#stranger on lesbos

[queerliblib]

Pulp Fiction anyone??!

Here at Queer Liberation Library we’ve got you covered! from Beebo Brinker, to the Gay Detective, this was such a fun collection to put together for our readers

they are flying off our digital shelves though, so get your holds in when you can! 🌈

[legendarydragonperson]

So I smelled the eddie munson jacket candle at bath and body works today and i went back for seconds before leaving... someone should smack me in the head cause it actually smelled really good

[prettyygrrl]

haii sorry guys i been ia cus i got a bf

[aliciameade]

Darkness at Dawn - Ch. 1

Title: Darkness at Dawn Author: aliciameade Rating: M/E Pairing: Stephanie Smothers/Emily Nelson Summary: Even Bonnie & Clyde met their fate eventually.

Set five years after "Baby."

Also on AO3

“Smooch, honey, can you get the door?”

“Bro, stop calling me that!”

“Letting him answer the door unsupervised? What if it’s a stranger here to abduct him?” Emily whispers in her ear conspiratorially. She pitches her voice toward the living room where their messy-haired pre-teen sons have been playing Fortnite for the past hour. “Connor, she’ll stop calling you ‘Smooch’ if you stop calling us ‘bro’!”

They’re making dinner—well, Stephanie is making dinner; Emily is observing over a shared martini. “He’s twelve and we know everyone in this village. It’s probably just Helen dropping off tomatoes from her garden. She mentioned she’d be stopping by soon.”

Her response surprises even herself. She’s spent the better part of the past six years working on her anxiety and propensity to helicopter-parent her children. Life is slow in Santorini. Stephanie—Alyson Reid, as the town knows her—is the proud owner of the bakery she began working part-time after she got a new identity and flew halfway around the world from Connecticut to start a new life in Greece.

After she killed her wife’s troubled, secret twin sister and set up Emily’s then-husband Sean for the murder of his wife. It had been surprisingly easy—the framing, not the killing. She’d sown a few seeds of suspicion with the detective working the case. Emily confided that he had been cheating. Emily asked for a divorce. Sean had a dark side, and Emily was afraid of him. So afraid that Emily had signed over her assets to her best friend Stephanie Smothers to ensure her son Nicky would be taken care of should anything ever happen to her. A pillar of Warfield, Stephanie’s testimony at Sean’s trial was the final nail in their old lives’ coffins.

She and Emily just celebrated their third wedding anniversary a few weeks ago. They’d gotten married on the coast of the island of Lesbos, an idea Emily had come up with over a second bottle of wine that had made herself laugh so much that Stephanie had no choice but to agree. They’d sailed there as a family, something they were both proud of being able to do on their own. They took their vows at sunset, the only guests were their sons and two people Emily had bribed with a hundred Euros each to be their witnesses, and they’d found the officiant by asking around.

After their honeymoon in Portugal, Stephanie changed the name on her passport for the third time in her life: first from her maiden name to Stephanie Smothers, to Alyson Barrett, and finally to Alyson Reid, Dillon Reid’s new wife. Dillon Reid, formerly known as Emily Nelson, formerly known as Claudia, formerly known as Hope McLanden. Brothers Connor and Devon Reid, formerly known as Miles Smothers and Nicky Townsend.

They’ve lived a dozen lives.

The boys don’t remember much about their past, and they’ve forgotten their old names. Stephanie still calls her son ‘Smooch’ because that’s never had to change. She didn’t have to abandon Smooch.

She and Emily tend to stick to pet names most of the time as well; it’s easier that way. More natural, at least when they’re around other people.

Behind closed doors, in the privacy of their home, away from even their children, an old name might slip out now and then, especially during a thoughtless moment brought on by passion.

Though Emily’s rarely called her anything more than ‘Baby’ since the day they met.

“Proud of you for taking off the training wheels.” She feels Emily’s hand catch her chin and turn her face to kiss her soundly despite Stephanie actively chopping a zucchini.

She smiles into the kiss and it makes the part of her still a bit tender from their morning start to ache. “What time’s your game tomorrow?” she asks when they part.

Dillon Reid is the head coach of the secondary school’s boys’ soccer—football—team. She’s always been good at getting men of all ages to do what she says. 

“9:30, so I’ll probably be gone before you’re awake. Warm-up’s at 8:00.”

Tomorrow is Saturday and Stephanie’s only day off from the bakery. Thankfully, as the boss, she doesn’t have to be there before dawn like her employees need to be to bake off the day’s inventory, but she makes a point to be on-site almost every day. She loves her team and she loves her customers, and she’s gotten pretty darn good at speaking Greek with the immersion in the culture.

“Okay, we’ll meet you there. Wanna go to Apollo’s afterward for lunch?”

Emily groans. “That place is such a tourist trap. I don’t know why you love it so much.”

“Because it’s the only place on this island that knows how to make an American cheeseburger. Pleeeeease?” she pouts, knowing she’ll get her way.

“Fine,” Emily says with an eye roll. “I’m getting onion rings.”

“Uh, Mom?” Connor’s voice is strained as it floats through the living room to the kitchen and Stephanie drops the knife onto the cutting board. “Mom!”

“What? What is it?” she says, rushing into the other room. She hears Emily follow and before she’s finished processing the two men wearing dark suits standing in their doorway, her son looking back at her, eyes wide, Emily’s stepped in front of her.

“Emily Nelson?” the man asks.

Emily doesn’t respond. The arm she’s wrapped around Stephanie in a reverse embrace tightens.

“Stephanie Smothers?”

“Bro, what?” Devon says from the floor where he is still playing their video game. “You got the wrong house.”

“Devon,” Emily admonishes.

Stephanie’s heart is in her throat. She feels she might pass out and leans into Emily’s strong frame, wrapping her arms around her waist. She breathes in her perfume. She thinks about the game they’re going to miss tomorrow. About Emily and their sons proposing to her in the very spot they’re standing now asking her to be a family. How they thought they had been so careful.

“Boys, I need you to go upstairs, please,” she says urgently, hoping the fear she’s feeling isn’t as evident in her voice as it sounds to herself. She hears Devon pause the video game and the shuffling of the boys grabbing their phones and chargers and has an even worse realization than she’d already had.

She steps out from behind Emily just in time for Connor—forever her little curly-haired Miles—to pass and she wraps him in a hug that makes him groan and protest until he seems to understand something serious is going on and he hugs her back. He’s as tall as she is now. “Listen to me, sweetheart,” she whispers in his ear. “You know the safe in my closet?” She feels him nod. “The combination is your birthday. There’s a red envelope inside. Call Helen. Ask her to come over. Give her the envelope. Do you understand?”

“Yeah. What’s going on?”

“I’ll explain when I can. Everything I did, I did so we could be happy. Remember that I love you.” She kisses his forehead and chokes back a sob before he can notice the tears in her eyes. “Upstairs.”

She can hear Emily whispering to Devon as well and then the boys stop and switch to hug their other mother, and they disappear upstairs.

She and Emily are now alone in their living room, two men at the open door, each holding a thick packet of folded paperwork.

“I’m Detective Inspector William Gareau. This is Sergeant Mark Gibson. We are agents of INTERPOL. Do you know why we’re here?”

Emily’s hand intertwines with Stephanie’s. Neither responds.

The men step forward, crossing the threshold into their home, their sanctuary, and that’s when Stephanie realizes it’s not just two men—half a dozen black-uniformed officers follow, flooding into the house and flanking them, surrounding them. Nowhere to go.

The Detective Inspector unfolds the papers in his hand. The officers in the room move. She’s pulled away from Emily, fingers slipping out of her grip as her hands are pulled behind her back. As cold steel clicks around her wrists.

“Stephanie Ann Smothers and Emily Claudia Nelson: I'm arresting you for the murder of Faith Margaret McLanden, having taken place in the State of Connecticut, the country of the United States of America, insurance fraud, money laundering, kidnapping, conspiracy, perjury, and false identification. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence. Do you understand?”

She’s not sure she’s able to speak. She’s dizzy. The room is spinning.

“It’s going to be okay, baby,” is the last thing she hears before her ears start ringing and her world goes dark.

[sturnslesbo]

you can call me tori 🌟

prns are they/she

i’m a 22 y/o black lesbo with an lot of love for the sturniolo triplets lol. avid tumblr user, whole new acct just for my fave white boys :)

i’m an editor on ig/tt but i’ll probs mostly lurk on here becuase i just like reading fanfics n a lot of y’all are amazing writers, but my dms are open for new friends, i know no stranger (like i said, avid tumblr user)

i am also a writer but i mostly like to write about my little lesbian ocs so don’t expect much of that on here, if any

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[dyouknowwhatimean-archive]

heyyyy sorry for always begging for movies but i am not one of god’s movie watchers so idk how to find good ones. do you have any gay movie recs? and also lesbian ones

never apologize for making me talk about movies my favorite thing to do in the world!!

i'm not really one of those people who has a list of lgbt films they like so i'm probably forgetting a bunch but i love plata quemada (2000), michael (1924), my own private idaho (1991), anything by gregg araki is a good bet, most almodóvar movies, god's own country (2017), i watched all of us strangers (2023) and i loved it, obviously you've already heard of movies like brokeback mountain or moonlight but in case you haven't watched them they really are as good as everyone says... making this list and really struggling here realizing i might not have the fujoshi temperament after all...

for lesbian ones it's easier cause i'm a lesbian. in no particular order mulholland drive (2001), the hunger (1983), black swan (2010), bound (1996), benedetta (2021), the lure (2015), but i'm a cheerleader (1999), vampyros lesbos (1971), high art (1998), disobedience (2017), the handmaiden (2016), anything by jean rollin, debs (2004), alucarda (1977), love lies bleeding (2024) which against all odds i did end up loving so so much.. okay i'm gonna stop now

also let me plug a couple of lists i love

[snaxle]

im a faggot and a dyke and a tranny but if a total fucking stranger called me by those words without my consent, i would tear them to fucking shreds

im going to be completely honest i do not enjoy being called queer slurs in real life, even in a reclaimed sense, even by other queer people. im not gonna get into why because i feel like it's just more personal. however, i am perfectly fine calling myself these things online, and very rarely will i call myself a dyke/lesbo in real life but only in front of very specific people. personally if a queer person in real life called me a faggot, dyke or something else, i would have to ask them not to and hope they respect that. it's just a manner of preference and basic boundaries and i feel like so many people heard the words "reclaim homophobic slurs" and just immediately thought calling random strangers these things whenever without asking first is a completely fine and normal thing to do. idk if that makes sense

[b1adie]

ARCADIA ANGELVIRUS xxiv × mirror pronouns × aro lesbo

… or just ari, or cadi…

this is a sideblog, main is a secret ^_^

SOME RULES;

please don’t send me any nsfw content unless you’re an adult and i’ve asked

if you want to repost some of my stuff, if it’s just a text post edited onto a pic, credit isn’t required (but still appreciated)! if it’s anything more complex, please do credit me, preferably with a link back to the original post. i spend way longer on my silly little edits than you’d expect.

i would appreciate if you could avoid tagging my posts with anything like ‘daddy/mommy’ even in a joking way, unless you are using it only as a parental term. keep in mind that i’m a real guy and have to see all of your tags…

don’t comment sinophobic stuff on my posts (ie. “they’ll never make a gay relationship canon because its a chinese game” etc). don’t do any bigoted stuff really but thats the one i’ve mainly seen

you’re welcome to dm me, but please keep in mind that we start off as strangers, so something you think is funny could be misconstrued as rude or confusing on my end. tone indicators are absolutely fine to use if you’d like. conversely, feel free to ask me for clarification on anything you need, i don’t mind! i know i can be hard to read sometimes.

i’d also prefer you have an age (or at least age range or indicator like minor, 20+, etc) listed if you dm me, but obviously you don’t need to tell anyone anything. that’s just for my own personal comfort. i’m fine being friends with anyone, but a friendship with a high schooler would look a lot different than a friendship with someone around my own age.

if you make/find any art or content about worm theory you have to show it to me asap

DONT PISS ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FAQ;

(something about genshin impact or wuthering waves or zenless zone zero)

please send that to my genshin blog or my wuthering waves blog OR my zenless zone zero blog instead! (@nabumalikata + @threnodian + @nicoledemaras)

(any lore question)

if i know it i’ll go find the source for you. if i don’t know, you can ask anyway and there’s a good chance i’ll go hunt down some answers for you. i love lore. i know everything

how do you make your (edits/gifs/etc)?

for silly edits usually just picsart, but procreate for the more intense ones. gifs i use a yt downloader site, then capcut to edit, then ezgif. videos either splice or capcut. glitters i made a tutorial here, but like, my method is really complicated since i’m always on my phone, so there’s probably an easier way if you have a pc…

can you make a gif/edit/glitter of this?

probably! be specific with what you want— send me pictures or direct links if you can. requests are always open, just keep in mind i may not do every single one i get, and if i do, it may take a while. BUT!! if you REALLY want some gifs made, you can commission me for them! not required ofc, just an option.

why didn’t you answer my ask yet?

sometimes i see an ask pop up in my activity feed so i answer it right away. otherwise it has to wait til i decide to open my inbox. if it’s an ask that requires some time, like asking about lore or builds or opinions, it’ll probably take me longer to get to. i’m a busy guy, i work 13 hour shifts irl and have chronic hand tendonitis which makes typing hard. ofc if you’re worried tumblr ate your ask, you’re fine to send another, just please don’t be rude or pushy about it, i promise i’ll get around to it ^^;

(worm theory) actually the noblesse worm died because it had so much knowledge so ratio cant be—

he’s a new worm. aha’s second worm. and, the first worm didnt die because it had too much knowledge, it died because aha took its power away.

do you ship (xyz) / how do you feel about (ship)?

probably sure + fine. i can pretty much get behind anything, i’m a multishipper, fine with poly and switching and whatever. the exceptions are child x adult and shipping family members in a romantic or sexual way. 👎.

this thing you said was incorrect!

woops! it happens. bring a source if you’re gonna correct me though— not cuz i don’t believe you, but because i love being right and need to be right next time. if this is about a theory, though, well… sometimes theories dont turn out right. its not MY fault hsr wasn’t cool enough to make Something Unto Death the corrupted remnant of Mikhail’s soul. whatever… my theory is just better than canon

you tagged a post with (character) but they’re not in it!

ah man. i mass tagged everything and am gradually going back and fixing it… send me a link to the post and i’ll edit it!

i’ll add more as i think of it…

[oingomyboingos]

i’m so frustrated on past me’s behalf. stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

i’m in high school coming out as bi. every time i walk to class strangers ask me if i’m a lesbo because they saw me and my partner holding hands. gay friends start making useless lesbian jokes about me. I don’t have the heart to correct them because for once they’re seeing something about me as funny and they at least don’t call me slurs. I am called a lesbian by other bi women because “you don’t date men.” I don’t really date much of anyone after my ex. i’m confused

i’m in undergrad coming out to relatives and getting told by family that “it’s all a phase.” even my aunt who is bi tells me, well-meaningly, that “you don’t know who’s out there, could be lots of guys for you.” I cannot describe why the idea of being with a man as I am makes a scared animal try to claw its way out of my chest. I start identifying as a lesbian, so as to avoid thinking about it.

I’m in senior year laying on the floor. the ceiling fan blades spin overhead. unrelated, I am going to vomit. related, I am a boy. sometimes. and something else indescribable. but I like being a girl? what do I do with my hand sewn skirts and corsets? my head is in a panic but the beast in my chest has finally found some rest.

I am a graduate student stuck living at my parents’ house during lockdown. I feel trapped, but my friends help me think about things other than family troubles. we watch bad dating shows and one friend yells at me for commenting on the bodies of the men. I am not allowed to have comments on men she finds attractive. “you’re a lesbian, no one cares what you think about them anyway.” “lesbian” not “dyke” or “lesbo,” but the word still stings with a familiar smart. it feels more like a cage than a safeguard at this point.

I am living on my own. one of my coworkers who loves playing matchmaker tries to set me up with my other coworker. I cannot get the words “sorry i’m a dyke” to come out of my mouth. somehow, they get stuck between my tonsils. I share that I think i might be bi with a different friend. we get high and her boyfriend tries to use me as their unicorn, without either her or I’s prior consent or conversation. My mental health spirals.

I move in with friends. I am happier than I have ever been. I buy a binder and give myself an asthma attack from how much euphoria I have from being able to run up and down the stairs without bouncing. I wear a vest and trousers. I start a collection of silly hats and sunglasses. I schedule a top surgery consult. I avoid getting insurance approval. that would make it all feel too real. I don’t deserve nice things.

I am still trying to muster up the courage to figure out when I am doing something that brings me joy, and when I am simply on the path of least resistance. by now, I know myself enough that joy has an easier to make out outline. I know the path to it. it’s just getting there that’s the problem. crawling uphill while my own insecurities pile in a mountain beneath my feet.

it is twelve past five in the morning and I am writing this. I don’t know why—but it feels good. my gender and my sexuality feed off each other in odd loops, and i’ve never heard anyone else talk about something like this before. maybe shouting into this void will help find others. maybe it will just give me the space to air it out. I need to email my psychiatrist about my insurance letter. thinking of it makes me anxious. but I will try and sleep now. tackle those mountains tomorrow.

[send-me-a-puffalope]

HII IDK WHO YOU ARE I FOUND YOUR BLOG BECAUSE YOURE A SAPPHIC FNAF TRUTHER BUT APPARENTLY ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! FROM A FELLOW SAPPHIC FNAF STRANGER!!

LMFAOOOOOFJWJDISK it’s desperate in these parts, us fnaf sapphics need to congregate and form our own lesbos pangaea. and TYSM SAPPHIC FNAF STRANGER ❤️❤️❤️ I APPRECIATE YOU SM

[anniebass]

She's a pit pig 💨🐽

[thebreakfastgenie]

Why are you comfortable with using some words considered slurs? Like I assume there are people who have been or are hurt by those words too

There's a lot more depth I could give this if I spent a lot of time on it, but the short version is context.

I still have mixed feelings about words like dyke and lesbo, and I only ever use them to refer to myself (or once I said a character was having an "ok dyke" moment which was a Tig Notaro reference). Queer is a slur, but it is not only a slur, and at this point it simply has too much mainstream functionality to not use it, so I do when it's appropriate. I also use queer only as an adjective, I may say "queer people" but I will not say "queers," I may say someone "is queer" if they identify with that label, but I will not say someone is "a queer."

People often bring up that gay has been used as a pejorative, but even at the peak of that, it was also in mainstream neutral and positive use (gay rights, gay marriage, etc.). Queer is now in mainstream use, it's used by many organizations and in academia.

Even dyke, which I would not be okay with a stranger calling me outside of very specific spaces, has certain mainstream uses: a straight friend may ask about Dyke March, or attend themselves, Allison Bechdel's comic strip is called Dykes To Watch Out For.

The f slur doesn't have any of that. There is no context where it is anything but a slur. It was the preferred slur of the nastiest homophobes in my country in very recent history. Do you remember the GOD HATES F**S signs? I was a gay tween seeing those in the news all the time. The f slur is considered bad enough in 2023 that when Ted Lasso did an entire storyline about someone using it, we did not even hear the word spoken.

I live with a gay man who uses the f slur in certain contexts. I saw a man wearing a t-shirt with that word at the gay bar. These are okay with me, because there is a context. But being constantly bombarded with it by strangers who use it like a two-year-old who just overheard their parent say fuck doesn't feel good. It's a hurtful word. It's not a word I trust straight people with, which means it's not a word I trust stranger with.

This may not be evident from your end, but I do put a lot of thought into when and how I do use words that can be considered slurs.

[wiimotion]

The name ‘yuri’ was actually a really good short, palatable, catchall name for our trio.. ( ՞ټ՞) I join a game with strangers, the best case scenario is everyone goes “YAYY GL JOINED!!!!” and the worst case scenario is someone gets angry with me and goes “heh… well… at least my name doesn’t mean Lesbo art…..” As if .. I am supposed to be shocked or ashamed by this information…? Nah…. I Am Mega Lesbian, OK? *snaps my fingers and your conscious is trapped inside dynastyreader forever and whenever people visit the site you’re scrambling around and it looks like they have an ant in their monitor and they’re like ‘what the heck ew’*

[nxellazellzz]

me . VaNella , ??-teen , she / her, big ol’ lesbo , tlou , stranger things , yellow-jackets , bottoms (multi - fandom) , shifter , lover of Caitlin Clark, ginger ale, and Mcaffertys (HIS MUSIC NOT HIM(˚☐˚”))☀️

(( . 🌎 * + 0 " . ° .

rules . I have no problems with different ages interacting with this acc but pls don’t be weird , if I post any art on here please don’t repost it (it makes me sad (˙◠˙)) , this is my only tumblr account soo .. , if I write it will only be fem ch x fem reader sorry >…<! .

Who I write about for fandom:

Tlou . Abby, Ellie, Dina

Yellow Jackets . ig all of em?

Bottom . Just Hazel lol

stranger things . Max , Robin , Nancy , Eleven

Harry Pottah . Hermione

BT-DUBS . If I feel comfortable enough you’ll probably get my other socials , but for now toodles toots !!💙🖍️‼️

#robin buckley#stranger things#eddie munson#steve harrington#blog intro#stranger things fanfics#about me#stranger things x reader#navigation#requests open#taking requests#reqs open#blog rules#masterlist

[capricciocreates]

you are not a hideous monster 🔫

(im not a mutual or anything, just a random lesbo who was spying on the tags/reblogs of that one post but)

dont talk about yourself like that!! you are your own best friend and you are stuck with yourself forever, everyone else may come and go bur we will always be ourselves for better or for worse. everything you love about life are things youve only experienced because youve taken the initiative to let yourself. keep letting yourself, and i hope one day you learn to love yourself too. i yhink its total bs that no one can love you until you love yourself, im sure plenty of people love you, but i hope you learn to love the woman who wakes up with you each morning, gets up even when its hard, bathes you and feeds you and dresses you, takes the steps to ensure that the world sees you the way youre meant to be seen. we all may have support from many places, but its meaningless without US. ourselves. you are no monster, and i hope you learn that some day.

also, i like your hair. the cut suits you and so do the colors. you have pretty green eyes and i like the shape of your face and your sense of style. nothing about you comes across as monstrous and i know maybe you were just kidding but i hope you know.

Oh my gosh....thank you so much. I've just been going through some heartache and needed to hear this. Thanks a lot for making me cry again. 😭 Also, please don't be a stranger. I'd love to be friends. 🥺👉👈

[lis-likes-fics]

Something you dislike about being LGBT+?

Do you align with any gay subcategories? (Butch/femme, bear/twink, etc.)

Favourite LGBT+ canon character?

Favorite LGBT+ celebrity or historical figure?

Is your family supportive?

Favorite things about being LGBT+?

Do you like your flag(s)?

:)

1. i have more options. i didn't need more options. if i was straight, i'd just have to trap a guy to be with me and be content with that. but i'm not straight and i'm super indecisive, so it's like going to an ice cream store and only being allowed to choose one flavor when there are at least five that i'm looking at, and a few of them are just to try. my only reprieve is being poly and even that doesn't help sometimes. 😤

2. i've been described as butch before but that's because for a while, i would wear nothing but flannels and the like and i have short hair. also, apparently, i look a lil androgynous sometimes so. but, no, i don't think so.

3. umm probably robin buckley (my lovely lesbo girl from stranger things). i love her. she's my babygirl.

4. as far as celebrities and historical figures go, i couldn't really tell you. i love a lot of artists and actors and things but pointing out one who i like the best isn't really easy. i'll give you a small list of actors from shows i love and go from there. billy porter, emma d'arcy, kristen stewart, elton john, kate mckinnon. (that's just a few who i recognize and can name rn)

5. that's kinda complicated. some ppl (like my grandfather) are supportive. my dad is neutral about everything and doesn't really care much, he's very much "as long as you're happy." my mother tells me she doesn't care but hates when i make jokes about it or remind her that i'm not straight. so, yeah, complicated.

6. quoting. i love quoting gay things. "move, i'm gay" is one of my favorites. but, more seriously, the community is great bc everyone is either super supportive and/or batshit crazy and i enjoy it.

7. i do like my flags (though it doesn't get confusing which ones are mine when my sexuality keep adjusting as much as it does). i'm taking my main one as the bisexual for now and figure out the rest later. 😅

thanks so much for the asks! 💕