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babe you haven't said a word in two weeks. Was your skull not the right place to lay my eggs? it just looked so warm and inviting, with all that nutritious grey stuff for our larvae to snack on.

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like the first rule of cooking is to have fun and be yourself and the first rule of baking is to stay calm because the dough can sense fear

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Girl who gets turned on by herself so hey wouldn't it be soooo cute if you dressed up like her? Oh oh let her do your makeup really quick, it'll be super hot! Maybe she teases you the slightest bit of starting to sound like her, even. And in the midst of this you might realize you're picking up more of her little idiosyncrasies and traits, but that's okay. It's normal!

By the time you actually get into bed together, she's used her name when referring to you a few times and it makes you both snicker. Going from incredulous and giddy giggles to panting out one name over and over, staring into your own eyes, drooling and worshipping each other. By the time you're finished, snuggled in close with one another, neither of you is quite sure which is which but...that's fine, one of you can figure it out later!

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Girl who gets turned on by herself so hey wouldn't it be soooo cute if you dressed up like her? Oh oh let her do your makeup really quick, it'll be super hot! Maybe she teases you the slightest bit of starting to sound like her, even. And in the midst of this you might realize you're picking up more of her little idiosyncrasies and traits, but that's okay. It's normal!

By the time you actually get into bed together, she's used her name when referring to you a few times and it makes you both snicker. Going from incredulous and giddy giggles to panting out one name over and over, staring into your own eyes, drooling and worshipping each other. By the time you're finished, snuggled in close with one another, neither of you is quite sure which is which but...that's fine, one of you can figure it out later!

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There's definitely a conversation to be had about self-labelled monsterfuckers whose hear-me-outs consist exclusively of characters who are basically photogenic humans from the collarbones down with weird heads stuck on top, but it's also very funny to respond to those conversations with "did you just say 'conventionally attractive rat'?"

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Hello again! If you're still taking requests, could you show off some of the spiny-tailed geckos/geckos from Strophurus ? People don't know about their messed up tail adaptations or their cool color contrasts between the gray of the body vs the tail sections and tongues, esp in golden tailed geckos and I think they're neat! ^_^

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Golden-tailed Gecko, Strophurus taenicauda, family Diplodactylidae, SE Queensland, Australia

photograph by Rob Valentic

Eastern Spiny-tailed Gecko (Strophurus williamsi), family Diplodactylidae, Brisbane, Asutralia

photograph by Rob Valentic

Northern Spiny-tailed Geckos (Strophurus ciliaris), family Diplodactylidae, Western Australia

photograph by Roberto Sorrentino

Northern Spiny-tailed Geckos (Strophurus ciliaris), family Diplodactylidae, Western Australia

photograph by Roberto Sorrentino

Check out the Golden-tailed Gecko's (Strophurus taenicauda) Threat display in slow motion. When under attack this Gecko has an incredible way of deterring predators. They open their mouths to show a blacky blue lining as a warning to stay back, just as the black mamba does. As you can see the beautiful golden tail is lifted like a scorpion and is able to squirt out a foul smelling and sticky liquid if the predator comes any closer making this one of the coolest geckos on the planet!

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Diversity win! This mass of teeth and blood pretending to be human is a woman!

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I'm not a princess girl or a knight girl I'm a hero girl. The only noble things in me are my just and honest soul and this spider queen's ovipositor

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sorry i don't know where else to ask this so i just arbitrarily picked someone out of the tag who has anonymous asks on (i do not want to make a post on my main about it). is empty spaces explicitly a yuri tag, or is it just popular among lesbians? i don't want to crosstag by accident, so i have been trying to find an answer to this without asking anyone because i know it's probably a stupid question. haven't been able to find anything, though.

i am also not a trans woman, so my second question is about whether empty spaces (or in a more general sense, identifying with some of the ideas presented) is 'culturally closed' as it were. if it is supposed to be a space for trans women, i do not want to intrude into that.

i get that these are probably incredibly stupid questions, and my only excuse is that i am a bit stupid and bad at demographic research. i am aware that the fact i do not already know the answers to these questions may indicate that i should not be asking them, but i don't know this for sure either. i am not looking for any specific answer, and with regards to my second question, if i should not be engaging with the tag, i will promptly add it to my filter list. i only ask because i feel like some of my thoughts might be of interest to the tag's residents; if not, i am perfectly capable of having those thoughts in a more appropriate space, or discarding them entirely if no appropriate space exists.

thank you for your patience. you are under no obligation to answer, and i'm very sorry for wasting your time.

good day, anonymous, and thank you for your question. i'll preface my answer by stating that empty spaces, especially in its contemporary form, is many things to many people*; i can only speak here on my personal understanding of it and my preferred approach thereto.

to address your first question first: no, ES is not an intrinsically lesbian subgenre. there has always been a strong orientation towards f/f, yuri, whatever one might like to call it, but it is not a hard rule. there are no hard rules; except, perhaps, 'we'll know empty spaces is dead when someone makes a wiki.'

to your second question, the roots of the movement are in the exploration of themes of disposability, identity, and abuse through a transfeminine lens; in what i consider to be the most valuable fruits of the movement, the dolls and the witches and all the rest are a troupe of archetypes, a flash-fiction sicko's commedia dell'arte, through which these bitter, wrenching feelings may be articulated in sharp relief. does this constitute a closed space, a transfeminine closed practice? if it was, could we hold such a line against those outside it? can i hold it against you, in any way that matters?

plainly, no, i cannot. perhaps it was possible, once, before subculture became subgenre and ES spilled and shattered a thousand ways, but what is to be gained by playing at purity now? i will neither forbid you nor permit you entrance. speak, and see who listens.

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a beautiful, cruel woman sitting at the head of your bed, running her gauntleted fingers through your hair as you sleep, whispering to you of the evils you will inflict upon the earth together

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The world is awful and nightmarish, but right now there's a bright yellow finch outside my window chirping like mad, so it's not all bad.

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I love these little guys. So striking.

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

Prospect Park, Brooklyn (April 29, 2025)

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If tumblr dies you can find me with the other kittens in the wet cardboard box in the alley that always rains

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Instead of getting frustrated, I choose to develop a kink for the problematic literacy gap between me and any Tumblr user I flirt with.

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I can't believe it took me so long to play Fallen London, given how much it seems to be extremely my jam. Like, some of the stuff I've written over the past few years could easily act as Fallen London fanfic, except for the small detail that I'd not even heard of the game when I wrote it.