#my sisterhood

[jamieswoodenspoon]

i cannot express to anyone enough how much cc cooked changing white cordelia verlac to brown it girl cordelia carstairs genuinely sounds ridiculous when i try to explain this but herondaisy and the verlac family would not have had the same oomph hear me out

[grendel-menz]

crying in my room rn actually .

[a-study-in-bullshit]

[muppet-slit]

Croaker on a Cross

[suja-janee]

Oh woooow look- they totally rebooted sub-zero mythologies /j

[terven-queen]

To all trans men reading my blog out of hate/boredom/existential despair/curiosity/etc: I love you, I hope you have a good week, idk anything about y’all but wherever you are in life, I wish you healing. Please don’t believe any myth that radfems hate you: we don’t. We want to protect you and other female humans more than anything in this world. You deserve to be happy and I hope one day you are.

[two-bees-poetry]

antigone was right

[girltalkcollectives]

The Dark Side of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’

I still remember sitting in the principal’s office, knees scraped and uniform dirty, trying not to cry while explaining why I pushed Tommy back on the playground. For weeks, he’d been pulling my hair, chasing me during recess, and ruining my art projects. That day, he’d grabbed my favorite hair ribbon and thrown it in a puddle.

The principal’s response? A warm smile and those words I’ll never forget: “Oh sweetie, he’s only mean because he likes you! Boys don’t know how to show their feelings at this age.”

I was six. That was my first lesson that my discomfort was less important than a boy’s feelings.

And before anyone jumps in with “boys will be boys” or “it’s not that serious” — let me tell you how that lesson played out over the years.

By fourth grade, I stopped telling teachers when boys would snap my bra strap because I was tired of hearing “that means they think you’re pretty!” I learned to be flattered by harassment before I even knew what harassment was.

In middle school, when Jake wouldn’t stop following me between classes and grabbing my backpack, my own mom said, “He probably just doesn’t know how to tell you he has a crush!” So I stopped mentioning it, even when it escalated to him “accidentally” running into me at my locker every day.

“But they’re just boys!” people say. “Stop making everything so serious!”

Okay, let’s talk about how “just boys” grow up.

That same Jake who learned his harassment was “just showing affection”? By high school, he was the guy who wouldn’t take no for an answer at parties. But hey, he “just liked me,” right?

Tommy from first grade? Last I heard, he had multiple harassment complaints at his college. But I bet someone’s still saying “boys will be boys!”

And me? I spent years unlearning the idea that love is supposed to hurt. Years figuring out that someone making me uncomfortable isn’t a compliment. Years understanding that my instincts were right all along — I wasn’t being “too sensitive,” he wasn’t being “sweet,” it wasn’t “just a crush.”

To everyone saying “it’s not that deep” or “stop overthinking” — you’re part of the problem. Because while you’re dismissing these “little” incidents, girls are learning lessons that follow them into adulthood:

When my first boyfriend threw my phone because he was “passionate?” I heard: “He’s only mean because he likes you!”

When my college classmate wouldn’t stop asking me out after ten nos? I remembered: “He just doesn’t know how to show his feelings!”

These aren’t separate issues. They’re the same lesson playing out over years.

We’re teaching girls that love looks like discomfort.

That harassment means attraction.

That their boundaries matter less than boys’ feelings.

That being hurt means being loved.

And to those saying “not all boys are like that” — you’re missing the point. It’s not about all boys. It’s about what we teach ALL girls about what they should accept.

Because that six-year-old girl with scraped knees grew up to be a woman who had to relearn what love actually looks like. Who had to realize that real love doesn’t pull your hair, push you down, or make you cry.

So no, it’s not “just boys being boys.”

It’s not “making a big deal out of nothing.”

It’s not “too serious.”

It’s the first chapter in a book too many girls have to unwrite later.

And maybe if we stopped telling little girls that harassment means love, we’d have fewer women trying to convince themselves that abuse means passion.

[muppet-lurker]

Death and Rebirth

Lurk | 7/31/24 | MS Paint

[visenyaism]

of course movies are supposed to make you feel something it’s just that greta gerwig’s filmography manages to somehow specifically activate the exact state of my brain in seventh grade when i realized that my cishet girl peers were having life experiences that i could not ever be included in or understand because they were cishet girls and i wasn’t. sad!

[tshortik]

Played The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood and had such a good time with it!! You play as a witch making a pact with a behemoth and end up creating your own tarot deck :>

[ryan-sometimes]

I love women, not just in a gay way, but in a much bigger way. Women fuel my love for humanity. My platonic friendships with women taught me love and companionship more than any romantic/sexual relationship. But it’s not just the women I’m close to, it’s all of them. Women that I never met will walk past me and compliment my outfit just to make me feel beautiful. The fact I can walk into a public bathroom and a complete stranger will give me a tampon if I need one. The way random women will shower you with love in the bathroom of a club at 1am. How I can lock eyes with any woman across a party and with one look, she knows to pull me away from the creepy man talking to me. Women taught me companionship and sisterhood, and for that, I love them deeply.

[orallech]

Games Played In 2023: Part 1 of 2

[muppet-slit]

divine inspiration came upon me like joker upon kermit. there is no universe where I didn't paint this.

[suja-janee]

At this point she’s just my oc

Always fun to design stuff for my precious 🫡

[sojutrait]

touring wedding venues YAHOIE. unfortunately the day of the wedding i have to use black out curtains bc the game has a conniption with the lighting whenever u use floor to ceiling windows BUT LOOK AT WHAT COULDVE BEEN !!!

getting ready for the big day GULP

WEDDING !

NOW.... be careful who u call ur maid of honor. we let her slide... FOR NOW.