#Matt Cain

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[madlovenovelist]

Most Anticipated New Book Releases June 2024

There was a substantial but not ridiculous new release list for June 2024 to file through. Maybe I’m in a bit of a mood, or there weren’t many titles that I found appealing, because there were only three that I definitely want to get my hands on… the rest sound interesting but given I’m now on a book buying ban, I’m not sure if I’ll pick up. But still I find the premise intriguing. With four…

[theimpalatales]

"I had to overcome a nervousness that still exists in the industry about representing authentic queer experiences in commercial fiction. I believe we need to get over this and stop trying to sanitise queer fiction in an attempt to appeal to the mainstream. In doing so, we’re not just underserving LGBTQ+ readers, we’re also underserving straight female readers."

Matt Cain in The Bookseller article, "We need to write freely," 24.05.24

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[phantom-of-the-501st]

Trying to work out at what point this review for the book I'm reading becomes true

BECAUSE I AM A QUARTER OF THE WAY THROUGH AND SO FAR IT'S BEEN KINDA MISERABLE

[Book: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain]

[ryanthebookwyrm]

The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain

⭐5

I started reading this book very slowly because the emotional weight of the main character's loneliness hit a little too close to home, but that's not a negative thing at all.

In the end, it was a beautiful and uplifting read and I tore through the second half of it in two days. I also loved the addition of interviews with older gay men after the novel itself finished.

[papercutsunset]

Matt slaps the marker out of her hand. The plastic clatters against the soft dirt floor. “Don’t move your arm.” 

“Oh, I’m sorry, Doctor Matt. I’ll be a better patient next time I single-handedly fell a bone creature.” 

“Teenage forest god or not, I could kill you. You’re still human, dumbass.” 

“Oh, yeah? You don’t seem to be very good at it, from what I saw during the fight with that bone creature.”  “Oh, please. If falling were a crime, you’d have a life sentence.”

These two idiots are going to kill each other.

[lilies-roses-irises-and-lilacs]

Lowkey am not a fan of this book so far. I don't know what it is but it seems very "holier than thou" and it's rubbing me wrong. Granted I'm very early on in the book so we'll see if I like it more 🤷

[lithiumseven]

I love my mom

[morgangalaxy43]

Bruce has so many kids, seriously how do we keep track of them?!?

[takaraphoenix]

Family Trees of the Multiverse: Bat Family

The last of my Multiverse Family Trees!

And due to the family's size, it got split into three trees, for clearer visualization. The Wayne/Kane family for one, all the Robins and their parents, siblings and children got their own, and due to Dick's messy multiverse-life, and the fact that the majority of his kids are Babs' kids, Dick and Babs share a third tree.

As always, color-coded. However, due to just how big this family mess is, I'm not listing all the colors. Just the three key colors:

Black represents current Prime Earth continuity, red indicates a character or relation is from the New Earth continuity and orange stands for the Pre-Crisis continuity (-> if it says [New Earth] beneath the character in red but the frame is black, that means the character was first introduced during the New Earth continuity and continues existing; if the frame-color matches the label, then the character is exclusive to that era/Earth).

Some notes for additional clarification since things are MessyTM:

Terry and Matt McGinnis are technically biologically Bruce's children, since Amanda Waller altered their father's DNA into Bruce's. I don't know how to visualize that in a family tree and since they are his adopted children in later comic continuity, they go into the adopted children section.

Usually, when parents have various names throughout incarnation, I just indicate that by color, but in Jason Todd's case, Joe and Trina as the Flying Todds are very different people from small-time criminal Willis and his wife Sheila, so Jason gets two sets of parents on the tree.

Barbara Gordon's backstory is a mess; she was first conceived as the biological child of Jim and Thelma in Pre-Crisis continuity, then became the biological child of Jim's brother Roger and Thelma, who got adopted by Jim and Barbara Eileen and to whom Sarah Essen was a stepmother, however in Gotham Noir, Sarah Essen is her biological mother. Also, Babs has three different middle names - Lee in the Gotham TV continuity, Kathleen in the Killing Joke movie, and as of the Prime Earth continuity, she got the middle name Joan (before that, she was just Barbara Gordon).

[ao3statistics]

Date of creation: 23.08.2024

Of course many people don't use the tag "xy is Robin", especially for Damian, Jason, Tim and Dick but I still find it very interesting that Damian is leading.

I assume no guarantee or liability for the completeness, correctness and accuracy of this chart despite my best efforts.

Includes fanfictions in all languages available on Ao3, NOT English only.

More charts will follow. :)

Want to have a chart for different pairings, headcanons etc. in your favourite fandom? Send me an ask!

[theimpalatales]

"Today, when I think of my straight female readers, I see them as the girls who stuck up for me when I was being bullied in the school playground. I see them as the strong women who’ve been some of my closest friends, women who feel a kinship with gay men who’ve also been disrespected, women who feel comfortable discussing their sexuality with gay men as they know they won’t be subjected to censure from other sectors of society."

Matt Cain in The Bookseller article, "We need to write freely," 24.05.24

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[chouettedesmarais]

Mister Green who I had a lot of fun drawing! I know that Mister Green is a daytime hero but I couldn't help but add all the lighting effects and it ended up in a night scene :')

[an-gothamite-aka-zannalial]

Things without context that I want one of the batkids to say, whichever one might fit

" I've been training my whole life, breaking every bone in my body, taking every attack without a tear, trying to earn my place in the world of superheroes that takes no effort. Why is it my fault if they can't B "

" I will return from hell to finish what I started here, there is no word but "

" My training has been longer than how long you've been wearing that unoriginal costume "

" I want us to be together but it seems like the world doesn't want to give me a break "

" I hate myself because I still love you "

"Sometimes I forget that they are not my family, they are not people I can try to kill today and I will save them with my life tomorrow without any complaints "

"The secrets I keep from you are far more than what you all know about me combined "

"You shouldn't have helped me, look at everything getting ruined. This is the reason I like making plans to complete myself "

" Plans for various routes with dozens of backup plans that have my backup plans are ready for us to implement "

" I have far more enemies than I have ever made friends in my life "

" We are different, you can't compare me to you. You are the bright light that shines on them, the person who is a true hero. While I am a shadow of your and other people's light, I am destined to continue to see in darkness until the end of my life. But I will always be with you because of that"

" Why I helped you is actually simple, I'm just a shadow for someone like you. A shadow like me cannot exist without a light bright enough to create it, And the stronger the light shines, the bigger and stronger the shadow becomes "

" If I betray you I will betray my promise, but if I betray them then I will betray my mission and goals from the start "

" Since that incident I have promise to myself that the rest of my life will be dedicated to my mission, and you will not be able to change that no matter how much you try. "

" What motivates me is not something that should be used by anyone, because that would only curse that person "

" My love for you is something I can't give without consequences, I shouldn't be here after my mission was completed in the first place actually "

[dust-rat-lives-here]

Some bats for AAPI month

[gotham-at-nightfall]

A new home and a new chapter for the Bat Family!

Batman #149