You Never give Opera a Chance!

baru cormorant somehow some of the best and most gratifying lesbianism ever put to page even though at ~300 pages in she is still strictly celibate and barely even allows herself to acknowledge when she's in a homoerotic situation except to note that it's "risky"...baru I'm obsessed with you

I also think it's very successful at communicating lesbianism that is both relational and individual, which I think is how many/most people experience it! fictional narratives frequently focus on falling in love with a single person as the locus of Awakening, which I think is partly just because it's easy to write—and if you have a ready-made partner you can accelerate the timeline a bit because either you have someone to guide you or you have someone to take the journey with. but for many people it's not about being interested in a single person at all; it's about your own responses and desires, an internal understanding of yourself that is about who and what you want, but not in the sense of a specific person.

Monk/Stottlemeyer is really meaningful to me I must admit.

it is still genuinely so crazy to me that tumblr has special scorched earth instant kill moderation tools that are used almost exclusively against victims of harassment campaigns

i think its charming when peoples personal lives improve and they get drastically worse at posting