I’m just tired of them always having two femmes in lesbian romance. Sometimes they’re soft and cute and pastel, sometimes they’re edgy and hot and tall, but they’re always super duper feminine and careful whispering touches and ohh I didn’t know I could fall in love with women… Not that I necessarily dislike these types of characters, but it gets boring never reading anything else and it’s not particularly relatable.
The genre doesn’t matter at all, nor do I care whether it’s spicy or not at all or anywhere in between.
Examples I liked:
– Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
– The Matrix – Lauren Groff
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It’s not romance, but you might like Chameleon Moon: the main romantic relationship is an f/f/f triad, if I’m remembering right it’s 2 femmes and 1 butch, they’re an established family and they’re all INCREDIBLY confident.
Oh, you might also like The Captain’s Sphere by Malcolm Schmitz– it’s about sapphic steampunk sky-sailing scientists who dissect eldritch angels.
The main character is a trans woman who has to navigate messy, ugly cod-Victorian gender roles- she has to present masc in her male-dominated job, high femme with unsupportive relatives, and Weird Victorian Butch (think Betsy Trotwood) in scenarios where she knows she’ll be accepted as a woman no matter what.
She’s explicitly a binary trans woman, but I think anyone GNC can relate to having to juggle your role in society like that.