#biphobia in comics

[redlittlebird]

I don’t really weigh in on a lot of shipping discourse, people are going to like what they like. I said most of what I wanted to say when they broke Tim and Steph up off panel when their relationship was probably the most healthy and supportive it had ever been in the 30 year history of being written together first happened. But I’m so tired, I don’t like the way DC handled any of how Tim came out. It’s just not in line with how his character had been written in the years leading up to it. I’ve always read Tim as bi, for as long as I can remember I have identified with this character and have always thought he was bisexual. I also think it’s really reductive to the bi experience that a character can only “be themselves” in a same sex pairing. That’s just not how it works. How Tim and Steph’s relationship was written right up until the point they were split up showed no signs of Tim or Steph ever having to hide who they were from each other. So yeah I do feel like it’s a bit of a slap in the face for writers to paint it like Steph was somehow holding Tim back from being his true self. If there was anything to actually show things not working out then maybe I’d buy what DC tried to do but just dropping everything to get with a character that has so little substance to him other than being “Tim’s boyfriend” is just shallow. I appreciate a lot of the points brought up by the person I’m reblogging this from.

But I guess that’s just me a bisexual being biphobic and really wanting Tim to cheat as soon as possible or something.

The mental gymnastics people do to hate timber should be studied under a microscope.

The fuck you mean he is bad bisexual rep because he is dating a man… and how does that makes him gay???? Have you ever talked to a bisexual person???

��Oh it makes less of his past relationships” how?? How?!? Is he not allowed to be infatuated with his current partner? Should he continue pining after his past relationships even tho he is dating someone else???

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

Unsurprisingly, one kiss in an alleyway behind some bins doesn't fix your problems. Previous part is here, I skipped Castafiore's introduction because I animated it here!

This is part of my story, The House of Glass. Poor Chang is going through it in this one.

[starnosedmoles]

“I Think…” by Leanne Franson, 1992

[bi-dykes]

Bi Dykes have my whole heart + check out this amazing article I read explaining bi sapphic’s (aka selenic’s) reclamation of the slur dyke!

a snippet from the article I adore :3

We have a language philosophy who focuses on slur reclamation on our side. Twitter biphobes who insist selenics can’t reclaim dyke have like no research on their side <3

[tinyfaust]

So having finished A Stitch in Time, I’m wildly curious as to why people just ignore Palandine’s existence in Garak’s personal history? If you’ve never read the book obvi I don’t mean you bc how else would you know (I feel like getting second hand accounts isn’t the same as reading the material itself and I mean that kindly), but there’s so many people I’ve seen on ao3 and tumblr talking about the book and Garak and writing fic about Garak and Julian but where are the mentions of Palandine? He was still suffering so much from her loss even in post war Cardassia and were just gonna ignore she ever happened?? Can we not have him and Julian falling in love while he also suffers from grief over her? These things are realistic and happen and I am genuinely so worked up and upset over this. Sexuality and love and identity and grief are complicated and I would genuinely just like to see anyone honestly acknowledge how important she was to him.

[shuppyshup]

FOUR different authors: *confirm that a character is indeed bisexual*

Y'all: I pretend not to see

1 author who clearly doesn't know canon whatsoever: *says same character is a lesbian*

Y'all: OMG! CANON! Anyone who says otherwise is lesbophobic!

[werewolf-cuddles]

ivy being a lesbian in main canon is not bi erasure. shes still bi in the harley quinn show. so many bi characters in dc and youre mad cause the one whos been lesbian coded has been confirmed, get tf over it.

Earth Prime!Ivy has literally been referred to as bisexual in interviews before.

This is very blatantly bisexual erasure.

And you telling me, a person who is actually bisexual, that I just need to get over it comes across as extremely tone-deaf at best.

Imagine, if you will, that there is a character who has always been portrayed and explicitly described as a lesbian. Suddenly, that character is taken over by a new writer, who states in an interview that she is bisexual.

How would you feel in that situation? Would you feel hurt? Angry? Congratulations, now you understand how we feel having one of DC's most well known bisexual characters have her bisexuality erased.

[thevillainsfangirl]

Harley Quinn is canonically bisexual-biromantic, stop trying to erase that.

[dailydccomics]

Ollie's got all the charm of a wet napkin Batman and the Outsiders vol 2 #6

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Random Asshole: The question mark is for what? Your sexuality? *laughts* *no one else laughts*

Riddler: *deadpan* Is for my gender actually.

Random Asshole: What does this even mean? Is this one of those new trends for weirdos? Do you think you are a woman or some shit? Maybe a dog. Bark bark.

Riddler: *stims* Oh! Oh! I have an idea. I can explain my gender to you via riddle *asshole guy groans* wait I still didn't told you the best part! If you solve it wrong *giggles* you die.

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Random Asshole 2: *talking about Two-Face *He is completly crazy with the two stuff. I bet he calls himself bissexual just for the aesthetic may even fuck little boys like a proper degenerate.

Two-Face: First let me educate you in some simple things: We ARE bissexual. Always were bissexual. Even before the scar Harvey Dent was notably bissexual. Never hided it. And we - bissexuals but also me and Harv - are not degenerates nor pedophiles and I sleep with proper grown man, you brother for one. Second and this one is my favorite: Harv and I actually agreed for once. *picks gun* *shoots the biphobe twice in both legs* Have a pleasant day, sir!

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Random Asshole 3: Oh look the sissy with all it's make-up thinking she can scare me.

Joker: *rolling his eyes* And I though Batsy had a fragile masculinity *whispering* do you heard that he doesn't even pleasure his laddies tsk tsk? *points a gun at the guy* Look pal I use make-up because I'm a clown and also because I'm sexy. You certainly are one of those things. *laughs* I would let you decide wich one but honestly the fact that no even paying got woman to sleep with you eh it's just too obvious. Unfortunally you're a bad clown. And I normally just kill homophobes. Easier, faster. Maybe sent their hearts as a cute declaration for Batsy. Buuuut bad clowns need to be punished more... Learn to be good clowns. So let Papa Joker teach you *hits the guy head with the gun and orders his goons to take him to the "fun house"* *laughts maniacally*

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Random Asshole 4: I'm not a homophobe. I'm all in for chicks kissing. I'm soo in that I had to ask you girls to do a scene with me *raises eyebrows sugestivally* If you know what I mean?

Harley: The audacity!! *Get's ready to kill the man with her bat* *Ivvy's plants hold the bat at the last moment before it crushes the guys head*

Ivvy: Babe no.

Random Asshole: See she understands the appel! *to Ivvy* It can be just you and me, darling.

Ivvy: *not even looking at the guy* We need to kill him slower. Truly appreaciate it, you know?

Harley: *squeaking excidetdly* Oh! You soo right, Red! We don't have a torture session in soo long. *cracking her knuckles* Is going to be sooo much fun!

[faeralcatmeems]

DAILY PRIDE MONTH DOODLES #22 - this is not a flower shop meet cute (part 2) [20 page mini comic]

part 1 | part 2 (is this one!) | part 3

me, shaking deku by the shoulders: KACCHAN IS RIGHT THERE YOU DUMMY RIGHT THERE

and also aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah i love tsundere butch kacchan soooooooo much

i just love disaster gays

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

hi! loving your art. I was watching your awesome stories/gifs and I was wondering: how did Chang develop his feelings for Tintin? Did he discover them before or after him? How did he react and why? (English is not my first language so if you see a grammatical mistake, I'm sorry. Also, sorry if so many questions made you feel like you were in a philosophy exam)

Thank you so much! As a contrast to the rest of the Marlinspike team I'm writing Chang as someone who makes friends and develops crushes pretty easily!

I imagine he's had a crush on Tintin for some time, possibly from when they first met. He's been at the mercy of his circumstances for most of his life until that point - Tintin basically makes him feel capable of doing stuff.

He's pretty heartbroken after the Blue Lotus. Tintin doesn't contact him for years. Chang is struggling to adjust to his new family and is failing at school, having missed out on a good education for a few years prior. Until Tibet he feels pretty hopeless, he will never live up to the time when he took down a drug ring.

His near death experience in Tibet shakes him out of this rut. He starts to travel and take up hobbies like dance and photography. Didi trains him in some basic martial arts. Tintin makes an effort to actually stay in touch this time. Chang has some abandonment issues as he's frequently lost people throughout his life, so he's someone who's willing to give people second chances, even if they've hurt him badly. Chang thinks he's well over his crush on Tintin when he comes around to Belgium for his studies, but falls for him again very quickly!

Unlike Tintin, Chang is a lot more comfortable with who he is. He's used to being the odd one out and has generally low expectations for himself, so just goes with the flow.

Below I talk a little with how I'm going about writing him and the historical context surrounding this, cw for mentions of racism (sinophobia) and queerphobia:

I'm writing Chang as bi, I thought it would be interesting to explore as Asian men were perceived differently in the 30s compared to today. While Asian men in the West are currently heavily desexualised in the early 20th century they were stereotyped as predatory and deviant. In London a lot of Chinese immigrants were male dockworkers, so when they married white women there was a lot of fearmongering about predatory and disloyal Chinese men.

A lot of depictions of Asian men in Western media reflected these stereotypes (and often used queercoding to push the idea of Asian men being animalistic seducers - General Henry Chang in Shanghai Express (1932) was written to be bisexual while posing as a threat to the white leads). Some examples off the top of my head include Hishuru Tori from The Cheat (1915) and The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932). Novels frequently depicted Chinese drug lords with borderline supernatural powers in manipulation.

On the other hand I've noticed how fans frequently depict Chang as someone who's submissive, demure and soft, which ignores how ridiculously brave and proactive he is in canon (stealing documents from police officers, charging into a man immediately after getting shot at by a machine gun, I could go on!). It's a common example of Fandom Racism (not accusing anyone specifically, it's just a trend I've noticed.)

When writing Chang I'm kinda reckoning with two different eras. From a contemporary angle I'm writing him as a love interest, which as an Asian guy I rarely see in media today. I also gotta consider his own time and context, how he would navigate being a queer Chinese guy, and how that would affect his relationship with others and himself.

[macbxth-pdf]

Everytime I think I’m free from the Bi Sapphics vs Lesbian bullshit on TikTok….It fucking finds me. Like someone says “Biphobia is a problem and we need to address it” and now it’s biphobes and lesbophobes congregating in the comments and throwing snowballs behind igloos.

[bi-dykes]

When bisexual girls are in relationships with men, we’re assumed to be heterosexual. That being interested in women never mattered, that if we’re in a straight-passing relationship, we’re straight now.

The thing that a lot of ppl don’t realize, is that when we’re with a girl, it doesn’t magically undo the bi-erasure. Now, bisexual girls are assumed to be lesbians. Now, being interested in men never mattered, a bisexual girl in a lesbian-passing relationship is lesbian now.

We get erased from all sides. Poison Ivy gets the same treatment irl bisexuals do, and it’s aggravating to see even a beloved fictional character get her identity erased.

[venus-of-the-hrdsell]

A (not) gentle reminder that John Constantine is a canon bisexual. If you say he's pansexual or that he "would fuck anything that moves" remember that I'll burn your house and he probably would as well.

[its-not-she-its-he]

Hungary has a book problem!!!

Books are banned/wrapped in plastic because they have lgbtq+ characters.

A Hungarian book shop/distributor got fined 12 million Hungarian forints (which is about 32,079 euros, 36,014 USD. It might not look much in other currencies but our economy isn’t good) because one of the Heartstopper books wasn’t wrapped in plastic. Books with lgbtq+ stories have to be wrapped in plastic because of an anti-lgbtq+ law which supposedly protects kids.

The book distributor wanna take the case to court.

Bans/restrictions against books has been going on for a few years in our country. But this is a new low in my opinion.

I put some articles below.