#god sera sera i love her shes no damsel in distress shes in control of her own destiny!!!

[arsenicflame]

hi i'm really interested in space lesbians! where are they, who are they? how can i see them? (shows, games, books?) also what are you most excited about in s2 of ofmd?

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY

soooooo my space lesbian enthusiasm refers to 3 separate medias!! (it used to say gay space vikings bc that was an even more specific niche buuuut im way more into tihylttw these days s o) one day i am going to make a fuckin venn diagram of my girls because they all have so many similarities. (loki/sigyn and angela/sera are basically the same characters change my mind.)

this is about to get real long bc im unhinged about them <3 10/10 would talk about them all day if the communities were there

our first space lesbians are loki + sigyn from the bifrost incident! TBI is an album by the band the mechanisms which you can find wherever you listen to music (youtube here) its a norse mythology inspired rock/steampunk-esque album and it is SO GOOD- it takes place on a train in SPACE in the format of an incident investigation. its a story so you have to listen to the tracks in order :)

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next up! this is how you lose the time war- our lesbians in this are called red + blue because we have deconstructed this trope to its most basic format at this point :') its a short book, and you may be familiar with it as it went viral from a trigun fan tweet a few months back. (my url (and sewing blog url) are actually references to a quote from this book!) you can get it wherever you get books and id recc the audiobook if youre into that i am also in possession of the pdf if you wantto try before you buy.

tihylttw is a story told through the exchange of letters between two agents on opposite sides of a war- it usually gets described as enemies to lovers but id personally use rivals as i think it describes them better. the book is known for being incredibly poetic and sometimes pretentious in its writing and i just think its the most beautiful thing ever. lesbians do it better

honestly theres nothing i could say for tihylttw better than it could say for itself, i just adore the universe theyve built and i want to KNOW MORE. i love you and i love you and i want to find out what that means together

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saving the best for last is my girls angela + sera. the most of all time. nobody compares to them for me. they consume me

angela + sera are from marvel comics and you can find my complete reading list here, but if im talking about them positively, im usually talking about one of the titular Angela comics, and more often than not queen of hel.

honestly i love the angela comics so much that im making myself speechless trying to figure out where to start. Angela falls into the asgard side of marvel comics, though she is a lot more fluid in her affiliations, her whole thing being that she deals in deals- nothing for nothing everything has its price. she is at times described as emotionless and is generally quite a stoic character, especially around strangers. the major exception to this is her wife, sera. seras one of marvels few canon trans characters and i think she is just so wonderfully written. shes witty and cheeky and doesnt take shit from anyone, even when it gets her into trouble- and oh boy does sera find herself in some predicaments! the angela comics are often just as poetic as tihylttw for me, theyll drop an 'as long as you are with me, i am not afraid' and ill need to go smother myself in a pillow for a sec. in QOH they adopt a daughter who is Also a lesbian, shes an alternate version of leah of hel and i ALSO adore her.

im desperately trying to avoid plot points but god. the main arc is 21 issues of smooching Shakespearean space angels what more could you want?

(through sera & angela we get a lot of heven lore and honestly that could be its whole own thing for me im SO fascinated.)

my girls are currently in comic hell, i am praying they will get something good soon 🙏🙏

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and what am i most excited about for season 2? can i just say izzy? can i just say anne + mary? dude im so ready for some lesbians you have no idea actually you probably have a very good idea if you made it this far down. im incredibly excited to be seeing izzy get a favourable arc this season, im really hoping to see him develop relationships with everyone else, see him grapple with feelings around ed (actually im really hoping he chooses not to forgive ed. for growth) im excited to see whats gonna go down with his leg, im excited to see wtf is going on w ed + stede because i have no idea what the continuity is at the moment, im just excited!!!!!! i honestly dont think theres anything im not excited about everything looks so good so far

[revasanwherefreedomdwells]

Dragon Age Made Me a Feminist

Growing up, there weren’t a lot of female role models (that’s not really the word I’m looking for here, but it will have to do) in the things I was interested in. I mean, there was Lucy Lawless as Xena the Warrior Princess and the yellow and pink power rangers, and that was basically it.

Not to mention being a girl in rural Texas means being given poofy-sleeved dresses and nail polish every year for… all the special occasions? And being told to act “ladylike”, which pretty much means just sit still and look pretty.

And so for a long time, I thought being a girl was really… lame? Boring? Like, I really believed that women were just damsels in distress or love interests, not dragon-fighting knights or badass duel-wielding ninjas. And they certainly didn’t have much in the way of personality, besides being kind and gentle and sweet (not that there’s anything inherently wrong there, mind you– be nice to people, for real!)

I distinctly remember a conversation I had with our drama teacher in high school. We were supposed to be writing a one-act play for our final grade. I had decided to write a story which pretty much had an entirely male cast, all except for the sweet, demure housewife who made sure dinner was on the table. My teacher asked me why I chose to write a story where the main character was a guy. And I shrugged, and said I just liked them better. And it was always like that, every time I wrote a story, it was about a heroic dude, going to do his heroic dude stuff. Because that’s what dudes do.

And then, I played Dragon Age. And as usual, I started playing with a male character (who I love and is still my Canon Warden). But… the women in Dragon Age are soooo far removed from the way women are portrayed in most of the media I’ve been exposed to. The women of Thedas are smart, strong, independent, powerful, witty, wise, and just… three-dimensional?

And then the lore! Even the concept of the Chantry (yes, yes, I know, fuck the Chantry, but still!) was this major feminist thing for me: a religion controlled by women? A female “Pope”?

When I got DA2, I decided to play as a female Hawke (with the sarcastic dialogue choices, because sarcastic!Hawke is life), and I fell in love with how amazing she was. How even though she romanced Fenris, her story wasn’t about him, it was about her and her struggles. And how she could have struggles! And overcome them on her own! And how sometimes she couldn’t overcome them, but it didn’t make her weak or helpless. And how she didn’t have to be nice all the time and how her opinions actually shaped the world around her.

So, naturally, by the time I got my hands on Inquisition, I was like, fuck playing a dude, I’m gonna be a lady again! :DD And I did, and I fought ten freaking DRAGONS (11 if you count Corypheus’s, and 12 if you count the one in Jaws of Hakkon!) and I cavorted with Sera and I drank my fill with Iron Bull and I made out with a freaking god and I decided the fate of the Orlesian empire and I saved the *fucking* world and how could I have ever thought that girls were boring???

And so, yes, Dragon Age is important to me, because it taught me how to be proud of being a woman. And I just needed to get that out, because I’m so grateful for the writers and developers of these games.