Hello! I joined your set a bit late. Would it be presumptuous to ask if you'd mind sharing your setlist from the event? I loved what I heard in the second half of it - and whenever I tune into MUYA during your slots!
#10 What is Home, Mum by Sabba Khan is a bit of a departure from the roms and coms, but it's so pretty and it's so pink. A thoughtful, topical and deliberate memoir about immigrant identity and holding onto family histories even as she grows into a future of her own. Not queer, still very good!
#9 Transfixed Comics Anthology edited by Gina Biggs. This one is an NSFW collection of fairytales re- or newly imagined with trans and genderqueer characters. One of my favorite collections from this small press! This one also made me cry for good reasons. I love lovely love stories.
#8 Matchmaker by Cam Marshall. A bunch of twenty-something queers helping each other find some semblance of happiness in today's late-capitalist hellscape. Has some depictions of mental health that aren't the easiest to read, but Marshall keeps a compassionately human and humorous tone throughout.
#6 Goodbye Princess Peony #7 Roadqueen - both by Mira Ong Chua. I've gushed about their work before, but I will do it again because the way they take manga and anime tropes and rework them into these beautifully drawn sapphic love stories between flawed characters who grow into love is so sweet.
#5 is Fall in Love You False Angels by Coco Uzuki. This list is mainly manga because cherry blossoms and also because it's a crime how most people's reflexive image of a Sakura is Kishimoto's bleh characterization. Good manga about heterosexual women exists, I promise. This is one such series.
#4 Pink Candy Kiss by by Aoi Izumi, More miscommunication but this time...one of the women is married. To a dude. Yup. What sounds like a total sleazeball situation is actually one of the most heartachingly tender manga I read last year, with a distinct art style and sensibility.
#3 Still Sick by Akashi. More silly manga lesbeans, except this time the miscommunication is low-key toxic and high-key messy. Mostly because pink-hair does NOT know how to talk about her feelings. A sweet n sour story about burnout and art and opening up to others.
#2 Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo. Love it when a comic makes me cry. Love it even more when it comes from a culture we don't often see in American graphic novels. A lovely cozy sci-fi story rooted in Indonesian culture about a young boy learning where to find home, and where to find love.
#1 Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko by Sal Jiang. I love Sal Jiang. I love the way Sal Jiang draws women. I love Ayaka's pretty pink fits and Hiroko's suits and how silly they are about each other:)
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HAPPY CHERRYBLOSSOM SEASON 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 Here are manga and comics with pink covers that I loved and highly recommend for THE SEASON. This will be a thread since I need to gush about these books 🧵
Cover for trade paperback of In Your Skin graphic novel. Red background with moon-shaped circle in top center with the title in uppercase red lettering. Shows two women illustrated in greens, yellows, blacks and blues holding each other.
Every time someone asks why and how I buy a book a month in this economy, I explain how I schedule months worth of releases every B&N preorder sale. Then one arrives ~per month. It's mostly manga and comics by people I know do good work. Like this one!
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I adore Courtney Milan. And Alexandria Bellefleur. And my gateway, Sarah Maclean's "The Season" in high school. And I usually read/review FF, but A.J. Sterling's How To Find A Nameless Fae was my absolute favorite romance of 2025 (The Devil She Knows was a close second), and it was M/F 💚
Share your couples art 🖤
Black and white photo of Udo Kier in a suit
Udo Kier has passed away at 81. A singular screen presence, Kier had a long history in the horror genre, starring in films including Mark of the Devil, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Blade, Feardotcom, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.
A packet of Mexican origin coffee and a paperback Everyman edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on a maroon velvet cloth
Getting ready for movie night with friends 💚💚💚💚💚
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."
Who needs sleep when there are BIPOC vampires to enjoy? 👀
Could always use more lesbian popcorn comedies, tbh.
New review up! Lee Lai's Cannon is one of the absolute best comics I've read this year. Very topical, too.
Needed this today.
My parents both lived on farms. They don't now, but my mom has made friends with a local farmer and buys milk from them because store bought "doesn't have enough fat for butter". She boils it religiously. I was visiting once and poured some she hadn't boiled on cereal - she made me toss the cereal.
Or Animal Man by Morrison. There are points where it’s depiction of the realistic tolls of superheroism go darker than Watchmen, despite the overall brighter tone. The DC recs are not exactly lesser known, but imo they attempt deconstruction and broader complex themes like Watchmen did.
- Saga by Vaughn/Staples
- Swamp Thing by Moore
- Enigma by Milligan
- Truth: Red, White & Black by Baker/Morales
- Poison Ivy by Wilson/Takara
- Grendel by Wagner
- Doom Patrol by Morrison
- Worm by Rodriguez
- Feeding Ghosts By Hulls
- Abandon the old in Tokyo by Tatsumi
- Sabba Khan’s 2 books
FUNeral Home is now LIVE on kickstarter! 💀⚰️
Our epic fun time oneshot of sapphic assassin shenanigans from myself, @cerealpancake.bsky.social @longtalljodie.com and Kiela Sibal!!
Hope to see you at the FUNeral 🥹♥️
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Literally watching this right now 🦖🦕💚💙
New review up! Very chuffed about this one. It has a pseudonymous work by Lorraine Hansberry! Anda messy butch on butch story that will delight fans of Sal Jiang's Black and White 🤭
Side view photo of J. Carino‘s Looking Back (2025) painting. Oil and Acrylic paint on linen. 40 x 30 inches, showing upper half of figure in green with warm colored shadows lying next to water, also painted in shades of green.
Close-up photo of J. Carino’s American Progress (2025) painting. Oil and Acrylic on Linen. Close up shows donkey walking and man carrying wood on a background of oranges and browns with yellow slightly abstracted sunflowers heart them, next to a flowing river depicted in whorls of white and black. The close up is taken so the river takes up half the vertical photo and the man and donkey the other half.
Off-center photograph of J. Carino’s Flood (2025) painting. Oil and acrylic on linen. 48 x 48 inches. Shows a man painted with brown skin carefully, tenderly carrying a baby donkey through a flooding river, with a tree and the bank painted on the upper corner.
The Yossi Milo Gallery in NYC has a beautiful exhibition on through 08/22 of J. Carino‘s most recent paintings.
