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🦚 - Are there any queer books/shows/etc. that you would suggest?

oh oh oh ok yeah ok ok so.

Books:

- Gideon & Harrow the Ninth. Enemies to lovers to nothing matters if you're not here whatever the fuck that is. GtN & HtN are SO HILARIOUS and SO GOOD and just. So genuinely affecting. Imagine if 3 ten thousand year olds (one of whom is GOD) had a spitehate threesome right in front of you (seventeen) and then you made soup for God and he exploded. - Dreadnought (Nemesis book one) - April Daniels is a trans superhero. I love her, and I hope you will too. - the Darkest Part of the Forest - This was such a lovely twist on the "finding a faerie prince in the forest" plot. - Marriage of Unconvenience. I read this *so long* ago, but basically it's the "have to get married to inherit" marriage of convenience trope. You know what happens. They fall in love. - The Unspoken Name - absolutely LUSH fantasy world(s!!) with so many non-human species, runaways from religious death cults and the sweetest romance between the two... death cult (different ones) refugees. Very delightful. - Perfect on Paper - While there was a lot about this book that i questioned, mostly because the main character was 16 and giving people (solicited) relationship advice based on her non-professional medical (ha) opinion, there was actually a really very lovely bisexual angst plot going on. The MC is in love with her best friend, who's already in a relationship with another girl. She ends up falling for the guy she is helping, and doesn't want to because she feels that being with a guy somehow erases her bisexuality, which as a bi person, in a straight passing relationship... Felt.

Movies:

- The Eagle. Ok look me in the eyes. I know that this is not canonically gay. BUT there is absolutely no way that the climax of this movie makes sense (and also the epilogue) if they're not In Love. don't come at me. - God's Own Country - this movie surprised me SO MUCH. I bought it expecting to be queerbaited. Nope. Not even a little bit. I thought "there's no way this ends happy" and i was wrong about that too. Just. Such a lovely lovely movie. This is definitely in the major rotation for comfort movies. It's not a light movie, but it's just. so fucking hopeful. It's fucking lovely. I don't really watch that much queer cinema, sorry.

Podcasts:

- Horror: The Magnus Archives. the slowest of slow burns, but it's *so central* to the plot and I'm re-listening to it right now and God. The signs show up *so much earlier* than I remember. - Horror: Unwell - Lily and Marisol are *so cute* together. This is just. Really well done all over, I think. - Sci-Fi - The Strange Case of Starship Iris - Violet Liu gets embroiled on a smuggler's ship and a revolutionary plot. Also, Violet's crush in the first episode pans out, but not in the way you expect. Just. This was such a good, short-ish series. - Ars Paradoxica - Time travel shenanigans with an Ace protag. So achy and lovely and good.

I know that there are like, so many more. But I stopped listening to a lot of narrative podcasts or they ended, and I just don't remember them. Or because I switched podcatchers. You know how it is.

Tv:

- Schitt's Creek. Look at me. I know! It's just. It's so fun and easy to watch. It's nice to watch a show where we know that bad things aren't going to happen to characters because the characters are queer, ok? It's just lovely.

Similarly to the movies section, I don't really watch a whole lot of queer tv shows. Not

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