While AO3 is down, I'll add my Bishova fics to this Drive folder (or as many as I can gather). Days in Violet has been added, more to come:
https://t.co/TGBmuaieou
so many straight shows that are just bad or mid that people are allowed to enjoy and hype up but lesbian/sapphic media needs to be impeccable and meet every person’s high standards every single time…
I think a lot of queer discourse on here in general (esp discourse around comphet or being closeted) comes from some younger queer people refusing to understand just how much queer visibility and queer acceptance exploded in the past 20 years and how bad it was in the 2000s
I don’t think young gen z queers are comprehending how scary it was to be gay in 2004. I’m a little younger than these girls but I was their age in 2011/12 and even then it was borderline Not Great and people were still throwing around Gay as a slur. 2004 would’ve been worse
The body es objetivamente muy buena pasa que acá se viven rasgando las vestiduras pidiendo series de lesbianas y después cuando sale una serie de lesbianas de repente son scorsese y no está a la altura de sus tan refinados gustos de tv
Because people start hating on a wlw show that has just been out for 6 hours, it has not even marinated yet. I mean twitter hates everything eventually, but damn, it usually takes atleast 2-4 months.
@applesflowr I am not trying to be condescending, plenty of stuff are not visible to me either and I have no problem in admitting that. I heard Thai shows are pretty good with the representation, I definitely need to get in on that
Seeing discourse on comp het and you can tell that the younger gens have no idea what it’s like growing up without social media and when being gay irl is so taboo you think it’s just a Western concept and you possibly cannot be in love with your bff, so you do the one thing 1/2
@applesflowr I also think it’s because older gens of lesbians that make this make it from their own experience, and we grew up in a completely different world than folks that were born a decade or two later. I do believe that when folks that grew up when you did 1/
@applesflowr There is barely any media that is *visible* to you, but there is plenty of media that does not revolve around men. Especially within the book sphere, but mainstream TV/movies are getting there too (and are ways better than when I was figuring myself out). Always room to grow ofc
@applesflowr Yeah no, the media where the woman is 'forced' to do anything is not what I am talking about at all, and that IS awful to witness. But stories of comp het do not have to involve people being assaulted or forced against their will to do anything, not what I was talking about
@applesflowr I can give you some lists of books that are JUST sapphic because it IS nauseating to go through piles of shit to get to lesbian stories, I fully agree with you. When I was in my early 20s Blue is the Warmest Color came out and I HATED it. But there are feel-good stories out there