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Chapter 13: Ballroom Night
Posted on 14 July 2024 by rustyhearts

Riley and Blaire are all dressed up for Yonique's Ballroom Night dance lesson, while Jaden works her first shift back.
The housewarming guest list grows. An unexpected dancer takes the floor. And Riley continues to worry about potential conflict between Blaire and every other woman in the bar. When things go awry, Riley is forced to stop simply hoping things will turn out for the best, and act to make them so.

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53 thoughts on “Chapter 13: Ballroom Night”

  1. rustyhearts

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  2. Pistachio's Mom

    “Riley is forced to stop simply hoping things will turn out for the best, and **act** to make them so.”

    👀👀 Oh?

    Either way, go Riley!!

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    1. rustyhearts

      👀👀👀

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  3. Fear

    LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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    1. rustyhearts

      Here it comes 👏👏👏

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  4. LesbianKiwi

    EARLY AGAIN LESGOO

    SO HYPED FOR THIS
    Not hyped to see fucking Timothy in the back with his triangle nipple “boobs” but
    We take the wins with the losses 😭

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    1. rustyhearts

      I hear ya, I hear ya! 🫂🫂🫂

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    2. Fiddles

      BabyGirl about to stretch and ruin that dress!! Blaire!!

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      1. LesbianKiwi

        GENUINELY THOUGH D: I’m not excited to see him prancing around in it like a child while it o b v i o u s l y isn’t made for him- not that women aren’t built like that (We love our broad shouldered ladies, I apply and I would absolutely destroy that dress 💀) but cmon, atleast pick one that isn’t built for someone like Blair, who is like- A WHOLE FOOT SMALLER THAN TIM???
        But then again, Timothy is like- proper obsessed with her- s o. He probably near died when he even held it like 😭

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  5. Parniya’s biggest fan

    Oh no. What is HE doing here?? 😰😰
    I can sense there’s gonna be a lot of tension this chapter, I hope Blaire and Riley don’t breakup YET, I feel they haven’t fleshed out enough yet. Blaire looks good! I’m excited to see the other gals as masc women are more my thing haha. I’m also very scared of Timothy this chapter, at least there’s only one more week to go before Parniya…

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    1. rustyhearts

      You just keep holding onto Parniya real tight, breastie. 🫂🫂

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    2. Fiddles

      Looking at this page again, I find myself a bit curious about Blaire’s cosmetology crowd…hm, wonder if (D) has any cross over there? Or if we’ll meet others (not that it’s necessary), just realized I don’t think I know the brunette with the ponytail.

      I have to say, I do enjoy how the art is fun, along with the serious issues being discussed — it pulls the reader in, especially perhaps the kind of reader that may normally be attracted to (or have pushed upon them) the ideologies being challenged in the work.

      Clancy has become such an icon in that battlefront and with good reason, now that I read her profile. I have indeed heard lesbians (especially young ones) and Terfs discuss how “asexuality” can become a default in a world where TiMs and a great deal of sex/sexuality pushed upon them when they’re simply searching for connection and maybe love. She seems a low key person being forced into a high key world, it’s a very sympathetic position and our author still managed to portray that with humor; I could see our main protagonists making a real connection with Clancy. I also see her of a symbol for so many who sometimes realize too late they went down the wrong path (even state for themselves that they felt fooled). However, I am happy to read along with whatever our author decides — I can tell she has poured a great deal of love into this work and respect her vision of the characters regardless of our inputs.

  6. izaiskei

    Aaaaaaaa!! so excited to see where this goes!! GO RILEY GO! GO RILEY GO! someone pop timothy’s chest fr 🤢🤢🤢 so nasty

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    1. rustyhearts

      🎈🗡😐
      💥🗡🙂

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  7. Normal person

    Uuuuuurrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh lmaoooo I love how much I viscerally hate this page lmao.

    Fun thing about the Timothy and that (revolting) reference picture you based him on lmao – apparently those spikes aren’t actually prosthetic breasts. When men take estrogen to try and obtain a female body, the resulting hormone imbalance makes their nipples do that. I am delighted to educate people on the Stunning and Brave world of horrible unhealthy trans crap, and concede that the fact I know this may make my moniker of “Normal Person” void.

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    1. rustyhearts

      Huh! There ya go lmao. I could have sworn it was just massage cups stuck under his shirt.

       
      I’m going for something more extreme like this now though.

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      1. Normal person

        I swear to god I’m not making it up but yeahhhhhh holy shit those things lmao. TIMs gonna TIM lol.

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  8. Crypty

    RUSTY THAT IS NOT RILEY ☹️☹️☹️

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    1. rustyhearts

      It is not 🙂

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  9. Simp

    I am exicited and yet scared.

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  10. ✂️🍆

    Rusty, how you gonna hit us in the feels one page and assault our eyes the next?! 🤣

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    1. Nonnie

      The risk to see women being women in a comic: having to deal with heartbreaking and eye bleach.

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    2. rustyhearts


      Like this uwu

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  11. Sunny

    Now I understand why 13 is a cursed number Q.Q

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    1. rustyhearts

      ‘Unlucky’, what an apt word choice 🙂

  12. K

    BALLROOM NIGHT, LET’S GO! I’m so looking forward to this, even Mr. Dude can’t ruin this for me! Even if the chapter description is really foreboding! I’m excited!
    I’m also really looking forward for Riley being thrown out of her comfort zone and having to actually confront conflict at some point!

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    1. rustyhearts

      I hope it doesn’t disappoint! I’m very excited about where this chapter is going to go, and so happy to finally be sharing it with everyone!

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  13. Nonnie

    I’ll take a shot for each new “fanart” of the AGP gang accepting Timothy in their “best beasty friends gang!” (aka: cult).

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  14. rotten Easter egg

    Is… mummymilkers wearing the outfit blaire wore in chapter 11… or am I reading to much into it? (Please rusty let it be the 2nd option)

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    1. rustyhearts

      Well spotted! They were a donation in accordance with the transphobia accountability jar 🙂

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  15. riley relater

    The description on this page has me hopeful about where Riley’s character arc is going on (hi i’m the anon that commented before about hoping Riley breaks up with Blaire instead of vice versa 😶‍🌫️ riley deserves better)

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    1. rustyhearts

      Welcome back to the comment section, and buckle up!!

  16. andy

    he’s so obsessed with blaire … it’s hard for me to believe that some part in blaire, some tiny defeated instinct, isn’t saying “this grown man is following me around, dressing like me, touching my stuff, red alert red alert red alert!!!” but I guess even if she *did* have that feeling the importance of being a Good Trans Ally trumps it :// is there no conflict within her at all, I wonder

    on a positive note, blaire’s dress is rendered very pretty (love the starry deep blue). I was team blue heh. she and riley will look nice in the matching blue before whatever disaster occurs lol

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    1. rustyhearts

      So many interesting things you’ve said here… So few I can comment on UwU

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  17. kev

    went from 🙂 to 😦 SO FAST

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    1. Nonnie

      More like 🙂 to 😦 to 🙁 to 😱

  18. Fiddles

    I finally read some of the cast page. Interesting stuff!
     
    I would humbly like to nominate Todd (whose “identity” was my fave – he, he) as a “Little” (as in Little Girl) and ABDL. Not to just be humorous, but bc I have legitimately, and repeatedly run across Todds with exactly those fetishes. Not only that, but been in communities, where there were mostly women (and the groups were not explicitly sexual: goth, rainbow goth, punk, etc) and suddenly someone like this shows up and we are expected to leaver it alone without question bc the person identified as Trans.
     
    I would like to see more POC who are irksome in the QT spectrum. I respect it’s your work, but in my life, a certain utterly indignant POC in the sex positive community comes to mind — Brick is a likable version of her, actually, if you combined Timothy and Brick then you’d get closer to this woman who then both claimed to be a dominatrix and also nonstop whined, and lectured, while all others bowed to her. As it got toxic, ppl were banned or forced to leave if they were seen as offensive and did not grovel. I was the latter. Bullies, sociopaths, narcissists so easily dominate groups where “marginalized” people might be found, if they go unchecked, or worse are enabled — I found they came in all sorts of varieties.
     
    It deserves to be said that while I was reading the tale, I was really enjoying your art as well. And the paneling seems to be moving quite naturally for the story telling. I really love how you do the different features of characters and the exaggerated expressions on people like BabyGirl work so well. I’ll be interested to see how your more polished style looks on the infamous trio, if we ever see them again; their background stories were excellent, I was half hoping one of them would be a closeted homosexual. It would be too realistic to make one a pedo, entirely up to you if you go that route (seems there were hint of that at least). But you covered Domestic Abuse with great ability. My family life was not entirely dissimilar.
     
    You’ve developed Riley so well, especially because you’ve made so many strong female characters, yet portrayed her intense inner world and thoughts so well. It’s taken a certain amount of strength for Riley to cope. And it’s cool that her persona is different from the more naturally assertive characters. She reminds me of one of my ex-best friends. EX partly bc she did not beat those insecurities despite many years…sometimes tolerating too much also turns into a form of abuse. I’ve learned not to trust people who want/need to be liked by everyone.
     
    Anyway. I’m rambling. Great work. Keep doing what you’re doing!!

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    1. LesbianKiwi

      Oh my gosh this is so accurate though- I’ve seen so many TIM’s infiltrate communities mainly dominated by women and girls, and it’s always scary because NOBODY does anything about it??? I was in a discord group a while ago for, mainly, lesbians who write comics for- well- lesbians. It was very sweet, people had fun, we shared art and I made a lot of friends (that I, sadly, lost in the crossfire of what I’m gonna say next-)
      Then we had a TIM who showed up- no big deal, people mainly ignored him, but he, somehow, managed to guilt trip his way into being a mod since “The server was female-dominated, it’d make sense to have a BRAVE TRANS WOMAN ™ on the team.”

      Come to find out this guy is a massive creep, big shocker- hitting up younger lesbians and venting/trauma dumping constantly, huge into the “little/DDLG” community, was working on a weird comic about a TIM and a girl who were dating or whatever-
      BASICALLY PEDOPHILE IN DISGUISE- I was the only one who was verbally uncomfortable in the server, the guy had a power trip and made the members “choose” between us both- I didn’t entertain it and just left 😭 eventually the server fell apart and just vanished, so- 💀 shocker
      The ABDL and Little thing really fits Todd honestly 😭 he just looks like he’d have a absolutely HORRENDOUS search history-

      YOU MAKE SO MANY GOOD POINTS LIKE I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO GET INTO ALL THIS, I love your comment, I’m gonna marry it 🤯

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      1. Nonnie

        I remember an art community in Facebook that was focused only in women. Everybody had a good time as well and we didn’t have problems in giving critiques (of course there was drama, but that’s something common in Internet). Suddenly the mods, to please the QT collective, said that trance women and men could join, since “it’s an open community”, so no “cis men” can step on. If that were the case, why trance men want to join a full female community (spoiler: because they know they’re still women)? Why let trance women join if they only have to say they identify themselves as “she/her”?. The community died because many women left the place to avoid to be tagged as “terfs” and it went way toxic than ever.

        We cannot have safe spaces at all.

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        1. LesbianKiwi

          HONESTLY.

          I just got permission from a comment I made about making a discord server about, mainly, Leasebound, and leasebound fans sharing art from Rusty herself, which I’m really excited about, because, in my experience, I’ve had to watch a lot of my communities (mainly Lesbian and women art communities) go the…
           
          “All inclusive” route… a curse that makes any sensible woman tremble in her boots 😔 and, knowing me, someone who’s pretty strongly Anti-Men and usually prioritizes women over anything else (since I am one 😭) I know that I’ll atleast hold my word about not letting men in the server OR going “all inclusive” at some point- I’d rather be crucified 💀
           
          I’ll most definitely put my discord user (an alt ofc to protect myself from weird trolls lurking this page-) so that girls here can get access to the server once I get everything up and running! It’ll probably just take a day or two because servers aren’t super hard to make, SO thats something to look forward to at least- a nice, women only space for women to share art, opinions, and not be harassed by gross men or male-worshipping women 😭

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    2. rustyhearts

      Thank you for all your kind words and comments documenting your LB reading journey, they’ve been a pleasure to read.
       
      With regards to more gendie characters (of any race), I’ve talked about it over on the FAQ page:
      “Re: Mostly white QT club members. pretty surface level observation/joke that gets passed around about most gender-identity-havers being white. Running with that commonly said joke, the QT collectives have a “all POC welcome sign” but few if any non-white members, thus implying they are off-putting to most everyone else.
        
      It’s absolutely a generalisation. Race obviously doesn’t preclude anyone from any set of beliefs. I’ve seen plenty of people of different races buy into gender identities. But, still way more white people.
        
      I am certain however, that had I made the QT Collective as racially diverse as the rest of the cast, people would be trying to read between the lines and find malicious intent with equal ferocity (speaking generally, not to you specifically). I know this, because they already do it with the main cast.”
       
      At this point in time I don’t have plans to add more gendie characters, the current ones suffice for the story I wish to tell. I also don’t intend to be featuring the AGPgang further in the story, they’re merely an inciting incident which has severed it’s purpose. The cast page info was just fun, extra details if readers wanted it.
       
      So happy to hear you enjoy so many of the female characters, my growth as an artist. I hope you continue to do so!

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  19. Art enjoyer

    Just recently saw a TIF claim that someone giving advice on non-penetrative forms of sex was “trans misogynistic” and I think it radicalized me more than anything else could. They also claimed the person retaliating against that claim was “sexual harassment”.

    Once upon a time I respected this person, then they shacked up with trans fems who never wanted to do anything aside from penetrative and got into the porn they “suggested”. The brainrot is too much.

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    1. rustyhearts

      Ah yes! I think it’s very common for people who are told to ‘just listen to trans people’, to end up entirely disagreeing with their politics.

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  20. Art Enjoyer

    Also: What was the image referenced? I haven’t seen it and feel out of the loop lol.

    1. rustyhearts

      The ‘are you winning’ meme? It’s a reference to a poll I held nearly a year ago asking readers to pick from 3 different dress colours with little other context. The options were red, blue and green, and green was the most voted for.

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  21. LesbianKiwi

    This comic desperately needs a discord server so all the lesbian and Bi gender-critical girls here can share art and make other like- NORMAL gender-critical friends because that would be so much fun 😭 I’m desperate tm to make friends who like this comic 😔

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    1. rustyhearts

      You have my blessing to create one! I personally just don’t have the time or desire to vet and moderate one! But I totally agree. A space for LB fans would be great <3

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      1. LesbianKiwi

        OO I’ll totally work on that then! I have some experience making discord servers and it’d be super fun to make one! I wanted to outright ask for permission in a email maybe because I was unsure if you’d be cool with that, but thank you for the perms :D!

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        1. Fiddles

          I request rustyhearts to privately pass along my address to Kiwi, in order to be contacted regarding this splendid concept. Unless there is some other way that we should go about that.
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          Also, thank you, Rusty, for restating your stance on the Gendies, I did run across it after I left my original comment on this page. It makes good sense and you addressed your POV well.

        2. rustyhearts

          No worries!
          I’ll keep your request in mind if the discord group goes through as well ✌️

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  22. AV

    God in my heart of hearts I had naive hope that since it was mentioned chapters ago that Blaire and I think Brick had gone to the club before, and didn’t cause a notable scene, that the Tim wouldn’t be attempting entry. Poor Riley this situation is going to be so embarrassing and stressful so quick. I do like Blaire, even the worst of her, because I do know a lot of empathetic women who want to be good people who fall into catering for grown men’s fantasys. You have to do so many backflips logistically to have it make sense. I remember my own time in college as a lesbian where people in the SAGA club were clearly uncomfortable with gay people and had the complicated identities. Most grew out of them the moment they graduated, some the moment they met a straight man who would validate them as a straight woman.

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  23. FifteenthJessica

    Hmm, I think the burner is turning up on the love triangle. Can’t wait to see, even though I know it will be a rough time for Riley.

    1. rustyhearts

      You might be right 👀
      Happy reading 🫡🫡

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