#literary-lesbian

[the-irrelevant-trumpeter]

dammit you got me on the galvanised square steel & eco friendly wood veneers train

tumblrinas will be like “yeah my mutual got me into this media” and then that media is a bunch of low quality tiktoks about some fuckass called little john who keeps buying ridiculously small apartments and keeps on accidentally having too many kids.

[montied]

papa's pasteria!!!!!!!! is it yuor favourite papa's game

no thats papas bakeria but i finished it years ago and it is the one i used to play when i was seven and it is my second favourite. do you have a favourite

[goldenotter780]

10, 13 and 39 for the soft asks <3

10 - what’s something you’re excited for?

The new season of wwdits is definitely something I'm really looking forward to. I only watched the show recently and it's become a major thing for me now lol

13 - what’s your comfort food?

Probably pancakes! I love pancakes so much and they're just something I always tend to want

29 - morning, afternoon or night?

Night, definitely. There's just something about the darkness and the quiet that's so nice

[hyacinth--girl]

5, 16, 23, and 16 for the ask game :)

Hiiiiiiii 🫶

5. Favourite form of potato?

Gotta be THE HASHBROWN always

16. Thoughts on mint chocolate chip?

Oh man. Look idk. I don’t love it but I don’t hate it. I think I prefer a biscuit like a mint slice over actual mint chocolate ice cream, for example, but it’s rare that I’ll have either

23. Do you wear jewellery?

Tbh not a lot actually! I have some rings and some necklaces that I like and I actually wanna be one of those people that always have something on but idk I just forget before I leave the house or whatever. I also don’t have my ears pierced so it’s not like I just always have earrings in or anything either

Gonna assume you meant 26 for the last one hehe! 26. How’s your spice tolerance?

PA 👏 THE 👏 TIC 👏 truly could not be worse hahahaha

Asks!

[ringhoarder]

for the ask game :)

1-Do you have freckles?

4-Do you sleep on your back, stomach or side?

8-What’s your favorite band/artist?

15-What’s your favorite season?

29-Do you stay up late?

Aaaa thank you!!!

1- Do you have freckles?

No, I wish I did, they’re so pretty. I just have moles instead :(

4- Do you sleep on your back, stomach, or side?

I’m a terrible person to share a bed with tbh because I change positions SO MUCH. I usually end up falling asleep on my side and then waking up halfway off the bed

8- What’s your favorite band/artist

This is a tricky one cause I love so many. Some of my faves are Rage Against the Machine, Ani DiFranco, and Talking Heads.

15- What’s your favorite season?

I know everyone says they love winter and autumn but I’m a summer girl through and through, I love any excuse to go out swimming

29- Do you stay up late?

In my first year of High School I woukd stay up till about 3am on SCHOOL NIGHTS, but luckily now I’m usually fast asleep by 12

[gracieblood]

3 6 9 11 for the weirder asks GO

OOH YAY ASKS

3. depends if it’s really hot

6. because i’m a silly boy 🐀🥑💫

9. i don’t like coffee but if you put enough milk and caramel and ice in it then i might drink it

11. idk what it really means by that but i’m gonna go with the classic british response of your nan

[montied]

tagging @definitelyadamstanheight (i think youd like this)

pov: you’re in a horror movie

1. create your own look here

2. find out what role you are here

I kind of love the result I got :)

no pressure tags: @foodiewithdahoodie @queereldritch @elhaspowers @gothbower @ohfallingdisco @josephandjamie @josephfakingquinn @johnsimms @cuethemulti @can-of-pringles @loki-is-my-kink-awakening @nebulousfishgills @mimisempai @thelostsisters @lokisgoodgirl @cultofsheep @onesmainbitch @jcbbby @whumpzone @catboysienna @lussiane333 @erdarielthewhumper @abitofboth @galactic-magick @llywenn @chaos-monkeyy @highwarlockofphilly (only if you feel like playing, no pressure or anything 🥰)

if I didn’t tag you and you’d love to join, please don’t hesitate to do so. I’d love to see the results you got. everybody is welcome!

[leechjuice]

MY ANGSTY GAY CANNIBAL BOOK IS OUT NOW!

IN THE END, YOU KILL US BOTH is a novel about a lesbian arsonist rebuilding her life after a violent trauma, and the texan loner that inspires her to seek revenge on her abusers. it's also a story about relentless grief, hunger, and the unending staircase of healing.

🩸

[tehmhachi]

On Monsterfucking and Homosexuality

Oftentimes I find myself under the impresssion that hets will find some celebrity or family member coming out as gay as "depriving" them of something. Depriving them of relatability, fantasy, children, etc. The list goes on, really. In some cases, the sense of loss and disappointment is so big, the heterosexual party feels as though something has been "taken" from them. It's why they fight so hard to oh, I don't know, claim that Freddie Mercury was bi or het for starters. I also believe that in some cases, the heterosexual party believes that their beloved, heterosexual child/partner/celebrity was "corrupted" by an "outside influence" and would not be gay otherwise. How foul, they find this demon. This monster. They believe in the heterosexual "purity" of someone they claim as their own, and instead harass and abuse and frown upon the "outside party." For the purposes of this essay, the "outside party/demon/monster" will be a person.

To that end, I find the monsterfucking genre to be inherently homosexually coded in nature, the same way vampire stories very literally represent women's repressed sexuality (If anyone has any posts about this please let me know so I can reblog them) and I also find forbidden love to be apparent in both genres and a genre inextricably linked to homosexuality in and of itself. I digress. In the monsterfucking genre, the human represents the budding homosexual. The repressed. The one with everything to lose. In return, the monster represents those of us who have been damned, cursed, and driven out. The societal other, and the one who has already "lost". The taboo nature of romance with a monster is tantamount to the panicked realization of a homosexual's affections for a member of the same sex. Especially when you add sexuality into the mix, both the increasingly erotic memory of an encounter mixes with the excitement, fear, and shame of committing a taboo act, elevating the eroticism of the story and highlighting the importance of that connection. I find these themes to be incredibly effective and apparent when used to highlight the shaming of oneself by his/her closest people, the shaming of oneself by ones society, the fear of being found out, the thrill of participating in something true, and more. Finally culminating in the relief of being able to come into the light with your other, without shame or regret- with embracing arms of those you hold dear; acceptance.

Truthfully, I relate to these stories in some regard. The fear, the mental rejection of the apparent truth- the denial- the urge to fit in, to be kempt and dignified as deigned by something with no physical body. Something impossible to break down and tackle on ones own, and an oft lifelong battle with the help of others like yourself. To this end, I find the monsterfucking genre to be an effective tool to relate the homosexual experience (both good and bad) in a concise manner, as well as completely cathartic.

[phoenix-is-the-hottest-thing]

Some people need to understand queer coding opens character identities and relationships up to a solid queer interpretation, but that doesn’t equal “this character 100% fits my headcanon and if you disagree you’re a [REDACTED]”

From a literary analysis perspective, as long as your interpretation is reasonably evidence-based it’s valid. As this is fandom, I’d add “sincere” to that since unlike an academic setting we get bad faith actors but that’s it.

So, to have a valid “interpretation�� you have to do the work in good faith, and you have to be able point at the text to support your interpretation. If you can’t, or don’t want to, that’s a headcanon, and it’s totally fine.

“But this character is a lesbian she likes a girl!” There’s more to queerness than straight and gay. You could reasonably interpret a girl who likes another girl as plenty of different things:

Lesbian

Bi

Ace/aro and something else

Straight and closeted trans

Straight and lover is closeted trans

And so on.

So when you have an interpretation, someone might tell you, “I think this other thing.” The polite way to handle this if you don’t like it is to say “that’s so cool we can see different things in the ambiguity of art”. Maybe blocking each other if you dislike their interpretation that much.

That’s of course unless you both want a debate to further refine your understanding of the text or just like to argue or whatever. Which is fine! As long as it’s not overly bitter or whatever, it’s fun to discuss.

“So how do I know which interpretation is more canon than another?”

See, that’s the thing, you can’t. Canon is kind of shaky in the first place. The canon is just what’s written that’s recognized as true/correct text, not the way to understand it (and not what the author says is true, some people take Word of God as canon because it allows the following of one concrete interpretation instead of acknowledging multiple, but strictly speaking it is not). You can only interpret the canon.

For example, 4-komas bonuses of serialized manga are usually non-canon because they are jokes and not meant to be taken seriously as a part of the story’s text. That’s what canon actually is for, originally it’s to talk about which books are genuinely part of the Bible and which are to be deemed offshoots that shouldn’t be taken as a Catholic Church-endorsed religious text.

I guess that’s what gets people confused? That there’s no actual truth to imagined worlds, only what happens in the eyes of the beholder when they interact with art?

Because that’s what it means, canon often has nothing to do with who’s “actually a lesbian” short of them saying it directly. An onscreen wedding is said to “make a couple canon” precisely because there’s only so many ways you can interpret a wedding, but all that means is that the text says they’re together at a point in time. One way I can think of having a canon sexuality would be a canonical character sheet, or an omniscient narrator saying so, but everything less is basically an interpretation.

Note that interpretation obviousness can go from “that’s a stretch but I like it”, to “you only need eyes to see it”, they’re both still interpreting. Even a character talking sexuality technically only makes canon that they’re willing to say so, but that’s when critical thinking comes in.

If you hear a character say “I’m a married lesbian” and think “they’re just confused” with no evidence, you look like an idiot. You absolutely can argue which interpretation is more valid or likely by pointing out inconsistencies, stretched evidence, or that one interpretation has a higher volume of evidence/etc. This is how you avoid relativism and “nothing the text says matters” trolls.

Occam’s Razor is another way you might be tempted to try and determine whose thesis is stronger. This technique works through figuring out which interpretation requires the least amount of assumptions (saying something arbitrary is true as a basis) but it doesn’t make anything canon, or more interesting, it’s not a concrete sign of superiority. Just means it has stronger fondations.

However… your interpretation being stronger, more popular, better worded etc. or you thinking someone else’s is immoral, stupid, etc. doesn’t give you license to be a bully, to call people names, to dox them, dig up dirt to make them look worse, and so on and so forth. Thinking you’re right and they’re wrong does not make you above basic respect, politeness, or consequences. You’re not better than everyone else.

As a child, I used to think I was always right because I was logical, and I clearly made logical sense so there was no way for there to be a logical reasoning that arrived at a different conclusion. (Newsflash: Child me was very wrong! Sometimes multiple things can be equally valid! And even if they were not equal, that didn’t give me license to deride people publicly!)

Queer coding is by its nature interpretative. Coding is the author leaving hints about their characters by using a “code”. Some hints, almost everyone in your section of fandom might have the exact same interpretation about. Some hints might be dead obvious. Some hints might leave you overjoyed. Some hints you might ignore because they make you uncomfortable.

Some people will disagree with you about how they interpret the coding, or might even just state that they believe people have a right to interpret the canon however they want, even in ways you don’t like. That is normal. That is not a threat to your interpretation.

Don’t be a petty cunt about it.

Essentially,

[ringhoarder]

Even deciding my top 3 is hard, but I’d have to say Ianthe, Harrowhark and Gideon

I think Ianthe is my very special favorite just because she’s so so funny. My awful and irredeemable babygirl <3

Harrowhark cause she is jsut constantly on the verge of death, a mental breakdown, or both. I also love the fact that a cheeto would kill her.

And Gideon because I’m in love with her, obvs. Her and Kiriona are the same to me, like she’s the same person but she’s just been dressed up by Jod.

Favourite Locked Tomb character? (Or top 3 if ur like me and can’t decide)

omg thank you so much for asking!!

definitely can't just choose one, top 3 is probably camilla, pyrrha and nona but that might just be recency bias since i finished nona not that long ago

i find it difficult to sort out my feelings about gideon and harrow because they change so much? like for me there's such a disconnect between harrow in gideon and harrow in harrow, and i still don't really understand kiriona tbh. i need a reread!

what about you???

[the-irrelevant-trumpeter]

i might come back with more later but i just want to say that i'm a firm believer that vanessa can actually speak french really well and she just panicked in the pilot (also she's like me and hates actually speaking other language)

BAHAHAHAHA the thought of vanessa backstage after the pilot with her head in her hands just going “why did i start saying frère jacques oh my god i’ve been learning french since i was 13 what is wrong with me” is SOOO funny i love it

[montied]

are trains gonna save the world

of course. replace every train with either a comeng or a sprinter and there will be no more issues ever.

every government should hire me. btw. i'll solve all your financial issues by putting trains where your money should be

[xylinthia]

@ultravioletness I collaged your collages for funzies. Hope you like them, feel free to save em and print em or whatever. They're pngs at 11"×8.5" and 300 dpi before tumblr compression. You're work is very inspiring!

[firelise]

black sails is revolutionary because it begs to ask the question what if weird internalized homophobia externalized as brutal heightened violence but make it lesbian? what if we add a lil attack dog beside stoic goddess trope to that lesbian? And wrap it up in some of the best most poetic writing you've ever heard

[gracieblood]

purble :)))

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