🥀Knight of Cups🥀

really really obsessed with how everything, absolutely EVERYTHING, is a performance to ianthe. she scripts her villain speeches. she smokes for the panache. she turns her mindscape into a black box theatre. and if she lets someone in for even a moment she'll die

I need more old butch lesbians in my life to pat me on the back and tell me I’m doing just fine

Making tomboys straight in movies is evil

I’m not even kidding. It really is. Simultaneously infantilizing female gendernonconforming as something one grows out of after one is with and in consequence to being in a relationship with a man is evil.

These characters exist to reinforce heterosexuality and femininity as correct female gender. They take a gendernonconforming child with the capacity to grow up into a butch and turn her into an example that “even the stray woman can be corrected.” Violent logic not unfamiliar to us as lesbians and especially to us as butches. It’s especially sickening when heterosexuality is used as a literal “remedy” for their gendernonconformity. Again, this feeds directly into lesbophobia and homophobic panic.

I think it is important to remember that a butch actually can be happy, grounded, confident, and comfortable in her own skin