#Erica Candice

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Erica Candice by Cory Vanderploeg

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Erica Candice by Sam Livm

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Erica Candice

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Erica Candice

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Erica Candice

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Erica Candice by Cory Vanderploeg

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Erica Candice by Jen Senn

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Erica Candice

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Erica Candice by Cory Vanderploeg

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Erica Candice by Cory Vanderploeg

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Erica Candice by Cory Vanderploeg

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Erica Candice

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Erica Candice

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Good morning and happy Wednesday, my bookish bats! You didn't think that tiny "queer books coming out this fall" guide was ALL there was, did you? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR this month. Happy reading!

❤️ A Vision of Air by Nicole Silver 🧡 Eli Over Easy by Phil Stamper 💛 How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve 💚 Kween by Vichet Chum 💙 The Forest Demands its Due by Kosoko Jackson 💜 The B-Side of Daniel Garneau by David Kingston Yeh ❤️ Midnight Companion by Kit Barrie 🧡 Let the Waters Roars by Geonn Cannon 💛 Into the Glittering Dark by Kelley York 💙 When the Rain Begins to Burn by A.L. Davidson 💜 Been Outside by Amber Wendler & Shaz Zamore 🌈 The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

❤️ A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert 🧡 The Spells We Cast by Jason June 💛 Pluralities by Avi Silver 💚 Salt the Water by Candice Iloh 💙 Beholder by Ryan La Sala 💜 This Pact is Not Ours by Zachary Sergi ❤️ Dragging Mason County by Curtis Campbell 🧡 Menewood by Nicola Griffith 💛 Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout 💚 The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey 💙 Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson 💜 Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil and George Williams

🌈 In the Form of a Question: the Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy Schneider ❤️ Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield 🧡 A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand 💛 Being Ace by Madeline Dyer 💚 Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer 💙 The Glass Scientists by S.H. Cotugno 💜 The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado ❤️ By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter 🧡 Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall 💛 Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender 💚 Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsen 💙 The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen

🌈 Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt ❤️ Family Meal by Bryan Washington 🧡 A Murder of Crows by Dharma Kelleher 💛 A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper 💚 Love at 350° by Lisa Peers 💙 Greasepaint by Hannah Levene 💜 The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels ❤️ Mate of Her Own by Elena Abbott 🧡 Mistletoe and Mishigas by M.A. Wardell 💛 Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend by Ben Kahn 💚 All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters 💙 If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie

❤️ Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Lillah Lawson and Lauren Emily Whalen 🧡 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall 💛 It’s a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer 💚 Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Allison Epstein 💙 These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs 💜 The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu ❤️ Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin 🧡 Mudflowers by Aley Waterman 💛 Here Lies Olive by Kate Anderson 💚 Fire From the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot, trans. by Eva Apelqvist 💙 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake 💜 On the Same Page by Haley Cass

❤️ A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Caña 🧡 Art of the Chase by Jennifer Giacalone 💛 The Haunting of Adrian Yates by Markus Harwood-Jones 💚 The Sword: Xcian by Elle Arroyo 💙 The Complete Carlisle Series by Roslyn Sinclair 💜 300,000 Kisses by Sean Hewitt and Luke Edward Hall ❤️ Just a Pinch of Magic by Alechia Dow 🧡 Blackouts by Justin Torres 💛 Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros 💚 Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E.M. Roy 💙 Everything Under the Moon: Fairy Tales in a Queerer Light edited by Michael Earp ❤️ Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine

🧡 We Met in a Bar by Claire Forsythe 💛 Sweat Equity Aurora Rey 💚 Pumpkin Spice by Tagan Shepard 💙 The Misfit Mage & His Dashing Devil by M.N. Bennet 💜 Love and Other Risky Business by Sarah Brenton ❤️ Enough by Kimia Eslah 🧡 A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard 💛 Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot 💚 Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses by Maya Prasad 💙 Dragged to the Wedding by Andrew Grey 💜 Fox Snare by Yoon Ha Lee ❤️ Murder and Manon by Mia P. Manansala

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A family member recently just finished Smallville for the first time. Reminded me of some bullshit from the garbage that was the live action, loose adaptation of Crisis on Infinite Earths (not to be confused with the garbage animated adaptation the TomorrowVerse movies are in the middle of.)

So Smallville ends in 2011. The finale happens, the “no flights, no tights” rule that dictated the series’ run is done and Clark is finally Superman. Clark and Lois don’t get married in 2011 because of Darkseid (I think.) the series flashforwards to 2018 when they’re finally about to get married. It ends with Clark about to jump off the Daily Planet, opening his shirt to reveal the Superman crest and go do Superman things. It’s a nice ending.

The show continues on as Smallville: Season 11 in the comics and Clark gets to do all the things he couldn’t do on the show, like interact with Wonder Woman and Batman and do all the things it would’ve been too tricky or expensive to CGI in live action. Haven’t read it but the people I know who’ve read it liked it well enough.

Enter 2019. The Arrowverse is doing their highly teased, “in no way are we trying to copy Infinity War/Endgame” event with Crisis on Infinite Earths. Biggest crossover they’ve ever done. Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman…but wait, there’s more! They’re bringing in Black Lightning and featuring ALL the cameos…that they can. Batman ‘66, Birds of Prey, LUCIFER, Titans, Doom Patrol, even nods to Batman ‘89 and having the GOAT Kevin Conroy makes his only live action Batman appearance, albeit as a BvS/Kingdom Come hybrid Batman. Heck, they even took Brandon Routh, a regular on Legends of Tomorrow as the Atom and let him be Superman from Superman Returns again, although he’s now turned into Kingdom Come Superman. The event overall sucks ass but it’s great if you’re a fan and you’ve come for the Easter Egg palooza.

So at one point they go to the Smallville Earth. The Lex Luthor from Supergirl is going around to all the Earths and killing all the Supermen that he can. It’s a subplot that takes way too long and detracts too much from the main story but Jon Cryer was still fun to watch and I respected the level of hater his Lex was. One of my favorite bits is his Lex being so dense, saying that it’d be ridiculous for Clark Kent to be Superman on his Earth because he’s a bumbling buffoon. Anyway, Lex is standing up to Beef Wellington (Candice Patton’s words), holding up a piece of Kryptonite, trying to get about his business of killing Superman. Only it has no effect. Clark plucks it from is hands and chucks it halfway across the farm. Lex is befuddled. Smallville Clark explains Kryptonite has no effect on him since he gave up his powers. Lex gets enraged that someone with the powers of a god would do such a thing and doesn’t understand why, until he accidentally steps and crushes a children’s toy. Clark gave up his powers for his kids. Lex tries to attack him anyway, Clark counters and knocks his ass down. Lex leaves saying they’re all dead anyway. We’re given one last scene of Clark walking off, holding hands with Lois (don’t think about how Erica Durance was also Supergirl’s Mom at the start of the crossover) and that’s the last we see of him.

So basically, fans watched 10 years of Smallville to see how Clark Kent became Superman, he’s finally Superman at the end of the show and then he stopped being Superman offscreen 7-8 years later. I feel like Tom Welling probably just didn’t want to suit up for a crossover cameo and that’s totally valid, but still. What the fuck.