My illustrations for The Duchess and the Spy, for @adoribullmb! It’s a raunchy rule 63 regency AU– if that sounds like your jam, please check it out, you’re gonna love it.
And big thanks to the author, who provided me with tons and tons of really useful references, even though I ended up drawing them half-dressed anyway, and whose enthusiasm made this really fun to work on. <3
So, I was really nervous when it came time to assign artists for the minibang. I was a little worried that I would get shouted down for writing genderswap or femslash, but mostly that my assigned artist wouldn’t understand why it was so important to me that Bull stay… well, Big.
I’m sure it’s obvious that I lucked out, because DAMN. That is a Giant Woman with Giant Horns.
And, like. She’s not made into some male-gazey idea of what a queer woman (or any woman!) “should” look like in order to be palatable.
Why is there no Tessa Thompson fanfic? All us queer girls want her to fall in love with us and top the fuck out of us. I’m taking AUs, OCs, fem!reader love interest, fluff, smut, and angst.
The same event from two different points of view. We love pop perfection that declare cis women’s genitalia as powerful and associate them with omniscient beings.
I was fortunate to be apart of @sammyborras’ amazing Janelle Monáe/Dirty Computer fanzine with my op-ed discussing how she has impact my life. Janelle has shaped, changed, and SAVED my life with her artistry since 2010. She makes me feel seen, loved, and valued. There is power in art. I present…
I’m a closeted bi. I wrote an op-ed for a Janelle Monáe fanzine which includes me discussing being queer. I want to tweet it to Janelle however my aunt (who follows me on twitter and thinks that I’m straight follows me) may see it. I don’t know what to do!
Here’s three queer women to learn about to help you celebrate the day:
English author Mary Shelley pioneered the sci-fi genre when she wrote Frankenstein at just 19.
American writer and activist Audre Lorde fought for women who, like her, were excluded from mainstream feminism, whether because of class, race, sexuality, or disability.
Maryam Khatoon Molkara campaigned for decades for the recognition of trans people in Iranian law, eventually securing a fatwa (Islamic ruling) from the leader of Iran himself.
“Of all the people Barbara Stanwyck was close to, her most consistent relationship was with her very loyal, sometimes live-in girl Friday, the prototypical actress-turned-publicist Helen Ferguson. The two never defined their relationship, but if Stanwyck’s marriages to men were described as lavender, the Stanwyck/Ferguson’s union may very well have been of the Boston variety. Ferguson was by Stanwyck’s side for the bulk of her career, from the Hollywood heyday to the 1960s, when Stanwyck started portraying a series of pioneering women on television shows like Wagon TrainandThe Big Valley.
In the book, Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture, Luca Prono states that in the 1960s, 1970s, and even into the 1980s, Stanwyck was seen as a cultural and personal template for lesbians. ‘Stanwyck acquired the status of icon within lesbian communities,’ Prono writes. 'Stanwyck was a woman whose screen persona challenged respectability because of the strong and independent women she embodied in the 1940s.’”
“Although Katharine Hepburn was briefly married to the socialite Ludlow Ogden Smith, by the time her Hollywood career took off, they were divorced and she was free to romp around with the likes of Laura Harding, Nancy Hamilton, Frances Rich, and Phyllis Wilbourn. Phyllis was perhaps her greatest love, having stayed together with Katharine for nearly thirty years and being described by Katharine as “my Alice B. Toklas,” who was a lesbian icon and lifelong wife of Gertrude Stein. Katharine also had a twenty-year-long relationship with the actor Spencer Tracy, but the validity of that relationship has come into question in recent years, with even gay icon and AIDS activist Larry Kramer proclaiming in 2015 that ‘Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were both gay…they were publicly paired together by the studio. Everyone in Hollywood knows this is true.’”
In this video, I talk about dating apps for queer women and lesbians and how to get more matches and overall success on dating apps as a lesbian/queer woman. So which one should you use? Tinder? Hinge? Facebook Dating? Bumble? OkCupid? HER? Or a mixture of these Dating Apps? These tips on dating apps for queer lesbians, and tips on how to craft good pictures and a good bio are purely suggestions, and what I believe to work. I hope you enjoyed this video on how to have more success on dating apps for queer women and lesbians :)
“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”
