#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!

[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)

[sunkenbeast]

butch taking shirt off 🙏

[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

[mercymornsimpathizer]

a non-exhaustive list of butch literature

a (very ad-hoc) list of butch reading and writing, (mostly) by butch authors. books I've read myself in bold; take the rest with a grain of salt. additions, addendums, and commentary welcome :)

(you can find my list of femme literature here)

general/literary fiction:

mrs s by k patrick

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg

boulder by eva baltasar

running fiercely towards a thin high sounds by judith katz

tipping the velvet by sarah waters

a crystal diary by frankie hucklenbroich

godspeed by lynn breedlove

cha-ching! by ali liebegott

the ihop papers by ali liebegott

greasepaint by hannah levene

lucy and mickey by red jordan arobateau

the bull-jean stories by sharon bridgforth

development by bryher

notes of a crocodile by qui miaojin

america is not the heart by elaine castillo

the slow fix by ivan coyote

the swashbuckler by lee lynch

old dyke tales by lee lynch

sci-fi, fantasy, and horror:

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

the unspoken name by ak larkwood

vermilion by molly tanzer

metal from heaven by august clarke

scapegracers by ha clarke

the unbroken by cl clarke

fire logic by laurie marks

the seep by chana porter

these burning stars by bethany jacobs

feast while you can by mikaella clements and onjuli datta

non-fiction, memoir, and autobiography:

hijab butch blues by lamya h

gender failure by ivan coyote and rae spoon

fun home by allison bechdel

butch is a noun by h bear bergman

female masculinity by jack halberstam

burning butch by rb murtz

when we were outlaws by jeanne cordova

leaving isn't the hardest thing by lauren hough

odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman

another mother tongue by judy grahn

boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky and madeline davis

the persistent desire ed joan nestle

persistence: all way butch and femme ed ivan coyote and zena sharman

dagger: on butch women ed lily burana

[schemelin]

non-verbal "I Hate It In Here" Lone Wanderer just wants her dad back.

[flockdog]

everybody wish her a good morning

[ato-dato]

Is this anything

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

korra from the legend of korra is butch (headcanon)

submitted by @bi-dykes

[cherryfull]

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

[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!

[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🍋!!!)

[sunkenbeast]

I can't stop thinking about shirtless hot butches... They come to me like divine intervention...