and if I wrote a sq fic set in London 1940, where Emma, a typist, falls hopelessly in love with, Regina, the wife of a politician
would anyone be interested 🫣
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I had originally plotted an original novella for this idea, loosely based on my dad finding a BOOK OF POETRY written to his late mum (my gran) from her lesbian lover likeeee I cannot make this up... the gays abound in my family it seems (shout out to my great aunt who has been living with a woman for over 50 years) <333
the internet told me that heated rivalry was a groundbreaking, cinematic masterpiece with stunning acting and chemistry between the leads and that it would make me cry like a baby
The Legend of Korra is the sequel to Avatar the Last Airbender. I recommend both! ATLA especially is really well written. Another show I can think of having a queer couple with main characters is Arcane, ironically also on Netflix, but that one’s target demographic I would say is more adults than Stranger Things. It’s an adaptation of a video game but you don’t need to have seen it. Season 1 is fantastic and it declined a smidge on Season 2 but I still recommend it for what it is. The animation quality is bonkers.
Sorry! I totally forgot that this has been sitting in my ask box. Thanks so much for the info 🌈 I'll look into these for sure.
you know what sucks? unless a tv show is specifically designed for the queer community, we won't ever see an endgame queer relationship between two main characters...
EVEN if it's the better story, the better slow-burn, the better choice for the characters themselves, THESE WRITERS ARE ALWAYS FUCKING COWARDS !!!!
Will watching lesbians kiss and getting excited is also how lesbians are going to feel when we finally see him kiss Mike, he has no idea that he has 1 million lesbians on the internet rooting for him
She Was a Mayfly - novels don't get better than this
As promised to @wavesketcher-sq, these are pics of my binding of her wonderful novel "She Was a Mayfly". The story would deserve much better, but I wanted it to feel "personal" so I've done as much myself as I could (which is not good for the result). First and foremost, I wanted a physical copy I could put in my bookshelf and take out and read whenever I felt like it. I will be forever grateful for the chance to read it and how brilliant it was (and for the future times I will reread it too).
I also had the invaluable help of everybody in the Renegade Bindery Discord server (@renegadeguild).
To create this book, I had to improve my LaTeX typesetting skills (not learn LaTeX, for that I still have to give credit to @cinnonym and me wanting to preserve their tumblr ficlets, like this great one)… anyway I digress, I had to improve LaTeX, learn basic binding, source the right off-white paper from the UK, the right tools and thread from Germany, natural silk thread from Milan, buy a new printer, learn how to make bookcloth, find the right fabric, learn how to do paper marbling (badly), (not manage to) learn how to do suminagashi, build a DIY book press, learn how to sew endbands (badly), and more… I started in August.
I can only see two explanations, either the novel is truly amazing, or I am completely crazy. I tend to favor the first option (though they are not mutually exclusive).
I have a companion booklet in the making for Author's Notes and comments, and then I have so many ideas for stories I might bind…but so little time.
Anyway, I am so happy about this. Because this is really what I wanted, a hardcopy to browse and read, and "vandalize" underlining sentences and writing notes in. I am afraid I am a boring alphabetical order woman, so here it is in my English language fiction section, after Carlene Thompson.
I am speechless. Genuinely speechless. THIS IS INSANE!?????? The pages being from England is also an extra special touch. My gosh. I want to hold it in my hands!!!!!!!! The cover art is perfect, and the freaking illustrations !??????? The ship in the glass. THE FANCY FIRST LETTER. I’ve always wanted that in a book of mine. (I was on the phone to my best friend when I saw this post and she was also SHOOK).
This was a story I started writing at 19 and finally finished 6 years later. When I began the process, I had envisaged this would be the first book that I’d get published. But dreams shift, I had a memoir published instead, and I decided to upload She Was a Mayfly up onto ao3 in the off chance anyone was interested. @italianbeatrice left a beautiful comment on every single chapter (there are twenty).
I genuinely think this book was always meant to be written for her.
P.S Bea, this is just as much your story now as it was ever mine.