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happy butch appreciation day to all my butches and especially all my poc butches, fat butches, nonbinary butches, transmasc butches, trans women butches, and disabled butches, luv y’all and keep on keepin on

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I agree

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lesbian buttons png pt. 1 | pt. 2 ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.

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One of the richest motifs in The Locked Tomb is relationships with uncomfortable overlaps.

Of course, in-universe, we've got all the weirdness about cavaliers and their necros: they shouldn't be married (but sometimes they are), they shouldn't be siblings (but sometimes they are). Cav/necro love is a different kind of love, and familial, romantic, or sexual love should be no part of it.

As readers who don't know any necros or cavs in real life, it's very easy to say: well, fuck that. Do what you want.

But the narrative doesn't stop at the necro/cav relationship. It says, okay, now here are all these Lyctors calling each other sister and brother on their way to sexy parties. Here is Nona with frank romantic interest in her parental figures (and roleplaying a very sensual embrace with Cam). Here is John simultaneously trying to be everyone's dad and teacher and commander and lover. Here is Aiglamene trying to filter parenting Gideon through the act of giving her military training. Here is Crux trying to be a loving father to the tiny dictator he serves. Here is Gideon saying she wants to marry a sword that has her mom in it.

And sometimes it's harmless, and sometimes it's harmful. And the narrative asks: what then? What if the beauty doesn't reduce the horror, and the horror doesn't reduce the beauty? How fucked up does a love have to be before you won't root for it anymore?

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Me: I'm feeling this way because of a temporary situation. I will not feel like this forever. Nothing about this is permanent.

Also me: Another tattoo would fix me, I think.

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It feels like this every time I write a fic

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i love lesbians. i went to get drinks with a masc who had sent me pictures of her hanging drywall. she confirmed over text that she was sending these to torture me. in person, she was so nervous her hands were trembling. she had to repeat her order twice because she was so quiet. she shakily asked for a hug at the end of the night, the way oliver twist asks for porridge. and then i got home and she sent me a picture of her just in a toolbelt, accompanied by one of the smuttiest text messages i've ever read. meanwhile when i called her to schedule the next date, she had to stop and say, "i'm so sorry i'm so nervous i'm out of breath." just. the whiplash of it all. godbless you every lesbian

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birds that look like fruit <3

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the thing is. ok bear with me. picard is literally gay

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I wish people treated queerness as breaking the rules of the dominant cis-hetero patriarchy so you can authentically be yourself. Instead of adhering to a new slightly less restrictive set of rules which you will deride other people for not following (basically whatever label discourse is now flaring up)

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emails suck. unless they are from ao3, then they are the best thing to ever happen to me

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fandom is really cool actually sometimes you meet people that just fuckin rule and it's because you both want the same two fictional women to kiss on the mouth

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imagine you're camilla hect and you know you shouldn't fall in love with pyrrha, she's so wrong for you in every way. but there she is with her shoulders out calling you daddy's treasure, making you breakfast, day after day.

does palamedes see it too? you wonder. but palamedes isn't there to debrief with you every night like he used to be, whispering with you under the covers. you have to go it alone and it's making you a little crazy. it's making you want to make some decisions you know are bad. maybe making a few bad decisions will help you make good ones where it counts. it's only logical.

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cam is still my favorite girl 💖

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hey look you don’t have to be unanxious but you do have to live your life. do it anxious

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being in academia is kind of like where you're on everest and you see the frozen bodies of the other people who've tried it strewn about everywhere and you think "okay, but that's them and i'm me"