gillen, if you had told me this five issues ago we wouldn't have a problem
Let me throw this out there - I love lesbians. I'm queer myself. I love the inclusion of lesbians into things. There is very little that I do not think can be improved by the addition of lesbians.
I gotta say...I am not as happy about this from YA#13 as I would otherwise be (note: this is for entirely selfish reasons and is not a slightest judgement on where Marvel has taken the character).
[some fanfic-writer misery beneath the cut]
Don't get me wrong! I'm really, really happy for other people who might be really happy about the reveal! Because I understand how much a queer Latina would mean to some people and I am in no way trying to minimize those people's feelings. And I'm not saying it doesn't make narrative sense. If you come from a land of all women, with all-female relationships, it's going to change your outlook and expectations. If Gillen had hinted at this five goddamn issues ago, I would not be having a single personal or rational problem with it. I would have been elated, because YA has been in desperate need of queer ladies from the beginning. (And to be fair, I still am, but excuse me while I whine a little bit).
So, alas, I am being entirely selfish, and am screaming, to the heavens, "WHY ISN'T SHE BI?!" (And, to be fair, I also fully believe that the inclusion of bi ladies also makes everything 1000x better, for obvious reasons.)
But alas, the source of my complaint largely has to do with the fact that I am about halfway through a long-ass Young!Loki/America fic
1000 words is the longest fic I have written in a very long time
so
yeaaaaah.
This puts me in a really awkward position.
I suppose I could change the actual sexiness side of the fic to Loki/Prodigy (which I also am shipping rn), and as all of you know, I adore platonic m+f relationships. But that would require some restructuring of a developed relationship and UGH. I WAS DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT. I WAS TRYING TO BE GOOD.
So yeah, this post basically sums up to:
DEAR KIERON GILLEN
WHY NOW
LOVE,
ME
PS: Yes, I know there are other things to write in the world. There are even other things I should be writing right now. Yes I am grateful that, if nothing else, this fic has been helping me force-feed myself through my dry-spell, so, I'm just sitting here like, "Really? You want me to scrap or rewrite this big damn fic?" Which I guess ultimately might be for the best, since your rebound fic is never your best fic, but REALLY?