestuck.
I am not cut out to be a superhero comic writer because just existing as a trans lesbian has left me with a spiteful disdain for, like, 80% of superhero comic fandom and the broader comic book industry as a whole. If i ever wrote a superhero comic, it would be a spiteful, metatextual takedown of the myriad of ways superhero comics (yes including the 'alternative, edgy' indie stuff like Image Comics) have failed in representing the communities I'm a part of with sensitivity and respect. It'd be a purely self indulgent vent piece and would be so aggressively critical of both comic book fandoms and the companies that make them it'd probably get me blacklisted from the industry.
Its a common refrain from people in fandom spaces, especially comic book fandom spaces, to try to tell queer people to "make our own characters" whenever we even tentatively suggest queer representation in characters we like. Probably the biggest example of this phenomenon is Peter Parker Spider-Man, because Stan Lee explicitly made basically this exact argument as an excuse to avoid confirming anything and it was later revealed that Marvel made it essentially contractually impossible for Sony to depict him as anything other than a cisgender heterosexual man.
The problem with this mentality is that we've tried it, and it doesn't work.
Sticking with the Spider-Man example, there actually is a gay Spider-Man. He's completely segregated off into his own universe, but he does exist.
Or at least, he existed for a brief period where he was a supporting character in the Spider-Verse event he debuted in and then he disappeared completely.
These characters don't stick, especially when they're in their own separate universe so they don't have to touch the main continuity. Don't believe me? Alright, I'll bite. How many solo books in their own universe, without multiverse shenanigans to distract from the plot, do characters like Web Weaver and Sun Spider have? Hell, how many times have they appeared at all since the most recent Spider-Verse event ended a full year ago?
That's right, none!
We can't make our own characters, because nobody but us is going to put in time and effort to engage with those characters. Which means once the series we made the character in, for all intents and purposes that character is in the can as well. This is even worse with alternate universe comics, which are significantly less long running than the main continuity. Hell, Spider-Gwen and Miles had to leave their original universes and assimilate into 616 continuity so Marvel could justify their continued consistent use. And they still haven't used Gwen in a year.
Also, I don't think you guys realize how exhausting it is having to basically constantly rely on alternate universe variations to see ourselves represented in characters we already like and are invested in. We're not good enough for the main continuity, but sure in this one-off alternate universe Wolverine can kiss a guy. Sure, in this one limited run continuity we can kind of imply that Black Canary is maybe a trans woman depending on your interpretation. Hoped you liked gay Colossus and the accidental trans metaphor of Jessica Drew while you got them because we're literally destroying this universe now. Its constant consolation prizes and never allowing us to actually see ourselves in the big players the writers can't just choose to ignore.
When people respond to the headcanon of Spider-Gwen being a trans woman with "I actually think her Peter was the trans one and she's just a Good Ally and Friend" kinda annoys me for two reasons.
One, it's pretty clearly trying to find a palatable way to deny trans women the ability to see ourselves explicitly represented positively in mainstream superhero media.
Two, it doesn't seem to realize the implications of that Peter being trans if they're right. Gwen's version of Peter is a tragic figure who injects himself with Dangerous Chemicals that turn him into an aggressive, violent, literal monster. He dies chronologically before the film series even begins. It's even worse if he's the only trans representation in the movie, because that'd mean the only trans person's only role in the story would be to be mourned by his cis friend as a tool for angst.
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Why must the books I become obsessed with have almost no fandom?
Dunno how to tell you this but in a show with the majority of characters being women AND isn't a romance show, a gay couple is unlikely.
It's not a conspiracy.
Gay men still deserve better.
Would I like Yang to be canonically labeled a lesbian? Sure. I believe it in my heart of hearts.
Do I think there's a good reason to do it in-universe? Not really.
Remnant isn't Earth. There are no obvious distinctions between genders regarding relationships at least going by the reactions of characters to same-gender romantic couples.
Any excuse to avoid actually providing lesbian representation, right? /s