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Eltyn · 23 · they/them

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im just here

hyperfixating on a fictional woman who went underdeveloped in canon is literally FUN and the 80-90% of fandom people who only do the same for background character men have no idea of the degree to which they are fucking missing out

no tumblr i have faith that this post will be found by the enlightened 10-20 percent

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thinking about how my history teacher was talking about the french revolution one time and he wrote "bourgeoisie" on the board and said raise your hand if you think you can pronounce this and i raised my hand and he looked at the hammer and sickle pin on my backpack and said "ill come back to you"

[guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.

@ people who carry bags everywhere what do you put in them what is there to bring other than chapstick, keys, phone and maybe a tampon why are you packing a suitcase to be outside for 5 hours

Leatherdyke archives

We've done a solid amount of digging on the internet over the past couple years and found scans of a bunch of important leatherdyke-related magazines, zines, books, etc. in a bunch of different places, in addition to our own work at collecting, cataloging, and scanning whatever materials we've been able to get our hands on. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but we wanted to post some links for people to find a lot of the materials we've tracked down. We do archival work to keep our history and culture alive and accessible. We highly encourage everyone who sees this to share this post widely, share the links around, send them to friends off tumblr, download all of these materials, repost them elsewhere (every online archive is at risk of being taken down without notice, so the more places things are, the better!), and just generally spread it far and wide!

So, here's a bunch of links:

  • Our archive, which we're continuously updating as we scan and prepare materials we've collected. If you tab over to "Lists", we've made a bunch of lists of other materials we think are important - including scans of Quim, Venus Infers, On Our Backs, a bunch of important leatherdyke books, and a full run of TransSisters!
  • Carta Monir's archive, with a couple things we put in our lists, and a bunch of cool trans materials
  • Digital Transgender Archive's Internet Archive page, where we found the full run of TransSisters. It's got a ton of trans fetish magazines, which can be tough to read at times but there's a lot of stuff to be found in there if you're willing to wade through it all. If you've seen chastity's Trans Leatherdyke History talk, a lot of that research came from these kinds of magazines
  • Middle and Ring has an extensive archive of lesbian materials sorted by topic, including a lot of important books, 12 issues of On Our Backs, etc.
  • A couple Flickr albums with incomplete scans of two issues of Quim
  • We have not been able to track down any scans of the original run of the BIPOC leather magazine Black Leather in Color (BLIC), but there is a revived version of the magazine first launched in 2024, available exclusively online on their website. At the time of this post, they've put out 4 issues
  • Fat Girl has been publicly archived in full (save for some images of people who have not consented to be included in the archived versions) on the Fat Lib Archive, with a wide range of accessible options to view its contents
  • The first 3 issues of DaemonumX's FIST zine are available for free download
  • Not a digital archive, but if you're interested in physical copies, the long-running leather shop ASWGT produced issues 18-39 of the leather periodical SandMUtopia Guardian, and you can order a full run of the issues they produced from their website. The website looks ancient and you might be nervous to order from them, but we can confirm they're still active - we ordered and received all of those issues! You can also order single issues from them. And while you're at it, order some gear from them! They've got really cool looking impact toys!

We'll try to update this periodically! There's certainly other places to find things - if you know of any we didn't post there, we'd love to hear about them! Put links in the comments or send them to us over DM - we'll add them to the list, or if for whatever reason you don't want them added we'd love to at least have access to it for internal archival purposes!

This is my favorite canon Drow art there is, it's from 'Menzoberranzan, city of intrigue' and it depicts a mother showing her two daughters Narbondel as the city's archmage lights it up for the day

Most Drow art shows nobles or soldiers being in some sort of conflict or about to ambush someone so it's nice to see simpler moments like this one

[ID: screenshot of a twitter post by user gelrdrgz with a screenshot of a document containing a drawing of a rudimentary trap (a wooden box propped up by a stick with a rope tied around it, such that the box will fall when the rope is pulled) next to a photo of a cat under a cardboard box. The images are beneath the text "If he's just entirely too amped and won't settle the fuck down, the secret is to just put a box over him. He's like a bird and will just go to sleep. You can also prop it up like a cartoon trap and he will just slide on in there. We call this 'going into his office.'" The screenshot of the document is captioned "leaving instructions for the catsitter." End ID.]

Hinako. Time is running out. The fact that you’re alive… means you’ve made it here, yet you’re still lost all the same. You can’t think about it forever. You’re running out of time to choose. 

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How is there a reality show where Alan Cumming is basically a campy, eccentric, absurdly well dressed, murderous laird of a Scottish castle who gets to torment reality TV stars, and no one told me about it before? What are we even here for, Tumblr, if not to share information like this?

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