#talia abbott

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The Ra’s Al Ghul One Bad Day special was amazing!

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🌈 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

[the-bi-library]

Here are 20 bi/bisexual pink books to celebrate the barbie release!

Books listed 💕The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur 💕Can I Steal You for a Second? by Jodi McAlister 💕This Spells Disaster by Tori Anne Martin 💕A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy 💕Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 💕Season of Love by Helena Greer 💕Flip the Script by Lyla Lee 💕Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert 💕The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste 💕In the Ring by Sierra Isley 💕Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall 💕Abbott by Saladin Ahmed 💕Then Everything Happens at Once by M.E. Girard 💕One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston 💕Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke 💕Who I Was with Her by Nita Tyndall Honorable mentions 💕Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda 💕Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi 💕So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens 💕The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz

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Setup and Payoff

Dear Rookie writers: <clenches fist, looks out longingly onto a field of continuity> Look. I get it. You had to execute the ship. You were moved to an earlier time slot, so less risqué content. You tonally shifted to a comedy. Covid fucked your timeline, etc etc etc. FINE. I give you all of that.

But for the love of all that is good and holy can you PLEASE WRITE NORMAL FUCKING STORYLINES THAT MAKE SENSE.

Screenwriting is simple. Setup. Payoff. Like, for example:

— setup: show actively sets up friend ribbing friend about a coworker crush/romance. The PAYOFF would be said friend loses their shit when the coworkers actually get together (examples: Boyle in B99, Jacob in Abbott Elementary, Michael Scott in the Office, Schmidt for Nick and Jess in New Girl).

— setup: show actively sets up consequences to office / coworkers finding out about secret romance. PAYOFF: actual work consequences happen (ie, Ben and Lesley break up in parks and rec).

— setup: characters CONFESS THEIR FEELINGS to OTHER CHARACTERS in an ensemble cast so that the audience knows there are actual emotional stakes. PAYOFF: we get emotional insights and CLEAR emotional STAKES. (Ie, B99, Parks & Rec, New Girl, The Mindy Project).

— setup: you have two characters who want to be together but can’t due to [insert obstacles]. Unresolved tension continues to rise until characters can be together. (Ie, Castle, X Files, Alias, ER, Buffy, Once Upon a Time).

Every single move the Rookie has made this year has deflated each setup like a fucking pin in a balloon. — Lopez ribs Bradford about Lucy and in the end neither supposed bff brings up the romance again, save Lopez over some dumb radio message? (And we never get some confessional from Lucy to Nyla or anyone about how she pined for Tim in UC school, and all we get is some throwaway “*That* Bradford” one-liner?)

— Season One of Talia warning Lucy re: Nolan so they break up, to Seasons 2-4 of Lucy being a subordinate to Tim so nothing can happen, to Grey warning them about office romances, and in the end, we get ZERO reactions from any characters that they’re together and ZERO consequences to the relationship other than some mild Post-It wrangling?

— The unresolved tension that starts off with a bang in S1, ratchets up in S2 and complicates itself S3 and S4, never ACTUALLY gets addressed by Tim or Lucy confessing their actual feelings to each other? Just suddenly “if we do this” to “our kids will be xyz” in a few episodes?

I JUST DONT GET IT. I DONT UNDERSTAND setting up a storyline that could be SO FULL of juicy confessions, angst, longing, pining and just maybe ONE LITTLE SEXY SCENE FFS only to turn it into the MOST bland and milquetoast ship. I KNOW these characters can do hot and sassy and argumentative because we’ve seen it. They can definitely to angsty. But this whole we’re-going-to-dial -down-every-emotional-payoff-to-a-mild-5….like….to what end, writers? TO WHAT END?

[maddie-grove]

What I've Read So Far This Year

Nonfiction

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (2014)

A Mother's Nightmare--Incest by John E.B. Myers (1997)

General Fiction

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (2022)

My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews (1982)

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (2006)

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)

The Fell by Sarah Moss (2021)

Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott (2023)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

Old Babes in the Woods by Margaret Atwood (2023)

Just Like You by Nick Hornby (2020)

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (2023)

Romance

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (2019)

An Exquisite Deception by Elizabeth Douglas (1988)

YA/Middle-Grade/Children's Lit

Song of the Magdalene by Donna Jo Napoli (1996)

I Never Asked You to Understand Me by Barthe DeClements (1986)

The Fourth-Grade Wizards by Barthe Declements (1988)

Seventeen and In-Between by Barthe DeClements (1984)

How Do You Lose Those Ninth-Grade Blues? by Barthe DeClements (1983)

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1935)

Ransom by Lois Duncan (2012 update of 1966 original)

What We Saw by Mary Downing Hahn (2022)

Unpregnant by Jenni Hendricks and Ted Caplan (2019)

Boston Jacky by L.A. Meyer (2013)

Rereads

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade by Barthe DeClements (1981)

Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson (1996)

The Doll in the Garden by Mary Downing Hahn (1989)

Running out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix (1995)

Takeoffs and Landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix (2001)

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932)

Drowning Anna by Sue Mayfield (2002)

If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney (2009)

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Tigr Icons

Sophia Schiano (DancePlex -> ??)

Balbina Cueva (Ale Mancilla Dance Studio)

Madden Zook (Artflux)

Quincy Hadlock (Artistic Dance Project)

Andrez Jimenez (Artistic Edge Dance)

Alexis Austin (Brava Dance Center)

Caroline Medley (BPMDC)

Brooklyn Medley (BPMDC)

Savy Luechtefeld (Caroline Collective)

Cydney Abbott (CDC)

Grayson Niemcyzk (CDC)

Zac Gibson (Can Dance)

Caleb Livingston (Center Stage Dance Studio)

Amaya Weeks (Club)

Elsie Sandall (Club)

Ashton Wullbrandt (Club)

Lauryn Aniyah (Collective Phoenix)

Karson Koller (Collective Phoenix)

Morgan Wendt (Complexity Dance)

Kate Baker (CSPAS)

Violet Schwarz (CSPAS)

Brooklyn Ward (CSPAS)

Kylie Lawrence (CSPAS)

Stella Hafen (CSPAS)

Richie Ford (Coastal Dance Works)

Jakey McCullough (DH Dance Company)

Alana Gordon (Dance Connection)

Paige Kim (Dance Enthusiasm)

Aracely Lee (Dance Deluxe)

Gage Davis (Dance Deluxe)

Antonia Zanin (Dance Edge)

Haven Greene (DC Dance Factory)

Hannah Fogel (Dance Institute)

Zachary Roy (Dance Town)

Rylie Bordon (Dance Unlimited)

Addilynn Sullivan (Dance Unlimited Boise)

Cameron Janson (DDPC)

Kennedie Caldwell (Denise Wall)

Talia Mempin (Elements Elite)

Jack Schofield (Elite Academy for Dance)

Mya Lanigan (Evolve Dance Complex)

Gavin Morales (Evolve Dance Company)

Coltrane Vodicka (Evoke Dance Movement)

Addi Perrotto (Expressenz)

Brynn Jones (Expressenz)

Kate Jarboe (Expressenz)

Bella Aren (Focal Point)

Regina Espejo (Gaby Pinzon Dance)

Madelyn Duncan (GCDA Dance)

Sophie Flowers (HDC Studio)

Emory Pettit (Impact Elite)

Levi Caicco (In Motion Dance)

Blais Lingle (JD Charleston)

Phoebe McNamara (Just Elite Dance)

Taya Osso (Katies Dance Connection)

Finley Aldridge (Kim Massey)

Pierson Aldridge (Kim Massey)

Bella Charnstrom (Larkin)

Cameron Kennedy (LD Dancer)

Cha Cha Shen (Mather)

Helena Olaerts (Mather)

Cova Card (MVMT)

Canaan Blasit (MVMT)

Erika Del Mazo (New Era ADF)

Emma Bassel (New Level)

Desa Jankes (New Level)

Katie Dong (Nor Cal)

Mika Takase (Nor Cal)

Channing Embry (NSDPAC)

Matthew Conway (NSDPAC)

AvaLeigh Mackaron (NSDPAC)

Madeleine Shen (Northpointe)

Sophia SantaMaria (OCPAA)

Khloe Kwon (Pave)

Addyson Paul (Pave)

Camila Cuevas (PEDC)

Izzy Pascuale (Performance Edge 2)

Lincoln Russo (Poiroir Productions)

Stella Eberts (Project 21)

Richie Granese (Project 21)

Olivia Toneguzzo (Pulse Dance Centre)

Kaylin Gabosh (Revolution Dance)

Elena Markonidis (Rhythm Dance Co)

Ansley Matchack (Sceniccity Dance)

Dylan Custodio (Stars)

Hugo Silva (Stars)

Anita Rodriguez (Stars)

Camila Giraldo (Stars)

Skyla Lucena (Stars)

Santiago Sosa (Stars)

Alonzo Dock (Stars Elite Training)

Vera Souvannavong (Studio4Talent)

Samantha Sweetman (Studio4Talent)

Kloie Goodman (Synergy Academy)

Josh Lundy (Studio 413)

Peyton Nowacki (Studio 702)

Norah Johnson (Studio7TalentCenter)

Annabella Grace (Studio L Hoboken)

Avery Nicole (TDA Prep)

Katherine Khait (Techniques Dance)

Lakota Loya (The Right Combination Dance)

Rissa Laugana (The Rock)

Addison Price (The Rock)

Tiara Sherman (The Rock)

Caitlyn Paik (TTP Dance Pilates)

Kelsey Suka (Utah Dance Institute)

Kennedy Anderson (Vision Dance Alliance)

Rudie Bolton(Weissman)

Reagan Hess (WFDC)

Kaylin Marie (Your Haven)

Blake Metcalf (Xtreme)

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Just Ramblings of an Old Person

I love Chenford and while I understand the angst for plot and character development …. I just am tired of the love is pain trope. I know they are just realizing their feelings but they both know what they feel. Just fucking do something. Break up with your people you didn’t even care about to ask if they were being protected against Rosalind.

I don’t like the argument of him not being with her because he is her superior officer like a solution doesn’t exist . Can’t one just transfer to another division? I’m sure they want to work together but I’d choose being with the person I love everyday at home rather than at work. And if people talk, I mean he was already married to another officer so what’s the big deal? It’ll hurt her career? Why are you living by the opinions of others? If my promotions are contingent on who I’m with, that’s wild. I understand the notion that there can’t be a conflict of interest. Just eliminate the conflict , have her report to someone else period. Or have them in different shifts. Dude Nolan got a letter of reprimand as a rookie and then a golden ticket and is out here living his best life. He was the king of “it’ll look bad on my record” and is somehow thriving. Must we forget his whole credit score fiasco which not at all his fault (identity theft) he was just a magnet of all things hindering his career. I get the angst of Chen and Bradford. I get they started S1 with Talia warning her about Nolan and dating cops but do we just forget how her storyline ended. Talia’s over developed sense of morality led her to lying on a report about her family and leaving to the ATF. Like I loved her, but her opinion was rooted in hypocrisy and hierarchies of misogyny about relationships and the woman taking the brunt. It’s realistic I know but also incredibly ancient. Lucy is progressive girl tackle the patriarchy .Considering all the show has tried to push about police reform and police community relationships entering the 21st century, which I may think is too Hollywood … you can’t tell me you can’t try to dismantle the patriarchy a bit the way you tackled racism in policing. Why should it reflect bad on Lucy to marry her former TO? Ask yourself this fundamental question, what has she gained from his rank than didn’t come from her hard work? She doesn’t even get promoted without dating him. Her first opportunity to rise is now this UC school. But come on… there would be no conflict of interest. For one we know they’d separate them at work which makes sense. And dude you have an IA dept right you can probably just flag those situations and just establish a protocol. Im not saying go for sleeping with you boss. But he’s a Sargent not Chief. Also like you had a mole in your dept maybe you need to worry more about how that happened. Not to mention Stanton and Erin. Like the ethics of a relationship vs betraying the duty you signed up for are different. And again just make sure they aren’t working in situations where she reports to him.

I’m tired of this idea characters need to suffer to then find happiness and love. For one not all love is pining and angst. Sometimes it can be fully head on and decisive. Speak your truth, use your words, know what you what, you like something say it and go for it, for God’s sake you are police officers. If you are telling me my job is so high risk I might die on the job & I can’t even go home to the person I want out of fear of what others will say …then maybe that job is a one way street to unhappiness. I see Angela and Nyla happy. Why can’t Lucy have that stability? Her love shouldn’t be suffering and pining. This isn’t the Dick Wolf universe of suffering. I’m just saying I get what makes a compelling drama but be more Ted Lasso S1 full of optimism and hope. Be the Abbott Elementary of the procedural cop show world. We don’t always need drama to equate to suffering or John Wick action situations TBH. Character development and plot can develop in the mundane, Especially if you don’t know how many seasons this show will have. Let Tim and Lucy get married and have kids. I’d love to know how a woman like Lucy balances motherhood and her job as a police officer. Give me the cultural differences between Lucy and Tim. She speaks Cantonese right? Give us more depth into her culture, her background. We breezed over Angela being a new mom. Nyla is mom of two and I get we”ll get some arc there but just motherhood and the workforce can be interesting. What about fatherhood and the workforce, the balances of relationships. It’s to me just lazy to default love to pining and angst. It’s so much more. It can be represented in other ways. Take a risk.

On another note, Chris is lovely and all but maybe you could have given her someone that wasn’t an ADA and close to her work as well? Like give her depth, let her go into the world and find a dentist. Lol. I’m just being shady but again stems to the idea Chen could be represented more outside the station. Hell I would have preferred she meet Chris via her parents, some off work situation, just something that shows Lucy outside her job and apartment. Tim makes sense because he is her best friend, the person who saved her, blah blah blah but Chris… my guy did want to lock up a 16 year old without mercy. He may have wanted to save the grand jury folks but my guy works with Del Monte and probably up charges as he needs to. He’s no Wesley.

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the team is thrilled to announce the following mun and muses have been accepted! we’re looking forward to develop this world and its future verses with you.

〔 ceyhun mengiroğlu, 34, genderfluid, he/they ) yasin korkmaz was seen listening to gravity by against the current. yasin is a sustainable architect and known to be dependable & obstinate ( kait )

〔 santiago cabrera, 41, cis man, he/him ) enrique laferte was seen listening to left and right by charlie puth. rikky is a paleontologist and known to be astute & impatient ( kait )

〔 michael cimino, 23, genderflux, they/him ) fabian diaz was seen listening to animal by neon trees. fabian is a professional gamer and known to be sociable & naive ( kait )

〔 nicole maines, 24, trans woman, she/her ) zofia marek was seen listening to body talks by the struts. zofia is a gymnast and known to be athletic & vindictive ( kait )

〔 aiysha hart, 32, genderqueer, she/they ) anisa monroe was seen listening to issues by julia michaels. anisa is a geologist and known to be independent & perfectionist ( kait )

〔 ceren yilmaz, 32, demi woman, she & them ) kayra ekici was seen listening to bejewled by taylor swift. kayra is an acrobat/performer for cirque du soleil and known to be ardent & meddlesome ( kass )

〔 jack black, 52, cis man, he/them ) isaac wójcik was seen listening to why should i worry by billy joel. isaac is a geoscientist and known to be cordial & apprehensive ( 💩 )

〔 patrick gibson, 24, cis man, he / him ) tobias o'cleary was seen listening to sway by michael buble. tobin is a programmer and known to be perceptive & pompous ( kass )

〔 françois arnaud, 34, cis man, he & him ) ludovic nord was seen listening to dig it by d-tent boys. ludo is an archaeologist and known to be precocious & haughty ( kass )

〔 amita suman, 24, questioning, she&them ) lila pandey was seen listening to wellerman by nathan evans. lila is a nanny & student and known to be conscientious & decadent ( kass )

〔 anya taylor joy, 26, cis woman, she/her ) kendall croft was seen listening to wicked ones by dorothy. kenny is an actress and known to be dedicated & jumpy ( rosalie )

〔 jannik schumann, 29, cis man, he/him) cain abbott was seen tell me i'm alive by all time low. cain is a model and known to be active & hedonistic. ( beth )

〔 alisha wainright, 33, demi woman, she/they) sadie james was seen listening to love myself by hailee steinfeld. sadie is a store owner and known to be confident & outspoken. ( beth )

〔 pelin uluksar, 28, cis woman, she/her) talia nalbantoğlu was seen you should see me in a crown by billie eilish. talia is a public relations manager and known to be organised & cunning. ( beth )

〔 tanner buchanan, 24, cis man, he/him ) liam bryant was seen listening to i don't care by fall out boy. liam is a barista and known to be flirtatious & guarded. ( beth )

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Part 3 of my bisexual bipoc books posts!!!

Books listed: 💖Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert 💖Division Bells by Iona Datt Sharma 💖America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo 💖The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste 💖What a Desi Girl Wants by Sabina Khan 💖Death by Society by Sierra Elmore 💖Sweethand by N. G. Peltier 💖An Unexpected Truth by S.A. Meade 💖No Two Ways by Chi Yu Rodriguez 💖Exposing Lesser Demons by K. N. Robertson 💖The Secret Summer Promise by Keah Brown 💖Bruised by Tanya Boteju 💖Abbott by Saladin Ahmed 💖Harper by Shawna Walls 💖Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns 💖Off the Record by Camryn Garrett 💖Fly With Me by Hudson Lin 💖Cat's Got Your Heart by Jem Zero 💖The Stand-Up Groomsman by Jackie Lau 💖Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz 💖Ida by Alison Evans 💖The Path to Dawn by Miri Castor 💖Hope in Nautical Dusk by Miri Castor 💖Hold Me by Courtney Milan 💖No Filter and Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado 💖Seven Tears at High Tide by C.B. Lee 💖A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith

[incorrectbatfam]

do you know any good brutalia comics?

I'm not saying any of these are the holy grail when it comes to Talia's portrayal since her character has a long history of writers messing with it, but here's what I got for you.

Batman: Son of the Demon (1987) – This is a one-shot where Bruce actually helps Ra's against a different Cold War–era enemy called Qayin. In this iteration, Bruce and Talia's relationship is consensual and she pretends to have a miscarriage in order to help Bruce with the broader storyline. However, the baby is not Damian and was instead an unknown child that she gave to an orphanage and was adopted by an unknown couple.

Batman: Arkham Unhinged (2012) – In this series, we get flashbacks to Bruce and Talia's relationship as they rekindle an alliance to, for a lack of a better term, save the world. Yes, this involves teaming up with Ra's Al Ghul again. It's one of those recurring necessary evils that Bruce undergoes multiple times in various continuities. It's a companion comic to the Batman: Arkham game and you buy it, it comes with an XBox live code so... do with that what you will, I guess.

Nightwing: Freefall (2008) – Even though she's a multifaceted person with complex relationships with the heroes, she is still a villain, and this Nightwing series explores that side of her. The story mainly focuses on Dick and his relationship with people like Tim, Bruce, and Wally, but we understand how Talia looks from his POV. The vibe is a little different from other batfamily or Nightwing comics, but it's strikes a refreshing balance between the grim world and his bright character. It sorta feels like Spider-Man with an eerie Halloween undertone.

Detective Comics #750 (2000) – Here we see a more tactical side to their relationship rather than a romantic one, since they part ways after the issue ends. Here, they're up against two villains named Whisper and Abbott. There's some back-and-forth capture and escape going on, but what I like is that rather than showing off Talia's fighting capabilities, we see her as a strategist and understand the layers that go into sabotaging a villain's plan.

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Crawlspace (1986)

[astreiants-archive]

do you have any wlw books that star women of colour?

i do!

girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan

girl serpent thorn by melissa bashardoust

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert

the bone shard daughter by andrea stewart

the space between worlds by micaiah johnson

the true queen by zen cho

empress of forever by max gladstone

falling into place by sheryn munir

waiting on a bright moon by jy yang

the avant-guards by carly usdin & noah hayes

that could be enough by alyssa cole

abbott by saladin ahmed

a dead djinn in cairo by p djeli clark

the stars and the blackness between them by junauda petrus

the henna wars by adiba jaigirdar

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson

burning roses by s l huang

yellow rose by yoshiya nobuko

don’t date rosa santos by nina moreno

clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo

shatter the sky by rebecca kim wells

the good luck girls by charlotte nicole davis

in the vanishers’ palace by aliette de bodard

once ghosted, twice shy by alyssa cole

afterlove by tanya byrne

buuza!! by shazleen khan

motor crush by brenden fletcher

not for use in navigation by iona datt sharma

ninefox gambit by yoon ha lee

a blade so black by l l mckinney

mangos and mistletoe by adrianna herrera

patsy by nicole dennis benn

escaping exodus by nicky drayden

we set the dark on fire by tehlor kay mejia

the weight of the stars by k ancrum

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Books Read In 2022

Our Violent Ends - Chloe Gong (Dec 31-Jan 1)

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories - Holly Black (Jan 1)

A Conjuring of Light - V.E. Schwab (Jan 2-Jan 5)

The Enigma Game - Elizabeth Wein (Jan 6-Jan 8)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab (Jan 8-Jan 12)

The Bronzed Beasts - Roshani Chokshi (Jan 14-Jan 16)

The Hunger Games (reread) - Suzanne Collins (Jan 16-Jan 18)

Les Jeux Sont Faits - Jean-Paul Sartre (Nov 10-Jan 19)

Catching Fire (reread) - Suzanne Collin (Jan 20-Jan 22)

Mockingjay (reread) - Suzanne Collins (Jan 22-Jan 23)

The Wrath and the Dawn -  Renée Ahdieh (Jan 24-Jan 28)

Heartstopper: Volume 4 - Alice Oseman (Jan 28)

The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix (Jan 29)

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton (Jan 30-Jan 31)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (reread) - Suzanne Collins (Jan 31-Feb 3)

A Pho Love Story - Loan Le (Feb 4-Feb 5)

Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi (Feb 5-Feb 8)

Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating - Christina Lauren (Feb 8-Feb 12)

Felix Ever After - Kacen Callender (Feb 12-Feb 13)

The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Feb 13-Feb 16)

You’ll Be the Death of Me - Karen McManus (Feb 17-Feb 18)

Caraval (reread) - Stephanie Garber (Feb 19-Feb 21)

Legendary (reread) - Stephanie Garber (Feb 21-Feb 23)

Cinder (reread) - Marissa Meyer (Feb 24)

Scarlet (reread) - Marissa Meyer (Feb 25)

Cress (reread) - Marissa Meyer (Feb 26)

Winter (reread) - Marissa Meyer (Feb 27)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (reread) - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Feb 28-Mar 2)

One Last Stop (reread) - Casey McQuiston (Mar 4-Mar 6)

The Confessions of Frannie Langton - Sara Collins (Mar 9-Mar 12)

One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Mar 13)

All Your Twisted Secrets - Diana Urban (Mar 14)

Hang the Moon - Alexandra Bellefleur (Mar 15)

Truly Devious - Maureen Johnson (Mar 16)

Get A Life Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert (Mar 17)

Take a Hint Dani Brown - Talia Hibbert (Mar 18)

Act Your Age Eve Brown - Talia Hibbert (Mar 19)

Finale - Stephanie Garber (reread) (Mar 20-Mar 25)

Love and Other Words - Christina Lauren (Mar 26-Mar 29)

A Study In Charlotte - Brittany Cavallaro (Mar 30-Mar 31)

Written in the Stars - Alexandra Bellefleur (Apr 1-Apr 3)

The Raven Boys (reread) - Maggie Stiefvater (Apr 4-Apr 6)

The Dream Thieves (reread) - Maggie Stiefvater (Apr 6-Apr 9)

Blue Lily Lily Blue (reread) - Maggie Stiefvater (Apr 10-Apr 11)

The Guest List - Lucy Foley (Apr 11-Apr 15)

Count Your Lucky Stars - Alexandra Bellefleur (Apr 16-Apr 19)

The Vanishing Stair - Maureen Johnson (Apr 20-Apr 22)

Pride and Premeditation - Tirzah Price (Apr 22-Apr 23)

Hook, Line, and Sinker - Tessa Bailey (Apr 23-Apr 25)

The Raven King (reread) - Maggie Stiefvater (Apr 25-Apr 28)

The Last of August - Brittany Cavallaro (Apr 28-Apr 30)

The Case For Jamie - Brittany Cavallaro (Apr 30-May 1)

Sense and Second Degree Murder - Tirzah Price (May 2-May 6)

Saga, Volume 1 - Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples (May 10)

A Question of Holmes - Brittany Cavallaro (May 7-May 12)

Saga, Volume 2 -  Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples (May 14)

When You Get the Chance - Emma Lord (May 13-May 16)

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino (May 2-May 17)

Book Lovers - Emily Henry (May 18-May 20)

Saga, Volume 3 - Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples (May 20)

Dare Me - Megan Abbott (May 21)

The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley (May 22)

The Hand on the Wall - Maureen Johnson (May 22-May 23)

The Box in the Woods - Maureen Johnson (May 24-May 25)

Queen of the Tiles - Hanna Alkaf (May 25-May 26)

The Most Dangerous Place on Earth - Lindsey Lee Johnson (May 26-May 27)

Saga, Volume 4 - Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples (May 27)

Saga, Volume 5 - Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples (May 28)

Cover Story - Susan Rigetti (June 4-June 5)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (June 5-June 6)

Weather Girl - Rachel Lynn Solomon (June 7-June 10)

Forever - Pete Hamill (May 29-June 10)

They Never Learn - Layne Fargo (June 10-June 14)

The Poppy War - R.F. Kuang (June 15-June 17)

The Dragon Republic - R.F. Kuang (June 18-June 24)

Something Wilder - Christina Lauren (June 24)

A Million Junes - Emily Henry (June 25)

I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston (June 26-June 27)

Great or Nothing -  Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Tess Sharpe, Jessica Spotswood (June 28-June 29)

The Burning God - R.F. Kuang (June 30-July 1)

The Drowning Faith - R.F. Kuang (July 1)

The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd (July 1-July 2)

House of Salt and Sorrows - Erin A Craig (July 2-July 3)

A Flicker in the Dark - Stacy Willingham (July 3-July 5)

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo (July 6-July 9)

Death On the Nile - Agatha Christie (July 9)

The Agathas - Kathleen Glasgow, Liz Lawson (July 9-July 10)

Malibu Rising (reread) - Taylor Jenkins Reid (July 11-July 12)

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (July 13-July 18)

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie (July 19-July 20)

Gallant - V.E. Schwab (July 21-July 24)

The Hawthorne Legacy - Jennifer Lynn Barnes (July 25-July 26)

Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo (July 27-July 28)

The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han (July 28-July 30)

It’s Not Summer Without You - Jenny Han (July 30-July 31)

We’ll Always Have Summer - Jenny Han (July 31-Aug 1)

Persuasion (audiobook) - Jane Austen (July 30-Aug 2)

Lower East Side Oral Histories - Eric Ferrara, Nina Howes (Aug 1-Aug 3)

Every Summer After - Carley Fortune (Aug 3-Aug 5)

Anne of Green Gables (reread) - L.M. Montgomery (Aug 6-Aug 7)

Evidence of the Affair - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Aug 8)

Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant (Aug 11-Aug 12)

The Spanish Love Deception - Elena Armas (Aug 12-Aug 13)

A Far Wilder Magic - Allison Saft (Aug 14-Aug 18)

Seven Days In June - Tia Williams (Aug 19)

This Golden State - Merit Weisenburg (Aug 20)

Emma - Jane Austen (Aug 9-Aug 21)

Sorcery of Thorns - Margaret Rogerson (Aug 20-Aug 24)

Today Tonight Tomorrow - Rachel Lynn Solomon (Aug 25-27)

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution - R.F. Kuang (Aug 28-Aug 31)

Red White and Royal Blue (reread) - Casey McQuiston (Sept 1-Sept 3)

Carrie Soto Is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Sept 4-Sept 6)

The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood (Sept 8-Sept 9)

Once Upon a Broken Heart (reread) - Stephanie Garber (Sept 9-Sept 14)

Finley Donovan Is Killing It - Elle Cosimano (Sept 15-Sept 17)

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (Sept 18-Sept 19)

Indian Horse - Richard Wagamese (Sept 16-Sept 25)

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn (Sept 21-Sept 26)

Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Sept 29-Oct 5)

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy (Oct 5-Oct 6)

Dark Places - Gillian Flynn (Oct 9-Oct 12)

Pride and Prejudice (reread) - Jane Austen (Sept 26-Oct 12)

The American Roommate Experiment - Elena Armas (Oct 12-Oct 15)

Daisy Jones and the Six (audiobook) (reread) - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Oct 6-Oct 16)

Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng (Oct 12-Oct 25)

Bunny - Mona Awad (Oct 17-Oct 27)

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (Oct 28-Nov 4)

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk (Nov 1-Nov 10)

Becoming Unbecoming - Una (Nov 6-Nov 11)

Beach Read (reread) - Emily Henry (Nov 7-Nov 14)

Dracula - Bram Stoker (May 6-Nov 17)

Kill Joy - Holly Jackson (Nov 23)

If We Were Villains (reread) - M.L. Rio (Nov 20-Nov 28)

The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake (Dec 4-Dec 14)

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (Dec 20-Dec 23)

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet - Jen Ferguson (Dec 23)

If the Shoe Fits - Julie Murphy (Dec 24-Dec 25)

The Girls I’ve Been (reread) - Tess Sharpe (Dec 26-Dec 28)

Foul Lady Fortune - Chloe Gong (Dec 28-Dec 29)

Five Survive - Holly Jackson (Dec 29-Dec 30)

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Rarest of them all! 10 Femslash Recs for February

Rarest of Rarepairs! 10 Femslash Recs for February

Femslash February!

Selection Criteria

These are the only, completed fics/art on AO3 for their pairing in English. Fics are at least 500 words.

No crackfics/crossovers/poly/harem.

No repeat authors.

Motivation to make this rec list

Searching on AO3 is hard outside the juggernaut ships if you don't know the exact pairing you are looking for. A lot of these fics are going to be totally impossible to find because AO3 default search is easier for big ships. I feel this is where rec lists can make a difference.

 Like any rec list, this is subjective based on my reading. YMMV.

AO3 Collection for this list

Splendor in the Grass

by MyWitch

Medium - Art

Hot. Hot. Hot. Also beautiful. Best opener for this list! I don't know why the artist thought we needed this but they are right and we totally need this like oxygen.

Rec note - this was created for Daily Deviant. Check that collection if you want hot and kinky!

 Narrow Escape

by pauraque

Pairing - Helena Ravenclaw/Petunia Evans

Unrequited romance! Angst! Helena Ravenclaw is scary/obsessive/really good at observing things. Also she has a type. Tragedy is her type! Really beautiful fic with a chilling atmosphere.

Though Petunia's soul is unscathed and tender, a peculiar aura still clings about her, unseen—perhaps the faintest echo of disaster, or a grim destiny narrowly escaped. As if in some other world, where even phantoms cannot enter, this sweet child might have turned so bitter cold that none could have kissed her without the chill piercing to the roots of their teeth.

Rec note - This fic was written for an event called Rare Pair Shorts Number Game 2021. Check out their collection if you want more!

 Between Worlds

by deslea

Pairing - Ginny/Myrtle

Ginny/Myrtle is one of my favorite femslash pairings of all time. The dynamics are going to be so good with their shared history. It really needs more fic. I love this fic because of the Myrtle POV which is really in character.

 Call it Education

by Woldy

Pairing - Minerva/Griselda

Talk about power couples! This fic has a really memorable opening line!

Minerva suspected she was the only person at Hogwarts who looked forward to exam season.

 An Occasion

by @ladymothwing

Pairing - Minerva/Madam Malkin

I loved this fic because of the Minerva McGonagall descriptions and the pining vibe written with a dry voice. The descriptions are truthful without exaggerating but also really really in love. Also I loved Talia as Madam Malkin's name. It's my new headcanon now.

Of course she had seen her before, Minerva McGonagall, she had been two years below her, but the last time Talia had seen her, she’d been all elbows and knees, too tall to be graceful, her face flecked with red spots as she shouted bloody murder at the person who’d knocked the bludger into her.

 Better Than Writing Lines

by Maxwrite

Pairing - Irma Pince/Hannah Abbott

Classic Teacher/Student. Dirty/hot/wrong. Definitely read the warnings on this one!

Also Maxwrite! <3 Totally deserves everything ever because they wrote the best Percy fics of all time IMO! Subjective! Also ruined Percy fics for me. I love this author so much and read them canon blind.

Rec note - Talking about rarest of rare fics, also check out their Percy/Barty Jr. fic Extraordinary Lengths if you like darkfics. My rec here.

 Beetle Dreams

by @featherxquill

Pairing - Luna/Rita

Hot, hot, sensual, beautiful! Luna finds a beetle. She takes it to her room and begins studying it. At night the beetle transforms but she thinks she is dreaming. Happy ending. Beautiful Luna characterization. The Rita characterization is going to depend on your taste. But this is a brilliant fic with a great take on the Animagus and Mysterious Lover tropes.

This is what she wants, what she needs. A woman with the wisdom of a mother and the touch of a lover. Someone who will listen to her, talk to her and strip her down to her own human skin. And then, naked and bare, they'll become animals together.

 Rákóczi March

by eldritcher

Pairing - Minerva/Bathilda

Rákóczi March is a lyrical and unique fic about growing up and finding out what the world is really like.

This fic is set after Grindelwald's defeat. In a change from canon, he was executed. Bathilda goes to Nurmengard to bury Grindelwald because she is his last relative. Minerva is the Ministry rep who escorts her.

The youthful vibe of Minerva's POV stands out in contrast with the really complicated emotions Bathilda is going through and the horrible cost of war. It was making me think about a child soldiers meta I have read about Harry and his generation. I loved the Minerva characterization in this one. There's a lot of layers in the fic but I probably need to reread it a couple of times to write a better rec.

Lilac was her scent. Brighter than the moon over Alföld was her gaze. And her hands, when they came to hold me, were not weighed by atoning sorrow.

She met me as a lover must, free of care and freely giving.

In blunt and clumsy bard's offering, I cloaked her in hope's march.

Rec note - This author has other beautifully written, brilliant, unique rare pair fics which are the only ones for those pairings on AO3. Some of my favorites are Gyre and Gimble (Draco/Charity), Homily (Delphi/Hermione), My Beamish Boy (Aberforth/Albus), Epic of the Forgotten (Viktor/Voldemort), All the wild summer was in Her Gaze (Minerva/Ollivander) and The Pilgrim Soul in You (Walburga/Snape). If you are into rare rare pairs, definitely check those out and get your mind blown.

 Parting Gift

by kelly_chambliss

Pairing - Minerva McGonagall/Millicent Bagnold

This fic made me think about how much progress has actually happened for LGBT rights. A long way to go. But lots of progress. The characters here have to be secret about their relationships and it's really scary. Lavender marriage vibes.

"What it we got tired of it, Min?" she asked.

"Tired of living together in wedded bliss? Of being with each other?"

Millie gave Minerva's shoulder a little slap. "Of course not, goosey! Tired of the whole business, I mean -- the potion, and the schedules, and seeing Elph naked, and oh. . .just all of it. In a lot of ways, we'd still be hiding, you know. . .just with a lot more complications."

Rec Note - This author has a lot of really rare rare pairs. Triptych (Eileen/Sybill), Ofnadwy (Minerva/Helga), Roses in December (Minerva/Neville), Look Not at The Things (Minerva/Aberforth), The Muggles Have a Word for Them are some of my favorites! If you are into rare rare pairs definitely them check out! They are beautiful fics. <3

  A Cliff in July

by Miss M

Pairing - Marietta/Millicent

A beautiful fic about two characters who made some mistakes. They are worried if people will remember them only because of their mistakes. A really good exploration of their insecurities, vulnerabilities, fears. The perfect fic to close the list with!

Two awkward young witches far away from their world, finding their way down from a seaside cliff in late July, walking close together on the narrow path, so close nobody can see they're holding hands. It's too early to tell, Marietta tells herself as they come into view of the hotel and Millicent presses her hand once more before letting go. It might not last. It might not be anything, after all.

Then again, she thinks it might.