02. ask me anything: femslash ships and female friendships

ladymercury_10 prompted:how about favorite femslash ships and/or female friendships?


*gifs all stolen from tumblr because I'm too lazy to make my own graphics lately



I didn't ship Johanna/Katniss when I was reading the books, somehow (I have faulty femslash goggles, lol, I often need things spelled out for me) but as soon as I saw the movie I WAS SO HOOKED I WAS A GONER. THEY ARE BOTH SO ANGRY I LOVE IT SO MUCH. Women with intense anger are v. v. v. important to me. All I want is their mean reluctant romance. It would be so mean it would be glorious!!!!



Lol you guys I did not even watch season three of this show. I fully stopped after season two, and then just deeply shipped Sansa and Margaery from a distance because I have no shame at all. They're so pretty and girly and social machinations and flowers!!!



Would you believe it never occurred to me to ship them the entire time I watched this show. I'm so serious. How I missed this, I do not know. BUT EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS SO PERFECT. THE ANTAGONISM. THE CLUBBING. THE SUPPRESSED HOMOEROTIC FOREHEAD KISSING. Also I have a real thing about their Slayer bond, like, this is such an important thing!!




Idk, I don't seriously ship anything on AHS because I treasure my sanity, but I am obsessed with both Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe, and I was especially obsessed with Misty Day. My mind is blown that there was an entire season about witches with absolutely zero lesbians. I just liked them both a lot, I wanted them to kiss.




This movie everything to me, it will be so until my dying day, I love Needy and Jennifer so much, the end.





Daria and Jane are probably my favorite tv friendship of all time. They just hit me on a spiritual level, you know? Their friendship was so real and natural, and sometimes I feel that is not the case with female friendships in media. It's just about pizza and judging people.

We don't address the Tom debacle.




Poussey is the new love of my life. I am sure many share the sentiment post-s2. I loved their friendship in s1 as well obviously but getting to see it deepen and grow and fracture and come back together – ugh, so amazing. I loved the heartbreaking tenderness of Poussey being in love with Taystee but I also love that it didn't go any farther, and that their flawless friendship can be enough.



I think.......with Blair and Serena......I was always more into it in theory than I was in practice. I don't know. Looking at these gifs I am suffused with feels but they never quite did it for me on that instinctive level, if that makes sense. I don't know! My Gossip Girl feelings are varied and complex and mostly sad. Plus I find it really hard to write SB for some reason and I think that's part of it, for me. There's something there I can't quite access. But I do love them, it would be ridiculous for me to leave them off this list.



All of the relationships on this show were soooo goooooddddd. I loved both characters so much, and I loved how the bitchiness of their relationship and how it eventually gave way to deep, genuine feeling.



KIDS. LOOK HOW LITTLE. God the relationships on this show were so good too. They don't make 'em like they used to.



Probably the pinnacle of my interest in Tara was her brief little arc as Buffy's friend in s6. I think the show sometimes had a little trouble integrating the later love interests with the rest of the group and Tara was so quiet that it was more difficult for her. Her personality didn't always shine through, but her friendships with Dawn and with Buffy lead to some of my favorite Tara moments, where we really got to see her and appreciate her. I'm sad we didn't get to see more of her relationship with Buffy. Their energy and dynamic was so interesting to me every time it cropped up, and I liked that Buffy didn't really have any other friend like that – someone quiet and supportive and nonjudgmental.



What a weird relationship they have, I love it so much. Joan is so mean! Peggy puts up with it but then figures out how to be passive aggressive! Then they are both like "we are the only halfway sane people in this building full of crazy men, let us hug many times and smoke cigarettes together in our offices." Also remember that time Joan was glad to see Peggy and Peggy was glad to see Joan and they took a long moment to beam at each other with love?????



I loved their friendship so so so so much. I was into pretty much every gen of Skins for different reasons at different points but there's no denying the friendships of s1 were some of the more real and true-feeling ones.



THIS ICONIC CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE. Lady friendship romcoms are the best, it is possibly my favorite genre of romcom ("For a Good Time, Call..." was also good in that respect.) If you have seen it, you understand. If you have not seen it, what on god's earth are you waiting for.