pay attention to how creators and actors discuss potential gay rep with their fans on twitter versus how they discuss it in more formal settings like interviews and you’ll find out who your true “allies” are
“Everyone thinks he’s mentally ill but he actually just has superpowers.”
Okay, but like, what if both? Can we get a superhero with a mental illness depicted in a nominally positive way? That’s not just a cheap plot twist? Is that really too much to ask?
And not the whole “I’m psychotic and I could lose control of my powers at any moment” shit. I’m sick of that.
How about “I’m psychotic, but my telepathy helps a lot. If I think I’m hallucinating, my friends can let me see what they see and hear what they hear to keep me grounded in reality.”
Or you know, maybe someone whose mental illness and superpowers are unrelated. A speedster with depression who knows they /could/ clean their apartment in under four seconds, but would rather just watch Netflix and eat chocolate. A super strong hero who also has ocd and keeps rearranging their furniture, and sure it’s physically easy, but it’s still a pain.
Like, literally just in the few minutes it took me to write this post, I probably already came up with a good 30 character concepts. It’s not that hard, as long as you like, you know, think of mentally ill people as people and not plot devices.
“think of mentally ill people as people and not plot devices” Yes please!
Ships: Deadpool/Cable, Rictor/Shatterstar, Negasonic Teenage Warhead/Yukio, Peter Parker/Gwen Stacy Rating: M for explicit sexual references/humor Tags: College AU, Dungeons & Dragons, Developing Relationship, Sibling Relationships, Friendship, Comedy, The Goddamn Summers Family
“Is this like, an LGBT DnD group? Wow, that was a lot of letters. Are there gay wizards? I am going to be so excited if there are gay wizards.”
people always talk about vol 3 xforce or remender’s uncanny xforce being the most “badass” or scary or whatever but like, the best team is still vol 1 because imagine being some big spooky supervillain or anti-mutant group and getting your ass kicked by a bunch of sixteen-year-olds who are all dressed like this
