#it can be. lonely as hell. lol. this post is tongue-in-cheek i'd rather have people who Get Me in fandom than look performatively good.

[crimeronan]

the pro of "crazy dyke" being Your Type (TM) is that it makes you look like you're """One Of The Good Ones (TM)""" or whatever without even trying. you love queer women in fiction & therefore are freed from every fandom conversation about how most people only like the white men. or something. (the truth is you just like women with complex relationships to queerness, womanhood, & oftentimes their cultures as well, for various personal reasons.)

the con of "crazy dyke" being Your Type (TM) is obviously. God Help You if you want to find fandom content exploring your faves with the kind of messy nuance you thrive on.

#it's a very [rolls up sleeves] 'guess i have to do everything myself' kind of situation. #luz and hennessy have almost NOTHING in common personality-wise or values-wise. but wow the crazy dyke is so strong in both of them #being a dyke in a polycule full of dykes who's friends with a bunch of dykes with very complex relationships to race and gender and such #it's like. yeah obviously this is what i'm gonna gravitate toward. this is closest to my lived experience and the experiences of #the ppl surrounding me. you know?? #it's not performative it's just. my life. it's just my life. #having a native american partner and a jewish partner having latine and Black and asian dyke friends #these are the stories that are most interesting to me. and yet. so rarely are they the stories that are most interesting to anyone else #it can be. lonely as hell. lol. this post is tongue-in-cheek i'd rather have people who Get Me in fandom than look performatively good. #u know.