#I love it when wlw and women love women and women and and love.. women ;O;

[lylahammar]

(Feel the need to state this up front: I'm bisexual, afab, kinda cis but also kinda trans, nonbinary isn't the word I'd use for myself but... alas, it's the only one people recognize as a general consensus)

I've started to understand why the term sapphic is more appealing to some people, but it still really bothers me as a descriptor/category. When talking to a friend about it (she strongly prefers Sapphic as a term), I started to sus out why:

The vast majority of my initial exposure to the term was always attached to something... aesthetic? Stories or art or music, but of a specific *type*. To the point where it gained a hyperspecific meaning of a period or historical setting, "gay woman trapped in comphet marriage and needs to be saved by bold lesbian", young girls fooling around with girls with no need for commitment because everything is fleeting and nothing is permanent and choices dont matter... on their own, these are perfectly fine narrative choices and are fun to play in sometimes, but they sure start to just seem... repetitive and restrictive and borderline fetishizing. To me, it reads as a term specifying that the love women feel for other women is the only kind allowed, that it's true and pure in a way the love a woman feels for a man isnt, and that her true self can never be realized without admitting she was in love with women since the beginning and was always supposed to be. Achillean gives me the exact same vibe.

On the other hand, my friend feels the term is *less* specific, and to her it allows *more* room for people who don't identify strictly as feminine or as a lesbian, for her it just is a broad umbrella term that allows for any variation of girl-identifying-person who likes girl-identifying-people.

Ultimately, I don't think she's wrong, and I don't know that my interpretation is right. But I think I've been exposed to a.... imma call it a "hyper-aggressive romanticization" of a particular way of existing that just puts me on edge in a way that's hard to explain to people who don't feel the same way about it. I don't think there's anything wrong with romanticizing something like that it's just that... for me, who still identifies as a woman despite being om T, who is married to a cis woman, etc... it feels ironically exclusionary and fetishizing, and mostly feels fantastical and escapist, rather than grounded in anything real.

TL:DR, it feels like a book genre, not a usable term/identifier

Ohhhhh okay I see I wasn't sure if there was something actually problematic about the term that I wasn't aware of, that sounds like it's just a preference based off of the vibes of the way some people use it

honestly I prefer sapphic and achillean because the terms "wlw" and "mlm" are so clunky and hard to say and sound goofy in my brain lmao not to mention the fact that mlm has a separate negative meaning that gets mixed up a lot

and the term "lesbian" is very specific and doesn't apply to all women who are attracted to women

so like....... idk I guess it sucks that some people have given the term sapphic a bad association for some but I'm gonna keep usin it if that's the only reason why bc I don't really care about all that and if ppl know me then they'll be able to tell that I'm not being a weirdo about it lol

[multifandominfj]

Literally why do these writers think torturing a lesbian is entertaining? It’s not. A HUGE chunk of the Sueños fanbase is WLW, and they think it would be fun to throw Fina in jail for simply loving Marta…A WEEK AFTER HER DAD JUST DIED?! On top of that, why is it ALWAYS Fina the one who’s suffering?! Why can’t she and Marta have more than a moment of happiness?

First it was Maite and Camino, then Amelia and Luisita. Now Marta and Fina? I used to think Spain would be better when it came to its sapphic characters. After today, I was proven wrong. They are following the same path as US soap writers.

Am I being a bit dramatic? Maybe. But the trauma never leaves. The trauma stems from real life.

It’s the fact that this show took the fear of most (sapphic) women: men thinking they are superior simply by their gender and status in society, and that they are owed things from women, and when they aren’t given that, they get away with hurting us without proof…and put that on screen…sorry if I’m not enjoying that, when that is a constant fear in the back of my head.

[ihatebrainstorm]

@bloominglegumes 's Drift and Ratchet humanformer designs because I think about them every waking second that I'm alive- They're just.. so soft it kills me ;v; <333

[ohitslen]

Millymeryl eheh :)

Just one more.

[nightgarla]

artblock them doodle <3333333 i loe dem

[ambibug]

Ms Paint Rarepairs- Part 3: Blazeboa!

No speed paint this time :(

two women bond over being very close (really close yeah i bet they were) with glacier!!!!!!!! how will they interact??? who knows!!!!!! (they kiss)

not really much else I have to say about this I just think they would be cute.. surprised people dont ship them that much considering how big the wof fandom is with making ship triangles out of two potential love interests

[feelingvoguish]

”Hey can i copy your homework?”

”Sure just don’t make it too obvious”

Me when blonde girlboss x dark haired woman with gun😻😻🫶

[ramblingsfromthytruly]

fun fact: mary macdonald's heart beats a little faster every time she sees a flash of long red hair or a fallen white lily flower but she has no idea why

[itslenagain]

[theliterarywolf]

Ayo what's with all the hate everyone seems to have for Hazbin Hotel? I don't even watch it but it doesn't look like anything worse than most other adult animation

Because the internet has decided that Vivienne Medrano is the second-coming of John K.'s left testicle in how much of a 'blight' she is to art and animation.

When, in reality, the only certifiable shortcomings she's ever exhibited are:

When she was a younger artist on Tumblr, claiming that Disney 'stole her ideas' when they first started promoting Zootopia (she herself had a webcomic called "Zoophobia")

Not having the best hold on scheduling during the first season of Helluva Boss which did lead to some animators on staff bearing the brunt of the stress. An issue that she has acknowledged and has done more than many in terms of fixing throughout S2.

Responding to Twitter drama when, sometimes, she could just let bad-faith clout-chasers remain as bad-faith clout-chasers. Though, to be fair, in regards to people trying to spread misinformation about pay rates and certain characters being 'antisemitic stereotypes', she's more than within her right.

Honestly, though, 99.9% of it boils down to Crabs in a Bucket Theory and you really can sweep away most 'critical discussions' around the Hellaverse as such.

[sstaarrr-writes-stuff]

season 8 episode 11 JJ when she has the dark eyeliner has me screaming crying throwing up she is so pretty im djekogeood

[spoonsbutbetter]

Chapters: 2/6 Fandom: Bridgerton (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Eloise Bridgerton/Cressida Cowper Characters: Cressida Cowper, Eloise Bridgerton, Penelope Featherington, Bridgerton Family (Bridgerton) Additional Tags: WOMEN!!, i love when girl best friends kiss and love each other, Girls Kissing, women love women and that's all i'll say on the matter, this might become plotless, 5+1 Things, Lesbian Cressida Cowper, demisexual eloise bridgerton, biromantic eloise bridgerton Summary:

Eloise loves calling on Cressida as a friendly joke, but there is always some sort of honesty in every joke, and sometimes it takes a little bit to realize where the truth lies.

(Or Five Times Eloise Calls on Cressida and They Realize Something New About Each Other + 1 Time Eloise Calls On Her For Real)

I was absolutely in a chokehold over Eloise and Cressida using courting language for each other and I created this

Disclaimer: this will definitely NOT follow canon, I just want these guys to kiss a bunch lol (I want them to kiss a bunch because I am projecting me and my girlfriend onto them lowkey)

[blueskittlesart]

not to be a hater but it does drive me insane how so many online conversations are so centered around sidon and yona (and link 😞) and not any of the delicious narratives that totk gave us

like why should we talk about rauru and sonia and their relationship w zelda? why would we talk about zelda and how her relationship w link progressed post calamity? oh are we gonna talk about the sheer insanity that is ZELDA TURNIJG INTOA. FUCKING DRAGON??? no??? shipping discourse over sharks? ok

not to swing a bat at a hornet's nest but it really does feel like specifically mlm ships take precedence in fandom spaces over EVERYTHING else regardless of whether the ship in question actually has like. any canon backing whatsoever. like totk specifically, a ton of the story revolves around zelda, a female character which certain fans notoriously hate for the crime of. being a woman with feelings. like gee i wonder why we all simultaneously decided to ignore the story of this one. i wonder why we really really really want to focus on this random male side character's incredibly minor story instead of the literal titular character of the game. could it perhaps be because some of us are predisposed to ignore and dismiss women in all contexts. could it be perhaps that we don't want to reckon with a woman we didn't like in the last game reclaiming her agency and healing from her trauma and being a positive driving force in the narrative and would rather talk about 2 men and how lame and stupid the woman who dares to exist inbetween them is instead. hmm

[brittie-frog]

Silently screaming in my room at 7am because of that date.

Truely Richas, fuck around and find out - engineering a whole rp in rp thing in his room to get them to admit their feelings and then Bagi just giving up and saying that the date'll happen then and there. And it being so chaotic and constantly shifting moods but still so fun to watch.

[messylesb]

some ppl wanna do fanarts of women with thick thighs and don't draw them thighs together. PUT THE THIGHS TOUCHING AND RUBBING AGAINST EACH OTHER HAVE Y'ALL EVEN SEEN A WOMAN WITH THICK THIGHS IN REAL LIFE?????

[alittletouchofthetism]

hey chat life update

I think ima. Lesbian

and I wanted to share that i talked to my therapist (of almost 2 yrs btw)

and her ass clocked me immediately and her first words were “are we surprised?”

shortly followed by “i was wondering when you were gonna realize”

girl what ?!