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ieatadoptmepets · 11 months

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I meant to make this forever ago but here are my gay titan headcanons for pride month

Dick Grayson

The man is definitely bi. Growing up with bruce, he never got a chance for any kind of meaningful relationship and wasn't like other kids with internet access (or however that worked, I mean he's around my mom's age and her generation all had like flip phones in highschool or whatever) or "the talk" or really anything pertaining to sexuality. And instead of not realizing it until adulthood, he kinda just took it as it's completely normal because he never saw anything special about it. Bruce was always supportive of any pride marches going on which made him feel safe but they always had this mutual understanding that didn't make anything need to be said out loud

He may look sexy as fuck all the time but it's all a show, he's so asexual. I've always kinda took this as canon even though nothing like that was mentioned or shown, and he slept with kori pretty early on but nevermind that. He's not out to anyone because he didn't know asexuality was a thing, but more on that later with another character I headcanon as ace :-)

When he does figure it out though he comes out publicity rather quickly and the internet goes wild, leaving his teammates to find out through twitter

Conner being the sweet guy he is congratulates him

Koriand'r

On Tamaran, no one is really aware of sexuality as a society, but just that a princess needs her prince and things like that (I don't know much about Tamaran, I could be wrong in canon but this is headcanon) but they do have the capacity for sexuality. Kori comes to earth and discovers human sexuality and doesn't really understand any of it and tries to figure out what she is but comes to the conclusion that it's VERY confusing but by god does she love dick grayson

Gar Logan

He's very much pansexual. He's always struggled with coming out to people, half of him thinking 'it's so obvious but they never said anything so they must be homophobic but deal with me for titans business' and 'they think I'm straight and I should come out' but rachel helps him, they are mspec solidarity

He comes out officially to the public during pride month which causes the rest of the titans to come out and make their statements which makes the world go crazy

He comes out to the team by donning a bunch of pan pride merch and hanging up a flag in his room and eventually they take notice and ask what it's about he makes a big show out of it and kori makes him a pan colored cake with the help of rachel because he was so excited about it

When he and rachel officially room together, they fold their pride flags in half to combine them on the wall

He is also asexual. I don't get sexual attraction so almost everyone is asexual. Like me he doesn't get the hype around it so he doesn't make a big deal about it like his pansexuality. He comes out because jason makes a joke about him and rachel now sharing a room and he just goes "huh? oh, no, me and rachel don't do that. I'm asexual :D" thus prompting dick to talk to gar in private and explain to him, and he doesn't show it but he's very excited and goes to tell kori

Rachel Roth

She is so bi without a doubt. When she comes out with the titans, people give her a lot of shit for being in a committed relationship with a man while being bi but she responds to all public backlash just getting increasingly more obnoxious with it. Think like aggressively chaotic videos in response to trolls to Lady Gaga songs and hanging pride flags from the tower every June

Jason Todd

Look at this man and tell me he's not bi. You can't. I know I've headcanoned like everyone as bi but that's because I'm projecting

He gets a boyfriend and thinks he's keeping it a secret but he's really bad at it

He acts like he's going out with a girl but has no idea how to act with a guy, so he asks the titans very obvious advice that just gets worse the more he tries to cover it up

Bruce knows it from the start pretty much because he's always acted like a tool who only cared about showing off everything batman and titan related when he dated girls but he actually appears genuine, so it must mean he's gay

One evening he tells the titans he's going on a date and rachel goes "with your boyfriend?"

Then they convince him to take his date to the tower to meet them which ends up being the best date he's ever been on

Conner Kent

At first he has no concept of sexuality because he starts out when he broke out of the lab with the emotional mind of a toddler

As he "grows up" he learns more about sexuality it kinda confuses him and finds he's unlabeled

Sexuality is hella confusing for him because all his pre existing knowledge comes from Clark Kent and Lex Luther and it's not like he inherited their sexuality and he never got to grow up and experience life

He's one of the titans who isn't exactly out about their sexuality, but that's because he doesn't label himself and currently that's only a concern to komand'r

His girlfriend is unlabeled too for the same reasons as kori and Conner has the biggest himbo bi wife energy despite being the smartest human-ish alive

I kinda gave everyone the same headcanons but please reblog with your headcanons I'd love to see them <3

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pandoraimperatrix · 9 months

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I'm still blocked as fuuuuuuuck and having no time for nothing I even shit at work because I don't have time to shit at home but here have a bit of I managed to write

It's for a extra chapter for WW from Gar's and Rachel's POV.

She comes to him room every night after Kory leaves. And for some reason he doesn’t even question why, she doesn’t explain herself, they don’t need that. They don’t need that for the same reason why is isn’t weird to have her in his bed, hooded under crook of his neck as if she was the one that was able to turn into animals and making herself small and fuzzy, a baby bird kicked from the nest.

If the nightmares wasn’t bad enough with the added discomfort from his arm’s phantom pain from a fracture that disappeared with just a change into a different animal before he returned to himself, she snored badly and moved around too much.

And the first day after Zatanna comes along it gets so bad that Gar just knows he’ll be equipped with a headache and a terrible mood to deal with the costumers from the cafeteria, but he won’t call in sick, he never does.

Going there, pretending to be normal, pretending that once upon a time he didn’t kill, maimed and fed from every single person inside, crazy as it is, it’s the last flimsy string of the brief taste of normality he wasn’t ready to give up entirely yet.

Just as it never occurs to him to simply kick her out. Even though the sleep isn’t restorative, having her solid and warm at his arm’s length does more to rest his soul and mind than a thousand years of sleeping would.

Gar pats the top of her head just to reassure himself she’s there sometimes, and cringes when he remembers that once upon a time he had a crush on her. When they didn’t know each other. Before she became so much more than a pretty girl in goth clothing and big sad eyes, before she became his sister, and way better than a girlfriend could ever be, before she became his soulmate.

His soulmate just happened to be a pain in the ass at night, hogging blankets and sometimes turning into a werid cyclone of sharp blades and demonic energy. She made him more sleep deprived than a newborn’s mother. He complained, but never with resentment, and when she says she’s sorry Gar only roll his eyes, an habit he took from her. Rachel showed dislike and dissatisfaction so easily, it was enviable, when you grow up in a house where everybody was dangling on the edge, you learn to thread carefully, hide under a mask and beware.

But know she’s teaching him it’s okay to be him, and show who he is, and he is learning.

“Zatanna is a bitch,” he tells Rachel handing her a pack of frozen peas.

Rachel barks a laugh mixed with a snort and then clenches her eyes in pain, Gar takes the cut to turn the already dim lights off, engulfing them in complete darkness, his pupils stretch into the pupils of a tiger.

“You were the one fangirling when Dick called her.”

He sighs, one would think by now he’d have learned to never meet his heroes, too bad his disappointing heroes became his judgemental extended family and that mostly he couldn't help but keep meeting the bastards.

#wandering worlds #dcu titans #max titans #hbo max titans #beast boy #dc raven #garfield logan #rachel roth #Rachel and Gar are queer platonic partners

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rubysparx · 2 years

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Happy pride from the teen titans of jump city !! including Terra!

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autisticcassandracain · 8 months

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Everyone's crimes:

Raven: busy going evil and/or being dead 80% of the time, annoying and pretty fucked up will-they-won't-they with Wally that makes neither of them look good.

Dick Grayson: the writers' specialest little boy who needs to be the smartest person in the room always, has the narrative bend over backwards for him constantly to the point where he gets a brainwashing arc that means you could argue nothing bad he did has ever been his fault since like, issue 26 or something.

Donna Troy: got married to Marv Wolfman's self-insert, little miss perfect.

Garfield Logan: group sexual harrasser and self-described chauvenist pig, won't stop complaining about his trauma and daddy issues (and yeah they're pretty bad but in the immortal words of Donna Troy 'that's not exactly unique in this group'), depressed funny guy except he's not funny 98% of the time.

Victor Stone: won't stop complaining about his trauma and daddy issues 2 electric boogaloo (again they're bad again that's not exactly unique in this group and also there's only so many times you can have the same character conflict before it gets annoying).

Koriand'r: idk I guess she's annoyingly clingy towards Dick but if a female character is stuck in an annoying relationship you should always blame the guy, it is always morally correct. She's written by a guy and Dick's that guy's specialest little boy, of course she's shafted. She's done nothing wrong ever in her life no I am not biased do not look at my icon —

Wally West: self-described conservative, primary character trait is not wanting to be here and complaining incessantly about it, see above point about blaming the guy in reference to his relationship with Raven.

Joey Wilson: honestly I have no clue why you'd find Joey annoying. He's too nice? Got no-homo'd too hard before they changed their minds and made him canon queer twice? Had a badly written villain arc bc the writers didn't know what to do with him? Idk. His worst crime is being attached to Deathstroke who IS annoying. Annoying by association.

Kole Weathers: introduced to die and it shows, if you thought Kori was clingy wait until you meet Kole's pathologically clingy ass. That said if I'm honest she's mostly here so I can justify putting Danny Chase on the list as well.

Danny Chase: fourteen years old but he thinks he's the smartest most capable person in the room and he's not even right. The narrative desperately wants you to think he's cool but he's just kinda not. Worst part here is that since I'm literally ten years older than him l can't even be bothered by him bc if I am that makes ME the loser. Damian Wayne did the annoying arrogant over-competent kid schtick better (source: me and my bias).

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stewyhosseini-bf · 1 year

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ah fuck let's try again - 1-2, 8, 16, 22-25, 31? hehe

ohh okay let's go let's go !!

1. favorite pairing (that could actually work if they got their shit together)

easy. kenstewy but idk if it counts bc well as we all know. they have been boyfriends in the PAST. but i guess work again now, them!!

2. favorite pairing (cringe fail edition)

easy, tomshiv. no one does cringefail marriage like them, truly truly. i think about them. often and much. and they mean a lot to me actually

8. how do you think the show will end?

really hard one !!! well for one, Logan has to die by the end or else the show can't end. OR they all cut him off but that won't happen. any other way they are still going to be influenced by him and the show can't end.. I truly don't see any roy sibling becoming CEO, or at least not become CEO and be happy... it's so hard honestly I think about it a lot bc i have no idea! Jesse Armstrong is gonna come up w something insane that i could only dream about!

16. logan moment that made you the most homicidal

s 1-3 of succession tbh i can't pin it down further than that i think

22. favorite literary allusions or intertexts

I think the crime & punishment and Kendall s2 parallels are VERY interesting to uncover and think about ! love the nero sporus stuff too, they were insane for that...

23. least favorite thing about the show (hard mode: not comfrey)

that they sidelined Jess in s3 and instead gave comfrey such a big role (is this cheating idk. but it pisses me off). if jess is not more prominant in s4 i'm gonna be pissed.

24. dream guest star

easy. Andrew Garfield as one of Kendall & Stewy's college friends who one or both of them might or might not have had a thing with

25. favorite performance (can split into lead, supporting, and guest if you want to be a coward about it)

ok i'll be a coward but even like this it's fucking HARD to choose but if i HAVE to.: Jeremy Strong as Kendall. sorry for being basic...

supporting Arian Moayed as Stewy immediately comes to mind the way he can make me care this much about a character with MAYBE. like 60 minutes of screentime in the whole show is insane. but also right now actually wanna give Alan Ruck props he's actually so fucking good in that role. idk, very hard to pick!!

guest maybe Cherry Jones as Nan... that woman is real to me, that's just a real person idk how to explain that but yeah.. very good!

31. sexuality headcanons

I've extensively talked about my queer kendall hc or like what I deem some .. if not proof then examples of allusion to that in canon, so there's that! also gerri to me is bi and has been since she said the 'i have a sexual affair with your mother and she talks in her sleep' to Tom, idk.. ! it's kinda hard cause they put in a lot of stuff about so many characters where it's like .. would this even be considered a total headcanon still if there is actual stuff you can point to in canon idk... shiv being bi probably is another big one..

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ao3feed-timkon · 1 year

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At the Planet Fitness

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/xptDFko

by sirmagicstein

Bruce Wayne wants to keep his sons humble so he does the only reasonable thing, buys rights to a branch of Planet Fitness and when his sons come of age, make them work there.

Tim is convinced that Jason is out to get him and that's why he keeps getting scheduled at the same times that his crush, Conner Kent comes in every week.

Dick has always been in love with his best friend Wally West, who has a crush on M'gann. (Or so he thinks)

Jason is oblivious to his friend Roy's obvious attraction to him and is convinced his love is unrequited.

Damian avoids the Planet Fitness as much as possible. Until one day he meets gym go-er Jon Kent.

Words: 1996, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Superboy (Comics), Super Sons (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Wally West, Roy Harper, Jonathan Kent, Barbara Gordon, Stephanie Brown, Raven, M'gann M'orzz, Artemis Crock, Kaldur'ahm | Jackson Hyde, Zatanna Zatara, Garfield Logan, Cassie Sandsmark, Bart Allen

Relationships: Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent, Dick Grayson/Wally West, Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Jon Lane Kent & Kon-El | Conner Kent, Jonathan Kent/Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, M'gann M'orzz & Wally West, Stephanie Brown & Tim Drake, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Raven

Additional Tags: NO CAPES, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Alternate Universe - Planet Fitness, Gyms, Pining, Slow Burn, hopefully, Good Sibling Tim Drake, Bisexual Tim Drake, Bisexual Dick Grayson, gender queer character, Coming Out, Dick Grayson is a Ray of Sunshine, Batbrothers (DCU), Bat Family, Gay Wally West

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/xptDFko

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #timkon

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ao3feed-brucewayne · 1 year

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At the Planet Fitness

by sirmagicstein

Bruce Wayne wants to keep his sons humble so he does the only reasonable thing, buys rights to a branch of Planet Fitness and when his sons come of age, make them work there.

Tim is convinced that Jason is out to get him and that's why he keeps getting scheduled at the same times that his crush, Conner Kent comes in every week.

Dick has always been in love with his best friend Wally West, who has a crush on M'gann. (Or so he thinks)

Jason is oblivious to his friend Roy's obvious attraction to him and is convinced his love is unrequited.

Damian avoids the Planet Fitness as much as possible. Until one day he meets gym go-er Jon Kent.

Words: 1996, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Superboy (Comics), Super Sons (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/44716265

#IFTTT #bruce wayne #batman #the dark knight #the cape crusader #gotham #dc universe #ao3 #ao3feed

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arwainian · 2 years

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Gar and/or joey for the bingo 👀

garfield logan. i have many feelings about this man (as i have seen him in the comics i've read so far) most of which are extremely frustrated with how much of an ass he is, in an affectionate way. i want to smack him around a bit until he learns his lesson. he is the holden caulfield of the new teen titans to me, as in i think he's queer and has adhd and is still an ENORMOUS MISOGYNISTIC ASSHAT

#arwainian princessoid decrees #cal reads comics

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ao3feed-birdflash · 1 year

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At the Planet Fitness

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/t9TBeO3

by sirmagicstein

Bruce Wayne wants to keep his sons humble so he does the only reasonable thing, buys rights to a branch of Planet Fitness and when his sons come of age, make them work there.

Tim is convinced that Jason is out to get him and that's why he keeps getting scheduled at the same times that his crush, Conner Kent comes in every week.

Dick has always been in love with his best friend Wally West, who has a crush on M'gann. (Or so he thinks)

Jason is oblivious to his friend Roy's obvious attraction to him and is convinced his love is unrequited.

Damian avoids the Planet Fitness as much as possible. Until one day he meets gym go-er Jon Kent.

Words: 1996, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Superboy (Comics), Super Sons (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/t9TBeO3

#dick grayson #robin #nightwing #wally west #kid flash #flash #birdflash #dickwally

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pansexualcharacteroftheday · 5 years

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𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 : Beast Boy from the original Teen Titans .

requested by @here-be-spideychelle

#pansexual #pan #pansexuality #lgbt #queer #gay #pansexual character of the day #headcanons #mlm #dc comics #teen titans #beast boy #garfield logan #the oringinal #and the only #man im so happy that after the original series ended they nevere ever did another tt series ever again

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forlornmelody · 5 years

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Okay, but Gar’s gay awakening after seeing Dick in the Robin costume has got to be one of my favorite Titans moments ever. His fanboying over Batman? CREAM ON THE CAKE. Or whatever they say.

#dc comics #titans #okay like I know he's probably just nerding out #BUT LET ME HAVE MY QUEER HEADCANONS OKAY #dick grayson #garfield logan #melody watches Titans

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abanomath · 4 years

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DC’s Tone Deafness

So I don’t really like ranting or being negative, but DC Universe recently released an article to celebrate pride month about the Top 5 canon and non-canon LGBTQA+ relationships in Young Justice.

And the tone deafness is just off the charts. Like most of the world, I’m not American so I needed someone to screen-cap the actual article for me. I’m going to organize my thoughts and go down below.

General

For one, its pretty obvious the writer didn’t look at the source material. This article sounds like it was written by someone filled in on the basics and told to write a good PR article for DC.

There are a lot of little details in the story, such as when the writer claims that they “showcased even more LGBTQA+ protagonists in season 3″ implying they had previously, which they hadn’t. One character was implied to be bisexual in the comics, never on screen, but more on that below. Season 3 was the first LGBTQA+ rep for the show.

Also its always a bit tone deaf when in an article celebrating LGBTQA+ and diversity in your show, that you have a list of 5 “ships”, of which only ONE is actually a couple in canon. Not only did they need to resort to non-canon ones, they included people that can’t be called a “ship” or couple.

1. Kaldur/Wyynde

This is the only actual LGBTQA+ couple on the list that is canon in the show, and I liked them. But I can’t deny that Kaldur who was a main cast member for the past two season’s had a vastly reduced role (compared to straight cis white characters like Dick and Conner). He was basically written out of the first half of the season, and then his relationship was really present for 1.5 - 2 episodes max. This in a season that was marked with excessive attention given to heterosexual relationships (like seriously, basically every character was in some form of relationship on-screen). The one healthy LGBTQA relationship got less attention than Black Lightning and Dr. Jace’s romance, something that ultimately went nowhere, Dick/Barbara, even Megan/Conner when Megan was also essentially written out of the season.

2. Marie Logan and Rita Farr

They really dug deep for this “ship”. Ironically, they start this by talking about the scene in Young Justice #25, when Queen B’s powers work on Garfield’s mother. This was the first implication her being bisexual. And of course, she also dies in this scene, so starting off with a “Bury your gays” trope where Marie’s queerness literally got her killed and orphaned her son.

There isn’t much more to say about this ship, because it literally doesn’t exist. The shipping community for this is so small you have to go digging deep into tags to find even hints of it. The article even basically says this, posing the ship as a question. As being interesting. (Does it count as Bury Your Gays when both woman are dead before their relationship is even hinted at?)

In other words this article about celebrating LGBTQA ships literally had to try and CREATE A SHIP to reach 5 ships. Despite the fact there are plenty of LGBTQ fanon ships (Birdflash being the most prominent one left off the list). It really hits at the thing I said above, this is a “write us a good PR article with the barest amount of effort put into it” situation.

3. Harper Row and Halo

Oh boy don’t get me started on this. There are so many problems with how they did Halo this season, she is basically tone deaf personified. (For the purpose of this rant, I’ll be using the “she” pronouns for Halo, because I have no choice but to assume they are her preference, unless the show purposely spent the entire season mis-gendering her, but I don’t think her characterization really supports that she prefers “her/she”).

I’ve had a problem with Halo from the start, because she is basically an attempt for the writers to shallowly include representation without having to actually deal with it. She is Muslim representation, but not actually Muslim (as she confirms on the show). She wears the Hijab because she feels like it. She is genderqueer, but they never once talk about her pronouns. She refers to herself as “not feeling like a boy or a girl” and constantly refers to herself in the third person, but everyone uses “she/her” pronouns without asking her. They even have a scene where she informs them she is genderqueer, and its never brought up again without asking any actual follow up questions or awareness. They also infantalize and treat her as a little girl.

Additionally, she falls into one of my greatest pet peeves - she is genderqueer but for fantasy-scifi reasons. For those that follow genderqueer or transgender characters in media, this is a very common trope. Essentially, the trope is when someones gender identity is caused by/determined from otherworldly experiences.

This trope bugs me because it completely undermines the point of representation. Representation in media is supposed to show the audience that these are natural human experiences and that people like this exist and are normal. But the trope ensures that the experiences are not normal human experiences.

(and don’t even get me started on the fact that this show has made New Genesis tech gendered before, with Sphere. And even gender the bioship in the same season they pull this for Halo).

Lastly, she also falls within the “promiscuous bisexual” trope, with the very kiss this article praises as THE FIRST LGBT KISS ON SCREEN for the show. This is a problematic trope that DC seems to love. Basically, this scene has Halo cheating on her boyfriend with another young classmate, engaging in two kisses with her.

Now I’m not going to say that all LGBTQA+ relationships need to be wholesome one true loves. Problematic behaviour like Halo and Harper’s is a story telling tool. But the fact that the LGBTQA+ was told going into the season there would be LGBT rep so they should watch, and this was the first rep we got 18 episodes into the season? It felt a bit like a slap in the face. They could’ve had her break up with Brion beforehand, or any number of different ways that would even keep the scene in tact.

And the relationship doesn’t really go anywhere anyways. Harper doesn’t really remain part of the season going forward, Halo and her boyfriend continue their relationship after it was revealed until the end of the season.

This is ultimately my problem with Halo. There are a few tropes that basically are summed up as “writers put all their diversity into one character” which is basically what Halo is. Each of these qualities, from faith to gender identity to sexual orientation could’ve been a fleshed out character arc (oh! I forgot to mention she also falls into the “My gender identity isn’t cis, so my sexual orientation is also bi/pan/gay” trope). Instead all the diverse qualities of Halo are addressed shallowly as the show-runners pat themselves on the back.

4. Bluepulse

I’ve ranted a lot so I’m not going to go crazy on this point. You can probably find tons of posts about the drama between Bluepulse Shippers and the show, which again makes their inclusion kind of tone-deaf. Bluepulse shippers have been called disgusting by the fandom for the three year age gap, an age gap that was never confirmed on screen and you had to go digging in Greg’s personal message board to know (resulting in many people shipping them not knowing their ages at all).

In addition, the showrunners made it clear they did not like this ship over the several years the show has been off the air. And in Season 3 they give Jaime a girlfriend….who is a lesbian in the comics. Now Traci and Jaime did date in the comics before she came out, and this is another Earth. But when the sole purpose of their relationship being on screen was to tell the audience that bluepulse wasn’t happening, choosing a lesbian character to play the cis straight girlfriend is a bit of a slap in the face. again.

5. Bart Allen and Eduardo

Queerbaiting, nuff said.

For those not in the know, Ed is a character introduced as a runaway in Season 2, but he doesn’t really interact with Bart until mid-season 3. There is an episode where a group of heroes go to a carnival, and Ed and Bart appear to be on a date. They are in a group with all couples, except for Virgil. Virgil laments being the only person there without a significant other, implying that Bart and Ed are together. Additionally, Bart and Ed do everything that the other couples do together. It was pretty heavy-handed that the couples were there on dates.

And fans liked this! Even if Bluepulse wasn’t happening, Bart may still be bisexual or gay. This was made worse by Greg retweeting and liking Ed/Bart content, and not giving a straight answer on whether they were dating.

Which obviously, creates the expectation among LGBTQA+ fans that they will get together. They don’t. And later at a convention, one of the main writers (not Greg) said something like “its funny how the fans see relationships between characters differently from our intent” when asked a question about them. Essentially confirming that yeah, they didn’t have any actual content for them planned anyway. Though they did have an addendum that they may build on the fan reception/view of the relationship in the future (basically saying, maybe they’ll be canon).

As much as I’d like to be optimistic that they actually will get together and we’ll get a LGBTQ relationship that is in the spotlight for once, I’m not. I’ll be happy to be proved wrong on this point.

And that was my TEDtalk about how tone-deaf DC patting themselves on the back for LGBTQA+ content in Young Justice is. Especially when other animated shows do so much better with fewer episodes and screen time.

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