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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Xena: Warrior Princess Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gabrielle/Xena Characters: Gabrielle (Xena), Xena (Xena) Additional Tags: all she does is yearn, wet dreams, Dream Sex, sexual fantasies, unresolved sexual tension... until it isn't, she's horny and she doesn't quite know it... until she does, First Kiss, Porch Porn (XR 2023) Series: Part 1 of started with a spark, now we're on fire Summary:

She kissed you once - in your mind; in a dream; in the place that exists beyond life and death. She kissed you once in spirit and it scorched your mouth. You can still feel the blisters beneath your tongue when you wet your lips. You ache to feel that burn sweep across your tender flesh. The sear of her kiss on your throat and your breast and at the apex of your thighs. The delicious burn of her touch. She is the flint, and you are the tinder, and together you could make a glorious spark.

OR: Gabrielle is having revelations.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Xena: Warrior Princess Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gabrielle/Xena Characters: Gabrielle (Xena), Xena (Xena) Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Episode: s06e10 Old Ares Had a Farm, There Be No Plot Here Summary:

"Ah c'mon Gabrielle, you know I don't do flowers..."

But even as the words are out of Xena’s mouth she knows it’s a lie, knows Gabrielle knows it too, as her mind casts back to an evening years before - a whole lifetime ago now, it seems, in more ways than one, when their world was a very different place and they were other people.

Or: Gabrielle has an agenda; Xena does too.

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I AM F E R A L

Xena: Warrior Princess 2x03 - The Giant Killer (1996)

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me watching every episode of xena warrior princess: "they were in love here"

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It's been a crazy week, but I'd be remiss if I didn't show-off this year's Xenaversary cake. It was chocolate and delicious.

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I need more Xena friends so I'm 100% snuffling around your blog to get myself back into it (HUGE Xena fan but actually haven't watched it in years bc trauma association, but I love reading it and drawing it etc.) Your blog cheered me up after a tough afternoon so thank you :)

Oh, that makes me so glad that my blog has cheered you some!

I'm ALWAYS happy to have more Xena friends!!!

Nice to meet you, I'm Pattie!

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Amy, yaaaaaaaaaassssss.

Thank you thank you this was perfect in its crackiness. Fully endorse.

Please, Amy, please write the Xena-is-actually-Sappho crackfic! I could think of no one better suited 😁

I've been saving this bc I don't think I'll ever be able to provide in prose format but can absolutely write as a bullet point list.

In S1, Xena doesn’t accompany Gabrielle to the Academy, though she volunteers to take her “at least as far as Athens.” Why would Xena not volunteer to accompany her all the way to the Academy if she’s gonna go all the way to Athens anyway? Could it be… because everybody knows her there and would be like “oh hey what’s up Sappho?”?????

Xena won’t read Gabrielle’s scrolls until S5! Which is also really sus!!! WHY NOT SAPPHO?? Already too much hero worship? Can’t stand ur girlfriend’s early writing? (She’s working on it!!!) Don’t want to end up turning every cuddling and canoodling session into a writing tips session?? (Okay valid, but - )

Which is another thing!! There’s a certain point at which it’s gone on for so long that there’s no way Xena can possibly reveal she’s Sappho, simply bc Gabrielle would never believe it. Like can you imagine - hey, Gabrielle, I just came back from the dead/we’re about to be crucified together/you just delivered my child and now we’re moms, I have something to tell you.

I mean, consider the fact that when we do see Xena writing, she writes Gabrielle actually beautiful and poetic letters. I mean, can you even believe some of this stuff: [upon the occasion of their being merged into the same body] “In the same way that the world shares day and night, and never sees the same two together” [and all our personal favorite, upon going to the Norselands by herself] “Whatever happens, know that my love for you is endless.”

Does this sound to you like somebody who is not good at writing? Bc it does not to me!

I know, I know, now you’re gonna ask me - but what about all those sold out Sappho concerts? It’s hard to hide from your wife that you’re THE rock star of the ancient world. Au contraire! They split up often enough, sometimes we don’t even get a reason for why they’ve decided to do so.

Salmoneus is absolutely her stage manager, and it’s a running joke how often he’s 1) almost given it away to Gabrielle and 2) how oblivious Gabrielle remains despite that, probably bc she quite logically thinks there’s only room for one famous bard in her and Xena’s relationship.

Which leads me at least to: Many Happy Returns.

We're to believe that Xena went to all the trouble of not only a) buying tickets to a Sappho concert for Gabrielle (for which she, a detail-persnickety long-con-runner, forgot the dates? twice???) but b) getting an audience with her? and c) commissioning a poem from her??? which Xena then d) very unconvincingly playacted not knowing what said poem contained???? The poem was clearly the intended gift all along, sure, but I’m twirling my moustache re: why…

(*cough* it’s bc she was actually in cahoots with Aphrodite during Many Happy Returns to both plant the idea of meeting Sappho as a plausible thing Xena might have done and then distract her from the dangerous idea fact that there’s a suspicious connection between Xena and Sappho *cough*)

Also insert your Xena(Sappho)/Aphrodite headcanon here all “Ode to Aphrodite” style

In conclusion! Xena: Warrior Princess is actually the story of one bard who writes about the woman she loves and one poet who finally wrote a poem for the woman she loves in the triumphant series finale.

#lovewins!!!!!

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Surprise.

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BARDS BARDS BARDS BARDS

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guuuuuuuuuys

If there’s anything that i really want to see out of a Xena reboot it’s more of Gabrielle’s training. Cuz Xena is supposed to be one of the best martial artists to walk the face of the earth and they reference her training Gabrielle a few times but it’s rarely ever seen. 

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looking up reference images for the odyssey thing im working on and instead ended up in a detour to “what if xena had actually tried to be historically accurate in any way” and got here.

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I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM

(wheezes)

I love how Pipes draws Xena and Gabrielle. I love how you can feel the press of their bodies. I love the little braids. I love the matching purple. I love that Xena is just absolutely lost in this kiss.

OH MY FUCKING GOD I LOVE THEEEEEEEEEM

(combusts)

some soft xena and grabrielle c: <3 

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Them.

That's it.

Just. Them.

They’ve been married for 50 years

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i love everything about this episode

Xena: Warrior Princess 6x19 - Many Happy Returns (2001)

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:::heavy breathing:::

I... I volunteer as tribute....

Evil Xena my beloved...

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No, see, one of these days I'm going to find a way to put into words just what this scene does to me, but in the meantime can we please just...

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha (laughs delightfully in G A Y)

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#i'm sorry have i mentioned how this is my favorite teaser to any xwp episode recently#xena is such a grump! she wants gabrielle's attention so bad!#but also like - the revelation that gabrielle has been writing this WILDLY romantic epic scroll about their soulmateship#throughout space and time! explicitly about their love! as they discovered in india#is IMMEDIATELY and HILARIOUSLY cut off by xena - long suffering and who has been listening to gabrielle describing it ad nauseum#like! the incredible tone shifts of this show!! cannot be overstated!!!!#you DO have the incredible sweeping epic romance! but... you ALSO have the reality of the day to day living with each other in between#i love them#i love this show#please GOD give us more of anything like xwp in the modern day please#xena (@tunemyart)

But also, BUT ALSO, please, please, can we also just stop to marvel at Xena's softness here and oh how! Look at her, look at her! Stripped of her armour. Hair loose about her face, and those little braids. Standing in the middle of a field of wildflowers at mid-day doing fucking TREE POSE.

Who is this woman?!?

It wasn't that long ago that she scoffed at this very idea. At slowing down and being still. At doing yoga. BUT LOOK AT HER NOW!!! This isn't the type of person Xena is, isn't the type of person Xena ever imagined was worthwhile being. Until Gabrielle, and until she almost lost her. Gabrielle has made her want tosh try, albeit grumpily; has made her realize this is someone she could be, from time to time; someone she could be happy being.

The transformative power of love, my dudes.