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THANK U FOR TELLING ME ELKDTAL WAS ON NETFLIX!!!! I had no idea but I’ve been wanting to see this!! Immediately went to go watch it and I loved it! I lost it at the part w the glass boxes. I’ve seen some meta on the movie so I went in with a tiny bit of the background/knowledge that the focus was on the guys, but I loved the movie! I’m gonna have to read more meta to see anything I missed in my 1st view. (1/2)

Also I knew it was a lesbian love story but somehow still missed who the girl she loved was til it was revealed/ the story was reframed! Goes to show how heteronormative everything is until we look back differently/know full story. PS sorry if this is a dumb q but I was curious, is it typical not to have any kissing shown in Bollywood movies? Wasn’t sure if that was Bc f/f kisses would be censored or if there’s generally no kisses, the hugging was scandalous in the plot but I wasn’t sure 2/2

No problem! My friend told me and I immediately downloaded it. Honestly, I’m going to have to rewatch the whole thing a few times, there was so much going on. The latter half especially, layers upon layers.

Heh, yeah, we watched the trailers wondering who it was gonna be for so long, but I think it was hinted very strongly in just the last weeks leading up to the release that it’d be Regina Cassandra’s character.

Actually, it’s not really that common to have kissing in Bollywood movies, although there’s been more recently so definitely a choice was made here. But the absence of that didn’t stand out to me.

And another anon:

I loved ELKDTAL! Glad you’re into it too 🙂

Aw, thanks, and glad you enjoyed it too! Here’s to many more.

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The good fight? Charmed reboot?

But they both mentioned it before. I’m talking about something where it was allowed to be revealed in show. Like Clarke and Annalise. 

And in the suggested shows, the queer characters were one of three leads. Charmed, top billing for Melonie, fair enough, but like, by the thinnest of margins, you could not ever say Mel was the main character of the show. And god, Maia, I don’t even know what’s going on there, I legit wondered if the recent ep was a way to start writing her off, they have so little for her. 

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You just drop random mentions of books in your tags, and getting me all curious ?and then I find out it doesn’t come out until summer ? thanks, I guess ? if you don’t mind me asking, do you mostly use Amazon/Goodreads? to keep track of your to be read/read books?

Haha, get a load of this one’s release date. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J6HWLPR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o05?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I preordered it in December, promptly forgot it existed, saw it on a new rec list recently and tried to preorder it like five times until I realized Amazon was telling me I’d already done so. 

But at least it’s almost summer already? I hadn’t even noticed the date for This is How You Lose the Time War, I was too busy trying to figure out if it was f/f or not. It was up front about being a romance but so coy about the genders, I had to look through so many blurbs and tweets till I finally found a review that said it was two women. And it’s not like I need books to be f/f, my two most often recommended don’t have any, but if they have a romance? Yeah, actually, yeah, then I do. 

I guess I use Amazon for remembering? I don’t read enough to really need to keep track of things but I signed up for Goodreads under my real name and then couldn’t put the gay stuff. Downloading Kindle samples is effectively my “to read” system and I started keeping track very recently of books I’ve already read as a plain text list.

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in my modest opinion before making a ranking, the eras should be well defined, to avoid confusion lol… but I would rank hospital era as the second best. for me, the first meeting/park dates/swimming lessons would definitely rank first, and Lupita’s kidnapping/hospital era would be second.

Anon, you’re so right. But, but, you would put Lupita’s kidnapping in hospital era? It had the kiss! It should be separate. 

Okay, I have these:

  • Meeting and getting to know each other, until the fight
  • Guille’s party
  • Lupe’s kidnapping
  • Hospital
  • Tentatively getting together, the kiss in the car, the talk in the cafe, breaking up with Lucho, sex
  • Getting outed left and right, breaking up, Val’s hostage situation
  • Separated but then still hanging out together, investigating the Jacobo thing, Lupe finding out
  • The Sergio thing and Juls’s kidnapping and rescue
  • Getting together till the end

Is that too many? Maybe Lupe’s kidnapping should be merged with the hospital…

Guille’s party was so good too…and after the hospital…honestly, every goddamn era until the last two was amazing. And even the last one had don’t provoke me.

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Giveaway: The Priory of the Orange Tree

Giveaway: The Priory of the Orange Tree

As with any new book I’ve liked recently, I’m making a giveaway for it. There are only two copies so they’re going to go fast but I’d urge you to still try it out if you don’t win and if you can’t afford it or the sample wasn’t enough to convince you to buy it, then still see if your library has it and if not, request them to get it.

It’s just plain epic fantasy, fun and long and detailed, characters to root for and a simple premise at heart. At 800 pages, it’s definitely something you can lose yourself in. There are a four regions and a lot of politics and religion at play but to oversimply the summary, an evil ancient dragon is going to awaken and that’s Not Good. But don’t worry, there are good dragons too, one of the four point of view characters is actually a dragonrider. 

I don’t want to spoil too much because I really enjoyed it not knowing too much going in but yes, there is a very romantic (to me) f/f pair and if you know anything about what I like, I wouldn’t recommend this book if I thought the ending wasn’t satisfactory.

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Oh a developper? Front? Back? Or fullstack?

Full stack. But I prefer back end, especially database work. I feel like that kind of comes through in how I watch and post about media? Looking for patterns and not just parallels to gif but filing things away as a specific archetype, a specific trope, comparing across media, how is this show doing compared to that show, taking into account different times, genres, networks, countries, etc. Like, obviously it’s about personal enjoyment but all the rest matters somehow too. So when things stand out, they’re really noteworthy.