#pps if you're not a writer your challenge instead is to read something by and about transfem sapphics

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You know how much it sucks that sapphics are so under-represented in fiction and fanfiction right? Like how it's so much harder for stories about sapphics to get published, how f/f ships on ao3, even the big ones, are like a quarter of the size of m/m ships. How we in our little sapphic fiction and fandom community on tumblr are like waaaaay smaller than our heterosexual and mlm counterparts? Because that really sucks!

So please don't then turn around and do the same thing to transfem sapphics inside our community. There's like, without exaggeration, maybe 20 published books about sapphic romances featuring a trans fem protagonist or love interest. It's not hard to get published, it's damn near impossible. There's barely any fanfic about us like there are just over a million f/f fics on ao3 and 9,000 of them are tagged as having a trans female character. Transfem sapphics basically don't exist in sapphic fiction. It really sucks.

I'll never forget searching through the "trans rights readathon" tag a few months ago excited to find more trans sapphic books. Only to find every reading list was between 95% and 100% by and about transmasculine people. Transmascs are great! Transmascs certainly need more representation too! But it kinda fucking stings to feel so excluded. Transfems need like 10x the amount of fiction written by and/or about us put out in the world just to get to the amount of "needs more rep" transmascs are at.

This all speaks to a broader undercurrent of transmisogyny in queer communities but we won't go into that, because you the person reading this are definitely an ally for trans fems and want sapphic spaces to truly welcome us. Otherwise a post from me wouldn't have reached your dash!

So what can you do? Write about us. Please. We basically can't get published, and nobody reads our shit on ao3. The next thing you write, put a sapphic trans woman in it. Or if you want EXTRA BONUS POINTS put a nonbinary transfem sapphic in there. Obviously I'd want it to be a protagonist or love interest but honestly even a prominent side character would make me very happy.

It's okay if you make mistakes! As long as you honest to god try. If you have questions you can ask transfem friends, mutuals, even just put em on tumblr. I would much much much rather see ten cis and transmasc sapphics attempt to write about trans women and get some things wrong, than see zero even try.

Good luck!

#Transmisogyny #Lesfic #Sapphic fiction #Trans rights #F/f ships #ps abo doesn't count #pps if you're not a writer your challenge instead is to read something by and about transfem sapphics #I recommend manhunt by gretchen felker-martin if you want a rec

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Omg how about this...makoharu but Patrochilles AU! from illiad (tho I'm gonna use the tsoa (the song of achilles) ver for this) with makoto as patroclus and haru as Achilles (i know the physical features don't match patroclus has dark hair and Achilles has blond hair and green eyes and looks closer prob to makoto but achilles is also kinda feminine looking??? As he was able to hide for a long time disguised as a girl)

Not to mention achilles was the son of a sea nymph (wow the water relationship yippee and lived by the sea)

Like in the tsoa book patroclus is described as this shy young boy (i mean he was exiled by his own father but that wouldn't happen to our bby mako in canon would it) then he was sent to achilles' kingdom and was all lonely and Achilles was this boy who everyone flocked to but then went to point patroclus and said "him...i choose him" imagine the playground scene from tm

Fast forward to a few years later with a bff relationship too close to have a heterosexual explanation and achilles is hailed as this prodigy (see the parallel?!?!) And patroclus known as his closest companion and they were swimming together in instances in the book

fast forward again to the war where after every raid achilles comes home and patroclus welcomes him (fuck the "okaeri" "tadaima" is strong in this one) patroclus considering himself a weak warrior becomes a healer and manages to befriend the entire army (if this isn't makoto) and achilles goes "how do you know their names?" "They're my friends" "ugh so many" also patroclus is known as the Achilles-tamer like "achilles is throwing a tantrum quick find patroclus" (very similar to "haru-chan is stripping quick mako-chan!) Rin as odysseus the sassy friend who's like "ugh i know you're gay for each other quit with the pda" and sousuke as agamemnon the asshole Achilles refuses to acknowledge (come on we know the beef between haru and sou) and kisumi as briseis who at one point in the book admitted to like patroclus and achilles got jealous over that (haru def got jealous over kisumi during that steal yo mako flashback in s2)

Gosh hiyori as hector who refuses to return helen which would def be ikuya (guys see the parallelism!!!) And let's not acknowledge the lack of paris, or maybe asahi as paris idk then agamemnon does the dick move of taking briseis from achilles due to some spat (honestly rin and kisumi could switch and let the makorinharu shippers go wild since pat, bri, and achilles hung out like a 3some anyway but more makorin instead of rinharu (in other versions the rinharu could be stronger tho since briseis was Achilles' war prize anyway but that's not the point since we're following tsoa)) and here comes the beef between sousuke and haru making its way into the AU

Achilles goes to sulk and refuses to fight hector (tho it was haru who challenged hiyori to a race in canon) odysseus went to patroclus and went "he only listens to you talk the shit out of him" (this would only work if rin was odysseus)

patroclus wanted to fight for him instead (agghh the showdown between makoto and hiyori) and well...patroclus lost and died (is it a coincidence makoto lost that race too?)

Here comes the mcd angst and achilles mourns (imagine if makoto didn't wake up from his drowning and the look of despair on haru escalated gosh imagine the grieving) the gods at the bottom of the sea heard him and he goes apeshit on hector and killed him (he did win against hiyori after all) and fought until he died bc life without pat is meaningless so similar to "it's meaningless without you" (he was really eager to follow him into the afterlife)

That's about it since the later parts arr hard to fill in (no obe would be able to fill up phyrrhus' role that demon child) and it's difficult to find roles for rei and nagisa (maybe nagisa as achilles' charioteer automedon) and maybe sasabe as chiron the centaur their teacher/no. 1 shipper and amakata as phoinix achilles' mentor but anyway all is well and that's all there is thank you for your time reading this

PS: I've been thinking about this AU for makoharu since i read the iwaoi ver of this named achilles wept but I'm not a great writer so i can only indulge myself in hcs

PPS: I'm the anon who who sent the herc and meg ask haha

Oh dang you WENT OFF, modern myth AU anon 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 so many great parallels!! I haven’t gotten around to reading TSOA yet but the few things I know about it and some of the quotes I’ve seen… WHEW. One thing I love seeing people explore in different AUs with makoharu is how their love for each other can be so intense that it often borders on impending tragedy. Their devotion to each other is beautiful until something happens that makes it mix with their lack of self-preservation to cause a huge explosion, whether that means self-sacrifice (usually Makoto) or confused, grief-stricken rampages (usually Haru). It’s this complicated but ever-present piece of their dynamic that screams “I know you would die for me, but just this once, could you live for me instead?”

Also while we’re talking about Achilles, may I suggest a makoharu take on Achilles Come Down because that song is always a bop

#bless you for this anon #loving the parallels here #don’t have much to contribute but still love to hear it #makoharu #free! au #thanks for sending! #anonymous #tsoa spoilers #long post