#joan of avis

[hype-queer-fixated]

i am fandom

[lilia-calderus-pet-goat]

Guys, I love you all to bits–and I'm obsessed with Patti just as the rest of you. But, my brothers in christ, I bEG of you to stop mischaracterizing her roles as patti clones. it's frankly a little insulting to patti's insane acting range! I really don't think Patti and Lilia Calderu, per se, act or talk or think alike at all, for example. And while she does bring a very particular, italian, patti-edge to everyone she plays, she still plays them entirely different to each other. Lilia may have Patti mannerisms, a Patti essence of sorts, but she's very different to our girl. Same applies to Joanne, to Avis Amberg, to Nellie Lovett, to Reno Sweeney, to Joan Ramsey, to Evita Perón, (fucking Evita Perón-) to Kitty Duval, to Libby Thatcher, to Fantine, Norma Desmond, Mama Rose, Helena Rubenstein, Maria Callas?? Joan Clayton, Dr Seward?? 😭🙏 Her acting isn't even the same in two performances of the same character, I think it's a little underwhelming to portray all her characters as entirely Patti just because of her icon status and the fact we all want to sleep with heR-

[timeforaneclipse]

Masterlist for Patti Lupone

LILIA CALDERU (Agatha All Along)

Falling Apart - Lilia Calderu x Reader (On going)

Chapter One Chapter Six

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter five

Blood Countess - Lilia Calderu x Vampire!oc

Be Mine Forever - Lilia Calderu x Countess Nathalia (Vamp!oc)

Cast List

YELLOW DIAMOND (hear me out)

(nothing here yet)

ROSE (GYPSY)

(nothing here yet)

AVIS AMBERG (Hollywood)

Tease

MRS LOVETT (Sweeny Todd the musical 2006)

(Nothing here yet)

JOAN RAMSEY (Ahs) (hear me out)

Hellfire - Yandere/obsessive?Joan Ramsey x Witch!reader (Being written)

NORMA DESMOND (Sunset Boulevard)

(nothing yet)

HELENA RUBINSTEIN (War Paint)

(nothing yet)

JOANNE (Company)

(Nothing yet)

RENO SWEENEY (Anything goes)

I need you, not him

ANY REQUESTS LEMME KNOW/ANY OTHER CHARACTERS YOU WANT

[angeliccss]

Don’t mind how this one sucks, I could not for the life of me find good pictures.

[aggieharkness]

I've made up my mind about this and I've decided that I want to contribute to the Agatha All Along fandom by writing stories, so as from right now my asks and submissions are completely at anyone's disposal. I will write anything, and I do mean anything, about Lilia, Lilia x reader, I used to do Agatha when Wandavision came out, so I'm willing to write her as well. Also as a fan of the legendary Patti Lupone I will write for her as well, any character. You can check out my work in my page or my Ao3 beforehand if you want. I'm writing a Lilia x reader story at the moment , but your requests will have priority over everything else. 😊💛❤️

[boardchairman-blog]

**Shots of the Episode**

Black Mirror (2011)

Season 6, Episode 1: “Joan Is Awful” (2023) Director: Ally Pankiw Cinematographer: Catherine Lutes

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Black dresses Round 1- Group B: Joan of Portugal, Isabel (full dress in the 5th pic of this pics set) vs Selcan hatun, Kurulus Osman

[isadomna]

Juana of Portugal (1439-1475)

She was the posthumous daughter of King Duarte of Portugal and his wife Leonor of Aragon. Juana grew up in exile with her mother, due to the intrigues of the Portuguese court, and lived first at the Monastery of Santa María in Medina del Campo and later in Toledo, where Leonor of Aragon died. At the age of six, Juana returned to the Portuguese court of her brother Afonso V.

In 1455 the young Juana married her cousin Enrique IV of Castile, who had repudiated his first consort after thirteen years of marriage. The couple produced no children. The marriage was annulled on the grounds of an impotence that was specific rather than general, an impotence that applied only to Enrique’s relationship with Blanca of Navarre. Yet such an extraordinary  explanation amounted to a case of maleficium (spell), with the clear implication that Blanca was the guilty party, and in addition she was obliged to leave Castile and return to Navarre.

Juana of Portugal was described as beautiful, cheerful and coquettish. The sources speak of the licentiousness introduced by the young Queen and her ladies in the austere Castilian court. They liked to use perfums, makeups, dresses that displayed too much décolletage, and flirting with men. One of her ladies, Guiomar de Castro, was King’s mistress, causing the anger of the Queen, and other, Mencía de Lemos, was Cardinal Mendoza’s mistress. 

Six years after her wedding, Queen Juana was pregnant. Some say it was a miracle, others that it was the result of some sort of artificial insemination that the couple had tried, as was recorded by a german traveler. During this period, Juana insisted that Enrique's teenaged brother and sister, Alfonso and Isabel, forcefully be brought to the court and away from their sick mother. Many saw this as a way of making sure her daughter's path to the crown would encounter no obstacles. The Queen gave birth to a daughter named Juana, officially proclaimed heir to the Crown of Castile and created Princess of Asturias.

Queen Juana planned the marriage between her sister-in-law, Isabel of Castile, and her brother Afonso V of Portugal, and her daughter with her nephew Prince Joao. She wanted with these weddings an annexation of the Crown of Castile with the kingdom of Portugal.

In early 1460s, Castilian nobles became dissatisfied with the rule of Enrique IV, and believed that Princess Juana was not King’s daughter. They called her la Beltraneja, a mocking reference to her supposed illegitimacy. Propaganda and rumour encouraged by the league of rebellious nobles argued that her father was Beltrán de la Cueva, a royal favorite of low background who had been elevated to enormous power by Enrique and who, by some, has been suggested as Enrique's lover.

Many nobles refused to recognise Princess Juana and preferred that Enrique instead name his younger half-brother, Alfonso as his heir. This was agreed to on the condition that Alfonso marries little Juana. Not long after this, Enrique reneged on his promise and began to support his daughter's claim once more. The nobles in league against him conducted a ceremonial deposition-in-effigy of Enrique outside the city of Avila and crowned Alfonso as a rival king. 

Queen Juana and her daughter were removed from the court. They lived in various castles as hostages, separately or together, protected by a faction of the nobility. The love affair of Queen Juana with the Bishop Fonseca’s nephew, Pedro of Castile, and the birth of her two illegitimate sons, caused great scandal. As a result of the need to conceal the pregnancy of her illegitimate sons, Juana of Portugal is considered the inventor of the farthingale.

In 1468, Alfonso of Castile died and Princess Juana was stripped of her succession-rights. Her aunt, Infanta Isabel, was placed before her, on condition that Isabel marry a man chosen out by the monarch. Queen Juana and her daughter sent a formal appeal to the Supreme Pontiff. Enrique accepted to divorce his wife and send her to Portugal, but Juana remained in Castile as king's wife, though separated of her husband. Isabel married Fernando of Aragon with the opposition of Enrique IV.

In 1470, Princess Juana was engaged and then married by proxy to the Duke of Guienne, brother of Louis XI of France. In the face of the French ambassador, King Enrique and Queen Juana swore before a crucifix that the Princess was their legitimate daughter. The French marriage never consummated, because the duke died two years later in France. Queen Juana always defended her daughter’s rights to the throne, and she had an active political participation. Queen Juana tried to get the support of nobles and cities, but with meager success and without palpable results. In 1474, Enrique IV died at the Alcázar of Madrid and rumors circulated that the late monarch had been poisoned, his wife and his daughter demanded an investigation. Queen Juana died a few months after her husband’s death at the age of 36. In the last months of her life, she lived at the convent of San Francisco in Madrid. The cause of her death is unknown.

Bárbara Lennie played Juana of Portugal in TV series "Isabel"

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

☕️ gay movie divas slay

if i move my head two inches to the left i can see my copy of The Sewing Circle, i definitely feel very normal about all of them

my sister and i watched The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939, it’s got bette davis and problematic fave errol flynn) recentlyish

[madamspellmans-met-tet]

M A S T E R L I S T

Fanfiction

🔮 Lilia Calderu •🍸Avis Amberg

🦂Dr. Seward • 🦇Joan Clayton

👑Rhaenys Targaryen • 🧁Farah Dowling

☕️ Larissa Weems

🌅 Adrienne Beaufort

😈 Zelda Spellman / Madam Spellman

🫒 Miranda Croft

Art

Insta | Cara

Original Work

tumblr | tiktok | bluesky

[hype-queer-fixated]

when a lone, sincere keysmash appears on your ao3 fic

Nellie Lovett / Sweeney Todd in Concert (2001)

[eliaswoodt]

The Name List

Organized from A-Z (yes I will add more names whenever I find more I like, probably in reblogs)

I currently have 1035 names (and that’s only including the first names. I have a list of last names, too.)

Angel, Atticus, Atlas, Apollo, Ares, Athena, Achilles, Artemis, Adonis, Avery, Aubrey, Aubry, Aceline, Ashlynn, Aislinn, Anjanette, Arthur, Archer, Addison, Arrietty, Amity, Autumn, Alastor, Alastair, Alasdair, Alistair, Alison, Arren, Arin, Astra, Aoife, Adalyn, Adeleine, Astoria, Agnes, Angus, Abigail, Ann, Anne, Ambrose, Adeline, Avarsel, Agatha, Ari, Azariah, Aniyah, Armani, Anastasia, Annabelle, Adah, Adelaide, Avis, Amelia, August, Axel, Adelina, Amir, Amin, Ayala, Arne, Averett, Adil, Astro, Ava, Anti, Ailun, Akemi, Asahi, Akari, Asako, Atsuko, Azumi, Aka, Aren, Akko

Blossom, Bambi, Babs, Bo, Bella, Blair, Bea, Bonnabel, Badeea, Betty, Bailey, Boris, Bee, Bugs, Blaise, Benjamin, Bog, Buford, Beatrice, Bryce, Bryan, Bazil, Brutus, Bellamy, Brigitte, Bailee, Bailey, Bao, Belladona, Belladonna, Bell, Bill, Bishop, Bones, Boneothy, Benno, Behemoth, Barry, Bellynn, Bowie, Bunki

Clover, Canyon, Cleo, Cameron, Celestial, Celestino, Ciro, Camilo, Cain, Charlotte, Clara, Corey, Cin, Charlie, Cassidy, Chiara, Callista, Cisco, Cynthia, Casper Clinton, Celestina, Clement, Christopher, Cornelius, Clifford, Claudius, Carey, Carrie, Coatl, Cyrus, Cyril, Cecil, Caisus, Castiel, Calla, Cosmos, Cherry, Cheryl, Crowley, Crow, Cassius, Cliodna, Clíodhna, Cliona, Conan, Cordelia, Calypso, Cas, Cillian, Chiyo, Chiaki, Chihiro, Calcifer

Danny, Darlene, Dex, Dot, Diana, Daphne, Demeter, Daedalus, Daeddel, Darphel, Dawn, Derrick, Derek, Dravan, Dravid, Drae, Dallas, Dimas, Dominic, Damien, Drew, Delilah, Dakota, Darian, Darius, Darwin, Devan, Darla, Dagmar, Daelyn, Dale, Dae, Dacey, Desmond, Dabria, Daniel, Daniela, Danialla, David, Davis, Donnel, Dennis, Demitrius, Delaney, Daiki, Daiyu

Everest, Emery, Ember, Elliott, Elliot, Earlana, Eliseo, Ezequiel, Emie, Evan, Eloise, Eric, Emmet, Elizabeth, Eugene, Ethan, Eret, Ester, Elias, Eos, Ellis, Edwin, Ebony, Elijah, Eliza, Enzo, Elissa, Edward, Eddalyn, Esther, Eda, Edalyn, Edalynn, Edison, Eddison, Estervan, Emma, Eden, Erfan, Eun-hae, Erytheia, Egan, Errol, Eiichi, Eiji, Eriko, Etsu, Etsuko, Eiichiro, Ezume

Flint, Finn, Fae, Fred, Fritz, Fang, Frankie, Frank, Fermin, Freddie, Freddy, Finley, Freya, Fai, Felix, Freda, Faolan, Frey, Feylynn, Faelynn, Failynn, Felipa, Febby, Febbie, Febie, Feby, Flynn, Fuji, Feiyu, Fukiko, Fumitaka, Fumito, Fuyuko

Griffin, Garnet, Gothi, Gertrude, Gabe, Grant, Giovanni, George, Gage, Gregory, Gabriel, Gabrielle, Guy, Gilbert, Guadalupe, Gerry, Grey, Gray, Gia, Grace, Gracian, Gracis, Gracie, Gretel, Gideon, Griffilow, Ghost, Ghazaleh, Gavin, Gryphon, Griffith, Goliath, Grayson, Greyson

Harmony, Hannah, Harlei, Harlie, Haritha, Haris, Harry, Harlan, Harvey, Hadrian, Harley, Hari, Harlow, Howl, Hank, Harper, Herbert, Humphrey, Hestia, Helios, Hephaestus, Hollis, Hunter, Hero, Henry, Helda, Hajar, Hasta, Hadis, Howard, Howie, Hannan, Haoyu, Hisako, Hachi, Hiroto, Hoshiko, Honoka, Hiroshi, Hiro, Haitao, Hamako, Haruhi, Harue, Hayate, Hide, Hideyo, Hidetaka, Hisaye, Hisayo, Heiji, Higari

Ivy, Ivey, Ivo, Ida, Iris, Ilyssa, Illy, Irene, Iren, Isaiah, Ira, Idelle, Ivan, Illaoi, Isabel, Isabell, Isabelle, Isobell, Isabella, Ismelda, Io, Ismael, Isolt, Icarus, izuru, Isamu, Itona, Ichiro, Ichiko, Ichigo, Isoko, Ishiko, Isaye, Inari, Ikuko, Itsuki, Itsuko, Inosuke

Juniper, Jupiter, Jinx, Jamie, Javier, Josiah, Joan, Jake, Julia, Jamil, Jamila, Jesse, Jessie, Jess, Jasper, Janus, Jordan, Joshua, Julian, Juilliard, Julius, Juliana, Jeremiah, Jace, June, Junebug, Jazzy, Jackson, Jackie, Jackalynn, Jodie, Johnnie, Jan, Jaime, Jason, Jorge, Justin, Justice, John, Jay, Janelle, James, Jennifer, Jillion, Jill, Jana, Jonah, Jaycee, Jaxen, Junpei, Jona, Jun, Jin

Kenneth, Kat, Kas, Kris, Keith, Kingston, Kaeton, Kingsley, Kent, Katherine, Kyle, Knox, Kristen, Kristin, Kristeen, Kylie, Kaylee, Kamila, Kehlani, Kendall, Kerry, Kry, Kenny, Kath, Kathleen, Krow, Kix, Kedrick, Kennon, Klaus, Killian, Korallia, Krank, Kaz, Kaede, Kirara, Katsuhiko, Keisuke, Kanako, Kenji, Kaemon, Kamin, Katsu, Kaki, Kazane, Kazuyuki, Kazushige, Kenta, Kei, Kimi, Kin, Kohako, Koichi, Kota, Koji, Koharu, Kosuke, Kuma, Kumi, Kuniko, Kuniyuki, Kideko, Kazuko

Lullaby, Lotte, Lapin, Lorelei, Loralai, Lorelai, Luna, Lily, Lucy, Lee, Liana, Lola, Lethe, Lance, Laurence, Luther, Luca, Lennon, Logan, Lennox, Ilias, Liu, Lui, Luis, Lefu, Liam, Lyall, Lowell, Luella, Leona, Leonie, Leon, Lev, Lincoln, Lin, Link, Laverna, Lazarus, Lewis, Louis, Louise, Levi, Leslie, Lesley, Leilana

Marley, Marlai, Mei, May, Mae, Marceline, Marshall, Marshalee, Millie, Mallorie, Marcela, Melanie, Maddison, Mary, Mirabel, Marsh, Murphy, Montgomery, Mildred, Memphis, Molly, Maverick, Maurice, Muiris, Morgen, Max, Moses, Marion, Merrill, Monroe, Melanthios, Maxwell, Matias, Melissa, Maëlle, Marlene, Meredith, Maybelle, Margaret, Maeve, Moss, Mara, Maria, Myrtle, Mona, Mark, Markus, Michael, Micheal, Michelle, Mahsa, Minoo, Mehdi, Mohammad, Matin, Morpheus, Marlowe, Monica, Marilia, Magnus, Malachi, Malachy, Maggie, Makoto, Megumi, Mio, Maemo, Maemi, Masa, Masaaki, Masashi, Michi, Midori, Michinori, Momo, Motoko

Natasha, Noelle, Noni, Neville, Nixon, Neda, Natalio, Ned, Nausicaä, Noxis, Nova, Nathen, Newt, Noah, Nash, Nox, Nathara, Nathaira, Nathair, Nyoka, Nagisa, Nathan, Nate, Nik, Nick, Naohiro, Naoko, Nara, Natsu, Naoya, Nishi, Nobuko, Nori

Olindo, Ollie, Oliver, Ophelia, Odysseus, Orion, Osono, Oxen, Onyx, Otto, Ottoline, Otitile, Ottavia, Octavio, Olivia-Marie, Oakley, Omar, Olivia, Oscar, Octavian, Octavia, Oz, Octavius, Otta, Oisin, Orson, Orlos, Osiris, Owen, Odalis, Odell, Ozuru

Penelope, Patton, Paddy, Percy, Paulie, Page, Pazu, Phoebe, Phebe, Prairie, Porter, Parlay, Pally, Piper, Parker, Payton, Phil, Paul, Philip, Pyre, Piers, Phylis, Patricia, Payne, Payneton, Pip

Quinn, Quincy, Quil, Quinley, Quinstin, Quinlan, Quillen, Quavon, Quaylon, Quensley, Qing, Qrow, Quilla, Quianna, Quita, Qiao, Quinella, Queenie, Qaylah, Qailah, Qitarah, Quenby, Qadira, Qudsiyah, Quan, Qian, Quinby, Quella

Roseline, Raul, Rahul, Rafael, Roque, Rogelio, Remmy, Rei, Rey, Ray, Robin, Ro, Reika, Rowen, Rowan, Rose, Rosie, Ralsei, Riley, Remus, Rosalyn, Rosalin, Rosaline, Renata, Ron, Rat, Ratt, Reef, Roxy, River, Reed, Rufus, Robbie, Renee, Rivia, Ross, Rex, Ruth, Rosemary, Rosabe, Rosabee, Rosabell, Rosabelle, Rosabel, Rai, Rain, Rosella, Rosalie, Rhody, Robert, Raelinn, Rebane, Ren, Rollin, Ralph, Roxanne, Rox, Roderick, Reginald, Reggie, Rio, Ryu, Ryo, Ryoji, Rinmaru

Sage, Sam, Syd, Selkie, Storig, Sal, Sirius, Summer, Susie, Scott, Sunni, Sosuke, Sophie, Satsuki, Sheeta, San, Sulley, Sully, Savannah, Sappho, Selene, Shaw, Sean, Seán, Shaun, Sawyer, Sabrina, Sebastian, Shane, Stan, Socks, Snom, Stolas, Spencer, Sammie, Stevie, Samus, Sarff, Sullivan, Seth, Susiebell, Susiebelle, Sadreddin, Shellaine, Sverre, Saoirse, Sylvania, Sanae, Silas, Sumi, Shiori, Shinzu, Sile

Toby, Tobias, Teddy, Ted, Tomas, Thomas, Tomothy, Tyche, Taiga, Tundra, Tracy, Timothy, Troy, Tatum, Tommie, Tommy, Theia, Tae, Trix, Trixy, Thanathos, Tod, Todd, Toddy, Tora, Torie, Theodore, Theo, Theophania, Talos, Thanatos, Teddy, Tomohito, Tazu, Tanjirou, Touya

Ulysses, Urijah, Uriyah, Urina, Ukiah, Ulnar, Ursula, Ulric

Virgil, Vanessa, Vito, Venacio, Vylad, Veronica, Valentina, Violet, Velma, Venus, Verna, Veld, Victoria, Victorie, Vinyl, Vincent, Vasuki, Vex, Valor, Valentine, Valerie, Valeria, Valerius, Vitoria, Vic, Victor, Vik, Vikktor, Viktor, Vick, Vicky, Vicke, Vickie, Vidya

Wynn, Willow, Warren, Wilbur, Wylie, Will, Walle, Whisp, Wade, Wendell, Wendy, Willard, Wes, Wallace, Wilber, Wyatt, Wybie, Wynnie, Wennie, Winnie, Wynnston, Wynston, Wynsten, Wiles

Xenophon, Xuan, Xio, Xori, Xanthos, Xander, Xavier

Yen, Yukio, Yae, Yoko, Yume, Yaeko, Yui, Yuzuki

Zane, Zana, Zion, Zachary, Zach, Zachariah, Zander, Ziana, Zoe, Zula, Zenix, Zenith, Zaharia, Zaria, Zack, Zakaeia, Zara, Zakaria, Zev, Zaira, Zanata

[droughtofapathy]

AO3 Wrapped 2024

i was not tagged by @prozac-shaped-urn, but that's never stopped me before.

Works published: 17 Word count: 306,448 Kudos: 160 Hits: 2,416 Bookmarks: 24 Subscriptions: 4 Most popular by kudos: Substitution (25 kudos) Most hits: Learn How to Settle for What You Get (292 hits) Longest: The Sun Comes Up, I Think About You (45,810 words) Shortest: Everything's Different, Nothing's Changed (3,022) Most comments: Learn How to Settle for What You Get (9) Favorite comment:

Every single essay @trying-to-get-somewhere-real has ever left in my inbox. The very first essay for Substitution kickstarted a lengthy attachment to the Julia fandom (especially Avis, my beloved) and I am now sitting on a solid ten fics for this niche market. And while I haven't done the math, I'm just going to assume I've written the majority of the fandom's word count. I am deeply entrenched and cannot be rescued.

Also, every comment wailing about how effective the heartbreaking scenes I write are. In addition to @trying-to-get-somewhere-real, @voltives and @turtle-down are especially gifted at this. I'm a gal who likes to see my readers suffer.

Fics that made me cry: I'm a big crier while writing my own work, but the absolute cream of the crop this year came from the two grief-centered fics, of course. Learn How to Settle for What You Get and The Sun Comes Up, I Think About You.

Fics that made me smile: Kicking my feet, twirling my hair, giggling like a fucking maniac over Avis getting railed six ways to Sunday in If It's Thursday, It Must Be Nora.

Gifts: A very in-depth smutfest from @prozac-shaped-urn, which was quite thoughtful. Granted, I don't really know Hacks and honestly, I wasn't stirred by What About Joan?, but it's the thought that counts. We love to see old broads fucking (in increasingly unrealistic ways).

Gifts I've Given:

When the Morning Comes for @prozac-shaped-urn, which no one has read or acknowledged because it's Broadway Diva RPF, and you know, that's fine. For the best, really. But I will say that it's some good smut.

Buried Sweetly in Her Yellow Hair for @trying-to-get-somewhere-real because a little Judith and Blanche and Avis, and some hairbrushing is an irresistible concept.

A Kind of Happiness No One Really Knows for @little-sweet-cheeks. So, I started taking prompts, and ended up with some delicious concepts for Avis, my beloved. In this one, Avis finally gets to give Julia what for.

Alternative Ingredients for @sparklingmonster in which Avis finally gets a goddamn break from all the shit I put her through.

The Sun Comes Up, I Think About You for @Voltives to celebrate our one-year mutual-iversary with a few Gilded Age OCs played by Marin Mazzie and Jan Maxwell, our beloveds. It gets rough at the end there. My specialty. Collaborations: I don't do that. Events: I really don't do that. Word count read: Absolutely no shot I'm going to do the math on that. Bookmarks: Works by my beloved mutuals:

The Light We Cast by @voltives- in which we finally get some good fucking Passion (1994) fanfiction around here. And it only took thirty years.

slight curvature by @turtle-down - gasp. Someone else picking up the torch and writing Lina/Aurora? Oh, happy days.

Each year, the fandoms I devote myself to grow increasingly niche. Gone are my days of snapping up over 10k hits in a year, and in its place are glory days of far greater worth. Now, I have a special and beloved circle of readers/mutuals that shower me with comments. My stories are for myself and the five others clawing at their enclosures, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

Now, back to writing another gift for a beloved mutual. And this one is...deeply unhinged.

[angeliccss]

Hello friend! Might I be able to request either a Joan Clayton or Fosca (Passion) Collage? You make them so pretty and I need a new phone background lol 🧡

I hope this is what you wanted lol. I tried to do Fosca originally but I couldn’t find any pictures of quality unfortunately :(

I hope you enjoy! (Please tell me if this is not what you actually wanted)

[velvetvexations]

Sometimes I think about Chyna, a 90s wrestler who was really emotionally hurt by fans joking about or even seriously accusing her of being AMAB, and how I wish I got the chance to be able to tell her how much it helped me grow past my unfulfillable drive to pass to know that a woman could look like she did and still be a woman.

This thought is brought to you by the fact that I changed my avi to an album cover for Cherry Bomb, and like, Joan Jett does not look particularly AMAB most of the time, but I feel like in this one particular image you could look at her and read whatever anatomical tea leaves you want and think "yeah, maybe?", especially since this would have been the era of glam rock and entering the even greater femboy era of glam metal. At least enough that I as someone who wants to actively avoid passing sees it as almost identical to exactly how I'd look if I could make myself in a Simsian CAC, save for a few details like tattoos and eye color. Like take that body and just add a few things on top.

We're more alike than we are different. Societal standards for gender presentation are dumb bullshit. Link up with your cis brothers and sisters, especially the ones who catch heat for looking too much like the other, and kick that shit out.

[thehodgepodgearchive]

READING LIST: Children's Books

Green: Currently Reading

Pink: LOVED IT!

Orange: Liked It

Strikethrough: DNF/Not For Me

A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac

A Carp for Kimiko by Virginia Kroll

A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce

A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean

A Starlit Somersault Downhill by Nancy Willard

All Aboard Trains by Mary Harding

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman

Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner by Amy Schwartz

Anno's Magic Seeds by Mitsumasa Anno

Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold

Back Home by Gloria Jean Pinkney

Bad Day at Riverbend by Chris Van Allsburg

The Bamboo Flute by Garry Disher

Baseball Saved Us by Ken Machizuki

Belinda by Pamela Allen

Berlioz the Bear by Jan Brett

Big Al by Andrew Clements

Bill's New Frock by Anne Fine

Black and White by Tana Hoban

Black Like Kyra, White Like Me by Judith Vigna

Blue and The Gray by Eve Bunting

The Boggart by Susan Cooper

Boo to a Goose by Mem Fox

Boomer Goes to School by Constance McGeorge

The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida

The Call of the Wolves by Jim Murphy

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. 

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

Clippity-Clop by Pamela Allen

Dandelions by Eve Bunting

Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with The Family Lazardo by William Joyce

Dinosaur Roar! by Paula and Henrietta Strickland

Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Numeroff

The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

Drylongso by Virginia Hamilton

Eleanor by Barbara Cooney

The Empty Pot by Demi

Feel the Wind by Arthur Dorros

Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting

Free Fall by David Wiesner

Frogs by Gail Gibbons

From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons

Gentle Willow by Joyce C. Mills

George Shrinks by William Joyce

Going West by Jean Van Leeuwen

Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross

Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesleá Newman

The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons

Horace by Holly Keller

How Night Came From the Sea by Mary-Joan Gerson

I Can Hear the Sun by Patricia Polacco

I Love My Daddy Because... by Laurel Porter-Gaylord

If You Made a Million by David M. Schwartz

In for Winter, Out for Spring by Arnold Adoff

It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach

Island Boy by Barbara Cooney

John Henry by Julius Lester

The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

Koala Lou by Mem Fox

Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley

Let the Celebrations Begin! by Margaret Wild

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

Magic Beach by Alison Lester

Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M Joosse

The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket by Sonia Levitin

Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Matzah that Papa Brought Home by Fran Manushkin

Max's Chocolate Chicken by Rosemary Wells

Max's Dragon Shirt by Rosemary Wells

Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen

Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder

Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack

The Mitten Tree by Candace Christiansen

Mrs/ Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco

My Body Belongs to Me from My Head to My Toes by Pro Familia

My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

New Shoes for Sylvia by Johanna Hurwitz

Nothing but the Truth by Avi

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant

Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French

One Hundred Angry Ants by Elinor J. Pinzes

Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

Pit Pony by Joyce Barkhouse

The Planets by Gail Gibbons

Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion by Verna Aardema

The Rainbabies by Laura Krauss Melmed

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus

Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco

Reuben and the Fire by Merle Good

The Rough-Face Girl by Rage Martin

Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat by Amy Tan

The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer

Sam and The Tigers by Julius Lester

Seashells Crabs and Seastars by Christiane Lump Tibbitts

The Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow

The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy

Shrek by William Steig

Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore

Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch

The Sunday Outing by Gloria Jean Pinkney

The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Sciezka

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson

The Sweetest Fig by Chris Van Allsburg

The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci

Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back by Joseph Bruchac

Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco

Tillie and the Wall by Leo Lionni

Time For Bed by Mem Fox

Tough Boris by Mem Fox

Town Mouse, Country Mouse by Jan Brett

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszcka

Tuesday by David Wiesner

Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg

Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan

The Very First Americans by Cara Ashrose

Voyage of The Basset by James C. Christensen

Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo

War Boy by Michael Foreman

We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen

What Lives in a Shell? by Kathleen Weidner Ziegfeld

Why the Sky is Far Away by Mary-Joan Gerson

The Widow's Broom by Chris Van Allsburg

Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Kroll

The Wolf by Margaret Barbalet

The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg

Zomo The Rabbit by Gerald McDermott