I’ve heard from a bunch of lesbians/bi folk that their lesbian awakening came from All The Things She Said so that scans tbh
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That and the Hex Girls tbh.
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For me, in hindsight, it was Sailor Moon and Xena.
Ironically, at first I used to vehemently deny that there was any lesbian subtext in either of these, before Argent Dawn helped me come to terms with who I am.
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Lucy Lawless is like the hottest woman alive I swear.
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Just another example of why we should really encourage the realm to be a queer-friendly space and crack down on phobe nonsense. 
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All the auto-censoring is doing is making other random words go wonky
Who’d thunk?
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(high five)
She also aged really well.
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It has been pretty nice to see AD over the years get more common with non-erp/overtly sexual WlW couples in roleplay, and also alot more common with MlM couples.
The latter was often quite hard to spot before in the earlier days.
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This is a commonly made point, and a surefire way to get TERFs 
feck mad.
They’re not feminists. They can’t be, because their stance and attitudes litearlly upholds the Patriarchy.
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um actually it’s my wife so you’re wrong
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I have a suitable meme for this.
Also take your crown, King 
for that comment.
A Russian friend I had told me about a moment where he was wearing some sort of wristband that simply had different colours on it, not necessarily the full rainbow, but idk - festival or whatever wristbands have colours sometimes. And he got accosted by the police for doing propaganda in vicinity of children.
And since the police didn’t want to admit the mistake afterwards, he still got fined for it.
While Argent Dawn helped me (and also did the opposite, thanks 2016-era AD), it was funnily enough just a cozy gay book that ended up making me realise ‘wait a minute, I’ve been denying myself any gay stuff because I was totally one of the cool good gays!! but I really liked this?? let’s stop doing that’.
ironically the book / movie based on the book (love simon) got sort of criticized for being a ‘gay movie for the straights’, but hey - it worked for me. 
(and double ironically the book’s author sorta was forced out of the closet herself because many thought she was a straight cis woman writing about the gays, and the ownvoices crowd didn’t like that thought)
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If she wasn’t anyone’s awakening I don’t wish to hear about it
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This was also one of the people that Somerton kept harassing because he kept calling her straight even after she came out.
Pretty sure he was also a big reason she had to come out in the first place because he directed hate towards her.
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She has! She is as gorgeous as ever.
Absolute queen and we love her.
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that’s strange because your wife says it’s me
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That sounds like Russian police in a nutshell, boldly pushing ahead with absurd charges to avoid losing face.
So what if she was? I’m currently writing a story about straight romance despite having never been in one. The horror!
If we demand writers only write what they themselves have experienced, how soon until we start demanding that a writer must have every character in their story be of their own gender?
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The genderfluid people: “My time to shine”
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She said ‘the girl reading this’
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There was discourse around Ownvoices and I guess there is some merit to it, especially considering a lot of the gay stuff ended up being written by women and sometimes in a fetishized fashion. But a lot of the discourse was toxic and honestly… considering the book was my gay content awakening, I ended up consuming a lot of the fanfiction that probably was written by teens or women anyway, and hey - I liked it! Was it great literature? No, but I didn’t care.
I’m not really sure why gay YA books are held to some high literature standard, like… that’s not the genre for it at all?
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