runs with foxes, sleeps with monsters

some girls are trouble

[somegirlsaretrouble]

“Not one would dare spit upon this woman, or call out at her. She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it — Urdda wanted some of that boldness.”

- Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan

[somegirlsaretrouble]

“Female. That label has never done anything for me except dictate what I can or cannot do… It’s as if I’ve got a cocoon shriveled too tightly around my whole being. If I had my way, I’d exist like that butterfly, giving onlookers no easy way to bind me with a simple label.”

- Wu Zetian, in Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

[illyanarasputinfan]

Aldo De La Rosa

[welkingunther]

Intern by day. Super hero by night. Actually I fight crime by day, too and I also intern by night. You get the idea.

[dilfdoctordoom]

30 DAYS OF PRIDE: NICO MINORU

“I’m not confused anymore.”

[darkholme]

Jean Grey in House of X #6

[simoneashley]

My name is Kamala Khan. And I’m here to take out the trash.

[kevinwada-deactivated20230323]

Jean Grey and Emma Frost

Fashion commission, 2020

[somegirlsaretrouble]

“Fallen women are afforded a species of freedom.

Footnote: There is of course no such thing as a fallen woman, unless we are speaking of a woman who recently tripped on the stairs. One of the most difficult elements of this world is the way its social rules are simultaneously rigid and arbitrary. It is impermissible to engage in physical love before binding legal marriage, unless one is a young man of means. Men must be bold and assertive, but only if they are light-skinned. Any persons may fall in love regardless of station, but only if one is a woman and the other a man. I urge you not to navigate your own life by such faulty borders, my dear. There are, after all, other worlds.”

- 𝙰𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝙴. 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠, 𝚃𝚎𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙳𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢

[somegirlsaretrouble]

“May she wander but always return home, may all her words be written true, may every door lie open before her.”

- Alix E. Harrow, Ten Thousand Doors of January

[cindyfelicia]

Anya Corazon in Spider-Girls (2018) #2

[somegirlsaretrouble]

And so, the woman dies. The woman dies so the man can be sad about it. The woman dies so the man can suffer. She dies to give him a destiny. Dies so he can fall to the dark side. Dies so he can lament her death. As he stands there, brimming with grief, brimming with life, the woman lies there in silence. The woman dies for him. We watch it happen. We read about it happening. We come to know it well.

“The Woman Dies”, Matsuda Aoko

[somegirlsaretrouble]

At eight, she had been able to wear dresses or tie ribbons in her hair, or both, without anyone pointing to it as proof that she was growing up to be a beautiful little lady. She had been able to raise her hand in class without being skipped over in favor of the boys, whose answers, although often identical to her own, were somehow smarter, more thoughtful, more /necessary/. She had been able to eat sweets without being asked if she was worried about getting fat. She had been able to find a doorway and disappear into an adventure, instead of living in a world that told her, day after day after grinding, demoralizing day, that adventures were only for boys; that girls had better things to worry about, like making sure those same boys had a safe harbor to come home to.

In An Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire

[somegirlsaretrouble]

She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made.

In An Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire

[somegirlsaretrouble]

We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.

Every Heart A Doorway, Seanan McGuire

[somegirlsaretrouble]

There was no place for a magical woman in the world, unless she learnt to conceal her magic.

Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho

[somegirlsaretrouble]

Magic was too strong a force for women's frail bodies - too potent a brew for their weak minds - and so, especially at a time when everyone must be anxious to preserve what magical resource England still possessed, magic must be forbidden to women. Yet Zacharias had seen too many hags in kitchens and nurseries, too many herbwomen and hedgewitches in villages around the country, not to know that women were perfectly capable of magic - at least, women of the labouring classes. Among their betters it was genteel to turn a blind eye to such illicit activities. One would not like one's own wife or daughter to indulge in witchcraft, but it did not serve to be overscrupulous when feminine magic could prove so convenient in one's servants.

Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho