#some are not explicitly lesbian but

[uiuishii]

Happy lesbian

visibility day

#my favorite lesbian characters #philippa eilhart #lady dimitrescu #root #urbosa #alcina dimitrescu #celene valmont #beauregard lionett #yasha nydoorin #laudna #imogen telmult #some are not explicitly lesbian but #I feel like they are somehow they are

[beanghostprincess]

Affirming Luffy is aroace and using it as an excuse to talk shit about a ship is both fucked up and just extremely wrong. And I'm saying "wrong" in the sense of "actually not accurate" because Luffy is not canonically aroace. It is a very popular headcanon and he does seem uninterested in both romance and sex. So much you could even say it's coded. But inside of that term, which happens to be a spectrum, by the way, there are infinite possibilities and different ways of experiencing both aromanticism and asexuality. Affirming Luffy denies relationships like those completely is both inaccurate in canon and also extremely harmful for the aroace community because he could still be canonically aroace and want those relationships. Maybe in different ways. Maybe with little to no frequency. But still, saying it's "wrong" to ship him with people that way is insulting to the aroace community and to the fans of Luffy ships. Not to mention that the people who often use a character being "aroace" as an excuse (I'm referring to when the character is not canonically uninterested completely in those relationships, by the way) are not even aroace themselves. They use our identity only in negative situations. They speak about being allies, but only mention our existence when it comes to harmful statements and ship wars that don't even matter. There's so much you could say about Luffy being aroace! So many possibilities about his way of seeing the world and experiencing love in different ways! And yet, people decide to infantilize his character and make a whole deal out of him not knowing what sex is and being an innocent baby who doesn't know what masturbation is. He's nineteen. He's a pirate. He is not stupid, thank you very much. He knows what he's talking about, whether he wants to do it or not is a whole other story and it depends on your views on him. And infantilizing him only comes from a place of infantilization of the aroace identity itself, and it's so, so fucked up. Of course, these people are also the ones who treat him like a baby and excuse themselves by saying "those are neurodivergent traits" when they probably aren't even neurodivergent themselves. It's disgusting. And also, as a reminder, do not post hate comments about a ship in its tag. It's really mean. Hope I made things clear <3

#don't get me wrong i do personally think he is extremely aroaspec and you can definitely believe he doesn't want those relationships #but the only confirmation we've seen is oda saying he doesn't really care about it and he focuses on adventure #and luffy hasn't even had the chance to explicitly state his preferences. so. no. it's not canon. stop saying it's canon. #it's not the same thing that happens with other characters that explicitly say those things or are heavily coded. saiki k is a good example #leaving that aside. stop posting hate on ship tags because it's annoying and could easily bother some people. it's not the right place #this was all said by an aroaspec lesbian !!!! #i didn't need to say it because i do not need to justify myself and my opinions here but i think it's necessary right now #one piece #monkey d. luffy

[dadbastiandisaster]

What is it about Black Butler that sticks with you so much? Like, I read all of death note about the same time as I watched Black Butler for the first time, and much as I have boundless love for the series it just didn’t alter my brain chemistry on the same level as Black Butler did. I have a another friend who has broadly moved on from a lot of her old fandoms but is still in the kuro fandom. What is it about kuro?

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #like i kind of get it for me #because its set in the victorian period and its horror and its gay #which ticks all my boxes #we all talk about something permanently altering our brain chemistry #but my ENTIRE TASTE in classical music was defined by iuro #*kuro #I have been making fanworks for this series 6 going on 7 years #90% of the reason i figured out i was bi and not a lesbian #it’s so much of the reason i got interested in historical costume #this shit was life altering #i guess it was some of the first explicitly gay media #i was ever exposed to? #is that it? #shits wild #original post

[snowangeldotmp3]

dash is asleep…anyways cady and regina toxic yuri. thank yew. goodnight.

#always preferred them over rejanis but auli’i’s janis has made me reconsider rejanis…. #was very happy they committed and actually made janis a lesbian in the film #although barrett DID say she explicitly played janis gay on broadway. #also did you guys see that tweet from erika henningsen about her and renee performing 😭😭 #she was like ‘we’re flirting. duh.’ #anyway cady x regina confirmed bc why else did regina want her to join the plastics??? HM??? #thinking too hard about mean girls…. #also none of you know who i am talking about but mary kate morrisey also played janis explicitly gay in the tour i know this #bc i saw the touring production of mean girls back in feb of 2020 #some fun lore about me #GOODNIGHT.

[kookiecamera]

THEY ARE MY BELOVEDS. EVERYONE GO WATCH THE SHOW WHITE COLLAR ASAP. WATCH THEM (AND NEAL) IN ALL THEIR GLORY.

#like I’m literally not kidding Peter and El have the literal best marriage I have ever seen in media ever #they are amazing they are sweet they are iconic #and them plus neal is the funniest and most incredible combination yet #first time rendering buildings! think it went alright #total time is about 6 hours I think #I did some sketches on the same file beforehand #my art #white collar #peter burke #elizabeth burke #please please. i need either a fandom or show revival or both. #it’s a basic comedic solving cases show #they had an explicitly lesbian side character in the first episode in 2005 #which was crazy cool for my 10th grade self to see #like. it’s not a perfect show but some bits sure are #anyways #watch this show.😳 #so happy with the shading on this art too

[madtomedgar]

It's sure something that every post about violence, civilians, human rights, pacifism, war, or activism strategies is now assumed to be a post about IP and proof of the poster's secret evil beliefs. Especially if the Op is Jewish or has Jewish mutuals. Definitely this won't have negative ripple effects.

#i made a post in response to some dumbass discourse i saw #about MLK specifically. and some dingus thinks its a #and i quote. free zionist blocklist. 🙄🙄🙄 #this is reminding me of how its impossible to talk about #women feminism reproductive health or lesbianism #without bring accused of vile terfery EVEN WHEN #you are explicitly trans positive in the post #or are a trans woman #swear to fuck you people think a dogwhistle means #a person in a group ive ive decided is suspicious #says something about any topic that could have anything #to do with this thing #clowns to the left of me jokers to the right

[yotd2009]

the thing about the queer media tournament that really gets me is that last i checked there wasn't a single mxtx work on it. like not even the untamed made it in and don't get me wrong the og mo dao zu shi books are huge but cql is def more popular among tumblr circles. idk it just really rubs me the wrong way how every single piece of western media that ppl have ever gotten a lil bit aggressive abt shipping with is there and then for east asian media there's utena and madoka magica and the handmaiden and last i checked that was pretty much it. and then for the rest of the world there's next to/nothing but idk enough to really make judgements there.

#like. really? no mo dao zu shi? no scum villain's self saving system? no heaven's official blessing? no nana? #i can think of at least 10-20 pieces of media more deserving of being in there than some of the western works that got in off the top of my #head. yuri is my job (self explanatory). fate/stay night (most of the cast is bi but esp rin bc she says it out loud + saber trans coded). #fate/extra (red saber canon bi + nameless archer. stay night lancer. kirei and issei are all there). black butler (grelle trans. also #eric and alan from one of the musicals + alois from s2 of the accursed anime + nina and possibly mey rin are all gay) #toilet bound hanako kun (kou and mitsuba went canon). the evillious chronicles (michaela. clarith and bruno are gay. bohemo possibly trans. #gallerian possibly gay). requiem of the rose king (self explanatory). project sekai (mizuki trans. minori and rui possibly gay). #cocoon entwined (literally a yuri). fucking honkai impact 3rd (lesbians but i don't play it so idk who). any uc gundam series w char and #amuro but especially char's counterattack (char and amuro explicitly confirmed to be gay 4 each other by author + movie focuses on their #relationship). also mobile suit zeta gundam (char and amuro together + kamille is a boy's name!). turn a gundam (gay character). #iron blooded orphans (gay character). the witch from mercury (about a lesbian relationship). melty blood (ries and sion lesbians). #guilty gear (bridget (self explatory)). sailor moon (mainly uranus and neptune lesbians but also apparently there are a lot of gay #characters i didn't know abt in sailor moon). the illustrated guide to monster girls (yuri moment). dramatical murder (yaoige). slow damage #(yaoige). sweet pool (yaoige). ouran high school host club (haruhi gender stuff and also her dad's whole deal). cowboy bebop (ed gender #stuff). fullmetal alchemist (envy nonbinary). neon genesis evangelion (kaworu and shinji). like half the villainess isekai out there. #haruhi suzumiya series (the girl herself is openly bisexual). omniscient reader's viewpoint (danmei). fucking re:zero has a trans girl in i #for god's sake. we're well past 20 so i'm allowing myself more fate. fate/extra ccc (red saber again but also gil and caster and bb and-). #fate/hollow ataraxia (follows same cast as f/sn). today's menu for the emiya family (follows same cast as f/sn again. also the switch game #metatextually canonizes shirou's crush on lancer if the interesting descriptions from f/sn and the various bits from f/ha didn't convince #you). fate/apocrypha (rider of black + saber of red transfemme nonbinary and trans guy respectively. the former is also bi). fate/samurai #remnant (f/sr saber nonbinary. also gil is there and rogue archer is def implied to be bi in f/go). fate/zero (waver gay rider bi. saber gi #and kirei are all there and at their most bisexual). the case files/adventures of lord el melloi ii (waver spinoff (self explanatory)). #fate/strange fake (gil and waver are there. also false lancer nonbinary and jester trans). fate/grand order (has p much every character fro #the franchise and more. notably added trans anime girl leonardo da vinci). ok no more fate. since the tournament has a p liberal definition #of media i'm including vocasongs. magnet by minato ft miku and luka (lesbian song abt lesbians). erase or zero by hzedge ft len and kaito #(magnet for boys). himitsu ~kuro no chikai~ by hitoshizuku and yama ft len rin and miku (angel rin falls in love w miku. disguises herself #as a human man to be with her). i think i've made my point clear but add my initial list of the big famous ones (-nana) from the 1st tag. #romeo.txt

[cosmicrhetoric]

did mint end up fr gay in the new tokyo mew mew. she deserves it she's so important to me she was singlehandedly responsible for little girls everywhere engaging in haterism for the first time <3

#like yes its funny that i did also end up a lesbian but literally i became a hater FOR HER #i should probably watch it i enjoyed the twoish eps of the reboot i watched when it aired #tmm #mint aizawa #the more i think about it the funnier it gets shoujo manga always has some explicitly gay bitch in the corner

[lunaechaos]

man i don't know why but i can't trust people who erase canon information about a character just to label them a sexuality that doesn't even make sense

#yes i am looking at the shit ton of lesbians who just happen to ignore female characters who just dated men #or dated men for the majority of their storyline #to label them as lesbians #i swear to god the amount of times i saw agatha with that lesbian flag sticker #and worst of all she does kiss woman!!! but she is bisexual!!! explicitly confirmed!!!!! #but still she has her sexuality erased!!!! since kissing women isn't enough for some sapphics #i remember seeing a post a few days ago #which loosely said that some folks are so desperate for queer validation they'll do harmful/disrespectful things #to those they deem their icons #this discourse was obviously tied to queer ppl disrespecting artists #especifically jimin since so many queer folks just love to misgender him and label him as trans #and also to taylor swift and her insane group of fans who swear to god she's a closeted lesbian #but i also think about how common this very intentional and deliberate behavior has become inside fandom spaces #where ppl just erase a character's sexuality or gender identity just to make themselves feel better about their own identities #but like #at what costs #at the cost of erasing true representation when the character is indeed lgbt just not the sexuality/gender you wanted them to be? #this is so tiring and that's why i absolutely run away from fandom spaces for a long time now

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread      

Wild and Crooked

YA contemporary 

about a girl whose father is in prison for murder, moving back to her hometown

and the son of the murdered man, a boy with cerebral palsy

they unknowingly become friends, until new evidence is found and their small town is thrown into chaos - and they have to find out the truth

lesbian & questioning MCs, no romance,

#Wild and Crooked #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #Leah Thomas #I thought this was really good! #I thought the discussion of disability; poverty; queerness etc was done well (as far as I can tell) #another mc has antisocial personality disorder (iirc?) also #and i liked how it showed him like.....in a positive light. i mean hes just a guy also #we love a lesbian who shaves her head #we love FRIENDSHIP YA #no romance books #no romance #the real reason behind it all maybe felt a little rushed/random at the end? idk #but it’s also kinda like……maybe more realistic than Teen Detectives Discovering The Truth - the truth is actually just. something based on i #info they didn’t know #weird how some reviews say theyre pan and lesbian and others say gay and pan ???? nobody is pan? #they’re both gay by all evidence in the book? he Could be maybe but it’s an oddly specific thing that’s not explicitly in the book

[floralquafloral]

the Breath of the Wild linkle mod did so much for lesbians

#i would bench press a car for more games like botw with the linkle mod #the combination of fantastic gameplay & polish + female protagonist + lesbians EVERYWHERE is just. unparalleled #like.. all the random NPCs who flirt with link are now wlw #the armour mipha made for link? now it's an explicitly gay tradition #armour traditionally made by zora princesses to propose to their WIVES..... hello?? #and gerudo town becomes gender euphoria paradise #the way the mod completely transforms the vibe of gerudo town is something i could talk a lot about actually #i have probably told my qpp about it like 4 times. it's not only really pleasant but also endlessly fascinating #is anyone curious about that??? let me know i could totally write up another post about it #anyways basically linkle botw mod. greatest mod of all time. the ultimate trans lesbian experience #floralaqua #i'm gonna add some tags i guess because i like attention #breath of the wild #botw #linkle #wlw

[tatsumi-rin]

Me: *tries to revisit yuri communities because they were safe once and haven't felt at ease since coming out*

Batshit insane people: *continue to repeatedly scream more than ever about men fetishizing lesbians and try to tell you you're a bad person because you're a man now even though they themselves identify as transfem and should understand some degree of the struggles*

Me: never mind :3

#husbandothings #i've rarely met a bad transfem person irl or on tumblr but redditors have a lot of internalized issues with sexism still lmao #weirdly there are lesbian communities on there that still accept you regardless of how you change but the yuri ones aren't them #and I'm sick of trying to fit in #even some of the explicitly trans spaces anywhere on the internet are hostile to transmascs #i've seen women on those screaming that trans men get passing privilege or w/e and telling us we can't reclaim slurs #claiming these were never used against us when neither of these things are the case #I don't want to be seperated from the world by awful people screw all of you

[tunemyart]

also look at my gorgeous bisexual meow meow

#her choosing to be with these two men on conviction are all about how they server HER #it's a selfish impulse #she's making terrible choices with both of them for different reasons #the one she's getting married to bc he's powerful and rich and - she's calculating - valuable to have at her side as she climbs the ladder #i.e. - valuable to the version of alex cabot she's trying to play again now that she's allowed to be alex cabot again #but she's bored to death with him #she doesn't love him #and she explicitly says she's going along with this bc it fits the script of how she thinks she should be acting #whereas with jim it's an outlet for everything she's repressing with her fiance #him she uses for a challenge bc she likes someone who talks back to her - she likes someone she can fight #(see... seasons 2-5 of svu) #and she uses him for the kind of sex she's def not having with her fiance #and as some kind of outlet at least for the other version alex cabot she can't repress being #she's using them and lying to herself! #she's a fucking mess! #anyway i know we like reading her as a lesbian on svu but i'm prepared to headcanon her as bi (as a treat) #show me an actual future alex has with a man where she consents to calling him 'honey' forever #i don't believe you can #which is part of the only reason i'm prepared lolololol #anyway i've come away from this experience with some theories on alex's general sexuality and control so #it's not a total loss #amy watches conviction (and it's a mistake) #losing my mind over alex cabot

[local-magpie]

ok well i accidentally just read the whole Thirsty Sword Lesbians book. i like what the system is doing but i gotta admit i probably would be way more comfortable with it if i hadnt actually read all of the non-system bits. i get the very strong suspicion that the author and i would not get along

#do i appreciate what theyre trying to do #yes #do i think they do it well #...kind of. #its aggressive in ways that make me uncomfortable both because I Have Dealt With Many Reactionaries Who Talk Like This #and also because as a gay trans guy it makes me feel some type of way to see 'do they have to be lesbians' answered with #'you can be cishet if you want ig' #alongside like. transfeminine being defined + terfs being defined almost explicitly in their feelings on transfems #with zero mention in ANY of this about trans men #only transfems and a couple shoutouts to nonbinary folk #idk! #any one thing by itself would be whatever #but all of them together just make me deeply uncomfortable and like im not really welcome there #'do they have to be lesbians' 'hey its about general queer themes but you can be cishet if you want!' is just such. a particular answer #especially with the aggressiveness laced through other parts #and i understand why theyre probably doing that but. it still does not make me want to play this game #which is a shame bc the system and themes are good #yelling at the void

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

Once again I refrain from the discourse even if I can feel myself developing an ulcer bc some people are too stupid for words.

#teeth gritted i am not going to fight over fictional characters #who cares if some idiot online is claiming an explicitly bisexual character is a lesbian l #bc she's not 'queer enough' if she's bisexual #god some of y'all make me want to throw rocks #anyways that's enough of that

[angiestown]

free pride icons pour vous

#dall-e #tried to get some bi and trans flags with team rocket and sylveon since peach was so explicitly lesbian but it did not work