#butch characters

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

luz noceda from the owl house is bisexual (canon), genderfluid, gender non-conforming, and butch (headcanon)

submitted by @dragons-and-cake123

[oh-hush-its-perfect]

I once said this on Twitter and got a LOT of backlash for it, but I think it's worth saying. Piper McLean is not hyper-femme. She's not even femme. Piper McLean is a butch sapphic woman. Though there's no problem with portraying her in pink or doing "girly" things every once in a while, if everyone is doing it all of the time, it creates a fandom misinterpretation of the character. It erases her identity as butch. Yes, she improved her internalized misogyny. No, that does not mean that she has become femme or "feminine." Part of feminism and eliminating internalized misogyny is the realization that women have the choice of how they want to present. Piper presents in a more androgynous/masc way. That's how she is, and I don't think all fanart of her should misrepresent her in such a way.

[thehereticprinceseries]

available now on all major platforms!

[artemismatchalatte]

12/22/22- Our prince has arrived! 

“Gerry”/Lady Geraldine Starling (formerly Miss Geraldine Davenport) 

The chivalrous and knightly wife of Lord Paul Starling (a gay man). Gerry married Paulie mainly as a favor to him. Gerry lives at Radclyffe Heights, The Starling Manor, with Paulie, his devoted life long lover Sir Mortimer Highwater, and the woman she happens to be courting at the time. 

She is three years older than Tilly, the same age as Miss Adelaide Green. Tilly looks up to her, as if in awe, when they first meet. 

Self described as a “gambling lad of a girl”, Gerry often puts herself in harms’ way to protect other women and gay men. She duels frequently in the story.

Notable connections to other characters: 

Coachman Dave (Best Friend), Lord Paul Starling (Legal Husband), Lady Isadora Davenport (Mother), Mrs. Mabel Umber (a widow who becomes her girlfriend), Miss Adelaide Green (her first girlfriend), Miss Angela Townsville (girlfriend), Miss Olivia Beaufort (girlfriend), Professor Matilda Knight (friend who later becomes her long term girlfriend) 

Birthday: November 7th (Scorpio) 

Gerry is a stone butch with a rash nature. 

Her hat has The Starling family crest on it which is a starling bird rising upwards, being flanked by four stars. 

[ghostlysleuth]

☠️ punk butch / teddy bear butch 🧸

happy pride month! this is also me testing gl@ze for the first time lol

(as usual, posted early on ptrn)

[antygabo14]

Posting old art, Powerpuff girls but they’re cyberpunk robots

[ahb-writes]

Comics Review: 'Mimosa'

Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni

adulting

gender studies

queer lit

romance

My Rating: 3 of 5 stars

What proclivities might rise to the top among a group of excitable adults, none of whom possess a remotely stable life? What accidents of emotional immaturity or interpersonal impropriety might steal one's focus? MIMOSA focuses on incomplete and problematic adults whom have grown a little too accustomed to ignoring how incomplete and problematic their lives happen to be.

If all of the worlds ailments occur at the hands of people whom have convinced themselves they know what they are doing, then it would follow that all of the difficulties encountered by the characters in this graphic novel are of those characters' own conjuring. The dynamics are multifaceted and the consequences are inevitable. Pride is understandably strong, but gatekeeping is disturbingly common. Not listening to friendly advice? Listening to too much to friendly advice? Ignoring friends in need? Favoring one friend over another? Adult relationships are only as troublesome as one makes them, and for the queer characters of MIMOSA, this credo includes everyone by necessity.

Readers hoping to encounter competent characters fervently navigating a world of plausible adult challenges need not apply. The whole cast consists of flagrantly disastrous human beings. Chris, a self-proclaimed anarchist at 40, is unmotivated, a slob, and a grudgingly functional single parent. Alex is an overconfident starving artist who lacks empathy. Jo is a musician struggling to find a voice, but who dabbles in the attention economy to pay the bills. And Elise is an exhausted optimist and an expert at ignoring reasonable advice.

Thematically, at its simplest, the graphic novel ponders if this is where western, urban living is, one-quarter into the century: Adults who hate being adults because the world around them refuses to acknowledge or reward their paltry efforts. Compartmentalization is strongly desired but never attained (e.g., Chris is constantly hunting for a babysitter, despite working from home every day). Relationships are largely a mirage at the intersection of effort and expectation (e.g., Elise is a comically classic example of a "U-Haul lesbian"). Introspection is an undesirable waystation (e.g., Jo seeks respite from her anger, but only receives validation after someone else in the gang experiences heartbreak). The book's diversity of personalities and the frantic breakdowns that result, when circumstances go awry, lend the title a thorny and complex, if frequently overamped deluge of emotional tension.

MIMOSA is wonderfully illustrated and wields patient pacing and composition to expose the dithering edges of rational human behavior when teased and stressed a bit too much. Bongiovanni's style pulls into focus the simpler, imperfect, and more fundamental lines and shapes the constitute the human body. The looseness of the author's style is at turns clever and deliberately (knowingly) inconsistent. For example, fingers curled in frustrated rage, eyeballs bulging in surprise, peculiar nose shapes — these characteristics and others give the characters life, but readers who desire more than flat artwork and the implication of movement will be disappointed. MIMOSA is a good graphic novel, but only in the context of queer adults in search of familiarity among a small community of literary solace; viewed otherwise, the book is banal, and as a consequence, its audience is decidedly narrow.

❯ ❯ Comics Reviews || ahb writes on Good Reads

[sunkenbeast]

butch taking shirt off 🙏

[flockdog]

everybody wish her a good morning

[ato-dato]

Is this anything

[cherryfull]

Tilly and Harlow artdump since Tiktok liked them so much!! 🎃🦇

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

korra from the legend of korra is butch (headcanon)

submitted by @bi-dykes

[souphamsters]

I've been hopelessly fixated on drawing one (1) sweetheart butchfemme couple ... they're all I think abt ... HELP !!!

(silly lesbian ocs that I love , chae🍓and lucky🍋!!!)

[thehereticprinceseries]

The Heretic Prince is officially OUT NOW!

Your next favorite queer YA/NA fantasy is finally here! A transmasculine prince who ran away from home and comes back to save his family— and the love of his life. If you like queer and trans characters, knights and magic, prophecies and gods, this is the book for you! Get yours today, paperback or digital!

[hoofpeet]

Hits Senshi (and Laios) with my 'he's a really butch woman' beam

[artemismatchalatte]

So I'm going to recycle some of my old ideas and do a character change for a new project. I finally wrote something for the first time in a long time last night. It's probably not my best work but it is something.

Yes, it involves Gerry, my beloved butch gentlewoman. Essentially, I'm rewriting an old story so Gerry is the main character instead of the original main character. I ended up moving him to a WWI story instead.