Attempted Artist

K / 27 / she // I sketch things. I watch and learn and read // Literary non-hottie // Check out the "my art" tag! // I am a fan of gender bends and non-canonical queerity // Partial to she-wolves, tigers, and unwomanly witches. TERFs do not follow me, my stuff isn’t for you

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Hi, I’m K!

About me: 26, Artist & writer with a BA in Studio Art & English, butch lesbian, ELCA Lutheran (aka the progressive ones), disabled, feminist.

About the Blog: This is mainly a blog for art, writing, socializing & fandom. Other topics may include history, costuming, theatre, sewing, bookbinding, media studies (queer, disability & feminist theory mainly), disability & mental health, queer/lesbian/butch stuff, feminist stuff, occasional theology & spirituality, and some current-events things relating to the aforementioned topics and my general concerns for justice in the world.

My biggest creative tags are #my art and #my writing. I love comments and feedback!

I am on AO3 as word_docs_and_willowboughs (I also have an alt which fandom friends may DM me for but which I would prefer stay separate from most IRL folks who follow me here - though if you know what it is, assume I want you to)

Things I Enjoy & Post About A Lot:

- Genderbending—usually of male characters to women or nonbinary. I’ve probably done it at least sometimes for most of the fandoms I’ve been in, sometimes extensively. My tag is #rule 63 because it’s what I established years ago, but since I do also have non girl-to-guy stuff in there take it as more of an “alternate universe: gender changes”.

- Horror fiction, especially gothic novels and horror movies which are doing some form of social commentary and subversion of older stereotypes/tropes around things like gender, disability, queerness, race, religion and xenophobia. I am working on an international horror movie marathon watch and have my letterboxd reviews here. (#horror #horror movies #gothic etc)

- Historical fiction which is well-researched and has its world grounded in reality (eg the Lymond books, Equal of the Sun, Malinche on Canal 11)

- Re-evaluating ‘bad’ women, disabled & queer characters in fiction with more nuance and, potentially, sympathy (I am liable to crusade for delinquent teenage girls who respond badly to trauma, what can I say?)

- Femslash!! Especially with butches. I am more of a plot-heavy and angst-with-happy-endings enjoyer a pure-fluff one but I can appreciate both! I love genderbending characters to be butches/butch4butch or butchfemme couples (or throuples…)

- Queer, Feminist & Disability Studies based readings and reinterpretations of classic literature & films, especially but not only in horror

- History of gender & sexuality in my time periods of interest (currently pretty fixated on the 16th century); histories of disability

- Historical fashion (study of history; I differentiate the study of history from analysis of costumes in media as well as from reenactment) - recurrent interests are 16th century Western Europe & Ottoman Empire, and Tang, Yuan & Ming China (most educated on hanfu but working to expand that). (#historical fashion #fashion history)

- The history of beliefs about magic, witchcraft and witch trials, particularly in Europe in the 16th-early 17th century but also broader threads of what people believe about various concepts of “witches”; how it’s misused socially; and its connection to things like conspiracy thought (#elaborated theory of witchcraft tag)

Active Fandoms: requests for art, writing and meta/thoughts are open; probably spamming about them at any given moment.

- The Lymond Chronicles (rule 63 AU tag is #a furious and fatuous young woman; there’s a lot of stuff there)… and the microfandom for @notasapleasure ‘s 80s-band Lymond AU (#the band AU; #the band AU rule 63)

- Interview With The Vampire AMC - I'm on a break after S3 from engaging with the bigger fandom outside of Claudia & Claudeleine content. I also have a frankencanon R63 AU where I do sometimes have Lestat, Louis, Armand, Daniel etc. featured but I lowkey only care about the lesbian/bi versions of them that exist in my head rn!

- The Vampire Chronicles but I’ve only read some of them (the first three most thoroughly; The Vampire Armand supplementally because he’s my boy)

- Revolutionary Girl Utena & its musical adaptations Bud of the White Rose and Blooming Rose of Deepest Black.

- Doctrine of Labyrinths (currently nearing the end of Mélusine; genderbending away but there’s no AU-specific tag

- A Heated Rivalry f!AU I have where they’re gymnasts (#gymnastics au and #hollanova) but not much canon reblogging

- A smidge of The Magnus Archives, though I don’t really post my art for it, sorry

- My Magnus Archives RPG campaign (#tma rpg) with @venndaai @coldwind-shiningstars @talking0fmichelangel0 and @whatthewhenjustmighthavebeen which I DM

Back-Burner Beloved Fandoms: kinda-inactive fandoms I’ve made stuff for and posted about previously, but I’m still totally down to talk about even if I’m not posting about them on the regular. I may take art and writing requests but may be slower in responding until my brain kicks into gear.

- Shakespeare (Hamlet and King Lear are two favorites; I’m also histories-fandom-adjacent) (#lesbian hamlet)

- Marlowe (Doctor Faustus); fan and sideline-member of #faustklub

- Dumas (The Three Musketeers; I have more on my TBR)

- Modao Zushi & Chenqing Ling/The Untamed

- Tian Guan Ci Fu (book & donghua)

- Ren zha fanpai zijiu itong (aka SVSSS)

- Jing Wei Qing Shang

- My lesbian Hamlet retelling (#withering violets; #hamletnovel)

- I’m not active in Tolkien fandom but have left a few fics/some art up; not taking Silmarillion related requests right now, sorry

Filtering/Tumblr Savior Tips:

A) I tag topics #[topic] cw. This includes current events (#[location] politics cw); bigotry (eg #misogyny cw); other heavy topics (eg suicide, rape, abuse); specific disasters/crises (eg #wildfires cw; #war cw); medical topics (#medical cw); and horror topics (eg #body horror cw)

B) A note about religion: I post about Christianity sometimes (I am a progressive ELCA Lutheran), though I do not proselytize. Nor do I put cw-style warnings for any religious belief or lack thereof, but if you want to filter those topics, block #christianity tag (which includes the good, the bad and the ugly sides of it, from my own love of my faith to addressing cultural hegemony in the Western world, Christofascism, and the historical and present atrocities committed in the name of my God). I do not have anything against atheism, skepticism or secularism, but if you want to filter me occasionally talking about some issues with the way that specifically New Atheists & Antitheists treat religious people socially, filter #new atheism and #antitheism

C) I use the tag #ocd tag without a CW to post about both my experiences with moral/scrupulosity and religious OCD (sometimes including vents) and resources for others

D) #negative and #delete later are my occasional vents

[chotomy]

…lest i drop you in anger, and hate you as much as i now terribly love you.

[chotomy]

people asking what myth this is from–it’s right from the iliad guys!! book 3, starting at line 395 (caroline alexander translation):

[chotomy]

now available as a Redbubble print! <3

[chotomy]

meanwhile, aphrodite and paris:

[blizz4rd1203]

Who the fuck is that thing tolling for

[discofisting]

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

What a lovely little post you have here! *Drinks up its wordjuice to add it to my lexicon like some form of Vernacula*

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

*Sinks my teeth into your vocabillaries*

[amsterdamhotelroom]

amc robbed us of lesmand so i drew them as women to cope <3

[abigailspinach]

[sarahwestcott]

Information about the two new tests:

Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

Endometriosis Diagnosis Testing Device | EndoSure Inc.

EndoSure offers the only Tier 1, non-invasive diagnostic test for endometriosis with 99% accuracy in under 30 minutes, helping to improve wo

NICE recommends non-invasive tests that could speed up endometriosis diagnoses

Two diagnostic technologies that could speed up NHS diagnoses of endometriosis in primary care have been recommended by the National Institu

Apparently you can do a saliva test kit at home:

A saliva test for endometriosis providing a reliable diagnosis within just a few days. A new era in the diagnosis of endometriosis, marked b

[libraryleopard]

I fear I don’t like when people repurpose that Anthony Bourdain quote about hating Henry Kissinger after visiting Cambodia as a meme because I’m like well not to be a killjoy but I feel that is probably not a memeable topic

[lostinhistory]

Solid life advice from Sue the T. Rex.

[iphigeniacomplex]

grounding tips for the stressed aspiring tyrant: acknowledge 5 people you can sway to your cause, 4 methods you can use to persuade them (2 violent, 2 nonviolent), 3 people in positions of moderate power you can manipulate and usurp in order to gain access to 2 powerful institutions to destroy, and 1 foundational lie

[iphigeniacomplex]

people are starting to character tag so i’d like to state upfront that this is part of a new branch of pop feminism i’m pioneering called despotette and as such is specifically advice for women trying to break into the world of tyranny, so if you must character tag it’s really only appropriate to do so if the character is a woman, thank you

[hechiceria]

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[hechiceria]

[knownqueerbaiter]

SEPARATE CHURCH (AO3) AND STATE (TRADPUB)

[exitchorus]

everyone says they like mean lesbians until the lesbian gets mean.

[laufire]

#They mean they want us lovingly rolling our eyes as we continue to nannymommy chaste style #God forbid we don’t self degrade and flagellate for the high crime of not being sexually available to men (via @susandsnell)

[fission-mailure]

A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.

[glorioustragedykid]

Thought "you're not an ally if you're dating someone who is homophobic" was a cold take but some people are really struggling with the concept

[glorioustragedykid]

"You're not the person you're dating" nah, the company you decide to keep DEFINITELY talks about YOUR character

"It's okay to befriend people with different beliefs" IT'S MY RIGHTS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT??!!

Straight people are so useless I can't do this anymore

[punishedsaints]

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

[hallowedhaunting]

The ruin of the lamb

prints

[micahulrichdraws]

What are your pronouns?

None, taken in yet another 70's classic spy caper heist. Investigation ongoing, however there is little hope. Luckily, not really a big deal in these parts. Still sad, though.