hi hello hi I need to scream for a sec but I HAVE A SHORT STORY IN A PRINT ANTHOLOGY! like a real actual physical book!!! the anthology as a whole is about resource scarcity and specifically the moment a resource runs out, and true to form I wrote a funky thing about time and grief and messy familial relationships and gardening. cuz what is there to do when something ends other than to keep maintaining your plants.
this isn't even to say you should totally buy this thing but if you do want to check it out, it's available for preorder
Ummm was that a dinosaur I spotted in those Meg II gifs??? At first I thought it might have been a crocodile but after absolutely no scrutiny I was like: dinosaur.
I might need to actually watch this. Do I need to watch Meg I for it to make sense? Even if I don’t should I watch them both anyway? I’m not going to lie those gifs make it look incredible…
That is, in fact, a dinosaur because Meg 2 was like: well what's better than a seventy-foot shark? And the answer was watching a seventy-foot shark eat a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And they were right.
Yes, you 100% need to watch this and join me in my delusional fantasies - I have now watched this three times in three days, dialogue skeletoned a 5+1 fic and need to find time to watch it yet again so I can make sure my gestures and content are pitch perfect.
You do not need to watch Meg the first for this to make sense, it will just deepen your affection for the legacy characters, which is never a bad. Plus, there are a few callbacks (that make it more of a gay underwater romance) that I missed the first time I watched it (which obviously did not hinder my enjoyment) and on day two, I watched both back to back and caught them.
(3.5. This is a movie about sharks eating dinosaurs, underwater research bases, giant carnivorous octopi, Fun Island, and two dads coparenting a teenager who can run circles around them - so just to note: it also does not need to make sense.)
That said, I absolutely recommend watching Meg the first. It was a hoot and it makes Meg the second more fun because once you start off that strong, you have to go wackier, right? Once you get to two, you're like: okay, I know why we are at this level of wacky and you have my stamp of approval.
It is, in fact, incredible. JOMING 5EVA (I gave them a ship name, I think I can do that when - at least last I looked, which admittedly was last week - I've got the only fic going [granted, it is unposted but nOT FOR LONG] and there are less than ten of us, haha.)
Im casually re-listening to the TOA audiobooks, and istg it is SO GOOD!!!
The humor is absolutely funny and the theme is more mature, especially with a character like Apollo/Lester Papadopoulos, who is a complex character who has done horrible stuff and good stuff and is learning to embrace his humanity.
His relationship with Meg is honestly so sweet, and the way that they grow to care for each other, and I love how they address Meg’s trauma with growing up with an abusive parent (well, ‘step father’ but Nero ABSOLUTELY doesn’t deserve that title) and how she grows as a person to the point of being able to confront him and telling him off.
I also love how it also deals with Apollo’s not so good actions, especially in the Tyrants Tomb. The antagonists are also amazing, with Nero’s ruthless nature, manipulating children for his own goal and being willing to BURN CHILDREN!! to Commodus’s over the top style that also has a cruel side to it as he is willing to slice through as many animals as he needs to and is willing to kill his subordinates on a whim to Caligula’s extremely paranoid nature, causing him to change guards so often in fear of being betrayed, while also being incredibly selfish and power hungry, willing to do whatever it takes to become the Sun God.
The story is about dealing with abusive relationships while also dealing with the trauma those relationships leave you. It also deals with learning to be a better person, and that you have the ability to change. It also deals with platonic relationships, and how meeting a person can change your life for the better.
This story made me laugh, made me ache in sadness, and made me fall in love with the characters.
no but I’m still hung up on how female characters are so rarely allowed to be really soft or nurturing or romantic or even delicate in media it’s always got to be either rebel woman or career woman or struggling mother or unhinged Stepford wife or sexy spy or ice queen or sassy best friend or conflicted teenager and everyone’s like “groundbreaking” (never mind the fact that Hollywood recycles these tropes constantly and a lot of books like to play into them because of the need to stay relevant) but like just for once I’d like unrestrained, unashamed softness or even playfulness for female characters I PROMISE you it’s not going to make feminism backslide you’re gonna be FINE
I don’t have a fic for today so I hope it’s okay to share a playlist from my Dom!Dark Queen Galadriel fic (Queen Takes King) as I never did when I originally posted it
My brain has gone back and forth on between which anime if arma or new is my favorite. Cause even with all its issues Arma means a lot to me, it’s the reason I got into getter and helped me through one of the worst times of my life- But then new is objectively better written and it drives me nuts compared to arma it’s not talked about ENOUGH despite all the stuff you can poke at from it’s plot and I’m trying to pinpoint that reason since the general consensus is “no one hates new and it gets a lot of fanart in the Japanese community yet it’s never deeply acknowledged so it feels unpopular”
So my standpoint is “do I keep investing into the popular iteration despite its issues or do I invested into the less flawed unpopular iteration when it comes to introducing getter to new people?” cause man as much as I’m a critical person of media I still can forgive some messy writing if I have a good time with it and can clearly tell the staff had fun making it, which is definitely armas case. (Though they absolutely had fun with new too)
Do you watch the what’s up danger Utena amv. Have you watched the what’s up danger Utena amv. Will you watch the what’s up danger Utena amv. When will you watch the what’s up danger Utena amv.
Me recommending nonfiction to people is so funny. I've had people reference both I Contain Multitudes and Underland when I recommended them as "scary" in the last week as if they were horror novels. These books are so drastically different and their subject matter can freak people out in very different ways but in my head they're both just like... about aspects of the world. Many of them natural! Many of them also deadly.
Which is hilarious because I'm over here like, "What's scary is NOT delving into the unknown because you're more afraid of the potential of what you'll find rather than being prepared to handle it."
hey did anyone else read this modern version of little women? it’s basically if the March family lived in the 21st century, my mom bought it for my sisters and i and i really liked it
men criticizing the barbie movie for being ‘anti man’, is so funny to me, because the whole movie they are just treating the kens like women in men’s media/irl
Today's sapphic book of the day is Baby Teeth by Meg Grehan!
Summary: "A unique verse novel of queer love, lust, and vampires. From the award-winning author of The Deepest Breath and The Space Between.
The blood
Feeds the hunger
That threatens everything
It starts when Claudia offers her a yellow rose.
Immy has been in love before – many times, across many lifetimes. But never as deeply, as intensely as this.
Claudia has never been in love this before either. But then, this is her first time with a vampire.
The forbidden thirst for blood runs deep in Immy. And within her mind clamour the voices, of all the others she has been, their desires, and their wrongs."
Ok I'm VERY late to the program having just watched The Owl House S3 E1 last night BUT! I searched around and I haven't seen anyone talking about the fact that this:
Is a real book! [Image is a screenshot of S3 E1 of the owl house showing Camila Noceda's room littered with notes and books as she's learning how to care for her now 6 children - includes a small edit so that the book entitled "Life Ain't Binary" is circled in yellow]
It's called Life Isn't Binary [pictured in the above image] and it's by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker, two amazing queer therapists/mental health writers. I haven't read the entire book yet but what I've read so far is extraordinary - it dives into polyamory and hard stuff that isn't talked about enough like the gay/straight binary, cis/trans binary and even the binary/nonbinary binary, and so much more good stuff! So props to Camila Noceda for really going above and beyond on the self-education. Mom of the year right there.