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the heart breaks and breaks and breaks

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#broadcasting live from her cave... literally...

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Come find me when you wake up.

I couldn't pick which one I wanted to post, so both is my answer.

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I started rewatching glee and this show truly is a fever dream

it is actually batshit insane so watching it for the first time really was a crazy, crazy, ride for me

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Love Song Anon if you’re still looking for sapphic love song stuff Mary Lambert has some nice stuff along with the infamous “Keeps Me Warm” that Macklemore sampled (actual song is very nice I promise), and Joy Oladokun has some really nice vibey stuff too. Also Melissa Etheridge!!

ALSO LIA WIFE??? Did it go well??? Of course it went well but also very excited very happy for you yey!!! Sending all the good vibes to the both of you!!! - SMA

gay anon these are for you!!!!!!

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Lia hi

You have exquisite taste in music and ur gay and I also I’m v gay and very much in love and I was wondering if you can perhaps recommend some good sapphic songs for when you’re stupidly in love pls

hello my gay friend let me tell you i have been REALLY agonising over this ask for days and have consulted with wife and everything and as it turns out, most of the gay music i like is not, in fact, love songs. and most of the love songs i like are not by queer people. so you can see how this presents a problem for me (and also you)

i would have loved to offer you a playlist of sapphic love songs but instead i offer you this list of artists to check out (who are all some flavour of gay) and also open this up to any of my followers to please reply with songs that fit the bill!!!!

girli

zolita

chappell roan

fletcher

girl in red (she i think has lots of romance songs but personally her genre isn’t my style)

king princess

zolita

hayley kiyoko

chubby cat

ktlyn

boygenius

japanese house

muna

betty who

brandi carlile

allison russel

pvris

g flip

the crane wives

anyway i hope you can find some good things in amongst those and also CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BEING IN LOVEEEEEEEE

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Good morning! Returning to our roots today and listening to the Kara playlist to hype myself up for a first date! Wish me luck! Good vibes your way! - SMA

omg!!!!! i’m like a week late on this but omg i hope it’s so good and you’ve been on two more dates w them since pls share pls share

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Suuuuuupercorooroororororppp

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hello hello i’m on the hunt for an artist currently open for commissions who specialises in nature / ancient ruins / forest kind of stuff (bg3 fandom i am peering toward u in hope that style is prevalent over there), if anybody has recommendations!!

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thank you so much for answering my ask🥹 what you said about it being just so… dull is exactly how i feel. i just feel like we are on entirely different planets of understanding emotionally all the time, but i think also what makes it hard for me to truly identify is that he is objectively? an attractive man. but i relate exactly to what you said about feeling like he will never understand me in that way

you're welcome!!

honestly i would recommend not getting too caught up in the minutiae of the attraction and what that 'means', because a) attraction is super complicated and individual and hard to quantify and b) being attracted to your boyfriend def does not negate the idea that you might also like people of all sorts of other gender expression as well (exclusively or not!)

attraction to men specifically can be really really really hard to define and untangle from heteronormativity-- i spent a long time trying to understand if my quote-unquote 'attraction to men' was something i genuinely felt or had just spent my entire life performing to the point where it was indistinguishable from my actual thoughts and feelings. the answer to that is different for everybody who finds themselves bumping up against the question.

i think maybe try to worry more about the things you feel before you try to understand what label each of those feelings supposedly corresponds to-- you'll land somewhere that feels right eventually, but when you're in a space where you're not totally sure what you want or who you want to be, trying to square everyone's overlapping definitions of various labels and identities will just complicate things imo

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did you ever date men before figuring out you were a lesbian? sorry you absolutely don’t have to answer this but i just am in a relationship with a man and feel like perhaps i am a lesbian

i did! i had a long term on-and-off boyfriend when i was young and i cared very very deeply for him in some way but it just was not really a romantic way, hence the on-and-off part. and he was really lovely! on paper he was an excellent partner and the kind of man i’d be happy to see my straight friends be with, but even so i just always found the relationship just so… dull.

i know a lot of lesbians are actively pretty grossed out by the idea/experience of dating men and i never really felt that way, which was part of the reason it took me ages to work out i was a lesbian and not bisexual, because i was like well. dating men is… fine i guess? mostly i did it when i was bored because it was easy and that’s what my friends were doing lmao

i always found it to be a little bit simple and very boring and above all else just really unfulfilling romantically, and for a very long time i didn’t realise how much better it could be with women who i did have the capacity to build that you know my soul and i know yours kind of connection with. recognising that i’m simply never going to find that with a man by nature of them being men is what really flipped the last switch for me to realise i was / feel comfortable using the term lesbian without feeling like a fraud lol.

that being said, i don’t think it’s a perfect standard to measure by because a lot of straight women are in relationships with men that they don’t feel enormously like heart-to-heart connected with, and i think they find that kind of fulfilment from their friends instead? i personally cannot wrap my head around why somebody would want to be in a relationship with a partner who doesn’t fully, 100000% get you and know you all the way down to your bones but straight dating standards are a huge mystery to me as it is lmao

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The 100 was good for the first couple seasons, legitimately so. It had the usual sci fi plot holes and stuff, but in all it was way better than it had any right to be. Unfortunately “the incident (lol)” was a huge misstep that was the start of the devolution into the usual CW shit quality. I wouldn’t say the writers fell quite so hard and fast as Glee’s did, but it was close (and at least Glee still had good music). Season 2 really stands on its own as truly good writing. What a shame.

season 2 is currently so fascinating and dark and gritty and genuinely compelling! i don’t think i ever watched past season 3 when it was airing so i am really intrigued to see what direction it goes in. being a supergirl truther and recent watcher of glee i’d like to say i’m prepared for the worst but we’ll see lol

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what you learn from hobbies:

consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine

making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential

activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them

wow everything is so expensive

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started rewatching the 100 recently (i know, i know) and i actually cannot believe this was a CW show. i have vague memories of it being a bit spooky here and there but i COMPLETELY forgot how dark it is??

people are tortured and murdered like every second episode, a main and previously beloved character commits an unbelievably brutal massacre of unarmed children and elderly, people are being tortured via medical experiments and harvesting of their organs???? like genuinely what the fuck was this show doing on the Arrowverse channel???

on the plus side i held so much resentment toward it bc of the clexa situation that i had a memory of it being a bad show but it’s actually really surprising me in its quality

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Well, Supergirl may have saved me, but, Kara Danvers, you are my hero

Does one need a reason to post some Lena? Because I haven't got a compelling reason, except to say she's kind of amazing.

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