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badass-queer-couples-battle · 1 month

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⚔️⚔️ Sword gays showdown, grand finale ⚔️

*Camilla fanart by @friendamedes, used with permission

Propaganda:

For Camilla:

she prefers dual-wielding two short blades but can fight with pretty much anything. she's ambidextrous she's autistic she's even sex-repulsed ace. she sighs longingly when reunited with her weapons. she's from planet academia and dresses like an off-duty librarian. literally one of the most iconic moments of the entire series is when she gets challenged to a duel and absolutely wipes the floor with her opponent even though she doesn't even like rapiers that much. 'swords don't lie.'

OK I’m sure you’re getting just about every character from The Locked Tomb but Cam is my favorite. She's a nerd AND a jock. She is in this deeply intense and loving and unhealthily codependent soulbond partnership with her best friend second cousin and prince. She is smart and deadpan snarky and fights like a grease fire and I have never been able to get that line out of my head.

For Gideon:

she's incredibly good w/ her two hander and less good with her rapier but she's still pretty good!! she is a horny lesbian who's taste in women seems to exclusively be "girls who have tried or are going to try to kill her". she's a redhead. i love her

Gideon’s a HUGE Butch lesbian and literally always wanted to use a broad sword. Specifically a broad sword. She said fuck rapiers. Uhhh literally dies to save the girl she cares for and the sword she uses then becomes like an altar for said girl. Gideon Nav Supremacy <3

oh she is the most badass swordswoman lesbian in media. she’s her gf’s cavalier, defends her in battle, she’s incredibly butch and buff

C'mon shes THE sword lesbian like... canonically

Loves her broadsword more than anything on her home planet and practices whenever she can. Spoiler it’s possessed by her mom. Gave everything so her best enemy could eat her soul and become the new saint. The character of all time child of two separate threesomes, child of the god emperor, she’s dead, she’s butch, she’s a dork, she’s doomed by the narrative. She’s my favorite.

girlie is literally the swordswoman supreme. she’s the cavalier primary to her necromancer. she has a fuckoff huge longsword. she gets absorbed into another person SPECIFICALLY to swordfight for them. in a gay way too.

While everyone else was developing common sense, she studied the blade. This dyke's main weapon and true love is the long sword, but she's also passable with a rapier. The sword is, in her own estimation, pretty much all she's good for. That and her smoking hot bod and terribly charming sense of humor.

"While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade." (Direct quote from the book). She's the most useless lesbian to ever exist, and she's obsessed with an absolute wet cat of a woman. Learned longsword mostly on her own and is such a genius with the sword she learned rapier in a few months (by personal experience, it's really really hard)

Most badass broadsword wielding lesbian easily slaying bone monsters and evil space wasps

The cavalier to her necromancer. very gay. in a complicated codependant lovehate relationship with the only other person her age she knew growing up.

For Xena:

It is HER! The OG woman with a blade!

Her show was so iconic that any lesbian over the age of 30 knows her IMMEDIATELY because this show probably helped her have her awakening. Fandom foremothers and fathers rise up and get your gal a title.

An all around badass, bisexual woman, comfortable with many different bladed weapons. Her show was so much better than Hercules people forget his exists.

Xena is one of the OGs: once a baddie who turned good, she's a warrior who uses swords, daggers, and her trusty chakram to defeat evil and defend the innocent, while traveling with her kickass girlfriend Gabrielle.

She has many skills

#sword gays showdown #camilla hect #gideon nav #xena #tlt #the locked tomb #xena warrior princess

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butmakeitgayblog · 9 months

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Your confussion about Callisto did got me curious, who was your gay awakening character?

Could it be Julia Roberts based on your fics or Buffy based on your age (you are a 00’s teen right?) but maybe I’m wrong? idk

Btw she was a character on Xena indeed a blond villain if I recall

I don't 100% remember who my gay awakening was because I don't think I had one? It wasn't so much that one day I realized, "omg she's so hot, this changes everything! I get it now!" It was more like my dumbass realized that not every girl thought or felt the same way I did when I looked at girls, ykwim? Now that moment is burned in my brain like a fuckin lightning bolt 🥴.

I had been doing my math homework and had MTV or Vh1, one of the two, on in the background and it had this little afterschool special type thing on about a high school just for gay teens who had been bullied so badly they had to leave their own schools. And I remember this red headed girl came on and the interviewer asked her how she knew she was a lesbian at ~such a young age~ (barf) and she just said (paraphrasing obvs cuz it's been over 20 years), "Because I don't care what boys think, I care what girls think. I don't want boys to look at me and have crushes on me, I want girls to. I want them to feel what I feel when I look at them. I get excited when girls talk or laugh and when they smile at me. I want to hold girls hands and feel them against me, and smell their perfumes and kiss them on the lips after school. And I just want boys to leave me the fuck alone. Once I realized that wasn't how most other girls felt, it was pretty easy to figure out who I was."

And when I tell you?? A bitch? Started? Sobbing?? Over her math homework??? Because it was just like everything suddenly made sense. Like oh my fucking god. Oh my god. Oh my god 😑. That's it. I literally froze halfway through a problem and just stared at the screen and started sobbing because it felt like a truck had hit me. I just thought every girl felt that way, but,,,, apparently they don't??!

So it was never really like a "gay awakening character" or anything like that, I just realized my stupid ass had been having crushes on women all along without realizing that was what it was. But if I had to pick one, the first I can blatantly remember being entirely too attached to was Ms. Honey. I mean damn 👀

#anon #speaking of which if you liked Syn's It Starts With A Chip fic and think that actress is hot #suuuuper recommend the movie bicentennial man with Robin Williams and her in it #she is a whole smokeshow

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strangesmallbard · 1 year

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elphaba thropp and xena were Literally my gay awakenings so it does make sense why talder has wiped out all my brain cells this week

#find the differences between these photos. they’re the same photo #yell.txt

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boxofbonesfic · 2 years

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excuse me but demona was literally my gay subby monsterfucking awakening so jot that down real quick (also because i’m bi it’s goliath supremacy for me thank you)

sorry i couldn’t hear you over XENA, WARRIOR PRINCESS—

#if we’re talking about females we want to hold us down—#also idk why y’all keep talmbout goliath you can have him!!!! i want my red mans!!! thank you!!!!

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manicr · 3 years

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Coming out, Pride month

I thought I'd talk about coming since it's still the last days of pride month, and how different that can be for some kids, using myself as an example.

For some kids there's no dramatic Moment™ but a life lived and sometimes unknown, with pockets of 'outness' and places where the closet exists but only as a polite fiction.

To make some sense of this, I need to go way back for myself. I was always a queer kid; in all senses of the word. Undiagnosed autism was a factor but so were others.

W were many kids in my family, I grew up with 4 of my 5 siblings, a mix of boys and girls and I was the second youngest. In effect, my older brothers helped raise me and my sisters, and my parents had little time for me. They kicked us out to play to get some peace and quiet during the days, and I frankly became somewhat of a feral child, spending time in the woods and playing by myself a lot. Now, this might sound weird when you have 5 siblings, but we were a motley bunch, fought a lot, and played too, and I was autistic af. Being without them was easier and I could do what I wanted, which was usually play with dinosaurs, explore the woods and draw a lot.

I had few friends, who I was intermittently clingy and distant towards. Typical ASD. And I can in hindsight say that by the age of 10-11 that I was queer: Xena Warrior Princess was an awakening -- in my case, it was the villainess Callisto, but Gabrielle and Xena were obviously in love with each other even before it was canon. But it wasn't an 'aha' moment to me. No great fanfares that I wasn't straight or panic about it. I hadn't understood homophobia, and I didn't much care about kissing any 'real' people, even though I was a big shipper of Hercules/Ares and Xena/Gabrielle. I understood slowly that my parents didn't approve of homosexuality or gnc stuff. So I just chalked it up to them being them and hid all that. Though I could never do feminity right. I was often mistaken for a boy as a pre-teen

When I was 12 I had my first kiss -- with a girl. It was on a dare and I didn't think anything of it. I was THAT friend then, with the few friends I had, the overly perverted verbally and clingy physically. Kissing a girl was nothing, but it was also natural. I played at liking boys at this age. Tried to like those snotty prepubescent boys in my school and tried to perform the obligatory boy band fawning. It was Backstreet Boys for me. But I felt nothing, I enjoyed shipping boys more than I did them. Nor did I want a girlfriend really. But my sister pointed out that I was too 'dykey' with my friends. Repeatedly.

When I was 13 I got depressed. It lasted all of 'high school' (sweden: högstadiet 13-15). It was bad. I was self-loathing, suicidal, and hated how I looked and felt. I explored my gender, my sexuality, and tried to find why I felt so wrong. I escaped into fandom. I lost friendships slowly, but I started to realize that they weren't all that good either. I started to realize that I probably wasn't straight, but still cis, and that I wanted to live differently than I did.

In gymnasium (swe: 16-18) I swore that I'd be happier. I came out as bisexual to my friends and school in my first year. I only chose to call myself bi because I liked looking at adult men, but fuck if I didn't like girls my age too. I was outrageously outspoken, without any borders. I dressed like in long leather coats, embroidered shirts, and cargo pants, pseudo-masc flamboyance, or full corsetted loli goth style - feminity taken to the max until it became unattractive or drag.

I let my friendships be intense, physically and emotionally, but never crossed the borders my straight friends set. Though they probably should have set them a little harder so I'd notice. I was no stranger to making out with my friends, and I had fits of jealously even -- leading me to 'share' boys with them when we made out. But despite this, I was never their girlfriend. Just an overly clingy and perverted friend -- but I was still happy. I felt loved. I kissed with one of my friends who's come out as a lesbian. It was her first kiss. No strings attached, as she said, and there weren't. I went to Pride every year after I turned 16. But I never said a word about myself to my family.

The closet was there, if barely. A polite fiction. The unspoken.

My family had all the chances to know: a gnc daughter who was too 'dykey' with her friends who went to Pride every year and was outspoken in support of queer rights. Who never brought home a boyfriend or said a word about dating. My sister sneered at me and called me a homo and a freak. But we never spoke about it. My parents stopped talking about boyfriends with me.

I left home when I was 19, to study in another city. I did, and I partied too, kissing boys and girls, loving dancing and touching, but I didn't date. I tried, a little but no one interested me more than to touch. I was out at uni. I was out online - I joked that I liked fictional men and real women. At work too. But I never spoke to my family about it, until my little sister had a gay panic moment since her bff was in love with her. I outed myself as she cried and talked her down. She's the only blood family member who I've literally told it to this day. My middle brother asked me if I like girls, I said both, and he gave me ecchi manga. Brothers.

When I was 21 I met the love of my life. The first and only man I pursued seriously. And I really had to pursue him since he thought I was a lesbian bc I was so damn queer and liked looking at women's breasts. After some comedy of errors, we got together. He always knew that I was queer and accepted it, enjoyed it even, since we could ogle at women together and he was fine with me looking/commenting on pretty men too. He had queer friends (pretty much half ), had tried it out, and decided he liked women, and he was also on the spectra of autism. I feel a kinship with him, love, and friendship. His family was queer (gay granpa and lesbian step-sister) and I was pretty much introduced as bi together with my name to them, as a matter of fact.

I married him. We've been together for 12 years. I was the first of my sisters to get wed, much to their surprise.

I'm out to the world; except for my older gen of family. But there were no dramatic moments of outing. No TV moment and teary confessions. Even as a child, to my friends, it was a bi by the way and they pretty much guessed it. My siblings, barring my older sister and oldest brother, got it in casual circumstances or guessed it. I think the rest know, but the closet is there as polite fiction so that they don't have to face it.

I don't feel like I'm in the closet. I've never really felt like it. I know my parents' and my older siblings' homophobia, and I know I'm a freak in their eyes, despite being married to a man. I don't care. They don't deserve to have a heart-to-heart with me about my identity, they don't deserve to participate in my joy, and I don't meet them more than a couple times a year.

I'm happy and bi. I love my husband, I love my friends, I love my new family; it's all queer. Coming out was never something that mattered to me. I lived my life and people with eyes saw it as it was. Those who refused had to look at me being queer af regardless. Naturally, I was drawn to queer ppl bc of this and they to me. There's only so much gnc queer shit straight ppl who aren't super queer-friendly can take. Sometimes all you have to do is live your life.

#personal #pride #coming out

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justjameka · 4 years

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Shipping Post Game

Tagged by @aviss

Rules: tag 9 people you’d like to know better

Top 3 Ships

1) Xena/Gabrielle- Xena: Warrior Princess

This was my very first ship. It was also my gay awakening. I loved them and how honest their love was. It’s not questioned and to this day, I don’t understand anyone who watches this show and doesn’t see that these two are in love.

2) Jaime/Brienne - A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones

This is my current hyper fixation. I was very late to this fandom and I still haven’t mustered up the courage to read the books though I own them. This ship is so beautiful because of how authentic it was. They are the poster children for “You can’t help who you love.” Neither of them wanted it to happen and yet, there they are...putting themselves in harm's way for one another.

3) Emma Swan/Regina Mills- Once Upon A Time

This is probably the most frustrating ship for me. Their love story literally writes itself. It’s simple, Emma gave birth to a boy, Regina adopted said son and then..ten years later Emma is back. It’s kismet. Emma is the Savior. Regina is the Evil Queen. IT’S OBVIOUS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. It’s both beautiful and heartbreaking to watch these women grow and learn to trust each other and care for one another. They’s magic together (pun intended)

Last Song You Listened To

Yikes-Nicki Minaj

Last Movie You Watched

Bad Boys For Life, saw it today and let me tell ya....it was really good!

Reading

Getting back into Mirandy fic and some Swan Queen fics. Physical books, I’m working through all of James Patterson’s works. We’ll see how this goes.

Last thing you ate

Avocado toast...yep.

@agirlnamedkeith @sassbewitchedmyass @bussdowntarthiana @braime @rowark @angel-deux-writes @angstbotfic @girl4music @julieoftarth and anyone else who wants to do it.

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