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poppletonink · 7 months

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Review: Crooked Kingdom

★★★★★ - 5 stars

"I would come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together - knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting."

On the front of Crooked Kingdom, there should be a warning that reads, "You will experience a withdrawal stage once finished reading and will feel like you are no longer whole". That is the effect of this enticing, page-turner of a book. It tells the story of Kaz Brekker and his crew following the Ice Court Heist that occurs within Six Of Crows, as they seek out revenge upon a swindling mercher, in hopes of gaining their well-earned reward. It's dramatic, dark and full to the brim with tales of crime, but it's simultaneously funny and astoundingly adorable.

There are three relationships that have you completely hooked and often screaming at words on paper and that is because... the romance within this story is nothing but wonderful. At times it is overt and between the lines but nevertheless remains an amazing aspect of the story. Overall, the love between the characters, both romantic and platonic, is immaculately written.

Through this book there is a beautiful discussion of disability (both physical and mental) and ableism within society. It's raw and honest about disability, and can be quite emotional to read, yet it is also extremely empowering and uplifting. It discusses dyslexia and the realities of being a cane user but it never takes away from the fantasy plot. In fact, it aids it, because it makes the characters wonderfully imperfect and more real.

Leigh Bardugo is an incredible writer - she will draw you into the world of the Grishaverse and take you down a path before tearing your heart to pieces. She creates characters who you come to love, characters who go through so much and yet stay standing and she will make you cry through what happens to them. It's a painful read, and yet a rewarding one because it is so well-written. A tale of love, crime, trauma and revenge: Crooked Kingdom is an outstanding addition to the ranks of the fantasy genre.

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apolline-lucy · 6 months

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It’s almost been a month since my book THE SILVER BIRDS came out!!! Can’t thank you enough for the support♡ if you wanna get to know my little enemies, click HERE

It’s also available on Kindle Unlimited!

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crimebunny · 7 months

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My Friend: Stop pointing out every gay character in this game!

Me, Watching him play FNV: There are like four of them and you went out of your way to talk to all of them! It's not my fault you attract queer people!

#fnv #fallout new vegas #fallout: new vegas #fallout #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #funny #quotes #q word #q word tw #lgbt rep

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dxrlinggxd · 2 years

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it's obvious that mindy kaling and never have i ever dont give a fuck about delving into queer relationships and identities like ooo here's a lesbian main character!!! everyone elses relationships are deep and complicated and well developed but hers just...exist!!! omg look at us we're such allies!!!!!!!!!! fuck you

#never have i ever #fabiola torres #fabneesa #aneesa qureshi #lgbt #lgbt rep #queer #queer rep #benvi #daxton #desvi #devi vishwakumar #paxton hall yoshida #ben gross #eleanor wong #nhie spoilers

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forthallium · 2 years

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Do you ever listen to Girls like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko and get hit with a wave of weird nostalgia because of how much has changed when it comes to being queer, how far we have come. Girls like Girls was SO important to me because it was about me. Back then nothing was about queer people and if it was it was never happy. Girls like Girls started so much and now we have so much queer media being made its almost unbelievable

#close to tears lmao #thalia talks #not art #hayley kiyoko #Girls like girls #lgbtq positivity #lgbt rep

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justlookatthosesausages · 1 year

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We live in a society where Disney strictly refuses to have a gay main character explicitly being gay in any of their hit movies because it's a company led by old white conservatives but when one (1) writer within their creative teams manages to make a character explicitly say they are attracted to people of the same sex, a whole entire group of people online gets infuriated that Disney is trying to shove its gay agenda down their throats

#the way disney really has nothing to do with it is hilarious #disney corp #disney #wtf #society #lgbt rep #lgbtq positivity

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iseathegalaxy · 2 years

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nick being fluent in french but kit saying he knows a little bit only to say "oui" when asked to speak it and charlie being half spanish yet joe ignoring the mere existence of the word "empanada" and only knowing how to say "hola" is hilariously adorable, i love them both so much

#they're perfect #heartstopper #heartstopper nick #heartsopper charlie #nick nelson #charlie spring #kit connor #joe locke #queer #lgbt #lgbt rep #queer rep #alice oseman #graphic novel #netflix

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keeeywiii · 1 year

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Why are people so toxic and negative on Instagram??? I made a post there that has over 200k views at the moment but there's soo many hate comments about cassunzel and lgbt rep in media in general. Help I'm scared. I miss my peaceful home tumblr.

#cassunzel #lgbt representation #lgbt rep

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konapony · 2 years

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if ur wondering what lgbt life was like in japan during the early 2000s, i just finished reading honey & honey, its an autobiographical manga about a lesbian in tokyo and her relationship with her girlfriend and life as a lesbian. it talks a lot about lgbt life, and even includes FtM characters !!! theres no derogatory language about them, and there's no significant homophobia/transphobia or trauma that happens to the characters!!! it represents the community very very well !! theres even a glossary at the end of japanese lgbt terms. its a rly good read and i loved reading it !! rly recommend <3

#honey & honey #lgbt books #lgbt rep #lgbt in japan #yuri manga #yuri recs #manga recs

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qbdatabase · 1 year

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Let’s celebrate Disability Awareness Month this March with these picture books that showcase the different types of bodies a person can have! Some books talk about how bodies change as we grow up, others cover the lives of iconic figures from history, and they all have illustrations of different body types, skin tones, hairstyles, shapes, sizes, and more~

Five picture book titles and info beneath the cut!

I Am Not A Label by Cerrie Burnell

biographies of 34 disabled, mentally ill, and neurodiverse contemporary activists and iconic figures from history

The Every Body Book by Rachel E. Simon

guide for kids that covers sex, gender, relationships, puberty, hormones, consent, pregnancy, and safety; inclusive of gay couples, transgender, non-binary, and intersex people, with illustrated characters of color

Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder

illustrations of bodies with different skin tones, sizes, hair types, and disabilities; includes older, wheelchair user, mobility aids, vitiligo, prosthetics, hijabi, fat, little people, scars, gnc, same sex couples, and transgender rep

You-ology: A Puberty Guide for Every Body by Trish Hutchinson

a book on puberty changes that is inclusive of transgender and non-binary children and does not separate education based on gender;

Just Like Me by Louise Gooding

biographies of historical figures who were / are disabled, mentally ill, and/or neurodiverse; includes LGBT+ and people of color

#picture books #children's books #disabled rep #mental illness rep #mental health rep #neurodivergent rep #fat rep #poc rep #lgbt rep

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seerofmike · 2 years

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It’s Okay To Say Gay, Apex

[this is a repost of something i made on reddit so some of the comments in this post will be like directly aimed at reddit so sorry if any of this reads as weird because of that LOL]

it’s pride month, and there’s no better time other than pride month to make a post about the lore and rep of LGBT+ characters in apex. also this post was partially inspired by the comments under respawn’s recent ‘Trans Rights’ post. more on that later.

this post is a critique, so i won’t be saying many positive things in it, but i do want to get it out of the way now that respawn is one of the better AAA games when it comes to handling LGBT+ rep, and the fact that we even have this much representation at all is great. astounding. but it also falls drastically short, and i think it is something important to discuss. and yes, this does have shit to do with lore, i can hear some of you typing--because not every identity is treated equally in lore.

so let’s get to it.

what partially inspired me to make this post about mlm specifically when i originally planned on doing a post about *all* the LGBT rep in apex is the simple fact that scrolling under respawn’s recent post, half the comments are about fuse and seer. (the other half are asking where bangalore is lol).

“wait, fuse is gay?”

“fuse and seer are gay????”

“i didn’t know seer was gay? since when?”

i also asked for lgbt+ people’s opinion on how the rep is overall in four different places, and while other things were complained about, the thing complained about the most was the fact that the mlm in apex aren’t allowed to...well, love men.

now, to ELABORATE:

YES, gibraltar has nik. YES, they have kissed in lore. gibraltar has mentioned nik in lore. nik was featured in-game in the season 7 comics. but let’s compare that to apex’s wlw rep.

i don’t really know how to say this, but valk is just. So Obviously a lesbian. she constantly talks about stealing your girl, how much she loves women, she’s been flirting with loba since release, loading screens mention that she hits on girls and has an ex-girlfriend. valk is so obviously a lesbian that it’s actually kind of impressive respawn pulled it off. i cannot imagine that making a character like this ten, hell even *five* years ago--look at how tracer’s identity is treated by overwatch--would have been easy or even possible.

loba also very clearly likes women. she flirts with valk, she has a voiceline referencing being bisexual, she spends much of season 5 lore materials openly flirting with cheryl amacci and yoko from hammond in order to get what she wants, she talks frequently in season 9 about being bangalore’s knight in shining armor, how she’s a beautiful woman, they have a date...she buys her flowers, and then gets upset when bangalore says they’re just friends...

and these two flirt. SO. GODDAMN. MUCH. every match they’re paired together. you can’t play a match with those two without hearing some innuendo about how they’re going to ‘’get cozy’’ after the game. it’s so obvious and also kind of uncomfortably sexual to the point that my brother, who knows Zero about lore, begged me to never pick loba again while he plays valk because it drives him nuts having my character flirt with his like that.

this isn’t shaming apex or its characters for its obvious and upfront sapphic romance. even if the love triangle is so fucking tiring at times, and makes you wish that they would just TALK TO EACH OTHER, the fact that valk and loba can be like this in a game like apex is honestly kind of a triumph in terms of representation.

makes ya wish that the men got the same treatment.

gibraltar’s bio makes mention of a boyfriend, and he has a location-specific voiceline (one of the hardest to trigger) about kissing his boyfriend at the thunderdome. until season 7 with the in-game comics, it would be very hard for someone who just plays the game to know that gibraltar is gay. and even then, nik and gibraltar are so safe it almost hurts.

look, i’m not saying they should’ve fucked or whatever in the comic, but i wanted to bring this up to highlight a thread that former writer tom casiello made in response to Nikbraltar kissing in a season 9 comic--about how he wanted the Nikbraltar kiss to show pure, gay love. wholesome love. safe for the kids. innocent love.

and yes, that’s so important, especially after years of homophobic rhetoric that gay people are Sex Fiends. but then you have to wonder: why must Nik and Gibraltar be wholesome, pure, and innocent, when valk and loba, in that very same season, were each talking about how Much they get babes?

to tom casiello’s credit, he does say that gibraltar’s sexuality had been ignored for nine seasons. and you know, gibraltar isn’t really the type of dude to talk about how much he gets guys, ya know? so sure. that’s fine. i don’t need gibraltar to tell me how many twinks he attracts at a gay bar. leave that to a character with a more flirty personality.

enter: fuse and seer.

fuse and seer have both been confirmed to be pansexual on twitter dot com.

that’s it.

end: fuse and seer.

okay jokes aside, fuse and seer. fuse’s bio mentions that he’s a man’s man. he, uh....uhhhh....he slaps caustic’s ass! that counts, right? i mean, sure, it was played for a joke, but that should count. cool! those are all our hints that fuse likes men.

seer, he...um...

Seer Has Zero, Absolutely Zero, In-Game Or In-Bio Hints That He Is Attracted To Men.

starting with fuse first: fuse’s bio is so vague that people had to ask if he liked men. some people were convinced that ‘man’s man’ just meant he was a dude-bro or a super macho guy. even now some still interpret that line that way, and you have to pull up tweets from a developer at respawn to even know that fuse likes men. now, to be fair, fuse doesn’t really have any flirty lines with women, so it’s not really fair to complain that he doesn’t flirt with men, right? and besides, he seems taken with bloodhound, so why have him flirt with guys and gals at all?

seer is where we have a problem.

seer openly flirts with loba and lifeline, and maybe even rampart, too, if you choose to look at their interactions that way. he is very open with himself and others, and aside from the theory that he and octane are ex-boyfriends--which is just that, a theory--there is zero hint that seer is attracted to men. he flirts with no men, his bio makes no mention of it, and he hasn’t even received a single lick of lore for me to complain that his lore doesn’t show that he likes men, either, but all the same.

seer is FLIRTY. seer flirts with women. so why can’t he flirt with men?

it’s hard to tell that the mlm of apex are mlm. even with all the excuses in the world, that some of them aren’t the flirty types or relationship-oriented, when a mlm who IS flirty is added to the cast they still don’t have him flirt with men. the mlm of apex are so sanitized that when you post a pride picture including all LGBT+ legends, half the comments don’t know that 2 of our 3 confirmed mlm even like men.

now let’s talk about bangalore and mirage.

bangalore is much more subtle than loba and valk--in fact, some people are quite convinced she’s straight based off what she said about loba, but there are still hints to her attraction to women. she lets slip a mention of ‘her’, hinting to wraith in season 9 that she has feelings for loba. she’s upset when loba starts dating valk. her chronicles voice-act a bit from the overtime comics where she and loba agree to a date. she’s one of three key characters locked in a sapphic love triangle--to the point that the other half of the comments under that post are asking where bangalore is amongst the LGBT+ legends.

bangalore’s sexuality, while unconfirmed, still shows her attraction to women.

fun fact: did you know that the lore about mirage getting high and fucking a pumpkin by mistake and being super embarrassing for him was actually originally about mirage getting high and fucking a man by mistake and being super embarrassing?!

did you know that in a tweet where it’s stated that wattson and wraith have canonically fallen in love in several different universes, it’s also stated that about a dozen universes ‘involve’ crypto and mirage--but they also all involve a pumpkin?

mirage’s sexuality line was immediately turned into the butt of a long-tired pumpkin-fucking joke, with zero hints before or since that he is actually maybe interested in men, and the pumpkin thing actually ended up having originally been a joke about how embarrassing it is to accidentally be gay--and this all culminates in two different (albeit former) devs saying that mirage is a straight man.

and this is the same mirage who has talked about his ex, flirted with women, and mentioned how into girls he is. his mom even mentions it, too.

listen, i’m not saying i want him to be bi or gay. the opposite, in fact. but mirage’s sexuality and the potential of him being attracted to men is treated like a joke, and it turns out that there’s never been anything to grasp at all.

the wlw of apex are allowed to be just that: women who love women. valkyrie, unapologetically, loves girls. loba seems to have a preference for women. bangalore has feelings for loba. they’re stuck in this stupid love triangle that’s in your face and obnoxious and uncomfortable but they are so undeniably gay that it makes looking at apex’s mlm actually kind of sad.

gibraltar and his boyfriend were relegated to twitter comics after season 7, where their most explicit references to romance--their kiss--occured, out of game, and neither of them have done anything in lore since. fuse and seer are confined to twitter mentions only, even when it would make complete sense for seer to look at, idk, crypto or somebody and say “you are so handsome and also fucked up”.

i’m not mad that the wlw of apex have such strong rep. i’m just sad that the mlm of apex are hidden away, tucked into the hardest places to find lore, and even when their attraction to men is in-game, it’s so safe and sanitized that you could almost trick yourself into believing they’re not really gay, they’re just really good friends--or maybe their attraction to men is the punchline of a joke.

i’m not here to discuss why this happens--homophobia, the fetishization of sapphic women for the male audience--i’m just here to discuss that it *does* happen, and i hope that seer gets a super cool boyfriend one day.

[plz dont use the q word in notes/tags of this post i will be blocking u if u do not respect my wishes thanks]

#apex legends #seer #gibraltar #fuse #loba #valkyrie #bangalore #mirage #apex critical #lgbt #lgbt rep #<-- so i can find this post later lol

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poppletonink · 6 months

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Best Quotes From 'Fangirl'

"I'm not really a book person." "That may be the most idiotic thing you've ever said to me."

'To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.'

"Read to me sweetheart."

"I'm scared of everything. And I'm crazy. Like maybe you think I'm a little crazy but I only let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and socially inept, I'm a complete disaster."

"I choose you over everyone."

"Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision."

"There is nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing."

"Why do we write fiction? [...] to disappear."

"Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow."

"I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight."

“I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling. "It's the distance.”

"I'm such an idiot. I can't even go nine hours without seeing you."

"How do you not like the Internet? That’s like saying, 'I don’t like things that are convenient. And easy. I don’t like having access to all of mankind’s recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don’t like light. And knowledge'."

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nose-bl · 2 years

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Queer/LGBT+ representation

hello and welcome to my new and improved list of recommendations with queer rep :))

note: i only add media where the queer characters are relevant, important and/or protagonists

TV series:

Heartstopper

Everything Sucks

One Day at a Time

Anne with an E

Andi Mack

This Is Us

Derry Girls

I am not okay with this

Everything’s Gonna Be Okay

Sex Education

Pose

Animated series/anime:

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Steven Universe

The Owl House

The Legend of Korra

Kipo and the age of wonderbeasts

Asagao to Kase-san

Amphibia

Sakura Trick

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Adventure Time + AT Distant Lands

Movies:

The Half of It

Hearts Beat Loud

Moonlight

Girl

Benjamin (2018)

Three Generations

How i felt when i saw that girl

Booksmart

Love, Simon

Comic series/books:

Heartstopper (on webtoon or tapas)

Loveless (by Alice Oseman)

Lumberjanes

The legend of Korra comics

Fatherboard (on webtoon)

Princess Princess Ever After (by Kay O'Neill)

Life is Strange comics

Magnus Chase The Hammer of Thor

Simon vs The Homosapiens Agenda

Videogames:

Undertale

Life is Strange, LIS Before the Storm and LIS True Colors

feel free to add more!

#queer rep #queer representation #lgbt rep #lgbt representation #pride month #pride #queer stuff #lgbt #queer

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shittyxmasromcomzone · 1 year

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Christmas at the Ranch

Amanda Righetti, Laur Allen

You know the movie about the city slicker and the ranch hand falling in love? No, the other one. No, the other other one.

Okay, so it’s been done. BUT have you seen the one about the girlboss and the cowgirl? That’s right. They’re lesbianin’ together.

Haleye is a confident city girl who returns to her family ranch at Christmastime to try to resolve the financial problems they’ve been having, and winds up thrown together with a snarky-but-secretly-down-to-earth ranch hand Kate. There’s a bristling tension building between them - disagreements on everything from how to manage the ranch to their fundamental philosophies on societal and personal values - but despite this, there seems to be a growing spark between them, and circumstances that start to reveal to each other their softer sides. And hey, you know what? Maybe together, they can save the ranch!

It has everything! Enemies to lovers! Snowed in! And there was only one bed! This is a really beautiful meld of all the classic romcom tropes, With Lesbians This Time™! And because every inch of the the plot is so predictable, their chemistry truly makes the movie stand out from the rest.

The soundtrack was distractingly bad, to be quite honest - had the vibe of an early 2000s television movie, but was made squarely in 2021. I have not heard scores that saccharine and lyrics so corny since the likes of that era’s Disney Channel Original movies.

But aside from struggling with some budget and quality issues (as any good shitty romcom should!) it’s a really cute movie and an overdue update to a classic cliche ❤️

Does it pass the Bechdel-Wallace test? YES! Frankly I think just by function of them being lesbians it destroys it, really

Are there characters of color? YES!

Are there LGBTQ characters? YOU BETCHA!

And look how cowgirl Kate uses a burnt match tip for eyeliner and still comes through with a perfect smokey eye:

Yeah. I’m looking respectfully 🤠👀

All in all, I’ll give it 4 out of 5 Golden Rings

#4oo5 #lgbt rep #lgbt lead #lead of color #christmas romcom #christmas at the ranch #wlw

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