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Fave Five: New Sapphic Sports Romance, 2026 Edition

For 2025 titles, click here. Set Point by Meg Jones (Tennis) Half Court Shot by Kimani Mae (Basketball) Make Your Move by Melissa Brayden (F1) Stick Around by Eliza Lentzski (Hockey) Running Home to You by Samantha Saldivar (Softball) Bonus: These are all F/F, but for an F/X Romance with a nonbinary lesbian out later this year, check out Two Can Play That Game by Zakiya N. Jamal Double Bonus:…

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Now that I've FINALLY fixed and updated the HTML on my page... I should probably share what I've been doing here too...

I've been making a game called "Make Your Move" (currently still working title but probably final...) It's a game about a bunch of chess girls in a chess world; an RPG where all of the battles are games of chess, where you play as the black knight piece named Amée and have to fight against the white pieces... that are all cheating!! wtf how dare they!!!

Here's some footage of a typical area 3-level battle from a slightly older prototype build:

(please note the green enemy here is not actually an enemy in the game, its a recolored pawn as a placeholder for the king)

Development has been going very nicely... just a few days ago i finished all of the systems required to make the game work (the battle system [THE BIG ONE], dialogue, cutscenes and script-based character movement, loot from chests, etc.) So now i can finally start making the game!! ive had the basic plot down since basically the start of development, along with a few other mid-story elements, but now i have to actually write the whole game and program all the cutscenes... zoinks...

It feels kinda weird to be here tbh. this isn't like a huge massive project for me, at least in my head. (Despite the fact that ive been doing LITERALLY EVERYTHING on my own… sprites and music and programming…) i only started this to see if i was even capable of programming a chess-like system with my current skill level in programming, so in my head this is still just a passion-project-fun-thing-on-the-side, but at the same time i'm acutely aware its quickly turning into something way bigger lmao i dont think it'll be any longer than 2 or 3 hours, but anymore than that and i'd probably have to quit going to school to work on it full time lmao

anyway, that's about it. enjoy the music and the gameplay!! im gonna keep cracking away at it, and maybe i'll have more to share with you soon :3

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A huge thank you to Melissa Brayden for providing an ARC of Make Your Move in exchange for review.

First of all: wow. I will have to admit I was a little hesitant going into this book - I absolutely love watching Formula 1 with my friends, and over the past few years have developed pretty strong opinions about the sport. I need not have worried! It is so, so obvious just from the first few chapters that the author really did her research with regard to racing, the different series, and how her main character Reese Maddox could move up into the world of F1.

I absolutely loved Reese as a character. She's fiery, a little hotheaded, and extremely competitive, which all make her compelling - and she has the bravado to match it, which makes her a fantastic romance protagonist. While this book doesn't go into the small details of superlicence points and the like, Reese has a very believable career progression: she goes from karts, to working her way through the feeder series, and then after some drama in F2 ends up in Formula Next, which is this universe's answer to the F1 Academy. Reese is so passionate about racing that it is so obvious that on the track is where she belongs, and this makes for some nice conflict with her love interest, Sloane.

I enjoyed the exploration of trauma and mental health that this novel did with our other protagonist, the driver-turned-mentor Sloane Foster. Sloane is driven, practical, and a little bit of a perfectionist. So when she can't control her anxiety when it comes to racing…well, there's a bit of a clash. But Melissa Brayden handles it with such care and compassion, it really makes Sloane and her struggles feel real. At no point is Sloane judged or brought down by her very real ordeal in being trackside again.

This book has quite a few laugh-out-loud moments (especially when The Starting Grid, Reese's best friends from Formula next, are involved) and also some incredibly heartwrenching, edge-of-your-seat moments. It was exactly what I'm searching for in a sapphic romance: a nice balance of actual plot while still containing the perfect romantic elements. Honestly, the plot involving Reese's racing career was so good, sometimes I wanted a little less of the romance! Okay, I'm kidding about that, mostly. But this is a damn good story, and it's so well told.

The final pages indicate this is the first in a series. I absolutely cannot wait for the next book. I want to know what else The Starting Grid are getting up to, I want some more peeks in at Reese and Sloane's life together, and I really, really want to see how Cassidy is doing in future books. She was easily my favourite character.

I loved this and I cannot wait to pick up more of Melissa Brayden's books.

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Aviators - Make Your Move (Baldur's Gate 3 Song | Symphonic Alternative) by Aviators

Might as well round out the BG3-themed week with a truly epic song! :D Like most things Baldur's Gate III-related, I'm pretty sure @gaydragonwizards introduced me to this song, and I'm glad they did, because it is cool. :D The Aviators knocked it out of the park here, with a song that really seems to suit the grand adventure and tension of the main plot. It just captures the feeling of being a ragtag team of adventures up against something so much greater so well. :) Definitely worth a listen! (As is their other stuff -- I can also recommend "Traveler's Song" for anyone who likes D&D-inspired adventure!)