#butch reimagining

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

Chapters: 1/16

Words: 3,103

Fandom: Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Captain Ahab/Starbuck (Moby Dick), Starbuck/Mary Starbuck (Moby Dick), Captain Ahab & Starbuck (Moby Dick), Captain Ahab & Fedallah (Moby Dick), Starbuck & Fedallah (Moby Dick)

Characters: Captain Ahab (Moby Dick), Starbuck (Moby Dick), Mary Starbuck (Moby Dick), Fedallah (Moby Dick), Stubb (Moby Dick), Other Character Tags to Be Added

Additional Tags: Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Genderqueer Character, Character Study, Trans Character, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Genderswap, Butch Captain Ahab, Butch Starbuck, Butch Characters

Summary: What would change about Moby-Dick if the major driving forces of the narrative were women?

How much does this single factor radically alter their choices, their relationships, and their eventual end? What would it take for the women of Starbuck and Ahab to stand in the same places as their male counterparts in the novel? Do they go undercover as men to attain power? How do they feel about that? Why is this the power they seek? Is that power enough to save them?

Or, Moby Dick, reimagined through the lens of Captain Ahab and First Mate Starbuck as butch women.

—

A prologue of sorts. Set some decade or so before the events of Moby-Dick, on Ahab and Starbuck’s second voyage together. Ahab is the Captain of the Pequod, and Starbuck the Second Mate.

[beforetimes]

binged the x-men movies the other week and i've decided that the logan x scott x jean throuple is about five times better when you imagine it as a lesbian polycule for reasons listed below

i think logan would make a beautiful butch lesbian

the inherent sexual tension between scott and logan is so much more fun when yuri-fied

logan deserves a girlfriend (jean) and a girlenemy (scott)

i think the image of logan pissing scott off on purpose is amusing to me and also i think it'd be better if they were both lesbians

logan and scott having nothing in common with each other (at first) except their love for jean would be a great dynamic that would lead to #awesome hate sex imo

i think scott would make a beautiful lesbian woman

jean keeping these two in line would be infinitely more attractive to me personally

unrelated but i think logan would piss scott off on purpose because she was hot when she was mad but logan wouldn't realize that was why she was goading scott in the first place until scott yanks her into an angry make out session

they sort of mellow out after that and jean is just happy her girls are finally getting along (they r railing each other a few times a week in the garage when logan goes down to bother scott while she's trying to work on her motorcycle after logan's fucked with it again)

i also think scott would make a very attractive lesbian with the addition of her motorcycle in the mix

my qualifications for deciding this is that i am a lesbian who likes x-men and real recognizes real thanks guys. peace ✌🏽

[thenamesblurrito]

have some JAAT staff! SNAP might be my brainchild but it's always been deeply enriched by bandying around ideas with friends, and @oldboyjensenhinglemeier has thrown in some absolutely marvelous characters i've finally gotten around to digitizing. (Roadmaster is also her idea!) you might recognize Dis from a prior post

Dispensor Convoy is the best vending machine on Cybertron. literally, he's been alt mode exalted and given the title of Convoy and everything. his cushy Senate job bored him to death, however, and he followed his friend Shockwave to work as cafeteria staff and general friendly nuisance at the JAAT. he may not be as good as the drink-mixing master Maccadam, but he still serves a mean caffEn with a side of piping hot gossip to boot, and only the bravest dare try his near toxic gamer juice. more than anything else, he wants the students, faculty, and Shockwave especially to thrive, and will be throwing the full weight of his social expertise behind this goal. well, except perhaps not for Thunderhoof. irritating the mech he might have once brushed shoulders with in the mob is too fun ;)

Servo followed her boss Roadmaster here after the latter accepted a teaching position in the JAAT. previously a cohost on Roadie's educational nature show Quintessential Creatures, she's now putting those skills to use as a levelheaded and fair teacher's assistant. as a Eukarian borehound beastformer who's already been in the limelight, Servo is well accustomed to people who dismiss or belittle her for being a companion animal, and honestly would sometimes prefer it that way. she's happiest when she can help out, whether that be teaching a class about how insecticons pupate, repairing broken desks with her superb handymech skills, or running a tabletop game for fellow nerdy faculty. even when she fades into the background, her versatility and kindness makes her an invaluable addition to the JAAT, one might even say a universal constant

[grimmjowjaegerjaquez]

grimmjow but with boobs

[scout-ai-loud]

vintage butch femme couples

i am not quite sure what midjourney was trying to do in image 2, is that meant to be a work overall of sorts? i don't know enough about vintage fashion and neither does midjourney, i am fairly sure. i'd say image 1 is 1920s or 30s and image 3 is 1950s. 2 could be early 20th century, some time before the 20s? anyway, this is just for our imagination to go run wild :-)

i am slowly getting midjourney to make less feminine women. and less thin ones too. i find it intersting that it was creating interracial couples without being prompted. i also was not actually asking for historic looking images.

i also notice that it still has that flaw where all the figures in an image will look somewhat similar: body-shape, height, and even the hair are similar. it was really hard to get to a point where two women are masc and femme respectively. and yet, you can see how they mirror each other in their clothes and everything. even the hair styles all look shortish or pinned up.

here is my prompt: painting of a lesbian couple: a short-haired butch masculine woman holding hands with a beautiful fat feminine woman

[femmedionysus]

now I know nothing about trigun but every time I see fanart of the blonde guy from trigun I am briefly convinced it is art of a slightly dainty butch. is this just me having femme4butch brainrot or does the trigun guy just have butch energy? who’s to say

[werecreature-addicted]

Someone has GOT to fuck that old man reimagined as a butch woman and it’s GOING to be me.

[stormysapphic]

there are people who, despite repeating "butch/femme relationships aren't lesbian heteronormativity! butch =/= man! femme =/= woman!", cannot even fathom a butch/femme reimagining of m/f media where the butch isn't the man and the femme isn't the woman... 💔 what about femme garfield/butch arlene. femme darcy/butch lizzie. femme hades/butch persephone. femme pirate/butch mermaid. femme orc warrior/butch elven princess. open your minds!!!

[kalgalen]

The boy’s psyche was a delicate house of cards. He’d filled out a decade of inconsistencies and holes with sweeping golden reverence. The woman in his mind was pleasantly faceless – dark eyes, dark curls, that shock of gold on her face reimagined as an unruly streak in the eyebrow. All that tenderness projected onto a woman who never was. All that anger left without a home.

Im an alice!armand fan first and a person second at this point. anyway go read 1999 by @softest-butch 🧡

[butchlesbiancosmo]

this one applies exclusively to my reimagining of Anti Wanda but since Anti Cosmo has given her the nickname ‘Clarice’ in canon (a reference to Silence of the Lambs, which is very clearly something Anti Cosmo would enjoy), I like the idea of her giving him a nickname in return like ‘Cassidy’ (after the famous outlaw Butch Cassidy from the Wild West)

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

Chapters: 4/16

Words: 1,525 (in this chapter)

Fandom: Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Captain Ahab/Starbuck (Moby Dick), Starbuck/Mary Starbuck (Moby Dick), Captain Ahab & Starbuck (Moby Dick), Captain Ahab & Fedallah (Moby Dick), Starbuck & Fedallah (Moby Dick)

Characters: Captain Ahab (Moby Dick), Starbuck (Moby Dick), Mary Starbuck (Moby Dick), Fedallah (Moby Dick), Stubb (Moby Dick), Other Character Tags to Be Added

Additional Tags: Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Genderqueer Character, Character Study, Trans Character, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Genderswap, Butch Captain Ahab, Butch Starbuck, Butch Characters, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, lots of wound tending, author is disabled and trans

Summary: What would change about Moby-Dick if the major driving forces of the narrative were women?

How much does this single factor radically alter their choices, their relationships, and their eventual end? What would it take for the women of Starbuck and Ahab to stand in the same places as their male counterparts in the novel? Do they go undercover as men to attain power? How do they feel about that? Why is this the power they seek? Is that power enough to save them?

Or, Moby Dick, reimagined through the lens of Captain Ahab and First Mate Starbuck as butch women.

—

Some weeks later. Now, getting her legs beneath her once again, Ahab ventures to visit the stowaway crew she brought on board for the purpose of later providing her an extra crew to chase down Moby-Dick.

[tiffbaxter]

Can finally show off my full lesbian piece for Classics But Make It Gay III!

And for some context about my piece, it's a reimagining of this illumination from the Codex Manesse (13th C) The lead couple are butch/femme lesbians and their two friends are both non-binary, as shown with their clothing which mixes masculine & feminine styles. Also as you can see I wanted to make one of the lead figures visibly disabled and so she uses mobility aids based on those i’ve seen in other manuscript evidence from the medieval period.

Thank you @novaandmali for including me in this lovely project; if you want to preorder a copy you still can here.

[taxidermizing]

Women cosplaying yaoi boys is the only good use of cosplay I don't care about big booba cosplays or character reimaginings I just want to get served butch realness

[irlarcadegannon]

You can enrich your fallout fan experience by reimagining all characters as trans butches

[sapphicsundial]

I designed some butch horror movies/ monster movies for Halloween

First one is a Frankenstein reimagining, second one is a British lesbian twilight (my friend suggested it be a gay ‘Being human’ instead but I haven’t seen that let me know if it fits better) (two werewolves on the left, two vampires on the right) third one is a lesbian slasher flick

[stormy-talks]

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► Transmasc 101:

What is Transmasculine? (from health.com)

Transmasculine, Everything You Need to Know (from cosmopolitan.com)

Butch (Nonbinary Wiki)

► Transitioning and Healthcare:

How to bind safely (Trans Lifeline)

Spectrum Binders

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How to get on testosterone (video)

Gender-affirming healthcare information (Planned Parenthood)

► Transmasculinity in Other Cultures:

Decolonising Transmasculinity - The Visibility of Brotherboys

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Is Healthy Masculinity a Lost Cause?: A Non-binary Person’s Thoughts on New Masculinity

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What’s in a Word?: Crafting Transmasculine (Note: This blog post loosely defines transmasculinity as an AFAB experience.)

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