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yes i’m that person who’s unhealthy obsessed with the fact that leo and piper and the only 2 that were friends before they were demigods
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Leo having two foster moms and having relationship issues with Calypso, taking relationship advice from Reyna and Apollo of all people, and then having best friend Piper dating a girl, is literally the funniest ending for him, because he's sooooooo close. He is so close. He's right there. He is soooo close. Only one thing can really perfect this. One thing. 🤏
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“all queer media is one dimensional, tropey, mass market, and made for teenagers-” not true. look harder
Memorial: Mike and Benson have been together for a few years and are in the middle of determining if they’re going to stay together when Mike learns that his estranged father is terminally ill, and goes to Japan to reconcile with him before his death. meanwhile Mike’s mother stays with Benson in the US. my favorite part of the novel was the part in Japan, exploring the relationship between Mike and his father (TW for racism and abuse)
the luminous dead: w/w romance between a spelunker on a mission on an alien planet and the women who hired her for unknown reasons, who’s stationed on the surface and communicates with the mc through her high-tech caving suit. toxic but intriguing romance, killing eve and TMA fans you will enjoy this (TW for graphic descriptions of injury)
The Vanished Birds: explores a society that was created after the Earth has been environmentally destroyed and humanity has moved onto space stations, and all space travel and commerce is controlled by corporations. queerness isn’t the focus of this book but many of the main characters are queer. beautiful writing, will make you super depressed in the best way (TW for child abuse)
The Color Purple: Celie is separated from her sister in childhood when she’s forced into an abusive marriage by her father, but she continues to write to her over the years. an important part of the novel is the relationship that develops between Celie and her husband’s lover Shug. what I love about this book is that its an important look at misogynoir and abuse of vulnerable people, but Celie ultimately gets her happy ending. (TW for abuse, racism, sexual assault, incest)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post: the first half chronicles the early life of Cameron, a closeted lesbian growing up in rural Montana in the 90′s. the second half is about Cameron’s experience in a conversion camp. I love the writing of this book, it’s very atmospheric. I felt like I could picture Cameron’s town in my sleep. (TW for conversion therapy, homophobia, self-harm)
boys run the riot: manga, a trans boy who wants to work in men’s fashion one day works with two of his classmates to design and create a clothing line. I’ve only read the first volume so I cant speak on the series as a whole. the MC is only out to some people, so he gets misgendered and still wears the girls’ uniform in school. this might be difficult for some people to read, although there isn’t too much overt transphobia if I remember correctly (at least in the first volume)
The 57 bus: nonfiction, follows the stories of an agender teen who experienced a hate crime, and the boy who attacked them. A tough read, but a really important look at the justice system, racism, transphobia, and restorative justice (TW for transphobia and homophobia, violence, depictions of police and the justice system)
our dreams at dusk: manga series about an LGBT+ center in Japan. follows gay, trans, and asexual characters. an interesting look at queer issues in Japan. also the art is gorgeous (TW for homophobia and transphobia)
in the dream house: memoire about the author’s experience in an abusive sapphic relationship. super important, as abuse in queer relationships is so seldom talked about. hard to read but the writing is very lyrical and poetic, and beautiful (TW for abuse)
ask the passengers: mc is a girl who’s falling in love with another girl, while staying closeted from her gay friends because she’s not sure how to identify. the gimmick of the book is that the mc talks about her problems to airplanes in the sky, and this magically touches the lives of the people in the planes. I felt this part of the book was goofy and honestly I think it would be better without it, but I remember that the journey the mc goes through regarding her sexuality made me feel very seen (TW for homophobia)
king and the dragonflies: written by the author of Felix Ever After. the rest of his books deserve an equal amount of attention. middlegrade, about a boy dealing with the death of his brother and coming to terms with his sexuality. I liked the relationship between King and his family. they weren’t super homophobic but they also weren’t completely accepting at first either, it felt like a very realistic and healthy depiction of a family (TW for homophobia, racism, child abuse)
haven’t personally read, on my tbr: Giovanni’s Room, Nevada, Stone Butch Blues, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, My Cat Yugoslavia, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
“queer media is all boring period pieces and people getting divorced and experiencing horrible homophobia and tragedy-” not true. look harder
The Magic Fish: graphic novel, a young Vietnamese-American boy reads fairy tales with his mother to help her practice her english, and searches for a way to come out to her. some of my favorite art in a graphic novel, look it up its stunning
Honeygirl: going through quarter life crises and unsure of what to do after earning her PhD, the mc goes to vegas and ends up getting drunkenly married to a woman she doesnt know. the mc’s relationship with academia was very relatable to me
whatever: basically just about the mc fucking around with his friends, being in a band, and discovering that hes gay. a lot of fun, love the characters
anything by Alice oseman: Alice Oseman is the only person I trust to write about the fandom experience in YA fiction. my personal fave is iwbft. disclaimer: I haven’t read solitaire, cant say whether its good or gay
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World: middlegrade, Ivy’s family’s home is destroyed by a tornado, and shes also dealing with the fact that she’s realizing she’s a lesbian. some internalized homophobia, but everyone in Ivy’s life is really accepting and its very sweet
my love mix-up: manga, mc has a crush on a girl in his class and asks to borrow her eraser, and sees the name of a different boy written on it (this is a popular love charm in Japan). boy #2 sees the mc holding the eraser, and thinks HE has a crush on HIM. very wholesome and funny, and one of the few times I’ve read a manga that actually allows a character to have crushes on people of multiple genders. it deals with homophobia in some cases, which makes it feel grounded in reality, but all of the mc’s friends are very accepting, and its very cute.
The Tarot Sequence: urban fantasy set in a modern magical society, mc is the heir to a family of the magical aristocracy, but since his family was killed he’s fallen from grace, is broke, and works as a mercenary for other powerful families. he tries to unravel the mystery of his family’s death on the side. m/m romance and found family. love the characters and the world building, and the author is planning for this to be a NINE book series. next book is coming out May 2022!! (TW for sexual assault)
In Other Lands: mc gets recruited to go to magical summer camp, except he’s genre-savvy, hates fighting, and misses technology. super funny satire of portal fantasy books, but will also have you aching for the mc? elliot schafer my beloved
havent personally read, on my tbr: a hero at the end of the world, the poster children, tell me how you really feel, heavy vinyl
we absolutely do have a long way to go in regards to queer representation, but it frustrates me to no end when I see post claiming that queer fiction is all one specific type of story. there are lots of queer creators out there writing unique, thoughtful, beautiful stories who deserve our support! if theres a particular type of queer fiction you would like to see, do a little digging because its likely that SOMETHING similar exists. it just doesnt exist on like disney+
also @lgbtqreads is an incredible resource, if you want to read something gay and have a specific genre or type of story in mind I highly recommend looking around on their blog
additional recommendations welcome!
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annabeth was written as a smart blonde to break the "dumb blonde" stereotype. annabeth being black is still breaking down stereotypes as black women and girls are often ignored and undermined in academic spaces
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bitches saying that black annabeth chase "doesn't make sense" as if she wasn't born from the divine thoughts of her godly mama
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Honestly one of my favourite episodes of community was the one where abed beat troy at sports. Like something about the "nerd" being better at sports than a joke just felt great but also how casual he was about it. Another of my favourites was the one where they try to change abed to get him a girlfriend because the ending where the girl Jeff thought would flirt with him went to Abed instead and Abed not needing help getting people to like him was a nice touch. It's just nice to see the "nerdy guy" who would usually be the butt of the joke winning and being loved is great. Honestly I must love abed, he just seems so chill, like yeah he has his quirks and is autistic but where this could be treated as a bad thing, instead it's just Abed, another part of him. And they all like abed. In a lot of situations he's actually the one that remains calm through it all, and in one episode I'm pretty sure it shows he's actually the sanest one? Like you know the Halloween episode where they think one of them is crazy because of Britta's test but then it turns out she just printed them wrong and they're all crazy except one? I'm pretty sure the sane one was Abed, right? It's also why Pierce doesn't really do anything to him in the episode where he psychologically torments them all. He can't. Honestly Abeds just great.
Of course these are more basic and of course like the Halloween episodes and paintball episodes are great and everything. But these episodes just have a place in my heart for reasons I can't even fully explain.
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I like art that depicts women not posing seductively or gracefully but simply existing as human beings.
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I read one last stop and it was soo good but thanks for the other recs!!
after watching heartstopper i feel like it's my right as a bi woman to ask for some good sapphic friends-to-lovers book recs
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after watching heartstopper i feel like it's my right as a bi woman to ask for some good sapphic friends-to-lovers book recs
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AUGH. THINKING ABOUT THALIA N LEO. NO CUZ leo lives at waystation now & the hunters are at the waystation often and every time leo sees thalia ALL HE CAN THINK ABOUT is the boy he loved because thalias eyes remind him too much of jason her smile reminds him too much of jason he’s literally going insane. and finally he’s like no nope i can’t just pretend like looking at her isn’t driving me insane so he just tells her about jason about how much he loved him and he’s just sooo frustrated about it like he really doesn’t want to tell her but he can’t keep it inside anymore and thalias like ⁉️⁉️ oh man oh jeez,,,, and then wow unexpected bond.
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My girlfriend and I talk a lot about our different generations of queerness, because she was doing queer activism in the 1990s and I wasn’t.
And she’s supportive of my writing about queerness but also kind of bitter about how quickly her entire generation’s history has disappeared into a bland “AIDS was bad, gay marriage solved homophobia” narrative, and now we’re having to play catch-up to educate young LGBTQ+ people about queer history and queer theory. It gets pretty raw sometimes.
I mean, a large part of the reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people haven’t is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.
“Excuse us,” she said bitterly the other day, not at me but to me, “for not laying the groundwork for children we never thought we’d have in a future none of us thought we’d be alive for.”
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Managed to track down a high quality photo of r/place prior to the destruction for those who want it. May it rest in internet history.
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A Good Omens x Our Flag Means Death crossover would be like...
Frenchie: so if you're a real angel, do you also carry around a harp and sit on clouds all day?
Stede: Frenchie!
Aziraphale: I'm afraid not, dear boy.
Meanwhile...
Ed: and then after our plans of running away together didn't work out, I later find out that he died! Which, thankfully, wasn't true, but still!
Crowley: ugh, tell me about it.
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When Mary said “Whats her name?”
and Stede went “His name is Ed”
i expected mary to go “His???”
but instead she went “:)”
and i went “🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭”
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ok ofmd has so many fic i did not expect that. does anyone have some recs?
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I've seen a lot of excellent takes about Ed seeing soft touch as an expression of love vs. Stede seeing kind words the same way, and it's interesting to me that it's the opposite that hurts them.
Ed is relatively resilient to violent touch, but words can hurt him very easily. Stede, on the other hand, is very vulnerable to violence, but seems pretty resilient to harsh words, probably because he heard so many, just like Ed endured a lot of violence.
This is probably why they need what they need: Ed never got soft touches, and Stede never got kind words.
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