wlw romances always feel so carefully neutered and devoid of sexuality and i am desperate for DESIRE and CARNALITY - ThreadSky

ripeteeth.bsky.social • 70 days ago

wlw romances always feel so carefully neutered and devoid of sexuality and i am desperate for DESIRE and CARNALITY

Every few months I’m like “I should diversify my reading tastes, I’d love a good wlw romance right now” and then I check out a wlw romance and—

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ivorycloudscape.bsky.social•70 days ago

YES. please god just let queer women feel genuine lust & fuck nasty & be perverts for once. less sexuality intellectualising, more being bent over desks pls & thank you

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

AMEN

starlitradiant.bsky.social•70 days ago

My dream is for expressions of desire to be written by women for women without having to use male characters as proxies.

Sexual desire is not For Men Only!

starlitradiant.bsky.social•70 days ago

Also I agree with the other commenter, The Locked Tomb is great with this, but it will make you sad in addition to horny and yearning.

starknjarvis.bsky.social•70 days ago

The Locked Tomb is so full of angry intense horny women!!!

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

give me lesbian sex with teeth, you cowards

northofallmusic.bsky.social•70 days ago

I swear to GOD

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

you GET IT

northofallmusic.bsky.social•70 days ago

if they aren't absolute freaks I don't want to know. previously I might have grudgingly accepted "having any kind of chemistry at all" but I'm no longer prepared to settle

challahchic.bsky.social•70 days ago

Time to repost my favorite Pat Califia quote again! Califia's book of BDSM erotica, Macho Sluts, was /protested against/ when gay bookstores carried it in the 90s

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

god YES

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

god forbid lesbian sex be erotic

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

is choking on a strap truly too much to ask

coreopsismajor.bsky.social•70 days ago

Exactly. EXACTLY.

yonah-at-sea.bsky.social•70 days ago

Damnit, I’ve been slowly reading my way through the Leather Folk collection of essays and I don’t have it with me, but there’s a related passage in the first one that reminds me of this so much. It’s something like “Many people have concluded that since abuses of power are bad, then all power is…”

yonah-at-sea.bsky.social•70 days ago

“…evil and anyone who wants to play with power is morally suspect. But I don’t think we can ever truly eliminate power and dominance from society, so isn’t it better to play with it than to pretend it doesn’t exist?”

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

this is deeply speaking to my heart

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

I actually really struggled with my sexuality for a long time because I’d only been exposed to depictions of lesbianism that were very defanged - soft, tender, uwuified. It wasn’t till I was much older and learned that wlw sex could be, well, *sexual* and with fierce, depraved desire that it clicked

starknjarvis.bsky.social•70 days ago

genuinely even so much lesbian porn is weirdly soft and defanged, there’s just so many bad representations with no Passion smh

yonah-at-sea.bsky.social•70 days ago

Me & also with gender presentation stuff. Even in the ~decade when I knew I was gay but before I really embraced butchness, I felt so completed alienated from the soft tender skinny subtle-makeup perfect-hair breathy-voiced lesbian media. Nothing about it appeals to me.

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

Oh yeah, I can absolutely understand! It’s such a narrowly focused scope and it’s so alienating to those whose selves and desires fall outside of it.

gethporno.bsky.social•70 days ago

this is actually one of the reasons I was reluctant to read the locked tomb, because the premise promises fucked up wlw shit but I have One Fear

fortunately it is quite horny even though no one actually has sex (yet?)

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

Damn I really gotta check this out, eh? Like Gideon looks hot as hell but I was really worried it would be as disappointingly unproblematic as the rest

gethporno.bsky.social•70 days ago

you don't find out about it until book 2 (tho it's not really a spoiler bc it's not relevant in book 1) but harrow is literally in love with a corpse, just for starters

then there's the incest and horny stabbing and

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

someone told me i’d love an icy incesty blond and i am intrigued

coreopsismajor.bsky.social•70 days ago

This is making me want to go back to a dormant sapphic WIP that is not super toothy, but is two women realizing how intense and carnal and visceral their desires are while they're still women of a certain class background, and is so delicious to me.

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

Oh that sounds so fucking good, I am eagerly supporting!

coreopsismajor.bsky.social•70 days ago

It is in my wee tiny fandom but honestly this AU is a joy and a balm and I can't wait to get back to it

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

Sometimes writing very specific niche fic for ourselves in tiny fandoms is everything!

lufics.bsky.social•70 days ago

i feel like there’s probably also going to be very interesting generational differences between people our age-ish who grew up with very little representation in general vs. people who have lots of quote-unquote “representation” that is, as you say, very defanged

lufics.bsky.social•70 days ago

like when i was 14/15/16, i just figured there was something slightly off with me that couldn’t be explained, but plowed forward living my life in avowed wrongness… you know. i don’t see that happening so much for kids that age now. obligatory 🧓.

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

I feel this so so much right in my soul

roguetaeminbot.bsky.social•70 days ago

🫡🫡🫡

lillijen.bsky.social•70 days ago

I have not read it myself but I believe @stgibson.bsky.social has lush and horny wlw in her book
(Author tag so they can come and confirm/deny)

stgibson.bsky.social•70 days ago

Honored to be thought of in this way! EDUCATION IN MALICE is probably the horny toxic lesbian romance you crave, but there’s a really sweet and spicy f/f pairing within the vampire brides polycule in A DOWRY OF BLOOD too!

lillijen.bsky.social•70 days ago

I must remember to buy myself your books for my birthday, as Christmas book self-gifts have already been done for the year 🧡

cinnamonpancakes.bsky.social•70 days ago

I am often disappointed by this also... it is so cruel that so much wow fiction is aimed at like teens

roguetaeminbot.bsky.social•70 days ago

Oh no

quarkitty.bsky.social•70 days ago

If you ever have a recommendation, please, toss it my way

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

This is genuinely one of the hottest wlw pieces I’ve ever read - fic or otherwise. It’s a modern au that can def be read fandom blind and it makes my body temperature rise by like 100 degrees every time I read it

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34552204

quarkitty.bsky.social•70 days ago

Oh bless bless bless, I am bookmarking this for later!

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

Enjoy! It reads like an original piece and an EXTREMELY HOT one at that

theamericano.bsky.social•70 days ago

the untamed and grandmaster of demonic cultivation fandom is surprisingly great for wlw reads lol, here's another one:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37994983

ripeteeth.bsky.social•70 days ago

haha yeah that’s a good one. i think i’ve read everything in the wlw wangxian tag

aroceu.cloud•70 days ago

I'm about to be so reductive but all I read was "I know what demisexuality is. Right, we're in Portland" and I have no interest in reading any more lmao

maddonkeyartist.bsky.social•70 days ago

I lived in NYC almost 3 decades & had never heard the term “poly” before moving to Portland. Seems like a term that’s just a cutesy spin on “totally indiscriminate.” I said to one dude, in NYC we just call that ‘fucking around’

catfactory.bsky.social•70 days ago

The Last Binding series has some great stuff in book 2.

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