Sirius's sexuality

[jain]

It's only fanon that makes Sirius the "straight" one, right? I don't have the books with me to check, but the only scene I can recall that touches upon his romantic interests is the one in OotP where he's too focused on his friends to notice the girl crushing on him, which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of his heterosexuality.

If I'm right about that, then it would appear that people are making a rather ridiculous assumption based upon Sirius's personality and modern gay stereotypes. This isn't to say that all of the stories that portray him as more straight--or more confused--than, say, Remus are wrong; many of them are brilliant and believably characterized and I love them. But I also love the idea of Sirius being unapologetically gay as a student at Hogwarts.

I'm thinking there ought to be an icon of Sirius with the text "Not all pansies are shrinking violets" or something similar, though that's rather beyond my artistic capabilities at this point. Someday, maybe.

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[jain]

Those are awesome. You rock! Not so incidentally, what font did you use that lets you have a black outline around the lettering? (That's one of the major problems I ran into when trying my hand at making icons before; anytime I made the font small enough to fit more than one or two words on the icon it blended with the background and became illegible.)