One man holding another off the edge of a broken bridge over a river. By the throat. One-handed.
Reading Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, and I'm pretty sure that they have been having a conversation in this exact position for about ten minutes.
Horror media where David Cronenberg is an abusive billionaire who dies by assisted suicide at the start of a death game, while specifically negging his son for not being masculine enough to follow in his footsteps.
I've only read the first volume, I need to read the rest!
The new issue of Intergalactic Mixtape is live and full of recs in a variety of formats: straight lists, author forward, monthly faves, and of course, award related. :D
a drawing of a little guy with long eyelashes sitting politely with their hands in their lap, looking at the viewer with a cutesy and expectant smile.
when someone is reading the thing you like and they get to the part before The Part and you're just sitting there waiting for the other shoe to drop like this.
Apparently I am the only person Lex has heard using the phrase "dirty stopout" which either means
1) it's a northern thing
2) it's old lady slang
or 3) Lex needs to hang out with more dirty stopouts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
God, if I lived closer I would be applying in a heartbeat
Hiring a part time bookseller!
Ah! Change!
If you fancy joining our tiny team and yelling about queer books on a regular basis, now's your chance
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IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL
Oh my god this USELESS LESBIAN
It's so good, I genuinely recommend it! It's very thoughtful and tender, everyone is trying their bests, and their are queer friendships! That have no romantic drama!
A STORY ACTUALLY BEING NORMAL ABOUT ASEXUAL PEOPLE AND ALSO NOT HAVING AN ALLOSEXUAL EXPLAIN IT!
WOMEN SUPPORTING WOMEN, OLDER GAYS HELPING BABY GAYS!
ONCE AGAIN HAVING SQUISHY FEELINGS ABOUT SHE LOVES TO COOK AND IT'S NOT EVEN 7AM YET
But then you'd be concentrating on your hands and not whatever's happening with your face?
Aw, I'm glad! It's nice to know what to do when doing everyyhing is too much, right?
Sir, this is the fourth floor, what are you DOING.
Or: don't let your dreams be dreams????
Took an anxiety buddy with me to the dentist, made the whole thing more bearable!
... I am 36 years old and Very Brave, to be clear.
Their dresses are so comfy too! I have their tentacle dress and it's my favourite.
Oh my god I thought I'm going to have to go back to work in fuckin tears because of this manga, how is it so tender and in my feels
Is that a Madoka reference in my I Think Our Son is Gay?????
In unrelated news, if I had a nickel for every event where Olivine nearly died due to cult shenanigans, I would have three nickels.
(One of my favourite characters:
* attempted to throw down with not!Cthulhu twice
* is deeply, personally, offended by not!Cthulhu's audacity
* offered very sincerely to murder one of the other characters if he couldn't face self-sacrifice)
Shout out to Lex for being very understanding about me needing to scream about my smutty BL gacha game, because sometimes the scream cannot be contained.
Reading The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices and wondering how the lesbians get on in the world of this BL novel. So far it's mentioned straight and gay men, and straight women. *squints at manga* Bisexuals? Lesbians? Named female characters apart from the protagonist?
SHOUT-OUT TO THE ONE BEAUTIFUL SOUL WHO POSTED THE ONLY MAGICAL GIRL INCIDENT FIC ON AO3 SINCE I LAST CHECKED IT, YOU ARE A STAR
I usually joke that having a full page of fic on AO3 is pretty good for my tiny fandoms, but having none is a new low! 😭
I've been reading a ton of graphic novels recently so I decided to write a rec list and tell you all about some of my favorites!
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