i really hope that dc announcing that wonder woman is bisexual sets off a string of dc and marvel announcing that all their superheroes are gay to try and one-up each other. like, tomorrow we wake up to find that marvel has admitted that captain america has been bi all along. then dc counters by making batman gay. next thing you know black widow is canonically ace. and no one stops until all their superheroes are somewhere on the lgbt+ spectrum
[image description: three screencaps from the site titled “All Our Worlds: Diverse Fantastic Fiction”. The first screencap shows the search terms, with an options for “Any of the selected” and “All of the selected”, then the tags gay, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer, noneuropean, multiple culture, disability, pronouns, lesbian, asexual, nonbinary, race, queered culture, all-female, poly, and class. There is a drop down bar for date, and check boxes for Books, Anthologies, and Comics.
The next screencap shows a sample results page, bringing up Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor and Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, both with covers, summaries, the reason it was added to the database (Akata Witch’s reads “Presents a secret magic world in a noneuropean setting with rules very different from a lot of other works. Disability is addressed many times—in this world, having a physical disability means your magic will be stronger to compensate, resulting in special skills), tags, and publication date.
Last is the screencap of the resources page, subtitled List and Websites, Awards, and Publishers]
Here’s the project I’ve been working on: a searchable index of diverse SF/F.
521 books so far, and I’m still adding more! There’s a page to suggest something if I don’t have it. (hint- I’m very short on comics at the moment!)
(Oberlin College Winter Term 2015)
AMAZING SITE!!!
i only read sci-fi, fantasy and paranormal stuff so i seldomly actually read anything about lesbians and HERE IS A WHOLE GODDAMNED SITE DEDICATED TO FINDING BOOKS IN MY GENRES ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE ME i’m so happy i’m actually sitting straight instead of hunched over
(Image description: the rainbow, trans, lesbian, nonbinary, bisexual, asexual, intersex, pansexual, genderfluid, and aromantic pride flags with centered text. Together the text says: “There is nothing wrong with you. You are supposed to be here. It’s okay for you to love who you love. It’s okay for you to be who you are. You are exactly who you are meant to be. You are not broken. You were born perfect as you are. You belong in this community. You belong in this world. You are wonderful and worthy and enough.”)
Why is it always ‘queer people are projecting their identities onto characters’ and never ‘straight people are presuming that their identity is the default’?
So my conflict is that I love teddy but I hard core ship wolfstar- so here’s how I fixed it in my head.
So, like, Tonks is asexual- never wanted anyone, never needed anyone- wants to be a career girl. And of course Remus is still hung up over Sirius after OoTP- werewolves mate for life. So one night they both have the late watch for the order, and they stay later and get drunk on firewhisky- and they’re just like, “why not experiment?” So they have terrible drunk sex cos Remus has no clue what he’s doing with a girl, and Tonks is just like, “I don’t see what’s so great about it.” And they’re laughing and it’s jus friends fucking around (literally). And the next morning Remus is feeling terrible and Tonks just picks up on it. And she tells Lupin “hey, Sirius wouldn’t feel betrayed that you had terrible drunk sex with your best friend. He’d probably laugh and tell you how to do it better.” And all is well and good until Tonks realises she’s pregnant, and she talks with lupin and he just suggests they live together and get married- it’s not like either of them will ever really fall in love with anyone else. So they get married for propriety’s sake and move in together and of course they survive the war (cos DAMMIT JOANNE, you can’t just kill everyone we love!) and it’s like two bachelors chilling together avec punk child. And everyone who sleeps over at Teddy’s is always asking if his parents are fighting when they go off to separate rooms to sleep, and Teddy’s confused, because like, why would they think that? Remus and Tonks were just hugging and joking and laughing earlier that evening when Teddy and his friends were having dinner. And it takes a while before he learns that most parents sleep together and are romantically inclined and aren’t just two best friends raising a kid. But he wouldn’t have it any other way, because it’s much more relaxed when they’re just friends and there’s no jealousy and no worries if one of them goes out for the night with a mixed group, and no disgusting PDA. But he’s curious about it anyway, so he asks why they don’t act like most couples, so they sit him down explain that mum isn’t romantically inclined and dad lost the love of his life, and all they had left was each other, best friends, so they got together and had Teddy and made their own eccentric little family and they’re happy, because maybe it’s not what they envisioned or wanted at first, but it’s what they have, and it’s enough and they love it’s other
fuguring out who you are, my friend, is a long journey with monsters like the charybdis and scylla of ingrained homophobia and fear of “what if I’m just being edgy,” the cerberus of fear of being different, and the Echidna of Compulsory Heterosexuality. So basically, questioning is like being Odysseus and you need to find out whether you want to go home to Penelope, Peter, both or neither while fighting some pretty sick monsters. Good luck, hero.
Or, you know, just watch it for fun. The idea behind this was to create a video you could send to friends/family, to get all the basic questions and confusions out of the way. Because unfortunately, coming out as asexual often comes with having to explain what asexuality even is.
I’m playing around with how I want these videos, please bear with me as I experiment with sound/background music/content.
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