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messrmoonyy · 13 days

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-Sadie Adler as your gf hcs ( sfw/nsfw )

Sadie Adler x Fem!reader

A/N- I am in fact posting these out of pure and utter spite because Sadie Adler can. And will. Kiss girls. Because this is what?! Fan fiction!And it brings me an insane amount of joy that the sheer idea alone of Sadie being queer angers people. Sadie Adler kisses girls pass it on!!!

These are mostlyyy epilogue and beyond based Sadie pls lemme be your lil housewife

Dedicated to @queer-sadie-adler for being the true voice of reason lately amidst the hell hole that has been the queer Sadie discussions. You’re awesome.

Masterlist - requests are open!

• she’s incredibly protective of you. One wrong look your way and she’s ready to start shooting or swinging. Shes so a ‘ why don’t ya take a picture, it’ll last longer ‘ baby has some slight anger issues

• falls very much into the ‘ I hate everyone except you ‘ category. So stoney faced and ready to brawl with everyone, but soft gazes and tender touches with you.

• you hear her before you see her. She’ll ride back home to you after going after a bounty and proudly announce her return with a ‘ honey I’m home! ‘ as she rides up to your home.

• secretly adores the way you fuss over her before she goes out. She lost everything other than you in the space of like. A year. so it’s nice to be reminded how much you care about her. And that she has someone in the world to care about herself.

• she’s actually a pretty decent cook. And you can often expect her to try cook you something nice. Especially if she’s gotten onto your bad side some how, she knows a nice romantic meal will butter you up nice and quick

• I have this thought that she is just a nightmare to share a bed with. Girly tosses and turns and takes up too much damn space. But it just gives you the excuse to crawl up close to her and get comfy in the little space she leaves, falling asleep practically on top of her.

• and on the subject of sleeping. Has just the finest motherfuckin morning voice you’ve ever heard. Her raspy ‘ Mornin my darlin’ in your ear everyday makes you wanna melt into a puddle every damn time.

• loves sharing a bath with you. Especially if she’s been gone for a few days. She’ll make some excuse that it’s just to save on water. But in reality she just wants to relax and hold you close to her, feel your skin on hers to remind her she’s not just some angry bounty hunter. All tough and rough and fighting. She needs the gentle and the calm you provide her.

• hand holding. Forehead kisses. Sitting in her lap as you read on the porch. Just small, gentle acts of intimacy. The kind not discussed but well practiced between lovers.

• she can get in her head a little sometimes. She knows it’s not easy being in a relationship like that in 1907. And she knows that she doesn’t make it much easier on you with the works she does either.

• but she loves you wholeheartedly. And she knows that you love her just as equally. And as much as she feels she doesn’t deserve you, she’ll keep loving you until you don’t want her anymore which would never happen of course

•NSFW•

• she needs to be the one in control all of the time. This isn’t to say she doesn’t like receiving, or like having you on top of her. She just likes to be the one with her hands on the reins yk.

• in fact. She quite enjoys you on top of her or In her lap. But even so, know that she’s the one pulling the strings and she’s two steps ahead of you at all times

• she’s gentle and soft with you, but determined. Whether that’s knowing exactly where to touch you and abusing that same spot over and over again until you’re a shaking mess. Or telling you where and how to touch her.

• I said this in my last hcs but fingers in the mouthhhhh. Idc what anyone says. I see it so vividly. She loves it. Loves watching you suck her fingers to get them wet. Or clean them off.

• eats pussy like a god. Will have you seeing stars and thanking whatever Lord may exist for putting that woman right between your thighs. Sloppy and thorough and has you coming with her name on your tongue.

• thigh riding!!!!

• girly loves to manspread. Will sit there and pat her leg for you to perch on, but manoeuvre you to straddle her leg instead. And she loves how it makes you blush ‘ you’re a regular ol’ cowgirl now ain’t ya honey? ‘ as she leans back in her seat to watch you I’m literally going insane

• morning sex!! Waking up spooning with her, teasing her by wiggling your hips against her until she slips a hand over your hips and between your legs

• ‘ this what y’ wanted? Been dreamin of me honey? ‘

• will absolutely get up afterwards as casual as ever and ask what’s for breakfast. As if she hadn’t just had her fingers buried in your cunt.

• her aftercare is just so gentle. Especially if she’s been gone a while and has you coming for hours on end. She’ll praise you and hold you and help clean you up. Maybe drag you into the tub with her and sit behind you to wash your hair.

• and she enjoys the intimacy of dressing you so much more than undressing. Getting you comfy and cosy in clean night clothes before snuggling up with you in bed, letting you rest your head on her chest and tangling up your legs together.

#Sadie Adler kisses girls pass it on!!#I’m also writing a drabble/os on that thigh riding thing as we speak #gnawing at the bars of my enclosure for this woman #Sadie Adler #sadie adler x reader #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 #rdr2 community #rdr2 fanfic #Sadie Adler smut #x you #fluff #arthur morgan #john marston #van der linde gang #rdr2 Sadie

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jucyfruit · 19 days

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Boy Power: The Women of Boygenius on the Joys of Nourishing a Supergroup Without the Superegos

By Chris Willman

The three singer-songwriters who make up Boygenius are musing about what they did and didn’t intend to accomplish when they went into the studio to make “The Record.” The six Grammy nominations they just collectively reeled in for their first full-length album together? Not actually part of the master plan. Neither was establishing themselves as role models for a much-needed sense of community across a swath of young America.

“We didn’t set out to be like, ‘And we symbolize friendship!’” bandmate Julien Baker points out, musing about the benevolent qualities that have been attributed to the group. “We just were like, ‘Let’s make a good record.’”

Fair enough. But have we mentioned that Variety‘s Group of the Year does, in fact, symbolize friendship — to the point that the band has virtually become an iconic representation of trifold intimacy? Sharing the bond the trio developed in the studio and on the road has been a key part of the appeal for the band’s avid fan base. It’s a conclusion that band member Lucy Dacus was not avoiding when she recently told Teen Vogue that “being affectionate onstage has been really fun and sweet, and it exhibits behavior that I think is healthy and good.” They even wrote about their growing closeness in meta album tracks like “Leonard Cohen.” “True Blue,” their signature loyalty ballad, may or may not be about the group itself, it’s hard to escape the feeling that a line like “It feels good to be known so well” somehow applies not just to the trio’s interpersonal relationships but to the generally progressive, empathetic, LGBTQ-friendly, folk-rocking audience at a Boygenius show.

No wonder Boygenius seemed to consistently have the longest merch lines of 2023 (at least this side of Taylor Swift’s), with fans seeking ways to fly their colors. In what can still register as a man’s world, suddenly, it kind of felt like everybody wanted to be a boy.

A concert by the trio has its rituals. The band members describe a private rite that occurs early in a set, right after they’ve opened the show with a handful of their hardest-charging songs, like “Satanist” (another friendship song, once you get past the irreverent title) and “$20,” and are transitioning into something more reflective. “We have a little moment where we look at each other during ‘True Blue’ every show,” Dacus reveals, looking across the table at bandmate Phoebe Bridgers, “and sometimes I’ll wink at you and be like, ‘Here’s the time where we check in.’ And sometimes I feel like we can see when each of us feel crazy.”

Bridgers agrees, saying, “Or we have a weird day, and we have to look at each other and just be like, ‘Oh, my God, this day is still trudging on,’” suggesting that there are hidden cues and codes being passed around while Dacus’ soft voice is tucking an audience of thousands into a warm, communal bath.

But there’s a more public-facing ritual at the end of the show, when the members basically pile on each other in some form or another. It can look like sheer, rough horseplay, but given that everyone in the group identifies as queer, these full-body collisions also been described in reviews or fan comments as “Sapphic” moments. How would they characterize them? “It’s Sapphic horseplay!” says Bridgers, grinning, and maybe not entirely kidding. “That is exactly what it is.”

“With the horseplay,” says Dacus, taking that term and running with it, “sometimes we kiss. Sometimes we spin around. Sometimes we throw things at the audience. Sometimes we crowd-surf. Sometimes we pick up Julien or bow to her. It’s never really planned. Sometimes our tits are out.”

Bridgers remembers what felt like a signal change moment at a London show in the summer: “Someone got on her friend’s shoulders and flashed me in Gunnersbury Park. It was right after we took our shirts off the first time” at their prior show. “I was like, ‘This is so sick'” — the good kind of sick — “‘that someone feels safe enough to do this.’”

Dacus agrees. “Yeah, it doesn’t feel violent or violating in that particular circumstance. Like, if someone walked by and flashed us right now, I’d be like, Uhhhh. But, yeah, there’s something about what the show culminates in, where it does feel very safe and celebratory.”

Where we are right now is the outdoor patio of a Studio City coffeehouse, where the only things being flashed are Baker’s easing-into-autumn sweater, or slightly more provocative items like the “I Love Cuntry Music” trucker hat that Dacus has just doffed, or the Viagra Boys cap that Bridgers keeps on, maybe to deflect any possible attention that passers-by might otherwise give to her tell-tale platinum hair. The few passersby wouldn’t guess that this is a group about to play a long-sold-out headline show at the Hollywood Bowl for its 2023 tour finale, or to do “Saturday Night Live” a week and a half after that. They’re laid-back and still capable of surprising and delighting each other in conversation, and not at all giving off any America’s Greatest Current Rock Band vibes, although they’ve earned the right to some attitude, with an album that much of the indie-rock crowd and not a few critics would agree is the year’s best.

“Phoebe was the one that was like, ‘This is gonna be big,’” Dacus says. “I had aspirations; you had plans,” she says, looking at Bridgers. “You were like, ‘We’re gonna do it!’”

“We had talked about the Hollywood Bowl in the kitchen of Shangri-La, remember that?” Bridgers says, referring to the Malibu studio owned by Rick Rubin, where they cut “The Record.”

“But I didn’t have any context,” Baker says, noting that neither she nor Dacus had ever set foot in America’s most iconic venue, having grown up around Memphis and Richmond, Va., respectively, versus the Pasadena stomping grounds that’d given Bridgers lifelong access to some bigger dreams. “Our last show” — in Los Angeles, at the end of their debut 2018 tour — “we played the Wiltern, and I was tearful backstage,” Baker says, as she remembers exulting: “‘I’m so proud of us! All my dreams have come true!’ Like I’d topped out.”

The Bowl, and Madison Square Garden just before it, were milestones even for Bridgers, the most visible solo artist of the three prior to this year. She’d topped out herself locally, maybe, at the Greek. Then a funny thing happened on the way to the Cahuenga Pass: “The Record” immediately established Bridgers, Baker and Dacus as equals in every way, even in the eyes of fans who might previously have favored or just been more immersed in one solo career or another. There was magic to how evenly gifted and well matched they were as frontwomen, as songwriters, as harmonizers. They truly put the super back in “supergroup” … and took the ego out of superego, in a manner of speaking.

Strength in numbers: What a concept! Why didn’t anyone ever try it before? Well, there’ve been a few tries at bringing existing titans together over the years, and hoping they wouldn’t clash. There was Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Asia, and the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band and … um … Well, let’s let the geniuses here come up with some slightly more contemporary analogues.

“You could look at Broken Social Scene and New Pornographers,” Baker says, but as soon as she starts dissecting the dynamics of those groups, it’s clear there aren’t really any recent antecedents that compare.

“I bet a lot of people try it, with a pretense that falls apart once they start to make it,” Dacus says, and then affirms why they’ve been able to come up with a successful joint project where others before them have bailed. “This collaboration is as important to each of us, if not more important, than our solo work,” she says. “And I bet a lot of supergroups are, even internally, thinking of it as a side project or a momentary thing.”

Bridgers agrees. “Yeah, because you’re going to make a third of what you’d earn making your own thing. So you’re like, ‘It’s my side thing — I’ll devote six months to it.’ But we put as much attention into it as if we were making our own records. The album took us so long to make, and we worked on it relentlessly. It was pretty serious from day one.”

Baker says, “It’s sick that the band has an identity that’s more than the sum of its parts.” (This maxim may be the closest Boygenius will ever come to a cliché, but they, and you, have got to embrace one that is this mathematically inescapable.)

When it came to the material they brought to the table, far from coming up with tunes that felt like discards from their solo releases, “The Record” ended up being chock-full of extremely personal and introspective songs. But it also included some of the most inherently commercial songs any of them have done, apart or together. You may recall that Bridgers had to be kind of coerced into making “Kyoto” a banger; in each other’s company, there was no such reticence.

“Definitely with ‘Not Strong Enough,’” Bridgers says, “I was like, ‘It’d be fun to have a radio song.’” (And, as it turns out, a Grammy song; it’s up for record of the year.) “With the songs that we were gravitating toward, we knew ‘True Blue’” — a Dacus-led ballad — “was gonna be such an indie smash, and fucking ‘Satanist’” — conceived by Baker — “goes so hard. ‘Strong Enough’ was the one we finished last, and I was like, ‘Let’s each write and sing a verse, because this could be the single.’” It didn’t feel like a sellout. “A lot of stuff that would feel contrived, solo, doesn’t feel contrived with these guys, because it’s just all in the spirit of fun and being together. And, yeah, it’s the first time I’ve ever been like, ‘Damn, people are gonna sing along to this part!’”

That delirious spirit stands in healthy contrast to the sad-core image some people might have slapped onto one or all of the band members. But it’s hardly all about the mirth. At the Bowl, as on every other night in the latter parts of the tour, Bridgers asked the audience to put away all phones for the album’s devastating final track, “Letter to an Old Poet,” as she walked the semicircular platform separating the front two seating areas. She says, “Every once in a while I see a phone and I fume, but mostly they’re great and they put their phones away. And because most of the show has been looking through people’s phones and not at their faces, suddenly they become a roomful of people, and it’s insanely powerful to me.”

Why that number in particular, for shutting down cameras? Is it just one of a dozen possible moments to make that request, or is there something in particular about this one’s wounded and angry spirit…

“I play plenty of heavy songs,” Bridges says, “but that one feels too dark to not be having a communal experience.”

“Isn’t that the only time that you’ve cried while doing a vocal take — during that song?” Dacus asks.

“Yeah. I had a couple years where I had a hard time crying,” Bridgers affirms. “I’m over it now, thank God. Now I cry all the time. But ‘Letter to an Old Poet’ is one of the only times I’ve cried onstage.”

“Lucky,” Dacus says. “I hate crying onstage. It happens. I hate that shit.”

These asides about tears might give a Boygenius novice the wrong impression about the band. Even their softer songs tend to have a barb in them, and others, like the screamfests “$20” or “Satanist,” are undeniably hard-ass. A cutting irreverence is the hallmark that makes the sentimental moments honest and disarming.

Their irreverence comes through in their choice of stage or TV outfits too: At the Bowl, they dressed up as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost (with Dave Grohl sitting in briefly on drums as a zombie priest). “If you think of a three-person costume,” Baker explains, “what’s three things? We were like, ‘We could be the Trinity.’” Maybe it’s just as simple as that — numbers as Halloween destiny. But the band members don’t demur when the suggestion comes up that maybe it also had something to do with the phrase that is repeated over and over again in the bridge of “Not Strong Enough”: “Always an angel, never a god.” They switched up that equation, if just for one night, getting deistic at the Bowl.

Less than two weeks later, for “SNL,” they dressed up as the Beatles in their Ed Sullivan-era early prime. The Trinity? The Fab Four? Screw CSNY and all the rest; these women know a real supergroup when they see one.

When “SNL” came around, it was clear they would only be emulating the Beatles and not, like, the Who. There was definitely not going to be any attempt on the show to repeat Bridgers’ guitar-smashing solo appearance of 2021. “Hey, I tried,” she says about not quite fully breaking her ax on that occasion; the guitar took a licking, but almost kept on ticking, a resilience she was amused, not annoyed, by.

This year, the group has been more about melting hearts than heating up flame wars — whether that’s been in their more nakedly revealing songs or taking up causes like dressing in drag in Nashville to support the trans community under political attack there, or inviting Indigenous groups to provide invocations before select tour dates.

When the band receives its Group of the Year award at Variety‘s Hitmakers event, Joan Baez will be presenting the honor to the trio. That may seem like an odd pairing if you’re only considering Boygenius’ more irreverent moments, but an utterly apropos matchup if you are keeping in mind the band’s deeply earnest side and, especially, the social conscience that flares up around their performances. As it happens, the group has also performed at Baez’s Bread and Roses benefits in the Bay area.

“Oh my God,” says Dacus. “Sometimes I have to remember how important she is, because in our experience of her, she’s just been super-kind, and complimenting us, and then it’s like, ‘You’re Joan Baez! You made music joyfully political for a whole generation of people!’ Sometimes we lament how people in media are asked to basically be politicians now…”

“Because politicians aren’t being politicians,” Bridgers interjects — “they’re being fucking TV stars.”

“But she set this example of, because you’re a human, you have to stand for things,” Dacus continues. “So, it’s not because we’re musicians that we care about these causes, it’s because we’re people, and we would be caring about them if we all had office jobs. A lot of people are afraid to do that, and she wasn’t, and it’s a great example for us. We are not very afraid to say what we believe. … Just as a person, I hope to be like her.”

Bridgers notes that Baez, in her initial heyday as America’s folkie sweetheart, “was losing opportunities because she was radical — and then that ended up being the fuel for her whole career. How radical she was was then rewarded.” She sums up Baez’s appeal in a nutshell: “Woody Guthrie was screeching this, and I’m gonna sing it.” (They crack up, with Bridgers noting that no offense to anyone living or dead was intended: “We’re big Woody fans.”)

Baker has thoughts about how they earn the right to be what might be perceived as political, whether it’s something as seemingly un-divisive as having Indigenous people do Land Acknowledgements introductions before their sets, or speaking up on trans or reproductive choice issues.

“Giving them something of ourselves in the songs is like an endearment practice, where we’re like, ‘You will trust us because you have an emotional connection to something we’ve said that resonates with you.’ So when we are in drag at the Nashville show [just after the state enacted anti-drag laws], kids are trusting our judgment, because we’ve gone to the trouble of sharing something difficult or even painful for us to communicate. Then it’s worth it for them to enter that conversation, because we’ve set the stakes of like what’s important to communicate, even if involves conflict or pain.”

The songs themselves aren’t always, if ever, aimed at the fans, though. Sometimes the target audience for the material is, well, Boygenius.

“We write songs to each other as a communication method,” Baker says.

Bridgers doesn’t think it should be mistaken for oversharing. “We have plenty of stuff that’s sacred and not shown to anybody other than each other. I think there’s this weird misconception sometimes that we don’t have a private relationship, because so much of it this year has been monetized in our performance.” And yet, Dacus says, their music is as transparently interpersonal as it sounds. “Some friendships over years don’t get to enough of a level of intimacy to share the types of fears and desires and hopes that we are saying.”

“We hang out,” declares Baker, as if this might not be a matter-of-fact thing for a working rock group. (It doesn’t go without saying.)

How long will the hang last?

In October, the band put out a four-song EP called “The Rest,” a sequel or companion piece to “The Record.” The title does have an air of at least temporary finality to it, as if the cupboard is bare. Says Bridgers, “It’s funny that it’s called ‘The Rest,’ because we absolutely do have more songs that we didn’t put out.”

But where do they go from here? In 2023, did the side hustle so overtake the main hustle that they should keep Boygenius going into 2024, when they could certainly sell out sheds or maybe even arenas they didn’t come near this year? They’ve already broken with supergroup form so much; would it be a terrible thing if they were to further break it to the point of unexpectedly doing an immediate, sequential band album? Or do they revert to their solo corners? Fans might wish there could be a multiverse in which the band never pauses, on one track, and individual careers proceed apace on another.

Conventional wisdom would suggest they will not let solo albums go unmade just for the sake of rocking more venues. But you will not get a definitive answer here.

“I don’t know,” says Bridgers. “It’s incredible to me that we have kept the ethos behind the band the whole way, which is: it just has to be fun. We’ve done a lot of shit, but there’s also shit we said no to, stuff that felt like it was like pushing a boundary as far as travel or labor and stuff that sounds like we might push ourselves into not having fun. So that gets to continue forward, after this album cycle. I think we just are gonna do whatever is fun, and remain each other to each other. These guys are as involved in what I do as they are in Boygenius. We show each other ideas, and…”

“We need each other’s brains,” Dacus says.

So is it possible to specifically say that solo albums are what’s next, or do they want to leave a bit of mystery?

The attempt to pin it down leaves them unusually cagey. “It’s a mystery,” Bridgers says.

Dacus: “I’ll just say I’m not thinking about it.”

Bridgers: “Oh, yeah. It’s a mystery to us.”

Dacus, having the final noncommittal word: “If it’s a mystery to you, it’s a mystery to us too.”

Hard to tell whether there might be any real indecision here, or whether they just don’t want to lay out all their cards for the outside world, or whether they might be having a difficult time reconciling themselves to a near-future in which they might be Zoom advisors to one another instead of daily physical confidantes.

In the immediate meanwhile, there is Grammy season, and a slew of awards to be won, or not won. Bridgers has some experience there, with her multiple nominations in 2021. “It was still very deeply fucking COVID when I was nominated, and I was pretty like traumatized last time, and like the only way I felt it was on the phone. To find out in a room full of people and be celebrating, it’s already way more fun.” Dacus says being collectively recognized is “triple the joy, right? Much easier to feel happy for them” than for herself, she says. “Much easier to feel.”

Is there a line from any of their songs that could maybe encapsulate how they’re feeling right now, between the six Grammy noms, the “SNL” appearance and the impending end-of-year accolades? At that question, they start to laugh.

“Give me your funny ones,” someone says.

Then Dacus says, “Ohhh, I have a cute one.”

“Which one?” the others ask, curious to get an earnest answer after all.

Quoting one of her own lyrics, Dacus lowers her voice, as if it’s suddenly occurred to her that it’s a secret that she’s sharing. “‘I never thought you’d happen to me,’” she says.

(x) photos by Jingyu Lin

#boygenuis #julien baker #lucy dacus #phoebe bridgers #interviews #archival #variety #november 2023

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remyfire · 3 months

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Anyway, if you haven't been able to tell by the burst of joy I've been having today, this is a sex-positive space.

My wife is a sapphic trans woman who makes her living off of drawing porn. I am a queer trans masc asexual enby who makes my money off of writing smut, as well as by transcribing oral histories of queer elders who have had a really wonderful time getting to live freely and authentically in their spaces, and this includes being incredibly sexual.

I will never forget the woman I transcribed who was so pouty that she worked in the bath house that the lesbians did not cruise in because she wanted to be picked up by these women and she wanted to be able to see them cruising. God, the stories she told about how it felt to be a butch surrounded by gorgeous femmes in a lesbian bar in the '70s and '80s, getting to just soak them all up and not be afraid of the depth of hunger she felt in her soul, not be afraid to stare and appreciate all the beauty around her. I have relished getting to hear these incredibly personal tales of queer people, especially women, who did not let their desires be repressed or sanitized by a puritanical society who tried to shut them up and shut them down.

If this is something that makes you uncomfortable, that's totally fine. This blog might not be the space for you. And I really hope you go and find your own joy, whatever it might look like 💕 Just do it with kindness, okay?

#it's been a while since i made it perfectly clear how sex positive my blog is so i thought i'd restate it #and this is why i also would prefer anyone under the age of 18 not to follow me because there's a lot of that going on here #this is a space for celebration and i will be enthusiastic about that for the entire length of my stay here #my ramblings

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murderoushagthesequel · 11 months

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Happy Being Happy

from @jegulus-microfic's prompt, domestic (156 words)

ahhh this one is really cute actually. give me more elderly queer joy!!!

James looks out at Harry running around in the grass with his kids. He enjoys the simplicity of a happy family playing on a summer day. He basks in the way the sunlight calms his aching bones.

And he looks over at his husband, greying and wrinkled, and still even more beautiful than the day James met him back in 1972. Regulus smiles at him and James notes the smile lines on his face. James brought those to him.

He leans over and kisses Regulus, hearing an eewwww! from one of the kids, and chuckling to himself. Regulus’ eyes still sparkle in the sun just as they always have. And right now, in 2023, James could not possibly be more happy with the path his life has taken.

He leans down and nuzzles Regulus’ neck and bathes in the warmth, from the sun, and from the love of his life, and is just happy being happy.

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Genuine question: approximately how old were you when you first saw Kiki's Delivery Service. I saw your tags about how the soundtrack isn't as good as other Joe Hisashi work and it reminded me of an old conversation/debate my friends and I had time and time again which boiled down to music being tied to memories.

People who grew up watching a movie for kids tended (in our limited sample size of one friend group) to like the music a lot more than people who saw it later in life.

I love the kiki music but I think the music in ferngully is kind of meh which was an incredibly decisive opinion. My friend loves the music in Tom Thumb and Thumbelina but didn't want to have the soundtrack to Monsters Inc on in the background.

Well spotted! I didn't see Kiki's til I was in my early 20s. I didn't watch any Miyazaki as a kid. Spirited Away was my first when I was saw it in theaters when I was 15 and immediately imprinted on it. It took me a while before I worked through the back catalogue.

To be clear, I fucking adore Kiki's Delivery Service, it's in very heavy comfort movie rotation.

I'm gonna go listen to the soundtrack and reevaluate now tbqh.

While we're on the subject, Baths did an amazing song remixing dialogue from the Kiki's dub. It is pure joy. I honestly listened to it 1000 times before I finally saw KDS and made the connection lol. Anyway, Baths is a really cool queer musician everyone check him out.

#Asks answered #Anonymous #post o' mine #studio ghibli #kiki's delivery service

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this article warms my heart! i know the social conversation on harry and queerbaiting has been exhausting and turbulent, but this is what matters. real people feel more comfortable with themselves and exploring their identities. that’s his real impact on young queer youth— no one can take that away. it’s all summed up by Ash:

“They see him, they like him,” Sandoval said of Styles fans. “And if they like him, they might like me too.” ❤️

Oh this is wonderful. And I love that quote. Thank you for sharing the article with me.

Katelyn could hardly believe it.

Harry Styles’ percussionist, Pauli Lovejoy, picked up the nonbinary pride flag their friend had tossed onstage and began dancing and waving it while Styles sang. It was October of last year, and Styles was performing in Nashville. Katelyn, a nonbinary fan who asked to go by their first name because they have not yet come out to certain family members, screamed with joy at the top of their lungs.

“It just made me feel so safe and validated and loved for being who I am,” said Katelyn, 19, who uses they/them pronouns. “I came out to a lot of people after that experience.”

It’s no secret that Styles is a champion of the LGBTQ community, but to a special section of that fan base — his young gender-nonconforming devotees — Styles’ ability to exist comfortably, and extremely publicly, in a fluid space along the gender spectrum is particularly resonant. For them, Styles, 28, is an icon and advocate whose journey to self-actualization, and unapologetic ability to wear a Gucci gown or a string of pearls, mirrors their own strides toward self-love and discovery.

At his concerts, Styles regularly helps fans come out to their families by reading signs they hold up in the audience. He then celebrates them by leading the crowd in affirming chants, as he did on opening night of his 15-show stand at Inglewood’s Kia Forum. After asking a fan named Serena if she was sure she wanted to go public, he declared, “Congratulations, Serena, thank you for being here tonight.”

“He helped me feel like a lot of things about myself are OK,” said Alondra “Ash” Sandoval, 20, who uses she/they pronouns and said they are just beginning to explore their gender identity. Sandoval stood in the Forum parking lot wearing a snazzy black suit emblazoned with bright silver stars. The venue behind her was bathed in rainbow colors.

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Styles has dropped so many references to his feelings about sexuality and his thoughts on gender nonconformity that fans regularly track them online. In an April 2022 Better Homes & Gardens cover story, the pop star called it “outdated” that people should expect him to declare his sexuality publicly.

“I’ve been really open with it with my friends, but that’s my personal experience; it’s mine,” he told the magazine. “The whole point of where we should be heading, which is toward accepting everybody and being more open, is that it doesn’t matter, and it’s about not having to label everything, not having to clarify what boxes you’re checking.”

A few months later in a Rolling Stone cover story, Styles said, “I think everyone, including myself, has your own journey with figuring out sexuality and getting more comfortable with it.”

[…]

Not all observers agree that it’s fine for Styles to disregard gender norms and ally himself so firmly with the LGBTQ community without identifying himself as part of it. He has been accused by some critics and disgruntled fans of “queerbaiting” — or co-opting queer identity — an ongoing controversy that is peaking as his latest film, “My Policeman” comes out, in which he plays a closeted gay man in 1950s England.

Many gender-nonconforming fans have served as Styles’ most staunch defenders. Grace Daniels, 19, who attends New York University and uses they/them pronouns, said that Styles does need to state anything publicly.

“Gender exists on a spectrum, sexuality exists on the spectrum,” Daniels said. “And who’s to say that you have to even have a label at all? Which is something that he has emphasized, extensively.”

Another fan, Suba, 19, who is from the South and uses she/they pronouns (who asked to be identified by their first name since they have not yet come out to certain members of their family), recently wrote an 11-page paper on the subject for their writing seminar.

In the paper, they argue that accusing Styles of “queerbaiting” is essentially the same as “telling any young kid out there who is hesitant to do something, like dressing a certain way, that they are not allowed to try out different expressions without having to label themselves one way or another.”

[…]

Hernandez said the song “Lights Up,” which came out in 2019, just when they were beginning to realize they were nonbinary, changed their life.

“I feel like that was just what I needed at that point in my life,” they said of the soulful tune with the lyrics, “Lights up and they know who you are / know who you are / do you know who you are / shine / step into the light.”

San Antonio-based transgender fan, Derek D., 19, agrees. When Derek (who asked to go by his first name and last initial only, out of concerns for privacy), was about 11 years old, and Styles was still in One Direction, Derek said, he remembers a fan complimenting Styles on his black nail polish and Styles acting a bit shy and embarrassed about it.

“Times were a little bit different back then. And I remember resonating with that a lot, just that aspect of doing something outside of what is typically acceptable for your gender,” and then feeling a bit sheepish in public, Derek said. Derek now calls this “the nail polish story,” and said it’s an anecdote he uses a lot when discussing the stepping stones along the way to discovering his identity.

“It’s almost as if he’s walking in front of me,” said Derek of Styles. “And he’s leading a path, saying, ‘It’s OK. I promise it’s OK to be yourself’.”

Full article here

#LA Times #harry’s sexuality #harry’s gender #queerbaiting

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Weekly Roundup: 3rd March - 10th March 2024

Happy Sunday, and I hope all it applies to had a happy Mothers day (in the uk at least). So. I've written 15,284 words this week and have upladed 4 fics. As always, recs first: Vigil Strange I Kept - whitmans_kiss - Harry Potter (Sirius/Remus - established relationship and the realities of Remus being a older werewolf. Angsty but HEA) Petty (With A Prior) - lunchbucket - Harry Potter (Sirius/Remus - Funny muggle au, its cute)

A Matter Of Consequence - AlienSlof - Giger's Aliens (Gen Aliens - clever fic about what happened to the Queen in deep space)

An Unexpected Friend - smoltimidturtle - The Hobbit (Bilbo/Thorin, Bilbo gets a pet, its adorable, Thorin doesnt think so, a really cute reshirement fic) Lupine - BayleyWinchester - Harry Potter - (Sirius/Remus - adorable muggle au and as always Teddy is star of the show)

How to Get Rid of Sirius Black - Cylyxa - Harry Potter - (Sirius/Remus - Another foc where Teddy is star of the show ad he doesnt like Sirius ....)

And now for my fics:

Pansies for my love, and my love is you (Percy/Viktpr) Part of the CKAWS Language of Flowers fest and part of my Fireseeker verse series.

Viktor has decided to retire, now to get home and see his husband, who has missed him with every fibre of his being.

Forever and ever: You are my One and only (Bilbo/Thorin) part of @smolestboop's Bagginshield-tober fest (we are gettign there).

It is Bilbo and Thorin's wedding day. Thorin is slighty drunk and super sweet and Bilbo has no clue what half of the pet names he is giving him mean, but each one fills his heart with joy. After all, he has just married his dwarf. "Bring Your Older Gays To Play" at Club Erebor (Bilbo/Thorin) for @flashfictionfridayofficial Frodo had covinced Bilbo to go the event night at his favourite queer club. All Bilbo wated to do was go home, back to his books and cup of tea. Well, that was until Mr tall, dark and sexy was pushed into him. And finally Akmâthu Bask:Song of the Bath (Gen) based on an idea I get from @plutothegreatt During a bath by the river, Gimli starts singing Bilbo's bath song. Confusing the hobbits. It turns out that isnt the only song of The Hero of Erebor's that they sing in the Lonely Mountain. Well, hope every had another goood week <3

#sirius/remus #bilbo/thorin #Muggle aus #reshirement #Alien #canon divergence

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dreamlandsystem · 2 months

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for nex

how can we find something eloquent to say?

how can our words butterfly

gracefully across the page

when a trans child was brutally

murdered by other children at school

in the land of the free-to-die-young

if you’re queer enough?

each day our heart aches just a little more.

we mourn for each second

robbed from the kids who

like us, loved video games, music

and the weirdness of life

in this nation of justice for those

whose lives are boldly rooted in hatred

for werewolves and fairies learning to love

in the hush of gay mornings

and lesbian twilight.

every day our trans joy is bathed in blood.

every day queer kids

pay the price for their laughter.

when will the slaughter end?

how much death will be enough?

you may beat us, trample us,

strip our rights away,

but trans joy is eternal.

it is the magic of moonbeams and sunshine

of solidarity and resistance

of hand-holding and gender euphoria

and the stars in the sky.

#sys.txt #vent poetry #ok to rb if it resonates #tw:#violence #murder #hate crime #nex benedict

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The sting upon knuckles did not subdue internal ache. He gave them a chance, a chance to satiate their own desire for dominance, and it only resulted with uniform slacks being ripped and rawness scraping his knees. That, too, did not quell a more profound ache. Had he thrown himself at the sadism and blood lust of thirty delinquents or even a special grade curse, Fushiguro Megumi knew brutality could not provide the salve for fractured emotions. He did not wish. He did not wish for anything.

If wishes had any probability of coming true or if any deities existed, then a child's dream to have his mother alive and his father at his side would have come true a long time ago. However, Megumi wis could have imagined the joy, albeit profoundly unhealthy, to be like the uncaring, psychotic sorcerers he had heard about. To be cruel, to be filled with malice . . to not care about anyone except one's self, it would be sweetly simple. Life was supposed to be cruel, wasn't it though? The life of a sorcerer above else. I can do this. I can do this. She'll — Tsumiki would wake up one day, otherwise the majority of his life's actions would have been for nothing.

There were no wishes in life neither regrets. Tall tales whispered in the dark when heart was shattering and shattering. Pieces he tried collecting with desperation until the tips of his fingers were grated, nearly touching bone, and layers of scarlet turned to ebony flakes. In lieu of any cure, Megumi sighed, tucking his knees beneath his chin. The smell of irritated flesh, gravel mingling with open skin, alerting his sense of smell; he did nothing about it. He wrapped his arms around his legs, and it was as close to a hug as he was about to get from anyone, including himself.

A month to the day passed since his sister fell into her mysterious coma, and a month was, truthfully, too long. If the greatest sorcerer in the modern age could neither explain nor help the slumbering girl, then what hope was there? An uncomfortable twisting in his guts warned him of what was to come. Megumi had never been a negative child, at least not in his perspective. He always considered himself a realist, and for those who were innately bright and positive, his opinions were always seen as dour and harsh.

It was fact in a world where people died . . and mothers and fathers died and disappeared. Megumi was not completely alone however. He was blessed that his ability which would, realistically, be his own demise provided him with company. Kuro and Shiro had been lifelines of sort when the pressures of existing continued to accumulate, yet he did not want to rub his melancholy unto his divine dogs. All of jujutsu society would have found it queer as shikigami were solely seen as tools even a means to an end. They were part of his soul, his friends, and his most trusted allies; he loved them.

Already he could hear them whining and pressing their wet noses against his face. He wanted it. He shouldn't rely on them too much. Megumi dropped his arms from around his legs and lightly patted the leaf littered ground. The boy had homework to do and school to attend early in the morning, but he didn't care if he made it back to the lonely apartment he and his sister shared before it got dark. Living in the heart of Tokyo ( rather the liver where toxins accumulated ), of all of his life, he hated the bustle and noise more and more each year.

The forest with wind moving through leaves, invertebrates moving through the soil, and mammals running about — it was the peace he dreamed of. He cocked his head to the side, lying cheek on the unscathed part of his knee, and watched as he drew idle circles into the dirt. Disregarding his poor artistic skills, he drew shapes of snakes and barking dogs under a full moon. Anything short of a frown adorning the teen's face was a positive. Neutrality nearly bathed in numbness carried him through the minutes and the hours until . . Eager the boy was as the sound of potential wildlife moving through the woods captured his entire attention. Gemstone eyes scanned past dense grass and trees with breath caught in his throat.

starter for @strywoven

#𝟬𝟖 chimera shadow garden .#strywoven

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bengiyo · 1 year

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Between Us Ep 10 Stray Thoughts

And we're back, and bestie is here. Last time, Win and Team went home for break and the stark differences between their families left me with a lot of feelings. Win's family can't have a normal dinner together, and Team's family is so close that he can sleep with his parents. We also got to see the depths of Team's continued grief, and also got to see a bisexual driving through the rain to save their boy. Bee and Prince are sailing, and Bee's rapid acceptance of his queerness was a real joy.

Team faking sleep. I'm gonna have to tickle this boy.

Team's parents are like, "Oh, they fuckin.'"

Win is sick, and he managed to make that drive.

For a second I thought Team's shirt said, "Eat, Sleep, Repent."

Meanwhile, in the gaymerz plot, angst.

Thai BL and these sponge baths, I swear.

Win, like almost all boys, must cuddle when he's sick.

Still in love with the OG Trio Friendship. I'm glad we've at least built up Team's confusion about his feelings for Win.

Ah, right, Bee and Prince are the ad couple this time.

Dean always swearing at Win gets me every time.

Nothing but respect for my man Phruk. He said he loves Manaow and that's the only thing that matters.

Pharm said he is too pretty to get in that water.

Dean looked at Win like, "My vengeance will be swift and terrible for you encouraging these kids." Then the bottle points to Team and Dean is like, "Nah, son. You gonna take this L."

As a retired hardcore gamer, I do feel for Tul.

Waan is so sad sometimes. Kinda funny remembering that we recently watched Santa and Oreo fight in My Only 12%.

I really want to like this plotline with the dad, but it feels undercooked.

Oh, Team, please don't run from him every time.

I am not immune to Luckiest Boy.

We are finally at The Moment.

Oh, that went in an undesired, but not unexpected direction.

#between us #thai bl #bl series #Ben watches

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My Fic Masterlist (Narcissa, sapphic, rarepair)

I'm pinning this to my profile and updating it as I post more.

These are most of the fics I've ever posted, sorted by whether or not they include Narcissa.

The WIPs include more information, but for the one-shots I'm just telling you the ship, rating, and important warnings so read the tags before reading please.

These are mainly Narcissa centered, sapphic ships, and rarepairs in general.

Sorted by: Narcissa (sapphic and f/m), other rarepairs, sirius/narcissa, cissamione, and misc stories (popular and gen)

(But also, since @womenofthehouseofblack did encourage self promotion... These are not all house of black, but there are 70+ Narcissa fics on here and they're even sorted by here lmao)

Excellence - Narcissa/Dorcas - Mature - 5/? chapters

Summary: Dorcas Meadowes and Narcissa Black at the start of their fifth year at Hogwarts. Two Slytherin girls with bright, promising futures ahead of them, trying to find their place in a world where nothing less than pure excellence is expected of them. They don't like each other, never have, and when everything around them is surely changing, that's something familiar to hold onto, at least. For the time being. This is gonna focus a lot on Slytherin house and pureblood culture, growing up queer in pureblood society, and eventually pass through the first war and change its outcome!

such were the joys - Minerva/OFC, Minerva/Poppy - Mature - 6/? chapters

Summary: It's the start of Minerva Mcgonagall and Adrastia Greengrass' sixth year at Hogwarts. Their friend group is mismatched and headed every which way in life, but for now they feel secure in their mutual understanding that whatever happens -- romance, family, disaster -- they have no plans to leave each other's side. The future might be uncertain, but it's most certainly bright, of that they are sure. These are going to be short chapters (500-1K per chapter) from the perspective of whichever character makes sense at the moment, mainly Minerva and Adrastia themselves.

Mine to Lose - Alphard/Rodolphus - Explicit - 3/5 chapters

Summary: "So much for summer love and saying 'us', 'cause you weren't mine to lose..." This focuses on Rodolphus and Alphard's relationship, starting with Alphard's funeral. Also background focus to Narcissa & Rodolphus and her relationship with Rabastan and Lucius.

I Bet My Life - Regulus & Narcissa & Dorcas, Dorcas/Narcissa - Mature - 3 Chapters - Regulus makes it out of the cave with help of Dorcas

Tarot and Face Masks - Parvati/Lavender - General - 2 Chapters - Post war fluff, healing. I might at one point throw another chapter in it, but it's completed as a fluffy standalone fic that doesn't need more story.

No Love Lost - Alecto/Narcissa - Explicit - Pwp

Mint Chocolate - Alice/Narcissa - General - Ice cream 'date'

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe - Dorcas/Narcissa - Teen - Kiss

Heating Charms - Dorcas/Narcissa - Teen - Fluff

Almost Worth It - Dorcas/Narcissa - Teen - THG AU

Nothing Less - Dorcas/Narcissa - Teen - Secret Relationship

Can't Have This - Lily/Narcissa - Mature - Angsty sex

Luxury - Lily/Narcissa - Explicit - Bath sex

Two Left Feet - Lily/Narcissa - Teen - Muggle AU

No Regrets - Marlene/Narcissa - General - Disowned Narcissa

Queen of Knightsbridge - Marlene/Narcissa - Teen - Karaoke kiss

All The Time in the World - Mrs Zabini/Narcissa - Explicit - Murder

Tragedy - Mrs Zabini/Narcissa - Teen - Flirting at a funeral

Phenomenally Unnerving - Pandora/Narcissa - Teen - Kiss

Could be Heaven - Pansy/Narcissa - Explicit - Shower sex

Thank Me - Pansy/Narcissa - Explicit - Pwp

Sweet Victory - Cho/Ginny - Teen - Post Quidditch Kiss

Taking Flight - Cho/Luna - Teen - Grief, getting back to flying

The Edge of a Knife - Daphne/Pansy - Explicit - Knife play

It's Not Easy - Hermione/Pansy - Teen - Getting back together

Liquid Luck - Lavender/Parvati - Explicit - Tribbing, Felix Felicis

We'll be Happy - Lavender/Parvati - Teen - Major Character Death

Could I? - Luna/Parvati - Teen - Post War Healing

Promise of Forever - Luna/Parvati - Teen - Post War Grief/Healing

Not Worried - Luna/Parvati - Teen - Post War Healing

Proud of You - Luna/Millicent - Teen - Butch/femme

Drown Out the War - Mary/Lily - Teen - Skinny dipping

Favourite Things - Lucius/Narcissa - Explicit - Tipsy smut

My Valentine - Lucius/Narcissa - Teen - Valentine Memories

Thank You - Lucius/Narcissa - General - Fluff

The Crown You Gave Me - Lucius/Narcissa - Teen - Divorce

We're Alright - Lucius/Narcissa - General - Kiss in the rain

A Great Love Story - Rabastan/Narcissa - Teen - First date/kiss

Crestfallen - Rabastan/Narcissa - General - Rejected Proposal

Memories That We Made - Rabastan/Narcissa - Explicit - Angsty sex

No Comment - Rabastan/Narcissa - Teen - Prank

Our Broken Hearts - Rabastan/Narcissa - Teen - Muggle AU

Useless and Disappointing - Rabastan/Narcissa - Teen - Breakup

Belonging - Remus/Narcissa - Teen - Disowned Narcissa

Fallen Stars - Remus/Narcissa - Teen - Slytherin Remus

He Loves Her - Remus/Narcissa - General - Post war, hurt/comfort

His Luck - Remus/Narcissa - Teen - Muggle AU

He Wants Us Both - Remus/Narcissa/Sirius - Explicit - threesome

Damned Be the World - Alphard/Rodolphus - Explicit - Pwp

Luckiest Witch - Sirius/Marlene - General - Soulmate AU

Over My Dead Body - Sirius/Marlene - Teen - MCD

Never Be - Rodolphus/Antonin - Explicit - Angsty smut

Lockdown Husband - Rodolphus/Augustus - Teen - lockdown au

Can We Pretend - Rodolphus/Augustus - Teen - 2nd War Angst

It's Personal - Rodolphus/Kingsley - Teen - Angst

Bad Ideas - Explicit - Accidental arousal, first war era

Blood in the Water - Explicit - Cleaning wounds - Blood, Injury

Death of Me - Teen - Flashbacks - Major Character Death

Ecstacy and Darkness Drips - Explicit - Self Harm and Blood

Ends Like This - General - First War, break-up - No Warnings

Favourite Method of Self-Destruction - Explicit - Pwp - No Warnings

Feel Like Paradise - Explicit - Gala quickie - No Warnings

Hers - Teen - Argument and a kiss - No Warnings

In Love and War - Teen - Disowned Narcissa - No Warnings

In Your Sick Fantasies - Explicit - Breeding kink - No Warnings

Is That a Problem? - Teen - Cissa's Wedding Day - No Warnings

It's Over - Teen - 1st War, kiss - No Warnings

I've Got You - Teen - Soulmate AU - Transphobia

Never Leave - Teen - Disowned Narcissa - No Warnings

Second Chances - Teen - 2nd war, happy ending - No Warnings

The Cure to Marital Problems - Explicit - First hookup - No Warnings

They'd Make Do - Mature - Disowned Narcissa - No Warnings

Too Beautiful to Save - Explicit - Grief, Dark Magic, Near-Murder

Worst in Me - General - Post War, kiss - No Warnings

You'd Come Back to Me - Explicit - Happy Ending - No Warnings

Good Morning, Darling - General - Domestic fluff

It's Okay - General - Curse, major character death

Jumper - General - Fluffy "wearing my clothes" ficlet

Life is Good - General - Family fluff with Rose

Like a Glove - Teen - Hermione wearing a Black corset

Minister's Wife - General - Reassurance about the relationship

Ministry Galas - General - Attending a gala for the first time

Out of Your Mind - Mature - Narcissa buys a painting, smut

She'd Kissed Her Before - General - Soulmate AU

This is Home. - Teen - Narcissa character study

Wandering Mind - Mature - Smut with autistic!Hermione

When it Rains - General - Fluff/comfort with autistic!Hermione

a lot to live without - Lily & Harry - Teen - Major Character Death

40 Years - James/Lily - Teen - Major Character Death

Just Friends - Luna & Pansy - General - Aro luna and pansy

He Was Seventeen - Narcissa & Regulus - Teen - MCD

What Fools These Mortals Be - Narcissa & Harry - Teen - Memories

You're Not Going Home - Rodolphus & Narcissa - General - Comfort

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