Happy International Lesbian Day! Here's some super brief book recs to celebrate
Books dealing with love, loss, longing and abandonment
This is How You Lose The Time War is a short but beautifully written epistolary novel between two agents on opposite sides of a time war as they slowly fall in love.
Our Wives Under the Sea is one of the most beautifully written debuts I've ever read about a woman whose wife comes home wrong after they thought she'd died at sea and how it feels to grieve the loss of someone who's still in your home.
Lucky Red is a western novel about a young girl working in a brothel who meets her first female gunslinger and falls head over heels for her, and the consequences that come with loving dangerous people.
Body horror galore
Camp Damascus is about a young woman living in a super conservative christian town built around the worlds most successful conversion camp and the horrors that are uncovered there when praying the gay away fails.
To Be Devoured is about a woman whose fascination with the local vultures turns into obsession and the urge to know what carrion tastes like overtakes her life and leads her down stranger and stranger paths.
Chlorine is about a girl whose entire life revolves around being a competitive swimmer, and how abuse, neglect, and obsession with being the best takes its toll on the young women caught up in these destructive cycles.
Flawed character studies
Big Swiss is about a woman who has a kitchen floor reset in her 40s, moves away and starts a new life as a transcriber for a sex therapist and becomes obsessed with one of his clients before inserting herself into this poor woman's life.
The Seep is a speculative sci-fi set in a future where there's been a quiet alien invasion that has given people the ability to make almost any changes to their own bodies and what that world feels like to someone who doesn't want to partake.
Milk Fed is about a woman in therapy who feels cut off from almost everything until she meets another woman who triggers in her a melding of sex, hunger, and religion and where that takes her. Huge trigger warnings for ED content. It gets tough, y'all.
Fantastical wlw books
Bitterthorn is an amalgamation of fairytales retold as a slow burn sapphic love story between a sad young girl from a cursed land and the evil witch who takes her as a companion in the latest of the generational sacrifices made to appease her.
All the Bad Apples may be set in contemporary Ireland but it is a fairytale following a young girl as she travels across the country looking for a sister she refuses to believe is dead and the people she meets along the way.
Gideon the Ninth needs no introduction on this site but for the sake of formatting - lesbian necromancers in space who find themselves in an isolated murder mystery plot. It's not a romance but it is a love story and this series will change your life if you let it.
Translated novels
Boulder is a short character study following a free spirited woman when she accidentally settles down with the woman she loves and how love and resentment can take up the same space in your chest when life doesn't turn out the way you hoped it would.
Notes of a Crocodile is a cult classic coming of age story about queer teens in Taipei in the 1980s. It was written in the 90s so please keep that in mind if you choose to read it.
Paradise Rot is about an international student studying in Australia and her growing obsession with her housemate as they share a space that allows no privacy. I've never read anything that feels stickier.
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List of times Cecil has almost sworn on air:
• "Jeremy. Take us to the weather! Come here you son of a-" (Visitor - E43 Y2)
• "Stay tuned next for our exciting new game show: What's in the box? No! What's in the f[bleep]ing box?" (eGemony Part 3 - E119 Y6)
This concludes the list of times Cecil has almost sworn on air
This list does not include him (and Carlos) being raunchy on air, because there's too many times to count
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no but if you think about it this WME deal is so damn clever like… aside from the political clout of building his personal brand and really capitalizing on his fame outside of f1 and ferrari, when within f1 he’s always been so intrinsically tied to ferrari it’s almost a given to everyone that he’ll never leave and therefore isn’t even a contender for contract negotiations?
charles is giving himself bargaining power with ferrari at a time when he really needs it to impose changes with his next contract (if he signs) whilst simultaneously giving himself enough personal distance from ferrari that if he ever moves, it won’t be as shocking or hurt his image. sure, all of his big personal sponsors also sponsor ferrari — that gives him power within the team, to an extent. but they’re still ferrari’s too. one could argue that he got them from ferrari and they’d stay with ferrari instead of him if he left. expanding his sponsorship and brand image beyond even just his current sponsors gives him market security.
and he’s doing all this (making the announcement) right after a disaster weekend where a) “he” lost another pole position and b) ferrari publicly fucked him over royally. this is simultaneously a time when he wants to move on from the negative f1 press and capitalize on the sympathy / general feeling of “wow it sure would be great if charles had some more support”. he’s showing up with that support, so people can rally behind him and WME at an opportune moment, and distracting from “bad stats”…
the fact that all this is right after being linked so heavily as a commiserating spirit along with lewis hamilton, the blueprint of global fame beyond f1?
it’s genius.
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