#another variant cover on my list i wanna get eventually

[cat-medals]

Blinx: The Time Sweeper - S+ Rank Walkthrough (Round 8)

This is Mod Banana comin’ at ya with Round 8 of the S+ rank walkthrough!

I did some explanations of what this guide’s all about over on the Round 1 section, but for the sake of posterity, I’ll explain some things here too: this is a definitive list of all S+ rank times in Blinx: The Time Sweeper. If you wanna use this guide to get every S+ rank time in the game, I strongly suggest you go check out that list, as I’ve detailed some tips and tricks to getting S+ rank times there that I will be using to create this walkthrough!

Now, on with the show!

Round 8: Forge of Hours –

Stage 1 - S+ rank time (4:20) My personal best: 2:19:96 YOU WILL NEED: 2 slows, 1 record, 5 spike bullets, TS-2000 Freeze

Here it is: the final round! This round really cracks down with the hardest difficulty of all - which is at least fitting for a final stage! The time monsters are very scant (actually falling between Rounds 2 and 3 in terms of monster density, which is pretty crazy), but what time monsters are around are the toughest of them all. Like in Round 5, the difficulty is meant to come more from environmental traps and hazards, but unlike Round 5, it actually succeeds, creating an utterly brutal gauntlet of platforming challenges with instant death explosions, fireballs, molten metal, spinning blades and arc-lightning at every turn. Following this general increase in difficulty, the time limits are also less forgiving than in Round 7, but - in the later stages at least - if you know what you’re doing, you can still achieve S+ ranks without even trying. This Round also features the return of the Fire Dragons, which is why you’ll notice I’ve recommended the TS-2000 Freeze for each stage. It’s not as necessary here in Stage 1, but it’ll still save you a bunch of time.

Start by dropping off the ledge in front of you, falling all the way to the bottom of the area. Sweep up the broken car behind the Dust Herder down here, then hit your record to score a shot on it, dispatch the two Octoballoons, and fire out the rest of your spike bullets to be picked back up in real time. Once you’ve swept them up in normal time, you should have a total of 8 spike bullets in your sweeper, plus a broken car. Suck up one piece of trash to finish off the Dust Herder, then head on through the door to the next area. Slabs of molten metal whizz by on a moving floor, but if you turn your camera to see where they’re coming from, you can easily make it across the danger zone without using a time control. However, you will need to use one after you’ve stepped on that switch at the other end of the field: it drains the molten metal from the room up ahead, but it’ll refill before you can fully cross it, so once it’s as empty as it’ll get, head along the metal walkway and hit your first slow as you approach the corner. This should give you enough time to finish making your way across the ledges, and back up out of the room, where you’ll find yourself... on the other side of the grating where the metal slabs were speeding by.

Start by just ignoring the switch next to you, as its only purpose is to lower the level of the molten metal in the previous room in case you want to backtrack for... some reason. The slow should still be active, so proceed past the sheets of molten metal and take out the Octoballoon on the other side. Heading into the next area, you’ll need to activate another slow in order to steal a part from the level 2 Magic Golem. These guys aren’t any more difficult to kill than their level 1 variants, but they have broken clocks which rotate around them, making them slightly more deadly. It’ll also completely mess up your trash routing if you hit one of them by accident, but luckily they’re not very easy to hit... what a weird sentence. Anyway, ditch the Magic Golem part once it’s no longer able to be assimilated, and get to work on the other time monsters in this area: a Tyfoen and a level 4 Spike Blob. Be careful of the arc-lightning machine in the centre of this area as you go around killing things - it shoots in a fixed pattern, but you’ll probably be better off just jumping over its firing lines whether it’s actually firing or not.

When all the time monsters have been taken care of, shoot the target above the molten lake to raise some gears out of it. There’ll be fireballs arcing overhead, but as long as you don’t jump into the one that spawns closes to the start, you should be fine without the need for a time control. Once you’re on the other side, take a right to press down the switch. It stops a pair of gears that you’ll subsequently have to jump across (but which will start moving again if you’re not quick enough). Again, with the gears stopped for the maximum amount of time, you can hop safely across without using a time control. Up ahead is a rolling field of bombs and two Octoballoons. Intimidating, if you don’t know where they explode and don’t have spike bullets handy, but if you’re following this guide then that’s not an issue! The bombs mostly explode on the lava, and on the furthest edge of the next platform you’ll need to jump on, so as long as you stay close-ish to the lava (but outside the blast radius) and keep an eye on where the bombs are rolling from (like the molten metal slabs from earlier in the stage), you can make it to the platform easily, dispatching the two Octoballoons once you do.

Finally, the goal gate is just up ahead, guarded by a Fire Dragon and a Tyfoen. Just like before, there are fireballs arcing overhead on the run up towards them, but if you don’t immediately get smacked by the first fireball you can run into, then the rest should past harmlessly overtop of you as you go. Spike bullet the Tyfoen, use some of the trash lying around to freeze the Fire Dragon to death, and hop into the waiting goal gate!

Stage 2 - S+ rank time (6:45) My personal best: 2:23:53 YOU WILL NEED: 1 slow, 2 spike bullets - 1 super bomb - 1 spike bullet (in order of firing), TS-2000 Freeze

A sudden jump in goal time means you have a lot more room for error when getting S+ here. I still beat this stage in six minutes flat just using the TS-2000 Freeze and with no extra trash.

Start off by turning to your left and dispatching the Tyfoen with a spike bullet. Sweep up the large car nearby, and use it plus your second spike bullet to take care of the Spike Blob in this little starting pit. Sweep up the rusty engine, then jump out of the pit and fire it just to the right of the little entrance visible across the molten metal stream, where you can retrieve it once you’re over there. Speaking of which, hop onto the gear, then make like a funk artist and let the groove carry you to the other side. Fire off your super bomb into the room full of time monsters, sweep up the rusty engine you sent over earlier, then once the bomb has done its damage, head on inside to finish off any stragglers with the small trash lying around. Congratulations, we’re one paragraph in and you’ve already beaten over half of the time monsters in this level. Don’t forget to step on the switch in the corner to raise some moving platforms that you’ll have to cross after you leave this room.

Once said moving platforms have been traversed, you’ll have to make a rather mean jump (in that Blinx’s jump distance only just barely covers it) to a nearby platform. As you run ahead, a TomTom will spawn behind you, but just let him have his fun stealing the gold as you proceed up the stairs to a switch, timing your passage to dodge a fireball. The switch will stop some rotating gears up ahead for you to cross, and while they will eventually start moving again, the time limit is extremely generous - no time control required. You should make it onto the next ledge with just barely enough time to run forward and sweep up a part from the Magic Golem, but once you’ve done so and discarded it, you’ll want to ignore the Magic Golem entirely. Instead, sweep up the large piece of trash next to it, turn around, and get two trickshots on the red Octoballoon and the Tyfoen across the chasm. Doing this saves you at least one time control, a good twenty or thirty seconds, and a massive headache of trying to contend with the spinning platform that would usually get you across to that area.

Once that’s done, turn back around and spike bullet the Magic Golem, then sweep up two small pieces of trash. Now, see the gear attached to the wall behind you, above by where you jumped up to get to this ledge? Go ahead and jump into the groove of this gear, and let it carry you up to your next time monster, a Fire Dragon. The two pieces of trash you just grabbed will take care of it. Sweep up the large car and one more small piece of trash, then hop along the gears behind where the Fire Dragon was stood. You’ll see your final two targets on a ledge up ahead, but with the conveyors working against you and a lightning machine to dodge as you go, you’ll want to go ahead and activate your slow as you reach the final conveyor and hop onto the platform. Use the small trash to break the Fire Dragon’s illusion, and use the slowed time to steal a piece of the Magic Golem, then stand in a place where you won’t get zapped. Use either that Golem part or another piece of small trash on the Fire Dragon’s true form, and the broken car on the Golem, and with that, every time monster has been defeated. The goal gate is waiting for you on a walkway just beside this platform that overlooks the whole stage, so run on over and complete the sweep!

This stage also cuts off my replays after like a minute. Very annoying.

Stage 3 - S+ rank time (7:00) My personal best: 2:25:26 I RECOMMEND: 2 records (1 required), 1 pause, 2 slows, 2 spike bullets - 1 super bomb - 3 spike bullets (in order of firing), TS-2000 Freeze

So, here it is: the final stage of the game. You’ll notice that I’ve changed ‘you will need’ to ‘I recommend’. The reason for this is that... well, this stage is really buggy. It comes as a result of the stage design being very compact and layered into multiple ‘floors’, which can cause things from upper floors to adversely affect things on lower floors (or vice versa). As such, it’s impossible to route trash for this stage with complete consistency, so I can only offer my usual suggestions with the added proviso that you may have to ad lib things halfway through the stage because an enemy dropped off a ledge and onto your head.

First up in this stage is another field of bombs. Taking even a single step forward will get you blown up by the nearest of the bomb pits, but you’ve got spike bullets and you’ve got time controls; you don’t need to deal with this. Hit your pause as soon as you emerge in the stage, use the trash cans in from of you as pedestals to spike bullet the Octoballoons, and cross the frozen field to a frozen gear on your right. Make use of stopped time to not have to deal with the rotating spikes that sweep over the top of it, and land in the next area: a maze of swinging axes and Spike Blobs (plus a Dust Herder). The nearby button just stops the axes, which you’ll want to press to line up a shot with your super bomb, aiming for the middle of the three Spike Blobs at the back of the area. Once the damaged Spike Blobs have targeted you for steamrolling, hit your first record to let them pass harmlessly through you, then turn around and spike bullet them in the back. Take out the Dust Herder in real time, then proceed to the end of the platform.

A Magic Golem may drop onto you from above here depending on what mood the butterfly of chaos theory is in. Take it out if it does appear, then hop onto the gear up ahead and activate your slow, giving you time to jump onto the axle of the next gear, and from there to the top of the gear, and then onto the next platform. This area has a Fire Dragon and a Tyfoen for you to deal with, plus a large piece of trash to help you out. Watch out for the floor in general here: some obvious marked spots will crumble away when you step on them, but in some areas it’s also possible for the explosions from the bomb field below you to clip through the floor and kill you. Like I said, buggy stage. When all the time monsters have been cleared out, head over to the next set of gears and activate your second slow to help avoid the spike bar as you cross them.

This platform is where the Magic Golem will be sitting if it didn’t fall on your head earlier in the stage. The nearby button stops all the gears and the lightning machine, so if you need to take the Magic Golem out now, you may want to use it. Otherwise, carry on to the next spinning gear staircase, taking out the lone blue Octoballoon as you go. Finally, you’ll reach the last regular time monster in the game: one final Magic Golem. Take it out, hop over the large pipe... vent... whatever that thing is, and you’ll find a rather neat puzzle, the only one of its kind in the game. It’s a simple record puzzle, but it makes use of the fact that your recording is invincible to stand on an insta-death molten metal seesaw to slide a platform over to you, and then run across the seesaw to slide it back, ferrying your real-time self to the platform where the goal gate awaits you!

Boss - S+ rank time (4:00) My personal best: 2:57:46 YOU WILL NEED: 1 fast-forward, 3 records, 4 spike bullets

This boss has perhaps the most complex strategy of them all. Things start off simple: hit your fast-forward, run to the right to dodge the boss’ charge, shoot it with a spike bullet when it becomes vulnerable.

After that though, things get interesting. Unlike the Round 5 boss fight, this guy won’t become vulnerable again until you shoot all the little junk orbs he spawns. This is where your recording comes in: with your remaining spike bullets and the small trash that drops into the stage, activate a recording to take out the junk orbs, then just misdirect the boss while your real-time self chills out elsewhere. Repeat to score the second and third hits on the boss. The final phase of the boss will involve it jumping around the stage and destroying parts of the platform you stand on, but with your recording taking care of the junk orbs, the boss won’t end up doing a whole lot to you. Dodge out of the way of one more charge attack, then score the final hit to beat the boss!

Do note that the goal platform appears on one edge of the arena, but it does not stop rotating even after the boss is dead. Take care as you jump into the goal gate!

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Time sweep complete!

[iamarosegarden]

Social Media

yo! it’s day two of the countdown, i did a youtube au, even though i’m sure a lot of other people did. i felt like it, also i couldn’t really think of anything else. so, here it is.

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PLAY

The screen filled with black, than a snowball rolled across the screen, spelling out “SimonSn☃️w”.

Then the screen was filled by a boy, with curly (curly) bronze hair and blue (blue) eyes (Aleister Crowley, he’s hot). Wearing a pale green sweater, the sleeves pushed up to his forearms, and jeans. He was standing behind a kitchen island, with his hands on his hips, looking off-screen.

“Penny, I am not making german chocolate cake again. The video’s not even a year old!” the boy (presumably Simon) says, taking a hand off his hip to drag it through his hair. Only, it gets caught partway through and he has to untangle his fingers.

“But Simoooon,” says a girl’s voice off screen (probably Penny), “I really want some,”

“Nope.” Simon says, glancing at the camera, “we don’t have the ingredients anyway”.

“I’m about to go to the store, I’ll get them!” Penny said, appearing on screen, an indian girl with deep indigo hair (a lot of indigo hair, wow) and a pair of cat-eyed glasses. She ducks behind Simon grabs a pair of keys off a bowel on the counter.

“I- Penny! I’m not making it!” yells Simon after Penny as she disappears off screen again, shaking his head as he hears the door slam shut (Baz can’t help but snicker at the look of fond exasperation on Simon’s face). He sighed before turning to the camera, “In case any of you are wondering, she has the ingredients list memorized.”

-

It cuts to Penny appearing on screen, with Simon facing her, leaning against the counter.  She has at least ten bags looped over her arms quickly rushed to the island to set them down. “Sooooo,” she began, looking up at Simon hopefully, “these are all the ingredients you need.”

“Fine, but you have to help with this and the scones, and I’m posting this on my side channel,” Simon said, and started pulling ingredients out of the bags. Penny beamed at him and then turned to the camera.

“I knew he’d cave,”

“Shut up Penny,”

“Looooove you,”

-

It cuts to Simon standing facing the camera again, with Penny next to him. His shoulder are slumped in defeat and Penny’s grinning like a madwoman. (Baz feels like Penny’s always grinning like a madwoman.)

“Hi guys! It’s Simon Snow, and today I’ve been wrestled into making another german chocolate cake by my friend and flatmate Penny, or as you guys might know her, PennyofyourThoughts. Thanks for watching, and I hope your desserts tastes great!”

-

It cuts to a fast montage of them measuring all the ingredients out, text popping up in the corner of the screen to tell you what the measurements were. (It seemed like Simon had just spliced together all the funniest moments, and while Baz didn’t want to admit it, he may have giggled a few times.)

Two cups all-purpose flour: Penelope emerging from the pantry with the bag of flour held over her head triumphantly, Simon laughing in the background.

One and a half cups granulated sugar: they’ve both somehow gotten flour on their faces, and a cup of it sits neatly on the island counter as Simon pours some sugar back into the bag, glaring at Penelope. “You know it only taste good if you follow the recipe, right? Because this much sugar would  have been disgusting.” Penny’s moan of frustration is cut off as the next clip plays.

Three/fourths cup of cocoa powder: Simon pulls something out of the shopping bag, then turns to Penny with a look of horror. “This- this is Nisquick Mix, Penny! This is… this won’t work.” Penny just stares at him. “You’ve seen me make this before, right? You watched the video? You have the recipe memorized?” Penny nodds. “THEN WHY DID YOU GET CHOCOLATE MILK MIX, PENELOPE?”

“There’s a difference?”

“I- Yes! There’s a difference.”

“Oh, I see,”

“You see,”

“I’ll be right back”

Simon just shakes his head at her as she leaves.

One teaspoon salt, One teaspoon baking powder, Two teaspoons baking soda: all three of these went into a small bowl, Simon hovering over Penny to make sure she used the right spoons.

One cup buttermilk: Simon pours the milk into the cup from high enough up that it splashes on the island counter, and then it cuts to him sadly wiping it up.

One half a cup vegetable oil: this time Penny pours it, and Simon watches intently from where he’s crouched behind the island his eyes level with the cup.

Two eggs: Simon cracked them both, one in each hand, and Penny gasped.

One cup hot coffee: Penny and Simon both downed a mug in silence while staring at the camera.

-

Then it cuts to Simon and Penny standing behind the island, staring gravely at the ingredients that were neatly laid out in bowls and cups. Then they looked at each other and started laughing.

“So, I don’t really want to go into detail with how you make it and stuff because, there’s already a video on that…”

“You could do a Q&A?” Penny suggests, already pulling her phone out of her pocket to tweet about it.

“Yeah okay that works,”

-

“Okay so, we tweeted out for questions, and I’m gonna finish making this cake while Penny reads them,” Simon shoves up his sleeves from where they’ve slipped down, and Penny nods from where she’s sitting on the counter behind him. “I mean, this is pretty easy to make anyway. Um, link to the recipe on my blog in the description,”

“@snowsiman asks ‘are you in a relationship?’” Penny reads off, wiping her head up to look up at Simon’s reaction.

Simon’s ears are going red, and he ducks down to focus on where he’s stirring the dry ingredients together. “Uh, no,”

Penny snickers at his answer “you’re blushing an awful lot there, Simon,” she says, which just makes him blush harder.

“Penny…” he groans, dropping the spoon to cover his cheeks with his hands. (god, he’s so cute.)

Penny shoves her hair out of her face before reading off the next the next one. “@SnowBaz asks, ‘will you ever do another blind baking video?’”

Before Penny has even fully finished talking Simon’s rushing to answer, “Noooooo! Never again,” (Baz had watched that video, it was hysterical) he turned around to glare at Penny, who just cackled and read off the next question.

“@DappleDesserts asks ‘how did you start baking?’”

Simon blew a curl off his face and shoved the bowl under the stand mixer before grabbing another one for the wet ingredients.

“Well, you know I’m an Orphantm.” Simon started (he flahsed the ™ on the screen as he said it, and even though Baz felt kind of sorry about it, he laughed), his eyes now pinned to the new bowl as he slowly stirred (slowly stirred). “One of the foster homes I got placed in never really had enough food for all the kids they had taken on so I stepped up. I was maybe 12? I just started with like microwave mac and cheese and then real pasta and then stuff like homemade pizza and stir fry and eventually the older kids would bring me ingredients with requests for stuff and the like.” he laughed a little at that. “I liked it cuz none of the other kids would bother me when I was measuring stuff out because they wanted it to taste good but then one of the new girls gave me three dollars and asked me if i could make her something sweet because she missed her mother’s angel cake and of fucking course I did because…” he trailed off and sniffed, staring at the bowl in silence for a few seconds before continuing, “uh anyway I made it and I already liked cooking, but the way it made me feel when she thanked me was just- it was something. And I’ve always loved food and that was where the dream started. I still kinda want to open a bakery but,” Simon shrugged “sometimes dreams only come halfway true and that's better than nothing”

Penny she was wiping her eyes. “Uh” She coughed into her arm, “@snowball4life asks ‘what’s your favorite dessert/pastry,’”

Simon laughed, (transforming back into the golden boy that he was) looking back at the camera, “This is waaay more serious than my tragic backstory. Penny already knows, but I just wanna clarify before I answer, just because this is my favorite pastry, that doesn’t mean it’s the only thing I ever eat, so don’t pull that shit where it’s the only thing you bring to conventions, I do not want another repeat of the Roast Beef Incident,” he poured the wet ingrediants into the dry and then turned on the mixer, “it’s Sour Cherry Scones,”

Penny started laughing again. “Oh my god, I’d almost forgotten about that,” she leaned toward the camera from her perch, “basically, someone asked him what his favorite food was during a livestream, and then at that year’s vidcon, all people brought were different variants of roast beef, and their versions of his desserts, of course. But mostly roast beef. And because Simon’s such a fuckin’ sap, he didn’t want to throw any of it away, so for the longest time our fridge and freezer were just, full of roast beef shit. It was great… but Simon couldn’t eat roast beef for like a year after that,” she snickers again (Baz along with her, he remembers that con, it was before he’d known anything about Simon Snow (ah, the blissful ignorance he’d had) and had been very confused about the smell) “Anyway, @🌈Mordelia🌈 asks ‘are you one of us gays?’” (goddamn it Baz was going to have a talk with his sister, because he knew that’s her handle)

Simon frowned for a second as he grabbed the coffee and started pouring it in the mix, “I don’t really like labels, but when pressed for one I usually say I’m bi. But yeah, I don’t like labels. But I mean, it’s fine if you like labels, for some people it helps them feel more secure and stuff. I’m totally chill with other people using them, just don’t force one on me, ya know?” (Baz mentally rejoiced at the confirmation that Simon liked both genders, and then had to remind himself that he’d never met Simon so it wasn’t like he really had a chance)

Simon ducked under the island as Penny read off the next question “@PrincessPriya, hey, shoutout to my sister, follow her on twitter, asks ‘Simon are you you afraid of the dark ? 😈’”

Simon popped up from behind the island and whirled around and pointed at Penny, who was grinning evilly, “Fuck you, Bunce,” he spun around and faced the camera, pointing at it, “and fuck you, Bunce,” he finished, setting three cake pans down on counter. “I am afraid of the dark, you can’t see in it,” he flicked off the mixer and flipped up the spatula to let the batter drip off, “Next question,”

“@pitchsviolin,” Penny pauses, “that’s another Grimm-Pitch watcher. There’s a weirdly big overlap between your subscribers. @pitchsviolin asks ‘will you and Grimm-Pitch ever do a collab?’”

(Baz didn’t know if he should be frustrated or grateful that his and Simon's followers seemed so determined to get a collab.)

Simon detached the spatula and quickly tossed it in the sink, going off screen for a second to do so. He started pouring out the batter as he answered, “Um, I don’t know… I mean, he doesn’t seem to like me that much? (Baz mentally smacked himself, he could see how Simon had gotten that impression. Back when he’d been in intense denial of his crush he may have answered a few questions about Simon a bit too aggressively) And what would we even do? I make baking videos and vlogs, and he does violin, dancing, and Q&As. But I don’t know, maybe at next vidcon or something he and I can meet up and talk about it,” (Baz paused the video for a couple seconds to let that sink in. He couldn’t decide if he loved or hated the idea.)

Simon turned around and stuck the pans in the oven. “I think that’s gonna be the end of this video. Making the icing is kinda loud, and I also don’t feel like doing fancy icing or decorations, which would be kinda boring to watch so, yeah. Also I think this is a good stopping point.”

Penny hopped of the counter and walked offscreen, Simon’s eyes following her as she moved behind the camera.

“Thanks for watching, don’t forget to do all the youtube things, and check out my other videos at the links on screen. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee,”

There was a fast zoom to his face on the ‘bye’ and then the screen changed to Simon’s endcard, a snowy mountain with links to his channels on either side, some generic music playing in the background.

End of Video

[shydaydreamer28]

Deadpool -Pansexuality

I started not to post, since topics of sexuality, politics, race, and religion are VERY controversial. But I wanted to share my opinion on this. Anytime this aspect of Deadpool’s character is brought up, you have people argue that he’s not pansexual because we have never seen him kiss or sex-up another dude on-screen.

So, I wanna counter that, and explain why I don’t think it proves he’s not pansexual. There’s no deep philosophical reason. It’s really a pretty simple one -despite the post-length. lol And it’s still in theory territory -because obviously, I don’t know everything. lol.

The Reason -Writers Pander to their Demographic. If they’re straight, white, males -then expect most of their work to show things that those types of viewers would wanna see.

Official Deadpool writers credit him as non-straight. Fabian Nicieza says his sexuality simply depends on his brain at the moment, because his mental state is in constant flux. He likes whatever his brain tells him he likes in that instant. Gerry Duggan, writer for current Deadpool solo series, classifies him as pansexual and “ready & willing to do anything with a pulse.” His exact quote. Then he states keeping up to date on Deadpool’s “omnisexual exploits.”

So these things coming from 2 different Deadpool writers seems to point to the fact that he’s not 100% straight. And, just because a person is pan or bi doesn’t mean they can’t have a gender preference. Some men could be bi or pan, but prefer women. Or prefer men. Or prefer one gender in general, but have specific types in others.

It’s canon that Deadpool’s feelings toward Spider-Man aren’t 100% platonic.

While married, Deadpool had a top 5 free-pass list of people he could sleep with. Spider-Man was #5 on his list.

He wasn’t doing it to be funny, or annoying, because he didn’t intend for Spider-Man to know. When Peter asks who #5 is, Wade tells him never-mind.

We see Peter asking about the list again here.

What happened? Wade outright lied about him being on it. So again, he wasn’t carrying around a free-pass list with Spider-Man on it just to show him for a punch-line. And it wasn’t a joke to make Spider-Man uncomfortable, because he lied when asked about it. 

Then there’s the final chapter. Now THIS is debatable, When Spider hugs Pool, looking at his face -the almost embarrassed grin, and given his line, it’s very possible he’s got a bit “too excited” here.

Then there’s the variant covers depicting him trying to kiss Spider-Man

Now these 2 are only friends. I don’t argue that. We’re not gonna see them dating, kissing, or having sex. But, that’s because Spider-Man is straight, doesn’t mean Deadpool is. lol

This series (Spider-Man/Deadpool) was written by Joel Kelly. Another of Deadpool’s big writers. 

Some doubt Deadpool likes men because we never actually see Deadpool hooking up with other dudes on-screen. So they think his flirting is just casual jokes not to be taken seriously. But you have to consider who the writers are. The writers are most-likely white straight men after all. Lets look at the women Deadpool’s been paired or teased with.

Just pix of the main ones, but they’re all hot white women

Anyway, women we haven’t seen Deadpool with include -Black, Asian, and Average-looking. Just another example of preference, and going more with your demographic. Like if you have mostly black writers, and a black director, then it’ll be the same thing. A black lead, and black love interests. Just the way media is most of the time.

Now, let me bring up RoguePool as another example of pandering bias.

When Rogue kissed him, she ended up having the same crap he did, but was still hot.

They didn’t make her as ugly as Deadpool can be portrayed as

No hair. A nose that seems to have slumped, and grown on to his lip almost, and yellow eyes, with no, or hardly visible, pupils,and WAAAY worse skin.

Why? Again, male viewers wanna see hot women. So, ya gotta have Rogue still be hot. Guys  don’t wanna see a deformed Rogue.

But, nobody cares if the dude is ugly. Look at all the shows or films where hot women were paired with dumpy, if not ugly, male leads. You RARELY see the reverse.

Again for the het male readers, they wanna see hot women and the male leads getting it with hot women. Thus, that’s gonna be the bulk of love interests for any male lead, no matter how ugly he may be.

Going on the writers’ confirmation of DP’s sexuality, but no dude+dude. Sometimes writers or creators will tell you things outright, but will not show it on-screen. To avoid controversy, damaging sales, or the complete awkwardness of writing / filming it. Look at other media. You see lesbians depicted quicker than gay men.

Look at Deadpools ex, Shiklah. She was shown in bed with other female monsters on more than one occasion. Here, we see one running from her room.

Guys don’t mind seeing or hearing about lesbians, so that’s cool for male writers and directors to get into. But if the male viewers have to see guys who like other guys, they need to be very funny about it -thus sometimes extremely stereotyped, and physical stuff is kept to a low minimum, if not completely off-screen.

“Modesty / Subtlety”

When it comes to same-sex relations with men in media -most of the time, we seem to be in the phase where all sex was in earlier days of media. Lucy and Ricky slept in twin beds -as did all tv couples at the time. They clearly had sex. And Ricky jr. wasn’t planned since Lucy didn't even think she'd be pregnant, and was shocked to find out. But for modesty, you never see them do anything other than have chaste peck-kisses. Then eventually far as media goes, sex was only ever implied. You’d see characters kiss, then a fade to black with them both very happy in the morning while doing other things.

Same-sex among men seems to be here. You’ll see flirting and hear comments / references. But you never see them have on-screen kissing or sex scenes. We haven’t quite progressed to that yet, least not to my knowledge. In terms of seeing it in comics, or anything in Hollywood. Reynolds has said he wants Deadpool to have a boyfriend in the live-action films. We’ll see how far that gets to coming to fruition.

Legend of Korra is famous for this. At the series’ end, Korra + Asami get together. There were little things throughout season 4 that hinted at their feelings. But many thought nothing of them because they weren’t overt enough.  Finally, we have the following screenshot.

Again, many argued this meant nothing because nothing happened -like a kiss. Again, it’s already progress to show same-sex relations, on Nick. But they showed it with women -not men. And even then, it was met with argument from fans who thought it had no build-up, and even some fans who thought the above screenshot was platonic. 

The show creators however did confirm that the 2 are a couple, and that Asami is Korra’s heart. But are we gonna say that it isn’t serious, or doesn’t count because we didn’t see them kiss? This ending was romantic in nature, and the creators confirmed it after there was still debate. 

They were VERY subtle about what they showed with these two, which didn’t make it non-existent. Unlike the straight couple Zaheer and P’Li who are shown kissing 5 sec. after they see each other.

Conclusion

Despite the length, at the end of the day, Deadpool will probably not be shown kissing or sexing men ON-SCREEN. But that doesn’t mean his interest in men is non-existent. 

He flirts with guys the same way he does with women. The difference isn’t what Deadpool does. It’s who responds. Any men he flirts with are never interested in him It’s the women who have higher chances of finding him charming or funny, and falling for him. Deadpool is pan, but could largely prefer women. You can be bi or pan and still have a preference.

Chasing Amy is a good example, a decent 90s film. The female lead, Alyssa experimented with guys as a teen. After college, she exclusively dated women for the next 10 years, and identified as a lesbian. She fell in love with Holden-stating that he was the first to ever truly sate her. After they broke up, she went back to dating women. Clearly, she prefers women. But that doesn’t mean a man, or the right man, is off the table. So she’s not a complete lesbian.

Editor, Jordan D. White is active on this site. He received an Ask saying that it’s annoying how many think Deadpool is straight. So, he asks if he’d consider giving Deadpool a boyfriend in canon. 

Here’s the post.

https://jordandwhiteqna.tumblr.com/post/107753982210/as-someone-who-has-to-deal-with-fake-geek-boys-who

So, no words put in his mouth. He doesn’t deny that Deadpool isn’t straight. And he’s open to the idea of a male love interest. But something more goes on behind the scenes that he can’t call that shot just like that.