Dinner With The Enemy

Here are some ancient Greek or Roman queer women books (The top two are the most relevant, the rest are Sappho stories):

Gladiatrix by Russell Whitfield (Ancient Rome)

The Fletcher (Arrow of Artemis #1) by K Aten (Ancient Greek Amazon)

The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos by Peter Green (Ancient Greece)

My name is Sappho: a novel (also known as Burning Sappho) by Martha Rofheart (Ancient Greece)

The Other Sappho: A Novel by Ellen Frye (Sparta, Greece)

Psappha: A Novel of Sappho by Peggy Ullman Bell (Ancient Greece)

Sappho’s Leap by Erica Jong (Ancient Greece)

Sappho: The Tenth Muse by Nancy Freedman

For vikings, I know of a comic: Heathen Vol. 1 by Natasha Alterici. Thrall by Barbara Ann Wright has a viking-esque society.

Some other wlw warrior books that might interest you:

The Warrior’s Path by Catherine M. Wilson 

The Cursed Queen by Sarah Fine (The Impostor Queen is the first book and does have a bi main character, but the romance is m/f)

Noble Falling by Sara Gaines

bonus:

It’s not a house, it’s currently a ceramics atelier (studio) in France designed by the famous duo of architects Pascal Häusermann and Claude Costy, the maestros of organic architecture. Built in 1991, it’s for sale for €740,000 ($784K).  It lends itself to a variety of uses, whether that’s a workshop, an events space or, most likely, a quirky place to live.

Don’t get me wrong, Picard is 🤌, I was a TNG fan before all else as a Trekkie so the show gives me all the nerd feels, but much like w/ Star Trek Voyager, Seven of Nine is the best part of it all. Total scene stealer. Give her a spin-off already! Preferably with Raffi by her side. 😉

No but seriously, an intergalactic, interracial sapphic relationship between two tough and complicated, awesome women over the age of 50? THAT’s a ship to build a show around. 🙌

A brilliant, badass, haunted ex-Borg top and her clever, bratty bottom. 😂

For those of us who grew up catching the vibes on Voyager and were labeled crazy, etc… it’s so beautiful and such vindication.

Summary: Natasha has found out about another little girl who managed to escape the Red Room and she’s put Yelena onto it. But you escaped over a year ago and have no intention of being found (Part 1)

A/N: Here we go: my first not-Peaky fanfic on this blog. I started writing this one a while back and I’ve written a few more parts already, but I just wanna see first if anyone is interested in this one. Also, I wrote this one with an OC originally, but decided to post it as a reader insert, because people on here prefer those usually. Anyways, let me know what you think and whether you’d like to read more!

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

Words: 3228

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“Yelena.”

“Hi! Are you calling me from your superhero friends’ headquarters? Are they with you now? How is the god from space doing? Tell them I said ‘hi’!” She excitedly answered the phone, only to suddenly change her tone, “Wait, what is wrong with you? You sound so serious.”

Natasha was serious, “I need you to track someone down.”

“I am,” her younger sister still didn’t quite understand, “You gave me the file with all the girls, remember? I’ve been tracking them all down for the last months.”

“I know, I’ve heard.” Still there was the urgency in her sister’s voice and it didn’t go unnoticed by Yelena. “This one is special.”

“I am half afraid to hope what I long for”

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"I trusted you!" Yelena screams at her, tears streaming down her face. She's never felt the truest pain like this ever since Natasha died. This was like reality ripping her apart just to torture her. "You were the realest thing in my life. You were my world!"

Yelena's voice cracked, emotion peeking through. It's just too much and all Yelena could see it black around the edges of her vision.

Kate doesn't say anything but there's a dark shadow across her face.

Yelena doesn't need to know that her normally bright blue eyes are cold and detached from warmth. Kate's head is angled in a way that could be described that she's won.

Won what?

From breaking her soul inside?

Yelena's shaking with emotion, red-rimmed eyes staring at the shell of her former lover.

This isn't Kate. This can't be Kate.

To make this even angstier, they'd been getting closer and closer during the previous months, but they hadn't been lovers yet. Yelena had started to catch feelings, in secret. Kate always knew she had a crush on her, but had been extra patient and gentle and discreet.

...Until she isn't anymore. Until she gets colder and colder but it's so gradual, that Yelena doesn't notice at first. You could say that, for the first time in her life, romantic feelings clouded her rational thinking.

Then a big, dramatic betrayal happens, and this interaction takes place. And Yelena is so hurt, that she reveals, she screams her love for Kate.

Oh, but Kate also got so much better at fighting, as part of her chemical indoctrination. And it seems that Yelena is right at the centre of her gunsight. In this occasion, she almost kills Yelena, who's overwhelmed by feelings and by finding a much stronger opponent that what she'd expected. But in that moment, we have some kind of Bucky-and-Steve-in-The-Winter-Soldier interaction, you see some light in Kate's eyes again, and she stops just moments before committing murder. And runs away.

So now we have Yelena, whose life has been completely ruined by mental control once, having to deal with it twice. Alone. Sorta. Thank god she has a mom that happens to be a scientist specialised in mental control.

Oh, and it may be possible that once she gets out of mental control, Kate doesn't remember a thing about that fight....