Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

political violence is a symptom of a failing democracy, not its cause

« If institutions and individuals do more to make it unacceptable in American public life, organized violence in the service of political objectives can still be pushed to the fringes. » New York Times Editorial Board, it doesn’t matter how “unacceptable” political violence is in American political life if it is the only thing which works

lol https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/politics/biden-tweet-social-security.html

cc @aescling

there is no analogue to this for straight people

my season arrives at last

there are finally (a few) leaves on the ground

god just imagine being a lesbian playing the home-recorded cassette tape of another lesbian telling you about her life over and over as you go about your day

lesbians invented podcasts

« From the start, this bicoastal collective work proved to be less than easy. Not only was long-distance communication challenging, but the women of "Iris West" (Reid, Stevens, and Zheutlin in LA) and "Iris East" (Biren and Farmer in DC) also barely knew one another and had to quickly develop methods of rectifying as much. Long-distance phone calls were expensive and letters were limiting, so the group soon began to supplement these more traditional forms of communication wich audiotapes that they mailed back and forch with their letters. These tapes allowed them to communicate more thoroughly and provided a more personal way to get to know one another. »

we all know trans women like puns but cis women clearly also like puns

diversity win! author literally could not care less what gender her characters are

literally i just wrote a normal dude and gave them they/them pronouns because it was narratively convenient; get over your idea that this matters

i perpetually think this is hilarious because my Link isn't even interestingly gendered

most probably will not read it on account of me using they/them pronouns for Link

ZeLink fanfic authors really have very little imagination so hopefully this arouses something in them, idk

i did it

i found a smut sitting in my notes app from a longass time ago and i can't remember if i ever incorporated it into a larger work or not

if i didn't i might publish it, not because i think it has value, but because it will give AO3 a chance to wrangle a few tags before i use them in a work that i actually care about

go listen to Blood Bitch

lesbianism today isn't what it was in the 80s, sure, but it's also not what it was in the 00s. i don't buy into the idea that words and movements can only travel the path of normalization in one direction. in fact i think it is precisely the fact that everybody thinks they know what lesbianism is which gives it radical potential for imagining something which isn't.

« Agamben explains, "For everyone a moment comes in which she or he must utter this I can, which does not refer to any certainty or specific capacity but is nevertheless, absolutely demanding. Beyond all faculties, this 'I can' does not mean anything—yet it marks what is, for each of us, perhaps the hardest and bitterest experience possible: the experience of potentiality." For countless feminists in the 1970s, lesbian existence was that formidable force shining a light on the way to a better future.

In bringing together many women of disparate backgrounds, both physically and virtually (in instances of written, audio cassette, or video cassette correspondence), feminist media not only offered representations of lesbian potentiality but facilitated experiences of it. There is a scene near the end of Joanna Russ's science fiction novel ‘The Female Man’ (1975) in which the protagonist Joanna describes acting on her fantasies about her friend Laur as tantamount to creating her own reality—"an impossible project." After kneeling behind Laur's chair as she reads, Joanna kisses Laur's neck and then over her ear and cheek to her mouth, knowing that at any second Laur will rebuke her and "the world will be itself again." Except Laur kisses her back. In this moment, reality for Joanna is torn wide open, and she tells the reader, "If this is possible, anything is possible." Such experiences of potentiality were incredibly common in the 1970s due to lesbian feminism's growing luster. In Russ's novel, Joanna and Laur eventually get stoned and make "awkward, self-conscious love," but "nothing that happened afterward," Joanna tells us, "was as important to me (in an unhuman way) as that first, awful wrench of the mind." » this could be us but you playin

honestly though i think this author is far too resigned to the death of radical lesbianism; do you really expect us to just keep coming up with new words forever