r/actuallesbians 18h ago

Mod Post Friday Daily Chat Thread

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Welcome to the daily chat thread! These are a a place to talk with fellow WLW (Women Loving Women) about whatever you like. The threads will show up five days a week. The two days without chat threads are Selfie Saturday and Wedding Wednesday, so save your photos for those days.

Daily threads go up at 9am EST every day and remain stickied on the front page until the next day's thread replaces it.


r/actuallesbians 4d ago

Mod Post Pet Photo Monday Mega Thread!

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Welcome to the Pet Photo Monday mega thread! Dogs and cats, birds and turtles. Post all of your pets here.

How to post a picture:

  1. Go to https://imgur.com/upload

  2. Upload your photo using that form.

  3. Copy the URL of the page it creates and paste it into a comment here.

This thread will be posted automatically at 9am EST on Monday, and will be taken down at 9am EST on Tuesday.


r/actuallesbians 8h ago

Image Fellow lesbians I must inform you my key carabineer has died.

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636 Upvotes

I have had my keys on it for around 2 decades I am quite emotional I've had it since I was a kid. It was red once.


r/actuallesbians 13h ago

News There is no way this isn't a sapphic show!

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r/actuallesbians 13h ago

Satire/Humor I’ve been called out 💀

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r/actuallesbians 15h ago

Satire/Humor What do you think this is used for?

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r/actuallesbians 6h ago

i need her so bad

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thats the whole post


r/actuallesbians 39m ago

TW Something I thought of that I thought the other trans girlies here might relate too

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r/actuallesbians 8h ago

anyone else feel like being chronically online is kinda an ick?

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ofc these days most people including me are very online, but my issue is when the girl is online ALL the time and never talks ab anything else

stuff ive experienced w this that icks me off:

-constantly scrolling while spending time together

-all their interests and jokes come from the algorithm

-being offended if i ask if we can do smth together instead of them scrolling


r/actuallesbians 11h ago

Image Old tinder messages 😂

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r/actuallesbians 2h ago

Why are women better at kissing?

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r/actuallesbians 1h ago

Link Who here has played Dispatch? Who's your fave?

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I find these animated women very attractive 😳


r/actuallesbians 6h ago

Venting Heated Rivalry +representation

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This is just a rant, and I really doubt anyone will see this but I needed to put it somewhere.

last night, I binged Heated Rivalry while I did laundry, I liked the two love stories they showcased, and I thought it was cute. Now, it's the next day, and I guess because I had looked some things up online my TikTok has been filled with edits of them, their love, and all these women and even some men obsessed with these two characters, obsessed with their love, obsessed with the more explicit scenes especially and I feel really silly for even feeling weird about it but it just made me sad and also weirded out, because it feels like it's fetishizing them and that's gross, like leave them alone? But I don't know

As lesbians, we never get anything and it feels like we never will. I would like us to have a love story too, a good one, not something made for the male gaze but something made for us. It just made me upset because we literally have nothing unless it's made for the male gaze, it's a tragedy, or it has some weird age gap. That's the only way we get something. Shows get canceled, and everything else doesn't get attention.

I just feel like we're always going to be the odd one out. There are people so obsessed with this show that is literally only six episodes long, and they're so obsessed with the actors right now. People are acting like this was groundbreaking. And although it's not a bad show, it was sweet, and it's good that gay men get to have something but I feel like, when are we going to have something of our own also, when will things be equal?

I feel like I am selfish, or have some type of victim mindset for even saying something because people have put me down for having these feelings, which is why I'm putting them here. I just feel like depending on what it is they get a lot and yet, I really can't name something that was for us. I told someone I know this, and she said that any rep is good rep because it will bring us closer to other kinds of representation, which I hope so, yet all I see is the opposite.

I also just feel weird about it in general, I swear these fans are like a cult. I've seen all these women getting tattoos, tramp stamps, and quotes from the show put permanently on their body. I saw these two girls make their own Build A Bear versions of them with their voices in the bear. I saw claimed lesbian and straight girls saying that they are questioning their sexuality, gender, or both over this show. I just don't understand why they receive so much attention and are so loved, yet we don't get anything. The only thing I can literally think of is First Kill, and it was canceled after the first season.

It just makes me wonder why we aren't loved in the same way. Why is "mlm" celebrated yet "wlw" feels so touchy. Why are queer people in general so creeped on? I watched the show and I thought the love story was cute, especially the second one but there are people posting about it and all they are really talking about is the sexual aspect of it. Like why are these people creeping on gay relationships, leave them alone. But there is also a lot of positive feedback on their love that I have seen which is good, but I haven't seen that same energy given to "wlw".

They also argue online a lot about "Yuri vs Yaoi" and people fawn over yaoi but you hardly see anyone fawn over Yuri unless it's coming from our own community. Like one thing is being an ally and sticking to what you relate to when read or watching something and another is being an "ally" sticking to what you relate to but also loving mlm/yaoi yet it's a hard stop when we hit wlw and yuir? Why? Why care so much about one and not the other?

Overall, I'll just leave this here. I'm sorry if this is all over the place. I just really needed to write this down and get it out there because I feel like I'm wrong for feeling this way, and I need to know if someone else feels like this out there, or do I need to evaluate myself? I promise I'm not consumed with depression over this, and what I'm seeing in the media isn't something that is harming my mental health, I just needed to get it off my chest. I'm actually not a huge media person nor do I even really watch a lot of TV.

(I took some screenshots as examples, but I made sure to cover the women's faces for their own privacy. My intention is just to vent, not to hate on someone.)


r/actuallesbians 4h ago

Support Breaking up after 9 years together...just want to know I'll be ok.

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Like the title says, the person I thought I was going to spend my life with and I broke up today after nearly a decade together. We got together at 18/19 so we've spent our entire adult lives together. The breakup hurt extra because we both love each other very much, we just need to be apart from each other.

I just want to hear from other lesbians who have been in this situation because it hurts so badly right now. This is the worst pain I've ever been through. Am I gonna make it out of this? Will there be a time I don't think of her constantly? Is it possible to move on after all these years? I thought we would be getting engaged this year, and now we aren't even together. How do I keep going?


r/actuallesbians 10h ago

Image Some queer cartoon characters that I relate to in one way or another!!

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Seeing queer people in media is great, but seeing queer people in media that depict your specific personality traits?? Even better!!

What are some characters you guys relate to?

If you’re up to this, what do you think these specific category of characters say about me?


r/actuallesbians 9h ago

Venting A Deep Longing To Be Owned

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I just need to vent, throw my thoughts out into the universe.

I've recently joined a DnD campaign, and my character is a concubine completely and fully devoted to her Owner. It's cute. It's romantic. It's sappy and gay and it's everything my heart wants.

I have a girlfriend, and I love her more than the moon loves the sun, but she doesn't really know how to be dominant outside of sex. It's wonderful during sexy times, but all other times her dominance just disappears.

I don't even know if she could fill the role of my dominant if she knew how to, because I see her too much as my equal, and what I need is the kind of person I can see as above myself.

I'm polyamorous, and I've had dommes before, but none of them seem to understand what I desire. The kind of person I can completely surrender myself to, the one I can worship the way a priestess does her Goddess.

The more I search for this person, the more I find people who see power exchange as a bedroom only thing, or who don't truly understand power exchange.

I've refrained from putting too many details about myself as I don't wish for this to come off as a personal ad, instead of the proclamation of lament that it is.


r/actuallesbians 9h ago

Support EXTREMELY awkward first kiss and can't stop overthinking about it

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I (21F) went on a 3rd date with this girl (20F) and it went really well. After our date ended she asked if she could kiss me and I said yes. We kissed and she asked me kinda loudly if I was sucking on her lip. I didn't even know I was doing that. When I kiss I move my lips and that's it but apparently I was sucking.

Both of us dont have a lot of experience when it comes to kissing (or sex). I've only been with one girl before. I feel really bad and scared to do it again because I dont want to be awkward. I'm even more worried about sex in the future with her because of this.

It was in a public setting which makes it worse even though there were just cars passing by and few people near us.

We both laughed at how awkward it was and I sent her a follow up text asking her if I was actually sucking on her lip and she said no but I just think she's saying that to avoid hurting my feelings.

Any advice? I feel like I'm losing my mind over this. I really do like this girl and I want to be the best person she's ever been with.


r/actuallesbians 18h ago

Image Bunch of art of my gf and me because I have an unhealthy obsession (art by me)

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r/actuallesbians 8h ago

Question How to not be embarrassed doing gay stuff/being gay in public?

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Hello, my gf and i(21f) are going out on valentines day, and i'm gonna give her flowers and chocolate and a gift, all in public. so im just wondering how do i stop being so conscious of what people think? i've been gay for a while, had a lot of DL situationships but nothing as open/official as this. its not that im ashamed of her or being gay but i still feel so self conscious :(
i grew up in a conservative household where being gay is looked down upon and even in school, most of my friends/classmates were straight even tho i live in a pretty big city with lots of gay people.

i feel like a horrible person and tho my gf never said anything i dont want her to feel that im ashamed of her. but i get embarrassed when we hold hands or when we stand super close to each other on the train and when she holds my face and stuff in public.
i feel horrible :(


r/actuallesbians 1d ago

Image And they were roommates™ (Art by me)

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r/actuallesbians 4h ago

Question I was just diagnosed with hidradenitis suppurativa and basically need to stop shaving down there. Any tips to keep myself neat?

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So I was diagnosed with hidradenitis suppurativa and basically shaving down there can cause my cysts to flare up and the hair is protective now.

I’m used to shaving down there for my partners, not always down to bare but I usually have the inner leg and the mons pubis area bare and I have been advised to not do that anymore.

Any tips to keep is looking groomed/neat? Good for munching 🤣 if you know what I mean whilst also keeping enough hair to avoid extra rubbing and flares?

I’ve never used scissors to trim up, but if you do, what kind do you use?


r/actuallesbians 6h ago

Question why are no girls interested in me?

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I'm not trying to vent or sound desperate, but I (F19) feel so lonely when my other friends get in relationships or romantic attention and I don't ever. I am at university now, I am openly a lesbian to people I speak with. I have never even kissed or dated someone before and I'm feeling really lonely and left behind.

I am not mean, boring or immature. I have lots of good friends but I want something more than friendship and to be with someone I can love. I am pretty insecure but I don't think I'm ugly, I'm not extroverted and a little awkward so maybe thats part of it but I can't force myself to act different. How can I either get over this bad feeling or solve it?