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"When It's All Said n' Done", Olivia Morgan, 2024.

"The series, titled "When It's All Said n' Done," seeks to depict an intimate scene between two Black masc lesbians, showcasing the romance, vulnerability, and femininity that exists between them. It also captures the moment after they have shared their most sacred parts, questioning whether they need to resume the facade of heteronormative masculinity and revert to the gender-normative roles imposed on them by others.

There is tension, there is ease, there are these moments in between where time is lost and the word masculinity and femininity don’t easily exist, there is only gentility and care moments where we feel bare and full all at the same time! When it’s all said and done we just screaming and reaching to be felt, reaching for some sense of our unbiased selves, pure and in love."

you deserve aftercare.

i know that’s not always the narrative. i know a lot of you have been conditioned to believe that your job is to take care of everyone else and then quietly put yourself back together after. that needing reassurance makes you soft. that asking for tenderness after makes you too much. that your role means you don’t get to need things the way your partner does.

that’s not true. and i need you to hear that.

the amount of presence you bring. the care you put into making someone feel safe and seen and taken care of. the way you hold everything together and pay attention to every small detail. that deserves to be acknowledged. that deserves to be met with the same tenderness you gave.

you are allowed to need to be held after. you are allowed to need someone to look at you and tell you that you did well. that they felt good. that they felt safe. that you were exactly what they needed. you are allowed to have those questions racing in your head and need them answered out loud.

there is nothing weak about that. there is nothing wrong with you for wanting it.

and if you’ve never had it. if you’ve been giving and giving and leaving empty every time. i want you to know that the right person will not let you leave empty. the right person will pull you close and hold your face and make you look at them and tell you every single thing you needed to hear.

you deserve that. you have always deserved that.

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⛓️We have a full Substack article up (l i n k e d above) with an easy to read format of guidelines and the submission process as well as some FAQ’s

I have created a doc sharing descriptions and recommendations for butch4butch books, including romance, literary fiction, historical fiction, manga, graphic novels and sci-fi/fantasy. This list is incomplete, and is still being updated regularly.

With full transparency, some of these books may not be "explicit" in their representation, but I have still included them because to my understanding, they include two butch or masc lesbians in a relationship. I have not, however, included books like Gideon the Ninth, where the author themselves have clarified that they don't see one half of the pairing as butch.

If anybody has issues or recommendations, kindly dm me here, and be civil about it. Hope you enjoy this list and find something to your taste. I will keep refining and updating the doc, as I read more.

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Good morning to studs!

Good morning to fat studs ESPECIALLY!!!!

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