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http://fe-fest.livejournal.com/22234.html round 4 FE Fest prompts (psst, Lavendre, there's new Nailah/Rafiel prompts).

Also, there was a lot of yuri prompts this time around, and it wasn't even just Emma's doing!

Sometimes I just lie back and imagine what the world would be like if I could draw. I would draw the stupidest shit for my OTPs, you have no idea.

Then I remember that I have 400 words of an AU where Lucia and Elincia are magical girls whose power stems from their lesbian love, and I realize it isn’t too different.

So, I have decided that tomorrow is going to be an all day femslash party, and everyone is invited. I'll be reblogging my femslash OTPs on tumblr, and writing femslash, and everyone is encouraged to join in and bask in the lesbianness.


(Genderswitch can come too.)

Every time I look through the songs on my mp3 player, it's femslash, femslash everywhere. Here's a song from a Brittana mix, here's one from a Rachel/Quinn mix. Oh, look! Something from a Ginny/Luna, and about ten songs from the amazing Naomily mixes by eskimo_jo.

Now there's something from a Marceline/Princess Bubble Gum mix, and yet more Brittana stuff.

I feel like for this lesbian takeover of my MP3 player to be complete, I should upload the Kouya/Yamato and Xavin/Karolina mixes I did, and finish some FE yuri ones, because my MP3 seems naked without some song celebrating Heather getting tail.

fan_flashworks. To quote the title: an all-fandoms multi-media flashworks community.

here's the guidelines. The current theme is "Five Things" and ends on the 20th.

Arkinkea. A DW branch of the FE meme.

Indiana Republican rep says: "Girl Scouts are bent on communism, lesbianism and world domination destroying American

Well, damn, my childhood would've been far more interesting if I'd been a girl scout. I could be living something right out of DEBS (possibly with the evil genius villainess girlfriend!)

Why You Shouldn't Donate to the Salvation Army Bell Ringers

I'd heard they discriminated against LGBT workers, but I hadn't realized they used the money to make aggressive anti-gay attacks in legislature.

As always, politicians are extolling the virtues of "family life," which can be a bed of delight or, as readers of Greek drama, Shakespeare, the Bible and News Of The World well know, a fruitful seed-bed for murder, incest, sadistic cruelty and pathetic marital deceit. Which is more moral, a marriage in which the drunken father beats the wife and sexually assaults the children, or the loving home and long relationship of a gay couple living with two longhair terriers in Guildford?
-from The Summer Of A Dormouse, by John Moritmer

Dear Insidious Sector Of Fire Emblem Fandom,

Heather is a lesbian. This isn't negotiable. Every aspect of canon points to her in fact, being a lesbian. Her base scenes consist of her:

-Flirting with Ilyana
-Wanting to meet Elicnia, who she thinks is glorious

and she openly flirts with Nephenee when you recruit her.

The Japanese version had a note in her profile that she 'joined for all the pretty girls'.

Ike/Soren is YMMV, but there is no wiggle room here. Heather is, without a doubt, lesbian. You can't even put a case for bisexuality here, because she shows quite often that she is not interested in men.

So she isn't 'waiting for the right guy to come along.'

There's no proof that Heather was abused in game, and writing this as being the cause of her lesbianism/'female friendship' is incredibly offensive. This is an old, discredited trope that should've died long ago, people. This is beyond simple extrapolation or exploring background–it's deeply homophobic and needs to DIAF, now.

Writing Heather like this isn't 'different' or 'edgy', it's offensive. I say this as a biromantic lesbian who has to put up with a heterosexist world who can only focus on when I'm going to get a man and settle down for some young 'uns.

I have kept my irritations of the FE fandom to my journal. I've rolled my eyes and bitched to Ammy when the stupid fanbrats use such arguments as "Ike/Soren is a crack pair" and then they turn around and ship a 'far better' het equivalent, who have never spoken in game. I have decided to fight back not by engaging them, but by bolstering my own ship with fic, fanmixes, icons and meta even when they were hostile and insulting at every turn.

But I'm tired of letting Fire Emblem Mew Mew, and any of their cronies call the slash side the wanky ones, while they pull homophobic bullshit like this. But in the end, my state of mind of adding to a fandom as my way of fighting back still stands.

So I propose a contest.

Write, draw, mix or meta about Heather with a woman. Or two. Or more. There's no limits here when it comes to genre or rating.

Put the 'Heather/woman contest' in the summary.

Let's flood Fire Emblem Mew Mew and their cronies into the crazy minority of a fringe group that they are. And get Heather lots of love, too.

Then we'll all be winners.