fuckyeahlesbianliterature:

[image description: a set of nine gifs from the BBC series based on the book Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. End description.]

annalisegreen:

strangelykatie:

mock-up of a princess vs princess page

shoujo style spontaneous flowers GO

Grappling hooks ftw.

nextian:

extranjero:

I found this comment of this clip on youtube: 

I don’t mean anything by it, but just to put my two cents in, I’ve seen a few movies that were made between the 1920’s-1950’s which included quick pecks on the lips between women. The characters were usually close relatives or friends. (In the movie ‘Little Women’ with Katharine Hepburn, when her character ‘Jo’ kisses her mother good night in one scene, the mother kisses Jo on the mouth, but like I said, it was more of a peck.) I just see it as feminine affection, nothing else. ^_^

This is how queer women’s history gets lost, by being shoved under the rug as nothing more than “feminine affection.” Same-sex erotic desire among women poses a threat to heteronormative society. Calling it “feminine affection” inherently removes that threat— the threat of its existence, the threat of deviance, the threat of women not needing men sexually or romantically— and lets people sleep easily at night, not having to imagine how two women could possibly fuck. And in this particular commentary, not only is Queen Christina’s real erotic desire towards women being erased but so is Greta Garbo’s [and Katharine Hepburn’s]. A bunch of people have liked this comment and probably many more have read it and considered it factual, and it’s bullshit. I have more feelings about this but yeah.

TLDR: Here is a decidedly queer moment captured on film, and I will not let a heteronormative reading of women’s history take that from me.

HELL FUCKING YES IT IS.

sisterwolf:

Adrian Borda

makesmelosecontrol:

I didn’t feel the fairytale feeling, oh Am I a stupid girl for even dreaming that I could?

midnightdreamcaps:

Imagine Me & You (2005)

It’s always going to be like this isn’t it? You call I come running, you say jump I say ‘how high?’, translating for french guys, buying stuff with my mum’s credit card, snogging you to pull someone else. Name one thing you’ve done for me? One thing. One sodding thing.

fuckyeahlesbians:

[Image: art of two women sitting in a tree. The one higher up has black hair, a red skirt, and dangling sandals, and has her hand affectionately placed on the other’s head of short blond hair.]

(via in the trees by *shley77 on deviantART)

165eatonplace:

Helen and Kay; in 1944 and in 1941. Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch coming soon to BBC2.