#the butchfemme ship ever

[butchsmell]

find it really interesting how the "butchfemme relationships are heteronormative" crowd are never seen advocating for more butch4butch relationships in media, its only ever said in defense of fem4fem ships... you'd almost think they just have an issue with lesbian masculinity

[backtothedisaster]

Chelldos 1

REMEMBERING MY ROOTS o7

when I started shipping it if I did: Like late late 2022 i think? Very late 2022 thats so fucking weird to think about

my thoughts: beautiful beautiful toxic yuri. This is my girlcrush who im obsessed with who has never ever ever spoken a word to me. The bad bitch i pulled by ignoring her. All robots and computers must shut the hell up. Good god how can portal be anything but a love story. The facility loves chell so so so so so much its insane

What makes me happy about them: they snuck a butchfemme love story into one of the best selling valve games of all time. And its so so so well written. Glados coming to terms with both her feelings and her humanity towards the end of the game and then choosing to let chell go...good lird

What makes me sad about them: everything. they make me emotional

things done in fanfic that annoys me/things I look for in fanfic: once again im nto very picky I also just dont read a lot of chelldos fic anymore tbh so i dotn really remember oops

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: nobody 🙏

My happily ever after for them: chell comes back to the facility and they live a happy domestic life

who is the big spoon/little spoon: Well uh. what do you call sleeping on top of your giant computer wife

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: i think chell just likes sitting in the main ai chamber with glados while she does whatever it is she does and they just enjoy eachothers company. I also think chell has been through testing enough times to be very proficient at designing test chambers so she designs a lot of chambers for the co op bots while theyre just #hanging out together

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[jimmyironwood]

That post about “masculining yang” from a few months back Kinda sucks. Why is depicting a butchfemme relationship offensive? Yang was always fairly masc and her becoming more so later more just struck me as her getting development and a less objectified joke depiction. Let ppl see the butch in her.

i... never said it was offensive lmao?? its just that blake and yang arent a butchfemme relationship. both are pretty femme. and changing fanon yang to be more masucline is fine. but it was ONLY ever yang. yang always carries blake. yang wears the suit. yang protects blake. yang is always depicted doing the stereotypically more masculine things when in canon the only masculine things about her are her bike and being angry i guess. and the fact that she... wears trousers?

nothing about this is "wrong" or "offensive" either. it just bothers me that it was ONLY yang because she isn't as perfectly feminine and submissive and waifuish as blake, when right from the start she was presented as a flirty, confident girl who goes to clubs wearing low cut tops and booty shorts to accentuate her feminine features. if you wanna pull up art and fics of blake being the masculine one to try and prove my post that "kinda sucks" wrong, go ahead. im not trying to tell people how to enjoy a ship, i was just moaning that yang doesnt really get to be feminine anymore, when she was both in canon and at the beginning of the fandom.

if you don't want to hear that opinion i suggest not coming back to my blog again. because this is my blog. where i share my opinion. even if it kinda sucks.