#Rachel Sexton

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3 livros perfeitos para ler nos dias quentes

Transforme o calor em histórias envolventes! Descubra os 3 livros perfeitos para ler nos dias quentes.

Com as temperaturas elevadas e o sol radiante marcando presença, desfrutar do calorão ganha um toque especial ao mergulharmos em 3 livros leves e revigorantes. Deste modo, nos momentos em que os termômetros estão lá em cima, a escolha certa de livro pode fazer toda a diferença. Então, resolvi escolher três histórias que, como uma brisa suave, proporcionam uma fuga deliciosa para aqueles que…

[ffverr]

Happy lesbian visibility week to our favorite lesbian mutants!

[thena0315]

The One Chicago Ladies back during One Chicago Day 2017

[badger-with-a-boa]

Happy Pride Month to them

[amageish]

Thinking way too hard about the queer possibilities of X-Men ‘97

When X-Men ‘97 was first announced, I’ll admit I was kind of ambivelent to the entire project... It felt very nostalgia-focused and was just less interesting to me then an all-new X-Men cartoon that could do its own thing without being burdened with established canon...

...and then I listened to the X-Men 60 Uncanny Years event earlier this year and hearing the executive producer of the series discuss what the X-Men meant to him as a kid as a gay black man in Florida basically changed my mind about the entire project. Now I’m excited for it!

The X-Men are so fucking queer. Even ignoring the ways that the mutant metaphor have been used to discuss queer issues before queer issues could be discussed textually, Marvel’s merry mutants just have... so many queer members and even more when you expand the list to include sub-textual and intended queerness.

So, with all that in mind, I did a little thinking and decided to take some guesses about who could make for queer representation in '97... Let’s dive in!

Part One: The Comic Canon Gays

Let’s start with the characters who are explicitly no-subtext-required queer in the comic books themselves. These are a few of the characters Marvel uses in Pride events and generally parades around every June.

Northstar

Jean-Paul Beaubier may seem like the vanilla ice cream of this rainbow sundae, but there’s far more going on with this character then the “Marvel’s first explicitly gay superhero” title that he is so often boiled down to. A French-Canadian superstar athlete, he’s lived never being entirely sure if his skiing career success was a result of his talent or his mutant abilities.

While his depiction in X-Men The Animated Series just had him be painfully French-Canadian with an on-the-nose accent and French exclamations, there’s a mean catty gay under the surface that is just waiting to be unleashed. They could also adapt his famous wedding arc, wherein he married his husband Kyle Jinadu...

Also he hates cops, so y’know... Maybe Marvel did nail the queer experience on their first try?

Iceman

Bobby Drake is arguably the most famous queer character at Marvel. A member of the original five X-Men, he was famously confirmed as gay when his teenage self was transported to the present and, with some unsolicited help from a teenage Jean Grey, questioned why his older self remaining closeted, even in a world that was (comparatively at least) accepting of queer desire.

In the original show, he showed unrequited interest in Polaris, as he had in the comics before his coming-out. This reboot could potentially give a more grounded and less fantastical take on coming-out then what he had in the comics... or maybe time travel will be involved again - who knows really!

Prodigy

David Allyene, aka Prodigy, is one of the most notable bi men at Marvel with one of the most distinctive coming-out stories. His mutant powers cause him to instantly learn things that other people know, hence the name Prodigy, and, through his powers, he also learned his own sexuality. How’s that for a crazy journey of self-discovery.

Prodigy is a newer character who did not appear in the original animated series at all, so there’s no continuity concerns there...

Mystique and Destiny

Destiny, also known as Irene Adler, met her lover Mystique when he was presenting as male and operating as a consulting detective in Victorian London.

Yeah uh. This is implying what you think it is.

The two of them have been lovers for centuries now, though both took other partners at different points during their relationship. Their love is something special though and together they raised Rogue as a child - as well as maybe sired Nightcrawler together? That was once intended to be Nightcrawler’s origin, but it was famously scrapped due to Marvel editorial not wanting to depict a child that is a product of a queer relationship at the time... but now this November a new comic will explore the “true” origin of Nightcrawler, so maybe Mystique/Destiny having a biological child is back on the table!

Mystique was, of course, in the original series. I’m not sure the actual odds of her relationship with Irene being acknowledged in ‘97 - partially just because I imagine Marvel would be concerned about backlash to queer villains... but also they’re adorable and good to me so I’d like them!

Captain Britain and Askani

Betsy Braddock and Rachel Summers are two incredibly complicated characters to summarize. Rachel is the time-displaced daughter of Scott and Jean from a hypothetical alternate feature, while Betsy Braddock spent like 30 years of her publication history trapped in the body of Kwannon, a Japanese assassin. While these two characters are some of Marvel’s most actively in-your-face unquestionably queer characters - the last Betsy story had a surprising amount of implied sex for only five issues - they’ve never really had a chance to shine in a multimedia way (well, at least not with Betsy in her own body and not being merged with Kwannon).

In the original show, Rachel cameoed briefly as a prisoner of Apocalypse while Pyslocke appeared without being named - assumedly they didn’t want to bother explaining the body-swap storyline. Personally, if they were to be in the show, I’d suggest that Betsy should be introduced as having inherited her brother’s title of Captain Britain, with Pyslocke of the original show being revealed to have been Kwannon in her own body all along...

Part Two: The New Mutants

There’s so many queer New Mutants that I’m just giving them their own category here... plus, with Sunspot being in the main cast, I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of the time got (Sun)spotlighted as well!

Note that the sapphics of the first generation of New Mutants can also be mixed and matched when it comes to shipping. I present them based on the pairings that are currently canon/teased in the present comics, but Dani/Xuan, Xuan/Kitty, Kitty/Rahcel, etc. are all valid too and could be within the cards for the show.

Karma & Galura

The first explicit lesbian of the X-Men line, Xuân Cao Mạnh is a refugee of the Vietnam Boat Crisis, a thing which makes no sense when you consider that she is still canonically like 20-something years old in 2023. Her coming-out was a much lower-key affair then Jean-Paul’s, with her friends just casually running into her at the Exploding Person festival (i.e., Burning Man) with a shaved pink haircut and already travelling with her two “girlfriends”.

After the musical festival, she proceeded to fall in love with her roommate Kitty Pryde and then her co-worker Dani Moonstar, both of which were never (textually) requited. Recently, she’s started dating the winged mutant Galura and finally gotten to do stuff like “kiss a woman on-panel regularly” after two decades of being a lesbian denied a girlfriend...

She has cameoed in X-Men ‘92-related media with a design that is truly terrible IMO, but I think she could be rebooted and appear in this series in her full glory... especially after the New Mutants movie left her out entirely!

Mirage and Wolfsbane

Introduced in the original New Mutants run, Dani Moonstar and Rahne Sinclair share a unique telepathic connection, helpfully described as them being “soul-mates.” The Comic Book Code prohibited depictions of queer people, but uh. This first run is incredibly not subtle, even as Rahne nominally has interest her male teammate Cannonball.

Unfortunately, post-Claremont, their relationship was more or less abandoned for a few decades (coinciding with a massive downward spiral in Rahne content in general) climaxing with Rahne being killed off entirely in an allegory for transphobic violence... Thankfully, she recovered from her death and has recently been written by a non-binary author and now a trans author, both of whom have leaned back into the idea that these “soul-mates” may, in fact, have romantic feelings for each other.

Oh, also they were explicitly gay in the movie. So. Good for them for that!

Magik and Shadowkat

Another classic pair of X-Men “roommates,” Illyana Rasputina and Kate Pryde are another Claremont-created “soul-mate” duo - albeit without the telepathic bond. After decades of queer-coding, both were able to do queer-adjacent things explicitly for the first time in the Krakoa era, with Illyana asking a group of people of various gender presentations to make out with her and Kate kissing a tattoo artist who looks suspiciously like her bestie on-panel.

Pryde famously lost the spot of “Teen X-Men PoV character” to Jubilee in the show, but maybe X-Men ‘97 could give her a second chance... plus Illyana is one of the most popular X-Men characters not given a full spotlight in the original show, in spite of her more or less being an A-list X-Men in 2023. I don’t know if Marvel is brave enough to make this one canon, but I do think these two are two of the most obviously missing characters from the ‘97 line-up.

Escapade

Shela Sexton, aka Escapade, is a transgender sapphic who debuted in Marvel Pride last year and has since then had a starring role in the most recent New Mutants series. She has the incredibly unique power of the ability to “steal” things from people - including everything from stealing physical objects like their wallet to stealing abstract concepts like their emotional or physical state. Her character also generally has embodied the intersectional approach to mutant identity which has become more and more prevalent in the modern era - her mutant identity and trans identity are both important to her character, but neither are allegories for the other.

I think she’s probably too new to be added to the X-Men ‘97 cast pragmatically, but maybe they could have snuck in a cameo at the last minute? Idk. I figured I’d include her on the list.

Part Three: Let’s Get Wild!

Okay. Fuck it. Let’s talk about some comic book justifications that could be used to queer up the actual main cast from the original classic X-Men The Animated Series.

Jubilee

Jubilation Lee, the teen PoV lead of the X-Men, has been written as queer a handful of times, but never explicitly in 616. Most notably, she was gay in an AU Runaways story (written by N.D. Stevenson), where she dated a bisexual version of Pixie as well as an ice-powered sapphic named Frostbite. Monet also had a crush on her in the X-Men ‘92 animation-inspired comic book series. In terms of 616 content, her relationship with Laura Kinney has often been read in a sapphic way, especially in Liu’s X-23 series where Laura notably breaks up with her boyfriend only for Jubilee to be waiting back at her apartment to go out with her.

Storm

Ororo Munroe, aka Storm, famously has had a subtextual Sapphic fling with the bundle of chaos that is Yukio. They two met for the first time when Ororo went to Japan and their time together was almost immediately followed by her famous punk Storm era, which is very queer when you consider that context. Yukio was also later made explicitly queer in Fox’s Deadpool 2 movie, though the movie character doesn’t share much of the personality and thrill-seeking antics of her comic book counterpart...

Storm is the central protagonist of the original Claremont Uncanny X-Men and will be central to the ‘97 series as well. It’d be really bold to confirm her as queer, but I’d say this is the kind of move that would be worth it if they want this to stand out among X-Men adaptations.

Wolverine, Phoenix, and Cyclops

Finally, Jean Grey, Scott Summers, and Logan were implied to have been in a poly relationship throughout most of the Krakoa era - though they have fallen on hard times recently in the run-up to Fall of X.

I’ll be blunt: I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that Marvel corporate would approve this being textual... but I’m willing to be proven wrong, I guess!

WHEW. Okay. That’s my list. This is nowhere near definitive of course - I didn’t discuss Shatterstar’s bisexuality, Deadpool’s pansexuality, Gwenpool’s aroace identity, et al - but also basically every X-Men character is either textually queer or could be justified as being queer based on comic book lore. This entire brand has a queer poly energy that even the straightest writers weren’t able to fully shake off of it... so, while this is my list, they could really do anything they wanted (and that Mickey Mouse lets them do, at least)... We’ll see what happens!

[PS: In light of the strike and the general shitty way that megacorporations in entertainment have been treating their workers for years now, I’d be remissed if I made this post and didn’t encourage people to consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund as well!]

[leclaired]

for inevitable farewells

1) jose rizal / encarnacion alzona & isidro escare abeto 2) munir alawi 3) jack kerouac 4) richard siken 5) paweł franik 6) taylor swift 7) rachel ward 8) sanober khan 9) robert adams 10) anne sexton

[duranduratulsa]

Kicking off my 90's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #Movie #movies #horror #anightmareonelmstreet #freddysdead #freddysdeadthefinalnightmare #wescraven #RIPWesCraven #freddy #freddykrueger #robertenglund #lisazane #YaphetKotto #rickydeanlogan #BreckinMeyer #lezliedeane #ShonGreenblatt #alicecooper #JohnnyDepp #RoseanneBarr #TomArnold #elinordonahue #tobesexton #matthewfaison #cassandrarachelfriel #robertshaye #vintage #VHS #90s #durandurantulsas4thannual90sfest #90sfest

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[rogloptimist]

hey primoz so how does it feel to always be so close?

credits under cut

not strong enough - boygenius // primoz roglic - stage 4, tour de france 2020 // primoz roglic and tadej pogacar - podium ceremony, tour de france 2020 // we were young - fortesa latifi // remco evenepoel, primoz roglic get tour de france taste at paris-nice - afp report (flobikes) // primoz roglic - podium ceremony, vuelta a espana 2021 // jonas vingegaard, sepp kuss, primoz roglic - vuelta a espana 2023 // paris-nice | watch: primoz roglic’s bad luck returns to haunt slovenian star - in the bunch // the miseltoe murders - mark romel // primoz roglic - podium ceremony, giro d‘italia 2023 // primoz roglic - stage 16, vuelta a espana 2022 // the tour de france dream is dead: primoz roglic’s curse of crashes - rachel jary // roglic abandons vuelta after stage 16 crash - road bike action magazine // primoz roglic - podium ceremony, adriatico 2023 // primoz roglic - stage 20, tour de france 2020 // a self portrait in letters - anne sexton

[tepkunset]

List of Canon Queer Marvel Characters:

(with at least 10 appearances as of current date - no randos included)

Aaron Fischer

Aikku Jokinen

Akihiro

Alani Ryan

Aldrif Odinsdottir

America Chavez

Aneka

Annabelle Riggs

Avril Kincaid

Ayo

Benji Deeds

Betsy Braddock

Billy Kaplan

Bobby Drake

Brandon Sharpe

Brian Falsworth

Brunnhilde

Carl Valentino

Carmen Cruz

Cessily Kincaid

Christian Frost

Cullen Bloodstone

David Alleyne

Elle Diwa

Ellie Phimister

Felicia Hardy

Gwen Poole

Heather Douglas

Heather Tucker

Hercules

Hiroim

Ian Soo

Irene Adler

Jake Oh

Jean-Paul Beaubier

Jean-Paul Duchamp

Jennifer Kale

Jerry Sledge

Johnny Clay

Jonas Greymalkin

Jovana

Julie Power

Julio Richter

Jumbo Carnation

Karolina Dean

Ken Shiga

Korg

Kyle Jinadu

Loki Laufeyson

Martha Johansson

Miguel Santos

Morgan Red

Nadia Van Dyne

Nathaniel Carver

Nico Minnoru

Noh-Varr

Phyla-Vell

Rachel Summers

Raven Darkholme

Roger Aubrey

Roxy Washington

Rūna

Sera

Shatterstar

Shela Sexton

Simon Lasker

Solem

Sybil Dvorak

Teddy Altman

Theresa Burke

Tommy Shepherd

Toni Ho

Val Ventura

Victoria Hand

Viktor Borkowski

Viv Vision

Wade Wilson

Xavin

Xuân Cao Mạnh

Zoe Zimmer

And yet Marvel Voices: Pride only ever features like, five of the same characters every time.

[queer-xmen-tournament]

Where this blog goes next

For a really long time, I've been wanting to create a fanmade X-Men team composed of exclusively queer mutants- and now, I figured since I already have this blog, why not let tumblr decide?

So what I've done, is created 7 spots on the team, based on each characters power and skill set, and grouped a bunch of characters together for a singular poll for each spot. Before the polls go out, I'm going to make a little propaganda post for each person in the group, to make sure everybody knows who is who, and why they should vote for them!

This is only including people who are out as queer in universe, so even though Gabby has been implied to be queer, and Kate has been confirmed to be bi, neither of them are really "out" in their respective universes yet, so they couldn't really be on the team yet.

Here are the groups:

The Psychic

Captain Britain | Betsy Braddock

Askani | Rachel Summers

Negasonic Teenage Warhead | Ellie Phimister

Leo Eng

Alef Chernekhov

The Powerhouse

Iceman | Bobby Drake

Rictor | Julio Richter

Pyro | Simon Lasker

Tempo | Heather Tucker

Good Arson | Rex Ridley

Theia

Kappa | Megan Ogawa

Christopher O'Leary

The Shapeshifter

Mystique | Raven Darkholme

Gimmick | Carmen Cruz

Morph | Benjamin Deeds

Jessie Drake

Faceshopper | Soph

The Warrior

Shatterstar | Gaveedra Seven

Fang | Akihiro

Anole | Victor Borkowski

Mercury | Cessily Kincaid

Jonas Graymalkin

Bling! | Roxy Washington

Madin

Bouncer | Renata Da Lima

The Gimmick

Escapade | Shela Sexton

Loa | Alani Ryan

Aphelion | Reed

Darkveil | Darnell Wade

Jumbo Carnation

Brutha Nature | Jacob Williams

Morgan Red

Monica Sellers

Hector Pullman

The Flyer

Northstar | Jean-Paul Beaubier

Pixie | Megan Gwynn

Galura | Elle Diwa

Aura Charles

Michael Diwa

Liana

The Additional Psionic

Karma | Xuân Cao Mạnh

Destiny | Irene Adler

Prodigy | David Alleyne

Somnus | Carl Valentino

Hindsight | Nathaniel Carver

Pity Girl | Nora Kuang

Christian Frost

Bad Guy | Gabe

Alice Campbell

I hope to start posting these on Monday!

[rachelspoetrycorner]

How It Is (1976) by Maxine Kumin

Trigger warning: mention of suicide

In Episode 113, Rachel brings a poem about loss, specifically her friend, Anne Sexton, who died by suicide.

Rachel: I really love the confessional poets but have been hesitant to talk about them on this show, because again, a lot of dark material.

But Maxine Kumin's poem isn't morose, particularly. Y'know? It's more a recognition of what it's like to be present in this time after you've lost somebody. And in kind of how your connection to them continues, and how... I don't know, how you're forever changed by that. Uh, and I just felt like that poem was so beautiful, and so vivid, to me. Like, I could picture everything; I could picture that blazer.

One thing (and it's probably the thing) that makes me love Rachel's Poetry Corner so much is its wonderful delight by life's simple pleasures; those bigger or smaller things that inevitably cross all of our paths at least once in our lifetimes. That's why The Corner feels so cozy and welcoming, and familiar.

Yet, mixed with all those everyday life occurrences, with all those ordinary experiences we've become so acquainted with, there are also accidents, mistakes, hurting, and leaving, and death. It's painful to recognize that these are also part of our lives, and that they happen every day.

So I really appreciate when Rachel makes the risky decision to bring poems like this one; because, at face value, they could seem out of place, or that they don't fit the "wonderful vibe" we got going on here. But they do, they really do.

It's as if Rachel took the time to remind us, with a lot of care, that "Hey. Life? That's just How It Is."

If you’d like to hear more, you can do so here: Field of Necromancy, from 29:50 - 35:49

[unhingedandunwell]

A love that isn’t ours

? / Clare Elsaesser Falling • Dry the River Weights & Measures / ? / Sylvia Plath / ? / Sue Zhao / Richard Silken Crush • ? / Duncan Laurence Arcade / ? • Lizzy McAlpine Lady in Blue / Fleabag S2E6 / Nicole Homer Underbelly / ? • Orla Gartland Between my Teeth / Clare Elsaesser My Love • Julien Baker Conversation Piece / Pat the Bunny I’m Not a Good Person / Franz Kafka Letters to Milena / Mike Hoolboom • boygenius Bite the Hand / ? • Mitski A Pearl / Rachel McKibbens / ? /Fumi Nakamura, The Noise Must Become Music • Anne Sexton / The Amazing Devil Elsa’s Song / ? • Lisa Schroeder / ?

[thena0315]

The Original Chicago Med Main Cast

Season 4: Sarah left

Season 5: Connor left

Season 6: Natalie and April left

Season 8: Ethan and Will left

Maggie, Sharon and Charles are all that remains of the main OGs

[badger-with-a-boa]

For lesbian visibility week, here are my favorite women kissers 🧡🤍🩷

[lovecatsys]

So... my pitch for a young, all queer, X-Men Team?

[ID: a collage of 7 marvel characters including Bling! or Roxy Washington, Morph or Benjamin Deeds, Leo Eng, Cam Long, Escapade or Shela Sexton, Speed or Tommy Shepherd, and Prodigy or David Alleyne]

this is just a silly little idea of mine that I thought to share, I don't know the exact ages of these characters but I'm assuming they are all approximately around the same age at this point, as in, somewhere in between the ages of 17 and 24? I guess? Marvel doesn't do well with ages, or timelines in general.

Bling! is tough, nearly indestructible, she's pretty powerful too. She has determination and attitude, and I think she deserves to be on a team for once.

David is super smart, filled with plenty of knowledge and skills, but he's not just smart- he also has can copy skills useful in physical combat, which makes him pretty useful in a battle as well. Not only that, but he has a lot of experience, he's been on the Young Avengers, as well as X-Factor, where he worked aside very powerful and skilled adults like Northstar, Polaris, Akihiro, and Rachel Summers- I can kind of see him and Tommy taking the lead on this team in an unconventional way.

I know Tommy isn't an X-Men character, I don't know if he's even considered a mutant? Which is fine, he doesn't have to be a mutant (Wasn't Mimic not a mutant? that one guy who was on the team one time back in the day? or was that retconned? i have no idea.), he's dating David, which means he could have a reason to move onto Krakoa, and either way he has a lot of shared experiences with mutants, being born with his powers and all. ANYWAYS he, like David, has lots of experience, and is pretty powerful. I think every team should have a resident speedster. plus marvel seems to be continuously ignoring Tommy lately, so I think he deserves to have something to do for once!

Shela is still learning to control her powers, but she seems to be getting better and better at it! And her powers can be quite useful, plus she has some experience of being a low level thief, which is awesome and could absolutely come in handy. and she has some cool tech that can help her fly?

Benji's powers aren't always useful, but he does seem to have some training from back when he was at the New Xavier School with Cyclops in charge. He and Nate have mysteriously disappeared since 2019, so it would be nice for him to come back. Nathaniel could also be an honorary member of the team who helps with stuff that isn't fighting, like using his psychometry to get information from people. PLUS Benji already has experience working with Bling!

Cam Long is a feral jock, they're currently doing Bishop's War College, but maybe they can be on the team when they get some time off.

Leo Eng is a telepath, which I think is a necessity for every team. She also seems to be a pretty powerful telekinetic? she's honestly giving trans butch lesbian vibes which I think is amazing.

Leo and Cam would be fun characters to have on a team for the first time, since they're fairly new and undeveloped, it would be an opportunity to explore them.