#lesbianism takes place

[inkskinned]

it is hard to explain without sounding vain or stupid - but the more attractive others find you, the more you're allowed to do. the easier your life is.

i have been on both sides of this. i am queer and cuban. i grew up poor. for a long time i didn't know "how" to dress - and i still don't. i make my sister pick out any important outfits. i have adhd in spades: i was never "cool and quiet", i was the weird kid who didn't understand how "normal" people behave. i was bullied so hard that the "social outcasts" wouldn't even talk to me.

i got my teeth straightened. i cut my hair and learned how to style it. i got into makeup. it didn't matter, at first, if i actually liked what i was doing - it mattered how people responded to it. like a magic trick; the right dress and winged eyeliner and suddenly i was no longer too weird for all of it. i could wear the ugly pokemon shirt and it was just "ironic" or a "cute interest."

when i am seen as pretty, people listen. they laugh at my jokes. they allow me to be weird and a little spacey. i can trust that if i need something, people will generally help me. privilege suddenly rushes in: pretty does buy things. pretty people get treated more gently.

i am the same ugly little girl, is the thing. still odd. still not-quite-fitting-in. still scrambling. still angry and afraid and full of bad things. of course it became my obsession. of course i stopped eating. i had seen, in real time, the exact way it could change my life - simply always be perfect, and things can be easy. people will "overlook" all the other things. i used to have panic attacks at the idea others would see me without makeup - what would they think? even for a simple friend hangout, i'd spend a few hours getting ready. after all, it seemed so obvious to me: these people liked me because i was pretty.

i worry about how much i'm being a bad activist: i understand that "pretty" is determined by white, het, cis, able-bodied hegemonies. if i was really an ally, wouldn't i rally against all of this? recently there's been a "clean girl" trend which copies latinx aesthetics: dark slicked-back hair, hoop earrings. i almost never wear my hair like that; i can hear the middle school guidance counsellor advising me that i might fare better if i toned it down on the culture.

the problem is that i can take pretty on and off. that i have seen how different my life is on a day where i try and a day where i don't. i told my therapist i want to believe the difference is confidence, but it's not. and when you have seen it, you can't unsee it. it lives inside your brain. it rots there; taunting. i get rewarded for following the rules. i am punished for breaking them. end of story.

pretty people can get what they want. pretty people can feel confident without others asking where they got their nerve from. pretty people can be weird and different. pretty people get to have emotions; it's different when they get aggressive, it's pretty when they cry with frustration.

of course people care about this. of course it has crawled into you. of course you want to be seen as attractive. it's not vanity: it's self-preservation.

#pretty in this post is a stand in for . literally all forms of normativity #warm up #tbd maybe idk #ps! hi!! i'm queer!!!!!!!!! it is how i identify! if you tag this 'q slur' i will fight you!!! #i am using it here in the EXACT way it is NOT a slur !! i am identifying as a queer person! #this is EXACTLY how people reclaim it !!! #it's like practically ACADEMIC in this usage!! #please do any reading into what the fuck the history of the word ''queer'' is before telling me #as someone identifying as queer #that i'm a slur. that the place i find comfort in is a slur #''well it makes me uncomfortable if people use it for me'' #im sorry to hear that dude. that sucks. i hope things get easier for you soon #but you don't get to take it from ME #in case you can't tell by the REST of this piece #i DID hear queer used as slur against me. i DID get bullied with it. i DID hear a lot of shit said #i also heard it about lesbians #about ''being gay'' #about pretty much any fucking term that could describe me. #i like queer. i like how it feels. and it's mine. #you don't get to undo the work i've done personally because it makes u uncomfortable #it's ahistoric to pretend like there are ''safe'' ways to identitfy if ur queer. #none exist. it has never been safe to be like this.

[blinkpen]

so i got a commission from my friend Woods of Minotaur!Demersa but Larger and i'm sorry friends, i have been reduced to smithereens, to mere particles, scoop me up and put me in sand art, my time on earth is over, look, look how good this is, look at my wife,

#nifty art #logaac #monster girl #demersa #blood cw #i am looking and stifling my barking respectfully i've been stifling it for hours #girls be like I Know A Place and take you to the fight club 3 miles deep into the lesbian labyrinth #alcohol cw #not pictured: paisley spontaneously combusting #also not pictured: ME spontaneously combusting

[robindaydream]

A Few Days After, Part 1

(some small SLARPG spoilers contained within)

(Part 2)

#SLARPG #Super Lesbian Animal RPG #Melody Amaranth #Allison Goleta #Claire Higsby #HERE WE GO PART 1 OF 3 #I have only been doing this and going to work for the past couple weeks so I hope you ENJOY #I think you can see me get better at drawing these characters as I go haha #they got faster towards the end so hopefully it won't be weeks until part 2 #fun fact the font I used for this is Si Kancil which is also the font I used for The Difference Between Us #art #shipping #furry #note that the title refers to being a few days after the events of the game not my previous comic #this one takes place before that one

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

brennan lee mulligan: old king cole was-

me: omg a mechanisms reference

brennan lee mulligan: -a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he so he called for his pipe and-

me: king you’re getting the lyrics wrong this is so embarrassing for you

#i know it’s not a reference and the mechs based it upon the rhyme obviously #but by now I’m so much more used to the ‘old king cole was a Brutal old soul and a Bloody old soul had he’ #like you’re telling me old king cole DOESNT have a gun brennan?? #this is suuuuch a niche overlap so I doubt anyone there can read this and go ‘get me too!’ #buuut if you’re reading this and loving how the new d20 season is a horror take on fairytales u should check out once upon a time in space! #it takes place in the outer space in the future and it’s a mix of old classic fairytales! #features old king cole as a tyrant ruler cinderalla as a lesbian from a destroyed planet who’s about to wed snow whites sister etc etc #it’s really good! #dimension 20 #d20 #brennan lee mulligan #Neverafter #d20 neverafter #the mechanisms #once upon a time in space

[riccissance]

laura lee is so funny to me because she really does not give a fuck about any male character on the show. like, she challenges ben's authority before they even crash (we should pray-it's just a scrimmage) then is one of the first to call travis "flex" and taunts him along with the others

and with the girls it's all "you're beautiful in the eyes of our lord" and i'm going on this suicide mission to save you and i'll have one conversation about god that singlehandedly changes the trajectory of everyone's life and instigates a lifelong situationship that even death cannot end

incredible character, 10/10 no notes

#and some people have the nerve to say she'd be homophobic #that is a whole ass lesbian #the only man she cares about is jesus christ #and lottie is one prophesy away from taking his place #yellowjackets #laura lee

[forloveandlesbians]

getting drinks with a cute butch rugby player tonight, wish me luck!

#bar’s near her place so she can take me home easy lol #reaaaallly need to get railed #lesbian #lesbian meme #lesbian memes #lesbians #butch #butch lesbian #butch appreciation #stone butch #butch nsft #butch4femme #butch4butch #butch bait #butch dyke

[nighttimenothings]

it's so easy to find someone attractive, but it's harder to find someone who's in tune with their emotions and knows how to regulate it?? like finding someone emotionally stable, or at the very least, knows how to communicate what they need is so very difficult.

not saying i'm the perfect example of that, but just Trying is enough, you know? being unable to communicate or being mature about what you need and can give a partner is the quickest way to turn me off, honestly. it's just so simple and clear-cut to me, and when someone else can't meet me there, it's just immediately a no from me.

it's not my job to fix someone or change them. i mean, yeah, i can communicate how i feel with someone, but if they can't or won't address the issue, i just don't feel like it's worth sticking around. my mental health deserves better. *i* deserve better.

i think about this a lot actually, and it all comes back down to, like, the bare minimum. people settle for the bare minimum literally every single day. i hear "oh, but they're nice and funny" all the damn time. okay??? and??? so your partner is playing limbo with a bar in hell. good! great! but you deserve so much more than that?? why should you be settling for less??

every and all relationships are a two way street. it's a give and take system. you should be able to talk to each other, and if not, that's something to reflect on.

#this is all over the place and i'm just. so Effected by this. #it's why finding a partner is so difficult bc i feel like so many people can't communicate properly #like i don't have time for this shit!!! #and maybe that's a hot take and an unwelcome opinion but hey if you don't fuck with this no one is asking you to stick around my blog #lesbian #sapphic #wlw #men and minors dni #nighttimerambles #NNlongnights

[fauvester]

m…miss SENATOR…

#dee s 9 #there is ALIEN LESBIANISM taking place here officer #lets ignore what a diplomatic dumpster fire this would be. your honor they are in LOVE #they are finding JOY AND MEANING in DISCOVERING THEMSELVES #as they CHANGE AND GROW INTO NEW ROLES AND NEW PEOPLE #the jumja stick is a metaphor on multiple levels. thank yewwww #senator cretak #Kira nerys

[lavender-femme]

i miss getting all dressed up

🥀 men | minors | terfs do not fucking interact 🥀

#i have been having a really bad/weird body day so can y’all please hype me up #these pics are from almost a year ago but I looked so fucking good #someone give me a reason to get all dolled up again PLEASE #I’m talking #lavender.jpg #femme #lesbian #femme4butch #femme4stud #bodies like mine #because it is mine #and bodies like mine are fucking hot as fuck #these pictures make me a bit sad because they were taken at [redacted’s] house in nj and we had a date at the best Italian place #and the first Polaroid’s kept in my wallet are from that night #i think I’m ready to take them out though #i didn’t think I’d ever post pics from this time because it now just makes me so sad to think about and see #but I remembered how beautiful I looked #and how good I felt #and I posted them #so it means something

[warblercore]

i should work at a cinema because i love projecting!!! lesbians <3

(they skyped the night before to make sure their outfits coordinated)

BONUS: i don't actually know what these are?!?!?!

#tumblr deep fried the quality why does this site hate me?? #glee au #my art #glee fanart #glee art #klaine #kurt #blaine #i take every fictional couple in sight and cast spell of lesbian on them #it's a gift <3 #the teeny little kurt/katie doodle is definitely taking place during when i get you alone for the record #THEY ARE VERY IN LOVE!!!! #lesbian klaine

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

Sebastian: COMPANY IS COMING! I WANT THIS PLACE LOOKING LIKE DISNEY ON ICE IN ONE MINUTE! Sebastian: DAZAI-SAN IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE YOUR BED THROW IT AWAY IT'S TOO LATE TO MAKE IT NOW! Sebastian: GET RID OF THE COUCHES, WE CAN'T LET PEOPLE KNOW WE S I T !

#ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp incorrect quotes #ikevamp sebastian #ikevamp dazai #i had a moment of divine intervention #and now i can't unsee it #i cant get over the fact that sebastian really said his life dream was to be a feral housewife in a mansion full of historical figures #I WANT THOSE PILLOWS LOOKING LIKE MICROWAVABLE POPCORN BAGS THREE MINUTES DEEP #literally i can take no comedic credit for this gayle is just iconic and sebastian is channeling their energy at any given moment #i dont care if we have to throw e v e r y t h i n g out. i want this place looking like a new mediterranean fusion restaurant by noon. AAAA #ISAAC PUT SEA SHELLS ON THE DOOR KNOBS #THIS IS A DISH TOWEL. WE NEED A HAND TOWEL. WHAT ARE WE BARBARIANS!!?!?! #WE LIVE OUTSIDE. WE EAT MUD AND STICKS. #i love how the poor puppy in the background is just watching them like ?????? King in the living room like 'bruh' while sebas has a meltdow #*looking at vlad's flowers that were sent as a gift* MC CAN WE GET THE LESBIAN PLANT OUT OF HERE #i dont care how many years pass its always funny #i feel like the comparison is really made by gayle's intermittent screeching throughout too #honorable mention: this is also theo when anything happens to vincent #I DON'T CARE IF ARTHUR'S BLEEDING OUT VINCENT'S PAPER CUT COULD GET INFECTED #SOUNDS LIKE A HIM PROBLEM NOW GET THE FIRST AID KIT HONDJE #WHAT? GAUZE? WHAT IS THIS 1632? YOU COULDN'T FIND A BAND-AID? STOP CRYING IM NOT DONE-- #source: “company is coming” / Chris Fleming

[muninnhuginn]

just generally musing to myself what makes thematic and plot sense for the link clink ending after reading some other people's takes the past few days. no real conclusions here, just some thoughts tied together with a string.

I've seen arguments that what needs to happen is that Lu Guang needs to accept Cheng Xiaoshi's fate and move on without regrets. This idea that the past has to remain as-is and you have to move on is a thread that the show has played with quite a few times. It's written into the very rules underlying the dives. The most obvious instance being the earthquake arc, where Cheng Xiaoshi was unable to save Chen Xiao's mum, but he *was* able to deliver the messages and thereby help CX gain closure. It's laid out by Lu Guang that it *was* worth it to deliver the words, and Cheng Xiaoshi takes this conclusion with him when he confronts Emma. (Of course, the fact this lesson was given by *Lu Guang* casts a different shade over the whole affair. I don't think it can be entirely discarded, given LG even admits he's going against his own rules, but it reads more like something he's trying and failing to convince himself of.)

So, the past has to stay as it is. We see a few different approaches to this idea in s2 - of people refusing to move on and trying to change the past. Qian Jin wants to force his wife "not to cheat"; he wants to alter her behaviour because she didn't act as he wanted. Li Tianchen wanted to change how *he* acted back then, even if indirectly, because he sees himself as his mother's killer, and thinks this is the point at which his tragedy was locked into place. They both thought their 'tragedies' were down to a single event. It's not that simple.

Lu Guang wants to personally protect Cheng Xiaoshi by controlling all scenarios. Not exactly taking his will, but limiting his choices. There's probably a whole post to be made on how QJ/LTC/LG each approach the agency of the ones they want to protect, but that's not for now.

Anyway, Li Tianchen as the foil to Lu Guang. At the end of s2, he has in theory let go of Li Tianxi but in practice he's just burying himself deeper by following Liu Xiao. Trying to entirely shun the past so he can believe that he still has some element of control. Both LTC and LG are at the extreme ends of clinging on vs letting go and that means the correct answer has to lie somewhere in the middle. Not shunning the past, but accepting it, and using that resolve to move forward.

So, Liu Xiao. We don't have much on him but what we do have is his belief that uncertainties should become certainties. He's deterministic and set explicitly as the counter to Lu Guang, whose own aim is to change events rather than lock them into place. They both want to *control* all aspects, but for differing reasons. In fate vs free will, it makes sense that our protagonist is on the side of free will, but it's interesting that he's presented himself so much as the opposite previously. He and CXS haven't exactly switched places, but to the audience, they've definitely taken on traits of the other.

Liu Xiao's whole spiel about how all options will eventually lead to the same outcomes, with him set *against* Lu Guang, very much seems like it's a setup for a "defeat fate" type plotline though. It's hammered in that there is no escape, no other option. Are we expected to accept this? It doesn't seem so. It's something I'm struggling to reconcile somewhat with the earlier messages about accepting the past, but maybe that's not quite it. Maybe it's about control vs freedom?

Trust fall. Every dive with LG and CXS is an act of mutual trust where they need to act in tandem. Dives go astray when one party acts without the other. For CXS, this is about him acting against LG's instructions (texting Emma's parents, staying in the earthquake dive). For LG, this is about him withholding info because he doesn't trust how CXS will react.

Lu Guang needs to put his trust in CXS before his withholding of information creates an unresolvable rift. He needs to stop trying to control CXS in order to keep him safe. We saw how that spun out for Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi. LG needs to put the choice into Cheng Xiaoshi's hands and let him decide his own fate. It reminds me of how Cheng Xiaoshi laid everything out for Emma and let her decide whether to live. It was only outside interference that prevented her, but she did make the choice to survive. And she did it by remembering those small moments. By accepting that tragedy happens but there are still people that make it worth it.

For LG and CXS, they need to mutually trust each other and that's how they'll find their way through.

#also something about how nodes are always framed as yes/no this happens or it doesn't #when in reality they're the culmination of numerous decisions to get to any one place. #and so it'd be neat to see any 'fixes' take that into account though idk how deeply it'll go into that. #link click #link click spoilers #shiguang daili ren spoilers #also also. noodle ladies. I have thoughts on their resolution + how it ties into the 'there is no single answer' bc the rift wasn't actuall #about the secret ingredient. the secret ingredient was more a representation of yu xia forgetting their history. #but that's stuff still locked in my other drafts ig #edit: but also it's like. if you try to save/fix someone by controlling them that universally doesn't work out. #noodle lesbians and emma (pre-interference) were able to work things out because there was communication not control. #chen xiao communicated his wishes and that's how he got his closure. xss and dong yi's whole story was about communicating #and how the lack of it was actively inhibiting them

[lyranotlyre]

what would YOU do if a lesbian walked into your place of work demanded a fight with her ex, experienced major character development, flirted with her ex, made out with you sloppy style and left singing hamster song

#lesbian #scott pilgrim #scott pilgram takes off #roxy richter #I'm on my way to your place of work #get ready

[grirnoires]

among the omau dokjidh, festivals between neighbouring villages are held every 1-3 years. they are a chance for trade, celebrating harvest, as well as for matchmaking, since marriages in this area are always exogamous. in this picture voh is having a lot of fun dancing with the other young adults, but palim is not interested in joining in.

#oc: voh #oc: palim #palim doesnt like participating cuz she hates dancing with boys (lesbian) #worldbuilding project #phone art #this is kindof a fill for oc-tober 8 im realizjng... this does take place before the events of the story haha

[send-me-a-puffalope]

hoping and praying Elizabeth Lail plays a sapphic soon because every time she kisses a man I get jumpscared

#elizabeth lail #i need one of her characters to be treated well by an SO for once #or like. have an SO that doesn’t die. #💀💀💀 #manifesting #i think all actresses should play a sapphic at least once in their career #because once you garner a group of obsessed lesbian fans #your career is set #ik my lesbian vanessa afton headcanon will never come true cause fnaf takes place in like the early 2000s but like 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 pleasepleaseplease

[alittlelessalone]

Hello fellow Scum Villain fans! If anyone is bored, loves Moshang and Qijiu (especially Shang Qinghua and Shen Jiu), and would be interested in hearing the details of the very long fic I’m writing, I would love to have a brain or two I could bounce ideas against to make sure they sound valid, interesting, and in character. I have a full outline and around 150,000 words written so far, but there are parts that I could use some insight/thoughts on and I figured other passionate fans might be the right people to ask!

#moshang #qijiu #svsss #fanfic discussion #I’m trying to anti-airplane this #my goal isn’t to comment crowdsource like he did but just have some sanity checks #also I should probably provide a trigger warning that Shen Jiu’s past is very much dwelled upon and his trauma explored #and also the disfunction of Moshang in the beginning is explored #this is a pro-Moshang fic though. they just need time to get there #also I have adorable lesbian OCs who I love very much but I promise don’t steal the spotlight #my gay heart just wanted more girls and Shen Jiu needed female friends! #I think all said and done the fic will be longer than the source material #which makes sense since it takes place from 15 year old Shang Qinghua until mid abyss timeline