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a redraw of the episode 1 main menu screen, with evangeline morgan looking out at the city from her bedroom window while she smokes a cigarette. she is depicted as an anthropomorphic fox with white fur and her signature red hair. she's wearing a white shirt with an undone bolo tie hanging around her shoulders
unbelievable that this appears to be this artist's debut oneshot !?!? it's super duper good the type of thing you'd love to see as a full series
New yuri oneshot about a butch butcher who has a side gig disposing of corpses. Ohhh my god
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kamome shirahama went bonkers mode for this one
the use of strap ons, toys, fingers, and diverse body forms delinked from specific sex acts or functions in lesbian sex is what dephallicizes all that which has been inscribed phallic. ironically, attempting to "bind" lesbian sex to universally prohibit or restrict parts of the body or modes of sex "by taxonomy" is a "phallic" act ... lesbians in love are constantly remixing how the body is touched and used and interpreted, and what toys and objects can be created and used as a shared mode. the barrier between the emergent ("biological") and the created ("artificial") is breached, and so the potential of lesbian sex exists in an ever-shifting biological-machinic coitus. very often this is why lesbian sex is treated as either "inferior" or "corrupted". one will claim that the strap on is "inferior to the real natural Man" whereas another will claim that the strap on is "an alien invasion upon a pure natural zone". both seek to tear apart the intimate union, and in doing so render the lesbian a creature of pure nature. but what this politics rejects is that which keeps lesbian sex so self-reflective: that the lesbian uses her hands in the act of constructing new "technologies of pleasure".
happy lesbian visibility. do not acknowledge anything you see online about people trying to call strap ons heteronormative or questioning why trans women are around or similar such bullshit and just read this and take it to heart
“Are you a homosexual, Barbara Ivanovna?” Mona asked suddenly. Yegorova grunted. “That’s none of your business, detective!” “Well, I’m a homosexual.” Mona said. Yegorova blinked at her. “Klara, I understand your fears. You knew there could be social consequences for your feelings and you were unsure if your affection would be returned. That is the kind of world we live in. A man has the power to assume a woman might love him– but two women have to feel in the dark for love and might never know if they even found it. But what you felt was not something aberrant. You felt love for another person, and a desire to receive her love in return. None of that was perverted, evil or obscene.”
Salvator took a long drag of the cigarette, close to spent. She stared out of the balcony. “Whenever I look around at all the people I’ve known, and the people who have come and gone, the people I’ve lost, the people who love me and hate me– I realize there aren’t that many of us in Novograd. Whatever people want to call us– fairies, queens, transvestites, sodomites. Not actually that many. It feels like a massive world when it’s your world; but its like a snow-globe scene compared to the rest. It felt nice to see you there, detective. Living your own life with your assistant in the venerable Main Street. A new corner where our existence is challenging the world.” Mona looked out at the city in the same direction as Salvator. Trying to see what she saw.
happy lesbian visibility week!!! is there any better time to read some novellas about a butch detective and her femme assistant being visibly lesbian in a world that's opposed to them? you should read Emptiness Effigied!!! i think it's an incredibly moving and special story. i love it so much.
Lily (@gallowlessdatura.bsky.social) reviewed Cruelty Squad. It's one of her favorite games, and she felt like explaining why its unique flavor of cynicism and rancidness speaks to her. Join us as she dissects the doomerism and finds catharsis within. gamesline.net/an-incision-...
nanao misaki with a bunch of carabiners
3. Having homoerotic rivalries
the rules for trans women playing sports are
1. having fun
2. destroy the sport
there's no traditional athlete narrative here of overcoming barriers to succeed. you simply have to approach the sport with the viewpoint of seeking to destroy its tradition - to respond to "serious competition" w/ "taking it only with a sense of whimsy". responding to rage like a trickster goddesd
i think often about how there's kinda no winning. if you succeed against female athletes it's like cheating because women have to be inherently weak. if you succeed against male athletes it means trans women are biological supersoldiers. if you lose to either then it just turns into a clown circus
trans woman athlete who deliberately loses competitions against men in open categories she could beat because of the culture war controversy it could cause but she rebels specifically by making it that she always loses by exactly 1 point or a set amount of seconds
and of course, the internet was exactly where these two philosophical visions of technology collided
if a "leftist" vision of technology looks towards communicative technology, technologies of emergent creative connectivity, then a "rightist" vision of technology looks towards surveillence technology, technologies of biopolitical control
make no mistake, the right's criticism of modern society through advocating the freedom of natural hierarchy doesn't look "primitivist". on the contrary, advanced technology can be instrumentalized precisely to try and reinforce or "make scientific" natural hierarchy. sex, race, the mind ...
unfortunately, the cultural influence of this "controlled opposition to capitalism" draws in some leftists too, who thereafter decide that a politics of the Return, the small-national, the family-against-capital, the woman-as-bourgeois, constitute true resistance. but it's all conservative.
its adherents to the fascism of the nation (enlistment into family or paramilitary) to continually uphold the "naturalness" of this "truth"
the "rebellious right", the "dark counter to modernity", the "this is what they don't want you to know", the "male loneliness", all of it - framed as a criticism of modern society, but in such a way so as to wield the freedom of "true" natural hierarchies to be released, and subordinate
deliberately enforced and maintained, and so the right engages in rampant censorship and suppression by the state and by paramilitary action in the name of upholding the "freedom of the nation", a nation that reifies natural hierarchy as its eternal, historical, national identity (culture)
speech against the bigotry is not also an equal exercise of free speech, but is a "censorious" attempt by "modern society" to "constrain" the freedom of natural hierarchy. but the irony, of course, is that there is no such thing as "natural hierarchy". hierarchy must be
the right wing argument for freedom of speech to advocate for bigotry against censorship and against consequences takes this form: "freedom" is only freedom of natural hierarchy against modern society and speeking it is speaking forth freedom. in this state of affairs, counter-
the right wing criticism of modernity always operates the same: it identifies the alienation of modern life, but its solution is to respond to this state of affairs with the so-called "freedom" of "natural hierarchies": man over woman, white over racialized, family over foreigner, nation over other