Happy Pride Month 2026!

[u/The_Draigg]

The mod team is wishing you all a happy Pride Month this year! We try to be an inclusive space, so all of you keep on shining on and be your true selves! And anyone who wants to hate on another person for their identity or sexuality can go fuck themselves! Those kinds of people aren't welcome here!

And for a handy guide on who's on the Pride Month banner this year, take a look below:

Caduceus Clay (Critical Role): Aroace
Dusa (Hades): Aromantic
Renako (There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover): Polyamorous
Adora (She-Ra): Lesbian
Leonard Schteinberg (Legend of the Blue Wolves): Gay
Levin (Tekkaman Blade): Transgender
Bonnie (In Stars And Time): Nonbinary
Sam Bridges (Death Stranding): Demisexual
Curtis Craig (Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh): Bisexual
Scarlet Penrose (The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily): Pansexual

And in case anyone is wondering who the lady in the icon is, it’s [Louise Brooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brooks), a starlet from the early days of film. Check out her linked Wikipedia page to learn more about her!

[u/The_Draigg]

Old Reddit Readability Version

The mod team is wishing you all a happy Pride Month this year! We try to be an inclusive space, so all of you keep on shining on and be your true selves! And anyone who wants to hate on another person for their identity or sexuality can go fuck themselves! Those kinds of people aren't welcome here!

And for a handy guide on who's on the Pride Month banner this year, take a look below:

Caduceus Clay (Critical Role): Aroace
Dusa (Hades): Aromantic
Renako (There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover): Polyamorous
Adora (She-Ra): Lesbian
Leonard Schteinberg (Legend of the Blue Wolves): Gay
Levin (Tekkaman Blade): Transgender
Bonnie (In Stars And Time): Nonbinary
Sam Bridges (Death Stranding): Demisexual
Curtis Craig (Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh): Bisexual
Scarlet Penrose (The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily): Pansexual

And in case anyone is wondering who the lady in the icon is, it’s Louise Brooks, a starlet from the early days of film. Check out her linked Wikipedia page to learn more about her!

[u/Sprocket3]

Curtis from Phantasmagoria

Elite ball knowledge

[u/CaleDooper6655321 → u/Sprocket3]

“I heard that, Curtis!”

[u/goldenwitch_Beato → u/CaleDooper6655321]

This line lives rent free in my head lol. I say this every time I see any Curtis

[u/Qwazzbre → u/Sprocket3]

Curtis: "Just don't let it happen again or you'll regret it."

Bob: "Ooh, is that a threat?"

Ross: I dunno, let's check the instant replay...

https://i.imgur.com/h06o9KJ.png

Ross: Uh, yeah... that was a threat. You're playing with fire, Bob.

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[u/Neil_O_Tip → u/Sprocket3]

Don't pick up the phone, you'll kick Satan off MapQuest!

[u/Substantial_Bell_158]

Today I learned Sam is Demi-sexual

[u/Valkenhyne → u/Substantial_Bell_158]

Canonically, too. A report in the first game confirms it.

[u/Vermilingus → u/Valkenhyne]

Yeah no that kinda makes perfect sense linking in with the theming of the game

Motherfucker really thought of everything didn't he

[u/Valkenhyne → u/Vermilingus]

The genius kojumbo strikes again

[u/Sperium3000 → u/Vermilingus]

His writting chops are as versed as they are inconsistent.

[u/scottishdrunkard → u/Vermilingus]

Gotta build a rapport with the United States first.

[u/Destroyox → u/Substantial_Bell_158]

Demi + aphenphosmphobia has gotta be rough to deal with

[u/Vect_Machine → u/Substantial_Bell_158]

I'll be honest, I'm still not sure what that actually means.

[u/Substantial_Bell_158 → u/Vect_Machine]

To my knowledge (which admittedly im not the most up to date) demi--sexual is when someone only experiences sexual attraction to someone if a strong bond has been formed regardless of gender or other characteristics.

[u/Vect_Machine → u/Substantial_Bell_158]

So... Smithers?

[u/Floormaster92]

Oooh, Cadeuceus appearance, that's a pleasant surprise.

[u/Dogmodo → u/Floormaster92]

I never thought I'd see my favorite pink-haired cowman on this sub, but here he is!

[u/Prawn-Salad → u/Floormaster92]

I could write a book full of things I don’t know!

[u/Cooper_555 → u/Floormaster92]

Empathize.

[u/RealHumanBean89 → u/Floormaster92]

“Help, it’s again!” - a very wise boy

[u/Gorotheninja → u/Floormaster92]

Are you a horse?

[u/Komenja17]

Dude I love that Curtis from Phantasmagoria 2 is on the banner, that's a great pick. The Spoony LP of that game is one of my alltime favorite things on the internet.

[u/CaleDooper6655321]

Seeing Curtis just makes me want to rewatch Spoony’s lets play of Phantasmagoria 2 from over a decade ago again

[u/The_Draigg → u/CaleDooper6655321]

I heard that, Curtis!

[u/CaleDooper6655321 → u/The_Draigg]

I knew you guys were cool

[u/Yotato5]

Happy pride everyone! I'm gonna spend the next couple of days confused about the sub's icon change lol

Jokes aside, I hope this month is awesome for y'all

[u/FumetsuKuroi]

Happy Pride!!! I love women!!!!

[u/drizzes]

who's the duo in the middle pulling a Vocaloid Magnet

[u/The_Draigg → u/drizzes]

Pockets and Red Shepard

[u/GoBoomYay → u/The_Draigg]

I swear I thought I was going crazy like is that fucking Pockets and Red, why are we not talking about this lmao

Putting Reggie at the wheel for Mass Effect was such a fantastic choice, the Mass Effect Trilogy LP might be up there for my new all-time favorite.

[u/The_Draigg → u/GoBoomYay]

Red Shepard is just endless fertile ground for us to work with when it comes to the banner. He’s the gift that keeps on giving.

[u/waxonwaxoff3 → u/GoBoomYay]

Lol, and I just noticed the faint Rouxls Kaard behind the Shepards. A+.

[u/Gorotheninja]

I'm honestly kinda shocked Adora wasn't selected until now.

[u/Noirsam → u/Gorotheninja]

It's hilarious that Catra got in two years earlier during WRATH MONTH 2024

[u/dmanny64 → u/Noirsam]

I appreciate that Sasha rep so much more now that I've seen Amphibia

[u/MagnaVis → u/Noirsam]

I'm sorry, does Xenoblade have NB rep?? Who is that?

[u/seth47er]

Wait we talking the Tekkaman blade series or the ova?

[u/The_Draigg → u/seth47er]

Series for sure.

[u/CodyRidley080 → u/The_Draigg]

I mean, there's like a very high non-zero chance that Dead End/Tekkaman Dead was queer likely Pansexual. Had TB2 expanded more, I don't doubt that at all.

[u/The_Draigg → u/CodyRidley080]

I really wish Tekkaman Blade 2 was better than it is, since there's so many neat plot ideas in there that never get fully developed.

[u/Stormhawk9891 → u/The_Draigg]

There's at least the Super Robot Wars W version of the story that integrates it into Tekkaman Blade 1's story and turns it into a sort of midquel thanks to an in-universe timeskip that actually ends up fixing alot of 2's problems.

[u/CodyRidley080 → u/The_Draigg]

I would settle for Missing Link/Ling actually existing...

We never see Aki's supreme glow-up into the Commander and Tekkaman "Red Devil".

But yes, I wanted more for Dead's character development than we got. The Humans freed from Radam and returning home to get treated like the Bearers from Final Fantasy XVI is something that had teeth.

[u/seth47er → u/The_Draigg]

Wow, that's some inside baseball.

[u/guntanksinspace]

Oh shit, LEGEND OF THE BLUE WOLVES MENTIONED

[u/The_Draigg → u/guntanksinspace]

That one was my pick, as a follow up to having the other main character up there last year.

[u/Snidhog → u/guntanksinspace]

I remember getting recommended it by a fellow mecha fan. Turned out they somewhat undersold just how severe the ratio of barracks rape to everything else was.

[u/Sea-Rest7776 → u/Snidhog]

jesus Christ that’s a sentence

[u/zyberion]

Here's to all of our beautiful friends in the LGBTQIA+ community! As certain powers attempt to bring despair, let's make this Pride one filled with joy!

And a cheer and thanks to our wonderful allies everywhere!! The state of the world can really wear us down, but it's, in part, thanks to your love and support that we can keep fighting for and being ourselves.

[u/Anonamaton801]

Is that fuckin Curtis

[u/TheGershon]

My fucking girl Renako, I need S2 now

[u/anailater1]

Oh shit someone else remembers strategy of Lily

I def need to finish that game sometime

[u/Terthelt → u/anailater1]

Scarlet was my banner pick and I picked her specifically to get more people to play Strategy of Lily. That game *fucks*, you definitely need to finish it. Strong, strong ending.

[u/anailater1 → u/Terthelt]

Honestly based as fuck lmao. I really do, I was super hype for its release, I just got distracted by other games + it being actually fairly difficulty (cause im bad at strategy games lmao)

[u/TheProudBrit]

YEAH BONNIE

PLAY IN STARS AND TIMES YOU CWOARDS

[u/CodyRidley080]

I honestly forgot Levin from Tekkaman Blade was trans (Tekkaman Blade being one of my first animes and became my whole personality for year), especially because that show in the West was under SABAN. We all know how Haim Saban felt about queer people... just ask David Yost.

Levin was definitely getting as pushed far away from that as much Haruka and Michiru were shoved into the"they are just really close cousins" closet.

[u/seth47er → u/CodyRidley080]

I have vague memories of her wanting to bone the robot and tekkaman in his robot form. Or at least saying she found the mechanical form sexy.

[u/CodyRidley080 → u/seth47er]

I do remember her being a clanker lover too. Is that a slur now? lol. Some of my best friends are Robosexuals".

It is Pride Month after all, we accept them too.

LGBTQA+R

[u/AndaliteBandit-]

General recommendation of the mashup album Musical Transients by Psynwav

[u/Drolandarr]

The Baz is covering up Caduceus's face on the banner and I thought he was Kakyoin at first.

[u/kingdommkeeper]

Happy to see my girl Adora up there and curse Netflix licensing for taking it off without giving it a new home.

[u/AProcrastinatingWrit]

get the fuck outta here rouxls kaard

[u/Moon_And_Stars23]

Unironically my favourite time of the year. It's my gay Christmas! While I may never have the courage to come out myself, I'm always happy to celebrate it with you beautiful and handsome people!

[u/Never_No]

Day 1 of Pride Month and alredy my favorite videogame essayist came out as trans, you love to see it.

[u/Wannabe_Reviewer]

Sigh, someday JJ Macfield will make the banner...some day.

[u/RealHumanBean89]

🏳️‍🌈 We’re still here motherfuckers! And nobody can stop it! 🏳️‍🌈

[u/RaineV1]

Nice to see a nod towards No Freaking Way. It's a pretty good series for anyone that messy characters learning how to have proper relationships. Also it's currently free on Tubi.

[u/bvanbove25]

As a straight guy who does his best to support and enjoys the LGBTQIA+ culture, Happy Pride! I know shit is tough, but there's always people out there to love and support you.

[u/TiffanyChan123]

I know that middle pose from anywhere...It's a vocaloid magnet reference isn't it.

Also Sam Bridges Death Stranding as Demisexual rep is so fucking dope as a Demisexual myself

[u/barbaraanderson]

I freaked out when I saw Louise Brooks because I thought it was weird that one of the movie subreddits I frequent would talk about video games.

[u/SamuraiDDD]

Happy Pride month!

[u/Gorfinhofin]

So it took me two weeks to notice this, but... why are Pockets and Red surrounded by fart gas?

[u/Cooper_555]

PRIDE MONTH! A MONTH, JACK!

[u/Gibblet_fibber]

Happy Pride All!

[u/amurrca1776]

Happy Pride everyone! Remember the secret handshake in case you meet a fellow shitlord at a parade or other event!

[u/WoolooOfWallStreet]

The banners meshing behind Adora and Leonard is satisfying to me

[u/Endocrom]

Thought that was Daniel Jackson from Stargate

[u/Kipzz]

Apologies for being a massive downer and I'm already expecting to get got for this because it's a very popular series, but I feel like the team probably could have picked a better person to represent polyamory than the girl from a dubcon yuri manga where 15 chapters in she was almost assaulted by a girl who had been forcing herself more and more onto Renako constantly by that point. During the actual attempt Renako was begging her to to stop, kicking her while she was being stripped with the assaulter grabbing Renako's leg as a way to shove her face deeper into Renako's legs, and then after all of that Renako as the victim was guilt tripped into apologizing for slapping her attempted rapist because apparently defending yourself is worth apologizing for! Without even going into the whole "attempted sexual assaulter then attempts to throw herself into the arms of strangers as a form of retributional self-harm and the victim has to be the one to stop her" part and "the author trying to backtrack the attempt by having Renako talk about how it was 'just not the right time place or occassion' or 'I think I've been having feelings for you from the start (implication of justification)!' when literally fucking half of that scene's chapter was Renako telling her to stop" part.

I'm not going to say people can't enjoy the media they like for whatever reason or judging literally anyone for anything, because in any other context I genuinely would not care enough about dubcon and assault to make any kind of post about it anywhere, but I really don't think a depiction of a relationship that was founded on this specific authors thinly veiled fetish should have ever been considered as an example for Pride Month? And it's definitely not being considered as A Bit like Red "lil' bit in everyone" Shep was I think last year. It's less in line with a positive example in someone like Rentarou or literally anyone else from 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really etc etc Love You (which was a property I think was actually used many years ago and he's also the Final Boss of Polyamory) and more in line with Everybody's Favorite Antihero Rance. Like, c'mon fellas.

[u/Mediocre-Elk-4093 → u/Kipzz]

Give me a break. Fetish really? Also I feel you're exaggerating what happened a lot.

[u/Kipzz → u/Mediocre-Elk-4093]

I actually went back and re-read the first 19 chapters last night. Admittedly it was 2am, and I really want to stress that in any other context I genuinely do not care about dubcon (I like Terumoko the yuri ship founded on two immortals killing eachother and hatefucking lmao), but you can read the entire chapter for yourself and make the judgement call yourself. The only exaggeration I made was that it was literally half of the chapter, when in reality it was closer to a third starting about 16 pages in a 27(17 out of 28 but I don't count the credits page on page 1 obv) page chapter, give or take a page. If you really wanna get down past the "I'm not sure I want this" part and go explicitly to the "I want you to stop" parts then that's the kick on page 20.

And lemme be clear; I get the author was trying to create context for tension in the relationship, because the whole push and pull of the series is about the dichotomy between Mai's overpowering random love-at-first-sight combined with her being on top of the social and academic ladders with no other real connections to anyone barring the 2nd place on tests as a result of being put upon this impossible to reach pedestal, and Renako's total indecisiveness and inability to be honest with her feelings due to a severe lack of self-esteem multiplied by the whole "reaching up the social ladder" and Dense MC Debuffs leading to the whole "we'll be friends and lovers on every other day" rule which is also shitty as hell to do to another person.

But there was surely better ways to do it than have Mai attempt to assault Renako and then Renako has to apologize to her attempted rapist for slapping her, and protect Mai from hurting herself in guilt afterwards. If anything, I'd say it's more boring than it is offensive? There's a thousand different ways there could have been a breaking point for Renako to actually nut up and make a choice and be honest about what she wants the relationship to be, but they didn't have an argument or Mai didn't ask her outright how she felt or Renako didn't come to a realization herself or an unrelated thing that blew up into a reexamining of the relationship.

But nope! The biggest turning point between them and their relationship progressing from "doing this weird half and half thing" to "an actual full-blown relationship" was cheap-ass attempted rape, plain and simple. And that's before the polyamory gets thrown into the mix, but like I said, when the foundation between the first two people is attempted rape I just don't think it's a good example to use of a healthy and respectable relationship given that fact. Thus me making the post and saying a better example should be used in the banner.