#butch rep

my dear friend zel is an incredibly talented artist (made my icon hehe) and they are currently selling their very first tshirts!!! if you are a butch, or you know any butches, consider supporting a lovely person in lesbian visibility week and getting urself some sick art :)

here's a look at my current queer bookshelf🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

It's super small atm but it's slowly growing, most of them are either transition related or wlw related. Here's a list of all the books and their Goodreads links from top to bottom.

Gideon The Ninth - Tamsyn Muir. Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space. I am kind of obsessed. I currently only have an e-book version but I liked it so much I'm looking to continue the series as physical books (I'm holding out hope for the books as a birthday present). Also butch rep. I am rabid for butch rep.

One Last Stop - Casey McQuinston. On my TBR pile. A romance that starts on a NYC subway but the love interest is trapped in the past.

The Girls are Never Gone - Sarah Glenn Marsh. On my TBR pile. Girl runs a paranormal investigation podcast and starts investigating a mysterious death from 30 years ago. The most recent book I bought that I'm looking forward to reading when I finish Children of Time.

The Lost Girls - Sonia Hartl. Holly gets revenge on her vampire ex by killing him and stealing his new girlfriend. I read this last year and I don't normally enjoy vampires but this book took me by surprise, lots of funny jokes about immortality and some empathetic discussions about emotional neglect and grooming that did make me cry a little.

Growing Older as a Trans and/or Nonbinary Person - Jennie Kermode. On My TBR pile. Insight and advice on being trans later in life in the UK. Reviewers have mentioned that it's mostly specific to the transfeminine experience but I still thought this book might be nice to look at.

Spectrums - Maxfield Sparrow. A collection of personal anecdotes from autistic trans people. Some bits are poetry some are more essay based, it was very heart-warming and affirming.

Every Thursday from 6-8pm pacific I post semi-nsfw images for what I call thursday hersday.

They're typically sourced from blogs run by the person in the image, and I do my best to only select stuff from people who feel comfortable with she/her as a pronoun, bc I don't wanna have someone see the hersday part of the tag and feel shitty :/

I try to post a lot of different body shapes, sizes, and colors, and absolutely seek out trans and cis women alike. I'm always taking blog recs too, so if you follow some nsf/t blogs feel free to send them on.

I diligently tag all Thursday hersday content with the tag thursday hersday, so please blacklist if needed! I also tag for kink/bdsm and other common cw/tw stuff.

And as a final reminder: if you're following me please be 18 or older. I try to check but don't always catch every follow, but this kind of content (from me, an adult) is not something I hope to share with people under 18!

Anyways representation matters because you can’t know what you like if you don’t even know about it. Also of course I’m just very exhausted in general by women characters looking feminine 99.9% of the time. Even most of the tomboys aren’t even that tomboyish in the grand scheme of things. Ty for dining to my ted talk

happy day of butches

I make a lot of butch ttrpg characters because I’m butch. I try to explore and appreciate the variety of butchness in games. Some have he/him pronouns and some have she/her like myself; some have short hair like me or even buzzed, or long with a cool half shave or braid design; some are short like me or tall; and some are even vikings or witches or entrepreneurs.

There’s not a whole lot of butch ttrpg rep (though you will catch it in some Thirsty Sword Lesbian adventures!) but of course Auto Straddle at least has one old article 😆

I don't think I've ever seen butches represented in media as done in A League of Their Own! There's more than one! They're friends with each other! They're desirable! (Even those not white, not young, not skinny!)

I also love that the high femme characters are so recognizably queer (from the way they dress to how they interact with other women) not just "straight" women with same-sex love interests.

The series is doing so much so right that I wondered why I was even more invested?

... and it comes down to Carson's (and to a certain extent Max's) role as the protagonist (sorry!). That plot point reminds me so/too much of other queer series who chose the "newbie"/"I'm still figuring myself out"-character (see Jenny in The L Word, Piper in Orange is the New Black) to introduce the audiences to the world they wanna depict. Carson learning that the League is afraid of its players "looking like queers," Carson learning what a friend of Dorothy is, what butch is, what a queer bar looks like, that queer couples refer to their partners as wives. Max questioning why Bert would leave the house "like that," learning that house parties exist ... it seems sooo catered to audiences not familiar with that history. When most of "us" are! Give Uncle Bert's perspective on his family! Give me the beginning of Greta's and Jo's friendship! Give me the sexual exploits of Jess and Lupe! Give me queer characters' perspectives on a straight world - without justification and explanation!