#Keris and Trixie

[pumpkin-wants-a-cherry-scone]

Day 11: Side Ships / Alt Ships

Trixie and Keris. Was thinking about Penny complaining about Trixie. Penny getting back to her and Trixie's dorm room (not necessarily Watford ig) and Trixie and Keris as just snogging (making out? idk I'm American). Penny just wants to study.

idk I thought it was silly when I thought of it yesterday

Apologies for the assault on the senses that is the colored version :p (I don't color things often lol)

#oh and some lore: pets (cats) are not allowed in the dorms Trixie and Penny live in #when I started drawing it it ended up not really as I think their Watford dorm would look like #COC 2023 #Carry On Countdown #penelope bunce #keris and trixie #cat fur and pixie dust #this was very hard to draw #no idea how to position Trixie and Keris and how to draw it #eventually I just said yolo #bit of a mess but I hopefully gets the point across #trixie the pixie #idk how else to tag her

[hey-hey-hey-lover]

CoC days 5 and 6

day 5 - fight

day 6 - WLW

#carry on countdown #carry on rainbow rowell #simon snow #baz pitch #snowbaz #trixie and keris

[charleswatford]

new carry on fans have it so easy with all these new ships. Back in my day if you wanted to ship anything other than snowbaz you had to create entire personalities for characters who had one line or less and then make them fall in love

#i love dev/niall #i love trixie/keris #literally they were the backbone of this fandom they were all we had #how did we make it FOUR YEARS making these ships with nothing to go off of!!! 😫 the resilience the talent #im so happy for new fans ily all #kisses and hugs etc #snowbaz #carry on

[forabeatofadrum]

Thanks @wellbelesbian for the sort-of-extra tag.

The Top Blorbos are the characters I've written the most with a central role, with Blaine appearing in 8 fics, Kurt in 7, Simon, Baz and Tina in 4 (so they share a spot, actually) (and also, I counted the podfics I made as well). The Top Fics are the ones with the most hits. The Written Words is the word count from January - November. Top Fandom is fandom I've written the most for.

Poor Tina, her name is too long. Same goes for make a fire out of this flame.

Fun fact, I spent most time tracking down a picture of my icon, since it's been my icon since 2015, so I didn't have the file on my computer. I found it here. This is from May 2015.

You make your own with the template!

#tag game #fun fact: quinn bitty and jack appear in 2 fics as a central focus #keris trixie chidi wes mike shitty percy jackson and tempest the cloud horse appear in 1 #oh and also denise

[wellbelesbian]

Six Sentence Sunday

thanks for the tag @imagineacoolusername! you tagged my side blog @nausikaaa but i'll post here.

today i am taking a sort-of break from Shoulder To Shoulder to write my kerixie spin-off. basically, there were some Trixie and Keris scenes I really wanted to write for my fic that just wouldn't work from Simon or Baz's perspective, so I decided to write a companion piece to the fic of the same year through Keris's eyes, Keris being from the mining village rather than a member of LGSM.

so, here's the opening of that! it's still untitled, but i'm working on that.

The word yes is past my lips before I have a chance to really think it through, and as soon as I've spoken, I wish I could take it back and try again.

But that's not a very reasonable request when you're being proposed to, so I just hope Rhys doesn't notice how fast I answered, or how loud and animated my voice was.

I knew this was coming, of course. He's terrible at keeping secrets. That's exactly why my response was so fast; he'd barely popped the question before I dove in and got it over with. I should have rehearsed my response, then I wouldn't feel so neurotic about it.

the songs for the spin off are slotted into the overall playlist at around the point where it will be posted, starting with this song and ending with I Think We're Alone Now

i tag @ileadacharmedlife @prettygoododds @aroace-genderfluid-sheep @confused-bi-queer @ic3-que3n @forabeatofadrum @bazzybelle @theearlgreymage @aristocratic-otter @larkral @hushed-chorus @martsonmars @ivelovedhimthroughworse @blackberrysummerblog @fatalfangirl @ebbpettier @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @cutestkilla @youarenevertooold @alleycat0306 @artsyunderstudy @alexalexinii @shrekgogurt and @j-nipper-95

#six sentence sunday #my writing #carry on through the ages #cotta 2023 #Spotify

[otherpeoplesheartachept-2]

day 6: That Sort of Love

Agatha's trying to figure herself out, and why she can't seem to love like others do.

Rating: T

Length: 921

Warnings: none

Read on AO3 or below the cut :)

I thought that dating Niamh meant I was normal. 

She's handsome and smart and wears her heart on her sleeve even when she's trying to be a tough prick. She's great at kissing, and sex, and she stopped holding doors open for me when I told her I hated it. I thought I could love her. 

I should love her, but there's something wrong with me. 

I thought dating Niamh, and wanting to kiss her, meant the rest would come to me. But I was right when I said I don't have the right kind of love inside me. I didn't love Simon in the way I was supposed to, and now I don't love Niamh in the way I should. 

It's worse because I know she loves me. She hasn't said it, but she's fixed up a leak in Ebb’s barn roof. (I guess it's my barn now). And she told me she's drawing up plans to fit the bathroom with a claw-foot tub, after I mentioned I’ve always wanted one of those. And who else would Niamh leave the clinic early for just to get a bite to eat?

I don't deserve her. I try to pay her back: I bought her hair-styling products, I put kissy emojis in my texts even though it makes me feel like I’m lying, I moan extra breathy when she eats me out because I know it turns her on. 

But I don't love her. 

People speak of romantic attraction like it's this huge, magical (Normal type of magical) thing, and I just don't get it. 

What's a girlfriend beyond a friend you like to fuck? 

(I know there must be more to it though, asexual people exist, and they can have romantic feelings).

I asked Keris once how she knew she wanted to be with Trixie. She said things just felt different with her. But I don't feel different about Niamh. I like her like I like Penny. (Okay that's a bad example, I definitely like her more than Penny.) I like her like I like Ginger; like I liked Minty. Except I’ve never imagined what it’d be like to sleep with either of them. 

I told Niamh we should break up, because I can't seem to love her in the same way she can love me. She was pissed about that. I know she's insecure about ending up as nothing but an experiment for straight girls. I’m not straight though, I don't feel romantic towards men either. And after trying once with Simon I think it's safe to say I don’t ever want to sleep with a man. 

We didn't talk for two weeks after I said we should split. 

And I cried for most of it. 

I felt so stupid. After all, I’m the one who called things off, I’m the one who said I don't love her. But Niamh’s still my friend, I do enjoy her company. I wish I could be normal for her. 

I turned to Penny, (because who else do I have? I’m not about to go to Simon with my girl problems), told her what was going on with Niamh and I, how I want her, but I can’t make myself love her the right way. I don’t want to build my life around her and get married with two kids, I don’t want to feel like we have to go on dates often enough or we’re failing, I don’t want her to treat me like a girlfriend. 

Penny’s American asked why there had to be a right way to love. I wanted to slap him. I refrained though, and he asked another question: if I’d ever considered I was aromantic. 

And well, no… I hadn't. Seven Snakes, maybe I am. But what does that solve? I can’t very well tell Niamh I just want to use her for sex, can I? 

The American tried to tell me that’s not how it has to work. He’s annoyingly emotionally mature and knowledgeable about ‘alternative’ relationships. 

I thought about what the American said for a bit. And I tried preparing this big long explanation to give to Niamh, but then I got scared and deleted it off my phone. And then one of the goats got a rusty nail stuck in his hoof, and I thought it was infected so I had to go to the clinic. And of course Niamh was the only one that could help. 

She didn’t say anything about us while she examined the hoof. It hurt a bit how coldly professional she was. 

I tried to play along, I wanted to, coward that I am. But I thought about going home alone and feeling the loss of my closest friend for the 14th night in a row. I didn't want Niamh to be a stranger again. So I made myself say something. And then I was saying too much. I started rambling on and on like: I’m not straight and I do like you but I might be aromantic and it’s great when we fuck, and I worry I can’t give you what you deserve but it’s not that I never want to see you it’s just I don’t know exactly what I do want. I know I want it with you though, is that okay? Can you trust me? Can you follow my lead on this?

Niamh said she had to think about it. And she let me kiss her when I left. 

Fair enough. 

So, I guess, now we wait.

#I wrote this very quickly bc I didn't have anything for the wlw prompt and I'm not sure it's any good #but I tried to do aromantic agatha justice #aromantic agatha wellbelove #carry on countdown #coc 2023 #agatha wellbelove #Niamh Brody #brobelove #fanfic #corascrap

[onepintobean]

coc day 11 | wlw

Trixie/Keris

a watford-era lunch date between everyone's favorite pixie and her favorite mage

#i'm a little late today but shh it's still dec 5 somewhere #in my defense i had to finish a final paper today before i could have fun! #coc 2022 #carry on countdown #carry on in animal crossing #anyway welcome to what might be my very top carry on hc of all time: #black!trixie #just imagine her cute little afro when she spells her hair into a dandelion puff

[valeffelees]

WIP Wednesday

hullo, happy today!

um, did i fucking. black out? wasn't it JUST Sunday? LOL, goddamn. 🫥 time, she do be zoomin'.

well, i'm still working on Without Sun (that's the title of the WIP i've been sharing snippets of these last few posts, btw; hurt/comfort, magickal accidents, love confessions, getting together) and it's been going well enough, my word count is just under 10 000 and i have... probably six scenes left to go? so i'm gonna guess my final word count to be about 20 000 and call myself halfway done. i'm not used to giving so much attention to a single WIP for so long, i prefer to work on 2-3 WIPs at a time, but i really don't wanna lose momentum, y'kno?

n e way, thank you kindly to @artsyunderstudy for tagging me this morning. i'm having a lot of fun being included, really, i'm so delighted. 😄

here's my most recent progress:

Grief is a muffled heartbeat. It is four corners wide and dressed in green linens. Penelope Bunce is lying on her bed. Penelope Bunce has been lying on her bed for the last fourteen hours. At least, Simon thinks, resting his chin on the edge of her mattress. He is curled like a child on the floor, leaning against the bedframe, watching. It isn’t right, the way her eyes are swallowing up her face without her glasses, closed and swollen, her lashes pale with a film of sleep. She’s only woken twice since Simon found her. Once, to use the washroom. Again later when her roommate stopped by several hours after supper. Trixie had poked her head into the room as though she wasn’t supposed to be there, her eyes a disk of yellow-green in the doorway for a startling moment before the moonlight settled over her small, sharp features. A narrow chin, an upturned nose, a mouth like one of those plastic baby dolls. Penny jumped at the creak of the door and lifted her head, squinting so hard her whole face bunched from the effort. A dark curl was dried to the corner of her lip. “Just me,” Trixie said in a voice like a cricket, a pleasant evening chirp. “Pyjamas.” “Oh,” Penny replied, then dropped back onto her pillow and closed her eyes. “I’m staying with Keris tonight.” “Okay.” “Can I do anything for you before I go?” “No.” Trixie nodded, then stopped. Then nodded again and walked over to her wardrobe and pulled a pink slip of fabric from one of the drawers along the bottom, but didn’t leave. She looked down at the nightgown in her hands for a moment, then over her shoulder at Penelope. Down again. “Penny,” she said, “I’m really sorry about Simon.” Simon jerked up at that. Sorry about him?

Tag, you're it! 🪄 @cutestkilla @raenestee @hushed-chorus @thewholelemon @larkral @captain-aralias @blackberrysummerblog

#wip wednesday #simon snow #penelope bunce #i can't decide if i should use the snowbaz tag? because like #it IS a snowbaz fanfic but there is no snowbaz happening... #hmm... best not eh?

[facewithoutheart]

If I was at Watford: I’d be a bitch to Baz (and he would secretly love it), bi panic about Agatha, talk shit with Niamh, hate Dev, date Niall, and do all of Simon’s homework for him. I would be secretly sad Penny wasn’t my bestie but I would not get her hate for Trixie at all. I’d probably hang out with Trixie and Keris while waiting for the day the Penny taps me into the inner circle. (It never happens.)

100% I would have sex dreams about the Mage AND Professor Minos. Both would be confusing in very different ways.

#if I was at Watford challenge #the simon snow trilogy

[carryon-countdown]

hey! i have a question about the prompts/guidelines 💖 the countdown is a carry on one, not a snowbaz one even though they're the main focus of the book, so i assumed it was fine to write about agatha and niamh. but i noticed you had two prompts called "side ships" and "WLW", so does it mean the other prompts are snowbaz-only? or am i reading too much into it? ty ✨ /gen

Hey hey! This is a great question, thank you so much for reaching out.

Firstly, you're right; the COC absolutely encourages fan content surrounding any characters from the Simon Snow universe, not just snowbaz. However, since the event is a countdown to Simon and Baz's anniversary specifically, the 'Side Ships' prompt is there to give creators the chance to explore other relationships within the universe, canon or otherwise. This includes but is in no way limited to: Penny/Shepard, Agatha/Niamh, Dev/Niall, Keris/Trixie, etc. The 'WLW' prompt, as you can guess, is for celebrating sapphic relationships set within the Simon Snow universe.

With that being said, one of the priorities of the COC is that any and all fan content is strongly encouraged and accepted, meaning that creators can use and interpret the prompts we provide in any way they wish. So at the end of the day, it's up to you who you do or don't include in your submissions.

Thanks again for the ask! We're always here for questions and to connect with the fandom anytime :)

-Admin Raegan ❣️

#carry on countdown #coc 2022 #answered #arakhnee #admin raegan

[sourcherrymagiks]

Chapter Six

Carry on Countdown - Day Six - WLW

Captain Keris Cully and her right hand woman Trixie live outside the rules.

A tiny kingdom made for love and sustained by a tiny bit of theft.

Is there a place for a lost magician? And for the one remaining Unicorn?

Ao3

#carry on countdown 2020 #coc 2020 #carry on countdown #Keris and Trixie #simon snow #baz pitch #snowbaz #carry on fandom #snowbaz fanfiction #snowbaz fanfic #carry on

[thesmalltowngal]

COC Snowbaz 7- The Main Characters

COC #7: WLW

Trixie will always be a main chracter in Kerris’ eyes. 

~ A crap ton of fluff that made me long for love. Enjoy! ~

“Simon Snow and Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch,” Trixie whispered excitedly to Keris as they swayed to the music at the end of the year ball. To the right of them stood Simon and Baz dancing to the music… together. 

“I bloody called it!” Keris laughed, tightening her arm around Trixie- she just rolled her eyes, a small smile playing at her lips. 

“You did not, you tit,”

“Fuck yes I did!” She sighed and rested her head on Trixie’s shoulder. 

“Well good on them; it’s better than their constant fighting.” Held in Keris’ arms, Trixie felt like she was floating. (Perhaps she was- she is half pixie, after all. But either way, Keris was the one that kept her grounded.)

“Oh screw them and being gay! They can sod off,” A huffish look danced across Keris’ features. Trixie sprang back and expelled pixie dust on the people around them, face aghast. 

“Kerris!”

“What?! Why should they get a whole bloody parade for being gay and we don’t?”

“They don’t get a parade for being gay, Ker. They get a parade for being extra and giving us a plot twist- falling in love instead of killing each other…” Keris paused for a moment, contemplating. 

“We fell in love instead of killing each other, didn’t we?” She asked softly. Trixie thought back to when they had met in the first year. They hadn’t liked each other- not one bit. Trixie thought Keris was too mean, and Keris thought Trixie was too loud. (She still told her that, on occasion. She didn’t mind so much anymore.) They were in the middle of an especially heated argument after Magick Words (they were partners) when Keris had kissed her. 

“Oh for fucks’ sake, you dolt! Obviously the book was talking about inner turmoil!” Trixie had yelled while walking out of class next to Keris. 

“Well, I disagree-” Keris had tried to talk calmly, but as always with Trixie, there was an aggressive edge to her voice. 

“You can’t disagree! I’m right!” Trixie went on like the plow she was- running right over Keris’ words. Every time Keris tried to get something in, Trixie would mow her over like she was a child. 

“Goddamnit, Trixie, just listen-”

“Merlin, are you so mule-headed that you can’t even admit when you’re wrong?!” Trixie’s loud words were all swept out of her lungs as Keris pulled her to a quiet corner and pushed her up against the wall. 

“Do you ever shut up? Just be quiet, Trixie!”

“You’re just a cocksure di-” Keris had had quite enough. There was no other way she could think of to shut Trixie up; there was no way that she could ever talk over her, and she couldn’t very will kill her. They were in school, for Crowley’s sake. So Keris pressed her lips firmly against Trixie’s, which got her to be quiet right away. Keris had never been one to be loud or unnecessarily assertive, but she was confident with herself, and hardly ever apologized. (Especially to Trixie- never once had Keris ever apologized to her.)

But when she pulled away and saw the astonished look on Trixie’s face, she flushed red and stuttered her apologies. “Sorry,  Trixie, I er- it’s just you wouldn’t-”

“Shut up.” Trixie commanded quietly. (Much quieter than before, much to Keris’ surprise and amusement.)

“What?” Keris asked her, taken aback. She should shut up? Where the hell did Trixie get off? 

Trixie’s hands were on Keris’ hips and they were breathing heavily, faces still closes together. “I said shut up.” She stated again, before pulling Keris roughly back to her lips. They snogged for just a few seconds before Keris pulled away and laughed. 

“Ya know, it’s ironic you telling me to shut up when-”

Trixie rolled her eyes. “Just kiss me, you tit,” Keris laughed again and Trixie puller her back in. They hadn’t known it then, but they were well on their way to falling in love. (Perhaps Keris was already part way there.) After a few moments, Trixie was the one to pull away, whispering, “You know I’m still right about the book, yes?” Keris rolled her eyes. 

“This is the quietest you’ve been all day- you could say the sky was neon green and I’d say you were right.” 

They snogged for a very long time after that. 

Trixie was shaken from her daydream by the piercing green eyes back in front of her. “They’re just…” Trixie sighed as she looked back over at the pair. Maybe Keris was right- why should their story be more important than Keris and Trixie’s? Why did everyone else have to be a supporting character in their disaster? Perhaps because they’re just the main characters wherever they go… they fill a room, and Trixie was just… well, Trixie. “Different.” She settled on. Looking back at the couple, they were talking softly, Simon looking distraught, Baz looking sure of himself. (There was so much love in their faces- even Trixie could see that.) They danced a little closer to them, trying to listen in on what was so important, but Baz shot them a positively deadly glare. They swayed back to their spot and Keris shook her head, turning her attention back to Trixie. 

“How is that? How are they different?” Kerris implored, leaning her forehead against Trixie’s. Trixie thought for a moment, trying to figure out how to explain it. 

“Their story is important. They’re important. Baz is the antagonist, or so we thought, and Simon is his hero,” Trixie looked longingly over at the couple one more time. “And they fell in love. Simon is the hero in love with antagonist, and that’s… that’s important.”

“We’re important,” Kerris argued. 

“I know we are, love, but… but we’re just side characters in the story,” Trixie looked away quickly, but Kerris lifted her chin and made them look into each other’s eyes. 

“Well this is my story… and you’re my hero. And I suppose I’m the antagonist. And we fell in love. And they’re the supporting characters,” Kerris kissed Trixie slowly and Trixie kissed back, eternally grateful for her girlfriend. After a few minutes, Trixie spoke again.

“Thank you… for the fantasy.” (Delusion or not, it was a fantasy pf Trixie’s to be a main character one day.) Kerris kissed her once again, soft, slow, and as amazing as the first time they kissed. 

“It’s not a bloody fantasy,” She breathed against Trixies skin. “And besides, even if it was, I’m honoured to give it to you… I’d give you the world, my love.”

Trixie laughed sweetly into Kerris’ shoulder. “Hmm. The world sounds nice- I’ll take two!” Kerris grinned and rolled her eyes.

“You dumbass,” Love shone in her eyes.

Trixie pecked her on the lips. “Tit.”

In their own little world (however little that may be), they were the main characters. That was more than either girls could ever ask for.

#COC 2019 #Carry On Countdown #Carry On #Keris #Trixie #fanfiction #fanfic #Rainbow Rowell #Simon Snow #Baz Grimm Pitch #Baz Grimm-Pitch #magic #ball #eighth year #love #keris and trixie #main characters #side characters #Watford School of Magicks

[forabeatofadrum]

Happy Sliggoo Sunday and happy posting period of the @caught-on-tape-fest! I have posted two of the three podfics that I have claimed! Thank you @theotherhufflepuff and @aroace-genderfluid-sheep for the tags.

ANYWAY. PODFICS!

First one is Figure It Out by @wellbelesbian, in which Keris and Trixie adopt a cat. It features a special guest! It was the first fic I finished recording, and I picked it because I saw that Alex put Keris/Trixie fics up to claim and I thought "hey, an underappreciated ship!". Also, I love cats.

The second one is namesakes by @tea-brigade, in which Simon and Baz tell their families their son's name. I love Tel, it's insane, so this was actually the first fic I claimed because I was so fucking excited for it. I like to believe that all of the Snowbaz kids in fanfics are, like, an example of the multiverse of parent!Snowbaz.

I have also claimed [REDACTED] by @[REDACTED], but I think I am going to a full rerecording of that one, because for some reason, half of the audio has some sort of weird consistent sound in the background and since I do not know how to filter out that specific sound, it will just be easier to do it all over. It's a short fic, after all.

But yeah, 2/3rd done! I mentioned in the author's notes of namesakes that I had to cut out a little gasp of Daphne. Let's preserve it here:

And now, the weather: @quizasvivamos @spookyklaine @coffeegleek @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna @tea-brigade @ivelovedhimthroughworse @bookish-bogwitch @confused-bi-queer @1908jmd @special-bc-ur-part-of-it @larkral @cutestkilla ​ @wellbelesbian ​ @artsyunderstudy ​ @martsonmars ​ @facewithoutheart ​ @shrekgogurt @rockitmans @bitbybitwrites @blackberrysummerblog @whatevertheweather

#six sentence sunday #tagged in

[carry-on-sapphic-week]

Carry On Sapphic Week 2022 Masterlist

thank you so so much to all the talented people who participated in sapphic week, i loved seeing all your art and reading all your fics! this was my first time ever running an event like this and it was a bigger success than i ever imagined! 27 pieces of fiction and art were submitted, with a pretty even split between the two!

thank you also to those who liked and reblogged all the fics and art! i hope there’s some energy for another sapphic week in the future, maybe 6 months from now, maybe a year from now? i’ll have to have a think, but this definitely won’t be the last sapphic week. let me know what you think!

below, i’ve sorted all the amazing submissions by the day/prompts they fill. a few submissions don’t fit a prompt, so i put them in a miscellaneous category. there’s plenty to satiate all your carry on sapphic needs!

if there are any late submissions, i’ll add them on a week from now!

Day one, coming out // stars

Fanfiction:

Constellations by @wellbelesbian

Strictly Professional by @otherpeoplesheartachept-2

Art:

Look at the stars darling by @dreamingkc

Day two, first // quiet

Fanfiction:

if i could make it go quiet inside by @wellbelesbian

she’s making me feel new things by @nonbaznary

Star (La)crossed by @otherpeoplesheartachept-2

Art:

First kiss by @dreamingkc

(an addition to) she’s making me feel new things by @nonbaznary

Day three, pride // warmth

Fanfiction:

Pride by @wellbelesbian

Art:

fuck off, homophobes by @nonbaznary

Agatha “i wanted to get full of glitter” Wellbelove by @dreamingkc

Day four, family // storm

Fanfiction:

Live Again by @wellbelesbian

Art:

Dancing in the rain by @dreamingkc

Mordelia’s coming out by @nonbaznary

Day five, watford // sentimental

Fanfiction:

paper airplanes by @nonbaznary

Stupid by @wellbelesbian

Art:

Let’s have a picnic by @dreamingkc

Sapphic bliss at Watford by @nonbaznary

Day six, gift // history

Fanfiction:

I’ll Crawl Home To Her by @wellbelesbian

Art:

Taking Care Of The Watford Goats by @dreamingkc

Day seven, home // comfort

Fanfiction:

Love Is Stored In Spaghetti And Hiccups by @aroace-genderfluid-sheep

Backstabber by @wellbelesbian

Art:

Cause darling you’re the one by @dreamingkc

Miscellaneous

Fanfiction:

Head, Hands, Heart, Help by @ileadacharmedlife

Art:

brobelove by @shemakesmeforget

kerixie dressing up for something fancy by @nonbaznary

Simone Snow by @rosaart

#carry on sapphic week #long post #fanfiction #fanart #carry on #co/ws/awtwb #simon snow series #brobelove #brodylove #kerixie #ebbyad #ebbiona #natashne #mitlucy #agatha wellbelove #niamh brody #keris #trixie #ebb petty #dryad #fiona pitch #natasha pitch #daphne grimm #mitali bunce #lucy salisbury #mordelia grimm #fem!simon snow

[wellbelesbian]

Seven Sentence Sunday

thanks for tagging me @youarenevertooold @artsyunderstudy @alexalexinii and @forabeatofadrum! there aren't many hours left of this sunday and i didn't think i would post anything as i'm super sick with a cold, but i ended up writing a little bit of Keris's POV for a bonus kerixie chapter of my COTTA fic. there's a while to wait before it will be published though!

"I've had to fight for my rights myself. I was at Greenham Common protesting American warheads and fought with the police there, and you know what? It was the most alive I ever felt! That's why the women are running the show, because we actually know what we're doing. And I know especially well. I bet those gay people know what they're doing too, they've been fighting plenty. So if people are going to laugh at you, I suggest you grow a pair and stand up for yourself like we've all been doing!"

i have... thoughts on how the Pride movie approached Lesbians Against Pit Closures, and many of the lesbian characters in general, which i will cover under the cut.

so. the film had a tendency to treat the lesbians as annoying and preachy, and make their attempts at independence seem at best laughable or at worst needlessly divisive. i never liked that, and reading the book on the real events only made it worse.

as the book explains, LGSM could be a loud, politically divided, male dominated group that many women felt they couldn't speak up in. LAPC was necessary for those who felt silenced in the original group or never joined to begin with due to a discomfort with men. the two groups eventually operated alongside one another and you could be a member of both if you were a gay woman, but there were plenty of women who were only a member of one or the other.

and this isn't to criticise LGSM. as i said, they still welcomed women and worked alongside LAPC. many of the men from LGSM stood picketing alongside LAPC when a bar stopped running women's only nights. LAPC twinned with a different village in the north of England, so the existence of the two groups overall helped more people and spread their reach further. the distaste the men have for the idea of a women's group in the movie was nowhere near as strong as it appears to have been in real life.

and we know many lesbians did indeed feel unwelcome around men. they reported being uniquely disliked by the straight men of Onllwyn. while the miners soon got accustomed to the gay men, having at least some common ground with them, they had no interest in lesbians. a sort of "you're not like me, or available to me, so why are you here?" vibe. eventually this attitude seemed to fade and disappear, but by then some women had given up trying to befriend them and had stopped visiting.

however, a lot of the women in Onllwyn were very happy to see the lesbians, as many were queer themselves. some of the lesbians of the group reported having relationships of varying degrees with the Welsh women, and one of the women interviewed in the book was sixteen at the time and came out later in life, being accepted due to LGSM's role in her family's life. today, the village seems very welcoming to lesbians, but that wasn't always the case.

the lesbians also brought with them politics and feminism. while many Welsh women were already politically active (see above when i mentioned Greenham Common, a real protest staged by women of all classes and sexualities before the strikes, and of course they were involved in the miner's strikes), the lesbians fanned that flame and introduced them to new concepts and issues.

Trixie and Keris are my tributes to those two kinds of women. the lesbians of London who got political and struck out on their own, and the lesbians of Wales who only realised they were gay once LGSM arrived and shook up their lives.

anyway. this wound up being longer than i intended.

i'll not tag anyone as it's late, but if anyone wants to share a wip and hasn't been tagged yet, consider this your tag!

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happy sunday everyone! Thank you @martsonmars @facewithoutheart and @carryonmylovelies for tagging me on Wednesday <333

A few days ago I made myself a list of wips/fic ideas that I want to finish this summer, and then promptly started working on 2 completely different fics lol

One is a very silly fic inspired by this post @facewithoutheart made abt an iasip AU where Simon write Charlie’s nightman song. It made me laugh so hard I had to expand on it.

“It still sounds like a song about Baz buggering you,” Agatha says, crossing her arms, making that grossed out face again. 

...

“It’s obviously about our epic rivalry and Baz plotting to turn me into an evil creature of the night like him!” 

The girls roll their eyes in sync. 

“Maybe write some less homoerotic lyrics then, Si,” Penny suggests. 

My face heats up (in anger, obviously) at her words. 

“It’s not homoerati-homoero… it’s not gay!” I shout.

I’m almost finished with it, but I’m thinking of adding a second chapter where Baz helps Simon write the dayman song

The other wip I started working on is inspired by @skeedelvee​‘s fic To Cure a Succubug Bite and her end note abt Penny also getting bitten. (10/10 would definitely recommend the fic (if you’re an adult)). So here’s a little snip that’s not explicit, but the finished fic definitely will be:

“That’s not–the point is: I need it attached to someone else.”

“Speak English, Penelope.”

I consider climbing out the small window between our beds and plummeting to my death instead. Get it together, Penelope, you’ve killed a pack of werewolves while running on 3 hours of sleep and an empty stomach before, you can ask Trixie to have sex with you.  

“Basically, I was bit by a succubug and I need-”

“Penny!! For Circe’s sake, open with that!”

The it Penny is referring to is of course Trixie and Keris’ strap-on. I’ve been very into the idea of Penny/Trixie and Penny/Trixie/Keris lately, after I finish this fic I might write another one abt them.

I can’t think of ppl to tag, and I’ve got to go to work rn, but mutuals, friends, internet strangers; pls tag me if you have a wip you wanna share! I love seeing what ppl are working on :)

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