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May I present instalment one of Ava’s Sapphic Soliloquy…

“This Is a Mirror, You Are a Written Sentence" - Original art by Luis Camnitzer - Photography and Testimonial by Sophia Estrada

Warrior Nun me quitó un peso de los hombros al hacerme reír con la inocente impaciencia de Camila, al hacerme llorar con la hermosa historia de Beatrice, pero sobre todo al hacerme sentir esperanza con la nueva perspectiva de vida de Ava.  Me habían pasado un espejo y me estaba viendo por primera vez bajo una nueva luz.  Estas mujeres y sus historias, con sus diversos orígenes y diferentes idiomas, me hicieron sentir que finalmente pertenecía a algún lugar.

Warrior Nun lifted a burden from my shoulders by making me laugh with Camila’s innocent eagerness, by making me cry with Beatrice’s beautiful coming out story, but especially by making me feel hope with Ava’s new perspective of life. It handed me a mirror, and I was seeing myself for the first time under new light. These women and their stories, with their diverse backgrounds and different languages, made me feel like I finally belong somewhere.

View Sophia Estrada's full Testimonial here

(I swear I remember a BTS pic of Shannon's desk other than the one my icon is from but who knows. if someone has a better resolution hit me up please)

the sketch gets knocked to the floor when Ava halo blasts the shot away from bea. it ends up very strategically framed in the following shot

this meme was made for them

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

Testimonial and Cover Art by Padre Captain

When your entire existence embodies a middle space, finding a home for yourself is incredibly tiring and you often arrive on unfamiliar shores which are missing key ingredients for your own survival. However, you carry on.

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Testimonial and cover art by @alex6502

Warrior Nun is the show that gives a life lesson to those who don’t see how much they hurt the people around them by saying a few words. Warrior Nun is the show that should continue sharing the stories that are so much alike. Religious or not, queer or not, we are all people who love. And loving somebody shouldn’t be a crime.

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Art and Testimonial by Jen (@rainymonday126)

Watching Beatrice’s coming out scene didn’t miraculously heal me of all my religious trauma, but it did lay before me a path of forgiveness and self-compassion. I am still learning: that my worth does not hinge on a set of achievements; that my queerness does not need to be watered-down to make it easier for others to swallow; that being gay is not a flaw for which I need to compensate. My queerness, my love, my strength–they are what make me wholly and wonderfully me.

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Testimonial by Kate Artwork by @/kidmeep (Twitter) / @/crw.png (Instagram)

While digging through that internalised shame over the last few years, I threw myself into queer media & books. Reading all the fiction books I could with queer characters. Watching all the queer shows. Warrior Nun was the first show I truly connected with. It wasn’t the first show with sapphic representation, but it was the first one where I truly felt seen; Beatrice carried around her internalised shame for years just like me. Hearing Ava say “What you are is beautiful” and Camila say “There’s no shame in it” reaffirmed to my inner child that we no longer carry that shame around.

Read Kate's full Testimonial here

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