#womance

[lefemmerougewriter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hey everyone! Happy Friday. My latest fic, published for @flufftober, is out! It This fic fulfills the "Make it Platonic!" challenge for Flufftober this year, particularly the "Alt 10. And They Lived Happily Ever After" prompt. Anyway, here's the fic's summary to get you interested:

It's Diana's big wedding day with Fred Wright. She'd been waiting and preparing for this day for weeks upon weeks. Everything seems to be going smoothly. Anne has another idea. It's bound to knock Diana's socks off and turn it all upside down. Can they find their happily ever after together? Or will obstacles get in their way? You'll have to read to find out what happens between these two young women who are bosom friends with one another...

This post overrides my previously pinned post for another fic I wrote, for Flufftober this year as well. This fluffy fic can be read fandom-blind. However, if you are aware of Anne Shirley (whether the recent anime, the original novels, or any of the TV adaptations over the years), that would certainly increase your enjoyment.

Otherwise, this fic has some crack fic elements, queerplatonic elements (kissing, soulmates, and building the relationship), and platonic elements (kissing, intimacy, soulmates, life partners, and love), along with some slight canon divergence, female friendship, a friendship/commitment ceremony, comphet (talked about), princess carry, window smashing, horse riding, romantic/intimate friendships, apple trees, crashing a wedding (Anne sort of does this), a hopeful ending, womance, attraction, friendship jealousy (by Anne), coverture (talked about). It's also my first work in this fandom!

This fic is only about 2,300 words, is not a crossover, and is the last fic I will be writing for Flufftober this year. Comments and concrit are welcome. I hope you all enjoy this fic.

[heeahheeya]

Why do I think their chemistry is so much TOXIC & HOT?? SK should have brought womance more.

[nowlander]

I finally finished Paper girls in amazon, so

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[bobbie-robron]

Whatever the opposite to a bromance is.

Womance?

04-Jan-2017

[whatinevertells]

My biggest secret is that…

I like my best friend.

This will go to the grave with me.

[imaginariaextraordinaire]

Just a Mine appreciation post.

I loved the way the show didn't stick to stereotypes and have toxic relationships between the female leads. Seo-Hyun and Hee-Soo's womance is an absolute joy to watch and a reminder of how rare it is to see a real and credible friendship between women on screen. Also, props to writer Lee Na-Jung for showing us there are many kinds of friendship between women. For instance, what the ladies who make up the Bible study group share isn't as intense as what Seo-Hyun and Hee-Soo have, but it's still friendship that provides a certain kind of safe space to the women.

It would have been so easy to set up an antagonistic relationship between Hee-Soo and Hye-Jin. No one could have faulted Lee if she had chosen that route. Instead, she makes Hye-Jin a truly complex, flawed character who truly earns her redemption. How fantastic is the family of choice that the two women establish at the end!

Another great choice by Lee is making the two brothers — Ji-Yong and Jin-Ho — contrasting examples of masculinity. While Ji-Yong turns out to be toxic masculinity at its worst, Jin-Ho starts off seeming like a complete loser but he grows up in the course of the show. One of his best moments is when Seo-Hyun tells him she's gay. His first reaction — when his jaw pretty much literally drops — is comically innocent. His acceptance of her, though, is immediate and it shows he is capable of empathy (a quality that's in very short supply in the Han family).

Particularly given the long tradition of queerbaiting in K-drama, it still blows my mind that Mine had a proper love story between two women. I will never get over the irony of Seo-Hyun feeling safe enough to come out with a Catholic nun, but never mind that detail. Mine does such a great job of showing the tragic romance with respect and tenderness. Plus, the show also makes the subtle point of how intense the stigma surrounding homosexuality is because the Han family and Seo-Hyun are at the peak of privilege. That privilege lets them disregard all sorts of social mores and etiquette (case in point, the behaviour of the mother in-law and the sister in-law), but even with all this socio-cultural and financial capital, Seo-Hyun can't actually come out to the world at large. She's still with her husband at the end of the show.

Honestly, I hadn't thought I'd love this show as much as I did. The whodunit was solid; the comical bits were excellent; the characters were so well written. Altogether, this show was such a refreshing version of the chaebol drama and a great look at how complicated privilege and patriarchy are. I'm not saying Mine is flawless — Ji-Yong's character really pushes the limits of credibility and the straight love story between the "young master" and the maid is so damn blah — but its strengths far outshine the wobbly bits.

[aneshkablack]

Best friends

Did you remember this draw? I stared months ago. But between my work, had COVID and lose someone important to me, I delayed.

When I felt better and the romantic SQ was launched, I drew more about them because it (and is, yet) was a form to manage my strees. But this week I painted it.

It's obvious Talbott is the most important person to Isolde [like male best friend and boyfriend]. But the other person that she loves, her BBF, her sister-non-blood-related, her confident is Rowan Khanna. I drew they embrace one each other when someone takes a photo of them. First I was thinking this scene in the library, but finally I drew in the courtyard in afternoon.

She is one reason to Isolde stayed in Hogwarts, yet after their first year [the other to find Jacob] and didn't run away of this school and go to Ilvermorny.

Isolde would give her life for her if was necessary. She told her about her past, her fears, her wishes, when she fancied and fell in love with Talbott (and sometimes Rowan mocked her calling Isolde 'Mrs. Winger', in special when their relationship be more serious in sixth year).

In Isolde's story, out of canon of the game, Rowan, Talbott and she would be like the 'Golden Trio' but of Ravenclaw. They could have goods and bads things, adventures and problems.

[littlecloverstar]

"The fact that we could be here, proves that something. I’m sure we’ll have the faith to enter the airport strikers team! We’ll defeat everyone else!"