#lesbians are fucking cool

[lgbtqtext]

[inkskinned]

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

[normally-blue]

Marcille im lov you <333

[uncanny-tranny]

Periodic reminder that unless a person specifically and clearly tells you it is okay to tell others they are trans or queer, you should err on the side of caution and assume they do not want you to tell people (especially random people!) about their transness or queerness.

You have no idea, generally, why somebody doesn't talk openly about their trans or queer status, and you have no idea, truly, how somebody might react to that information. The most progressive person out there is still capable of harbouring incredibly negative thoughts about somebody's queer status.

[wis-art]

My crops are growing well, Irrigation is the future.

[official-lucifers-child]

actually any kiss is gay if i’m involved. i don’t care who i’m kissing, it’s a gay experience and a gay kiss. because i said so. if the person i am kissing is straight, that’s cool, i don’t care. it may be a straight kiss for them, but it’s a gay kiss for me, and that’s what matters. if the person i’m kissing doesn’t like that, then they shouldn’t kiss me. simple as that.

[mrmeepsmadmind]

rewatching this over and over again.. mainly bcs tarn makes soundwave into a manlet but also bcs it's hilarious

[lemonkris1]

Oh yeah I create some art for lesbian visibility week because for me it's pretty important for a lot of reasons

[greatestjubilee]

maybe you were wondering were i've been

[lgbtqtext]

[autistic-katara]

does it annoy tf out of anyone else that when a character says smthn like: “i’m not in love with [a male character], i was in love with [female character], it took me a while to accept and i’m incredibly scared telling you please don’t tell anyone” people immediately go “ah yes, canon lesbian, i don’t know how u can’t pick up on that”

meanwhile when a character says smthn like: “i’ve tried for years to force myself into a romantic relationship, thought it would ‘fix me’. but i realise now that’s not how it works, a romantic relationship won’t fix me and i honestly don’t think i was attracted to any of the people i tried to date, im going to swear of romantic relationships for life bcz i don’t experience romantic attraction, later guys ily platonically” 99% of the fans go “oh, ok. so they’re probably asexual but it’s definitely up to interpretation. wtf is ‘a romantic’, yeah they’re a romantic; in a romantic relationship with their ‘best friend’ who i ship them with and is basically canon. very homophobic of the author to make them explicitly state that they weren’t into them like that. they must hate gay people despite the rest of the queer characters in here…”

[sapphicsparkles]

Filled with righteous lesbian fury today, new art soon

[dirtyassvoiceactors]

Dorian meets Jester and Fjord aka Hot/PrettyBlueBoy meets PrettyBlueGirl and crushes HARD on her HotGreenGuy fiancé

I KNEW IT!

First off i was dying for my cool tone high charisma yet insecure himbos to meet!

Second and especially cuz i figured out why i loved Dorian so much from the start, which is cuz i think he has that same hot charming men yet insecure fumbling idiot(/affectionately) vibe like Fjord, but in the shape of a queer af bard kkkkk

Which as soon as i realized i just thought “THEY HAVE TO MEET, DORIAN IS GONNA CRUSH ON HIM SO FAST” AND I WAS RIGHT!

Robbie/Dorians face while saying “who is Fjord?…Oh, hello Fjord” and Travis/Fjord just trying not to laugh/blush at jester saying “not as handsome as Fjord” and Dorian looking at him and immediately flirting kkkkkkkk

which btw, i know Dorian is inexperienced and Orym is his first crush/love but idk if i just don’t really remember but i feel like all the times Dorian sounded like flirting or flushed while talking with or being complimented it was with men/masc presenting, which could mean that he only likes men, and i just ask if anyone headcanons him that way as well mostly cause when i saw people shipping him and imogen or him and laudna i was just ? cause i headcanoned him as gay since day1 basically kk

i only bring that up cause Dorian wasted no time calling Jester Beautiful but the way said it and the way he immediately went and said “who is Fjord? … oh hello Fjord” as soon as Jester said he just wasn’t as handsome as Fjord is adorable, like the way he and she complimented each other was just like pointing out the obvious and yet even though she complimented him by basically saying though he wasn’t as handsome as fjord, he didn’t feel offended at all, he was just like wait so theres a hotguy close by? and immediately like looked him up and down and shit and flirted kkkkkkkk

which btw is also hilarious that this was moments before he got jealous of orym’s attention to Beau’s abs and no comment abt his kkkkkk

like boy truly is helplessly in love with the little man kkkkkk

cuz i don’t even think he was crushing on fjord, i just think he was just like horny thoughts, kinda like w Braius

[villain-life]

i’m aro asf but rn i think a relationship would be cool. Why? Because i’m touch starved and because i like simping over women (i already know i won’t have a relationship at all 💀i just like to THINK it would be COOL maybe…)

[lesblizzard-ultradyke]

"queer women", "[celebrity name] identifies as queer", "queers in media", "queers in sport", "queer actress"

[ramblingsfromthytruly]

guess who finally got around to watching heartstopper season 3!!!