#lesbian beefleaf

[mthlg]

vicious deep sea creature hx… wide milky eyes….. mouth full of needle-thin teeth, rows and rows… skin bordering on transparent, fingers webbed and nails sharp, unearthly glow a beacon to lost mermaids like sqx…

elegant little sqx, speckled with greens and yellows all over her shining white scales, losing her way in the deep after an argument with her brother. controlling and angry, he had tried to tighten the leash, tried to force sqx into staying inside in solitude like an obedient little heir. instead she had swum away, dived deep into the chasms she'd been told never to approach.

now she swims frantically in the pitch black - confused, fearful, unable to see the light of the sun. there’s a glow in the distance - milky-white, a spot in the dark. sqx does not know which way is up, but surely light is a sign - surely if not the sun, at least it could be civilisation.

the closer she gets, the brighter the light is. the source is huge - three times her body length. it’s a figure that glows, the largest creature she’s seen. hair pitch black, milky eyes with long lashes, wide-set ribs point and prominent. they’re hungry.

“are you lost?” they call, alluring. their mouth opens wider than it should, displaying rows of teeth. sqx is enthralled. she wants to reach her hand out and touch them, no matter how sharp they seem.

“i can help with that,” hx sings.

their voice isn’t sweet or kind or trustworthy. it’s rough, reverberating, a deep sonar call cutting through the chatter of the ocean. it hits sqx down to her very bones, rattling the cage of her chest, drawing her forward like a hook through her mouth. it’s alluring all the same.

sqx has never been shy. sqx has never had a sense of self-preservation. she approaches, and hx’s jaw does not unhinge. she gets close enough to touch. the monster waits.

up close, sqx sees the little flaws. the scars scattering their skin, slicing through their temple where their brows should be. the sunken cheeks and dark circles. this creature is hungry, and has been hungry for a long time. they've survived off of krill and plankton and scraps and survived long enough for sqx to save them. she holds a palm to their cheek, and they stay still, tracking her every move. their skin is warm, speckled with bioluminescence.

“you seem hungry,” sqx croons. unlike her counterpart, her voice is alluring - tones as light as the wind, the voice of a siren calling sailors to dash themselves upon the rocks. she knows she's a spectacle in the dark, shining with pearls in her hair and stars in her eyes. a vision. “i can help with that.”

sqx reaches her hand out boldly, and hx shakes it. their hand dwarfs hers, gigantic, alabaster white to the brightly-speckled scales trailing sqx’s arm.

and so sqx - small as she is - curls herself into hx’s hair, the crook of their neck - a bright, multicoloured warning sign. a flashing little kaleidoscope, lovingly braiding bones and shell fragments into the hair of her lover.

she’s bright, and coloured, and deadly poisonous. she was never going to be eaten. she cheats death time and time again, and if she dies, she would take hx down with her.

if you see a beautiful, alluring mermaid, with shining bright colours on her alabaster tail and pearls braided into her hair, swim away. there are needle-sharp teeth lurking just behind her.

~fin

[great-master-airplane]

“Okay, let’s start from the beginning. What makes you think you’ve, er… friend-zoned yourself with He Xuan?”

“Isn’t it obvious?” Shi Qingxuan frowned at him, but Xie Lian only maintained that good-natured, slightly forced smile of his instead of agreeing. She huffed, “All I do is call myself her bestie! Sure, she insists that we’re not friends, but she’s always done that! Obviously, she sees me as her friend! Which would be great and all if I wasn’t completely in love with her!”

“I see. And that’s why you think you’re in the friend-zone?” Xie Lian repeated, a little dubious. “Because you put yourself there by always calling yourself her best friend?”

Shi Qingxuan nodded rapidly, relieved that her friend had finally caught on to her struggles. Now they could move on to the fixing it portion of the afternoon. “Yes! It’s all my fault, and now I don’t know what to do about it! That’s where you come in! Help me come up with a plan to claw my way out of the friend-zone and get myself a girlfriend!”

[dynimitedyno]

you know a ship is good when you can put casual on the playlist

[lazycranberrydoodles]

diversity win! your doomed greek tragedy ship is genderfluid!

[eig26]

Day 1 of beefleaf week!!

[rinesbeans]

i think it’s funny these two characters come from the same author

[kankalin]

beefleaf modern au...they haunt me

[marykedoesart]

Beefleaf Week 2024 Day 3: Magic

[nakajimaas]

[morrowart]

say yes to heaven

say yes to me

[murderesstired]

[jadescribbles]

hi tgcf fandom,,,, may i interest u in vaguely-cyberpunk-beefleaf (treat for @/bryophyte on ao3 for @extremetimedchallengeexchange!!)

[lazycranberrydoodles]

I think your art trademark is that it's full of gender! I'm sure there are other things too, but that's what I thought of first. Also, it's very good. <3

thank you! i’m also full of gender!

[trans-hua-cheng-agenda]

My first time reading TGCF: THERES LESBIANS??

Me slightly later: THERES GENDERFLUID LESBIANS???

[great-master-airplane]

[wip - friend-zoned]

At the thought of He Xuan, Shi Qingxuan’s pacing came to an abrupt halt. She turned to Xie Lian, unable to unscrew her frown no matter how hard she tried, and closed her fan with a gentle snap. “Xie Lian, I really need your help with something, but I need you to promise that the information I’m about to tell you never leaves this room.”

Xie Lian blinked a few times, perplexed by the severity of her tone. In the end, he chose to match her solemnity with the gravest of nods. “I promise.”

Shi Qingxuan pointed the closed fan at him, shaking it a few times to get her point across. “I mean it! You can’t even tell Hua Cheng! Especially not Hua Cheng!”

“I promise I won’t tell San Lang anything that you’ve confided to me,” Xie Lian parroted back, though Shi Qingxuan thought he sounded a little hesitant to make such a promise. She wasn’t sure if she believed him, but he kept talking before she had the time to call him out on his obvious reluctance. “Please don’t take this the wrong way, but… I don’t think that San Lang would ever gossip about your problems.”

Translation: Hua Cheng wouldn’t care enough about your problems to bother gossiping about them.

[verdantmeadows]

Beefleaf are so important. They're lesbians. They're gay men. They're bisexual. They're transfem. They're transmasc. They're bigender. They're nothing and everything. One of them is the most genderfucked boygirl girlboy thing ever. The other is being forced into being transgender with the other.