You Never give Opera a Chance!

Sara, she/her, '96, sitcoms & silly shows

[kaftan]

Interview with Jenny Holzer for Fondation Beyeler

[dykeselfcest]

baru cormorant somehow some of the best and most gratifying lesbianism ever put to page even though at ~300 pages in she is still strictly celibate and barely even allows herself to acknowledge when she's in a homoerotic situation except to note that it's "risky"...baru I'm obsessed with you

[dykeselfcest]

like could definitely be considered a form of repressed lesbianism, but in fiction I'm better acquainted with the variety in which the character is actively lying to themself, refusing to acknowledge it internally, etc. and I really enjoy this variant of like. she's making a conscious, strategic, calculated decision, but part of that involves maintaining a careful, intellectual distance from her own desires.

from a writing perspective I am also really impressed by the ability to get this across in the aforementioned homoerotic situations without resorting to what is a go-to shorthand for myself and many other writers, descriptions of bodily responses that the character attempts to ignore/resist. it communicates that level of detachment soooo well and I think it takes a lot of skill to create these fraught situations and have what is actually fraught about them be expressed almost tacitly.

also just personally I feel very Seen by her visceral reaction to considering actually being with a man, even for purely strategic reasons. the bit about her body rejecting the concept. in that I know a lot of other lesbians who are in the realm of like "I could do it for a while if necessary even if it's not what I actually want out of life" but for me it has always been an instant discomfort that I can't overcome, which was present in various forms even when I thought I wanted a boyfriend etc.

[dykeselfcest]

I also think it's very successful at communicating lesbianism that is both relational and individual, which I think is how many/most people experience it! fictional narratives frequently focus on falling in love with a single person as the locus of Awakening, which I think is partly just because it's easy to write—and if you have a ready-made partner you can accelerate the timeline a bit because either you have someone to guide you or you have someone to take the journey with. but for many people it's not about being interested in a single person at all; it's about your own responses and desires, an internal understanding of yourself that is about who and what you want, but not in the sense of a specific person.

[buffysummers]

Deep down, you’ve always wanted Buffy to accept you, to love you, even.

[chirpingfromthebox]

[grrl-beetle]

Issey Miyake

[tallsinspace]

Monk/Stottlemeyer is really meaningful to me I must admit.

[dragongirlsweetie]

it is still genuinely so crazy to me that tumblr has special scorched earth instant kill moderation tools that are used almost exclusively against victims of harassment campaigns

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Prince (1989)

[grrlmusic]

Jean Smart & Hannah Einbinder

[emmaklee]

Nishimoto Ryota

a piece of wood carved to fit perfectly into a zippered plastic bag

[insectapologist]

obsessed with this exchange in the replies

[lakevida]

i think its charming when peoples personal lives improve and they get drastically worse at posting

[thearksakura]

margarita cabrera - soft sculpture sewing machine

[random-brushstrokes]

Margaret Foster Richardson - Self-Portrait, A Motion Picture (1912)

[deadgenerations]

a lot of boobie artists are really not very good at drawing how breasts actually lay when one is bare chested so it always looks like their nudie gals are wearing invisible bras. FAKE FANS!

[phantomrose96]

[turning 30 next week voice] there are a lot of cool and exciting ways to cook eggplant

[aboutoriginality]

[3frogs]

Graffiti Tunnel Diorama in 1/35 scale by Aidencreates on Instagram

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats