#eho

[shadeslayer]

my first foray into digitally making zines (and 2nd foray into ever making a zine) ...... i really enjoyed it. found a lot of words i didnt know i had!

alt text in the rbs, you can also pay what u want for a pdf copy here <3

[homeisaplaceinthehills]

Ellen Thesleff (Finnish, 1869–1954),  Echo, 1891. Oil on canvas, 24 x 17 1/8 in.  Anders Wiklöf Collection, Andersudde, Åland Islands.  Photo: Kjell Söderlund.  Courtesy American Federation of Arts

[tatortottrash]

[firefighter01]

No full art, only sketches, head empty 

[jayisgayandtrans]

Stop....put that away

no context.

[robpegoraro]

Dead-ender litigation won't make housing more affordable

I don't know what will make housing less expensive around me, but I am sure that a ticky-tack ruling from a judge won't help matters.

It will take a little longer for a slightly freer housing market to provide some possibly cheaper new homes in Arlington now that a judge has thrown a stop sign in front of my county’s attempt to allow multiple-family housing on lots formerly reserved for single-family housing. Retired Fairfax County judge David Schell (picked by Virginia’s Supreme Court after all of Arlington’s active judges…

[ehoehoeho]

[barblaz-arts]

I get that Charlie's personality is probably inspired by Disney princesses, but i like to think that even her other day-to-day clothes are still some dapper fits that give off more a "Prince Charming" vibe

[0c70pus0fd3sp41r]

AAAAAAAAAAA

GRAND FESTIVAL TIME ! !

No one expected the old men to pull up for set checks 🐙🦑

[tomatoart]

_(>u<)/🩷\(O_ō)_

[shadeslayer]

Hana Malia, I THINK I CAME OUT THE FIRST TIME I DIDN’T FUCK SOMEONE BACK. (2009)

I read Brazen Femme again-tie one arm to my own bed and scream out the word, femme, taste it at the back of my throat, roll it around. It doesn’t taste like diva draped in diamonds, but remnants of carbon. Rips up my mouth with rocks from deep-origin volcanic eruptions.

V.

I’m examining my resistance to see femme as more power than pretense.

I’m digging these notions-Femme as femininity gone wrong, Femme as the knife buried in a pile of glitter …

But then so many of the Femmes I meet seem to be very much about femininity. They tell me their Femme is radical and transgressive because they prescribe to the model of girl they were told to, except for the big catch-they fuck other girls, trans men, and queers. They talk about the power in being just what the world thinks it wants, only to follow up with the haha-tricked you! You can’t have it!

If the dagger under the glitter, the femme, is about performance or trickery-the big reveal-then I am daggerless and definitely not femme. Because that leaves femme dependant on the pretense of femininity that preempts the upset, and in my life the message has been sent loud and clear that fat and ugly is not feminine, mixed up jew gypsy nomad is not feminine, bottle of whiskey a night is not feminine, sex that bares teeth and doesn’t know how to stop is not...

I have felt like a leftover-a survived burden looking always for the pockets of flawless in my bones. So it is too familiar when femme is seen only as the absence of masculinities-a default identity. Negative space rather than something of its own substance. 

I am screaming and yelling and needing to reach in deep enough to feel with my own hands that on my very inside there is matter, not just the absence of something better. And after all that reaching I can’t get down with “my communities,” turning Femme into something that looks more like what’s not there than what is. 

This is what it is. This is where I found it. This is what lives. And for all that I can’t explain yet, I know Femme translates to revival. 

[junespriince]

Name a more iconic duo than a-

Twink

And a redhead

A twink

And a redhead

A twink

And a redhead

A twink

And a redhead

Link

[gjdraws]

unfinished business

[pmpwbrrs]

more doodles of these dudes . thw puzzle pieces

[xielianluvrs]

i don’t think people who haven’t read svsss realize that it’s not meant to be taken that seriously

bingqiu are both little freaks,,, their relationship is catastrophic and hilarious and messy and exaggerated and dramatic and lovely

it’s not supposed to be read as a serious tender careful relationship developed over the course of 20 books

they’re not star crossed lovers or anything,, they’re more like unstoppable forces caught in each others orbit whose collision was unavoidable

[shadeslayer]

this post is so so so so good op, it just made me remember a piece called Puss In Boots by Shona that i really loved from a digitally archived femme zine - id posted the pages already but here it is again as well!

blue collar, masc on the clock femmes have always been here, living and loving and owning it, even when people dont 'get it'

So ive had this saved in my drafts for a while now- but theres a point id like to make about butch/femme identity and expression and think this is ready despite the crap i might catch for it

On my days off and when i go out for fun, lots of times i look like this vvv

And other times, especially because im a blue collar dyke, i look like this vvv

The thing that both these photos have in common is that, regardless of how i may appear, i am a femme lesbian. I am not magically butch at work just because i have to wear jeans and work boots for safety. On the clock I am often mistaken for a man and harassed for using the women’s bathroom, people call me sir and damn near keel over trying to correct themselves. I understand that people will look at me as masculine because im in a mans trade.

And yet im still a femme!

You know why? Because being femme is not about how i dress or how long my hair is or the job i work or the body im in, but who i am, how i love, and how i want to be loved back. Its my reclamation of my gender and sexuality and romantic life.

Theres this idea that femme lesbians are “the girl” lesbians and butches are “the boy” lesbians. Femmes are stereotyped as straight passing hyper feminine (and often times cis) girls. But if youve ever met a femme thats not always (in my experience- USUALLY) the case. We often are nonbinary (hi! Also me!) and/or gender nonconforming even in our femininity- taking the things that cishet society hates the most in women (ie body hair/body fat/masculine jobs/deep booming voices- etc) and owning those characteristics in ways that make us feel free and most like femmes 💕

I personally feel most comfortable being feminine off the clock and covering myself in glitter and being a tacky fat furry muppet because its how i feel best recognized by the butches i adore so much! But i get to reclaim womanhood or whatever adjacent, gender-fucked, lesbiany, thing ive got going on, and that doesn’t change when i wear jeans and work boots.

Femmes get to be whatever the hell we want- being broad shouldered and deep voiced and fat and furry and in a trade are not traits that magically make me incapable of being femme- and im over this whole ordeal where y’all assign butches and femmes as either “the boy” or “the girl” of the relationship and expect us to be exclusively feminine or masculine and never cross or mix- just recreating useless gender roles that we have zero reason to uphold.

(And this goes the absolute same for butches/studs who express feminine traits and DOUBLE for trans butches/studs/femmes)