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This isnโt crossover, but itโs WLW and in my opinion, underrated: Maleficent X Queen Leah?
I love Leah x Maleficent so so so much!!!
Gonna nerd out about fairy tales for a bit:
In some versions of Sleeping Beauty Carabosse (evil fairy before Disney) helps the king and queen to be able to conceive a child. This in combination with Carabosse being a man's role traditionally in the ballet comes off with Maleficent always being very trans coded to me, implying some relations with Leah.
Plus, if Maleficent were to have assisted in the conception of the child, it gives more reason for her to be angry with Leah and Stefan for not inviting her to Aurora's christening, and want to take her away from her parents. If I were a fairy and someone didn't appreciate my gifting them with a baby, and wanted to exclude me from public life and being seen with that baby and them, I would be pretty miffed too. Especially if I had caught feelings for the dutifully married queen.
I do think that this makes the story significantly sadder though than Maleficent just being vindictively murderous about not being invited to a party. A lot of transforming the queerness of villains from coding into text is like that though, which is part of why I think it's important to queer up the more het coded "good" characters too, queer people deserve some happiness!
Art about transformation I think
i love getting party wiped by six turn long supernova attack
WOKE Shakespeare
Julius SHE/HER
CorioGAYNESS
THEY/THEMpest
The Merry WIVES of Windsor (LESBIANS??)
ACE You Like It
Titus ANDROGYNOUS
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if you learn to love bugs with all your heart the world will feel half as hostile and a thousand times as big
Theres a sentiment I'm noticing in the tags that I'd like to address. I dont think learning to love bugs with all your heart means forcing yourself out of discomfort you have with them overnight. It's about observing a different sort of being going about its life and deliberately trying to reframe your observations through a sense of wonder and delight. It's about cultivating a positive interest and curiosity for their ecology and behaviors. It's especially about trying to uncouple the value we find in them from how 'convenient' they are to us; to face head on the part of us that wants to assign moral evil to another organism who just happens to live life in a way that is not harmonius with ours. You can love insects in this way and still recognize your own health and safety needs. We are animals living side by side within a biosphere. This is how it is, sometimes.
I think this is important to cultivate because, if you are alive at all, you are coming into conflict with countless other people and things that dont owe you an apology for their existance and needs. If you are alive at all, you are encountering countless other people and things that harmful bias and personal discomfort have made repulsive to you. This is about bugs, but its also about way more than bugs.
It's hard to explain to the uninitiated that you can just go for a walk just about anywhere with a bit of green (and sometimes even in the heart of a city) and find like a dozen neat little unique guys if you're patient and observant.
People get really into bird watching but here's a secret: bugs are WAY easier to find than birds and they let you get a lot closer.
Try to approach the world with wonder and curiosity rather than fear and revulsion. Bugs are a great place to start.
Currently on view at Antler Gallery in Portland, Oregon is artist Faunwood's solo exhibition, "Slither."
Miranda ZImmerman, better known as Faunwood, creates delightful and exotic ceramic sculptures and illustrations of woodland critters. "Slither" is a very welcome continuation of the brilliant series from the Eugene, Oregon-based artist.
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Uk peeps!! Letโs get this going! ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง
...Non-UK peeps, please reblog for reach โค๏ธ
hey! donate to uk trans charities today because itโs gonna be a rough one
Folks in the UK, could we have some trusted links to charities?
There's Mermaids which is always a great option, and then Scotland-specific there's LGBT Youth Scotland, to give you just a couple. There will absolutely be more that other people can suggest though!
switchboard.lgbt and akt.org.uk are two i regularly support, and thereโs always stonewall !
Gendered intelligence is a trans-led charity that works to improve the lives of trans people in the UK
