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hey i made a fake superman & gossamer logo so if any of y’all want to use this to gaslight DC into giving us a jayjon run… run free
It's been bugging me for a while that we have so many canonically queer characters now but none of them ever DO anything! It's like after they get two characters in a queer relationship they just never give them any conflict after. We didn't ask for more representation because we wanted that character to no longer have interesting stories outside of a queer identity we wanted you to stop queer baiting us.
I know that word gets tossed around a lot, but there is very strong evidence for TimKon, StephCass, and GhostBat where they practically confirm it but they never say anything explicitly. Supersons were literally shown to live together, co-parent Lizzie, and were explicitly paralleling other canon couples last week.
But it's too much for Kon AND Tim to be queer, so they gave Tim a civilian boyfriend that he never has any conflict with and all of the build up and tension that comes with trying to clone your dead teammate 99 times and being a hair away from making out for like 8 years.
Robin AND Super boy couldn't be canonically queer so they aged Jon up and then gave him a civilian boyfriend he never has any conflict with all while parading them around in elseworlds because they knew fans were upset about the lost potential.
Even Harley and Ivy fall victim to this in a different way. I love that they're canonically queer! I just wish that at least Ivy got to keep some of her villainy. I don't think they should have to compromise being menaces to society with being queer.
And it's related but I hesitate to call it queer baiting... what's going on with Dick Grayson. He gets confirmed bi in a non canon video game but he has more pride covers than Tim. Like you can't dangle an extremely queer coded character in front of us and then just never make it canon. And I'm tired of one off implications too. We deserve better representation than a one liner played off for a joke (Batstantine this is about you I fear) but they won't because they know full well they won't do a damn thing with him after.
You wanna know what we should be striving for? Midnighter and Apollo. Messy their whole run time, uncompromisingly interesting whether they're together or not, happily married with a daughter, and yet continued to be unerringly bad ass. John Constantine, with all of his shameless flirting and raunchiness. Grace Choi and Anissa Pierce. The pining, the break ups, the make ups. Obsessed with them.
Joey Wilson!!! You want someone whose already canonically queer who Dick has a lot of tension with? He's right there! The son of Dick's arch Nemesis. Both of their willingness to go over people's heads to protect them. Joey's ability to completely take someone's free will (and his deliberate and spiteful choice not to) vs. Dick's constant fight for independence (and his willing surrender to the pull of his family). Dick's unwillingness to communicate his feelings or experiences with literally anyone ever paired with Joey's uncanny ability to read him like a book. Are you joking. The mess, the tension, the INTRIGUE!!
This got away from me but I want my queer characters to be interesting again pretty please.
today on the y:ju discord (spurred on by @creetchure 's opinonated takes on fictional characters)
Superman: Son of Kal-El #5
DC: one of the robins and one of of the superboys are bi!
Fans: Is it timkon?
DC: Close!
Fans: Is it damijon?
DC: ooh so close, it's actually Tim x Bernard Dowd and Jon x Jay Nakamura!
Fans: Who the fuck is-
DC: This is what you wanted right? :)
For the record I love Bernard & timbern so much, I don't know much about timkon so I don't really ship it and I don't know anything about Jay (I had to google his name to make this) but I'm glad there are actually confirmed gay people in something with such a huge fan base.
That being said why did they do it like that? The fans really wanted timkon and/or damijon so DC decided to go half and half and do that instead?
gotta include OP's tags come on
some rando on twitter: ugh, jay nakamura is sooo fake! he probably slept his way into dating with superman. and he’s sooo ugly
damian “#1 jay nakamura stan” al-ghul wayne, replying on his very public twitter account: you’re broke. you spend all your time on the internet thirsting after men who will never glance you. you’ve never had a relationship last over 3 months. and is this your address?
as much as I dislike the Aged Up Jon thing that Bendis did, I adore Jay Nakamura and his relationship with Jon
it's a good example of modern queer rep: neither of them skirt around being queer, Jay's mom and his backstory are an instrumental part of the Son of Kal El plot, their attraction to each other makes sense, and Jay has real flaws!
when Jay was first introduced, the comics make you believe that he's working for Luthor or hiding something (fuckin bullshit Batman line that Jon can't trust him is still such an attention grab though) and the subversion that he is trustworthy and Jon can rely on another person is so wonderful
the lessons that the new generation of heroes gives: you should rely on others, ask for help, and that good things are allowed to happen- there isn't always a negative outcome to everything. these are markedly different from previous iterations of characters because the morals are coming from multiple runs concurrently and are not then immediately retconned to drive up sales.
Some JayJon for you all 😌 enjoy!