This is literally why I write what I usually describe as sapphic smut, but is actually closer to the classic fantasy stories from 80′s and 90′s that initially (and unhealthily) shaped my perspectives on romance and fiction. What I write (professionally) has a bit more sex and romance than those, but with an actually diverse cast, in regards to gender/sexuality/race. However, I only describe it as smut because most people treat it as such, since it isn’t cis/het sex, causing it to be treated as effectively pornographic in nature, which, in a vacuum, I’m not upset about, BUT, if I were to provide the exact same sex scene to the exact same publisher with only the pronouns changed, a scene involving a cis/het man and cis/het woman is treated as nothing to look twice at, whereas the same scene with a transwoman and cis woman is, for some fucking reason, treated as hardcore pornography unfit for the general public.
My actual heartfelt dream is to be able to write stories that help people of all kinds to understand what it really feels like to fall in love and continue to be loved, sexually, romantically, or platonically, in a healthy and happy way. If I could help every person in the world to understand what it feels like to fall asleep in the arms of your lover, feeling nothing but safety and comfort, I would happily give my life.
Writer and RiteGud co-host Raquel S Benedict criticizing sanitized portrayals of queerness in media.
Wenclair prompts
Wednesday is a witch, Enid is a werewolf who can't shift. Wednesday can help in exchange for Enid's first born. Enid accepts, but there seems to have been a fundamental misunderstanding because Enid keeps asking her when they're going to start their family, and saying they really ought to consider dating first so they can plan a wedding that works for them both.
Enid keeps telling outlandish stories about her (probably nonexistant) wife, and her coworkers have had enough. No human being could be so bizarre as she's describing, right? Gotta be fake, and really Enid? Pretty pathetic.
Then the ones who made fun of Enid the most, the ones who dimmed the radiance of her sun's smile, wake up with a bag over their head, tied to chairs in a remote location. The wife is real, the stories were real, and they are going to be lucky of they aren't fed their own organs in the end.
Enid's dog smile 🐶
I need somebody to write this. I would, but it’s way too far outside my wheelhouse :(
Enid, driving away after kidnapping Wednesday: There’s no use in crying so don’t even waste your tears.
Wednesday: Not even if they’re tears of joy?
Enid: Why would they be tears of joy?
Wednesday: Uh… you’re fulfilling a super twisted fantasy of mine right now. I hang out in empty parking lots at night just to see if someone will take the bait.
Enid: Are you kidding me!?
Wednesday: And today… I finally caught you.
Enid: What? No! I caught you.
Wednesday (flirtatiously): Yeah you did.
Enid: …I don’t even know what to say right now. Willa are you okay?
Wednesday: I just want you to know that if you like want to slap me around a bit, I’m down.
Enid: I don’t care. Because I’m not doing that.
Wednesday: Hey, I’m not saying I want you to.
Enid: …
Wednesday: I kinda do though.
Enid: Wednesday, no! I’m a scary dangerous werewolf, I’ve been stalking you, you should be terrified right now.
Wednesday: *hugging Enid from behind the drivers seat* And you did such a good job baby. Very scary.
Enid: Willa… how did you get out of the ropes?
Wednesday: I think I’m in love with you.
Enid: You know what!? I can’t do this. There is a very threatening aura in here and it’s not mine so I think you should just go.
Wednesday: *rolling her eyes* Fine… *climbs into the front seat* but if you’re heading back to the dorms can you give me a ride?
Enid: *sighs* I don’t even care anymore.
Wednesday: So does this mean we’re like a thing now?
Enid: *blushing* I mean yeah if you wanna be.
Wednesday: Oh I wanna be *winks*
Wednesday: One day you are going to have to accept your flaws and move on. Just as I have.
Enid: You’ve accepted your flaws?
Wednesday: No. I don’t have any flaws. I’ve accepted yours.
AO3 is down for maintenance, and we're all being so brave* about it.
*crying about it on Tumblr dot com
biting someone's muzzle is a love language
Rewatched The Good Place for the first time since s4 dropped and. Oh my god. The Good Place said "people are a result of their environment but we always have a moral responsibility to be better" and The Good Place said "every day the world gets a little more complicated and it gets a little harder to be good" and The Good Place said "even in the face of total nihilism, when nothing you do will matter, you still have to at least try. Because trying is better than the alternative" and The Good Place said "if you have bills to pay and shit to deal with you don't have time or energy to become a better person" and then The Good Place really said "people get better when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't " and THEN The Good Place really said "no one is irredeemable. Everyone can try to be better today than they were yesterday" AND THEN! The Good Place said "Heaven is just enough time with the people that you love" OH MY FUCKING GOD.
I always felt bad for Link,reall,and Zelda. Link,the very first,started out as a normal kid. Now its thousands of years later and he is so old and so young and everything at once. A child with the soul of a hero,doomed from the start no matter what. People still name their kids Link even if they dont remember him. Zelda,she was a goddess,but she wanted love. She became human and then stayed that way,because she loved Link. He will always come back so she will. Forever,until the very gods die.
Zelda stayed because of love. She was mortal once and then forever,because she loved Link. She loved living. She loved it all and couldnt bear to leave it. Link always had to come back because Ganon would,because evil will always exist even if the hero stops it for a while. So she placed a peice of the triforce in each of them,even Ganon,so she would always be with him.
I assume these two asks were meant to go together lol? and i agree with a lot of your points about zelda, but i'd argue that LINK comes back for love too. the first link, the one we see in skyward sword, initially had NO connection to the goddess or demise or the triforce or anything. What he DID have was a connection to zelda, his best friend. The reason he initially goes to the surface is because she fell and he wants to help her. the reason he keeps going after her as she travels the surface and tries SO hard to push him away is because he loves his friend and he's worried about her. the soul of the hero irt zelda lore is something that a lot of people boil down to like. courage or fighting spirit or even just 'someone who is fated to fight ganon' as you kind of have here, but that interpretation of link's reincarnation ignores the reason any of this started: Link loved Zelda. it's all well and good that zelda loved link, and yes, she loved him so much she became human and stayed human and her descendants for the rest of time get to be human and know human love, too. but the reincarnation cycle doesn't work unless link loves zelda, too. if link never jumps off skyloft to follow his best friend, demise wins and the cycle never has a reason to start in the first place. If link never befriends a scared little princess in the palace garden and does what she asks not out of duty but because he UNDERSTANDS how powerless she must feel, the cycle never continues. if link never wears himself ragged fighting guardians to protect the girl he loves, the cycle never continues. Link is the hero's spirit, yes. the triforce of courage. but without love, what reason does he have to pick up the sword in the first place??
Tbh I assume everyone on here is lgbtq+ if you’re straight you’ll have to come out to me
Gwen | She/Her | Trans Lesbian | I'm a professional editor and write smutty sapphic fanfiction on AO3
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