One annoying thing I am noticing is that when people run tournaments for best gay ship, if a canon ship gets nominated then all the discourse in the tags is “this ship is canon and the other isn’t!!!” like… this isn’t the question though??? I’m a comics fan there are some canon ships in my fandom that are like “canon gay hero dates random civilian, they appear in 8 issues together, no you aren’t allowed to ship him with other people”, that is not better than non-canon ships just because it’s canon 😭
ugh yeah people’s focus on canon as if a ship being canon automatically makes it the end-all be-all is frustrating
Please, please please let Northstar, Ice Man, or Akihiro date one another fuck I am begging you– why do they ALL have OC nobody boyfriends/husbands?
marvel and dc have this weird obsession with letting hero/hero or villain/villain couples happen only if they’re straight or sapphic and any achillean characters are relegated to being paired with the blandest civilians imaginable
😭😭😭😭😭 crushed (but not surprised) to find out this is a problem over at DC as well.
yeah. jon kent and tim drake both got saddled with this curse. it’s like someone asked for timkon to be canon and got monkey-paw’d.
“tim should have a boyfriend” “oh okay sure thing”
“no we meant you should make superboy gay too” “whatever you say”
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