Thinking about someone being like “werewolves are boring” recently and ‘I’m like you don’t understand werewolves can represent so MUCH and that’s why they’re so fun like they can represent QUEERNESS they can represent OTHERNESS they can represent RAGE it can be a release of tension and a triumph as you break out of your shell OR more often it is a curse or a part of you that you hate and fear and have to battle with it can be something personal and internal or it can be something that others you from other human beings and makes them fear and hate and ostracize you. It can be BOTH a blessing and a curse. A simultaneous release of tension and freedom and letting something out while ALSO something that makes you a danger to others and yourself. It represents something primal and natural which humans have distanced themselves from or/and it’s something severely unnatural and supernatural. They can represent so many different things, either simultaneously or just the things the author wants to use. Swiss army wolf. But also wolves are cool and monsters are cool and big wolf monsters are cool.
Wait I’m not done because also you can flow between themes as the character goes on and maybe something that was a curse they hated becomes something they learn to live with or something freeing or maybe it’s something they wanted and thought would be liberating but they struggle more and more with the consequences or like fuck it you might just want a person who is a big doggie and that’s also rlly good.
Do you want to tell a story about womanhood and becoming a woman? Cool. Do you wanna tell a story about becoming an adult in general? Cool. Do you wanna tell a story about being an othered minority that gets ostracized and pthered by their community/the world? Cool. Do you wanna write about mental illness? Cool. Do you wanna write a story of empowerment? Cool. Do you wanna write a story of inner demons symbolized by something external? Cool. Do you wanna write about people with fun abilities? Cool. Do you wanna do something about the connection and conflict of man and nature? Cool. Do you like fun mythological creatures that can be benevolent, harmful, or neutral? Yaya ya. That’s werewolves baby!!!!!!!!
Howling (and Bleeding) at the Moon: Menstruation, Monstrosity and the Double in the Ginger Snaps Werewolf Trilogy
“HAIRY THUGGISH WOMEN” FEMALE WEREWOLVES, GENDER, AND THE HOPED-FOR MONSTER
Why Are There No Great Female Werewolves?
The Tyranny Of Sexy: Female Werewolves In Pop Culture
The Problem With Female Werewolves
She-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves
the female werewolf and her shaggy suffragette sisters
The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame
Girlie Shape-Shifters with Five O'Clock Shadows: Surveying Representations of She Wolves, Wolf Girls and Female Werewolves in Printmaking and the Visual Arts
Wolf girls and hirsute heroines: Fur, hair and the feminine
Beware the Full Moon: female werewolves and ‘that time of the month
One Wolf Girl Battles Against All Mankind: The New Breed of Female Werewolf as Eco-warrrior in Contemporary Film and Fiction
Female Werewolves and Boobs [it’s about a short story called boobs, not actual boobs] / Boobs [the short story]
CINEMA’S BLACK WOMEN WEREWOLVES
Reading the Feral Woman: Female Werewolves and Liminality in Fantasy Fiction
It's June, motherfuckers, and you know what that means! Apart from firing a few rent-lowering shots to filter out the chuds from my following, it's probably also a good time to post a reminder that there are many strange ways to be queer, and this is one of them.
video transcript below the cut, may be slightly inaccurate, I tend to ad-lib when reading my scripts into voiceover
It's Pride Month, so if you'll forgive me I'm taking a two minute break from the One Piece, League of Legends, Marvel Rivals, Final Fantasy and Pokémon shorts to tell you… Sylveon is trans, Taliyah is trans, everyone on the Straw Hats is queer, there are no words to describe how queer superheroes are as a concept let alone how queer they all are individually, and here's a fun fact for you: Cloud Strife's story gets ten times better when you understand it as an allegory for a trans coming out experience.
As for me, well, I'm not trans, but I do occupy my own little space in the rainbow flags which looks like this. I am aromantic.
We are generally not as visible as many of our queer siblings, probably at least partly because it's kind of a difficult identity to even discover in yourself, you basically have to prove a negative.
But what is this thing, "aromantic"? Well… okay, let's say you're a straight guy, right. You know the way you feel romantically about other men? I feel exactly the same way, and then I also feel that way about women, and then also the same way about all of the other genders.
Now, aromantic often goes along with asexual, there's a lot of co-occurrence of the two, but not always, and that is my situation. Yes to sex, no to romance, which being a man, yes, I know, that just makes me the same as 90% of the men you match on Hinge. "Ha ha ha didn't realize "fuccboi" was an orientation now," I know. I get it. I understand. I have had all the same thoughts myself, especially when I was questioning.
Which is the difficulty with being aromantic, because in order to figure out that that's what you are, you have to prove a negative. I have never been in love, and I have no reason to think I ever will be… but what if someday I meet The One??? What if there's a special divinely designated perfect soulmate out there, just waiting for me, and one day our eyes will meet across the room and it will be love at first sight forever?
And like. I can't prove that won't happen, anymore than I can prove that there isn't a flowery pink teapot currently hiding somewhere in the orbit of Saturn. And frankly, if it did happen, I wouldn't be mad. Why would I be? I would have a soulmate! That's a pretty big W, I think.
But… I've had over thirty years to encounter someone—anyone—who can spark my romantic interest, and thus far, every challenger of every gender has failed. So either I am aromantic, or else you people have a skill issue.
Anyway, like anything to do with queerness, aromantic is a sprawling and diverse spectrum. You got your aroaces, aroallos, aroflux, arospikes, demiromantics, frayromantics, grayromantics, cupioromantics, there's a whole world of different experiences present under this umbrella. For me, though, just "aromantic" is fine. That's the broad label, that's the one I fall under, that's the identity I take pride in. Happy June!
I had a dream I got a Willard fanart but it was ai generated and I can't describe the type of rage I felt. This is really one of the most fucking 2026 dreams maybe ever, can I get chased by a fucking monster instead???
Stop domesticating your werewolves! Don't make them out to be little more than large dogs! Let them roam free and wreak carnage upon local civilians then agonize over what they've done after waking up naked in the woods the next morning!
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