#sfth annabelle

[disgruntled-rat]

Annabelle and Butch almost kissed once.

Really, you could say they almost kissed several times, when one of them let their thoughts drift just a little too far and very nearly went for it. But there was only one that really counted.

It was night. The two sat outside, watching the stars. Butch was talking. Telling a story, maybe. Annabelle was staring at her friend. She was awful handsome, with the way her hair curled over her forehead and the way her hands moved about as she talked, and something about the gleam in her eye is just so enticing, and really it's not Annabelle's fault that she couldn't help but lean in. She just had to capture that spark in Butch's eyes, the one that seemed to appear whenever she saw Annabelle. Butch wasn't talking anymore, she noticed, just staring at Annabelle with a look of surprise and adoration and longing that made Annabelle feel warm and fuzzy all the way down to her toes. They were very close, suddenly. Butch's face was red. Annabelle's heart was thumping out a steady beat saying kiss her, kiss her, kiss her. Butch let out a shakey breath and Annabelle opened her mouth to say something along the lines of I love you. But what came out of her mouth instead was:

"Butch...do you wanna rob a bank?"

And just like that, the moment broke. But neither of them ever forgot that moment, that almost-kiss under the stars.

[aliendrawsstuff]

I love them so much-

[somerset-gasoline]

I think Annabutch changed my brain chemistry. Literally drew this in an adrenaline-driven frenzy and this is my first attempt at a kiss scene aghhhhhh

[constellation-sapphic]

Those cishet men play lesbians better than any 'lesbian' adult video I've ever watched

[korogie]

When u want to confess to ur crush but she's so handsome you panic and ask her to rob a bank with you instead. Common lesbian experience

[boviform]

The Lesbian Conundrum

[spitedrowning]

sfth the only media where u get to see a 6'5" 35 year old british man with a beard say very sincerely "i am a lesbian"

[unbelenting]

"..and the way she's always there like my partner in crime" 💞

(Spoilers for IMPROVISED PLAY #55 "Never Give Annabelle A Gun")

Soooooo.... them.... haha. It's 2:10 AM, I wish I could ramble right now but I NEED to get some sleep, I gotta be up early tomorrow! But look, I made a thing!! :-)) Baby's first (proper? still short?) animatic/edit! Take THAT, DIWives! That storyboard's crying in my sketchbook. I hope you like it, I sure had fun! I considered using 2 other SPG songs (Latum Alterum and Shattered Stars) but this worked too well!! <333

I know Tumblr videos are super loud (for me at least) so I tried to optimize the audio for that. Shouuuld be fine.

[falling-enthusiastically]

Don't you just hate it when you're trying to embark on a successful lesbian relationship but end up saying 'Let's rob a bank' instead?

[local-human-disaster]

I'm thinking more about Annabelle's confrontation with Henry, because the way Luke (and AJ too) play it means so much to me. It's so realistically scary. So many details I adore in that short minute, because it says so much to me as a queer semi-woman:

Henry calls Annabelle "darlin'" straight off the bat. Of course darlin' is a common stereotypical southern term of endearment, but compounded with Henry's affection for Annabelle, and Annabelle's confused, "oh shit does he mean me" reaction, there's a sense I get that he's already verbally claiming her as his beloved. Without her consent. She's very much not endeared.

The very third thing Henry says is "give me your foot". With zero context. He brushes aside Annabelle's denial ("that's not mine"), and when she doesn't want to, he forces it on her.

Annabelle's reaction throughout this is constantly trying to diffuse the situation, downplaying her reactions. Forcing the shoe on her is already harassment, but she just says "I don't like this". She only pushes Henry's hands away as much as necessary so he wouldn't touch her in an act of very understandable panic, and then she puts her hands down like she's trying to calm them both down.

Because the reality is that historically, queer women face violence from cishet men, as both queer people and as women. Annabelle's reactions scream to me that she's aware that Henry, a man and a police officer, has so much social power over her, an eighteen-year-old young woman. It's not about being a bank robber or not (Henry clearly doesn't care either), or that she can shoot well; it's that she's a woman and he's a man, and the common sentiment was (and still is, in many circles) that women are men's belongings. Queer women aren't queer to those men, because queerness gets in the way of their "rightful" claim over women. Henry doesn't have to explain himself, because he feels entitled to have her even though she doesn't know who he is. He refuses to listen when she repeatedly says she's not interested out of entitlement and arrogance. He doesn't even consider that she might not be into men at all!! He forces the shoe on her, like putting shackles on her to claim her as his. He can be as violent as he wants, and she knows it'll be his word against hers if she makes a scene. So she tries not to.

Just. I really love that they didn't shy away from the realities of being queer women. So far most gay couples in sfth are in settings where being gay is accepted, like Ditch, like Bubbamiah. But Annabelle and Butch both don't get to be queer women (or non-men) in an ideal setting with zero homophobia and sexism, and those two intersect very nicely (and realistically) here.

[disgruntled-rat]

#justlesbianthings 😔

[norkea]

hey bestie [remembers saying "I love you" causes me to gay panic] want to rob a bank?

[sprucebluw]

Gay people can never say “ i love you” normally it is always some shit like “let’s rob a bank”

[i-may-be-an-emu]

No clue who this random audience member is, but I think it’s safe to say that their reaction is all of us

[bbatcat-09]

Can we all agree that Danny from Never Give Annabelle a Gun and Danny from Death for a Dollar are the same guy and this bar is just wild

[korogie]

LET'S GO LESBIANS!!!