#lesbian incoming

[heathcliffgirl1847]

legolas and gimli with little elanor. do you guys think gimli is good with kids because i think YES

"how tf did you get this big in a year"

[estir-esper]

showtime yuri

[lemongrace]

WIP oh mein gott, this canvas is full of cüntserven

[vulturevanity]

normal thing to say about your dear friend who you think is really cute and charming and hard-working and basically the perfect wife material

[wxywyxw]

Merry Christmas 🎄

Cereza prepared a special gift for Jeanne.

Click for better quality.

Bonus:

The gift:

[wilcze-kudly]

I think Daphne's mom and Sheila got smth going on

[valittlecorner]

Hello, today we're complaining about Bushiroad's tactics and clear exploitation of the Sapphic community in their rhythm games💘 cause I'm feeling like a hater rn.

For starters, I've always noticed WLW representation is usually non-existent or placed on a side character with 3 seconds of screentime. It's pretty hard to even find appropriate WLW content that isn't sexualized to appeal the male gaze. And when you do find it, it's probably either cancelled midway (the owl house) or it makes you wait 6 years to see a proper display of affection (adventure time). Now this complaint came to me since it's reflected in a lot of female centric rhythm games, especially Bushiroad rhythm games.

First, Bang Dream. Pretty sure the Bandori fandom still remembers Bushi HINTING at every character from it being Sapphic, but were too afraid to confirm or say it clearly. And you know why is that??? Well, most of their income comes from thirsty males who wouldn't want to see their anime 'waifu' not appealing to them or being 'unavailable", that's how the market works bestie!!! So their solution is having extremely vague depictions of WLW while still making sure it's appealing to the male gaze. The main point that messes with WLW rep is misogyny, and how men are constantly trying to twist women into being their own little trophy that appeals ONLY TO THEM and completely ruining how people view Lesbians. To me, Bushi's rhythm games are a prime example of that.

Now let's talk about D4dj. D4 struggles with the same thing as Bandori, but arguably manages it worse. Since D4's characters are mostly adults, their cards are very suggestive, often showing their characters in questionable situations with one another, this is an example of wanting to appeal to the male gaze via the sexualization of Lesbians. And in the game's dialogue they show characters clearly blushing or being flustered around one another and overly exploit what I call "Sapphic bait". Sapphic Bait is showing you two female characters with CLEAR INTEREST IN ONE ANOTHER but never making it canon and just using it for clout. A clear example of this is TsubAoi (Tsubaki is clearly in love with Aoi and they play around with the concept a lot, but it's just that. It's never taken seriously enough, it's just a bait). The main problem with D4 is how they don't commit to the bit unless we're talking HayaCoco, their first Canon couple. They're the only ones who brought back hope of Bushi eventually stopping the Sapphic Bait, though I still think that's impossible to be honest. I really have no idea how their reveal went over in JP, but those two are a step in the right direction. However, there's still a long way to go when it comes to these topics AND ESPECIALLY coming from Bushi.

I know many other franchises do this, but I'm Bandori centred so that's about it. Conclusion of this rant being: Give proper Lesbian representation instead of just baiting your Sapphic audience into thinking they're finally being heard. It's tiring!!!

Edit: I made A HUGE mistake with the D4 card section of this post. I did not mean "sexualized / suggestive" cards, I was referring more to those Sapphic bait cards D4 has. Those with two characters involved in more romantic situations that Bushi usually plays as bait and is never mentioned again yknow!! My bad I wrote this when I was mad and didn't research properly oh my god

[lesbospackagetour]

Broke my spell, new chapter up now 🌝

[bi-lesbian]

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

roxanna asgarian, we were once a family: a story of love, death, and child removal in america, pgs. 216-217

[deepdeanvsweston]

It is so absolutely wonderful that the very same book that first explores Daisy Wells' lesbianism, Death In The Spotlight, is PURPLE because that colour is so associated with queerness and lesbians especially!!! Idk if it was intentional or not but it fills me with joy everytime I think about it. This article is a great one explaining the history behind the colour purple and queer history ↓

I think I'm actually going to ask Robin Stevens about this maybe

[sappho-favourite-pupil]

My rainbow socksss (and my parents stil don't suspect anything). I don't know how i could be more obvious without directly coming out.

[fruit00]

been feeling a little #bicurious recently 💯🔥

[bea-trician]

working on some new pin designs. planning to drop them just in time for pride month.

Because the fruit looks like. It’s like a. Hehe. It looks like a. Like a. Hehshsehe. The fruit looks like a v… a pusssyetehshegeyey AJHAEHWHS I CAN’T SAY IT.

[tiktaalic]

Unexpected stack is freaks and geeks where the guy asks sam if he ever wants kids and Sam is like uhhh. Idk. And swap meat where dean is like wow it’s so great that our old babysitter who used to also live transiently like us now has a husband and a house and a kid isn’t that great isn’t that cool. Do you ever think about having or wanting a wife and kids. And Sam. Shaking a salad staring at his laptop. Goes. No.

[troublefemme]

eventually we need to talk about the butch/femme breadwinner expectation I've seen going around because I haven't seen a single one be right so far