#leslie answers

[genderqueerdykes]

I can't comment on your posts so, elaborate on how a man can be a lesbian? You insist on writing that they can without any backup to it.

there doesn't need to be "backup" for it, it's an identity. lesbianism is not a statistic that requires empirical evidence and research in order to make statements on. it's literally just an identity. this isn't a concrete thing that's set in stone, it's not a cosmic rule. identity is something that's unique for every person who experiences it. there's literally nothing stopping a man from identifying as a lesbian. there's nothing stopping women from identifying as gay. god won't descend from the heavens and smite or stop you from identifying this way. the world will not stop turning because male lesbians exist

you are not under threat because male lesbians exist.

i have no idea why people think specifically lesbianism has a high bar of entry, but it does not. men can be lesbians simply by identifying as a lesbian. it's that easy. it really is. you don't have to jump through hoops to "earn" an identity. if you would like "backup" for this, it's me. i'm right here. i'm a male lesbian talking to you in the flesh. lesbians can be genderfluid, multigender, bigender, non binary, men AND women, two spirit... any gender. there's no rules.

but if you seriously haven't read the works of Leslie Feinberg, they are mandatory reads to understand what we go through. Leslie was a polygender lesbian who needed to transition to male in order to feel like hir butch lesbian self. zie lived as a man for years before realizing zie was still a lesbian, but chose not to abandon hir manhood. zie lived as a transmasculine lesbian who also identified as a man for most of hir adult life. zie was a massive part of the lesbian activist community and did tons of work in paving the way for our community.

if you want to call yourself versed on what real lesbianism is, you cannot avoid reading hir works. they are essential in liberating one's self from antimasculism and transandrophobia. leslie was also a real, living, breathing male, transmasc, ftm, polygendered lesbian. ignoring the existence of transmasc, ftm and trans male butch lesbians is denying a huge part of our history and community.

listen to our community. talk to other lesbians than just cis white femmes. please actually do your own research on lesbian history, you are capable of researching these things, too. you don't have to rely on me if you don't want to take my word for things. i'm not the only male lesbian in existence. refusing to listen to transmasc, ftm, trans man and male butches erases a massive portion of our community's history. it silences people who have been here all along, whether or not you're able to accept that.

ask yourself why male lesbians in specific bother you, as opposed to any other "contradictory" queer identity. ask yourself why you have such a hard time with that, in specific. ask yourself why you are upholding a high bar of entry to lesbianism. there IS no bar of entry to lesbianism. you are one because you say you are. that is literally how identity works. you are one because you are one. no ifs, ands, or buts.

hope that helps.

[sirguyofdykesborn]

top 5 lesbians

(through laboured breathing) on it boss........ separately or at the same time?

[zivazivc]

His name is Leslie!!?

yeah

[martyrbat]

batman: shadow of the bat #0

[ID: a flashback of the outside of Wayne Manor at night. A narration box (unrelated to the scene) reads, “Ya think he's got a guardian angel, or somethin'?” Inside the manor, Leslie Thompkins and Alfred Pennyworth are talking in regards of young Bruce Wayne. They sit in a magnificent library at a small table as Bruce sits at his own desk that's across the room and has his face buried in a book. Alfred reassures her, “— Worried about him, Doctor Thompkins? I can assure you there's no need! Master Bruce has the manor to live in — myself to look after him — the best education money can buy—��. Leslie cuts Alfred off before he can continue rambling out more examples. She tells him, “It's what he doesn't have that bothers me, Alfred. Friends — hobbies — the kind of life a normal teenager looks forward to. He spends all his time in the gym, or here reading. I don't think he ever recovered from his parents' death.” We're shown Bruce, now in a close-up and able to see the book he's reading is titled ‘Lip Reading For Beginners’. Bruce peers over the book intensely as Leslie continues to express her rightful concern, “He almost seems obsessed!” END ID]

[righthandedleftturn]

Ghostbusters: Answer the Call

[whump-in-the-closet]

If you are still doing the prompts:

“I just want to go home.”

sorry this ask took me so long! Anyway I used some of my newer ocs wooo

cw: female whumpee, forced to fight, blood, possibly broken wrist, training to the point of exhaustion, a pretty fucked up training facility

Leslie escaped from the training hall with a hollowed-out exhaustion. She sat down at a bench in the back of the locker room and let the fluorescent lighting gloss over the worst of the bruises. Slowly, she began to unwind the tape around her hands, wincing when it peeled back blood and patchy cuts with the white fabric. 

The few moments of quiet, with the ventilator humming softly, did not last long. 

Kaspian, the trainer, stormed into the locker room. His face was lined and etched with layerings of scars but his uniform was always pristine. 

“You!”

Leslie stood upright, the tape around her hands hanging half unwrapped. 

“Get back in there. I don’t remember permitting you to leave.” Kaspian pointed from her to the door. 

“I didn’t ask,” muttered Leslie as she walked past him. 

“What was that?” 

“Nothing,” said Leslie. 

Kaspian shook his head. “Wrap your hands back up. You have another match.” 

Great. 

As Leslie headed back to the hall, Kaspian following her, she retied the tape– now less white and more bloodstained– biting it off to tie it. 

The training room was loud, with red-glare lighting, filled with nervous energy and stained practice weapons.

Kaspian waved her towards the ring in the back of the room. Her opponent bounced in the corner, stretching their arms and grinning.

Grinning. 

Who grinned like that? 

Their hair was tied in an intricate braid and they had a twisting scar from their bottom lip to their collar bone. That was bad. They were also far taller than Leslie. That was worse. 

Leslie shot Kaspian a look. You have got to be kidding me. 

He wasn’t. He folded his arms, the message clear.

Leslie cursed in one long breath. Then ducked under the ropes. The lights were brighter, casting blood-red shadows over the ring. It enhanced the stains already on the floor. 

Her opponent’s eyes glowed when the bell rang. 

Leslie landed one punch. 

Only one. Her wrist made a snapping sound as it connected with her opponent’s face. 

And they didn’t even flinch. 

“Fuck–” 

Leslie was knocked backward onto the floor. All her breath was knocked out with it. Her vision swam with sudden, sharp tears, and through pieces of hair, she could make out Kaspian’s disappointed expression. 

The world spinning, she pushed herself to her hands and knees. Blood gushed from her nose in a steady stream. She wiped at it, more out of surprise than pain. 

Then her opponent kneed her. 

Leslie hit the floor with a dull thud. Her breathing picked up, shallow and through a clenched jaw. 

Faster and faster and faster. 

They kicked her one last time, with a laugh. They grabbed a handful of hair and twisted her head upwards until she cried out. 

The light burned brilliantly, spiraling into thin curls of color. She could see two of her opponent, then four. 

“Say you surrender.” 

Leslie did not. “Fuck…fuck off.” 

Her opponent sneered. With a shrugged “Fine then,” they kicked her in the mouth. They dropped her head and left the ring. 

Leslie cupped her mouth with both hands, curling up on the canvas. Blood pooled over her hands and onto the gritty texture of the floor. 

White pounded in her vision, ripping through her. It twisted through every nerve, alive and eating away– fading to red.

Kaspian pulled her to her feet. “You have so much work to do,” he said as she stumbled down the stairs.

Leslie kept a hand over her mouth, trying to contain the vicious aching to only one part of her body. “I…I just want to go home.” 

“Never say that again,” said Kaspian with a sudden intensity. “If Liege Sage catches you saying that, I won’t be able to help out.” 

Home. 

“This is your home, now.” 

Everything ached.

[pocketslook]

Leslie x David Rodriguez mayhaps 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[rainofzuh]

Ok but what was that substance the white ponytail man sprayed in everyones mouths at the beginning of glass onion?? Did bron just have a vaccine for Covid from the very start????

[strawberryblondebutch]

someone check on jesse compher her bestie just got traded

Her IG story devastated me

Daryl you better step up girlie girl, that golden retriever cannot be left alone

[genderqueerdykes]

howdy, this may be a stupid question but I saw a post of yours talking about how men can be lesbians and I'm just a little confused? can some men be lesbians just because they identify with the label? and If people of any gender can be lesbians what does being a lesbian mean? my understanding may be flawed so I would really appreciate help in understanding :3

hello there! not a stupid question!

yep, men can be lesbians simply by identifying with the label, that's all there really is to it! that's how every queer identity except intersex works, in fact! in recent years, we've begun welcoming non binary people into lesbian and gay spaces- so why can't we open the doors to other people? this can be for a variety of reasons why a man would identify as a lesbian, transmascs and trans men who started in the lesbian community and still feel a connection to that identity, bi/multigender men, genderqueer men, genderfluid men, intersex men, bi and pan men who feel like their attraction is gay and lesbian instead of gay and straight, lesbian trans women who are also men, the sky is really the limit!

it's a bit complicated to define what terms like "gay" and "lesbian" truly mean, because they don't exist in a static vacuum that can encompass everyone in that given community. every lesbian has a different definition of what lesbian means. many lesbians believe that it strictly means cis women being attracted to cis women, which is definitely not how lesbianism works at all. no two queer people will ever define a queer term the same way. a lesbian is anyone who identifies as one. it can be a queer woman, non binary person, or man, or a gender well beyond that. or no gender at all.

for example, there's a loooooonnnngggg history of trans women who are also gay. many trans women still identify as gay and with the gay community even well after transitioning and not identifying as a man anymore. this has been a well documented experience since the dawn of the modern queer community in the United States, so why can't we extend the same to men and lesbianism?

when i say i'm a lesbian, i mean a lot of things. i do experience queer attraction to women ofc, but for me, lesbianism is about community and expression. it's about my love for other lesbians, dykes and sapphics, not just women. i'm a lesbian-oriented person. i resonate with the community, history, and culture. i feel right at home hearing about other lesbians' struggles and experiences with gender, expression, identity and sexuality. i see myself in other lesbians, dykes, and sapphics, and just because i'm (partially) a man doesn't mean i have to give all of that up!

i hope that makes sense! most queer identities don't have a concrete definition when you get down to brass tacks. for example "genderqueer" is not something that's easily defined at all. people love to argue about what it "really" means but there's no one answer to that. the same goes for lesbianism. the experience is too broad to be able to be defined simply by saying a lesbian is is a woman attracted to women. identity and lived experience is too varied and complex for that

feel free to have any more questions you may have! if you'd like, i highly recommend looking into the life and works of Leslie Feinberg, a transmasculine butch lesbian revolutionary and queer activist who had to transition into manhood in order to feel like hirself as a butch lesbian. zie identified as multigender and never gave up hir lesbian identity, even after living as a man for many years. it was vital to hir butch lesbian identity :) thanks for stopping by, i appreciate you asking!

[thebibi]

The weirdest Klinger did was how towards the end of the book he starts going off on long tangents in his annotations about “Oh, CLEARLY Dracula ISN’T dead” and "Mina MUST be in an unhappy marriage".

Lines up with the 1000 sequels about Somehow Dracula Has Returned and Mina and Jonathan not loving each other.

Yeah Klinger actually flip flops on this. Like he annotates Dracula as if its presenting a factual, real case. This is why everything is up for suspect, like Van Helsing speaking German instead of Dutch, or Quincey accidentally firing a gun inside of Jack's asylum because he secretly aligns with Dracula (instead of the obvious answer he was aiming at a flying bat that moved). But at the same time, when he reviewed the "official" sequel by Dacre Stoker, he said there's no way this is a real sequel when the book so adamantly gives closure for everyone (he still liked it though which is wild).

SPOILERS FOR PEOPLE DOING DRACULA DAILY 2023

There's another thing that Klinger totally misses from the epilogue that even stumped me for a while. Basically, Jonathan ends the novel saying "to the happiness of some of us" that they now have a son. Klinger points out "to the happiness of some" means someone from the main cast isn't happy. Since Jonathan is doing all the talking, it must mean Mina.

But that's not what Jonathan means. Its a coded language to explain that the Harkers have had kids while other characters have not. In Cambridge Dictionary I found that "the happy event" also is a euphemism for having a child. Its like when a parent asks their married son or daughter for "any good news" -- they aren't asking about geniune good news but about pregnancy. Klinger hasn't realized that you couldn't have Mina herself be like "I am happy to announce I gave birth", because it was still seen as a bit too intimate for the time. So yeah, weirdly enough despite Klinger's wealth of knowledge in other parts, he completely doesn't realize this. Alas.

[jack-kellys]

David and Les for the Barbie drawing prompt I beg you

@endlesslesbianabyss and @scattered-winter and also another anon pls get ur bag

send me barbie and ken pairs that are NOT: spot+race, davey+les, oscar+morris <3

something akin to this happened

[thelassoway]

Ted Lasso S01E06 Two Aces || Ted Lasso S03E06 Sunflowers

[wordup2007]

leslian

[spncrscasey]

https://www.tumblr.com/roberttchase/743842539023515648

MY FAV DUO OF PARAMEDICS!!!!! them and shay/gabby will always have my heart <33