#but looking up butch lesbian fashions is more fun

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: Three drawings of Five petting Mr. Pennycrumb, a small yellow dog. In one, Five is bending down, looking awed, while Mr Pennycrumb licks his face and wags his tail. Five is wearing a green blazer with elbow patches, brown pants, and a blue dress shirt.

In another, Five is pacing and gesturing angrily while Mr. Pennycrumb trots next to him. Five is wearing a black turtleneck under an oversized pink-and-orange shortsleeved button up.

In the last, Five is lying down on the floor, face scrunched while Mr. Pennycrumb climbs onto him and licks him. Five is wearing a blue button up and jeans, and no shoes. End ID.]

Doggy!!! also, i haven't posted canon five in so long, I can't believe I've abandoned him like this.

The purpose of this endeavor was twofold: dogs, and fashions

[bugcreations]

Master post for my most favorite subject when it comes to my MK1 stories - my fankids! They each mean so much to my little hearts in different ways and I'm always looking for ways to make them better, so please ask about them! For now here's the info on them…

🩷Astrid🩷

Age: 17

Sexuality: Bisexual

Height: 5'8

Likes: Fashion design, poetry, "fancy things", the color pink, butterflies, weaving

Hates: Stormy days, dull colors, mint flavors

Astrid, as you can probably guess, is the princess of Outworld! She has a pretty neutral image, some praise her for her fighting talent, polite, charming and witty personality and fashion-foward mindset, while others show disdain for her as she’s a result of a once formerly forbidden relationship, and…she inherits Tarkat.

However, Astrid has a strong heart, and she doesn’t see her Tarkat as a burden or a struggle, rather an obstacle that makes her stronger each time she comes back from overcoming bursts of her infection. She’d rather focus more on the things she wants to do, which involve fashion design, poetry, and hoping to explore Earthrealm and the unique cultures it can offer, something she wants to do a tad bit more than becoming Empress.

💙Mankato💙

(Note this one technically a windwolf fanchild - I HC Fujin to be a girl, and Nightwolf to be transfem in this timeline. Ed Boon dont fuck them up!!!!)

Mankato, otherwise known as Blue, is the definition of crafty and fun! He has autism and ADHD, mainly expressed through his energetic and disorganized nature, and his intense interest in owls! He lives and breathes owls, through art. He loves to paint, draw, sketch and color owls and all in his favorite colors, which are the primary colors.

Blue is pretty much your definition of a “silly little guy,” he’s the heart of gold of the team and also the shortest! But despite his small, sweet personality, he has impeccable fighting skills, which he can put to good use thanks to his mom’s wind talisman! He greatly aspires to be as important and strong as his Uncle Raiden, and wishes to be something like a Champion like him someday. But for now, he’s too busy having adventures with his friends and painting…wait for it…owls.

Age: 17

Sexuality: Gay

Height: 5’3

Likes: Owls, primary colors, soft clothing, sushi (with salmon and avocado only! It’s his safe food), adventure, arts and crafts

Hates: Anything bitter tasting, loud parties, people touching his braids

🧡Nanami🧡

Nanami is a total butch, reckless girl - she’s sassy, brave, and dresses like Adam Sandler. She’s got a big interest in boxing and basketball, and her athletic skills also aid her in kombat. While she definitely struggles with issues like her impulsiveness, her dads’ constant smothering, and her secret insecurities, she doesn’t let that show, as she just tries to do what she wants.

She’s the fighter of the group, she’ll protect them at any costs as she feels the most comfortable around them. If anything were to happen to any of her family and friends, she would never forgive herself.

Age: 17

Sexuality: Lesbian

Height: 5’5

Likes: Tigers, basketball, gaming, blue and orange colors, sports, boxing

Hates: Dresses, flowers, the color green, mushrooms

💚Kung Wei💚

Kung Wei is a bit of the jokester of the team, as he’s cowardly, often talks as if he’s full of himself, and throws himself into rather dumb situations for attention. He’s not a bad person at all though! He just likes to enjoy the wild side of life, and everyone constantly talks about how he’s a mini copy of Kung Lao.

Like Nanami, he too has insecurities, mostly rooted in being compared to all these great heroes in his family and scared he will also be forced into the dangers they have experienced. While his dads try to help him realize he doesn’t have to live like that, Kung Wei has some deep down anxiety that makes it hard for him to think otherwise.

Age: 16

Sexuality: Gay

Height: 5’8 Likes: Animals, food (especially involving shrimp), nature, skateboarding and board games (even though he loses half the time) Hates: Horror movies, lemons, insects, Vaternians (he’s terrtified of them)

❤️Spindle❤️ And now for my most favorite fankid, and makes up a large majority of my stories, my Reivik fankid!!!! Spindle was born and raised in Chaosrealm, so he’s a bit of a unique person when it comes to who he is! He’s a bit socially awkward often, under the impression others don’t trust him, but if he’s comfortable around othetrs (typcially his friend group) then he becomes witty, friendly and very joking as well. His intelligence comes from the ability to observe his surroundings and others in crystal clear ways in order to figure out how he can make others like him, since he always believes they don’t at first.

He may crack jokes and all, but he has the worst secret of the group - a type of curse he was born with, called Flesh’s Teeth. The way Spindle's curse works is like this - Any part of Spindle's skin can open up to create a mouth of razor-sharp teeth with a long snakelike tongue, and his eyes will glow red. Spindle gets much more ruthless, bloodthirsty and Ravenous in this form as due to his curse.He will go out of his way to attack anyone he finds delicious (Relatives are immune to his craving). When he eats his fill (typically 100 - 150 pounds), his nose will start bleeding, he will black out and not remember anything when he wakes up an hour later. His manifestations are spontaneous, but they typically occur every two weeks or so.

Spindle is always living with the fear that he will kill someone close to him, even if not his actualy family - and so he thinks everyone has a right to not like him, and that it is up to him to change it. However, what he doesn’t realize is that he is the glue of the group, and his friends are always there for him, even during his worst moments.

Age: 17 Sexuality: Pansexual Height: 6’0 Likes: The color blood red, hyenas, human anatomy, sewing, the smell of wood Hates: Bright lights, huge crowds, being questioned, tight spaces

[transgnckon]

>'Talk to me about trans hcs and my life is yours'Okok t4t Stephcass agenda time!!

Stephanie was an early cracker and being blasian(jamaican + south korean)made her naturally androgynous so she passed pretty easily thanks to also being femme and pastel punk

Cass is also transfem but had no real concept of girlhood growing up due to David's whole thing with her and the pink dress flashback was him making her look nonthreatning.She's butch and a comphet lesbian too!!

Based on vibes,the Stephcass relathionship gives major 'more experienced tgirl x newer to being a tgirl' with Stephanie teaching Cass how to handle her transfeminism and them becoming enamored with eachother's personal version of it

Stephanie diy'd her own estrogen and showed Cass how to do the same.Almost all their surgeries were done by Taliacorp doctors(Taliacorp=Superfam Talia company because we need to free her from the bat)

Cass' tradgoth but in a butch kinda way and ofc Stephanie's pastel punk femme swagger includes black girl styles/fashion

They're also autistic4autistic✊🏼No masking game Stephanie x No emoting to no emotional regulation game Cass

And busty butch king x flat femme queen

Their dates include rollerblading,going to local boba shops and cat cafes,petty crime sprees for fun,Cass doing Stephanie's hair and Stephanie helping Cass with her solarpunk garden♡Stephanie's fat and tall asf so Cass picks her up and calls her stuff like 'Princess' to lighten her dysphoria and Cass is absolutely jacked so Stephanie tells her what a beautiful/pretty/cute/etc girl she is nonstop to lighten HER dysphoria

They live together irl and on Animal Crossing and Pokemon too actually /lh

Cass dosen't get bottom surgery because she 1.dosen't want it and 2.wants to have biokids with Stephanie.Their kids names are Sunny,Hunter,Kai Li,Naomi and CJ aka Crystal Junior

I don’t rlly have much to add but very cute <3

I did scream at the idea of them having 5 kids though like omg a handful 😭😭😭

[alicesadventuresinffxiv]

Eorzea Collection account go!

And now I have an Eorzea Collection account for Alice’s glams! (and maybe Fordola’s one day?) :D

First up on there is the second outfit I did for my FC’s costume contest - a cosplay of Remilia Scarlet from Touhou Project.

I’ve been a Touhou fan for… goodness, I don’t know how many years at this point… and you can definitely tell how it’s influenced my sense of style. I might do more cosplays from that series in the future, and of course I’ll be uploading all of Alice’s Rozen Maiden glams to EC eventually too!

(I do find it funny that my main and my alt are like… polar opposite ends of the lesbian fashion spectrum haha. Alice for my love of hyperfemme gothic lolita stuff, Fordola for exploring a more butch/masc look… meanwhile IRL fashion I still find super intimidating no matter which direction. Yay for MMOs being a fun and low stakes playground to experiment in. :3)

[i-hold-horrors-hand]

Love Is A Fire (Chapter 1: Urge To Fulfill An Ever Needed Thrill)

How Allie met Mary.

(Gender weird Mary, gender weird lesbianism, reclaimed slurs)

(Also readable here)

When the two lock eyes, it's instant. Mary feels his cock twitch in his too-tight tattered jeans; he knows that he will be satiated tonight. Allie feels a shiver run through her svelte frame; she knows that she will be taking Mary home with her.

It starts out at a dyke club. A messy, punk, hole-in-the-wall dyke club, somewhere in France. The kind of place where you can expect to see french metalheads, gutter punks, butches, bulldykes, les gouines, and such folk. Not somewhere you expect to see lithe, fashionable, pretty femmes.

But what is lesbianism, what is queerness, if not subversion of expected norms?

Allie, a pretty femme clad in clothes that are just barely a step down from haute couture, sips her quirky and delicious Levrette, and looks around the dykey dive bar. She takes in the various women, mascs, and other patrons, noting mentally how each one makes her feel when she lays her eyes upon them. Checking them out, sizing them up. She arrived alone, but she's not leaving alone.

Across the bar, a messy gutter punk named Mary surveys the scene. Dressed in a ripped shirt and even more ripped jeans, he fits right in. He nurses a cheap single malt, slowly letting it run down his throat, savouring it. He originally came here to alleviate his boredom, but now he seeks something else. Satiation of another desire.

When the two lock eyes, it's instant. Mary feels his cock twitch in his too-tight tattered jeans; he knows that he will be satiated tonight. Allie feels a shiver run through her svelte frame; she knows that she will be taking Mary home with her.

But before that, they will begin their joining of their bodies in a bathroom stall. And before that, they approach each other, introduce themselves, talk a little bit. Got to know who you're working with.

Allie is an American attending a university in this country, studying art history. She is also a model. She laughs when Mary asks her what a pretty girl like her is doing in a dump like this, shouldn't she be somewhere fancier sipping on some expensive wine? She tells him that appearances can be deceiving, and there's more to her than meets the eye.

Mary is a Swede, in a niche-yet-fairly-popular death metal band, which played a few shows nearby recently. Now, tonight, he is out on the town. Looking for action, looking for fun. He doesn't actually speak much French, and is impressed when Allie says and demonstrates that she's relatively fluent. He asks her to teach him a couple words.

"Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?" Allie bats her long, mascara-coated eyelashes.

Mary's eyebrows leap up his blood-painted forehead. "My my, who would expect the pretty little sophisticate to be so forward?"

Allie reminds him that appearances can be deceiving, and there's more to her than meets the eye.

There's more to Mary than meets the eye, too. Allie discovers this one they're in a bathroom stall, both frantically fumbling with each other's clothes.

She doesn't expect an erect cock to pop up out of Mary's jeans. Not a real one, anyway. But Mary isn't her first dyke-with-a-dick, and she's eager to take it.

And take it she does. In that grimy, graffitied, dive bar bathroom stall. And back at her apartment, in her bed.

A night well spent, for both of them.

[td-brick]

brick jo and anne maria 4 ask game :^)

Thank you for the ask :-)) everything is under the cut since the post ended up being pretty long

Brick:

Sexuality: BUTCH LESBIAN i've talked about this sooooo much but i dont care. she literally immediately read as butch to me when i saw her. i honestly can't see her any other way

Gender: trans girl!

Ship: i mean its obvious if you look at my account that i love jock an abnormal about. i like brawn too though!

Platonic ship: if she was in all stars i feel like her and courtney could have gotten along.. or maybe hated eachother idk but i think they're similar to some degree that i like to think about them as friends. her and anne maria are cute as friends too

Random headcanon: I like to think that she enjoys drawing (even outside of fashion design stuff which we know she canonically likes). whether she's good at it or not is for you to decide but i think she just does it for fun and as kind of a regulation tool in a way if she gets upset or something.. idk like it's comforting to her

General opinion: I LOVE HER!!! (obviously)

Jo:

Sexuality: again she's a butch lesbian.. i think the butch part is more of a journey for her though bc it's about a specific role and dynamic you have in a relationship and her having such a "everyone for themselves"/loner kind of mindset (i guess idk how to word it) makes it harder for her to embody that but eventually as she grows i think she gets there! and its something she likes being

Gender: cis girl

Ship: like i said. jock. I also lovelove joeather i think they could have such an interesting dynamic... i talked about it like once but i never posted it here and it would make this long post even longer so i won't unless anyone really wants to hear it but! ya.. and jomaria is cute...

Platonic ship: her and lightning!! i think they have a fun rivalry :^)) i also like her and cameron. i think even though she's kinda mean to him, under different circumstances (aka nothing competitive like td and probably after she grows as a person a little more) she would kind of take him under her wing in a way

Random headcanon: She would like faith no more I DONT CARE!! I can imagine anything

General opinion: Fav if they treated her better in canon the world would be so beautiful. she's a cutie pie and i love her so much

Anne maria:

Sexuality: femme lesbian LOL ALL MY ANSWERS FOR THIS SO FAR HAVE BEEN LESBIAN but i could see her as bi too

Gender: honestly i havent really thought about it... i guess cis girl but i'm not set in that. i could see any anne maria gender hc presented to me

Ship: jomaria of course... i don't think i really have any more for her lol

Platonic ship: again her and brick are really cute!!! obviously they have very different fashion senses but they bond over both liking fashion as a general topic. she likes doing brick's hair a lot once she grows it out more too i think. also i saw a post of someone editing her a topher as friends and i thought that was funny and honestly they would probably get along really well

General opinion: I don't have many opinions on her i like her but shes just kinda There in my head. but i think she's cool ^_^ and she has a fun design

[bespokeminutiae]

Cassti is my protag and I love her so have some headcanons!!

Disclaimer: I have not finished the game. I've only played through the Cassti's chapter 2.

Please do not put spoilers on my post!!

Honestly I was not expecting to like her as much as I do but from the start she's been so damned compelling. I love her.

Very pragmatic

She's the epitome of "I'm a healer, but."

Like this is a deeply kind and compassionate woman but like. Do no harm take no shit. Some problems can best be solved with rest and fluids and an herbal tincture. Some problems can best be solved with a battle axe.

Extremely smart, like at the top of her field as an apothecary.

The second any of the other travelers realize how much medical knowledge she has they start pressuring her to write books or teach or found a medical school or something. Half of them even have ideas for how to fund it!

...She'll consider it if/when her joints start to go bad and she can't travel anymore.

So pre-amnesia Cassti was probably a lesbian (and in love with Malaya), but I feel like she's still reconstructing her sense of self post-amnesia and is more open than she would have been otherwise because there just. Isn't anything for her to go on.

She ends up poly and bi, in a polycule with Throné, Hikari, and Partitio.

Said polycule was originally just Throne, HIkari, and Cassti, and had not really progressed beyond a mutual acknowledgement of attraction and an understanding that maybe we'll do something about this sexual tension After The War TM, but Partitio is very free with physical affection and eventually broke down the walls between all four of them without meaning to.

For Partitio, Cassti is attracted to his optimism and charm and strong sense of right and wrong, as well as his determination to back up any of the ridiculous moves he made in the name of doing the right thing. He's not just bluster, he always puts in the work to back up his word and she likes that. He's also an easy mark to tease and that's fun.

Hikari was the first companion Cassti met on the road, and Cassti's first close companion post-amnesia. She's attracted to his grace and dignity, as well as his strong sense of duty and strong moral compass. They have similar worldviews and perspectives on a lot of things, despite coming from very different backgrounds.

Cassti's attracted to Throné because I'm a long-time thief/apothecary shipper and I'm not stopping now of Throne's sharp wit and sense of humor, as well as her grace and sense of fashion. She also admires Throné's determination to pursue her goals and is a little jealous of Throné's ability to be selfish, and really wants to see who Throné becomes once she's free of the collar.

...Every one of Cassti's partners made the first move. Cassti's very reserved and pragmatic and in the wake of the amnesia was really not looking for romance (let alone so much of it). She's not really sure how she ended up here, but she's happy.

She's always been somewhat reserved and a bit of a workaholic, but it's only gotten worse since she amnesia because her medical knowledge is all she has left.

Lost what few coping mechanisms she had in the war

Is a good patient as long as she's the only patient. Is a terrible patient the second someone else is also injured

Every time it is suggested that she get a hobby for relaxation purposes, she somehow manages to turn it back into work. Loves gardening! Only grows medicinal plants, etc.

She and Throné have chronic "No, let ME help YOU." at each other.

Gender-wise, Cassti is pretty solidly in the middle of the butch/femme spectrum. She'd probably be actually more butch, except her gender presentation is more about managing other people's expectations first and expressing her own preferences second.

Like seriously. She's designed her entire presentation around "Even if you only catch the hem of her skirt out of the corner of your eye, you know you've seen a member of Eir's apothecaries and can ask for help if you need it."

Like Temenos, she also feels that presenting as the gender she's chosen to present as is the one that grants her the most social benefits on the path she's chosen to walk.

She would not consider herself trans or nonbinary, but she's not at all attached to her femininity. The skirt uniform and long hair and she/her pronouns just contribute to the impression she wants to give off, which is "helpful apothecary."

People who had a hand in Cassti's dancer outfit: Agnea, Partitio, Throné

People who did not have a hand in Cassti's dancer outfit: Cassti

[asexual-means-no-attraction]

I have a question about sexuality labels. So anyone can be bisexual (attraction to all), even nonbinary people. But what are nonbinary people if they're only attracted to one gender? They can't be gay or straight. But I'm wondering what your take on this would be if you believed nonbinary people were real.

You ever see that funny story of a gay man who looks like a Twink and a lesbian who's butch flirting with each other thinking the other is a femme lesbian/bear gay man, only to completely lose interest in a very hilarious fashion as they realize who they each actually are?

When it comes to nonbinary that scenario is what comes to mind. But unlike with male and female, there is genuinely no way to know or even guess if someone is nonbinary. Some people who are nonbinary also I'd as men or women, some don't. Some change their style, some don't. There's no way to look at someone and know they're nonbinary, thus there really isn't any way to specify sexuality with them in mind. Just like how trans people can sometimes bring in a gray area, I think nonbinary does too. Like, regardless of my views on nonbinary as a whole, when it comes to their sexuality I think it's just up to them.

I know there are terms for nonbinary people who like only one gender. And I think that's certainly a way to go.

The thing I don't like is when nonbinary people change the definitions of words just to fit them. The redefining of lesbian for example to "non men attracted to nonmen" is shitty. Lesbians get enough people revolving their sexuality around men, and this just enforces it. Literally putting men in the definition. It's women who like women. And perhaps a trans or non binary person will fall into a gray area and use that label. That's up to them. But changing the label isn't ok.

Especially when we've already seen people use that new messed up definition to claim lesbians can be attracted to men. Sexualities don't always fit who you are, and you need to be able to accept that. Love yourself for who you are and let go of the label that you want. Learn to love the one that actually fits you. And if none do right now, it's ok not to use any. Be yourself and the right one will follow.

Plus the groups of nonbinary people who go around saying they can be whatever sexuality so they decided to be gay since it's "more fun" just feels low key homophobic. It's treating sexuality like a game rather than an actual part of who someone is. Plus, lol, if you got technical: "attraction to the opposite gender/not your own gender" would fit them the most unless they're into only nonbinary people. Meaning they'd really just be straight.

I know I've sorta jumped all over, and this was more of a ramble than anything else. Don't take this whole thing too seriously. Like I said, it's just a ramble, not anything crazy. But a quick summary:

1. I believe they'd fall into a gray area and it'd be up to the individual since the group is too diverse to define even broadly (saying they don't ID as male/female doesn't even work since a lot of them still do). For some it's a cultural thing, for some a gender thing, etc etc. No way to really define sexualities within a group that's not even well defined about what they are.

2. The nonbinary community has an issue with redefining words to fit them and it's definitely caused issues. It's caused a lot of confusion and lesb/homophobic ideas/events to occur. And honestly, I don't know if there's even a way to fix that.

[spindrifters]

So I have like the dumbest question, and it's long, and it comes from nowhere, but I don't live with short people so I don't know, but how do you manage to dress as a short person ????? I know this is dumb but I think I had a little breakdown today because I can't dress properly. I have to go to child section or things like that, thrift shops don't have my size (or are so gentrified it became shit) , but I don't wanna buy new clothes bc of the human and ecological cost of it, so I don't know what to do. Plus I'm a lesbian and I really want to rock more butch-y looks, but I'm small and scrawny and boy clothes don't do the trick you know? And on top of that, I really want to spend some time with the American side of my family, but everyone seems absolutely gigantic there and I don't wanna import clothes, but at the same time US size looks ridiculously big. Why is it so difficult being short??? How do you do this????

hi anon! I know your follow up ask said to ignore but as I AM a short dyke-y american I think I can (maybe??) help. also I’m a little confused by your ask but it seems like you’re either not american or don’t live in the us? that’s my understanding but either way I’m not sure it actually matters.

so I’m 5’2” (157.5 cm according to google?). look I’m not a fashion professional but I DO like having fun with clothes, and my best friend when dressing is knowing it’s all about proportions. I’m wearing a big top? small bottoms. billowing pants? tight shirt. cropped tee? high waisted bottoms. etc etc. it creates interesting profiles.

worth noting I almost exclusively thrift. the east coast has a great chain called savers that I’ve been going to my whole life because my family didn’t have money. but even now I find that it’s a really low-risk way to figure out what sort of clothes I’m attracted to without getting bogged down by specifics like brand or actual size on the tag, etc. you can throw clothes on over whatever you’re already wearing and no one blinks an eye. I’m also a really tactile person so I like to just sort of feel along the racks until I hit on something that feels nice, and see if it’s something I want to try on.

maybe worth noting that I’ve lived outside of the us in several places and haven’t actually noticed american sizes being particularly larger than elsewhere? if anything, I’m extremely sympathetic to my larger friends because brands have a habit of sizing down, often to unrealistic standards. also I really want to point out that the stereotype of all americans being “absolutely gigantic” is just that — a stereotype.

I’m not sure how much this helped, but I hope it did at least a little!

[foggyfanfic]

Head Canons: Trans Woman Bubba

I recently reblogged a chart about trans acceptance per country, and it showed that Colombia is relatively progressive when it comes to this issue (I think it was like 60% of people were for offering teenagers gender confirming medicine). This got me thinking once again about my Bubba is a closeted trans woman head canon, so here's how I think that'll shake out.

(Disclaimer: In my research I have found more information about the history of homosexuality in Colombia than the history of trans people. I am basing this largely on that, and what I can find about the state of the LGBT movement in current day Colombia.)

If we assume Bubba comes to town a couple years after the movie, we're still a decade or two ahead of the Pride movement hitting the mainstream in Colombia. That said, Bubba is supposed to be from the city, so he/she may have happened across an underground queer club where she figured some stuff out about herself. The wrong sort of people find out about the club, and her membership, and Bubba's life goes down the drain. With no other choice, she leaves the city, promising that where ever she ends up she'll stay in the closet for good.

This is how she finds herself in Encanto. She does everything she can to seem as manly as possible, including riding the motorcycle, cutting her hair short, and dressing as butch as possible. TBH she's comes off pretty annoying and most of the Madrigals avoid her if they can, with the exception of Isabela.

In the original script, Bubba saw through Isabela's facade, so in this head canon, it is Isabela that sees through Bubba's. She doesn't push per say, she just hangs around constantly talking about how much happier she is now that she doesn't waste all of her energy being who others want her to be.

A part of Isabela's fascination springs from the fact that Bubba is the only "man" Isabela has ever been attracted to, up to this point she's only ever been attracted to other women. Something she's trying not to think too hard about.

Bubba tries to resist her attraction to Isabela, since she is a danger to the Live the Rest of My Life in the Closet plan. Unfortunately for Bubba, Isabela is hot as fuck, and loads of fun to be around post canon.

They start dating, in typical lesbian fashion become committed to each other really quickly, and are soon married.

It's on their wedding night that Isabela begins to piece together what her "husband's" deal is. She kisses Bubba, then giggles when she realizes she's gotten her lipstick on her spouse's lips. She shows Bubba her reflection and when Bubba sees herself wearing lipstick she looks happier than Isabela has ever seen. It's a blink and you'll miss it sort of thing, but Isabela didn't blink, and therefore didn't miss it.

She experiments after that, tells Bubba she wants to practice putting make up on somebody else for her nieces and watches Bubba's eyes light up when she sees herself in a full face of make up. She notices the way Bubba always tenses a little when people use masculine conjugation for her so Isabela purposefully slips up and calls Bubba "mi esposa" instead of "mi esposo" a couple times. In private she starts calling Bubba by feminine pet names and notes that Bubba never corrects her.

Isabela gets pregnant and that puts her investigation on hold. She doesn't go back to referring to Bubba as her esposo, but she doesn't think much about the topic either. Especially when her son is born and he turns out to be a little handful, they name their kid Santiago.

One day, tired after staying up all night with baby Santiago, Isabela slips up and calls Bubba "mi princesa" in front of Tio Bruno. Bruno doesn't initially react, but it doesn't escape his notice that Bubba, who is usually super defensive of "his" masculinity, doesn't react either. Being the designated Gay Uncle, Bruno starts noticing all the same signs Isabela does. With the benefit of having seen the 1982 Pride March in Bogota in a vision, and having learned about the yet to be established MLHC, Bruno figures out what's happening.

Being better with actions than he is words, Bruno buys Bubba a pair of earrings for her birthday and gives them to her in private. Cue a small breakdown on Bubba's part as the truth comes spilling out of her at the first show of support.

Meanwhile, since she's spending so much time sitting, staring into space, and thinking while Santiago nurses, Isabela is slowly realizing that Bubba is still the only "man" she's ever been attracted to and what that means about her.

They sit down and have that one conversation, "Darling I have bad news." "Me too. I'm a lesbian." ".........Darling, I have great news!"

It'll be several years yet before the couple comes out to the rest of the family, but Bubba starts wearing feminine lounge clothes whenever they're in private. As Santiago learns to speak he picks up on the fact that Papa becomes Mama whenever they're away from the public eye. This leads to Santiago going through a phase where he thinks everybody is a woman in private but a man in public. Isabela and Bubba figure out what's happening and give Santiago a kid friendly explanation of their situation.

Santiago turns five and gets the gift of super speed. He is thrilled by his gift, but when the familia eventually figures out the gifts are given by Mirabel and Abuela, and not by some higher power, Isabela almost strangles her little sister.

If this reaches any Colombian trans women, I would love to hear what sort of names are popular in your community. It's a common joke here that trans women all choose names you might pick for a cartoon Princess, but I haven't found any word on if that is a Universal Queer Experience, or just a North American Queer Experience. I've been referring to out trans woman Bubba as Tia Barbara in my head.

Bubba/Barbara doesn't fully come out until Mirabel's daughter marries another woman, aka when Barbara is in her late forties. After that she transitions fully, and it takes all of a month for the entire Madrigal family to get used to the change. If we assume every generation of Madrigals has an average of three kids per married couple, that's about sixty people (depending on how many people of the next generation have been born, and whether or not we assume the Madrigals have extended lives due to constant exposure to magic healing food). So definitely a decent amount of people to be supported by.

I imagine that being a magic family living in a magic house makes it less likely that people will move out to their own home, so Casita ends up being a small village within its/their own right. There is still the general feeling that "We are a family, we love each other", but there's also a lot more variation in beliefs. There are members of the family who are more devoutly catholic, who in private disapprove, but will throw hands in public if need be.

Some of the more oblivious kids never realize their Tia Barbara is trans. Camilo's youngest granddaughter has a bad habit of asking people if they're stupid whenever they misgender her great aunt, because to her eyes "That is clearly a woman?!??". Camilo, Isabela, and Santiago all reward this behavior, undermining her very religious parents' attempts to train her out of it.

It is generally agreed amongst everybody who remembers what Tia Barbara was like back when she was Bubba, that she's much better company when she's being herself.

[rainbow--skies]

You know what. I said I wanted to see more positivity and support on my dash this pride month so I’m going to make it myself.

I love you young queers just figuring yourself out and I love you adult queers beginning to have the right you want and I love you older queers who have seen decades of queer history.

I love you queers who came out super young and had themselves all figured out and I love you queers who has a confusing journey and didn’t come out well into adulthood.

I love you queers who are closeted, whether you can’t come out or you just don’t want to.

I love you queers who use “outdated” terms and reclaimed slurs to describe themselves.

I love you lesbians and gay people.

I love you trans people and non-binary people genderqueers, whether or not you transition and no matter what that transition looks like.

I love you bi and pan and omni and polysexual people.

I love you people who are just queer and nothing else.

I love you butches and femmes and studs and twinks and bears and everyone else who uses these terms we have passed down in our community for years and years.

I love you queers who don’t have themselves figured out and questioning people and those who go without any labels at all.

I love you drag queens and drag kings.

I love you queers who take comfort in masculinity or femininity or androgyny and what it personally means to them.

I love you queers who don’t care about being seen as any of those things.

I love you queers who are told they’re too kinky or out there or “unpalatable” for pride and I love you queers who are told they shouldn’t go because their relationship or experience is “straight-passing” and I hope you all go anyway.

I love you asexuals and aromantics and polyamorous people and loveless people and queerplatonic people and aplatonics and anyone else who doesn’t do relationships the way society tells them to.

I love you queers of color who take pride in their culture and their queerness.

I love you queers who are fat and queers who are hairy and queers who otherwise don’t fit the useless beauty standard.

I love you disabled and neurodivergent queers.

I love you allies who aren’t afraid to speak up for your queer friends and partners and children.

I love you queers with dyed hair and piercings and tattoos and wild fashion and I love you queers who dress plainly and get made fun of for “looking straight”.

I love you queers who get made fun of for being queer in a way that’s too weird or “cringe”, even by your own community.

I love you queers who fit the stereotypes cishets imposed on us and I love you queers that don’t.

I love you queers that fit our own community’s stereotypes and in-jokes and I love you queers that don’t.

I love you queers who are married and I love you queers who wish you were and can’t be and I love you queers who don’t care to be married in the first place.

I love you queers who want biological kids and I love you queers that want to adopt or foster and I love you queers who don’t want to be parents at all.

I love you queers who are poor or on minimum wage or can’t work at all.

I love you queers who are sex workers or do other jobs seen as “deviant.”

I love you queers in academia and I love you queers that didn’t even graduate high school.

I love you queers who pour your heart and soul into art and writing and music, whether it’s for your own enjoyment or to share with others.

I love you queers whose identities don’t fit in neat little boxes.

I love you rural queers and city queers and queers who live everywhere in between.

I love you queers who devote your time to studying our history so we can finally see ourselves in the past, in all these people who have long gone unnoticed.

I love you solidarity between queer people with vastly different life experiences.

I love this entire community and all we have accomplished and all the things we still need to do. I’m glad we’re all here.

[femsolid]

Can you recommend any accounts or resources for someone who wants to sort of "reset" her brain's expectations to include hair on women's legs, no make-up, women dressing in ways that honor the occasion as well as their own bodies? (Like whatever a healthy, non-performative woman would wear to a wedding, for example?) I have never had what anyone would call any sense of fashion or style, and frankly friends and family are excited when I refresh my t-shirt supply. But I would like to figure out clothes that I can rely on for special occasions that aren't propping up these bizarre expectations of women.

I have a body image category on my blog with lots of posts about letting go of shaving, make-up and general feminine discomfort and also a gnc tag, I find butch lesbians to be very inspirational. Personally I stick to a rule regarding all this: don't do anything that a man doesn't feel obliged to do. This works in most situations. I got rid of all uncomfortable clothing, all things tight, revealing, that put me on display. I rarely shop but when I do I go through both the female section and the male section. Comfort is my primary focus (fun is my second one), it has to be something I can move in, bend over, raise my arms, walk without feeling any pain, something that fits with my wardrobe so I don't have to waste time picking an outfit every day and I avoid clothes that show my breasts or the shape of my butt. When buying a shirt from the woman's section you can buy a size bigger than your real size. I avoid "skinny" jeans and all that crap that makes me feel naked. Just look at what men wear really. It's always based on comfort and practicality.

I stopped shaving and wearing make-up from one day to the next. Much to my surprise, the world didn't end. It's been 8 years now that I think of it! Because I'm gender non conforming my body hair doesn't clash with artificial femininity so people don't really pay attention to it. I haven't been harassed about it the way I had been in the past when I was trying to be feminine. I've been thinking of making a blog collecting imagery of unaltered women actually. I agree with you that it's important to be exposed to it, to create a counter culture if you wish. It has certainly worked on me to the point that I now look at women with make up or shaved legs and it all seems really strange and absurd to me.

We did a fun little thread where we all posted pictures of our unshaved legs once btw :) I hope this can help you feel more comfortable with yourself too.

Anyway in terms of more formal gender non conforming outfits I would again advise you to look at what men are doing and not doing. A nice shirt and an elegant jacket with flat shoes usually suffice.

[sys-garden]

Here are some Gender bent Tintin designs! This was super fun to do since I love history and I love fashion so looking up the History of Fashion was just *chief’s kiss*  I also got to practice drawing from a reference without tracing and alot of these drawings came out really good and simliar to my refs (maybe you recongize what reference photos i was using!). Im Gonna explain the choices under the keep reading

 For anyone curious Tintin’s designn was based off roaring 20s fashion since tintin in the land of the soviets was published in 1929 and the most dated aspect of tintin’s orginal design is the plus fours pants that came into popularity in the 20s. Luckily the fashions of the 20s woman were perfect for the type of tintin i wanted, Boyish, free spirited and feminist. Tintin does strive for a respectful but practical look, showing that they are simultaneously the most polite and unhinged people to exist and neither misogyny or concusions will stop them from saving the day. The masculine aspect of the boyishness of 20s fashion shows that Tintin’s open mindedness and strive for change while also exploring gender as a lesbian since I ship haddotin and being sapphic gives you a interesting relationship to gender when so much of feminity is centered around men and your life isn’t centered on men. And the youthful aspect of the 20s fashion shows a carefree spirit and connects to how the youthfulness of tintin made him such a beloved character and relatable character for children despite being an adult. the exceptions to the 1920s fashion were the tintin inspired by tintin’s new 70s look in tintin and the picaros on the top right and the tintin to the left of it inspired by this one drawing herge made of tintin where he was wearing 1680s clothing.

For fem Haddock I didn’t deviate much from their original design because I wanted her to have a Butch and more mature energy which the mainstream fashions of the 30s and 20s didn’t have. When designing her I was inspired by lesbian director Dorothy Arzner, photos from lesbian bar Le monocle and a drawing for a lesbian focused issue of an old french magazine (I espeically took infleunce from the picture when designing haddocks’ formal wear)

For the side character I think Chang is the one I’m most proud of, they came out so cute, giving off a humble gracefulness that is true to chang’s character. I was inspired by 1930s women’s fashion in china, after the loser clothes of the 20s the 30s went back to clothes that huged the curves and showed off femininity a bit more and this applies to the qipao in china, when fashion trends pass and are replaced with something new they often are replaced with something that is the opposite of the trend they are replacing. So Chang’s more feminine tight fitting clothes are almost opposite of tintin’s boyish loose clothes and I love the opposite attracts look it creates between them. But Chang’s adventous spirit is still shown in the modernity of their clothes, the striped textile made easily possible by modern texile manufacturing techniques and the knitted cardigan combinding western aspects to a tradtional chinese outfit. It shows that although Chang is a bit more sentitive than tintin they share the same open mindness and taste for new experiences while visually telling a story of China history when it comes to modernity that was visible in the fashions of the Chinese women of the time.

For Abdullah I was inspired by the fashion and modesty expectations of Saudi Arabia since Khemed is suppose to border the red sea so I guessed by that and a panel in Tintin in the land of black gold that features a woman that Khemed was possibly based on Saudi Arabia. Girls don’t tradtionally start wearing modesty clothing until puberty But since some people do hit puberty at nine years old (like i did (isn’t it interesting that abdullah is one of the only characters with a spefic age he is 9 years old) I drew Abdullah in a Niqab and Abaya, Alot of Abayas are plain black but I added some simple geometric shapes to it to add a sense of nobility (hey this kid can afford patterns and other colors) without being ostentatious about being nobility. Abdullah is a very expressive character but the niqab covers most of the face I tried to show in body langauge and eyes that abdullah is a kid that will ruin your day and laugh about it. I don’t get to draw muslim characters alot so this was great practice for future character designs!

Men’s fashion isn’t as diverse as women’s fashion especially back then because toxic masculinity is like “men can’t have fun” but I decided to subvert that for Bianca’s design. Bianca’s design is probably the 3rd design i’m most proud of because I wasn’t even planning on doing it because I thought it would be boring. But I decided to look at the classic fit fitting with lose pant legs tuxedo’s of the 1930s and spice it up with color of Bianca’s classic dress and jewerlly. Even as a man Bianca would be dramatic and want to stand out from the crowd so while many men were turning to more simple clothes and still wearing boring colors Bianca would try flaunt wealth and personailty where ever they went.

You know how Caclulus’ design is basically just scientist Auguste Piccard? While for this design I decided to make their design basically just Marie Curie but with caclulus’ classic color scheme and trying to keep the shape of caclulus’ original shape. Caclulus’ original outfit doesn’t quite fit into the fashion of the time with being just a tad too formal and too bright. And the marie curie inspired dress does give this caclulus a vibe of being an eccentric older person as he did before, and the hairstyle also gives calculus a vibe of not only being too busy to care if their hair is out of place, but also not caring if other people think their hair is out of place or if other people think they dress weirdly. Calculus is smart, eccentric, unhinged, and free from social anxiety and I hope I communicated that with this design.

Nestor was simply inspired by a tradtional maid outfit with the added yellow stripes as seen on nestor’s orignial design. And their the only character I added makeup on because the simple eye and mouth design of most of the male characters made putting makeup on them feel weird. But since Nestor has this eye design that is hooded I felt comfortable adding black eyeshadow to the ensamble. 

Thompson and Thomson were difficult because I couldn’t look at female cops of the time to be inspired by because there were none. But I decided since this is before cops had uniforms so they just had to buy simple cheap clothes to wear on the job (such as a black suit) I wanted to go with a simple black and white outfit inspired by 1930s fashion. I also had to not make them too fashionable because I wanted them to have a older vibe to them and make it so they look really simliar but there is something keeping them apart. I decided on wide long collar, a belt for a more form fitting outfit, long skirts, bell shaped sleeves, a classic slouch hat and short wavy hair for aspects of 1930s fashion to intergate into their outfits and I made the dresses soild color as many afternoon dresses at the time where, making them acturate to the times but luckly the fashion trends did give them the mature vibe I wanted since 1930s fashion seemed to go mature and feminine where the 1920s were young and boyish. I decided to make the dominate color white instead of black because something in my character design brain was like “if thats way too much black in this outfit” but im still debating if that was a good choice. The things to tell these two apart is that one has glasses, the other doesnt and one has a curl at the ear the curls inward and the other one has a curl that curls outward...though I’m not sure which one I made thompson and which one is thomson

[kazumahashimoto]

in no particular order i'm just bored

- MIKE DALLAS. i wrote a whole thing on this ages ago and i'm currently on s12 in my bilionth rewatch so dallas is in his flop era rn but dear god. i just think it would have been funnier if the joking gay tension between him and drew was real. all of his relationships would be enhanced if he were bisexual. his friendship with adam, with fiona, his relationship with ALLI!!!!!!!! just everything. also he's one of my favorite characters.

- DREW TORRES. ^ the joke tension would have been funnier. also it would have added something to the very bizarre way he acted towards riley in his first season. like idk closet gay vs closet bisexual duking it out to see who will snap first. also i just think he could have played the bisexual and everybody wants him type better than miles. also added dimension to HIS friendship and brotherhood with adam, his friendship with fiona, his eventual reconciliation with alli via dallas. his relationship with bianca. ough. like they'd just have so much more to work with.

- JANE VAUGHN. i mean i just generally don't love the way they changed her fashion as time went on like had they not done her hair like that her emo era would have been so good. i'm gonna start a tangent here and maybe pick it up later, but degrassi consistently did this thing where they were afraid to commit to a butch character. or, on occasion, they could commit to a butch! but she had to be straight. and sure, the argument is there, not all lesbians are butch, not all masculine women and girls are lesbian, but the ONE time (before rasha) they dipped their toes into having a more Generally masculine wlw character she still had to have lovely long hair and wear a full face of makeup, the only thing that really made her look masculine was the fact that she wore pants and her hair up, and shortened her name to jack. but then their other two characters that looked way more gnc than jack needed to be made into a Point that they were straight. which is just like. i Guess. i guess with jane they were trying to say "you don't have to be a lesbian to want to play football with the boys" but the argument should just be "gender neutral sports". anyway. jane shoulda been bisexual and stayed butch.

- MAYA MATLIN AND ZIG NOVAK. i'm putting them together cos they might as well be one person. listen. bi4bi zaya just would have been more interesting. and again as per usual it enhances their relationships to other characters. i know zoe's actress has talked about how she kind of wanted the final reveal with zoe to be that she had a crush on maya the whole time and IMAGINE if maya was bi and there was an actual conflict over if she wanted to pursue that relationship or stay with zig. obsessed!!!!!! and idk the friendship of a pathetic mess of a bisexual boy with a masc goth punk girl is fun. added dimension to zig's friendship with grace. even if maya and zig still got together in the end it would just be more fun. straight zaya is impossibly boring. the added amount of drama from the whole zoe crush on grace grace crush on zig zig dating maya zoe still harboring old feelings for maya cheating debacle. awesome. MESSY bisexuals.

- ELLIE NASH. dear god the amount of shit they put her through with boys. ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!!! literally why not whip out the paige/ellie wild card. WHY NOT!!!!!! also she was goth.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: HOLLY J SINCLAIR, GRACE CARDINAL. i can appreciate them as they are and what they mean, i.e. straight girls can be bffs with lesbians and there's no reason they can't, but also consider this: they would have made fun bisexuals. also grace did what they tried to do with jack 100000000% better.

OVERALL!!! degrassi has like SEVERELY underutilized bisexuality as a plot point. i talked about this a while back, but the first bisexual girl they had was paige in like season 6 or 7, and the first bisexual they had was MILES FUCKING HOLLINGSWORTH THE THIRD!!!!!!!!! IN SEASON 13?!?!?!?!? the only other MAIN bisexual character they had was. imogen? and i think that's literally it? like it's crazy. honestly with they way they do romance in this show you'd think making more of them bisexual would just add more drama to things in a fun way but no. we're left with basically nothing. SAD!

top ten characters in degrassi that would have benefitted from being bisexual

[lesless]

The most exhausting part of modern society is this focus on clothes & looks & outfits or whatever & I just know it’s tangled in social media so it’s all so devoid of substance. I used to enjoy looking at fashion as a statement but now it feels like people focus on clothes as a way to…? Craft an identity around polyester? & I’m not being like ho hum it’s not that deep let people have fun with clothes or whatever but. It feels like people are assigning gender meanings to clothing & making clothing a deep part of their identity? Which feels really sterile capitalistic & boring to me? & I think I focus more on the utility of clothing so really all movements that require a lot of time to get ready or look a certain way have always been this sort of non-issue for me bc I just won’t do that, but I used to enjoy looking at & reading about fashion & movements bc it meant something. But I’m seeing like all these comics & posts about how people are going to present gender with clothing & it just feels really off & terrible to me. Perception perception perception. Idk maybe cuz I grew up with a butch lesbian (my moms bff) my interest in utility & rejection of clothing as gendered feels better to me. I would like others perspectives on this bc I think I’m reacting to it from an emotional place, which isn’t often productive.

[vvienne]

SANGCHENG FIC RECS

flight of a one-winged dove by bloodletter

Talking at someone is only fun for so long. That's all being a sect leader is: talking and talking to people bound by courtesy to listen to you. It's so fucking dull. A relief, then, to face one’s equal, and no less an old friend who is inclined to interrupt you whenever you ramble. He likes it. It’s one of Jiang Cheng’s best qualities.

In the years after Guanyin Temple, Nie Huaisang attends to unfinished business.

whipped by reindeercolin

Jiang Cheng blinks. “Dammit, they do think you’re dating one of us! I hate it when Wei Wuxian is right.” “Excuse me?” Nie Huaisang gives him an incredulous look. “First of all, they think I’m dating you, and if anything, they’re getting more aggressive!”

(or, the one in which Jiang Cheng has too many relatives, not enough patience, goes through a brother-divorce and finds out he has a boyfriend - in that order, more or less.)

Ponder the Manner of Things by Pip (Moirail)

It's not that Jiang Cheng can't do a quadruple flip followed by a triple toeloop. It's that his mother seems to think that's still not good enough.

Jiang Cheng is grateful that Huaisang doesn’t have the same kind of family life that he does, all - messy with expectations and cravings for closeness and nothing but vague filial piety where love is meant to be.

a matter of time and organ donation by nev_longbottom

This is it. The call he’s been waiting for. His brother had ‘an accident’ or ‘died in his sleep’ or some other lie to cover up the murder.

“Please, Mingjue is missing. He got into one of his moods and he was gone when I came back from grocery shopping. He’s not answering his phone. I don’t know if he left or was kidnapped or if something else happened. Huaisang, please, if you’ve heard anything,” Meng Yao begs.

Nie Huaisang hunts his brother's killer.

no tip necessary by tattletold

With all the nervousness of a virgin in a whorehouse, Jiang Cheng closes the door behind himself and enters, sitting on the low seat across from the escort. The pretty young man keeps his face hidden behind the delicate fan, and Jiang Cheng thinks for a moment that he recognizes the design painted onto it now that he’s closer.

It’s only when he lowers the fan and opens his eyes, wide, does Jiang Cheng paralyze with realization.

They speak at the same time in equally horrified tones.

“Jiang Cheng?”

“Nie Huaisang?”

Your Place in the Family of Things by raisedbyhyenas

No matter what happens, no matter the circumstances, Wei Wuxian will always leave and Jiang Cheng will always get stuck trying to rebuild from whatever’s left.

*************

In which Jiang Cheng makes friends; gets a cat; begins to rebuild a relationship; and maybe, possibly, potentially, learns a little bit how to be happy.

sigh yourself to sleep by merthurlin

“Let me take care of you, A-Cheng.”

No one—no one has ever said that, not to Jiang Cheng. He wasn’t a very sickly child, true, but the few times he remembered being sick it was never—he had a-jie, and later on he had Wei Wuxian, for what it was worth, but he never—

halcyon days by serein

They're in a forest, it seems just the two of them.

"You have to be patient," Nie Huaisang says, "I once waited for three days to catch a sparrow."

"Three days?" Jiang Cheng replies, sceptical. He can't imagine Nie Huaisang having the attention span for that.

"It's not that hard," Nie Huaisang says, "if you know what they want, and find a way to get it for them."

[JC stumbles across an array and gets physically de-aged to be 16/17. NHS kindly offers his help to an old friend, but things... escalate.]

To Distraction by isozyme

It’s the third night of Yunmeng’s kite festival celebrations. Nie Huaisang has come visiting, eager to partake in the food, the arts, and Jiang Cheng.

-

Jiang Cheng wants to forget. Nie Huaisang has some new lube and wants to see if he can put his whole fist in somebody’s ass.

Lights, Camera, Kiss by MissMagus

When Nie Huaisang gets paired with straight porn star Jiang Cheng for a five-part series, he’s sure it will be an utter disaster. Until the cameras start rolling and their chemistry alights like wildfire.

(Or, the five times Nie Huaisang and Jiang Cheng have sex for their job, and the first time they have sex outside of it.)

Only the Shallow by hamburglar

When Nie Huaisang gets bored and convinces Jiang Cheng to make out with him, he’s probably not expecting to still be dealing with the guy 16 years later.

OR the story where Jiang Cheng goes into: the Cloud Recesses, denial, some bushes, the private porn library at the Unclean Realm, and subspace.

Blind for Love by manamune

Jiang Cheng is poisoned with an aphrodisiac and needs to orgasm repeatedly in order to flush it from his system.

The first person he thinks of going to for help is Nie Huaisang, who does what any good friend would do: he shoves his three decades worth of feelings for Jiang Cheng deep into the recesses of his mind, locks them up so he can pretend they don’t exist, and then fucks him so hard that he passes out.

Descending by lightningwaltz

“I want to… to not be embarrassed.”

“To not be embarrassed during what?”

“During sex.” There. Jiang Cheng can say it. “In general. Also with you right now.”

“Very good.”

“When did you become so authoritative?” Jiang Cheng wants to sound irked, but can’t quite manage anything beyond nervous curiosity.

dark water by Morgan (duckwhatduck)

There are words, somewhere, for this. Words that would put a shape to the thing that sits between them, would seal their understanding. There are words for sympathy, for friendship, for understanding, for that touch, for this feeling.

Jiang Cheng can feel them, somewhere, fluttering formless at the back of his throat, squirming under his ribcage, but he cannot grasp them. They swim beneath the surface, fish in muddy water - and like fish, they will dart away if he grabs for them incautiously, and leave him nothing but cold splashes and grit.

Or: Why talk about things when you could fuck about it instead?

never knew i was a dancer by isozyme

“What’s a stone butch and why aren’t they real?” Jiang Cheng asks, too buzzed to care too much about not being up on lesbian culture.

Huaisang pats Jiang Cheng on the no-man’s-land between her boobs and her shoulder. “You’re so useless, Jiang Cheng. A stone butch is a fictional hottie who doesn’t make you do any work at all, just wants to give head and fuck you stupid on her strap.”

“Fictional?” Jiang Cheng echoes, having - not a moment, per se, but sort of a problem where her thoughts are going too fast for her poor drunken brain to keep up with.

“Nobody actually wants to fuck a chick who’s too lazy to eat you out after,” Huaisang mumbles.

-

After leaving Wei Ying and Lan Zhan’s bachelorette party, Jiang Cheng and Nie Huaisang decide to experiment with some outdated stereotypical lesbian sex roles.

lights out by rynleaf

“Nie-zongzhu makes the most sense,” Sect Leader Yao nods sagely, to murmurs of assent across the Jin Sect’s gold gilded banquet hall. Jin Ling, clad in opulent robes that look somewhat comical on a boy of sixteen, inclines his head as his scribe makes a notation, and the noise rises as sect leaders pat themselves and each other on the back for a decision well made.

Jiang Cheng groans and downs his cup of wine in one go.

-

In which the Sect Leaders elect a new Chief Cultivator.

shadow eternal by rynleaf

“You want me to distract the Chief Cultivator from the Annual Cultivation Conference, so you and other sect leaders can… what. Sign contracts without adult supervision?”

“If Jiang-zongzhu is amenable,” Sect Leader Ouyang repeats with a nod.

Jiang Cheng pinches the bridge of his nose. The pressure he felt building behind his eyes all morning is swiftly coalescing into a bitch of a headache. “Just what do you all think I’m capable of?”

Sect Leader Ouyang bows with a cheerful smile. “We have utmost faith in Sandu Shengshou’s abilities.”

-

In which a night hunt ends in disaster, Jiang Cheng catches a glimpse of Nie Huaisang's heart, and feelings are discussed after a certain fashion.

Four Days in Lanling by halotolerant

Nie Huaisang looks at him. ‘You are confusing me, Clan Leader Jiang, perhaps I misunderstand, but…’

‘You didn’t misunderstand. You don’t misunderstand. You understand all of it.’ For six months Jiang Cheng has been mulling this over, and now with Nie Huaisang in front of him he can’t figure out if he most wants to knock him down or kneel at his feet. What he does is try and breathe. Clench his hands at his sides. ‘And now I am going to ask you to do something for me. You have to do something for me. You have to help Jin Ling.’

Lean for Love Forever by Pip (Moirail)

Having a crush on your roommate is really embarrassing, except that's apparently the opposite of a problem. Jiang Cheng can't deny that's pretty convenient.

Wei Ying holds it up, a series of straps and buckles and velcro and wow, really a lot of leather. It has absolutely no conceivable form beyond tangled.

Nie Huaisang opens the door at exactly the moment that Wei Ying holds the thing up to Jiang Cheng’s chest, as if he’s trying to imagine how exactly it would fit onto a person, and it falls into a tangled pile between them while they stare at Huaisang in mild mortification.

acquired momentum by mongrelmind

Had Madam Yu known that this is where her son would end up, she would have gouged his eyes out with her bracelet before he made the grave mistake of looking in the direction of Nie Huaisang.

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in which Nie Huaisang has an art show, Jiang Cheng is begrudgingly topless*, and there are. Shenanigans.

*Nie Huaisang excluded.