#at my roots i am such a lesbian

[kate-apologist]

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[babydollbluexoxo]

As I grow older and realize what it means to be a woman, I've begun to mourn the possibility of a "traditional" life. I mourn the fact that I will never be able to create a child with someone Im in love with, because, no matter how hard I've tried, I cannot love a man. I mourn the fact that I cannot give a woman a child, not in the way I want. And I've grown and accepted this fact and for the most part I've loved being a lesbian. But as I grow older and realize how important family is, how sacred and beautiful childbirth is, and what it truly means to *create* a child with someone you love, I want to scream at the universe at how unfair it is that I'll never be able to experience that. And logically I know that families can be created in many different and beautiful ways. I'm old enough to begin to understand the beauty of a family, but too young to truly understand the multiple ways one can be created. Perhaps I can't understand simply because I've never seen any other way in my immediate life. I hate how so many women feel their worth is equated to their ability to give birth, and I hate how I've fallen victim to it - is this just universal womanhood?

[dan-whoell]

omg happy phlesbian day y'all

[lesbianlenas]

hot blonde woman on bb who i thought maybe this time the hot blonde woman will not flop on me & will be a good player i was soooooo hopeful of course she immediately aligns w the ppl who i do not like & is having group delusions w them abt how they’re the best players in the house when they have no power at all omg i am doomed w these blonde women legit just texted my friend that i will never trust a hot blonde woman on bb again i am DONE…..look at the world’s saddest progression of texts between thursday night & last night 😩

[denkryn]

I’m gonna be 80 and sat on my front porch, telling anyone and everyone the entire history of clexa (the ship, the fandom, the drama), it was unmatched and nothing has filled the void ever since.

[parelmoer]

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[grittyreadsfic]

hello my besties this is just an fyi that while i’ll probably still have recs going every day until the season starts, i’m gonna be a bit MIA on the blog for a bit

[13eyond13]

Proud of all the L fuckers crawling out of the woodwork on that lawlight poll since I reblogged it

[thelastspeecher]

btw of the Discworld books I've been reading over the last couple weeks, by far my favorite is Men at Arms and the reason is 50% there's really excellent writing, and 50% HOLY SHIT ANGUA AND CARROT ARE SO GOOD TOGETHER

[greymantledlady]

KEELEY AND JACK THOUGH MMMMMMMMM

[hirokiyuu]

idk if id argue nem is Canonically a Lesbian but i do think writing her that way is really fun wwwww

[icelogged]

biggest lesbian protector in the business not that they need me i’m just twig arms mcgee they carry around in their back pockets so i can kill lesphobes with my arsenal of bladed weapons don’t forget the L and men have nothing to do with lesbians ୧(  Ò ᵕ Ó )୨

[martinmynster]

there's a wayv fanmeeting in paris next week???? on sunday?? at fucking 8pm??? am i spontaneously spending 100€ on the wayv fanmeeting in paris on a sunday at 8pm????

[thelesbianluthor]

People be like: they can't be queer bc they didn't say out loud they are!!!

The person in question: the gayest bitch you have ever seen

[lunarsapphism]

its baffling to me seeing people on tiktok say that straight men and women shouldnt wear carabiners bc its a lesbian thing. babes. people in general have been using carabiners to hold keys like this for ages. yes its historically been a flagging thing! however. its not strictly a flagging thing. people in other spaces use it because its convenient. you dont get to dictate other people's harmless fashion choices. you sound fucking stupid

[elliesbelle]

exactly what looney said.

to add on, the reason many of y’all feel this way about ellie is because you have yet to deconstruct the idea that women = femininity.

masculinity does not equal stoicism and being emotionally + vocally inhibited. masc women are not less of a woman if they cry or talk a lot. masc women are perfectly capable of being as soft-hearted, teary-eyed and talkative as feminine women are. being masculine does not exclude them from womanhood.

compare ellie to some of the other women in the game. her demeanour, her physicality, the way she carries herself is far different from the rest. the other women don’t wear dresses & skirts or wear makeup either. you’re right: it’s a post-apocalyptic world, so ellie dresses “practically.” but so do the other women in the game. so why exactly does ellie stand out from the rest? because masculinity is not limited to clothing.

i know that this post wasn't made with ill intent or anything. but you all need to analyze and interrogate why your instinct is to see masculinity in women almost like a failing. most people's automatic response to masculine women is to punish them for their existence and/or feminize them in order to make them more "acceptable." it is not misogynistic for writers wanting to write characters in a way that stays true to their essence.

ellie is also not only a masculine woman, but a masculine lesbian. the attraction & love that a man can have for a woman will never, ever compare to the love a woman can have for another woman. and regardless of how masculine a lesbian may be, they do not benefit from sexism like cis men do. in fact, they are the victims of a distinct, almost violent form of misogyny that the rest of us will never experience.

being cocky, confident, commanding—all these different traits we as a society have decided are inherent and exclusive to men—choosing to be this way when you're a lesbian is not perpetuating misogyny. that's not to say there aren't lesbians who are stuck in a bigoted, sexist mindset. but women, specifically lesbians, being masculine is the ultimate "fuck you" to misogyny.

so please stop trying to feminize clearly masculine women. i know that we are inherently taught to exclude them from womanhood, but we all need to unlearn that and understand why we are taught to think that way.

ellie williams is not just masc presenting; she is masculine and that does not make her less than.

The way ppl write Ellie sometimes…ugh like she’s not a woman, she doesn’t get her period or would wanna be taken care of sometimes, like she wouldn’t cry at 3 am midst watching a random ass documentary and have an existential crisis and end up calling you just to go off on a tangent about it at fucking 3 am just because she isn’t traditionally feminine more masc presenting honestly I think she’s just a practical person in general she just kinda wears what’s comfortable isn’t the type to follow latest fashion trend or anything but it’s hard to say if she would be masc presenting considering she’s fighting for her life in a damned world

that misogynistic roles/traits/attributes are assigned to her like she’s some kind of sexist alpha het male and not a lesbian who loves women more than anything would wanna treat them as equals AND be treated as an equal??