#maybe lesbianism is a choice and maybe i'll choose it

[hwajin]

me @ men today

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

ROUND 3 MATCH 3

Edelgard propaganda:

“to summarize, she started a war but she was right. maybe her means weren't the best, but I'll always support my wife to tear down the church and end fodlan's reliance and discrimination on Crests”

"FODLANS MOST ELIGIBLE LESBIAN BACHLORETTE"

Alistair propaganda:

“this man is my first love and i was heartbroken when he lost </3 i believe in you baby”

“Alistair and the player are the last known surviving members in the country of an organization sworn to save the world from the recently reappeared apocalypse. You travel together to gather allies and he is very sweet and adorable if you choose to romance him. Depending on your choices he can become king and make the player his queen, or you can stay side by side in the organization. If you try to sacrifice yourself to save the world at the end, a romanced Alistair will take the killing blow in your stead if he’s by your side in the moment”

“He's the sweetest pun-iest man and it is so hard not to fall for his goofy charm, especially since he is the first companion you meet. He has a tragic backstory as a bastard child of royalty who was sent away to protect the heir. I always try to go in to date someone else when I restart the game and I always give in and pick Alistair.”

“I love his puns and sarcasm. He may be kinda dumb and like the epitome of boring white boy to some people, but i just love the humour he brings to the party.”

"alistair was literally forced to live in the stables growing up because the man who had stewardship of him remarried and she didn't like him; he's a bastard prince and tries to keep it secret but is almost identical to the king and you meet those two within 5 minutes of one another; he finds a rose in the middle of a battlefield and thinks how impossible it was to find something so beautiful in somewhere so terrible and it reminds him of finding you - so he saves it to give it to you; he's 20 and if you tell him to he will take the throne (even though it's always been his greatest fear - he'll do it if you're at his side); he doesnt know he's a half elf and its possible for him to live in the same castle as his mother later; he notices she looks at him strangely but he never finds out why; he's doomed to die young and so are you"

[katerinadeannika]

This is for everyone shitting on Death/Rio being in a relationship with Thanos, or Wade/Deadpool, and trying to erase her sexuality or deny the other relationships because the 'straights can't have this.'

I strongly disagree with yall, and I'm saying this as a lesbian woman in her 30's.

I'm totally up for Agatha and Rio being the biggest canon relationship for Death. But in different iterations, universes, etc..., Death ALSO has a CANON relationship with Wade, with Thanos, and with others.

We wouldn't want to erase a gay relationship if we were exploring a straight one for death instead of Death/Rio and Agatha. If they made it so that the gay relationship was retconned and we had nothing left but the straight relationship, We'd riot!

So I firmly believe we should not erase Death's other relationships either, in favor of just the gay one. That erases Death's character as a whole, and Death's sexuality. We're as bad as the people we claim to fight when we erase gender and sexuality because we want something to be true. We have Death/Rio and Agatha, and it's canon, and it's strong, and it's beautiful, and we should celebrate it! Not erase the rest of Death's character for our own whims and prejudices.

It really adds to Rio's character that she manipulated and fucked with Thanos; That she had a morbid, strong interest in Wade because she was owed his life and yet he can never die. And Wade, a raging pansexual (who you're shitting on b/c 'Wade and Death' are too straight for ya'll), said he would do whatever he could to die and give that gift to her that he had denied her for so long.

To have that kind of twisted relationship with two very powerful and prominent beings in the universe, and then to have Rio say that her only scar is Agatha, says a LOT about each of those relationships.

Death is an IT, a cosmic force that chooses to take a body and a gender sometimes, and sometimes just exists as the energy of nothingness without even a non-binary state. Just existing as a black hole to suck in and consume life. But sometimes, it takes the form of a woman, either creating one or possessing a currently living woman. (And often loving the one most loved by the person it possesses. Death married her male love during one iteration as the possessor)

So imagine with me, if you will, that after all the iterations with Wade/Deadpool, and with Thanos, Death inhabits Rio's body. A witch's body. And falls for the woman that Rio loved - Agatha.

Or if Rio is just Death's next choice of a fully original body, then that means Death falls in love with the super powerful witch Agatha, watching her and maybe even giving her the succubus powers to making sure they are always entwined. Agatha always has ties to death, and Death chooses to never fully leave her.

That's romantic (and twisted) as fuck!

That even the being who killed half the universe with a snap (Thanos) and the being who can never die (Deadpool) could not be the scar on Death's black heart.

That Death endures this forever, scarring, deep, horrific, romantic love for Agatha Harkness. I find that even more beautiful. Because Death has been around far longer than Agatha. But Agatha was too wonderful for Death to pass over.

I'll be stuck on them forever.

If you love and respect a character, don't erase the relationships you don't want to see. Look at the character as a whole, a tapestry, and enjoy them for who they are. You can have a favorite couple. But respect as you wish to be respected.

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

You're kind of stupid if you think that "religious conservative girl" you roomed with wouldn't 1) vote to have your human rights as a lesbian removed when she gets the chance, her entire church community is actively working to do that btw! 2) agree with her pastor when he says you deserve to suffer eternal torment after you die for your anti-god sexual degeneracy. She was polite to your face to avoid conflict.

I mean? At least she had more manners than the liberal girl who felt comfortable enough to berate me right to my face? Maybe you're right. I genuinely don't know. But what I DO know is that the religious girl did not stand in my kitchen and tell me that my being gay is a choice. The liberal girl did that. Maybe the conservative girl agreed with her, but she didn't say anything. She was there by the way. She listened to both me and the liberal girl and didn't jump to either of our defense. In a room with a girl telling me that being gay is a choice, the conservative girl did not jump to say "I agree!!"

Maybe she is a genuinely homophobic person, but at least she had the decency to be quiet about it and not send me literal paragraphs about how much of a bigot I am for my same sex attraction. The liberal girl did that.

I think this is referencing the post that's like "would you rather talk to a conservative of a liberal tra?"

Maybe the liberal girl isn't nodding along to a pastor saying I'm a bad person for being gay, but she certainly agrees with him all the same.

I'm just saying, if I have to choose between a conservative who is quietly homophobic and a liberal girl who is loudly homophobic, I'll take the Christian girl. We can talk about Disney, and she won't tell me about how Mufasa is evidence of a trans genocide or whatever lmao.

[quillkiller]

bellatrix pls xx

(ask game)

mwah thank u claude <3

favorite thing about them

i always tend to be the most compelled by oldest sibling-characters and that’s one of my favorite things about bellatrix aswell.. like her undying loyalty to family and especially her sisters, even if the loyalty is flawed and unhealthy, is very deeply special to me. i read a post lately about how bellatrix never used violence against her own family even if her family ended up using it against her. even after azkaban, after years of torture and dementors, she never layed a hand on. she always prioritized her family, despite it being in fucked up and harmful ways .. makes me Sick

least favorite thing about them

honestly maybe nothing ?? i think she’s one of the most interesting female characters in the hp series. she marries but never had children and ended up more powerful and demanding more respect than her husband ever did. she was voldys right hand man, despite being a woman .. she wasn’t heir to anything at all but becomes the most feared black family member of all ?? i think thats very interesting. i suppose i could be boring and say that my least favorite thing is that shes a ’death eater’ but that would be a lie :/

favorite line

"You need to mean them, Potter! You need to really want to cause pain - to enjoy it - righteous anger won't hurt me for long - I'll show you how it is done, shall I? I'll give you a lesson—” <- cunty

brotp

bella & sirius but in like a really fucked up way. in a sirius was bellas favorite cousin way and she hates him more than anything and sirius misses bella because he knew her before her name caused fear to whoever spoke it. they would play quidditch together and play fight and bella was his cool older cousin and sirius was the heir who looked up to her.. they absolutely excluded their other siblings during holiday festivites or whatever and teamed up. i Think

otp

quillkiller <3

notp

any ship with a man. bella is a lesbian to me 🤍

random hc

i think she’s kinda.. gross ? i dont think she brushes her teeth regularly and often gets knots in her hair because she doesnt like brushing it. she was the kind of teenage girl who hated her ’evolving’ body and puberty and how men started looking at her differently and how she became a ’girl’ against her own will

unpopular opinion

young bellatrix was just a pretty normal teenage girl. like yeah she was prejudiced and narrow-minded, but i really believe she was just a teenage girl who loved her sisters and laughed a lot. i dont even tend to think she was that against andys relationship with ted at first and the coin really flipped when she understood that andy was going to choose him. to bella their relationship was just a fling, bella had them too, and then when it really came down to it they would fulfill their duties and do whats expected of them. sort of hogwarts being their rumspringa shdhfjsjf if that makes sense ? <- people tend to think bella was just born crazy or evil as if it isnt in the canonical text that azkaban is what deteriorated her mental state. like yeah she wasnt a good person before that, but she was also. a person. who made those choices and had to live with them and committ to them. i dont think she just Chose to submit to voldy without second thoughts. she wanted to and she was going to do it, but she had sisters she loved and has been hurt in her life and theres just NUANCE !!!!!!!!

song i associate with them

[jessbakescakes]

i love your fic games! for the character list, i cant choose between cj, donna, or amy

You know, I'll pick Amy because no one asks me about Amy LOL!

favorite thing about them: I like that she likes dogs/has a dog. Also learning how to make the balloon animals for her nephews is endearing.

least favorite thing about them: I think she falls victim to "feminist written by a man" syndrome first and foremost, but also, maybe don't throw your partner's phone in stew.

favorite line: "Quite the contortionist am I."

brOTP: A post Season 7 Amy-Donna alliance would be incredible but honestly Amy and Abbey are such a fun dynamic.

OTP: I don't know that I have one for Amy but I feel deep in my soul that she is a lesbian, send tweet.

nOTP: Amy/Josh

random headcanon: Amy tries to watch period dramas but gets frustrated at their inaccuracies.

unpopular opinion: I don't think Amy and Josh are "the same person" except she's a woman. They both want to win, but their hard stops are different.

song i associate with them: I don't know that I have one for her, I'm terrible with songs.

favorite picture of them:

This is gonna seem like I'm being unnecessarily mean to Amy but I'll explain: 1) I find her playing with Abbey's skirt so endearing, it's so funny and it's a great acting choice/great direction/whatever. 2) MLP looks incredible in that dress.

Send me a character and I'll answer these questions about them!

[reorientation]

Stream post lesbian! I'm gonna use 🩵 to identify myself if that's not taken!

I know most girls on this app create end goals for edging, but I haven't. I don't know if I'll ever want to orgasm of my own choice again, the only orgasms I desire are the ones Men choose to give me to prove how little of a lesbian I've become.

It's actually melting my brain how you managed to guess my favorite way to edge, by reminding myself that my orgasms mean nothing, do nothing besides maybe make my holes tighter for a Man.

But a Man's orgasms create life, they do what our bodies are meant to. Breed. A Man's orgasm keeps argumentative, angry dykes like me docile and subservient. I truly believe if a Man came inside of me it would make me more submissive, why wouldn't it?

You're right.

I could've gone to any of my lesbian friends, any of the women who I know have been lesbians for over a decade. I could've been given reassurance about my lesbian identity and could've tried (maybe successfully for once) to separate myself from this.

But instead I went to a Man, a Man I knew would tell me that the best option is to keep rubbing myself thinking about cocks. A Man I knew would want to rape my virgin holes until they were molded to His cock. A Man who would give me my first orgasms to ruin me for any women ever again, then just as quickly take them away to show me my place beneath Him.

In all honesty, I've never orgasmed from penetration before and for the first time in months I decided to use my dildo (using it makes me too cock addicted and I wanted to pretend I wasn't) and reading that ask almost made me cum, I hadn't touched my clit in a few minutes, just the feeling of even a fake cock inside of me almost made me ruin all of my progress.

That's how much control Men have over me, my body is being completely rewired to feel pleasure I never have before, and I'm not sure if I'm desperate for more, or terrified of it.

I hope those women weren't expecting me to ever get back to them, because I may become a true cockslut sooner than later at the rate I'm dropping.

- 🩵

(Previously, and I probably should create an ID + tag post for my anons, given the little harem I've been accumulating.)

It's cute how easy it is to melt your brain, little dyke. Do you think you're the first girl to edge to the thought that orgasms weren't meant for you? To the knowledge that it's yet another of the fundamental asymmetries between men and women - that men create life through their pleasure, and women create life through their pain?

It's not hard for me to guess what makes that confused little brain of yours light up, especially once you've been edging a while: it makes you brainless, which makes you latch on to the very easiest things to grasp. Like the fact that women were made for men's orgasms, not their own.

Do you know how many stories I've heard about lifelong lesbians having men come inside of them for the first time? What a transcendent experience it is? You're right that a man's cum would tame you, though you're already getting pretty tame without it. A girl like you is meant to spread her legs and be domesticated - calmed by a man's cum until she's a happy little breeder.

It's good you're learning that. It's good that you're edging to my words - and that you're fucking yourself to them, conditioning yourself with the feeling of your pussy being full. It's good that you're rewiring yourself to seek servitude and men's pleasure.

And your next step is to give me something I want.

Use that dildo again. Fuck yourself with it while rereading what I've told you. Think about me spreading you open, filling you, claiming you with the orgasms that I'm meant to have and you aren't.

And come on it. Come with my permission, at my direction. Come hard, knowing that you won't be having another orgasm until a man tells you to, or one fills you with his cock. Come like a good girl, and let your identity melt away.

[amethystina]

There is a specific song that reminds me a lot of Yohan x Gaon for some reason that is very cloudy for me, sometimes I have theories but I don't know. I always hear it when I read WHTD, so you can imagine how many times it was repeated while I was reading, right? Maybe you know it, but I'll leave it here anyway.

especially in the part where she starts to say: “when you wake up next to him in the middle of the night…”

Maybe you know why it reminds me of them so much better than me. 💜

I don't know if I can say for sure since music is a very subjective thing, as is how we interpret lyrics. And I tend to be pretty literal tbh, which isn't everyone's favourite way of interpreting music. So I can honestly only guess based on what I can read in the lyrics, especially since I'm not very familiar with the artist xD

But, with that in mind, I guess it might remind you of them (and Who Holds the Devil in particular) because it seems to be a song from one woman to another woman and the second woman is pretending she's straight even if the two of them clearly has some lesbian tension going on. And I guess that's more or less the situation Yo Han is in with Ga On right now? Like, just switch "girl" to "boy," "boys" to "girls," and "next to him" to "next to her," and "his wife" to "her husband" etc. and a lot of it might as well be Yo Han speaking to Ga On.

The future wife mentioned could be Soo Hyun or just some unnamed woman that Yo Han assumes Ga On will end up with in the future, since Ga On is clearly determined to pretend that he's still straight, which means he'll probably marry at some point.

And I do think that Yo Han would be pretty petty about that, yes. I actually got an ask a while back, asking me what I thought would happen if Soo Hyun and K didn't die, but the majority of the drama played out pretty much the same afterwards. And I think we'd probably end up with a scenario quite similar to this song. Where Ga On ends up in a relationship with Soo Hyun and pretends that he's straight, but slowly but surely it becomes clear that he's really not.

He wouldn't have much luck, in other words.

Anyhow! When it comes to the lyrics, I especially like the part "You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling," which I think could have several meanings, depending on what angle you want to take. One is that "if you want to stop being gay, your only choice is to stand still and stop evolving" or "the only way to stop yourself from wanting me is for the world itself to stop spinning." And whichever interpretation you choose is pretty suitable for them, I'd say. Especially the latter is a pretty good summary of what their relationship — and the connection they share — is like if you ask me.

The only thing that could guarantee that Ga On can let go of Yo Han (and Yo Han of Ga On) is if they both ceased to exist. Nothing else would actually work.

Even if they're separated, they'd still obsess over each other.

So yeah. I can see why you draw parallels, especially if one views it as something from Yo Han's POV, where he's snarkily criticising Ga On's increasingly clumsy attempts to pretend he's still straight. Because they both know he's not.

And Yo Han would definitely be the kind of person to say "I told you so" in that situation.

[elizabeth-mitchells]

on one hand, thank you for gia posting i love that movie. on the other hand, how dare you gia post i’m sad now (/lh) (hoping you a speedy recovery after watching the movie bc it is Rough)

oh thank YOU for messaging me about it because i am Not ready to shut up about that movie!!!

so maybe it's just the immediate effect of having watched the movie for the first time and eventually i'll get over it.... but at the moment???? god it fully altered my brain chemistry. there's a whole before and after split in my life now. again maybe i'll change my mind later but last night i stayed up (crying a lot and) reading reviews and watching edits and listen... i literally put it on my top 10 of movies with lesbians. i wasn't this affected since i watched bound but bound ended well. and this one ended me.

like. is the movie perfect? probably not. did i understand the editing choices? not really. but right now it is perfect TO ME. and listen. angelina jolie is beyond perfect in the movie, but that comes as a surprise to no one because that's literally angelina jolie. but i can't even begin to tell you what elizabeth mitchell in this movie did to me... i loved her when i watched her in first kill but if i remember correctly that was evil vampire milf vibes. but here???? she was so tal and so so pretty and so kind and so smiley and perfect and it fully took my back to my gay awakening and first crushes and !!! i feel literally so weak right now!!!

they were so perfect together!! their chemistry was pure gold!! which unfortuantely also means that in the bad moments they broke my heart like no one else!!! when they're being cute in the kitchen? when linda asks her to choose between the drugs and her and gia reaches for the drugs while they're still hugging? their very last scene together?????? worst thing i have ever experienced

and oh my god their iconic lines keep replying in my head. I'll stay if Linda stays and she very much stayed!!!! Behold the florist that hsgjdfhghf omg She was like a puppy, love me love me love me... and i did. i did. right away. hello?? do you want me to be insane??? and i swear that every five minutes i can hear in my head YOU WERE THE ONE. THE ONLY ONE. AND YOU WERE AMAZING..... 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

now i'm just trying to decide if i should spend all day rewatching just their scenes... if i should rewatch the whole movie every day for a week until it stops hurting so much... if i should pick self care and just never watch this again and watch a few nice and fun movies that will heal me... if i watch other sad lesbian movies to keep the momentum going... if i should just never watch movies again <3 accepting advise to recover from this <3

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🦇 One Last Stop Book Review 🦇

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

❓ #QOTD If you could live in a different time and place, when and where would you choose? ❓ 🦇 August expects moving to New York will only prove her cynicism right. The only way to live is to do it alone. That is, until a mysterious girl on the train hands her a scarf, sparking not only a major subway crush on the Q, but an adventure that will alter August's perspective of the world forever.

💜 Oh. My. Goddess. This book. THIS BOOK. This book hit me like a freight train (yes, yes, I see the pun). It's been a month since I read it because I couldn't find the words...I still can't. But I'll try. 💜 This. Book. Why did NO ONE tell me about this book?! 💜 From page one, this book is a childhood friend reaching out and tugging you into a warm, solid embrace before lifting you off your feet, spinning you around, and causing the word to blur. Casey McQuiston's narration is familiar, inviting, intimate. I couldn't stop annotating. August is raw and vulnerable and real, but still figuring out who she is away from her mother and messy childhood. We're only lucky enough to discover the woman she is alongside her. 💜 I don't want to spoil this story for anyone who hasn't read it yet, because there's a moment that changes EVERYTHING -- the genre, the plot, August, EVERYTHING. It's executed so well that I still feel the impact. WHY am I tearing up writing a review for this a MONTH later?! 💜 The underlying messages in this story are so heavy and impactful, yet written with such ease and grace and respect. There's: 🚇 Beautiful representation and discussion about virginity 🚇 Kisses for evidence-gathering 🚇 Exploration into New York's queer history 🚇 A Chinese lesbian displaced during the 70s 🚇 Lost memory 🚇 HIV/AIDs activists 💜 Beyond that, there's a beautiful sapphic ship, quirky cast of queer side characters, and sense of found family that's beyond heart-warming. I'm completely onboard for whatever Casey McQuiston has planned next.

💜 Literary Awards: 🚇 ALA Alex Award Nominee (2022) 🚇 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance (2021) 🚇 RUSA CODES Reading List for Romance (2022) 🚇She Reads Best of Award Nominee for Romance (2021)

🦇 Recommended for all readers; namely fans of Delilah Green Doesn't Care, She Gets the Girl, and Imogen, Obviously. This book is absolute magic. I read this in February but I can already say it's one of my top reads for the year. Yes, I'm still tearing up. What is wrong with me?

✨ The Vibes ✨ 🩷 Queer Found Family 🚇 Bisexual FMC 🩷 Diverse Cast 🏙️ Coming-of-Age 🩷 Sapphic Ship 🚝 Smut 🩷 Sci-Fi Twist

💬 Quotes ❝ Truth is, when you spend your whole life alone, it’s incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in, where being alone looks like a choice. ❞ ❝ August looks at her as the train reverses past Gravesend rooftops, this girl out of time, the same face and body and hair and smile that took August’s life by the shoulders in January and shook. And she can’t believe Jane had the nerve, the audacity, to become the one thing August can’t resist: a mystery. ❞ ❝ "Your friendly smile of acceptance—from the safe position of heterosexuality,’” Jane reads aloud, “‘isn’t enough. As long as you cherish that secret belief that you are a little bit better because you sleep with the opposite sex, you are still asleep in your cradle … and we will be the nightmare that awakens you.’” ❞ ❝ August laughs and wants so badly to know what it feels like to show off the person who’s yours from across the crowd...Maybe what she really wants is to be the person across the crowd who belongs to someone. ❞ ❝ “The attraction between you two is literally a spark, and it’s the same spark that’s bringing her back into reality." ❞ ❝ “I fell in love with you the day I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice. That’s—that’s magic. You’re the first thing I’ve believed in since—since I don’t even remember, okay, you’re—you’re movies and destiny and every stupid, impossible thing, and it’s not because of the fucking train, it’s because of you. It’s because you fight and you care and you’re always kind but never easy, and you won’t let anything take that away from you. You’re my fucking hero, Jane. I don’t care if you think you’re not one. You are.” ❞

[farmerlesbian]

as a disabled lesbian it's really disappointing to see dyke and other events being held with no accessibility and pandemic considerations :( i would love to host and go to events like that but it's hard to imagine dykes even wanting to come. maybe i'll get lucky somehow and find folks who care

absolutely it absolutely sucks!! it pushes our most marginalized into further isolation and loneliness. i think it comes from this like prioritization of "coolness" and aesthetics over valuable accessibility. planning events in places that are hard to get to, difficult to arrange transportation or meals around, in buildings without elevators or ramps, and then little to no efforts regarding masks or contact tracing or testing, and all the indoor events. outdoor events are nice but have their own problems - having to walk a long way into a park, navigate bumpy terrain. another issue is so many events are in the cities, which yeah makes sense because there are more people there, but there are rural folks and suburban folks too. the thing is we are everywhere. small quiet events happen in boring and uncool places too.

anyways. yes. you are absolutely right. these problems are REAL problems are they are keeping important members of our communities isolated and alone and at home. i understand it's painful seeing these things happen and have to choose between missing out and risking your safety and health or the health of marginalized people close to you, or not even having the choice because of barriers and lack of accommodations.

what i will say is there are people out there who do care. they're not going to events either. maybe if you're able to get the word out, they'll come to your event. you will find them!! i really hope so.

also i just wanna say that my encouragement to go out and do stuff is to folks who are just nervous, anxious, shy, awkward, unsure of how to go about doing it, worried about not fitting in or being accepted, and stuff like that. yall know your situations best. i encourage folks to evaluate whether the thing(s) holding them back are genuine and real or merely worries and unfounded fears. sometimes you gotta go try it out before you know that for sure as well. being a newbie is scary and takes some bravery! i am not directing this encouragement at disabled folks or folks who're immunocompromised or anything like that, like seriously you know your situation best. event planners ought to make more effort to make it possible for yall to attend because access to community matters so much.

[cadybear420]

Cadybear's Reviews- The Haunting of Braidwood Manor

Welcome to the second official Cadybear's Reviews post! Today I'll be talking about The Haunting of Braidwood Manor, which I have ranked on the "Gold Tier" at 8 stars out of a possible 10.

I’ve played this about 4 times. Mainly because I needed the diamonds and this one is 6 chapters, so it’s easy mining. Nevertheless, I quite enjoyed this one. 

The story was pretty linear, but it was interesting and compelling with memorable characters, and it works fairly well as creepy paranormal horror. And a few points do even make me want to cry. However, I do have two nitpicks. Like, how did MC make the connection between her brother’s death and Braidwood Manor? Unless I missed something even after playing the story 4 times, it felt very out-of-nowhere and unexplained. And how come Eleanor is the only one that can be brought back to life but not the rest of the Waverly siblings? That’s not fair at all. But for the most part, those are pretty minor issues. 

It’s also kinda neat that we have a story where the main LI is female while the male LI is sidelined. Actually, I wouldn’t even say Victor is sidelined– he’s straight up a total non-character. I mean, I’m not a fan of sidelining LIs at all, but considering how so many books have treated female LIs now, this one is at least a rare change of pace. And I say this as someone who is very wlm. And I say “wlm” and not “straight” because quite simply, I don’t think I’m really straight. And Eleanor Waverly is one of many female Choices characters who I can thank for helping me realize that. Seriously, it’s super adorable how she’s supposed to be this cold stoic ghost, but then gets really blushy and flustered when you flirt with her. 

Though, as much as I appreciate the sapphic ghost romance taking the full spotlight… this book is rather pointlessly genderlocked. And probably the first ever Choices book that I would deem as such*. I mean, all you’d really need to change is the dialogue in that one set of choice options when Clarissa asks for help writing her letter. 

In the canon version, Clarissa assumes you know how to write letters to guys, and you get an option to say you’re actually into girls, and then she says how she’s cool with it and she considers sapphism very sophisticated if you choose said option. For a playthrough where you’ve chosen a male MC, she could maybe assume that you’d know what guys like to hear from girls, you could get an option to say you’re actually into guys, and she’d say it’s very sophisticated if you choose said option. Easy as that.

And as far as I’m concerned, Eleanor is only canon sapphic and not lesbian (but do correct me if I’m wrong). THOBM, I am sad that you are the start of the pointless genderlocking trend /jk

*Technically ROE is the first Choices book I could consider pointlessly genderlocked, but I’m a little more uncertain on that because there’s a handful of scenes that would need tricky coding changes such as the bachelorette party/girls night scenes. Or even before that is TFS, but I’m also a bit dubious about calling it pointlessly genderlocked because Kaitlyn is a lesbian and has a whole arc revolving around her coming out about it to her parents– but people have said that aside from Kaitlyn, the story and MC are very gender neutral, so do with that what you will. There’s also LH, but I’ll say my thoughts on its genderlocking in its own review.

So it didn’t have anything that really wowed me, but it’s still a great story that holds a very special place in my heart.

[a-frog-in-a-bog]

There's nothing "harmful" about bi lesbians. It's not perpetuating stereotypes, no bi lesbian is out here saying "all lesbians are secretly attracted to men actually" because bi lesbians are not trying to unilaterally decide what everyone else's identities mean. You're the one doing that. Bi lesbians are not proclaiming that all lesbians are bi, bi lesbians are saying "I feel like I personally am both bi and a lesbian".

Sometimes someone feels most comfortable within a particular label, and feel it best describes their identity. Everyone has a right to define themselves in a way that makes them comfortable. It's not that deep.

You have imagined harm occurring to justify a feeling that you have. The harm is imaginary, it's made up! You just have a weird feeling about how someone else identifies and have invented an ideological justification for that emotion. That's the exact same thing that drives every other type of exclusionist.

Go outside. Maybe check your house for carbon monoxide.

yeah so notice how i never said the people calling themselves bi lesbians are the ones outright saying that all lesbians are secretly attracted to men, i said the label itself perpetuates harmful stereotypes, including the one that lesbians can be attracted to men but are choosing not to be. idk if you're the same anon but i'm tired of explaining myself. bisexual and lesbian are mutually exclusive because lesbians are not attracted to men. if a woman is mostly attracted to women but sometimes men, she's bi. if a woman is attracted to all genders but prefers women, she's bi. if a woman is attracted to all genders but has only been with women, she's bi. if a woman is attracted to all genders but only wants to date women, she's bi.

lesbian is supposed to be an exclusive label. that's the point. because women are and always have been expected to revolve our lives around a man, there was a need for a word that meant "attracted to women, exclusively, has zero desire for a romantic or sexual relationship with a man." (yes, i'm aware that lesbian was a catch-all term for sapphic women a hundred years ago. but that's bc lesbianism was considered a deviant sexual behavior, not a type of love. also, bi women were considered straight when we were with men and gay when we were with women.)

bisexuality, on the other hand, is incredibly inclusive. the full definition is "attraction to same and different genders". that's it. literally everything else is a personal preference. you don't need to tack on other identities to make it fit you, bc it already does. the only reason labels like bi lesbian, pansexual, multisexual, omnisexual, and whatever the fuck else y'all are coming up with these days exist is bc people are misinformed on what bisexuality really is.

so yeah. not only does it perpetuate harmful stereotypes and whittle away at the only word lesbians have to describe themselves, it's also just fucking disrespectful to bisexual and lesbian history.

i've already given you more of my time than you deserve but i'll finish with this: it's very telling that people will bend over backwards to come up with ways to fit men into lesbianism but nobody defends or identifies as a bisexual gay man, bc men have always been allowed to live full, complete lives without women-- a choice women were not allowed to make until relatively recently, and one we still face societal consequences for.

[lomkaill]

And so people, a very important question about my character! (the one on my avatar)

REQUEST

Can I ask you to make the max reblog?... No?... Okay, I'll do without it...

WHY DO YOU NEED TO PRESS THE BUTTON?

I want to solve this issue with your help, and still see how this idea looks from the outside, how much I can disgrace myself and cause negativity with one post. And yet, if you don't want to read everything, just poke as you please. It will be very interesting for me to follow the survey.

Okay, now I'll help you make a little choice, okay?

Geterosexual couples.

Why Triffany and Wambus?

If we choose between Getero couples, then we are all well aware that her coat and hair color is not suitable for Wambus and Triffany. However, if the most votes are on this option, I will definitely make changes.

Why Wiggle and Gramble?

I think it will be more suitable to geterosexual couple, how Gramble and Wiggle without changes, because Wiggle has a similar coat color. But I can still change the color of her hair to pink, but I can also leave it as if it were a beautiful genetic mistake ;)

Homosexual couple.

Why Chandlo and Snorpy?

As for the gay / lesbian couple, here, in order to have a child, you need to either adopt him, or one of the partners can be 🏳️‍⚧️. Because of her fur and hair, and because of her strength, she can approach a pair of Chandlo and Snorpy. You might think that Chandlo is transgender (I don’t know why the Bugsnax community decided this), but I haven’t heard anything from the developers. Sorry, of course, maybe I made a mistake somewhere, but you will definitely write to me what I could write wrong. But I still prefer the option of adoption. Let her resemblance to Snorpy be an interesting coincidence ;)

Why Lizbert and Eggabell?

What can I say about Lizbert and Eggabell... About the fact that they stayed on the island... But you can turn on ✨FANTASY✨ (AHHHAHA) and imagine that they also escaped. Then I think everything is nice here: Lou, seeing who Eggabel's mother works, also wanted to become a doctor and even better! And here the version about the adoption of a child is just perfect.

Why no?

Why not? Because I haven't fully told you everything about my character yet, and I don't draw him as often as orb-the-watchman, ponshroom, es_does_art and others. Perhaps I should first make my post about my character and revealing his character and qualities so that you can choose what suits best. Well, I probably don’t deserve it, because why the hell is some left-wing girl suddenly making her character the child of a canon couple, which is known to 1.5 readers and one Spaniard. Very arrogant of me, I understand everything. Oh well :D

[lethekazhorai]

It really bothers me when people use "Class S" as an abstract label to contrast subtextual/euphemistic yuri with more overt yuri (I almost phrased that part as "a derisive label for yuri they don't think goes far enough", but I will try my best to be charitable.)

If the person I'm subtweeting (I don't know the word on Tumblr. Subtumblring?) happens to see this post, I'm really sorry. I have nothing against you personally, this is just something that's bothered me for a while and your post was the final push for me to rant about it.

First of all, Class S is a genre term, not an abstract label. It refers to stories about schoolgirls (more rarely, one of them will be a female teacher), one usually older than the other, who form strong and exclusive one-on-one bonds with one another where they practically become each other's entire world.

The most archetypal Class S story that anyone who doesn't read prewar Japanese literature is likely to encounter is Maria-sama ga Miteru, though it doesn't quite conform to the classic definition in some ways, such as playing it fast and loose with the "one-on-one bonds" thing. Other notable modern works are the FLOWERS visual novel series, Strawberry Panic, and Yuri is my Job! (a parody.)

I'm starting with this point because once in a while I'll see people describe things like Hibike! Euphonium as "Class S" and it's really weird. A school setting doesn't make something Class S, and neither does subtext yuri or yuri which one finds subjectively unsatisfying.

Second, while early Class S stories were rarely explicit about the characters being in love (especially in any physical way,) there was a good reason for that. And that reason is because the genre originated in prewar Imperial Japan. Anything that got published was first reviewed by the Home Ministry for, among other things, homosexual content.

The lady considered to be one of the first major Class S authors, Nobuko Yoshiya, was openly lesbian in a time and place where it was not easy to be a lesbian. She had to adopt her lifelong lover as her daughter because that was the only way for them to be in some sort of legally recognized relationship. Early Class S authors didn't choose not to write unequivocally lesbian novels because they didn't want to—it would have gotten them thrown in jail and their work suppressed if they had.

Third, and most importantly to me, relationships without kisses or physical intimacy or declarations of love aren't inherently lesser than those that do have them. Aromantic people exist. People who don't or can't love others in ways that align with social norms exist. I'm pretty sure I'm one of them myself.

I won't argue that if a story stops just short of making a yuri relationship overt and undeniable, the ulterior motive behind that choice is likely to have been anything other than a capitalist one, but who are we to judge? Maybe that one girl really does just wants to hug her girlfriend and smile at her and call her "onee-sama." Maybe kissing and saying the L word just aren't for her.

You don't have to like Class S, or subtext yuri. But the relationships in them aren't lesser.

To express myself more clearly and succinctly:

Most of the stuff people call "Class S" isn't

There's nothing wrong with real Class S either

[darishima]

choose violence ask game, 7 for kakegurui, 2 and 10 for sge !

ohh 7 is so hard actually.. the only kkg characters i hate are ones that like. everyone hates. (cough cough jun kiwatari). i guess the closest i could say to that is yumeko or mary, NOT because i actually hate them (i love them) but bc i feel like they get sooo much attention from the fandom and other, more minor (or even major) characters get sidelined. i do NOT hate them though i just want other characters to get attention too (give terano some love guys) oh actually another character that's kinda close to that is yuriko, cause every ships her with midari. i do like the ship but yuriko is just such a minor character that i find it hard to love her, and then seeing everyone ship her with my Fav Of All Time is a little. like. come on guys yumedari is Right There. why must you pick yuriko of all people. based on like two canon interactions. ugh. but i still like yuriko she's cool

okay as for 2 and 10 these are gonna be a liiitle hard because i havent majorly interacted with sge in so long but i'll do it for you babe 2: i'll pick anadil bc she's always been my baby, she would NOT top hester. i know she has zero canon personality but pretty much her only character trait is being hester's henchmen, and i feel like that would extend to fucking. i could see her being a service top maybe, or Maaaybe a power bottom, but she just has very submissive/bottom vibes to me cause she's always submissive to hester in general 10: this is Really Hard. um. can i just say literally anything that isn't hestadil. truly i do not care about anything else. okay but honestly i'd have to say hophie probably. sophie to me is a lesbian for one, but also i think her character arc is genuinely ruined with hophie. like, the whole POINT of her development is that she learns she doesnt need a boyfriend/love interest/prince, and she's content to live her life without one. the fandom shipping hophie always irked me because it just contradicts her character but then soman actually MAKING IT CANON AT THE END. UGH. DONT FUCKING GET ME STARTED. soman i love you but you have made some drastically misguided choices. jesus christ. also i never really liked hort lmao