People who leave comments on ao3 are the backbone of society ❤️
Reblogged lyctor-i-hardly-knower
Harrowhark but she's Blood of Eden and her name is Spooky Scary Skeletons Send Shivers Down Your Spine. Is this anything.
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Because sometimes love n' lesbianism isn't demure and mindful soft pastel hairbrushing before ten minutes of verbally negotiated missionary fingering on freshly ironed sheets.
Sometimes it's passion. Sometimes it's carnal. Sometimes you love her enough to be so hungry you're reckless. Sometimes you love her so much that being with her would make anywhere seem beautiful. Sometimes you need her now, and that's all. Sometimes trying to anchor it to the *perfect* time and place would minimize what it is.
I mean are you trying to have a tea ceremony? Or are you trying to fuck yourself into the veins of the woman you need immediately and forever, right now, trying to pull her right through your skin and right down into your lungs and your bones?
I want that kind of want for you all, Tumblr lesbians, I want you to understand why it didn't matter to Caitlyn and Vi where the hell they were when the moment struck, and why it matters quite a bit that they didn't care.
Gotta stop trying to gentrify physical intimacy. It's messy! It's important that it's messy! It's grimy, sweaty, clumsy, unhygienic, and vital, and immediate, and invigorating, and euphoric, and precious, and real.
That's what it's about! About needing to be so close, so urgently, that nothing else matters except as another thing you now share. My grime and yours, my sweat and yours. My teeth on your skin, your fingernails in my flesh; our spit, our breath, our smell, how my body and yours are each learning each other as their own, by doing this to each other.
The fact that it's never going to be a perfectly polished ideal is part of all of it, it's a big part of the intimacy of it in the first place. If it can't be messy, it's not true.
Blisters and Barnacles: the Caitvi Coast Guard AU
New chapter is up! The PCGS Hell Bay departs Piltover. Vi meets the crew.
Summary: Caitlyn is the Commanding Officer aboard a small Piltover Coast Guard SAR boat. They work along the southern Valoran coast, responding to ship’s in distress and providing aid - the first responders of the sea.
Vi arrives as her new deckhand.
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Ships with height differences. Reblog if you agree
Don’t forget age difference
This is The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 by JMW Turner - a painting all about age differences, contrasting technologies, and the end of the the age of sail.
It depicts the HMS Termeraire, which fought in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed by a small steam-powered tug up the Thames to be scrapped.
"Turner celebrates Temeraire’s heroic past, and he also depicts a technological change which had already begun to affect modern-day life in a more profound way than any battle. "Rather than placing Temeraire in the middle of his canvas, Turner paints the warship near the left edge of the canvas. He uses shades of white, grey, and brown for the boat, making it look almost like a ghost ship. The mighty warship is being pulled along by a tiny black tugboat, whose steam engine is more than strong enough to control its larger counterpart. Turner transforms the scene into an allegory about how the new steam power of the Industrial Revolution quickly replaced history and tradition." -Dr. Abram Fox
Reblogged venomwrites
Sketch turned mini comic. Vi comforting Caitlyn
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I haven't really developed this thought well, but I think part of what makes the characters in Arcane look so appealing is that they have uneven features, crooked noses, scars, freckles, gappy, chipped or uneven teeth, dirty and splintered nails, whatever, at a time when we've gotten in the habit of ironing all those things out of imagery of actual *real* people, never mind animation.
Imagine seeing Ana De Armas take a punch so hard during a fight scene that she casts drool onto the camera like Vi does. Caitlyn sweats like a hog the whole way through her fight with Ambessa, imagine that. imagine seeing an especially posh Marvel heroine drip sweat like that, and I don't mean "attractive Hollywood gold body oil shimmer", I mean have her own sweat actually drip off her nose and chin as she gets her ass miserably beat.
Anyway, it's great. It brings the characters and the world to life, in the same way action movies from the 1970s where everyone looks like they stink live and breathe. Would love to see more like it in live action.
Shout it from the rooftops! Beauty Is Never Tarnished is one of my least-favourite tropes.
I like my characters with a bit of grit, grime, and blood, thank you very much.
Reblogged wrongcaitlyn
Vi - …are you real this time?
Caitlyn - mhm *brain empty in lesbian*
Reblogged qvert
everyone hate my loquacious swag. its always "why did you make this sentence so long" and "why do you use so many commas and em dashes" and never "how did you come up with that run on sentence" or "writing that run on sentence looked fun"
*sweats nervously, looking through my fics, wondering how many commas is too many and how many times it's excusable to use a semi-colon in a single paragraph; whatever the limit is, it has been exceeded*
Reblogged venomwrites
no you have to contribute to your fandom if you don't want it to die. most fandoms die because people say 'it's so sad watching the fandom die when the hype dies' without doing anything about it. I'm not saying you have to push out 100k word slow-burn fic, I'm not saying you have to make fan art or gif sets or edits or anything. I'm just saying we as a community should contribute to our fandom if we don't want it to die, and by contributing, I'm talking about giving kudos, commenting on your favorite fics, reblogging your favorite art and just talking about your favorite characters. that's enough to keep a fandom alive. that's the most effective way to keep a fandom alive in my humble opinion.
fandoms die because people stop talking about it, fandoms die because people stop engaging with fan content once the hype is gone. what I'm saying is, mainstream media's hype may be gone, but our fandom can stay alive and thriving if us as a community don't let it die.
Yes! Enrich your local fandom ecosystem!