We might live in a hellscape nightmare timeline but sometimes I remember that, where as a kid in middle school I used to painstakingly pour over back cover blurbs of every book in the school library in desperate hope of finding anything resembling a queer character to let me know I wasn’t alone, coached in hidden terms and tragic endings, wondering if teachers would mock or scorn if they knew, my daughter now can just go to her school librarian, say “I want to read books about girls who like girls” and get a comprehensive list and it genuinely warms my heart like. At least something is okay. This is better
I am a high school English teacher and there are queer stories scattered all through the classroom library. Mysteries, horror, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, slice-of-life, coming of age, etc. etc. All categories with at least a few that have queer main characters. You don’t have to ask me to browse the library or borrow a book, but if you do–I’ll pull them out and see if they are stories you would like to read.
Reminder Birds of Prey will be the first superhero movei starring an openly lgbt hero
While herors like Wonder woman, Valkyrie & anti heroes like Harley are in the superhero movies none of them have been shown in relationshops or shown talking about their sexuality
BIRDS OF PREY IS SUPPOSED TO SHOW A W|W RELATIONSHIP WITH RENEE MONTOYA
So remember to go hype up birds of prey so that both marvel & DC see that showing lgbt heroes being themselves on screen will bring them more money & more positive press
As long as its true that Renee Montoya is openly and proudly lesbian in this movie and we actually see her being a lesbian on screen I will DEFINITELY be supporting this film :D
Shes supposed to be at least thats what people whove seen early screenings of it seem to say fingers crossed that it stays that way. From what Ive heard mostly rumors is that Renee’s girlfriend is played by Ali Wong & i remember there being abig announcment about her being in the film so im betting shes gonna be in at least 2 or 3 scenes
image descrition: Previous photo is of two apparently female figures standing close to one another in a sexually tense moment. The person on the left stands isometrically to the camera with their back turned mostly to the viewer but the side of their face, jacket, and legs visible. This person is pale and wears a large black leather jacket, dark charcoal jeans, black cowboy boots and has their auburn hair down. They also are smoking a cigarette and looking down at the other figure.
The other figure is a lot less clothed and leans against a dining table’s chair almost as if they had stumbled back and are now pinned there by sexual intimidation of the first figure.Our second figure has lightly tanned skin, long dark hair pulled back into a high ponytail and large dark eyes emphasized by mascara and eye shadow. They wear black lacy, semi transparent lingerie consisting of a long sleeveless “coat” which drapes just barely over their breasts and hangs down behind them and off to either side. And they wear a pair of black garters attached to some smoky nylon stockings. Their feet are in black stilettoes and are splayed between the legs of the domineering figure.
They both appear to be in an old fancy hotel suite, with adult beverages in a silver cart on the side.
Because they don’t get as much camera time and not nearly enough credit, here are some beautiful pictures of our co-writers ofNot Another Princess Musical!
My writer and I recently wrapped the first draft of our graphic novel, KLOUD 9! So excited to share more about it soon! I love these two and their story!!
characters who arent canonically gay but whose behavior just makes no sense unless you read them as gay
I mean yes. But also… so many of my favorite ‘not canonically queer characters who totally seemed queer’ have later been revealed to have been conceptualized as possibly queer characters when writing the show, but tptb just didn’t allow it. I feel that in some cases at least, the actors then played the character as possibly queer, adding up to the subtext.
I live! The pandemic may not be over, but I’m done letting it sap my creative energy. So, starting off with some concept illustrations … here’s Angie and Way from PLUNGE, on their journey between Angie’s escape pod crash site and Way’s aquatic settlement home.
Something I’ve been wanting to draw for a while now. Cynthis is one of my favorite characters and I love him very much. He has a lot of self-esteem and self-image issues, and struggles with dysphoria, but slowly grows and learns to better care for himself and be proud of who he is.
(I will be hosting a DTIYS challenge on my instagram using this drawing soon )
![A parody photo of the previous image. It creates the backdrop as a pastel watercolor, and has Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn drawn over each previous feminine figure Poison Ivy is on the left wearing a dark green leather jacket with 3 patches: a prominent "Be Green, Do Crime" patch with a rainbow-ish background, a circular patch that look likes Earth, and an Anarchy patch on the left sleeve facing away from the viewer. Her hair is bright orange-red with leafy vines and poison ivy leaves sticking up out of her long wild hair. Instead of a cigarette is a chewing twig and her dark charcoal jeans are torn at her knees showing off more of her olive green skin tone. Her cowboy boots are now a darkish green with red and light green detailing that makes heart shaped roses, leaves, and spiraled stems with thorns. Harley Quinn is on the right. She has medium tan skin and large brown eyes, but her brown hair has been shown to be shaved on the side so that her dyed blonde hair is piled up in the middle before being tied back into a pair of close-set pig tails. The one on the viewers right has a baby blue pontail holder and the dark blonde hair is dyed a teal-indigo-blue half way towards the end. The pigtail on the viewer's left has a pale pink pontyatil holder and likewise ends in red. There is red and blue clown paint diamonds over her eyes, but in the reverse order of the pigtails (red on our right, blue on our left). She wears a gold hoop earring, and her long sleeveless lingerie coat is now half pale salmon pink and half pale baby blue (same color as the pony tail holders) with pink on our right and blue on our left. Each side seems to have a heart and 3 diamonds in the colors of the opposite side (like a yin and yang reversal) sensually placed over the breast. The coat is torn at its bottom edges as if its seen a lot of action. Harley seems to have red tattoes on the side that faces the viewer, including a tattoo on her upper arm that bears resemblance to a poison ivy leaf by combining three red diamonds in the shape of a club (like from a card game). Red diamond tattoos circle her wrist and ankle like bracelets, and we can see that blue diamonds encircle her other ankle that sticks out between Poison Ivy's legs. She has red nail polish on the one hand that we can see. The lacey parts of her underwear bear resemblance to the spiraled thorn designs on ivy's boots. A slight natural buldge sticks out from her underwear, and the non-lacey charcoal parts attatch via garters to smoky and semi-teansparent nylon stockings. A red stiletto on the blue diamond ankled foot and a blue-indigo stilhetto on the red diamond ankled foot. Harley has fresh, lighter colored battle scars covering her hands, arm, torso, splitting her eyebrow, and grazing across the side of her shaved head. (And subtle stretch marks between her thighs) And she has older darker battle scars out from her bottom lip, across her shoulder, torso, legs, and stomach: including some that seem to spell out "Ha Ha" but is partially obscured by the coat. [end of parody description]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/7d1560aca84b15576e25e5aa8b79b793/208aa74410086ad5-dd/s2048x3072/79690c99db831ffc76c10b48c131138afa868c99.png)
