#Butch4Butch

[jaydinnerplate]

a little impromptu valentine’s vi inspired photoshoot 📸 by my butch ;) happy valentine’s days butches and femmes and studs love ya

[butch-pilot]

thinking about butch knights sparring together in the training grounds, sword clashing, until they're both exhausted and panting but still have aggression to take out on each other so they tear armour off each other and start making out in the dirt

[beddesth]

couldn't decide on the top part of the outfit(wish there was a top in my bed tho)

how do we like butches in leather pants

[kinkystims]

butch reporting for duty 🫡

[ceryssq]

bring back horny dykes wtf is a wuh luh wuh

[sillysalmonn101]

Vi’s entire purpose in season two was to be a hot masc — not butch — lesbian and Caitlyn’s girlfriend. Her entire character, and her butchness as a result of that, was stripped from her so the writers could push an oppressor x oppressed romance.

The treatment of Vi and Sevika (the butches of the show, even if Sevika isn’t explicitly butch) is very fandomy in the sense that they were watered down to the aspects of them that are the most visible and the most palatable. Both of their characters were completely shunned in season two, in favour of Caitvi and not addressing how Piltover oppresses Zaun

It's a little annoying how in conversations critiquing how arcane treated Vi, no one brings up her butch identity. Like, yes, everything that happened to Vi would still be bad if she wasn't butch, but to me, it's even worse due to the fact that she was made to be a very butch character.

1. They took away everything that made Vi butch.

Her love for her family and her community, her morals. Vi was seen as butch not just because of her clothes but because of how loving and protective she was for those around her. She wanted to be there for her city, and she told Ekko that herself in s1 when he took her to the firelight tree. Yet in season two, they took her family away from her yet again, purposely acted like Ekko and Vi's relationship did not exist, and had her become a class traitor because these writers didn't give a flying fuck about her character or what the identity of 'butch' meant. Hell, we barely see Vi struggle with becoming a cop in the first place.

(a bit of a side tangent)

Plus, why should Vi care that Jinx bombed the council anyway? Because it resulted in the death of Caitlyn’s mom? The very person who, along with many others, were fine with putting someone like her in either the fissures where she could work to death for their profit, or negligent enough that someone can throw her in a dangerous prison with no trial, throw away the key, and not give a damn? Why was this not touched on? (I know why) This should've been conflicting for both Vi AND Caitlyn since they both know that topside is corrupt.

There's no reason for Vi to give up her morals like this, even if she sees Jinx as dangerous. The only reason why Jinx exists is due to the council's negligence and Silco's grooming. Vi, of all people, should've understood the nuances of Jinx's attack due to the constant violence and oppression the council and enforcers enacted on the undercity and herself.

2. Vi has the traumas that many butches and studs have gone through.

The police brutality, the need to protect others and not feeling strong enough to do so at times, the constant pressure of needing to be strong (mostly due to being the eldest daughter). So many of us clung to Vi due to those reasons, including myself. Heck, lesbian history shows how much butch lesbians were brutalized by cops, yet Arcane didn't take these traumas seriously, especially the police brutality that Vi was subjected to.

Not once do we see Vi struggle with her experiences from prison. These people beat her every other day for seven years, just for her to come out of prison with no semblance of ptsd? Then, they had Vi get hit by her cop girlfriend with a gun and never touched on it again. What was the point of having Vi go to prison and purposely mention that she was beaten to an inch of her life MULTIPLE TIMES, just to have her be hit by the very cop that these people want her to have a romantic relationship with? It really does seem like they wanted to use both prison and butchness as some cool aesthetic instead of actually treating it as the delicate topic that it is.

3. Reaffirming people's lack of care towards butches as people

People already don't take our traumas seriously as butches, a lot of the audience didn't take Vi's traumas in s1 seriously BECAUSE she's butch. Yet the writers reinforced the same harmful rhetoric of dehumanizing butches, sexualizing us, and romantizing our pain.

Each time Vi was close to mental breakdown or had a mental breakdown, it was not taken seriously. Vi almost breaks down to Caitlyn and begs her not to change. What happens? Caitlyn kisses her. When Vi is stuck in a prison cell again and starts to break down and punch the walls, what happens? Caitlyn comes in and cue sex scene. (That's supposedly supposed to reclaim trauma btw)

The WHOLE ENTIRE pitfighter montage was a thirst trap. Here is a butch who is having a severe mental breakdown about the things she had just experienced and the only thing we get of it is shots of Vi self harming (alcoholism, pitfighting), shots objectifying her, and her hallucinations.

We don't get any commentary on how this affects Vi. We could assume it's harmful just like her prison trauma was, but we don't see glimpses of it at all afterwards. Vi literally stops drinking after the montage and we don't see how it affects her. People keep preaching about show don't tell, but when it comes to shows and movies in general you need a balance between both showing AND telling. We see this with how they handled Jinx's mental health in s1, even in bits of Caitlyn’s arc in s2, yet we never see an ounce of this treatment towards Vi.

And certain fans don't help either. They'll defend Vi being hit, defend the lack of exploration on her trauma, and defend the very sex scene that ignores literally everything Vi has gone through during the show. Hell, they get angry at the mere thought of Vi receiving an apology. I mean, what else can I expect from a fandom who thinks Vi can't read and expect Caitlyn to teach her, or wanted Vi to be a virgin so Caitlyn can teach her about sex, or expects Vi to be so unhygienic that Caitlyn needs to teach her how to wash her own ass. (Do y'all see a pattern?)

The treatment of Vi in s2 by the writers is butchphobic. The way people defend how Vi was handled is butchphobic. Defending abuse towards Vi, saying that it didn't harm her that much or that she's been through worse, is butchphobic. Saying that she got a happy ending in a city that hates her and her community, with a woman who has harmed her and showed prejudice against her and her people, is butchphobic.

(And yes, Caitlyn’s line about Vi's blood is prejudiced, it is not just about her being related to Jinx. Mentioning that someone's blood is tainted has been evidence of countless prejudiced ideals towards minorities, ESPECIALLY the lower class.)

The way Vi is treated overall by the writers and by certain caitvi stans is butchphobic and misogynistic and I wished this was mentioned more when talking about it.

[daisychain17]

I’m so horny it’s unbelievable, I need someone inbwtween my legs licking my cunt till their mouth is soaked and I’m getting overstimulated that I can’t stop shaking 😩😩😩

[jixiesfw]

Woman enough for you ?😊🤗🥰

[stonebutchdreams]

I love how being butch4butch is like being double gay. We have to come out twice. First as a lesbian, then as a butch attracted to other butches. We're the gayest of the gays. The lesbians of lesbians.

[butchdaddyxo]

just saw a tiktok, now i can’t stop thinking about armwrestling with another butch/masc and dirty talking them until i win…

[rustisntpunk]

Wish your local butch a happy valentines! 🥰

[Kicks she/him, Noah she/her]

[femmeinvelvet]

Mere & Neuter K. in FagDyke Cruising

[sweetnsal]

i love being that butch that smokes a joint at the outing in my cowboy boots and roughed up wrangler jeans with sparkling, hazy eyes and killer autistic smile

[daisychain17]

I’d love nothing more to wake up and have my girl wake me up, riding my strap that I’ve forgotten to take off the night before and sucking my tits. As she’s trying to be gentle trying not to wake me but trying to get herself off at the same time!

I wake up moaning and grabbing her hips to move faster against me. She can’t help but move harder and moan louder. The more awake I get the more I fuck her harder from underneath and start sucking on her nipples back. To the point where I have enough and have to pin her down to the bed and fuck her till she’s begging me to cum inside her and impregnate her 😍😍

[thatgarden]

You know what, despite the horrors, at least there's still butches.