#gwen and bridget

[starkingdraws]

Bridget and Gwen for your post Christmas feed❤️

[sunnyihan]

gwen and arthur making dumb gay choices together was so fun and entertaining to read. need something like that in my life fr

[kidovna]

gwen and bridget are in love ⚔️👑

[dmitryanya]

more gwart sketches from my last reread because these kids are taking up so much space in my brain

[crabbyhellfire]

A sketch I did last December of Bridget and Gwen presumably having a tender moment interrupted by Arthur and Sidney

[moxruina]

squid kid swag,,,

[flori-doodles]

Read Gwen and Art are not in love and immediately wanted to draw a sword lesbian :3

@kale-of-the-forbidden-cities @cutebisexualmess @camelspit @writingandwritten @honey-the-dinosaur-ate-our-kid @isecretlywishiwasyn @thebestbookshelf @malewifegradyruewen @pyromaniac-on-caffeine @appleflv @bylerlve @that-glasses-dog @overthinksinbisexual @katniss-elizabeth-chase @abubble125 @callas-pancake-tree @keeper-of-the-lost-dadwin@nyxie-of-the-night @you-have-been-frizzled @kamikothe1and0nly @just-a-honey-badger @hyperdragonthingss @deulalune @drama-llamaaa @tastetherainbow290

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Summing up jaune's crossover ships 2!!!

WARNING THIS POST IS FOR COMEDY ONLY! I'M NOT CRITICIZING YOUR SHIP OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT!

1- Fate Apocrypha

This ship has two scenarios: You are a fan of fate apocrypha or you think jaune and astolfo would be like this:

''Hey astolfo do you want smash?'' ''Yes jaune I want you to smash me with your beautiful and giant muscles and make me yours! Breed my bussy!'' ''Bro i just asked if you wanna play smash bros''

2- Arcman

I believe that people who like this ship like the ''golden retriever boy with a black cat girl'' theme. Also dead boyfriend and dead Girlfriend.

3- Yo-Yo Knight

Congratulations, jaune, you're going to have your sweatshirt stolen all the time. But seriously, it's a cute ship and I imagine Jaune is surprised and impressed by Yo-Yo's tricks.

4- The power of love

You are a height difference fan and enjoy shortstacks. And I believe that Jaune would be the most affectionate guy with her.

5- Crazy Knight

This is if Tyran was a chick and wanted Jaune to be his boyfriend. And goodbye to the boy's pelvis.

6- Spider Knight

Well, that would be a really cool relationship to explore. Like gwen trying to hide her secret life as a spider woman from jaune. But I believe that Jaune would find out at some point and wouldn't deal with Gwen and would try to help her in some way.

7- Hack and Slash

Congratulations jaune your hair is so powerful that it attracted one of the strongest milfs. We really have to follow what Nora says...

8- Holy Knight

These two make a cute couple but now imagine when Venti gets drunk how much flirting he would do to Jaune.

9-Deadly Alliance

This ship here is the phrase ''i can fix her'' but very extreme!

10- Jewellery Knight

''Then something just snapped, something inside of me. I didn’t care anymore. I didn’t care about being better than Ruby, i didn’t care about being a Huntsman. I DIDN’T CARE IF I’D LIVE. I DIDN’T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING.''

[wolfnanaki]

Happy Pride Month to these three fictional characters specifically. Sorry about what you have gone through or what you are currently going through.

[lizlives]

Biggest fucking pet peeve is when people act like there's not a necessity for more trans characters, and it's just a preference, a could have it could not situation.

Gwen being trans or not trans and the reason why so many people are so insistent on it isn't just because they don't care about her unless she's trans, it's because trans people are being openly discriminated against and socially ostracized and being able to see yourself represented on screen (which for many trans people was what Gwen felt like), when almost everyone and everything else is calling you a freak, is immensely powerful.

The ability for trans people to see themselves in their favorite media, for young trans kids to see that they're not freaks but people with futures, that is so immensely fucking powerful you have no idea.

So many people wanna say, "I don't know why people are making a big deal about her being trans or not, it's just the same if she's an ally!" NO.

It's not just the same, it is very distinct and honestly less powerful.

You can argue she shouldn't be trans for other reasons, but do not fucking undersell the importance of actual fucking representation especially for a character this well known.

This position is very liberal/centrist to me. The average liberal, at best, views trans people as a hypothetical good. They hypothetically view trans people as deserving love and equal rights, but take no interest in it beyond that. Deep down they probably even find it kinda sad and gross, they just think that they're being polite. So yeah, you would think that Gwen being an ally is worth exactly the same if the way you value trans people is very superficial and performative.

On the more openly transphobic side, I once saw a person say in regards to Gwen, potentially also referencing Bridget, "These people are so selfish, they want everything to be about them, they'll never be satisfied, they'll just keep pushing this onto every character they can," which is FUCKING INSANE.

IN WHAT FUCKING WORLD ARE TRANS PEOPLE EVERYWHERE?

This guy really said this with pride, as if he was standing up to the man. What a fucking douche.

This idea that trans people should be content with a "tolerable" amount of exclusion and are selfish if they want even one character to be depicted as trans who isn't normally, makes me wanna fucking go insane.

[she-who-is-two-sizes-too-big]

I know I made a post bragging about how I don't let canon stop me from primarily queer interpretations of media, but that doesn't actually change the fact there is a very different impact between queer interpretations of characters that aren't explicitly textually queer and characters that are actually explicitly depicted as queer in canon. Representation is important, and we can't just subsist entirely on crumbs and headcanons in the name of The Beauty of Multiple Interpretations or whatever. Having a character that is undeniably a part of your community in a way that can't be disagreed with or argued out of is important.

To illustrate my point, there are two characters I'd like to compare.

Spider-Gwen.

And Bridget

Both these characters have strong ties to the trans community and have narratives that resonate deeply with us, but there are some pretty big key differences.

Gwen's transness is implicit. She has a Protect Trans Kids poster in her bedroom, she has a scene where she tearfully 'comes out' to her dad as Spider-Woman while the color palette of her world turns into the trans flag, but the film never explicitly confirms it one way or the other. That ambiguity towards the official answer is part of the point. It's an attempt at playing both sides so that the canon can just plausibly be whatever reading fills you with the most personal satisfaction.

However, this refusal to explicitly confirm one way or another is incredibly contentious. It is incredibly hard to talk about a transfem Gwen, to the point where even just mentioning the idea will almost inevitably spark the same tired debate over and over again; a horde of cis people coming over to deny her transness and proclaim her as a cis woman. These range from superficially politely worded disagreements to long horrifically bigoted screeds about how "NoT eVeRyOnE hAs To bE tRaNs!".

Bridget's transness is explicit. She was canonically AMAB in her backstory, but she outright states she's a girl in Strive, and as of that game everyone refers to her with she/her pronouns and feminine gendered terms like "cowgirl". Not only that but the creator of Guilty Gear as a franchise - including Bridget herself as a character and the specific game that confirmed her as trans - has repeatedly and explicitly made it abundantly clear Bridget is a trans woman who uses she/her pronouns.

You see the difference here? With Gwen, trying to deny she's a trans woman is just as plausible a reading of the text as saying she is, by design. With Bridget, trying to deny she's a trans woman just makes you look like a misinformed dumbass at best and a horrifically bigoted jackass at worst.

While I will always love personal queer interpretations, our only source of representation can not just be a personal headcanon that other people can disagree with. From a representational perspective, a character that unambiguously and explicitly represents your community will always have more value than a character whose status as actual representation changes depending on the feelings of the person viewing it.

[amberthedeergirl]

The autisms

[m-le]

As someone who has watched a few Arthurian adaptations, I was immediately intrigued by „Gwen & Art are not in love“ by Lex Croucher.

I mean ur telling me we get the Arthurian myths in combination with a medieval queer love story ?!

Even though I nowadays tend to have problems starting printed literature this one flew by and I finished reading in the span of a day and a bit.

To start not only is the story great but I’m also a big fan of the cover art <3

We get not only the exploration of the queer love stories between Gwen & Bridget and Art & Gabriel but also growing Friendships and some battle action fitting for the Middle Ages.

Next to the fighting it does also have some minor alcohol abuse and partly deals with death. And since it’s the Middle Ages and people just love hating other people, the mentions of queerness etc are not always positive.

Im personally a big fan of how all the relationships evolve and the people change :)

Spoilers for the plot of the book!

Little rant from me :|

Although it was a great read and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, I must admit that the typical plot of:

character a either did something accidentally wrong or is said to have done something wrong (although that’s false) and character b immediately believing that and now judging/having a grudge against/hating character a. Which then only confuses character a who doesn’t get any information from anyone around them to what they’re said to have done wrong and is jsut lost and hurt. Especially after things are jsut starting to look right between the characters.

It’s not that it is that unbelievable that it happens (it’s here and there) but more that sometimes it just annuls like every character growth the two or more characters had together and after there is never really a apology or an acknowledgment of this being hurtful to character a, since it jsut confirms taht character b would be easily able to believe this about character a. And my biggest fight with this trope is that the friend of always tend to just side with character b although they’re often both they’re friends or even character a‘s friends.

Luckily it’s not that big of a part on the book but it tends to really ick me when reading something which is really great.

Personally I just loved how Arthur helped both siblings more or less take some responsibility and self control for their own desires and life wishes. It was interesting to see the differences in how they acted around being queer, since they were raised very similar but oh so different.

Also just some special mention of my boy Sidney: he’s not only the most loyal person in the story but also is just a really amazing best friend to Arthur all while he also has his own little love story :)

It may be extremely simple but I loves the conversation Art and Sidney had about the pendant („it’s cold and black jsut like my heart“ „no, your heart is soft and yellow, like marzipan“😭)

Some other favourites of mine: we have a map of Camelot :), Bridget’s witch friend, the court magician, Excalibur nine 🙂‍↕️, everyone in the castle thinking Gwen and art were getting intimate, Gabriel’s more or less obsession with birds, background gay King Arthur/Lancelot, Agnes <3

Sometimes it was really frustrating how oblivious and sheltered Gwen was but seeing that she had not had any friends (not sure if it was explained) and also did not leave the castle, it seems realistic enough that she turned out like this. Still hard to read at a few instances. But I could definitely see how she and Gabriel are siblings as they both are really afraid of dancing out of line.

Also Arthur definitely had enough self loathing and alcohol issues for the both of them. Like, my guy, when are u sober. And also they both were immature when they were younger since they’re were children (duh) but also like how should gwen have known taht ur dad is a fcking ass (just my opinion )

I definitely do love all of the main cast so that is not meant to bash any one of them. They’re just realistic and all have flaws (although I’m not sure about Bridget she is pretty perfect :3 only female knight, noble ladies tend to fall in love with her, strong and capable, knows her boundaries (especially with not wanting to be treated like a secondary thought by her lovers)and she wields Excalibur nine) and good features. :)

Not always the biggest fan of open endings but I think here it does work well although I would have loved to see the speech and followed reaction 🤷🏻 maybe we would have seen Merlin and Morgana get back from their sabbatical hm

Spoiler ending here!

So I know it sounds negative at a few instances but do read the book it’s great. I think it’s a very easily enjoyable story that really pulls u in and makes u feel as part of the group. :))

Thsi is not eloquent or the best review in any way just me somehow bringing my feelings and thoughts to screen :) 🪼🪻

[akacammy]

Characters that trigger all of my dysphoria

[dmitryanya]

to my despair i'm not able to get my hands on not for the faint of heart for a while still, so in the meantime i'll keep using the gwart kids as warmup sketches

[jacobrewind]

Finally. Jacob Rewind cosplay.

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