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@ace-the-final-frontier

Lee she/they/he. A goddamn nerd - Star Trek, D&D, Steven Universe, & My Hero Academia to name a few things. Bi/ace/genderfluid, or just super duper queer. Radical lefty person - blm, eat the rich, and all that jazz
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New Year, New Comic! I will be drawing every now and then short stories of Alrick, one of the Death-Heads, who fulfill peoples’ wishes for a price. While some cases of Death-Heads need permissions and legal reports, every single Death-Head assigns their own fees. It can be anything - nothing is illegal or too much.

But Alrick does things a bit differently, heading to get a cup of hot cocoa when the case is closed.

Death-Head’s Deal FAQ for all your curious minds :3 The FAQ can also be found from @dhdfaq

Read DHD in Finnish; Kalmankasvon sopimus at @dhdsuomi

ive tried to verbalize this time and time again and i never rlly get there but as a femme lesbian i have a rlly hard time connecting with femenine straight women i dont know what the fuck they r talking about ever and they have always known (since i was a small child) that i was weird and other. INSTEAD i feel as if i can read the mind of fem gay men literally dyke2fag mental communication it is real and exist and im Tuned In i want to be an old queen when i grow up bc they r the only ones that get it

elizabeth marston for persistance: all ways butch and femme

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[ID: two screenshots of pages of an ebook, with certain paragraphs highlighted in pink:

Let me tell you what femme has meant for me and what it could mean for everyone. Let me stretch the word.
[Start of first high section] Let's say that femme is dispossessed femininity. It's the femininity of those who aren't allowed to be real women and who have to roll their own feminine gender. [End of highlighted section]
Rolling their own is what cis-femme lesbians did in the fifties. By class and by sexual preference, they were dispossessed of real womanhood. For what woman is complete without money or a man? So they learned how to improvise, how to sew; how to turn a thrift-store sow's ear into a vintage silk purse.
Rolling their own is what contemporary femme dykes do. Invisible in straight spaces and frequently trivialized in queer ones, they must voice their femininity in a way that does not get shouted down or ignored. No easy task.
Rolling their own is what drag queens and trannies do and have always done. For what woman is complete without hairless skin and a cunt? We too learned how to improvise, and when we were mocked as caricatures of real women, we often became skilled caricaturists, owning the insult, engulfing it.
And this is what femme gay men do, too. Dangerously visible in straight space and often ridiculed in gay male space, femme gay men take shit from all sides. The straights dish it to them because they're visible. Second-wave feminists dish it to them because they're both feminine and male, and have thus sinned twice. Other gay men dish it to them for acting like, well, chicks.
[Start of second highlighted section] What these groups share, aside from a fondness for eyeliner, is the illegitimacy of their femininity. That's how I understand femme: badass, rogue, illegitimate femininity. It's the femininity of those who aren't supposed to be feminine, who aren't allowed to be, but are anyway. [End of highlighted section]
Second-wave feminists used to slander both feminine dykes and transsexual women as "female impersonators." And this is true. What they missed is that female impersonation is what femme is. Femmes can only impersonate real women because we are, by rules beyond our control, not

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just wear black and fuck your hair up a lot. its ok .

BTW, this shit isn't anything new. The Sex Pistols are basically a boy band that was cast by Malcolm McLaren to drum up interest for the bondage-inspired designs by Viviane Westwood he sold in his boutique. The actual punk scene and the goth scene that evolved from it were constantly exploited by fashion companies attempting to cash in while actual punks, goths, and rudeboys (yes, ska was in on this as well) were raiding thrift stores and DIYing everything.

I was around in the 90s when skate punk was the in thing and Hot Topic was trying to sell $30 chain wallets and shit like that (yes, $30 in 1990s money, do your own inflation calculations) with the wimpiest chains you ever saw that couldn't even support the weight of the wallet without straining. Meanwhile, we all just went and bought $2.99 dog chains and cut them to the appropriate length with bolt cutters. And if it was at Walmart, we'd do it in the store so we didn't have to buy bolt cutters.

This is why cosplayers are more punk rock than any of the "counterculture" fashionistas on TikTok and Instagram because they will take the shittiest, cheapest fabric and accessories and with some hot glue and a second-hand sewing machine from the 1950s create something utterly badass.