#a million to one

[slaughter-books]

Day 18: JOMPBPC: Book Stack

Six beautiful books! 💚

[pridepages]

🌈 Happy Pride! 🌈

This June, good things come in sets of six as I spotlight some of my favorite rainbow reads.

✨ Category is: Be Gay, Do Crime✨

Learn more about these titles under the cut!

A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar (a YA historical sapphic thriller as a girl gang sets out to pull off a heist on the high seas. But the mission turns into a deadly race against the clock when the Titanic strike an iceberg… Rep: F/F, BIPOC characters)

Outlawed by Anna North (Historical fiction, in a world where AFAB people are reduced to their reproductive value, an outlaw band seeks to create a paradise for the forgotten queer children who dare to defy the norm. Rep: trans/nonbinary mc, sapphic characters)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Dark Historical Romance, In Victorian England, a thief poses as a lady’s maid to con her employer. But what happens when she falls for the mark? Rep: F/F)

Aces Wild by Amanda Dewitt (YA, a group of online friends meets IRL to plan a casino heist to save one of their own. Ever thought Ocean’s 11 would be better without the distraction of sex and romance? Rep: NB/M, trans/nonbinary mc, asexual mcs, asexual scs, aromantic scs, BIPOC characters)

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian (Historical Romance, a young lordling hires an ex highway man to teach him how to stand and deliver. The two find their partnership becomes more than they bargained for. Rep: M/M, gay mc, bisexual characters)

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen (Historical Mystery, an ex policeman newly outed and ostracized is given a new job: investigate the death of a mysterious soap magnate. But behind the doors of Lavender House hides more than one secret…could someone among this queer found family have murdered one of their own? Rep: M/M, F/F, gay characters, lesbian scs)

[rabid-dog-steve-horn]

A Million To One

[noahhawthorneauthor]

watch your purse, and your heart 💰🗡️🪙📚🏳️‍🌈

[draconiclore]

30 days of Pride books (with @miraclerizuin)

Day 14: A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar: Four young women attempt to pull off a heist aboard the Titanic as it crosses the Atlantic ocean.

[qbdatabase]

A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar A thief. An artist. A acrobat. An actress. While Josefa, Emilie, Hinnah, and Violet seemingly don’t have anything in common, they’re united in one goal: stealing the Rubaiyat, a jewel-encrusted book aboard the RMS Titanic that just might be the golden ticket to solving their problems. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress!

[rolandrockover]

Paul and the Cheese Drama Pt. 1 of 5

In some ways, you could say that Tonight You Belong to Me represents the beginning of what I call the cheese in Paul's voice, and in his songwriting.

Aside from the fact that I consider this song to be one of his best, I really think there couldn't possibly be more schmaltz, pathos, or cheese in the verses. But hey, if you want to get to the sweet fruit, you have to bite through the indigestible shell first, don't you? Ok. Then we better get started, but I warn you, it remains only with the shell in this case.

So, I imagine Paul standing in front of the woman from the song we're talking about here. Of course, with one hand on his heart and the other gesticulating like a suffering poet trying to explain himself, and really hitting the shit out of it. After all, this lady is supposed to be his for the night, no matter how things look for both of them during the day. That would make him pretty much the nemesis of any married man, or at least of any man in a relationship.

2.5 out of 5 cheese points.

Let's move on to defendant number two. Also a fan favorite and coincidentally yet again not one of his worst songs, which I learned to appreciate quite late: A Million to One.

The reason for the delayed appreciation? The cheese, the schmaltz and the over-the-top pathos in the verses. That comes along in this case with some extra Bayyy-beah's in the form of fistfuls of gluey sugar-honey syrup drops poured viscously on top of the cheese. I tell you, no matter how good it is with the health of the listener of these lines, after that one would be better served with a proper dose of insulin. But that is by no means the only thing they have in common.

If the verses of these two songs were to visit the same club separately, you can bet they would be permanently confused with each other. You don't believe that? Listen to it yourself!

3 out of 5 cheese points.

Both verses are highlighted. Just press play and let this cheese fly around your ears:

Tonight You Belong to Me (1978)

A Million to One (1983)

Paul and the Cheese Drama Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 & Part 5.

[sapphic-book-tournament]

[schistcity]

ohhh… you guys are like… STUPID stupid

[kaasiand]

I wish we had every single game on DS

Not 3DS, just DS. Guys please stop tagging this as 3DS

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Elon got twitter banned in Brazil, big win for bluesky.

[slaughter-books]

Day 30: JOMPBPC: Read In June

My prideful June, 2023 reading wrap-up! 💕

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

[fernsnailz]

strong contender for my new favorite tee k.o. shirt

[rabid-dog-steve-horn]

A Million To One

[lara-cairncross]

the whole world on his shoulders :]

[beadyeyes]

That one tweet that says something like "guys need to start treating their girls better because faggots bi asf these days"