#aimee's recs

[bobfloydssunnies]

I posted about this a few days ago and shared the link but I wanted to do it again cause this is what I have spent my week off putting together and I am weirdly proud of this ( idk I love a good list/chart)

[princessmeril]

I find the best artists on my Insta for you page

[femslashspuffy]

Y'all hear this shit? It's like crack to me

[i-dont-read]

my January 2023 book ratings

# of books read: 6

Zero Hour series by Aimee Nicole Walker

Ground Zero (#1) ★★★★☆

Devil's Hour (#2) ★★★★☆

Zero Divergence (#3) ★★★★☆

Matrimony and Mayhem series by Aimee Nicole Walker

The Magnolia Murders (#1) ★★★★☆

Marriage Is Murder (#2) ★★★★☆

Killer Honeymoon (#3) ★★★★☆

[greenygal]

Due South s1 recs, part 4

The Blue Line

Thirty-Seven Percent, by Luzula (Fraser/Mark Smithbauer, one-sided)--In which Mark causes a sexuality crisis in teenage Fraser, which he addresses by secretly reading the research of Alfred Kinsey. Because Fraser.

Astray, by Sproid (Fraser/Mark Smithbauer)--In which teenage Mark is very enthusiastically into Fraser.

Five Times Benton Fraser Hugged Someone and Meant It, by jaywright (Fraser/Victoria, Fraser/Ray K)--The Mark section of this is so sweet.

Special, by DesireeArmfeldt (Fraser/Mark Smithbauer, unrequited)--In which Mark feels guilty and therefore does not sleep with Fraser in Chicago. Angst and woe!

On the other hand, in these stories Mark absolutely does sleep with Fraser in Chicago:

Old Friends, by Ultra_Chrome (Fraser/Mark Smithbauer)

Our Track Record, by Luzula (Fraser/Mark Smithbauer)

Second Chances, by Lomelinde (Fraser/Mark Smithbauer)

What We're Thinking, by Sproid (Fraser/Mark Smithbauer)

In which Ray just wants Fraser to be happy after Mark leaves:

Hockey Night in Chicago, by dmarley

Too hot for this kind of thing, by belmanoir (Fraser/Ray V)

Five Things Benton Fraser Lost in the Apartment Fire, by ifreet--So...all those carefully collected trading cards? Yeah. I'm so sorry.

Interlude, by china_shop (Fraser/Mark Smithbauer, unrequited)--A vacationing Fraser asks Mark to look over a promising local kid; there's a little reminiscing--Fraser’s grandmother has the best line in the story and she’s not even in it--a little hockey, but no actual sex. Sorry, Mark.

Hawks and Hands, by Dira Sudis (Fraser/Mark Smithbauer, Fraser/Ray K)--A lengthy Fraser/Ray K AU in which most of the characters are in hockey (although Ray V is still a cop). Filled with sex, hockey, and a slow-growing mystery about the death of Fraser's father.

Ice, by twistedchick--So this is my recs list, and if I want to rec a Sports Night crossover about a romance between Dan Rydell and Mark Smithbauer, then I will! Fraser does turn up in one section to be very charming, but I am genuinely here for the Dan/Mark.

***

The Deal

Father Confessor, by Keerawa (Ray V/Angie, Ray V/Fraser (one-sided), Ray V/Stella)--This is an outside POV fic that runs from Ray's childhood through post-canon; I'm putting it here because it has a fair bit about Zuko, including Ray talking about what happened to Marco Mitrani. (Warnings for Catholic homophobia.)

All the other recs deal with the events at the end of the episode (no Frannie, that's for next ep)

Weight, by sdwolfpup

Most powerful is he, by mercuriosity

Regret, by sdwolfpup

Odd-Numbered Nights, by MSSalieri

****

Heaven and Earth

(note: I feel that “Heaven and Earth” should be before “An Invitation to Romance”, and it’s my list so it will be!)

Layaway, by Keerawa--Frannie discovers why she's not what Fraser wants.

During Frannie’s confrontation with Ray, she hears what’s underneath the words:

Conversation, by Aimee (Fraser/Ray V)

Heaven and Earth, by amosanguis (Fraser/Ray V)

Conviction, by china_shop (Fraser/Ray V)--“Ray was forced to admit that not only did he have a type that included guys but, even worse, he had the same taste in guys as his little sister Frannie.”

Long, Slow Drift, by Belmanoir (Fraser/Ray V)—An amazing look at Ray's POV on this episode, placed in the context of his history and family relationships, and of course his feelings for Fraser.

“All he knows is that when he tries to think about dreaming, he gets a sudden urge to duck.”

***

An Invitation to Romance

subatomic particles bursting in the air, by facingthenorthwind--A look at some things Fraser might have been thinking in the garbage truck scene.

A Searching and Fearless Inventory, by Nos4a2no9--A consideration of a different reason Fraser might not drink. Not otherwise related to the episode, but it's an interesting idea and I'll take this excuse to include it.

[duckprintspress]

32 of Our Favorite Sci-Fi Reads for National Science Fiction Day

Duck Prints Press LOVES kicking off the new year with one of our favorite annual recommendation lists: science fiction stories (ideally queer, but it wasn’t required) to celebrate National Science Fiction Day! For this year, 14 Duck Prints Press contributors suggested a whopping 32 awesome science fiction books. Note that there’s no overlap with last year (by design) so make sure you also check out Our Ten Favorite Science Fiction Reads of 2022 for some more titles to add to your 2024 TBR.

Our 2024 Science Fiction Recs:

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Little Mushroom by Shisi

Always Human by Ari North

More Than We Deserve by Nicola Kapron

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

CrashCourse by Wilhelmina Baird

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen

Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden

Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Infomocracy by Malka Older

Zero Sum Game by S. L. Huang

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott

Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Trigun and Trigun Maximum by Yasuhiro Nightow

Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Yoshiki Tanaka & Katsumi Michihara

In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune

Mega Man by Ian Flynn & Pat Spaz Spaziante

Mega Man Megamix by Hitoshi Ariga

Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow

Once & Future by A. R. Capetta & Cory McCarthy

Five-Twelfths of Heaven by Melissa Scott

The Big Sigma by Joseph R. Lallo

Want to come read some of these books with us? Join our 2024 Queer Book Challenge on Storygraph! One of our challenges there is to read a queer science fiction book, and there’s a lot on this list that’d count!

You can check out all our sci-fi recs on this Goodreads shelf.

Wish you could contribute to these lists? Back our Patreon, join our Discord, and you can!

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Poetry recs …

black holes and their feeding habits by kiyoko reidy

clear night by charles wright

spat by caroline bird

red-lipped poem by tarfia faizullah

litany by rebecca lindenberg

sea church by aimee nezhukumatahil

[thefudge]

Drfudge, I remember you have some book recs posts but I can't find any, so I'd like to ask you what are your all time fave books, if it's okay. Thank you <3

you should check out my "books", and "book rec" tags on my blogs, but here is an updated list of some of my favorites (including essays and short stories):

what a carve up, by jonathan coe

excellent women, by barbara pym

restoration, by rose tremain

invitation to the waltz, by rosamond lehmann

journal d'hirondelle, by amelie nothomb

oblomov, by ivan goncharov

kiss me first, by lottie moggach

the idiot & demons, by dostoevsky

the idiot, by elif batuman

revolutionary road, by richard yates

the girl in the flammable skirt, by aimee bender

out of the woods, by chris offutt

hygiene de l'assassin, by amelie nothomb

memoirs of a dutiful daughter, by simone de beauvoir

chevengur, by andrei platonov

the master and margarita, by bulgakov

the corrections, by jonathan franzen

hamlet & king lear by shakespeare

richard iii & henry vi, part 1, by shakespeare

a midsummer night's dream, the taming of the shrew & as you like it by shakespeare

i capture the castle, by dodie smith

point counter point, by aldous huxley

arcadia, by tom stoppard

stoner, by john williams

eugene onegin, by pushkin

paradise lost & samson agonistes, by john milton

the age of innocence, by edith wharton

katherine mansfield's diaries & short stories

axel's castle, by edmund wilson

the dead, by james joyce

the heat of the day, by elizabeth bowen

pride and prejudice, by jane austen

franny and zooey, by salinger

the stranger, by albert camus

seduction and betrayal, by elizabeth hardwick

the beguiled, by cullinan thomas

girl with a pearl earring, by tracy chevalier

the wine of solitude, by irene nemirovsky

dark entries, by robert aickman

capitalist realism, by mark fisher

the blizzard, by vladimir sorokin

karate chop, dorothe nors

go, went, gone, by jenny erpenbeck

the blind firman, by ismail kadare

actress, by anne enright

genius and ink, by virginia woolf

real life, by brandon taylor

the world of yesterday, by stefan zweig

doce cuentos peregrinos, by gabriel garcia marquez

selected stories by anton chekhov

stories of your life, by ted chiang

ornament and silence, by kennedy fraser

the accompanist, by nina berberova

there are many others, including some romanian faves that i won't mention in this list, but this should give you a good overview!

[redwinesupernova]

hello everyone does anyone have any poem recs that feel like first time brushing teeth next to you by aimee nezhukumatathil

[the-bi-library]

Bisexual mermaid books

💕The Fate of Stars (Sea and Stars, #1) by S.D. Simper 💕 The Seafarer's Kiss (Seafarer Duology Book 1) by Julia Ember 💕 Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1) by Mira Grant 💕 Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden

Here is the goodreads list.

Do you have any more recs for books with bi mermaids? Or mermen, merfolk?

[bobfloydssunnies]

crazy I went from reading much ado about nothing to reading a smutty monster romance

my next book is probably gonna be salems lot so we going for just a mix of things

[theomenroom]

It's halfway through the year! Got any favorite albums/books/tv shows/whatever to recommend?

Ooo yes!

Whatevers first, I've been hyperfixated on the video game I Was a Teenage Exocolonist for the past month or so. It's very good; I found the core gameplay loop deeply engaging (maybe even hypnotic); on multiple occasions I've spent several hours longer than I intended playing it late into the dawn. The characters are very blorboable, as evidenced by the amount of meta I've been putting out. I also enjoy it as a smart commentary on game design; I think I've got a meta piece to that effect somewhere on here.

Music-wise, I don't listen to whole albums straight through that often (much more "single track on manual repeat" for me. automatic repeat wears it out but letting it wait a minute or two for me to press it again keeps me going), but when I do, my comfort album remains Within Temptation's The Unforgiving. For something that's new to me this year, Oceans of Slumber's album Starlight and Ash came out in 2022 but I didn't listen to it all the way through until February of this year; I was missing out.

I also love pretty much Sirenia's entire discography; I'm listening to Riddles, Ruins, and Revelations right now and it's a solid no-skips album (and the third track has found its way to my on-repeat plays more than I'd like to admit).

For individual tracks that have made it into my manual-repeat loop a bunch lately, Aimee Mann - Avalanche (something about her vocals and the specific lyrics give this song a strong haunting energy I can't quite place but very much enjoy) and The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound have both wound up there, as have a bunch of Scarlet Dorn tracks (Queen of Broken Dreams, Heavy Beauty, and Until the Waters Run Dry just off the top of my head). also Like Matches, by Mercury Circle with the singer from Oceans of Slumber.

Books-wise, I'm super excited to read my pre-release copy of Alyson Greaves's When You Fell From Heaven, a lesbian teen romance between a cheerleader and a gymnast with gender hijinks. I didn't expect to be into it but I'll read whatever she puts out and not just because she's my friend. She's splitting it out into multiple books and has given the first book a revision pass and expansions to make it gayer after posting it chapter by chapter (which I've already read) before officially getting it up somewhere. I unfortunately haven't been as much of a long-form reader as I used to be, or else I'd have more books to rec.

I'm not a big TV-watcher, but I was recced dungeon meshi enough times to get me to watch it and it's very good.

Anyway. yeah. That's what I've been into, arts and entertainment-wise.

Thanks for asking me!

[riooomuuu]

give piggy his specs! 👓

finished reading lord of the flies a few days ago, loved it but also kinda knew piggy was gonna die cause they kept chanting kill the pig 😭 he was my favourite character 😔 any other book recs similar to this? 🐽🐷🐖🐽🐷🐖🐽🐖

(Pic from: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/25/lord-of-the-flies-graphic-novel-william-golding-aimee-de-jongh)

[feeshies]

thought I'd ask you, do you follow any video essayists on youtube that talk about music, music history, etc?

That is mostly what I use youtube for lol. Although most of the music channels I follow focus more on curating chart info and stats, but I follow a number of music analysts too.

Here are the channels I'm subscribed to (and please send me recs if you have any)

_crustbag_ - posts videos on a variety of topics, but his videos on noise music and metal are a delight

12tone - focuses more on music theory with a really fun and captivating video format.

Adam Neely - video essays with a heaping serving of music theory. I am too dumb to understand what he's saying most of the time, but gosh darn it he makes it sound interesting (this is my bias, but I love his videos that go into music law).

Aimee Nolte Music - you like jazz? (no seriously, she's an excellent jazz pianist who makes excellent videos on the subject. I really learned a lot about music structure from her)

Digging the Greats - deep dives into classic artists/albums, with an emphasis on rap and hip-hop.

F.D Signifier - not a music channel per se (more of a culture commentator if I had to give him a label), but his video essays that delve into music are so good and thorough that I had to include him.

HipHopMadness - lots of really good video essays about hip hop and rap culture.

Madisyn Brown - also more of a culture commentator, but she has plenty of videos about pop music and pop music culture. She's also a musician and her songs are bops.

Mary Spender - mostly creates videos about the guitar as well as specific details of the music industry from the perspective of someone who works in it

Mic the Snare - deep dives into specific artist's discographies as well as music history and technology

More Music Shows - reuploads a lot of music specials/documentaries that aired on television

Music Video Time - video essay channel that focuses on music videos and their history/production

Pad Chennington - delves more into darker music subjects as well as underground and outsider music

Sideways - music, theater, and musical theater (that's simplifying things too much, his videos are very thorough)

Todd in the Shadows - focuses more on pop music, but delves into some interesting corners of pop music history

Volksgeist - reviews of current releases as well as video essays about music culture

I'll add to this list if I missed any. I'll try to add some non-youtube sources as well

[starrlikesbooks]

Hiya! :3 I absolutely love your reviews, my tbr list is like a mile long now lmao wkdbkahskaja!! Was wondering if you’ve read Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield, and if you have any book recommendations like it? Doesn’t need to specifically be ocean themed (would love if it was though lol), but rather melancholy and dealing with themes of grief (and preferably not YA?)

I have read it and love it! Here are some adult books that kinda vibe the same way

The Seep by Chana Porter this is my number one rec as a reads like, not because the plots match, but because that abstraction from reality creating a new kind of loneliness a layer away from the mundane loneliness it might have been in a world/situation you recognized. This one is also about the sudden change of a partner too!

Self Portrait With Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka is a very down to earth type of absurdity that keeps that very human feeling to it that Armfield does so well. This one is about a family member's disappearance and an uncovering of something being not quite right there, but it's the MC's birth mother who she's grappling with even partially being in her life at the same time.

Foe by Iain Reed is one of those quiet pieces of domestic horror as you wait with dread for something to change your known existence, as your loved ones pull away, and as you question your place in the world. This is definitely more grief for what you expect to be lost than a concrete grief.

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgen is the most out there of these suggestions, and YMMV, but if you want something weird and unsettling all playing out alongside a girl who doesn't know her worth and who you grieve for even as she perpetuates the humdrum horror, this is your book. The grief is far more subtle and twisted here!

And if you just want ocean, Drowning in the Deep by Mira Grant is great piece of oceanic horror with some very well created characters and complex emotions!

[inariedwards]

A piece of fiction written in the form of a search history. Very short reading rec.