#titancule

[beansprean]

hi, I’m new to your acc and tumblr in general and idk if you even still make tt content but if you do: how did all the Titans end up in the polycule? Like who was dating first, who did brought it up, who was totally confused at first, etc?

If you don’t make Titans content any more that’s totally fine. Have an awesome day, and I think your blog is really cool. Thanks!

….I have literally never given thought to how they got together djdjdjdj they sprang from my head fully formed and ‘culed lmaooo

I imagine it started with like, separate couples. Like bb and rae kinda sorta got together during all the terra drama (both also in love with her) and drew her back to their side with the power of love but it’s a while before she agrees to date them both bc she’s not in a great place after all that. And then robin and star got together obvs, uhaul lesbians always. Meanwhile star and cy have been hooking up long before she and Robin officially start dating. Star is like if u wanna be exclusive it’s fine cy and I are just post-gym adrenaline fuckbuddies, no romance just sweaty buff alien robot porking. And Robin is like 😳 umm….ok… but eventually is like please continue doing that not because I’m into it or anything. And then eventually he and cy start dating too and that was cyborgs plan all along. Then BB is like “my best bro is dating my bro….I am….third wheel?? 🥺” and so he starts flirting with cy constantly (poorly) and interrupting their dates with Robin like a weirdo. Until everyone has to sit him down and explain gently that he has a crush on cyborg and they should just date already. Meanwhile with their bfs dating new people raven and star tend to hang out more (raven thought this would result in more alone time for her but alas star keeps finding her) and star keeps making jokes like “everyone else is dating when are we gonna get together raven?? Haha just kidding…unless?” And I think that takes a much longer time to happen, like after terra returns and the bbterraven minicule is complete and they get comfy being together and raven becomes a little more emotionally available. Star keeps patiently pining. Until raven looks at her one day and is like huh. We should be holding hands. And then they do.

Ok turns out I had plenty of thoughts about that lmaoooooo ty!! WELCOME TO TUMBLR you're either here for a month or you're here forever

#teen titans #robstar #bbrae #cyrob #bbterraven #starrae #bbcy #bbterra #terraven #titancule #the-rain-falls-up #ive been here 10 years now #holy shit

[beansprean]

Titancuke thoughts: Star cyborg and terra are like “tall partners represent” jokingly but once too many so Raven Robin and bb unite in stealing bf/gf shirts because the aesthetic is so powerful. The great shirt wars

cy and terra losing clothes at an alarming rate so they start buying bigger and bigger shirts as bait until rrbb can no longer conceivably fit into them

(jokes on them, partner clothes only become more powerful the more oversized and snuggly, and the increased frequency of their little partners in tee shirt mini dresses backfires hard. the silent war continues.)

However, Starfire wears like almost exclusively crop tops and tiny tees, I feel like robin and rae would not be inclined to steal her stuff lol. She ends up feeling left out and joins in the large-clothes-buying for her own reasons.

Robin and Raven go to her room and find two xxl hoodies in their signature colors hanging on the door with a note that says "Starfire's clothes - please do not touch! 😉" And both hoodies sprayed liberally with her 'perfume' (which is actually diluted I can't believe it's not butter spray)

#starfire is so weird i love her so much #teen titans #titancule #thetorchwoodnineroleplayerwriter

[beansprean]

The writers’ urge to mine all ships for angst potiential—

Bbterraven poly relationship was just beginning to develop when slade manipulated Terra. Bbraven trauma-bonding over their shared Almost-partner going missing presumes dead. Terra coming back and seeing bb and raven and thinking that they chose each other ‘instead of’ her.

Just.

IMAGINE the angst

Oh I have....I HAVE!!!

Bb and Raven getting together during a shared heartbreak and their budding relationship being part of what makes terra feel alienated from the team and justify changing sides in her mind....AAUUUGHH the PAAAIIN

In my head I think about the terra arc as somewhere halfway between the show version and the comics version, where terra very much suffers from intense anxiety/abandonment issues/paranoia of some kind and using her powers exacerbates those feelings (paranoid schizophrenia is certainly a possibility for her but I don't want to pathologize too directly and risk villainizing psychotics; I wanna be clear her violence and rage is a learned reaction to fear and confusion from past trauma, and not something inherent to a mental illness. and her turn to Slade reeks of the trauma response of returning to familiar (abusive) roles under stress).

Somehow we get an ending where she is saved but not turned to stone (handwave) but though bb and Raven tell her their feelings, she probably rejects them at first! None of them are in a good head space with each other to form a relationship at that point. Terra goes through months and months of therapy before they begin to slowly rekindle things.

And I don't think she is a part of the team. Like, she is not actively heroing because using her powers is bad for her mental health - emergencies and parlor tricks only. That's a whole other angst arc with her dealing with being left alone in the tower and unable to help and the survivors guilt of it all if one of them gets hurt and the inevitable moment where she has to go all out earthbending style to save someone and then she runs away because she has some intrusive thoughts that terrify her and they have to go after her and talk her back down and make sure she knows she's a good person, and a hero to them for all the progress she's made. 😭😭😭

#thetorchwoodnineroleplayerwriter #teen titans #titancule #bbterraven #bbrae #bbterra #terraven #not art #FEEEELLIIIIIINNGGSSS #terra markov

[beansprean]

Does BBRob and CyRob also fit in the Titancule? (Sorry for asking, but I genuinely love love love your art on the Titancule! I wish that there were more art of the Titancule being made out there)

Bbrob no, not romantically (Robin is a he/him lesbian and bb is a cis guy, which doesn't totally matter in the long run but they are in a queerplatonic relationship same as robrae, bbstar, and cyrae)

Cyrob yes! I have a few posts in that tag wink wonk

#titancule #cyrob #< theres the tag to click if ur on mobile

[beansprean]

i was talking to my friend about the titans polycule and was curious on your thoughts about titans east, and if they’d be in their own polycule or something else 👀

OOOOOHOHOHO each titan tower just in their own polycule??? Incredible. I would totally buy into that.

I haven't seen s6 in a few years so I don't have a great grasp on the details of the TE dynamic BUT I do think I flaunted the idea of both bumblejinx and aquaspeedy in the past. Love the idea of just complete mlm/wlw hostility to polycule slowburn.

Plus kid flash can be there (he and jinx ALSO have a thing) and maybe even Donna Troy just for fun

(mas y menos are brothers :/)

#teen titans 2003 #teen titans #titancule #titancule east #lmaooo #septumspring

[beansprean]

I have been scrolling through your Teen Titans content and it is literally the absolute best... It's really hard for me to find Teen Titans content I like cuz for some reason I can only ever find content that very clearly seems to be made by cishet people so seeing someone else who makes them all queer is so enjoyable

Cishets??? In MY fandom??? Lol I know what u mean. Sometimes you see a fanwork and it's like oh your mom gave you that gender huh. And u never badazzled it or anything.

I gotta rub my queer little hands all over everything, I honestly can't remember the last time I drew someone I did not hc as queer in some way (probably bc I've been drawing ofmd and wwdits constantly and there are 0 cishets in either) ...perhaps when I was doing tracing studies of Steve Martin's character from OMITB?? Lmao and that's a MAYBE.

I'm glad the titancule speaks to you too!!! ❤️❤️

#oliver doesnt count he gives me insane bisexual vibes and obvs mabel is canonically bi #i go back and forth on whether i prefer sam winchester as a hand wavey maybe bi maybe nb not concerned about it or token cishet so #anyway this ask was about teen titans LOL got derailed #milf-radner

[beansprean]

rip to bbstar stans but they're the type of friends who would kiss just to look hot in front of the rest of the polycule

#teen titans #teen titans 2003 #titancule #bbstar #robstar #bbcy #bbrae #starrae #bbterra #my art #fanart #why are you booing me im right #asexuals are too powerful

[beansprean]

Hi Bean! :) Big fan of your Teen Titans stuff, especially the team ot5/6. Also specifically BBTeraven, but maybe I’m biased. Could I get a scrap of beautiful fanart please? Ty <3

Love them. Love their energy.

#teen titans 2003 #teen titans #bbterraven #bbrae #terraven #bbterra #titancule #my art #fanart #patreon import

[beansprean]

OK OK the ship/friendship chart is so swag but what if we threw in some queerplatonic stuff too

MAY I INTRODUCE YOU TO:

lol but yeah everyone in the cule who isn't dating is def in a qpr of some form, they all live together and are making a life together 💕

#teen titans 2003 #teen titans #titancule #raven #robin #cyborg #my art #polycule #qpr #fanart #cyraven #robrae

[beansprean]

So what do you think Terra, Beast Boy and Raven do for date nights?

#teen titans #teen titans 2003 #bbterraven #bbrae #bbterra #terraven #titancule #my art #fanart #does crimefighting count as a date #they’re weird your honor #pedanticat

[beansprean]

terra, cyborg & starfire bond over being tall compared to their partners

#teen titans #teen titans 2003 #starrae #bbcy #starrob #cyrob #titancule #poly titans #my art #fanart

[beansprean]

Hope do you feel about the series finale of Teen Titans?

^ that is the short answer lol.

Long answer is I was fucking DEVASTATED. Like I was 11 when the last episode aired and It was the first time that kind of thing had ever happened to me. I just remember staring blankly at the screen as the credits played over the theme music and when I actually processed that not only were there no more episodes but THAT was the last one… that they brought Terra BACK but it wasn’t actually terra, not really, and I had to watch bb’s heart break AGAIN and I would NEVER see what happened next or how bb processed it or what happened to terra after that…it felt like the worst kind of cliffhanger. My sister was PISSED and I was SO confused and upset.

(And of course there’s the main reason it was cancelled to wrestle with as well, that it wasn’t selling enough toys ‘because too many girls like it’ and instead of making toys girls might want they just ended one of the most popular shows on the network. Great job Cartoon Network.)

As an adult and someone able to analyze the last episode a bit better, I’m not as mad at it. It was honestly a good episode, and a good cap on a beast boy centric season. The fact that terra was alive and making her own choices for the first time was great for her character, and though it’s sad that her journey means letting go of good memories along with bad (I DO think she remembers way more than she lets on), it makes sense. Agreeing to let her go was a big moment for beast boy. Us agreeing to let the show go…is another matter entirely. Idk if they knew this would be the finale when they wrote it and I wouldn’t be surprised either way. For a season finale, it was great. For a series finale, it’s not the worst I’ve seen lmao, but I think they would have preferred an episode that focused more on the team at large. That’s how we got Trouble in Tokyo, which is….good! It’s fine! I don’t have much to say about it, honestly. A decently written extra long episode with some canon robstar and nice animation. It’s more along the lines of what I would expect from a series finale from that era of television. Not an ending, but a one last hurrah, and the promise that these characters will go on as we have imagined them to.

Do I want a real teen titans reboot? Nah. It wouldn’t be the same. And I haven’t watched CN in years; I’ve long aged out of who they would write it for (and the gritty adult titans doesn’t suit my tastes either). Every single one of us who wished on that monkeys paw got TTG instead lmao. Which is….sigh. Whatever. Some of y’all like it I guess? It only ever felt to me like CN spitting on our faces and calling it rain. (Please don’t come to my inbox telling me it’s actually good and to watch it lol I will not, but im glad it makes u happy.)

Besides the only reboot I need is my Gayass Titan Polycule can I hear a WHOOP WHOOP

#teen titans #teen titans 2003 #teen titans finale #my art #titancule #self portrait #fanart #long post

[beansprean]

Has BB ever woken up one day and been like, "I ain't vibin' with my hair's particular shade of green today! Imma go dye it a DIFFERENT shade of green!", cause I feel like there's some potential comedy there. Especially if BB changes the shade so subtly that no one else can tell the difference. But BB can. He can feel the difference through the Vibes.... 0.o

*CyBB’s your ask*

#teen titans 2003 #teen titans #cybb #bbcy #mlm #titancule #my art #fanart #terraven #wlw

[beansprean]

teentitans polycule but theyre high

Robin and his weed smoking gfs

#teen titans #drunk draws #titancule #drug use tw. #my art #fanart

[beansprean]

THE TITANS POLYCULE IS MY EVERYTHING! I see it as one of those spider-web types where everyone's not dating everyone & it's nearly impossible for an outsider to figure out who the fuck's dating who & the titans revel in the confusion. Like i think Robin's dating Star & Cyborg, Star has Robin & Raven, Raven has Star & Beastboy, Beast Boy has Raven & Cyborg, & Cyborg has Robin & Beast Boy as partners. & Silkie is their collective son.

YES!!! all these pairings yes exactly my thoughts. (Plus terra has bb&raven as well) also cy and star are gym buddies who fuck

#this shape is Spell Of Polyamory #teen titans #titans polycule rise #titancule

[beansprean]

Beast Boy: Look you want me to tell you the truth? Want me to Peel back the curtain of the Superhero community? We're all dating each other. I'm Dating Terra, and she's dating Raven, and Raven's dating me. Robin? Yeah I think I heard he and Starfire have a thing going with one of the Batgirls. Some of us even date Supervillians, not even retired, Active Supervillians. An d it's not just the youths either, I'm pretty sure the Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman have a thing going on.

#teen titans #nice #titancule