#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

[616femslash]

Hi! Welcome to a weekly fan-run event:

616Femslash Fridays!

What is '616Femslash Friday'?

616Femslash Friday is a weekly celebration of femslash (f/f, wlw, etc) pairings involving marvel characters!

Every month, we'll post optional prompts that you can use as inspiration!

The rules

on Fridays, post about marvel femslash pairings! art, fics, drabbles, edits, collages, headcanons, etc - we'd love to see it all!

tag us via our @616femslash in your post and/or use the tag '#616femslash'! you can also add your fics to our ao3 collection!

no pro-shipping (pedophilia, incest, etc)

no bigotry whatsoever

no MCU - any other marvel is fine, it doesn't have to be 616 exclusive.

only canonically female or nonbinary characters (inclusive of trans headcanons of canon women)

feel free to read our carrd for any more information about the event & our mods! don't be scared to send an ask if you need any clarification either!

[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!]

[duranduratulsa]

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[masoncarr2244]

[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.

[linus-wickworth]

June 2023 Reading Recap

5 Stars:

Just Between Us by J. H. Trumble

There Is A Light by Ban Gilmartin

Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh

The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson

Carousel by Brendan Ritchie

The Boy Who Steals Houses by C. G. Drews

The Kings of Nowhere by C. G. Drews

What About Will by Ellen Hopkins

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch

Out of Time, Into You by Jay Bell

4.5 Stars:

Bait by Alex Sanchez

Junk Boy by Tony Abbott

Gypsy Boy on the Run by Mikey Walsh

Milo and Marcos At the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes

4 Stars:

The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver

My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron

A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

The Edge of Being by James Brandon

He Forgot to Say Goodbye by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

This Winter by Alice Oseman

The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs

Beyond Carousel by Brendan Ritchie

Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan

Every Day by David Levithan

The Gravity of Nothing by Chase Connor

If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch

3.5 Stars:

Here's to You, Zeb Pike by Johanna Parkhurst

Five Have Plenty Of Fun by Enid Blyton

Caterpillars Can't Swim by Liane Shaw

Boys of the Beast by Monica Zepeda

Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard

Anything Could Happen by Will Walton

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Dead Flip by Sara Farizan

Every Moment After by Joseph Moldover

Hold by Rachel Davidson Leigh

Trailer Trash by Marie Sexton

Always Leaving by Gene Gant

Kings of B'more by R. Eric Thomas

3 Stars:

Five Go To Mystery Moor by Enid Blyton

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles

Golden Boys by Phil Stamper

The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

This Is Not a Love Story by Suki Fleet

Another Day by David Levithan

Toughing It by Nancy Springer

2.5 Stars:

Arctic Zoo by Robert Muchamore

Keesha's House by Helen Frost

Trying Hard to Hear You by Sandra Scoppettone

Pain & Wastings by Carrie Mac

2 Stars:

Qualities of Light by Mary Carroll Moore

Small Town Monsters by Diana Rodriguez Wallach

1.5 Stars:

Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt

[xx-nox-vox-xx]

Some sick fucks get off on the worst kinda shit imaginable.

These people have families, respectable jobs, expensive apartments, cars and big corpo bosses who will burn them for getting caught with their pants down.

Some reporters get off on doxxing those fuckers and giving a voice to their victims.

These reporters are me.

A list of "Satan's" buyers who commissioned custom brain dances of the human trafficking, rape and murder of innocent citizens:

Arasaka employees:

Allison Eldridge

Priscilla Barry

Brett Spencer

Darrell Frank

Guillermo Gomez

Jennifer Ferrell

Phillip Emery

Militech Employees:

Roxanne Ballard

Susana Ellis

Andre Holmes

Deb Crane

Ray Turner

Shane Cardenas

Mohammed Sheppard

Felipe Coffey

Kristie Mora

Lowell Hewitt

Ali Parsons

Taylor Barker

Yolanda Sampson

Brittany Padilla

Heidi Irwin

Lynn Downs

Jeri Buck

Irene Liu

Cindy Kemp

Warren Jackson

Kang Tao Employees:

Sheila Chase

Bret Anderson

Alicia Proctor

Ernie Brock

Carole Moore

Mabel Draper

Bio Technica Employees:

Gene Fuentes

Amy Hastings

Emma Kendall

Sophia Parrish

Lori Villanueva

Nichole Shafer

Stewart Schultz

Trauma Team Employees:

Rachel Dennis

Franklin Owen

Cassandra Fleming

Rod Dickerson

Ronda Sprague

Lorraine Bray

NCPD Employees:

Dina Snyder

Kurt Ritter

Karin Arroyo

Corey Jacobs

Eileen Parsons

Tonya Mason

Craig Clay

Night City government employees:

Janine Thomas

Debora Shields

Leslie McClure

Brooke Hodge

Diana Key

Constance Bolton

Dena Oleson

Ross Grey

Karl Cross

Jan Yoder

Stuart Summers

Marvin Godfrey

Allison Pratt

Kelli Hardin

Lupe Burnett

Zetatech Employees:

Noel Levy

Glenda Barton

Florence Eldridge

Terri Ayala

Ken Massey

Natasha Sexton

Tara Welch

Julia Starr

Suzanne Williams

Erika Delgado

Vera Chandler

Herman Pearce

Nick Nguyen

Jeanne Guerra

Krioshi Optics Employees:

Marco Haley

Stewart Keith

Francisca Lindsey

Wendell Crawford

Andre Harman

Jerry Hinton

Lora Chaney

Erica Hudson

Clinton Benton

Tami Field

Lucinda Pope

Marion Nicholson

Sabrina Allison

Faye Stokes

Ron Tucker

Net watch Employees:

Lorna Mooney

Cara Sellers

Jessie Callahan

Young Blair

Ronda Lawson

Dominic Graham

Alexander Bartlett

Mandy Parsons

Ramon Sexton

Night City Bank Employees:

Mattie Ferguson

Austin Long

Salvador Bell

Lucille Coleman

Chelsea Reeves

Stacy Watson

All foods employees:

Tara Johns

Holly Goodwin

Jackie McDowell

George Blake

Tammie Moss

Elsie Wilder

Miranda Delaney

Rolando Swanson

Budget Arms Employees:

Robyn Clayton

Marc Gomez

Gretchen Hodges

Matthew Barber

Veronica Allison

Stefanie Gibson

Emmanuel Robison

Private Citizens:

Lucas Barron

Mario Pearson

Sandi Norman

Spencer Drake

Aaron Greene

Adam Garrison

Steve Rush

[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

[steveskafte]

I'm a firm believer that one of the best gifts we give is great music! With that in mind, here's a playlist containing one song from each of the songwriters who've moved me most – and made me want to became (and later, remain) a writer myself. Happy listening, and Merry Christmas!

2019 – Tal Wilkenfeld – Killing Me 2018 – Liz Brasher – Blood of the Lamb 2017 – John Smith – Joanna 2017 – Scott Cook – Further Down the Line 2016 – John Paul White – The Martyr 2016 – Agnes Obel – Familiar 2016 – Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker 2016 – Laura Gibson – Empire Builder 2015 – Eivør – Í Tokuni 2015 – Colter Wall – Sleeping on the Blacktop 2015 – Jack Marks – Wicked Moon 2015 – Andrew Combs – Rainy Day Song 2015 – Gill Landry – Funeral in My Heart 2014 – Ben Howard – Rivers in Your Mouth 2013 – X Ambassadors [Sam Nelson] – Unconsolable 2013 – Sarah Jarosz – Build Me Up From Bones 2012 – Cold Specks [Ladan Hussein] – Holland 2012 – Moulettes [Hannah Miller] – Uca's Dance 2012 – Jesca Hoop – D.N.R 2012 – Rachel Sermanni – The Fog 2012 – Cory Branan – The Corner 2011 – Brian Martin – Kerosene Dream 2011 – Whitehorse [Luke Doucet / Melissa McClelland] – Emerald Isle 2011 – Ben Caplan – Southbound 2010 – Basia Bulat – Heart of My Own 2010 – Jonathan Byrd – I Was an Oak Tree 2010 – Jack Hardy – Rust Belt Town 2010 – Gareth Liddiard – Strange Tourist 2010 – Audra Mae – The River 2009 – Jeff Lang – Edge of the Light 2008 – Fleet Foxes [Robin Pecknold] – Tiger Mountain Peasant Song 2008 – Boiled in Lead [Todd Menton] – Silver Carp 2008 – Blitzen Trapper [Eric Earley] – Furr 2007 – Mariee Sioux – Bravitzlana Rubakalva 2007 – Andrew Bird – Imitosis 2006 – Kris Kristofferson – Pilgrim's Progress 2006 – Suzanna Choffel – The Challenge 2006 – Alela Diane – The Rifle 2005 – Matisyahu [Matthew Miller] – Aish Tamid 2005 – Danny Schmidt – This Too Shall Pass 2005 – Malcolm Holcombe – Cathy's Creek 2005 – Dead Can Dance [Brendan Perry] – Crescent 2004 – Wovenhand [David Eugene Edwards] – The Speaking Hands 2004 – Anaïs Mitchell – Before the Eyes of Storytelling Girls 2003 – Daniel Lanois – Sometimes 2001 – Kelly Joe Phelps – Beggar's Oil 2001 – Bonnie "Prince" Billy [Will Oldham] – Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness 2000 – Emmylou Harris – Michelangelo 2000 – Bob Dylan – Things Have Changed 2000 – Arlene Bishop – 98 Points 1999 – Tom Waits – Take It With Me 1999 – David Francey – Torn Screen Door 1998 – Michael Troy – Talk Radio 1998 – Hugh Blumenfeld – Hands & Feet 1996 – Martin Sexton – Glory Bound 1994 – Garnet Rogers – Summer Lightning 1993 – Geoffrey Oryema – Nomad 1992 – Suzanne Vega – In Liverpool 1992 – Mark Heard – Another Day in Limbo 1991 – Mickey Newbury – Just Dropped In / Wish I Was 1990 – Slaid Cleaves – All That Matters 1989 – Bob Franke – A Still, Small Voice 1981 – Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage 1971 – Hoyt Axton – The Devil 1971 – David Bowie – Life on Mars 1970 – Exuma [Tony McKay] – Exuma, The Obeah Man 1969 – Townes Van Zandt – Lungs 1966 – Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence 1965 – Jackson C. Frank – I Want to Be Alone (Dialogue)

[badger-with-a-boa]

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

[amageish]

Marvel United: A Pride Special #1. Art by Luciano Vechio.

I saw some discussion about this cover and people not recognizing all the characters... so I did the only logical thing and made a reading list. Here's a comic recommendation for every queer character on this cover!

Shela Sexton / Escapade: A trans mutant superheroine figuring out her place in a bigoted world In a subversion of the usual mutant metaphor, Shela's parents accepted her mutanthood wholeheartedly... only to disown her when she came out as transgender. You can read her debut in Marvel Pride 2022.

Natima Ngoza / Beisa: A trans woman born in Mohannda who fled to Wakanda when running away from her judgemental family. She's a love interest for T'Challa and a take on the Catwoman archetype. Read all about her in the underrated 2023 Black Panther run!

Cooper Coen / Web-Weaver: A Spider-hero from Earth-71490, Cooper Ceon saved his classmate/crush Peter Parker from a spider bite on a high school field trip... only to be bitten himself. You can read about an adventure of his on Fire Island in Marvel's Voices: Spiderverse.

Gwen Poole / Gwenpool: An aroace Marvel Comics superfan iseaki'd into the Marvel Universe. With the power of meta knowledge, she will find her own place in the canon she loves so much. You can read her realizing she's aroace in ARomancing of Gwendolyn Poole (get it?), part of the Love Unlimited Infinity Comic.

Jean-Paul Beaubier / Northstar: Gay French-Canadian mutant sports superstar and Marvel's first textually gay superhero. You can read about him taking on anti-mutant bigotry in his home country in Alpha Flight (2023).

Rachel Summers / Askani: The sapphic daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey from the Days of Future Past timeline. You can read about her and her girlfriend fighting bigots in the British wizarding community (I wonder what THAT could be an allegory for) in Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain.

David Alleyne / Prodigy: Bisexual mutant supergenius. New Mutant, Young Avenger, X-Men, and most recently a professor at Empire State University. You can read about him and his boyfriend in the Young Avengers arc of the Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic.

Bobby Drake / Iceman: Founding X-Men and jokester who realized he was gay later in life. Bobby... He's gay! You can read about him bringing Rogue home as a fake girlfriend to meet his bigoted parents in Uncanny X-Men #319. While this story is before he came out, I think it is an EXCELLENT showcase of his character.

Xuân Cao Mạnh / Karma: Lesbian mutant hero and founding member of the New Mutants. Depending on how you define "superhero," she's arguably Marvel's first lesbian hero. You can read about her relationship troubles, as well as her reunion with her once-lost brother, in Karma in Love, part of the Love Unlimited Infinity Comic.

Charlie Webber / Sun-Spider: A pansexual Spider-hero with EDS. Originally a fan-submitted Spider-sona, she's grown in relevance and even had a speaking cameo in Across the Spiderverse! You can read her story in Edge of Spiderverse #4.

Logan Lewis / Nightshade: Sapphic teen genius and legacy hero to the original Nightshade, a redeemed supervillain. You can read her solo adventures as part of the Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic.

Billy Kaplan / Wiccan: The gay son of the Scarlet Witch... to grossly oversimplify the situation. He also may kind of be God? Good for him! Read about him in Young Avengers (2013).

Teddy Altman / Hulkling: The gay son of Captain Mar-Vell and Skrull princess Anelle. A Skrull/Kree hybrid, he was sent to live on earth for his protection - y'know, Superman stuff. Read about his wedding to his husband Hulkling in Empyre!

Ms America Chavez: The multiverse-travelling latina lesbian of the Young Avengers, Ultimates, and West Coast Avengers. Read about her helping her CLOSE PLATONIC FEMALE FRIEND Kate Bishop raise the baby landshark Jeff in It's Jeff! Yes, that is my America recommendation. I also love her role in Ultimates, but this is funnier.

Aaron Fischer / Captain America: An unhoused gay man and champion of the marginalized, selected by Steve Rogers to have the title of Captain America. You can read about him in Avengers Academy.

Justin Jin / Kid Juggernaut: The Korean-Canadian gay himbo grandson of Jin Moon-Ho, the original Juggernaut who Cain Marko took the name/powers of. Read about him summoning Doctor Strange to ask him about PreP (yes, that happens explicitly on-panel - it is awesome) among other things in Avengers Academy.

Raven Darkhölme / Mystique: The shapeshifting sometimes-nemesis and sometimes-ally of the X-Men. While she may not care about things like "human lives" and "the law," she does harbor a lot of love for wife Destiny - as well as their adopted daughter Rogue and biological son Nightcrawler. There's a lot I could suggest here, but I'm going to pick Marvel's Voices: X-Men as I ADORE the Mystique/Destiny flashback story in that.

Kate "Kitty" Pryde: The original new teenager on the block, Kitty Pryde has had a LONG road to embracing her bisexuality. After literal decades of queercoding, you can finally read her dating a woman textually in the currently ongoing Exceptional X-Men (aka the best current X-book).