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Claire Mead
@carmineclaire.bsky.social
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sword lesbian historian ⚔️ artist & creator of Girls' School of Knighthood webcomic 🌹trustee at Vagina Museum 🗡️ curator Vestry House Museum 🌈 museum drag king 🥐 she/her
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I'm cancelling Netflix over their absurd decision to remove She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (and others like Kipo) from the platform, which is an affront to both original animation that can not be accessed elsewhere and LGBTQ+ content.
A screenshot providing Netflix with my reason for cancelling.
December 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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They say she's been posting modern AU Lady Oscar where Oscar and Rosalie are yearning useless "what could have been" lesbians again
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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They've got a point. This angle is really hard and it's only once I posted that I realised I did not even ATTEMPT to convey it properly RIP.
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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hormse
A horse looks deeply concerned
October 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Prompt list for a slow cosy #Knightober with my coffeeshop knights, aka the most self indulgent concept in the world that I sporadically keep drawing ⚔️☕
Cosy slow Knightober 12 illustrations whenever. No daily sketches. No burnout. Just a bunch of sapphic knights in a cosy coffee shop theme because why not. 1. Cappuccino 2. Hot chocolate 3. Espresso 4. Tea 5. Mocha 6. Latte 7. Croissant 8. Cinnamon roll 9. Éclair 10. Opéra 11. Red velvet cake 12. Trick or treat
October 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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A brilliant panel for What London Leaves Behind at the Chelsea History Festival this weekend with @goingmedieval.bsky.social, Jenny Draper and Kate Sumnall about the stories London's archaeology reveals. Deeply inspiring as I embark on research for the archaeological finds section in my redisplay ⚔️
Four people sit in front of a screen on which the iron age Battersea Shield is being shown
September 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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SHAW #silksong
Drawing of the character Hornet from Silksong
September 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I was talking about queering the entire Addams Family out of spite for Netflix not making Wednesday canonically queer in s2 and so behold, pan icon Fester Addams
Fanart of Fester Addams from the Addams Family: a dashing bald icon in a fetching avant-garde black smock, eyes an alluring if not alarming khol extravaganza. He has a cunty little lightning earring, pink nails and is holding a lit lightbulb in his mouth flashing the colours of the pan flag.
August 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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From that time I delivered a paper on queering vampire slayer weaponry and got way too into it
August 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Have men ever wielded swords? ⚔️💙 #boyboss New groundbreaking research from the Institute of Eugeneology devoted to the study of great men finds that sword wielding may not have been exclusive to women... 🧵
A great drag king museum mansplainer, Eugène Delacroissant, bearded and splendidly ruff-bearing, ponders ponderously upon a display of daggers. The photograph is in black and white, emphasizing the solemn scholarly tones of the picture.
April 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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A delight to perform at @royalarmouries.bsky.social last Saturday for Queerying the Museum, ending #lgbtqhistorymonth and starting #womenshistorymonth with a museum mansplaining extravaganza by the director of all museums and heritage sites himself, Eugène Delacroissant! Thank you for having me!
Eugène imitates the Horned Helmet for the crowd. Eugène challenges Harold the armour replica to a duel to the tune of Holding out for a Hero (Shrek 2 version, of course).
March 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I made a new PFP for my YouTube channel Joust GalPals! (Which you should also check out and subscribe to. Each subscribe adds another sword to the gay agenda. Let's make it to 600?)
www.youtube.com/@joustgalpals
Little chibi picture of Claire in a helmet with a purple plume against a yellow background
February 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Omg yes let me yap about my fave comics please please
Get to know my comic book taste - for every like, I will post one comic I love
February 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: you have disarmed my heart, valentine... In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: i could never feint my love for you, valentine~ In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: let's ride off into the sunset on horseback, valentine!! In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: we have chemistry, valentine!
February 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: life without you is like life without a sword: pointless In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: being in love with you is a knife-changing experience In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: HALT! THIEF! YOU HAVE STOLEN MY HEART
February 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Happy Valentine's Day from the cast of Girls' School of Knighthood! ❤️ Share with a crush who may also enjoy your incredible recommendation of a sword sapphic webcomic with duelling, romance and intrigue! Yes, this is a valid flirting technique.
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/gi...
In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: i've fallen *bard* for you valentine In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: you deserve the mightiest and most elegant of confession swords, dear valentine~ In comics sans in the style of meme like Valentine's Day cards from: to: be enemies to lovers with me, valentine!! come on, do it you coward!! fight me!! aaaaaaaaaa
February 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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The "Moe throwing drunkard out of bar but he returns" meme labelled as "hot lesbian villain"
February 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Mine and my partner's OCs Franz and Antoine for the #KissArtFebruary Challenge ❤️ based on “The Kiss - Self-portrait of Carolus-Duran with his wife as newlyweds” by Carolus-Duran (1868)
A pale man with long curly brown chestnut hair and glasses in a dark suit kisses a tan man with tawny hair adorned with a rose and a neatly trimmed beard, wearing all white, lying down.
February 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Turning ✨33✨ today which is apparently when hobbits come of age so how could I not share this hobbit self-portrait I did a while ago? Onwards to many more adventures in the realm of the early to mid thirties!
A self-portrait of the artist as a young hobbit, admiring a sword while surrounded by various books, scrolls and trinkets.
February 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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1. Research Breton feminists
2. Discover one from 19th radiating Big Butch Energy
3. Wonder "is she...kinda...you know..."
4. Immediately proceed to discover she was in fact a lesbian.
5. Profit.
More to come but in the meantime please enjoy this photograph of 19th century educator Marie Souvestre
Sepia photograph of a white woman with white hair tied back in a light three piece suit, in an armchair and nonchalantly holding a cigarette. She has extreme Butch Energy.
January 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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AHHH okay but I LOVE this idea. Who wants their character in the world of Girls' School of Knighthood?
An art meme template with 5 squares, a prompt to draw characters from another comic in your comics setting on top
January 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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RoV!! Yes!! (Fully unsurprised)

I need to make mine but I know that one makes the cut
The "Same Hat!!" meme
January 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Describe the plot of your comic with ONE panel from it!

The plot could ~technically~ be summarised by the first panel and page! (and yes this is a slight redraw of panel 1, with New Lettering, it will be up once I Reletter the rest of the comic)

Read here: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/gi...
A kneeling knight with her sword in profile, long hair hiding her face, vs a gloved hand reaching out with a rose. "They chose each other, lady and knight..."
January 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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10. Drag king makeup. I enjoy pursuing the art of the perfect beard and mustache texture, and I enjoy transforming into what I am told is a handsome dude (shame he's no obnoxious tho)
Eugène Delacroissant, Claire's drag king persona, posing with a smallsword in a green jacket with a black jabot. He has a beard, mustache, white face paint and green lipstick with red eyeshadow and a dangling red earring.
January 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I know how to promote things
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/gi...
A woman with olive skin and long black hair and green eyes looks to the right towards an outstretched gloved hands; a speech bubble says "Come with me, I have sword lesbian comics"
January 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM