Harry Potter, Nymphadora Tonks and Remus Lupin. Book 7: Tonks and Lupin are the only (surviving) queers in the Order of the Phoenix, so they get together in a “lavender marriage” so at least they won’t die alone. (You could read this as happy or as sad, but I was thinking happy. It’s up to the author.) Harry Potter, Nymphadora Tonks. What’s the Wizarding queer (particularly, lesbian) scene like in the mid-1990s?
Lord of the Rings/Silmarillion, Glorfindel. The elves had some weird ideas about sex, notably that sex and marriage were intertwined, and extra- and pre-marital sex was unheard of in Elvish culture, but marriage was mostly expected. Gay marriage was probably not a thing, either. So, what to do if you’re a gay elf? Lord of the Rings/Silmarillion, Glorfindel. “Elves do not change sex, even if they are being reincarnated” Glorfindel is female bodied and a frustrated with the Valar for not giving him the right body the second time around, either. (Or, “how many balrogs does a man have to kill to be given a male body?”) Lord of the Rings, any dwarf characters. There are no Dwarf women because there aren’t really dwarf men, either. Dwarves are mostly agender but they adapt and play “man” and “woman” around people from other cultures because it’s easier than explaining.
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Date: 2014-03-16 12:00 am (UTC)Harry Potter, Nymphadora Tonks. What’s the Wizarding queer (particularly, lesbian) scene like in the mid-1990s?
Lord of the Rings/Silmarillion, Glorfindel. The elves had some weird ideas about sex, notably that sex and marriage were intertwined, and extra- and pre-marital sex was unheard of in Elvish culture, but marriage was mostly expected. Gay marriage was probably not a thing, either. So, what to do if you’re a gay elf?
Lord of the Rings/Silmarillion, Glorfindel. “Elves do not change sex, even if they are being reincarnated” Glorfindel is female bodied and a frustrated with the Valar for not giving him the right body the second time around, either. (Or, “how many balrogs does a man have to kill to be given a male body?”)
Lord of the Rings, any dwarf characters. There are no Dwarf women because there aren’t really dwarf men, either. Dwarves are mostly agender but they adapt and play “man” and “woman” around people from other cultures because it’s easier than explaining.