#I'm a lesbian and I'm proud of it now

[sincerity--extreme]

Serious question real quick, am I a whiny baby (an asshole, but the word whiny baby was actually used by 1 person (whiny baby from a weak generation to be exact) so, yeah) for not wanting random people calling me a dyke?

At first I wasn't a huge fan of the word at all, because of how it was used by some people and all that, but with time I learned to be ok with it but only when it's my friends using it, otherwise it still makes me uncomfortable, is it something actually bad or is it ok to feel like that and ask people not to say it?

[aseuki]

It's time!!

Sharing my contribution to the Umbral Wings Tarot Deck with my art for the Knight of Water!

The campaign's in the final stretch and the deck is fully funded! 🎉🎉🎉 If you wanted to get your hands on some truly phenomenal artwork, I highly suggest checking it out! 👀

Here's the link once more in case you missed it: 👉 [Link]

Going to dip a little bit into the designmaking process itself under the cut!

The Knight of Water is thematically about sensitivity. Charm, romance imagination-as a person, it's about a 'knight in shining armor' type character who may help others with the matters of the heart.

I also wanted to note that another cool thing about this deck is that the artists were designated their suit depending on their art and rendering style! The Air suit focuses on more atmospheric type art, Fire is character symbolism driven, in the Earth suit you'll se a lot of traditional-style rendering, and in the Water suit you'll see a lot more anime-inspired art styles!

With these factors in mind, I wanted a composition that would pay homage to the classic anime bishoujo genre--sailor moon and utena played heavily into the design and composition--something with lots of sparkles, atmospheric framing, a pretty waterfall to tie in the elemental theme, and lots and lots (and LOTS) of roses. (Fun fact! If you look at each rose, they have a heart in the centre! Each one was carefully and painstakingly hand drawn!). The pose that was chosen for this card was also a direct homage to the classic Sailor Moon style transformation sequences (and also swan mating dances with the wings), with the element of a 'bleeding heart' visual cue so to speak with the red roses and petals to the chest haha--it was fun going through different pose ideas before settling on this one! Roses and thorns go hand in hand, so thorny vines were also added at the bottom so that they become more evident when the card is inverted! (The inverted card speaks of emotional upset, depression, hypersensitivity, and lashing out)

For the dragon design itself, I took the 'prince on a white horse' and 'knight in shining armor' aspect and meshed them with leafy and weedy sea dragons and betta fish from real life to make a unicorn-like design--a creature that is traditionally associated with sensitivity and emotions--with a classic anime magical girl spin. I wanted the design to look ethereal and noble, and still clearly a dragon instead of a horse! (It was trickier than one might think!)

That's all the notes I have at the moment! Overall this was an Incredibly fun project to think through, I know I've been absolutely vibrating off the walls to share this haha! Everyone else has also brought their A game to each card in this deck, be sure to check them out through the KS link when you can, I can assure you that each and every card is just as lovingly rendered as this one!

[mimimar]

page 2 of my ivy comic ✿

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(prints)

[six-of-snakes]

somtimes a boy's just gotta recognize the girl he used to be and acknowledge what she did for him and then move on to keep living his life knowing she's watching proud of what he's done

[ares-daughter-aphrodites-son]

Thank You Aphrodite for making me a dreadhead boydyke🙏🏾❤️

[sappho-favourite-pupil]

Y'all know Fragment 31, the most famous poem written by our Goddess and Saviour Sappho. This is how it ends: "but everything must be endured, since..." and we lost the last part of the verse.

Like, what do you mean "we lost" it?

I need to know, i need to fucking know what's the reason behind everything we have to endure and how we can do that.

[just got a breakdown over this don't judge me, okay?]

[hershelwidget]

Pride Month Week 1

Troupe Bungie! [CLICK FOR QUALITY]

Wow, the first official look at every Troupe Bungie member, and it’s for Pride Month? and without their canon sizes but sSHSHHH

Yeah, I didn’t expect my first one of these to be of characters from a story that I���m having a hard time enjoying anymore, but I guess I have a Discord server to thank for this choice. While normally I’d have picked the main eight of TBoCI, I figured it was long overdue to show these six instead!

Featuring... 

Athena (Bungie) with Bisexual + Transgender! Apollo with Gay (or Vincian)! Janice with Abrosexual! Wilba with Lesbian + Non-Binary! Luke with Genderfluid! Eggnog with Pansexual!

I really hope to get back into TBoCI content... I suppose this is sort of a warmup for that? Hm. I’ve forgotten how much I love these characters.

[where-the-wind-travels]

jumped on the bandwagon and made mia and lia <3

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Remembering when a guy told me he had a crush on me and I said "I'm a lesbian" and then he tried to get me to commiserate with him about it. "Aw that's so sad for me that you're gay :'(". Get a grip lol.

[dapperapple]

YUP

until a certain point in highschool, I literally just thought kids my age (mainly guys) who cared about that stuff were a bunch of horny little fuckers and I was completely normal

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[luckyyyduckyyy]

My boyfriend just told me he wants to cosplay as Sucy from LWA. Hair, contacts, make-up, and all.

The first time he's ever seriously mentioned wanting to do this.

I FUCKING WON.

AWWWW HELLLLLL YEAHHHHH

I need to learn how to do make-up for his sake now, I can't let this opportunity disappear because he doesn't know the first thing about it.

[technofinch]

Need to think about nico & genevieve. dynamic of all time

[ravencromwell]

Tags via @notbecauseofvictories #sears went belly-up in the last 20 years but it was a staple of my childhood. a truly wild coincidence.     #I also felt the same little jolt of shock when the curator said that addams worked closely with florence kelley     #who earned her law degree from northwestern; and alice hamilton who got her MD from U of M     #like excuse me? those are places that currently exist. those are places I could earn a JD or MD from.     #that said hull house is an incredible achievement. truly. I think of how much had to happen operationally and financially     #to make it viable? the number of people involved both there and in the neighborhood? I get dizzy.     #.......on a less serious note I have to believe that the relationship drama happening there must have been INSANE.     #there's no way you can put that many passionate over-educated reformer lesbians in a room and not have fireworks.

as much as I love history and Chicago history especially, I do sometimes forget how recent everything here is. I was at the Hull House Museum with a friend of mine the other day, and we had a wonderful time listening to the curator talk about the birth of social work, the women who drove it forward, and the ghost stories that haunt their stomping grounds despite no one really dying there.

As we were walking around after the tour, my friend pointed out that Jane Addams' dress (the one on display in that room, black and small and otherwise unremarkable) had an uneven hem. "Oh, good eye!" the curator, who was walking alongside us, exclaimed. "Addams' tuberculosis left her with some spinal curvature, even after corrective surgery. She had most of her dresses altered to ensure the hem would be straight when she wore them---but on a standard dress form, the hem looks uneven."

"I always forget that having a tailor or dressmaker was considered typical back then," I said.

"No, by that point it was much more common to buy a dress from Sears and have it altered," the curator replied cheerfully. "That's what Addams did."

The whole exchange was maybe a few seconds, but it sticks with me even now. The idea that Jane Addams bought a dress from Sears---where I have also bought dresses, where my mother bought dresses---makes me feel insane. And yet, we're only talking about a hundred years ago or so. Is it so unreasonable that I, as a disaffected teen, was drifting through racks of mass-produced garments, just as Jane Addams did a century before? The exact location of the hands making those garments has changed of course; the workers' protections that Addams' contemporaries fought for have resulted in offshoring that work to less-guarded parts of the world. But it gives me a strange sort of fellow feeling to think about it, all these many decades later.

[sappho-favourite-pupil]

I'm so in love rn like literally, the only way for me to fall asleep is to imagine she's here, holding me close and stroking my hair, while she whispers sweet nothings into my ear 💭

[wannaliveattheholidayinn]

just had to explain to a guy who i'm pretty sure was hitting on me, that i don't know my own sexuality anymore

[clarituh]

I just saw a guy friend who was a conservative who didn't even know who was Taylor Swift post in their Instagram history with ME! to congratulate me for my birthday with a gigantic pride flag "happy birthday gay"

And my parents think I do nothing all day pfff, I have a FULL time job changing men, I'm workcoholic actually, 24/7 being a manic pixie dream girl isn't easy