Darcy, Author at Autostraddle

Darcy

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About Darcy

Darcy, a.k.a. Queer Girl, is your number one fan. She's a fat feminist from California who doodles hearts in the corners of her Gay Agenda. They're living through a pandemic, they're on Twitter, and they think you should drink more water! She also wants to make you laugh.

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Saving A Booth For You

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First Person

High School and Everything After

The diners from Grease, Gilmore Girls, Twin Peaks, and Riverdale

Quizzes

Quiz: What Diner From Pop Culture Are You?

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Know: Lesbians Find a Way

A woman standing in the dark. The sparkles of light in the distance have been distorted into heart shapes.

Breakups

You Need Help: I Could Love Them, But They’re Leaving

A series of tiny replica novels laid out on a bright blue cutting mat with craft supplies splayed out around them

Honey, I Shrunk the Books: A DIY Guide to Making Miniature Book Replicas

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Playing Softball in Stardew Valley

Alex, Elliott, Abigail, Emily, Harvey, Haley, Sam, Leah, Sebastian, Maru, Shane, and Penny from Stardew Valley

Quizzes

Quiz: Which Stardew Valley Character Should You Marry?

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Watching Wishbone

Three self-help book covers: How to Stop Overthinking, Set Boundaries, Find Peace, and You Are Not the Target

Health

10 Self Help Books Whose Titles Healed Me Without Having to Actually Read Them

A pensive woman with black hair and very light-brown skin wearing a fuzzy blue sweater. She is standing on her balcony with her elbows propped on the railing, looking pensive.

Relationships

You Need Help: Can I Go Through this Heartbreak Again?

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Racing Rainbow Road

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Sitting in a Lesbian Sports Bar

an empty bird's nest nestled in a tree

Parenting & Family

I Was Ready for Parenthood — Then the Pandemic Struck

Identity

You Need Help: How Do I Stop Hating My Face?

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Making Music

A person with light skin lying on white sheets, hugging a white pillow, which is obscuring their face

Lesbian Sex

You Need Help: Will I Be A Virgin Forever?

Photo 1: Helga from Hey Arnold. Photo 2: Alex Mack from The Secret World of Alex Mack. Photo 3: Shelby Woo from The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. Photo 4: Clarissa from Clarissa Explains It All. Photo 5: Melody Hanson from Hey Dude!. Photo 6: Cassie from Animorphs. Photo 7: Angelica Pickles from The Rugrats. Photo 8: Eliza Thornberry from The Wild Thornberries.

Quizzes

Quiz: Which ’90s Nickelodeon Heroine Are You?

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Barely Balancing on this Skateboard

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Wielding Rainbow Lassos

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Legs Out and Faces Painted for Pride

A transfeminine non-binary person and transmasculine gender-nonconforming person look at each other on a couch

Relationships

You Need Help: Is ‘Lesbian Bed Death’ Really So Bad?

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Getting Handsy for Pride

A collage of 8 images. From L-R: A small white dog wearing a dark-blue button up printed with oranges. Below him: A smiling model wearing a button-up in the same print. Next, a grey hoodie printed with the words “Welcome Everyone” in the Progress Pride colors. Below that: A crop top made for dogs and cats in the same print. Next, A small orange dog with ears that look like pigtails wearing a button-up printed with black toucans with red beaks, and green palm fronds. Below him: An adult button-up in the same print. Last: A Black model with loose, shoulder-length curls posing in a triangle bralette and high-waisted undies. Below her: A white dog with one brown ear wearing a hoodie. The undies and hoodie are both printed with eggs and bacon on a light blue background. The collage is framed in light blue.

Six Outfits You Can Buy to Match Your Dog

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Relationships

You Need Help: Should My Relationship Really Be This Hard?

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Thinking About Old Flames

A fat person with a short haircut stands proudly with one hand on their hip in front of three bright windows, wearing a white t-shirt, blue cardigan, a fancy necklace, and thick black framed glasses.

Identity

You Need Help: Will I Ever Feel Comfortable in My Own Skin?

Photo 1: The book cover of Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger features a bunch of teens putting up a sign for a missing pet. The subtitle reads "Tigger, come home!" Photo 2: The book cover for Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter features Jessi watching two blonde children, three dogs, and several cats. The subtitle reads "This was one sitting job Jessi couldn't resist!" Photo 3: The book cover of Kristy and the Walking Disaster features a youth softball team. The subtitle reads "Guess which one's the walking disaster!" Photo 4: The book cover for Mallory and the Trouble with Twins features Mallory standing between two twin girls wearing birthday hats blowing out candles on a cake. The subtitle reads "The Arnold twins aren't just bad — they're double trouble." Photo 5: The book cover of The Ghost at Dawn's House features Dawn with a small child on basement steps with a flashlight. The subtitle reads "Creaky stairs, spooky noises, secret passages — it must be a ghost!" Photo 6: The book cover of Claudia and the New Girl features Claudia sitting on a stoop with a young boy and a blonde girl trying to pull her away. The subtitle reads: "Claudia might give up the club — and it's all the new girl's fault." Photo 7: The book cover for The Truth About Stacey features a young girl at a candy counter with a teen girl. The subtitle says: Stacey's different...and it's harder on her than anyone knows. Photo 8: The book cover of Kristy's Great Idea features the members of the baby-sitters club sitting on a couch talking. The subtitle reads: "Four friends are babysitting together — what could be more fun?"

Quizzes

Quiz: Which Baby-Sitters Club Book Are You?

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Dreaming of Espressos In Bed

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Slutty, Helpful, and Unable to Wear Shoes

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Want to Know Your Toxic Trait

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Remembering the Girls Who Wore Abercrombie & Fitch

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Putting ‘Dirty Computer’ On Repeat

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Daydreaming of Chessy from the Parent Trap

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Still Chasing Amy After All These Years

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Will See You at Abbot Elementary

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Thirty Going on Thirteen

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Meeting At the Vending Machine

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Just Met a Dame with Enormous Dignity

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Traversing Time and Space to Love and Eat Cabbage

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Asking: Won’t You Be Our Valentine?

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Curling in the Winter Olympics

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Carefully Setting Traps of Tiramisù

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Know: There Are No Accidents

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Dressing Like the Antler Queen

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Arguing Over the Gayest American Girl Doll

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Together in the Gay Wilderness

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Running Into the New Year

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Going on a Gay Date with Krampus

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Snowed In

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