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Dragon Age: Origins

You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of this legendary order of guardians. With the return of mankind's ancient foe and the kingdom engulfed in civil war, you have been chosen by fate to unite the shattered lands and slay the archdemon once and for all. Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures.

Category: Video Game

Genre: RPG

Rating:

Length: About 40 hours

Confirmed Sapphic Characters: You can be sapphic, there's also Leliana, one of your companions

How relevant are the sapphics: The main character and/or a companion

Triggers (SPOILER WARNING):

Bury Your Gays - No

Happy Ending - If you want

Sexual Violence - Rape off-screen

Homophobia - No

Religious Trigger - There's fantasy christianity

Misc - Fantasy racism

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Leah on the Offbeat

Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.

Category: Book

Genre: Romance

Length: 352 pages

Confirmed Sapphic Characters: Leah is bisexual

How relevant are the sapphics: The main character

Triggers (SPOILER WARNING):

Bury Your Gays - No

Happy Ending - Yes

Sexual Violence - No

Homophobia - A bit

Religious Trigger - No

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Stone Butch Blues

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the "Ozzie and Harriet" McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town. Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different.

Category: Book

Genre: Historical Fiction

Length: 308 pages

Confirmed Sapphic Characters: Jess is a butch lesbian

How relevant are the sapphics: The main character

Triggers (SPOILER WARNING):

Bury Your Gays - There are some very tragic deaths

Happy Ending - Yes

Sexual Violence - Yes

Homophobia - Yes

Religious Trigger - No

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The Locked Tomb Series

The Locked Tomb Series, by Tamsyn Muir, follows the dread adventures of Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, and a host of other goths. These epic science fantasy novels mix funny tone with dark subject matter, and contain swashbuckling action, waves of bones, and lesbian necromancers in space. The series has earned enormous critical praise and rabid reader engagement, with the USA Today Best Selling first novel Gideon the Ninth receiving an amazing five starred reviews.

Category: Book

Genre: Science Fiction

Length: 4 books

Status: Fourth book to be released

Confirmed Sapphic Characters: Almost all women are sapphic

How relevant are the sapphics: They are the main characters

Triggers (SPOILER WARNING):

Bury Your Gays - No

Happy Ending - Ungoing series

Sexual Violence - No

Homophobia - No

Religious Trigger - There's necromantic space catholicism

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One Last Stop

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can't imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there's certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures. But then, there's this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August's day when she needed it most. August's subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there's one big problem: Jane doesn't just look like an old school punk rocker. She's literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it's time to start believing in some things, after all.

Category: Book

Genre: New Adult

Length: 418 pages

Confirmed Sapphic Characters: August is bisexual, Jane is a lesbian

How relevant are the sapphics: They are the main characters

Triggers (SPOILER WARNING):

Bury Your Gays - No

Happy Ending - Yes

Sexual Violence - No

Homophobia - Only mentions

Religious Trigger - No

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Love Lies Bleeding

Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou's criminal family.

Category: Movie

Genre: Romantic Thriller

Rating: R

Length: 1h 44m

Confirmed Sapphic Characters: Lou is a lesbian, Jackie is bisexual

How relevant are the sapphics: They are the main characters

Triggers (SPOILER WARNING):

Bury Your Gays - No

Happy Ending - Yes

Sexual Violence - A woman is blackmailed by another woman and has sex with her (off camera) to keep her quiet. While it is not framed as being forced, it does feel like coercion.

Homophobia - Yes

Religious Trigger - No

Misc - Minor biphobia

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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

She-Ra, Princess of Power, leads a rebellion to free her land of Etheria from the monstrous invaders the Horde.

Category: Animation

Genre: Science fantasy

Rating: TV-Y7

Length: 5 Seasons

Status: Finished

Confirmed Sapphic Characters: Adora and Catra are confirmed lesbians, there are also secondary sapphic characters

How relevant are the sapphics: Adora is the protagonist, Catra is a central character

Triggers (SPOILER WARNING):

Bury Your Gays - No

Happy Ending - Yes

Sexual Violence - No

Homophobia - No

Religious Trigger - The main villain of the final season is heavily based on cult-y christian churches

Misc - Abusive family figures

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Steven Universe

A team of intergalactic warriors fights to protect the Earth, but the combination of three highly trained beings and one quirky young boy leaves the team struggling to overcome the dangerous scenarios that are put in front of them.

Category: Animation

Genre: Adventure

Rating: TV-PG

Length: 5 Seasons

Status: Finished

Confirmed Sapphic Characters: Almost all Gems are shown to be sapphic

How relevant are the sapphics: They are central characters

Triggers (SPOILER WARNING):

Bury Your Gays - No

Happy Ending - Yes

Sexual Violence - No

Homophobia - No

Religious Trigger - No

Misc - Abusive relationships (romantic and family)