Do you need some arts? I bet you need some arts.

[lady_ganesh]

Lucky you, my friend is taking commissions!

Also, you (general you) can believe that Sha Gojyo is straight all you want to. If you do this, read the manga, and do not think he has flirted with men, I have serious doubts about your reading comprehension. Serious. Doubts.

Also, I got to reference Ensign Sue Must Die in this week's

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[cicer]

Pfft, straight!Gojyo? No way! Dude is pretty obviously bi, and I suspect he would actually find it easier to fall in love with/develop attachments to men, thanks to his mommy-issues.

[lady_ganesh]

Well, I've certainly taken amazing liberties with characters and their sexualities so I'm not gonna judge, but dude. The flirting is right there in the text.

[red_squared]

WHY WOULD YOU LINK ME TO THE CHARACTER-TROPES PAGE OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU TO DESERVE THIS BAWWW.

Also, you (general you) can believe that Sha Gojyo is straight all you want to. If you do this, read the manga, and do not think he has flirted with men, I have serious doubts about your reading comprehension. Serious. Doubts.

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Then again, Sanzo does cut a fairly girly figure but -- Oh, wait: reading comprehension you said. Carry on.

PS: ?

[lady_ganesh]

BUT YOU'LL LEARN SO MUCH go read Ensign Sue instead?

A friend of mine ran into someone with this attitude. I was so baffled I had to share!

[red_squared]

It's not a fandom I'm familiar with, so I hadn't thought to, but the first couple of pages suggest that I don't need to be au fait with the Trek-ery so thanks for the tip!

Yeah... I can see 'Sha Gojyo isn't bi/gay' although I don't particularly want to, but not flirting with men? Mmm. No.

[lady_ganesh]

It's fantastic.

Exactly.

[meganbmoore]

Snerk. I'm notorious for either not seeing or not cart roughly 90% of fandoms m/m slash (ok, mostly not caring as it usually involves at least one character I don't care as much about, [or its' like SGA and the show is all THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE TWO WHITE MEN IS SO BLISSFUL AND PERFECT AND AMAZING THAT ALL OTHER LIFEFORMS-especially anyone who is any combination of female, POC, or not from Earth-ARE LESSER BEINGS AND ARE MEANT TO SILENTLY OBSERVE THEIR BRILLIANCE AND GET A COUPLE LINES ONCE IN A WHILE] or don't find interesting,hm, is frequently in narratives that focus on male POV primarily and so don't hold as much of my attention to start with more often than not, but there are some characters why I just cannot picture it at all no matter how I tilt my head) but Gojyo...well, this is the fandom that tries to claim there is no incest nonono Kanon-wasn't-really-his-sister-they-weren't-related-and-that-totally-wasn't-just-a-sex-scene-between-Doku-and-his-mom-nuh-uh, after all

[cicer]

Really? You've seen people argue that Kanon and Hakkai weren't related, and that Doku wasn't banging him mom?! *boggles* Um, yeah. Speaking of lacking reading comprehension...

[lady_ganesh]

I blame the anime for some of it, as they filed off so many edges and it's sometimes hard to shake your first impression, but...yeah.

[cicer]

Ohhh, yeah. I forgot about the anime. I've only seen a handful of episodes, actually, so my personal version of canon has nothing whatsoever to do the anime and everything to do with the manga. :/

[andmydog]

I JUST.

I MEAN.

....I don't even pretend to understand.

[lady_ganesh]

Clearly you are not alone! Not that you didn't already know this. Just. What.

[smillaraaq]

Ye gods, yes. I don't care what you think Gojyo's sexual orientation is, but the flirting? IT'S WHAT HE DOES. He flirts with women. He flirts with men. He flirts with little kids and ladies old enough to be his grandma. He flirts with crazed youkai who are trying to kill him right in the middle of a fight. Flirtatious teasing is just a major part of the way he talks. I would totally not even be surprised if he flirts with animals and inanimate objects and maybe even his own reflection in the mirror upon occasion, and I should really go watch the kitten episode again to see if it's already there in semi-canon form.

[lady_ganesh]

He does flirt with his own clone in both anime and manga-- I think that's close enough to his own reflection, don't you?

[smillaraaq]

D'OH, HOW COULD I FORGET THE CLONE?

(And c'mon, who can blame the boy? He's hot. Why wouldn't he want to do himself?)

[lady_ganesh]

(Well, yes.)