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Kissed and ditched by Shara Wheeler 💋💌

+ bonus Shara:

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i love i kissed shara wheeler because

it allows the sapphic women characters to be flawed. i feel like that’s not as common in most wlw books. they are both batshit insane and obsessive.

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the megabitch of your dreams.

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has anyone read the kyoshi books :33

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based off this tweet lol

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"you should be at the club" I can't go to the club I'll be in there saying shit like "perchance" and "thrice"

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I'm really glad the anime kept this in. I was worried they might not. This is the turning point for I'm in Love with the Villainess, where it becomes clear it's not just a silly isekai comedy, but a story that also earnestly discusses queer issues.

It's still fairly unusual for the kind of yuri that gets adapted to anime to outright have characters say "I'm gay", so the fact Rae frankly discusses her sexuality here is refreshing-- but on top of that, the show goes on to directly challenge homophobia.

Rae's behavior with Claire before this has been inappropriate (and they really should have toned it down in adaptations to make this convo work better, but alas) and that is acknowledged here. However, Claire moving away from Rae specifically because Rae states that she's gay is what's pointed out wrong, and the stereotype of "lesbians just can't control themselves and will creep on every woman they meet" is pointed out as wrong. This is a common stereotype that persists pretty much everywhere--the idea that it isn't "safe" for women to be around lesbians--and it is valuable that it's called out here. Gay people aren't more likely to be predatory that straight people, and that's something everyone should get through their heads.

What's more, the idea of "oh she's not gay or bi she just happened to fall in love with a woman" or "it's just a love that transcends gender" isn't a super common stereotype in the US and a lot of other countries, but it is one that pops up constantly in anime and manga, because it's seen as somehow "more okay" for a character to kiss girls if she goes out of her way to say it doesn't make her a lesbian or bi/pan. (In the novel Rae does internally mention that bisexual people exist, btw, but she's just not one of them).

So Rae bluntly saying "no gender does matter to me. I'm a lesbian. I'm only attracted to women" is refreshing. "Oh she just fell in love with that one special girl, no reflection on her sexuality whatsoever" being called out as it's own form of prejudice is a pretty big deal.

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people when trauma victims act traumatized especially in a way that is unpalatable to them because it involves lashing out and unpredictable moods and having boundary issues rather than just being demure, sad, and consumable

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Actually so fucking sad how plausible it is that Kiriona would want to try to become her father's cavalier. Like that girl stepped simultaneously into her hastily tailored cavalier robes and into the only small part of her short life where she received any respect, validation, or affection at all. Of course she'd make being a cavalier a core piece of her identity. Of course some dumb hopeful part of her might wonder if maybe, just maybe, the same trick could work on her dad

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"You never could have guessed that he had seen me" is a fucking mic drop of a line, and is well worth the four acts of confusion that precede it

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ascension

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hhhhh something something soul permeability and the way that nona remembers the feeling of gideon’s arms around harrow’s body because it’s so ingrained in harrow’s dna and aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

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thinking about how harrow foiled EIGHTY SEVEN of gideon’s escape attempts. and how her last words to gideon were “don’t leave me”

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"You've made yourself her mausoleum," he says to the tomb keeper. Someone whose entire existence, whose only reason for being alive has been to care for a tomb and who defied god to open it and worship what was within. Of course this is her expression of love! Of course this is her fidelity! There was never any other choice.

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would u believe me if i said "lesbian necromancers in space", "existential and body horror with a side of murder mystery", and "the world if it was ruled by a magical anime girl who's actually a 30-something man from new zealand" were all accurate descriptions of the same book series?

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do you ever think about corona and gideon. how ianthe and harrow respectively refused to consume them. how they took it as a sign of rejection when it was a symbol of love. or are you normal.