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I thought I recognized this art so i looked at op’s blog
idk if y’all remember this homophobic mess of a comic. Granted people can change but op’s more recent stuff reflects the same views.
hi! wow, you have a good memory, this was almost a year ago!
I think you might have misinterpreted the comic. the joke was how she, an ace person, could forget something as obvious and familiar to other people as sexual attraction! I thought her reaction was so funny I suggested making a daily comic about it.
Lyd is my girlfriend! We’re in love! Passionate lesbian love. For four years now! Since that comic we moved in together and we’ve started building savings for our life together! We talk online (Twitter, we don’t really use tumblr) about struggles we face, homophobia, lesbian history and representation, and the intersection of being gay with being ace, not ace, gender conforming, and gender non-conforming. That comic you’re saying is homophobic might look like it to someone without the context of our life, and maybe it did cause a sapphic woman to feel alienated due to her sexual attraction. I understand that because I’ve felt that way many times from the words of both lgbt and non-lgbt people alike. But it was an accident, and while that can’t take away the damage, I promise that Lyd’s comics showing our happy life together, our posts online, even our youtube channel all do infinitely more good for fellow sapphic women and other lgbt people than this comic did bad. Lyd apologized for the misunderstandings and lack of clarity.
Please stop holding other lgbt people to an impossibly high standard. We have so many enemies in this world, the last thing we need is to be attacking each other for the smallest infractions.
– Meg, a lesbian
(we went on vacation together last week! 🙂 )
how tf is “allosexuals experience sexual attraction” homophobic
fuckin lesbophobic….lesbians makin comics about being lesbians…goddamn cishet ace lesbians /SMOLDERING GALAXY BRAIN TAKE, THANKS DISCOURSE
I wish these people thought for one second before typing.
I’m usually pretty good at brute forcing my way through confusing things, but I honestly cannot think of a way to interpret this comic or even the story that inspired it as being homophobic in any way, shape, or form. And plus, my heart melts at the line of ‘romance isn’t dead, it’s just very sleepy’.
I’m trying to twist it into being homophobic and it doesn’t…let alone being a “mess of homophobia”.
Another little autobiographical comic I whipped together (this was drawn in like two hours tops so don’t judge the drawings lmao). To clarify, I am in a happy long-term committed relationship with a non-ace girl and we’re both very happy with our relationship, and I have never had bad experiences with relationships because of my asexuality. Being ace isn’t a big deal to me – I barely think about it – but asexuality is something that a lot of people seem to have trouble fully understanding, so I wanted to take some time to describe it the way I see it in my life and from my perspective. Every story is different – here’s mine.
“I am asexual, meaning I don’t experience sexual attraction to anyone. So I was a bit shocked when I walked into an “LGBT+ support group” that was supposed to provide a safe space no matter what your identity, introduced myself as asexual and heard, “How can you not like sex?”
Not to lesbian purity or something but there are some narratives you can’t ABSOLUTELY write m/m aus of. Revolutionary girl utena? The handmaiden? They are stories centered around the abuse and violence men uphold on women and women finding freedom in the love between them how can you find it appropriate in the slightest to write m/m angst of it??
Good to see common sense and decency is outpacing the erasure of a talented gay woman of color. You’d be wrong, however, if you thought there weren’t larries in the replies defending this bullshit.
Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles did not make this bold statement at an event whose theme was the Catholic Imagination. Lena Waithe did.
Lena Waithe.
Y’all really just put the face of a male celebrity who got pissed when an author of an article insinuated that he was LGBT supportive….over an out black woman….the audacity
It’s worth noting that Lena is also wearing the black lgbt pride flag, which makes this (if possible) even more yikes.
“Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent–Live–live fully, live passionately, live disastrously if necessary. Live the gamut of human experiences, build, destroy, build up again! Live, let’s live, you and I–let’s live as none ever lived before, let’s explore and investigate, let’s tread fearlessly where even the most intrepid have faltered and held back!”
–Violet Trefusis in a letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West, October 1918
So I have a hankering to do some edits based on this quote, specifically the parts “Live fully” “Live passionately” “Live disastrously” “Let’s live, you and I” “as none ever lived before.” I hope to feature a different wlw character/couple for each gif. Here’s the ones I’m thinking:
Live fully: Anissa and Grace from Black Lightning dancing together
Live passionately: A love scene between Carol and Therese from Carol
Live disastrously: Rosa from Brooklin 99 in jail
Let’s live, you and I: A scene between Louise and Henriette from Mystére á la Tour Eiffel. Kissing, walking arm in arm?
As none ever lived before: Drawing a blank on this one. Is there a live-action movie or TV show with relatively high-definition sources where there are canon wlw (especially woc) and no dead lesbians?
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