Copy, Moon Joy

Logan, he/they, 26

[omgcheckplease]

I wish there were a book series that could satisfy my needs

[pretensesoup]

Queer Books 2024

I've been meaning to write more book reviews this Pride, because they were pretty popular last year, and I like writing them. But I've been tired. Busy with the new novel (last year, I'd just released one, so I had more time; this year I am trying to get one out the door to my editor). Busy sleeping and having feelings about stuff. Anyway, let's correct that.

Space Opera is a book that a friend of mine saw someone reading in a doctor's waiting room and mentioned on our group chat. I then requested the audiobook based on the title and tagline alone (the tagline is, "In space everyone can hear you sing"). Aaaaaand I was not disappointed. The lovechild of David Bowie and Douglas Adams, it was incredibly amusing and glittery, and at times kind of poignant as well. The variety of aliens was amazing. And it turned out to be really queer, too.

Like...what do you do when the main character defines himself as "gender splat"? Or one of the characters is a kind of hollow blue space flamingo that happens to be one of three genders of her species, and another character is a time-traveling red panda? At one point, someone has sex with a sentient beam of hypermasculine moonlight. If you always wished for a universe that feels huge, beautiful, and totally ungovernable, this is it.

After I finished the audiobook, I checked out the hard copy for my husband, who loved it so much he would read passages aloud to me. Then he ordered a copy for our household. I feel like that is the most ringing endorsement I can muster.

Key quote:

“The only wall we could ever build against What’s Going On was the glitter and the shine and the synth and the knowing grin that never stops knowing. The show. Because the opposite of fascism isn’t anarchy, it’s theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.”

Anyway, 10/10 for style. I do heartily recommend the audiobook, just because the narrator does so many different voices, and it's very fun.

[rars]

hrghh another long and difficult day... TUMBLR!! fetch me a photo of The Fictional Character .....

[rars]

hrghh another long and difficult day... TUMBLR!! fetch me a photo of The Fictional Character .....

[allthelonelyplaces]

I know we don’t get happily ever afters in real life. I’m a hopeless romantic, not a total fucking idiot. As my friend, Russell, said to me once, “Even with the happiest couples, one of you dies first.” But first there is such unalloyed joy. We went to the supermarket yesterday and we were wandering around and, at one point, he took my hand, because that’s the kind of thing he does. And instantly, I got flustered. Residual anxiety. Remembrance of past battery. Enduring scars. Even though I know I’m hardly likely to get my head kicked in by the salad bar, PDAs can still make me nervous. And then he said, gentle as anything, and I’m not going to do the accent… “If there’s a gay kid in here with his folks, frightened that he’s a freak, don’t you think that it might give him hope, seeing two guys wandering around, being themselves, getting their groceries, like everyone else?” If happiness is a place… it’s the biscuit aisle in Sainsbury’s. And anywhere else I am with him.

[let-them-say-fuck-tournament]

Let Them Say Fuck, Semi-Finals

Who Deserves To Say Fuck More?

Candance Flynn(Phineas and Ferb)

Papyrus(Undertale)

Voting ended onJul 24, 2023

[jatersade]

which would you rather find living in your attic:

1000 roaches

a person

Voting ended onJan 29, 2023

[suburbanjustice]

this is truly on god the first would you rather that i've ever had to devote significant thought to. neither of these answers feel good

[rythyme]

[randomnoteforfuturereference]

It's gonna be hilarious if *this*, of all things, is what causes a new resurgence of the Check Please fandom.

[foul-z-fowl]

this is how we get the tv show

[agentjazzy]

reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind

[stars-bean]

“The time of hot chocolaty mornings and toasty marshmallow evenings.”

Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) dir. Karl Geurs

[weirdchristmas]

This is my version of being a grumpy old man.

[pepperedshenanigans]

undertale 7th anniversary! wow i feel very old :"D

[lethalhedgehogs-deactivated2023]

This is only the beginning. I find it hilarious the amount of people comparing The Mcelroys with these chaos children and I love it. It’s not a lot of people, but it’s more than you’d expect. Thanks tumblr. 

I got the joke from @wakkoswish here on tumblr, go check em out!

[spiderplum]

kit connor having originally auditioned for charlie spring is SO funny what was he thinking?? imagine being alice oseman, seeing nick nelson walk off of the pages of your comic, coming to tell you hes auditioning for charlie spring

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

wait are there really new people joining this site. i thought it was a hoax.

[stophelping]

Congratulations, that's the vibe

[kumeko]

Oh Billy, you look so small right there…

[mcstack]

Superman’s sheer anger over Billy Batson’s situation is a sight to behold. Batman and Robin get away with it because he knows it’s the world’s best internship and that Bruce is willing to put out all the stops to protect him. But Billy? He doesn’t have anyone looking out for him. And that pisses off Superman more than anything.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Seriously, Clark’s face here

He is ready to kick the ass of whoever put this boy in this situation SO HARD

[rael-rider]

Next page he really lets the Wizard Shazam have it.

[nerdgerhl]

Shit, son. I might have to buy this book for those last two panels alone.

[catbountry]

When Superman is written well he is an amazing goddamned character.

[incognitomoustache]

these few pages are some of my favourite in comic book history. So good. For anyone wondering what the next few pages look like, here you go:

This is a bigger deal than some of you might think, because Superman is one of the heroes in the DC Universe who keeps his secret identity pretty damn secret, because as probably the most powerful and influential person on earth, a lot of people do not wish him well - and would jump at the chance to hold people dear to him as leverage.

Yet, he trusts this poor, scared little kid. To comfort him, and entrust him with his biggest secret - just as Billy did for him.

Superman is just really important, ok?

[fipindustries]

this for people to truly understand superman

[foothive2-deactivated20190813]

i remember when i was a kid whenever i saw movies like kung fu panda or iron man or shrek in the theater and i would walk out the theater to the music and do a cool walk like i was the main character like a shrek walk or an iron man walk or a kung fu panda walk i thought i was really cool

[thefighter2-deactivated20200212]

after watching the shrek movie i politely bowed to the screen and left without a fuss.

[arbyscurlyfries666-deactivated2]

liar.

[thefighter2-deactivated20200212]

Ok i did the shrek walk. this site sucks anyway