#gotta love the lesbians

[writerquil]

"its such a strange relationship!" its two women so its fine

[stil-lindigo]

little dove.

a short comic about Ash and Snow's first meeting / how Snow got her nickname.

Snow's story

Ash’s story

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[annadeef]

Leather butch Maica (she/her) @artbytesslyn

[napping-sapphic]

Sometimes i wish flirting was as easy as taking a girls face in my hands and telling her i have time for her, that i’ve got time for all her hopes and worries and rants and goals and wants and needs

[qalrey]

i still can't believe that they're canonically married!!

[artigas]

I’m really happy that Black Sails is experiencing a bit of a renaissance, but (predictably) some of the takes I’m seeing online are so busted. It’s wild to me that anyone would complain about the fact that Anne Bonny kisses Jack after she’s developed this life-changing relationship with Max. It’s absolutely wild to see anyone roll their eyes or feel uncomfortable about the fact that Flint has sex with Miranda when he returns to her in season one or that Max is most likely a lesbian but actively has sex with men for pay and knows how to make that pleasurable. It’s crazy to me that some of the very audiences who claim to want queer representation feel so discomforted when they actually see the mess and seeming inconsistencies of queerness that they asked for.

The reality is that there are lesbians who have had (and will have!) meaningful, mutually-gratifying, and deeply sexual relationships with men. There are gay men who’ve enjoyed having sex with women, who are gay as the day is long and nevertheless feel sexually attracted to a woman or two and are nevertheless gay men, full stop. There are gay cis men who are happily married to trans women. There are femme dom tops and butch bottoms and there are mascs afab people who like femme boys. There are non-binary people and trans men who actively identify as lesbians. There are ace and aro people who enjoy thinking about and engaging with sex — sometimes in fiction and sometimes in real life. Queerness, in fiction and in reality, defies neat categorization. That is the beauty, power, and (perceived) unorthodoxy of queerness.

Now, I’ll say this — do I think the straight men behind Black Sails were actively thinking deeply and insightfully about the paradoxes and fuckery of queer identity when they wrote Black Sails? No! By their own admission, Steinberg and Levine have owned up to the fact that some of the writing of the show was really hinged on their own blind spots as people who are not (to my knowledge) members of the queer community. If I want to be generous, I think that the beautiful mess of Black Sails is that, in not feeling like experts enough to designate specific identity labels to any of their characters, the writers stumbled their way into more authentic representation of lived queer experience, which is to say that the notion that James Flint was actively thinking of himself as a gay man was anachronistic. As many lesbian archivists and theories have noted, the notion of a queer identity — as in, queerness is who you are, not what you do — was patently unthinkable for most cultures in the past. In other words, the idea that Anne Bonny operates in the eighteenth century as a lesbian and thus would not willingly engage in relationships with men is not only untrue of the series, but untrue of most recorded lesbian experiences in the real world. The notion that a lesbian would operate her entire life without engaging sexually or romantically with men, for instance, is a very new privilege that some of us are very lucky to enjoy, but it is not true for the vast majority of human history — hell, it’s not even true of our present world.

This is all to say that think that there’s something really funny about how we want queer characters to fit into neatly organized boxes. This isn’t a new problem, either. When the show was still airing, the BS fandom would get itself into tizzies about wether or not Flint is gay or bisexual, wether or not Anne Bonny is a lesbian, wether or not Silver is queer when his only canonical relationship is with Madi, etc etc. We’ve been having these discourses for years and I don’t know. I get that much of it is fueled by how badly some people want to see themselves represented in media, but . . . well. The siloing of queer characters and queer narratives into neat little boxes has never felt very authentic to me and nine times out of ten, it’s also just so damn boring.

[llamahearted]

Miss Milly Thompson I love you. I love your big heart, your big body, and your big smile. I also love your big non-lethal stungun.

[wildflowercryptid]

i don't feel like really coloring this rn so here are some rough sketches of my older tealmask designs! kieran is a mask maker & competitive battler while florian is paldea's new pokémon professor, (he specializes in pokémon mythology & terastallization.)

[ccircusclwn]

hey!!! Can you draw mkulia please??? I love your art and mkulia is slowly consuming my brain :)

mkulia has been requested by lots of people... sooo!! mkulia doodles while i figure out how to draw digitally yet again...!!

(and also slight mkulia redesigns bcs mk w long hair is cool too)

[whaliiwatching]

other lives and dimensions and finally a love poem…

[solargeist]

tommyinnit coming out as bicurious is so funny i think if he says the f slur it'll reset reality

[heuffopla]

Got invited to my very first creator's market next month! A queer one too so even better 😎 More infos on that later but for now take some drawings I cleaned up because they'll be made into STICKERS! How exciting!

[inkpoizining-art]

She is my absolute favorite!!!!!! 💖

[lymooniee]

Uhmmmm we don't talk about how I stayed up even longer to draw more. I just was in such a drawing mood I suppose. Anyways Julie-su sketch, its really sketchy ahh im tired (I have to do a full on thing for her with lesbian flag colours like RAHHHZHHDDH)

(Also @mary-venom's art of Julie-Su is what inspired me to draw her in the first place cause they draw her so cute I can't)

[firstkanaphans]

It cracks me up that 23.5 “plot what plot?”-ed their own trailer in favor of giving us three minutes of OngsaSun being adorable. They know their audience, that’s for sure. Who needs a plot when there are lesbians?

[jabberwockprince]

pride is not over yet!!! rise bisexuals RISE!!!!!!!!!!

I think this is my first time properly drawing these two LMFAO they're so bi4bi to me...... anyway !! feel free to use as icons, just make sure to link back / credit me!

and here is the 1010 pride icon set if youre interested <3