#ramblings of a dyke

[plaguedbyvisions]

there’s just something about the weight of a hammer in your hand. feels so right

#rambles #this is a dyke post btw #everyone tagging this as fandom shit get off the computer and go build something okay <33 #peace and love #those of you making it about wanting to bludgeon someone to death are fine tho

[fleshdyke]

shoutout to every butch and bulldyke and stud and girlfag and he/him lesbian and lesbians on t and lesbians that got top surgery and boydyke and amab lesbians that aren’t on e and lesbians with a bulge and lesbians that wear packers and lesbians named mitch or roger or steve. shoutout to the dykes. ily.

#im kissing every single one on the mouth. coolest ppl alive fr #rambles #lesbian #dyke #gnc #trans #queer #butch #100 #1k #10k

[aurillio]

being a dyke in love with another dyke is the most beautiful thing on earth

#lesbian #butch4butch #butch love #lesbian love #butch #butch lesbian #dyke #i love lesbians #i love being a lesbian #sapphic #i love being a dyke #dyke today dyke tomorrow dyke forever #dykeposting #dyke love is the most beautiful thing on earth #aurillio rambles

[temptresstitania]

god, what i would give to kiss a cute fat dyke rn. just making out. and maybe groping. and maybe scissoring. okay fine, i want to fuck a cute fat dyke rn

#from the temple #dyke nsft #rambling #temple confession #t4t nsft

[comradekatara]

I’m curious if you have any thoughts about Ty Lee and Mai re: their reasons for and willingness to follow Azula during the course of the show? Their introductions — with Ty Lee initially reluctant and joining out of fear, whereas Mai was all in the moment she showed up in Omashu — contrasted with their endings — Mai growing resentful and eventually betraying Azula, and Ty Lee staying close to her right up to the moment she spots an opening — are so fascinating and emblemic of their characters

yes, exactly. ty lee has to be coerced whereas mai doesn't need to be told twice. more specifically, ty lee had the initiative to run away at some point (it's also far easier to leave your home when you have six identical sisters) and has settled in an environment that she actually enjoys, whereas mai is trapped with her family and takes up azula's offer specifically as a means of escape. that doesn't mean she particularly enjoys the prospect of hunting down the boy she used to like, but she gets to see the world and use her knife skills and hang out with her besties. it's not perfect, but it's still a far better deal than being stuck under the thumb of her controlling mother and scheming father in a foreign city that is essentially a ghost town (now that its entire native population is literally living underground). mai doesn't like being bossed around by azula – or being bossed around by anyone, for that matter – but she knows better than to question the commands of her princess, so she sticks to side-eyeing her as she complies, and only ever denying her requests when azula is too far away to notice ("she can shoot all the lightning at me she wants, i am not going in that wall sludge juice." "just take the bear." etc etc).

ty lee, however, doesn't just comply with azula's commands, she comports herself into the very image of obedience, she forces herself to embody exactly what it is azula wants in a loyal servant, but also in a best friend, and in a beautiful girl. because, like, the thing about mai is that she is really very normal. she uses apathy and sarcasm to mask her true emotions, whether they be fear, rage, or a combination thereof, but she's also quite sincere and blunt and kind. mai adapts to her environment in the sense that she knows to comply with the demands of her family and azula, she knows how to play the part of fire nation noblewoman, but she's not closed off from her feelings, she just presents that way. ty lee, however, is a complete and utter chameleon, to the point that she's somehow the one who seems more sincere out of the pair, even though nary an honest word comes out of her mouth throughout the entire show.

mai expresses her disagreements with azula when she knows that the moment allows for it, and she expresses her irritation, her vulnerability (to an extent), and her emotions when she can. but even when ty lee could choose to be honest, it's like she doesn't actually know how. the most honest ty lee ever actually gets before her betrayal is when she insults mai's makeup, and she's still putting mai down in azula's presence as to establish a hierarchy of affection. even when she's lovingly teasing mai by demonstrating how their friendship is genuine enough that she can insult her instead of vapidly praising her like she does with all those shallow, stupid boys and a certain princess, she's still strategically positioning herself in azula's favor. she operates in a coded language, simultaneously communicating to mai the sincerity of her affection and communicating to azula that they are in fact a pair, teaming up to put down and bully mai as they have been doing since they were children. in the beautiful words of shiv roy, ty lee has never eaten a grapefruit without an agenda.

even though ty lee does seem more loyal to azula despite having to be coerced into joining her, whereas mai seemingly agrees immediately, ty lee is an acrobat and a circus performer; contorting herself to suit the needs of others and appear a certain way to certain people is literally her wheelhouse. whereas mai is a thoughtful yet impulsive, apathetic yet sincere teenage girl. and the cracks in mai's agreeability begin to show as early as in her introductory episode, when azula decides to sacrifice tom-tom to keep bumi, and mai has no choice but to comply with her princess despite obviously wanting to save her baby brother.

mai's loyalty was always on a razor's edge; it was never an ideal situation for her, she just never found a better option. mai lived her whole life in an extremely stifling gilded cage, and she craves enrichment in her enclosure. but then she sees potential beyond the bars, as demonstrated by zuko, and she takes a stand for something she believes in. ty lee doesn't do that, because ty lee does not truly have beliefs beyond her own immediate survival. you can say she values entertainment, laughter, violence that doesn't kill, but i think she'd become anything the world demanded of her without a moment's hesitation. and in this moment, the world demands that she choose. choose between the girl she loved to put down and ostracize within their little trio so as to better curry azula's favor, or the girl who threatened to burn her alive if she did not comply with her every demand. and it should be so obvious, shouldn't it? of course ty lee would choose mai over azula, it's so clear in hindsight. but it shocks azula, and it shocks mai, and it even sort of shocks ty lee herself. because she has done such a good job of hiding her personhood so far beneath her facade that even mai, the one person she cares about more than her own survival, doesn't actually know it.

"anything to get me out of this place," is mai's response to azula's offer. mai was always looking for a better situation, striving for the best possible scenario within a very limited array of options. but ty lee knows what she wants, and she knows she cannot have it, and so she denies herself. denies her own agency, her affections, her desires, her personality, her intelligence, her values. she would do anything to survive, even if it means killing every single true part of herself. mai's betrayal against azula is decidedly a declaration of love, not only for zuko, but also for herself. but ty lee's betrayal is the greatest declaration of love there is. her willingness to throw away her so deliberately, carefully cultivated, precarious security and safety for the sake of someone who doesn't even know that ty lee loves her is such a resounding confession that it actually shocks mai into perfect stillness. mai, who is always so quick to act and react, frozen to the floor by the cosmic weight of this revelation, this paradigm shift. mai had always assumed that she was the discarded, neglected, bullied friend of the trio, the one who would always be second best to azula (and keep in mind ty lee never actually says that azula had to coerce her into joining, she simply says "azula called a little louder," because she is always making mai read between the lines). but here, ty lee proves that there is one she values over her own life and everything she has done to keep it, and it is mai.

"why?" asks azula. "why would you do it? you knew the consequences." i think that mai would gladly throw her worthless life away if it meant dying for something real, something true within a world of masks and lies and manipulations. she knows the consequences, but they no longer matter, now that she has sight of something that she truly, actually cares about. but ty lee is different. ty lee excels in the world of masks, lies, and manipulations, thrives in it to the point that azula, so-called "people person," doesn't even realize that the girl she loves is nothing more than a carefully cultivated phantasm. ty lee truly cares, far more than mai, about the consequences. and yet, when it comes down to it, when she weighs all her options, she not only hurts azula to save mai, but she stays by mai's side through it all. the girl who could effortlessly subdue every guard holding her in place and jump up onto the gondola cord and run across its length to the other side of the volcano within minutes stays next to mai with no resistance, merely sheds her mask to finally glare at azula with her true face. so it is not entirely accurate to say that ty lee's values are conditional and fabricated. there is, in fact, one thing ty lee values above all else, but only when it is true.

#flashhwing #asks #mai #ty lee #maixtylee #azula #analysis #azula&tylee #azula&mai #ohhhh you got me talking abt the atla ship i have been obsessed with since i was a baby who simply liked their contrasting aesthetics #you got me RAMBLING ABOUT MAI AND TY LEE 😭😭 #i love them so much...... #mai my babygirl my everything. ty lee my insanegirl also my everything #ppl who dont like the boiling rock are so crazy. dyke drama truly does not get better than this!!!!!!!!

[macademmia]

you guys don’t get it….god i’m crazy about butch lesbians. i have a ring of keys moment every time i look at my phone. seeing butch positivity…butches with style and confidence, butches in love, etc… makes me feel like there is a type of adulthood i could carve out for my life. you know the phrase “I’m going to make a beautiful life for myself, no matter what it takes” yeah 4 me that is intrinsically linked with butchness. I realized I was gay when I was 13 and I couldn’t say the word lesbian for three years. now i call myself a dyke. looking back lesbian masculinity was so demonized in everything i looked at. There is a history in butch, long before i ever found a carabiner on the ground. thank you butch lesbians for existing now & back then & forever!!

#butch #lesbian #dyke #GOD…i’m going to college and i’m in my feels #emma rambles

[rottenwithfangs]

I’m reading the book “self made boys” and i just read a line about being “grabbed at by the suspenders and kissed” and now im so fucking soft for being a butch. I love being masc. i love being one of the boys and queer. Queer love is so holy to me.

#rambles #butch #gender nonconforming #agender #dyke #masc lesbian #butch4butch #masc #butch/femme #ftm lesbian #trans masc #butch4both #butch4femme #butch/both #butch/butch #trans man #trans men #self made boys #self made men

[stressfulsloth]

Cannot stop thinking about Ruby and how brutally Klaasje fucks her over despite everyone in Martinaise's clear affection for her. How everyone seems to like Ruby and her 'gruff charm,' how she gets passionate about radio technology and loves movies from the 20s, likes 'a beer on the beach to watch the sunset'. She's an 'old lady whisperer,' Isobel likes her and even defends her, the

Hardie boys are clearly very fond of her. Even when you're being blasted by her pale latitude compressor, it's hard not to like her at least a bit. She tested it on herself first! The Half-Light reaction of sympathetic fear to Klaasje's accusations, and then Drama cutting in to point out that the fear isn't to do with Ruby, it's the fear of being arrested that Klaasje is feeling. Her first response, out of fear of the RCM and the Moralintern, is to use the presumed biases and homophobia of these RCM officers as leverage to pin the blame on Ruby, even as nearly every other scrap of information you can collect describing Ruby's personality contradicts it.

#ruby the instigator #disco elysium #idk half finished thoughts bc im still fuzzy from yesterdays migraine but #like no one in this game is a totally good person ofc and she's scared for her life if she gets arreste #but fuck man #that really got to me #leveraging Ruby's drinking to make her sound out of control and scary too like AUGH #this game has some interesting things to say about societal biases towards addicts and people who drink #and it shows just how shit-scared klaasje is too to use the 'scary drunk dyke' thing to claw her way to safety #something something it all comes back to the evils of moralism #klaasje amandou #DE rambling

[hedonistvamp]

how i adore seeing the fear and lust in a sub’s eyes when i lift their chin up with the blade of my knife. like god yes please keep looking at me with those pretty eyes, baby, it makes me dizzy

#finch rambles #queer nsft #t4t kink #t4t nsft #trans nsft #knife play #dyke nsft #ftm nsft #nblw nsft #i cannot stress enough that this post is about trans people and dykes only

[polyphonetic]

my androgyny lives in the space of dykes who share clothes with fags (who are also dykes)

#and we are kissing #it's so funny how the public genders my partner and I #when she is alone he gets sir'ed but when im with him we get ladies'ed #so much of a girl that my gender aura overrides others sjdjdhfjfh #kassandra rambles #selfies #my face #trans fashion #trans girl #transfemme #queer #queer fashion #queer t4t #trans t4t #dyke #nonbinary #futch #femme #clothes #curly #thai #transgender

[vampireharpy]

So who started the whole thing between Bonnie and Lucy?

in terms of the conception of this whole idea, a couple years ago i was struck with the idea for a character, mainly just the concept of a were-whale because oh wow. Whales are cool. What if she was a horrible beast whale. Even better. So I made Bonnie--watch out, here's some baby pictures

I showed her to my partner, Winter, who immediately was like ok cool I'm making her a gf. Maybe two. And then he did.

(I'm not including Jim's old ref but it's kinda spoilers now~)

And then they sat around for a couple years because we were obsessed with some other OCs. But I knew we'd be back to them....... and now here we are, a full fleshed out story and everything and maybe plans for a comic--

Anyway, in terms of who started this in-universe: I suppose it was Bonnie sinking Lucy's ship and eating her arm, that'll do it.

#dont mind me just taking this to ramble #moby dykes #not art #asks

[butchdykesstuff]

Cis men must think Im insane with the intensity at which I stare them down with menacing eyes… yeah don’t worry bro im just studying your every move while also experiencing painful envy for your body and mannerisms. don’t worry about it, yeah man im just coveting your manhood from afar while I grieve my lost boyhood!

#saw a group of guys playing volleyball in a sunny park #Never wanted to be a part of anything more 😭 #they looked so cool and so happy and so naturally masculine #gender ramblings #butch ftm #butch dyke #boydyke #testosterone #forcemasc #autoandrophilia #transmasc #force masc #autoandrophile #forced masculinization #butch #trans #nonbinary

[lockandkeyhyena]

the differences between the warrior cats youtube community and the warrior cats tumblr community are so stark it’s insane. the sheer lack of understanding of queer history or the complexities of queer identities from the youtube side is. staggering. i know logically it’s because they’re all much younger over there but it’s still mind boggling.

#cant even say the words fag or dyke in a positive context. for shame #anyway this is one of the many reasons i’m moving away from posting warrior cats content on my youtube channel and towards oc stuff #you’ll still get cats here though don’t worry #yeen rambles

[jeyneofpoole]

the greatest gambit of all will be trying to convince my group for this class that our final project (podcast about a mystery from history) should be about the franklin expedition. my greatest mission yet my holy quest my crusade. wish me luck.

#5’2 dyke ​doubled over from cramps begging her peers to let her ramble about her majesties royal navy for 20 minutes asmr

[noturbutchboy]

girls will think about getting killed or killing someone and just go " hell yeah " i m girls

#late night rambles #lesbian #sapphic #wlw #wlw mood #butchposting #wlw community #wlw concepts #wlw blog #dyke thoughts

[tragedykery]

azula calls a lesbian couple a slur and they’re like hell yeah hi fellow [slur] and azula is left spluttering she wasn’t reclaiming it she was using it as a slur she is not a fucking [different slur]!!!!!

#(she is‚ in fact‚ a [slur]) #dykery #<- whatever this goes there #atla #azula #elli rambles #r #azula is so funny. gay and homophobic except she doesn’t even realise she’s gay #but anyone with a functioning gaydar can see she is #this does not include zuko because he does not in fact have a functioning gaydar. people it does include are ty lee sokka and suki #but when they see the homophobia & attitude most people (sensibly) conclude they’re not gonna touch That with a ten foot pole #I love her. homophobic dyke queen