Quintessence of Dust

season 1 xenas always going between go on gabrielle experiment find someone else other than me because she fears she will destroy her life and is also lowkey suicidal but when gabrielle brings home yet another boyfriend from old friends floppy haired orphan boyfriend sanctuary xenas like oh my god he pees on the rugs can we get rid of him i hope he dies and is like sooo jealous and protective and mad about it and keeps giving the new boyfriend weird death glares and being like come on gabrielle walk near me right now :) and pretends to be sad when yet another one of gabrielles boyfriends gets hit by a car or is eaten by a coyote when left out at night

thinking about xena saying i seem to hurt her in crusader................

I think if a cishet felt excluded idgaf. As an actual lesbian

Has everyone forgotten that the point of pride is because we have been excluded from cishet life lmfao

Bro we used to be "excluded" from marriage and actual freedom and sometimes life

I think my absolute least favourite thing about most new series becoming 5-10 episode miniseries at best is that it's convinced people that easter eggs are actually genius show don't tell story moments. Doesn't matter if a show has no plot structure or satisfying character arcs because you have 5 hours to tell a story, you just need to put in enough background easter eggs for people to cobble together into something that is hypothetically good if consumed entirely through zoomed in gifsets on tumblr

i get why they exist. i was in the trenches gandalf. but tags like “girls kissing” etc is so fuckinggggggggggggg infantilising To Me why are you allergic to calling grown gay women women. also why do you have to tag for women kissing. i feel like sometimes i live in an alternate, unbearable-to-others academic- and gwss-steeped life from a decent portion of fandom.

like fine whatever maybe i’m the outlier to the online UwU Pure Sapphics shit going on that’s been so common for so many years (and i get why it’s common i Understand do not mistake my complaints for ignorance) but the more time i’ve spent exploring my sexuality and making art about lesbian and gay female* sexuality the more i’ve like. the more the has pissed me off. i’m a grown fucking woman, the characters i’m reading about are grown fucking women, can we stop acting like your only options are to cling to chaste teenaged expression of being a gay woman or being an ancient hag no one wants to think about and who is thus exempt from the corpus of what constitutes femslash fic. i feel like i’m going fucking insane. you shouldn’t need the fucker who’s definitely somewhere along various spectrums when it comes to desire to tell you this.

I think for me what’s making the writing around armand feel so..uncomfortable is that yes armand has done a lot of horrible things but almost none of what he’s getting this season feel related to that. it’s all armand is undesirable and pathetic and desperate no one wants him, armand is promiscuous, armand suffered horrible sexual abuse and trafficking and gets publicly humiliated for it, armand is a bottom, etc etc. combined with comments about his appearance and attractiveness. Like EVERYONE has a legitimate reason to hate him lol if the insults he’s getting felt like consequences for his lying or his role in the trial I would get that, but most of it is just degrading him for his sexuality or trauma