Let’s Go Lesbians!!!! 🩷🤍🧡

are you allowed to love? i thought that was forbidden for a jedi

i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism

(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)

fuck physics, the world only keeps spinning because of all the femmes who won't stop talking to save their own life

The sacred water connects us together

I guess the awkwardness of a first time is true even in a world with magic and talking beasts huh

an even less exhaustive list of femme literature

since a made of a list of butch lit, I thought it would be nice to make a list of femme writing by (mostly) femme authors as well. books I've read myself in bold; take the rest with a grain of salt. I'd really appreciate additions, especially of fiction!

fiction:

dykette by jenny fran davis

perfume and pain by anna dorn

trash by dorothy allison

all the pretty girls by chandra mayor

femme confidential by nairne holtz

bottle rocket hearts by zoe whittall

nonfiction:

brazen femme: queering feminity ed chloe brushwood rose and anna camilleri

femme: feminists, lesbians, and bad girls ed laura harris and elizabeth crocker

the femme mystique ed leslea newman

out of the closet and nothing to wear by leslea newman

fierce femmes and notorious liars by kai cheng thom

dirty river by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha

s/he by minnie bruce pratt

naked in the promised land by lillian faderman

a restricted country by joan nestle

rust belt femme by raechel anne jolie

my dangerous desires by amber hollibaugh

odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman

another mother tongue by judy grahn

boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky and madeline davis

the persistent desire ed joan nestle

persistence: all way butch and femme ed ivan coyote and zena sharman

articles/essays:

our own words by rosza daniel lang/levitsky in e-flux

high femme camp antics by jenny fran davis in la review of books

with gratitude and struggle by nan alamilla boyd in autostraddle

that time I went on a lesbian cruise and blew up my life by shannon keating in buzzfeed

femme-inism by paula austin in colonize this!

And we leave Dante and Vergil basically how we originally found them. Fighting. As Lady originally described "It seems as if they drive some twisted pleasure from this brotherly fighting." For them, fighting is their love language. And they have a lot of catching up to do. After Nero knocked some sense into them, any feelings of true animosity and desire to kill one another is pretty much completely gone. All of a sudden they're back to being kids banging wooden swords together. Hard to blame them for taking so long just indulging in a bit of good old fashioned brotherly love for weeks at a time instead of rushing to go back home.

DMC5 added Vergil as a playable character and extended the ending of the game with some extra scenes with him and Dante in the Underworld which I included into this. First we have another scene showing that Vergil is completely emotionally stunted and incapable of confronting the fact that he has a son and all the crazy mixed up emotions that brings in its wake. Which is cute. Gotta grade the guy on a curve, I'm sure he'll grow into those daddy shoes eventually.

I honestly really like the way the game leaves them off. Reminiscing about their childhoods so casually like that. It was such a painful thing for the both of them, remembering the past. Remember how in DMC3 when they first fought, Vergil only cared about their parentage in the context of using the blood of Sparda to get more power while Dante denied he even had a father. Now they can call back to childhood memories of their parents scolding them like it's nothing. They've definitely grown quite a lot and gotten over a lot of the pain and anguish they used to carry.

I find the dialog they end the scene with to be very poignant and sweet. Dante muses about what their parents would think of them now, as crusty adults. But Vergil just says in a seemingly callous way that it doesn't matter. What does matter is that they're alive, and they're together as brothers for the first time in as long as either of them can remember. And Dante agrees.

It's very sweet. These two deserve their happy ending. The culmination of a relationship that chronologically started with a duel to the death in the rain ontop of the tower to the underworld. All of that baggage and drama and hatred and anguish has been swept away. They're together again. And always will be from now on.

hey butches and femmes of tumblr! if you are looking for butch and femme reading recs, i have reading lists available on my website!

most of the books listed i have as pdfs in my digital butch/femme library accessible here 💕

if you have questions or know of books/articles you’d like to see added, dm me! it’s more important than ever to learn our history and protect our community 🩷

thinking about how the best case scenario that elphaba can imagine in the wizard and i is that finally someone will come along who will be able to change everything about her. even in her wildest dreams, she views that as her best option.

and then.

along comes galinda. who - after spending an entire night attempting to give her a makeover - settles on: ‘actually, you’re perfect just the way you are. i wouldn’t change a thing. except maybe to tuck a little piece of myself in with you, just there.’

and i just think that’s neat.

If love is what you need, a soldier I will be