#book: moby dyke

[haveyoureadthispoll]

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence. Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a couple dozen remain. How and why did this happen? What has been lost—or possibly gained—by such a decline? What transpires when marginalized communities become more accepted and mainstream? In Moby Dyke, Krista Burton attempts to answer these questions firsthand, venturing on an epic cross-country pilgrimage to the last few remaining dyke bars. Her pilgrimage includes taking in her first drag show since the onset of the pandemic at The Back Door in Bloomington, Indiana; competing in dildo races at Houston’s Pearl Bar; and, despite her deep-seated hatred of karaoke, joining a group serenade at Nashville’s Lipstick Lounge and enjoying the dreaded pastime for the first time in her life. While Burton sets out on the excursion to assess the current state of lesbian bars, she also winds up examining her own personal journey, from coming out to her Mormon parents to recently marrying her husband, a trans man whose presence on the trip underscores the important conversation about who precisely is welcome in certain queer spaces—and how they and their occupants continue to evolve. Moby Dyke is an insightful and hilarious travelogue that celebrates the kind of community that can only be found in windowless rooms soundtracked by Britney Spears-heavy playlists and illuminated by overhead holiday lights no matter the time of year.

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America

By Krista Burton.

[wlwbookshelf]

MOBY DYKE - KRISTA BURTON

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐⭐️

The subtitle of this novel, 'An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America' really explains what this travelogue is all about.

Moby Dyke makes me, an introverted homebody, yearn to go to a lesbian bar. I literally started figuring out plans to do to the nearest one after I finished reading. I really don’t know what higher praise this book could get from me.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[libraryleopard]

Adult nonfiction

Queer humor/travel/memoir by a lesbian blogger who goes on a road trip to visit America's surviving lesbian bars

Explores queer community and spaces alongside the author's own life and visits to the bars

[amber-pecan]

im reading a book about dyke bars and im like crying every two pages

[bethelctpride]

December Book club: I MEANT TO FINISH IT!

Our flashback at the end of the year to all eleven books that you meant to finish and didn't quite get done in time for the monthly! Join the book club discussion channel on Bethel Pride's Discord the last week of the year to take another go at these 11 books!

NONFICTION:

Ace & Proud- anthology of essays on asexuality & AVEN

The Pink Triangle: the Nazi War Against Homosexuals- history. this is an older book but has many first hand accounts that appeared for the first time in English here

Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend- a roundup of classic myths and more contemporary mythmaking

The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games- on the art and aesthetic of games and why GAMES at all

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America- part travelogue, part biography

FICTION

When the Angels Left the Old Country-Historical. and angel & demon leave the shtetl to find why no one has heard from emmigrants from the village who went to New York

Amatka- scifi. a space colony relies on rigid categories and labelling to keep from falling apart. but what happens when you find you were put in the wrong category?

Like a Love Story- Reza, an Iranian boy, grapples with his homosexuality amid the AIDS crisis in New York City. also covers ActUp's action during that time

Brooms- graphic novel. alternate America in the Depression where only some people are allowed to have magic. Featuring illegal broom racing.

Queer Little Nightmares: an anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry

The Prince & the Coyote- historical fiction about Nezahualcoyotl, precoumbian Mexico's greatest poet. featuring new translations of their work

If you are having trouble finding these titles, our partner Rainy Day Paperback has them all on their website or in person at 81 Greenwood Ave. Bethel CT.

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

Hello MotA and other WWII fandoms (based on real people or not)! I have a fun piece of history for you that you may or may not be aware of.

I just finished my last day working at a pretty cool place. It's a branch of the public library in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. What does this have to do with WWII? Let me tell you!

I just so happened to work at the Ernie Pyle branch, named so because it was the only house that the WWII war correspondent Ernie Pyle and his wife Jerry ever owned. Ernie Pyle, if you have never heard of him:

went overseas with the soldiers to document the second world war

pioneered human-interest style journalism for war reporting, specifically focusing on the lives of the soldiers and conditions on the front lines

wrote MANY MANY articles about the soldiers and their daily lives

won some awards, including a Pulitzer Prize

and was killed in action in Japan in 1945, at the age of 44

Here he is, looking a lot more serious than a lot of the pictures of him in his home, as well as a shot of him, his wife, and their dog, named Cheetah:

And, if you've never seen it, the house-turned-library looks like this:

The Indiana University has a few of his articles free to read, so check those out if you want to get an idea of the kind of journalism I'm talking about here: https://erniepyle.iu.edu/wartime-columns/index.html

For the MotA fans specifically, one cool fact about Ernie Pyle is that he had not one, but TWO separate B-29 "superfortresses" named after him. One was just called the Ernie Pyle, while the other was called Ernie Pyle's Milk Wagon (in reference to a quote of his calling the bombings of Japan "milk runs"). The library has a picture of the Ernie Pyle up on top of one of the windows:

And here it is in flight:

So, why a library? Why not, say, a museum? Well, there IS a museum--in his hometown of Dana, Indiana. After his death in 1945, and before his wife's passing that same year, Jerry Pyle (said wife) decided to give their house to the City of Albuquerque in order to honor his memory. There was a lot of back and forth, but one thing stood out above all else: Ernie was a private guy, and this was his home. According to an interview he once gave, he'd said that he built a house because he "needed a place to store his books"--and so what better way to commemorate his work than to fill his house with books?

The house was built in 1940, and as a library it has been in near-continuous use since 1948. It's now a national historic landmark, as well, and celebrates National Ernie Pyle Day every year. It is the second oldest library of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Library System--the oldest being our Special Collections library--which makes it the very first satellite of the ABQ library system. The ABQ library system now boasts 19 locations. The Ernie Pyle branch is, still, the smallest.

It also has an Ernie Pyle G.I.Joe action figure on display, which is clearly the most important thing to note here:

I don't know how Ernie would feel about the fact that people come from all over the country to visit his home, but at just over 1000 square feet, it's the coziest library I've ever been in. I think it's really neat how history ties us together, and it seems pretty profound to me that Ernie Pyle was so dedicated to immortalizing the men who risked life and limb to fight a war that spanned the entire globe.

Not to mention the fact that I got to put up a lot of staff picks and displays, which was hella fun. Here I am with Moby Dyke and Chainsaw Man (top) and some pictures of one of my favorite silly displays (bottom):

(when is the best time to come out of the closet? ...when the coast is queer!)

I also got to make our holiday card this year! So, to all you WWII nerds, fandom or otherwise...

[queerliblib]

any nonfic book recs by lesbian authors? want to get into more feminist readings. whatever ya got :)

Hi! we don’t actively track down every author’s sexuality when we purchase their books so I don’t want to 100% guarantee when it’s possible some of these folks may be bi or some other flavor of queer, but I do imagine a lot of our non-fiction that’s about lesbians is also by lesbians, here are a few;

The Lesbian South by Jamie Harker

Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza

No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami

Boots of Leather Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones

A Burst of Light (and anything else really) by Audre Lorde

Moby Dyke by Krista Burton

Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie

We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich

& tons more!

[farmerlesbian]

I read two interviews and an article about the new book, Moby Dyke by Krista Burton and am wondering what y’all’s experience is with going to lesbian bars. I’m talking historically Dyke bars. Hard to define sometimes but if you’re unsure, take a look at the pieces I linked above, then answer!

As usual, add your thoughts in the comments or tags or explain if it's complicated!

[waveridden]

book ask for the haters: 13 and/or 16?

i'm going to stick with 13 (least favorite books of the year) because i do not have a good handle on what is and is not over-hyped. but okay let's get into it

moby dyke: this book pissed me off so unspeakably badly. it might be my biggest disappointment of the year. the premise of the book is that the author goes on a trip to visit every remaining lesbian bar in the usa, and gets to know the people behind them and et cetera. i can tolerate the fact that it's like 60% a memoir even though she bills it as a queer history thing. i can tolerate her referring to anyone under the age of 40 as a babydyke. what i could not handle was the fact that EVERY CHAPTER was her being like "when i went to indiana i thought they would all be terrible horrible hicks and nobody would want to talk to me... but it turns out... there are lesbians there! :)" like that was the whole book. i was absolutely fucking livid. if you want a book like this, read gay bar by jeremy atherton lin and ignore this horrid fucking book.

the (fake) dating game): i like romance novels and some days i think this is my fatal flaw. a guy gets dumped by his boyfriend and ends up fake-dating a different guy (for some reason?????) in order to get onto a game show that is definitely not supermarket sweep. the fake dating is so shitty because they instantly like each other. the writing is bad. more to the point, they use a cucumber as a dildo, and i do not roll like that.

how are we going to explain this?: i have been reading a lot of environmental nonfiction lately and this book felt like the pinnacle of everything i hate about the genre. it's simultaneously really glib and hugely unhelpful. it's snarky and self-absorbed and not actually interested in serious conversations about environmentalism. it was so goddamn fucking annoying, in the way that leftist nonfiction can be. (in the same vein, nourishing resistance had the same problem; it's about leftism and food activism but it was kind of nothing at all, just a lot of pretension.)

the final revival of opal and nev: i mentioned this in a previous post but actually this might be my biggest over-hyped book. it was mostly just annoying and predictable, both of which are fatal flaws.

tangled up in you: this is hardly the biggest crime on this list, and there are a couple dnfs that i would rank below it, but it's here anyways because it is the most recent book i finished reading. did you know that there is an official disney-commissioned line of romance novels based on disney princess movies. this is the one for tangled and it's not good at all. my favorite part of any romance novel is the reveal that the protagonist was kidnapped as a child and has been living a lie her whole life and my second favorite part is when they go to mount rushmore and talk about land back but also still talk about how much they love mount rushmore

[theresstillgrowinghere]

I just started reading Moby Dyke - about the last remaining lesbian bars in the US - and the author very early on mentions not just her love for butches but for long hair butches in particular. And god my little LHB heart. She just says it in passing, but I don’t think I’ve ever before had a book make me feel like that part of me is something special

[maladjustedchangeling]

12, 16, 21 for book asks!

12. Any books that disappointed you? I was incredibly disappointed by Moby Dyke by Krista Burton, which is about the remaining lesbian bars in the US. I was stoked to read this for my book club, but it quickly became clear that it's a great idea executed by someone who does not have the research chops or interview skills to do it justice. It also annoyed me that my local lesbian bar got reduced to karaoke--and how much the author hates karaoke--when there's a lot more to it. I mean, it has a very locally well-known brunch that she doesn't even mention, and drag shows, trivia, burlesque, all kinds of stuff!

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year? A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas FOR SURE. That doesn't mean that I didn't also read the sequel or that I won't read the rest of the series to find out what happens with the secondary characters, but it is so ridiculously over-hyped that I still can't quite believe that those are the books so many people are obsessed with and think are the sexiest things ever. I also hate Feyre so much and just want to put her in a shoebox and shake her as hard as I can, omg.

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama? I didn't participate in it, but I got sucked into paying attention to some when an indie author whose work I like got doxxed and canceled. Oh, and I have ranted a lot offline about the ridiculous "Hozier-inspired" thinly-veiled RPF that's coming out next year, if that counts, lol!

x

[with-a-martyr-complex]

With A Martyr Complex: Reading List 2024

Adapted from the annual list from @balioc​, a list of books (primarily audiobooks) consumed this year. This list excludes several podcasts, but includes dramatizations and college lecture series from The Great Courses, which I consume like a somewhat normal person this time around, but normally I'm a weirdo about them.

Myth in Human History by Grant L. Voth, from The Great Courses

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Augustine: Philosopher and Saint by Phillip Cary, from The Great Courses

The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Democracy and Its Alternatives by Ethan Hollander, from The Great Courses

Sex in the Middle Ages by Usman T. Malik, from The Great Courses

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik

The Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of The King by J.R.R. Tolkien

Tibet: History, Culture, Religion by Constance Kassor, from The Great Courses

Maoism: A Global History, by Julia Lovell

The Three-Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

Doppleganger: A Trip Into The Mirror World by Naomi Klein

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen

Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?...and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-Box at the Vatican Observatory by Guy Consolmagno SJ and Paul Meuller SJ

Death's End by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

Other Minds: The Octopus, THe Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Ugaritic Texts: Ba'al Cycle, translated by the Scriptural Research Institute

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett

Propaganda and Persuasion by Dannagal G. Young, from The Great Courses

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

War in the Modern World by David R. Stone

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer

The Unbroken by C. L. Clark

Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford, from The Great Courses

She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted The Heartland and Crushed The Soul of Corporate America--and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

God against the Gods: The History of Monotheism and Polytheism by Robert Garland, from The Great Courses

Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee

A Desolation Called Peace by Akrady Martine

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, translated by John Addington Symonds

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Broke Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

Anything For A Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in US Presidential Campaigns by Joseph Cummins

The Wicked and The Willing by Lianyu Tan

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

America after the Cold War: The First 30 Years by Patrick N. Allitt, from The Great Courses

The Aldo Moro Affaire by Jacopo Pezzan and Giacomo Brunoro, translated by a robot who could have done a better job quite frankly

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok

The Shadow of The Torturer by Gene Wolf

Economics, 3rd Edition by Timothy Taylor

The Poetic Edda, translated by Jackson Crawford

Evgenii Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Mary Hobson (alternately titled Eugene Onegin)

Incomplete books: The Dragon: Fear and Power, Pilgermann, What Makes This Book So Great, Midnight's Children, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Heaven and Hell, Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed, The Last Emperor of Mexico, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, Emperor of Japan

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Great Courses consumed: 7

Non-Great Courses Nonfiction consumed: 19

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Works consumed by women: 14 or 15 (C.L. Clarke uses both they and she pronouns, counting is hard)

Works consumed by men: 35 or 36

Works consumed by men and women: 1

Works that can plausibly be considered of real relevance to foreign policy (including appropriate histories): 10

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With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, fiction division: Perfume: The Story of A Murderer

>>>> Honorable mention: The Dark Forest, Lud-in-the Mist, The Lord of The Rings, Ninefox Gambit, The Shadow of the Torturer, She Who Became The Sun, The Broken Sword, The Wicked and The Willing, All Systems Red

With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

>>>> Honorable mention: War in the Modern World, Norse Mythology, The Man Who Broke Capitalism, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Economics, When The Clock Broke

>>>> Great Courses Division: Tibet: History, Culture, Religion

The Annual “An Essential Work of Surpassing Beauty that Isn’t Fair to Compare To Everything Else” Award: Evgenii Onegin

>>>> Honorable mention: The Gambler

The “Reading This Book Will Give You Great Insight Into The Way I See The World” Award: The Gambler

>>>> Honorable mention: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Yes, okay? It IS Good After All and I was wrong to be a Hater: The Lord of The Rings

Best "Lesbian War Crimes" Book: Ninefox Gambit

Best Lesbian: Ma Xiuying (She Who Became The Sun)

Best War Crime: Mutually Assured Destruction by Antimatter Bullets (Death's End)

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This year I got a bit better at reading non-audiobooks, thought not as much as I had hoped, but I feel as though if I were putting more time into it the divide could be overcome. However, I also read far fewer audiobooks this year, in part due to that same promotion at work, in part due to The Election, in part due to falling into bad habits. An easy goal for next year is just working on getting out of that habit. I did manage to hit my target at the end, at least.

I took up the intellectual project of reading "Lesbian War Crimes" Science Fiction/Fantasy books, which had a pretty dramatic effect on the layout of my books for the year. Suffice to say, picking up a contemporary genre is not as Good For Me as reading from wide sources which include international literature and The Classics. Some were real hits though.

My own creative output was not as large as I wanted but it was consistently of relatively high quality and originality, which I think was good. My attempt at a novel failed out of the gate, but I can take a stab at another one in the new year.

Goals for next year: learn some econ, more literary fiction, get a novel down

[jurassicworldtieindrpepper]

Reading List

to be updated constantly

Articles:

"Why Women Online Can’t Stop Reading Fairy Porn" by C.T. Jones for Rolling Stone

"They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars." by Brett Murphy for ProPublica

"‘I Think My Husband Is Trashing My Novel on Goodreads!’" by Emily Gould for The Cut

"Woman in Retrograde" by Isabel Cristo for The Cut

"The unwanted Spanish soccer kiss is textbook male chauvinism. Don’t excuse it" by Moira Donegan for the Guardian

"I Started the Media Men List" by Moira Donegan for The Cut

"What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers" by Jordana Rosenfeld for The Nation

"The Key Detail Missing From the Narrative About O.J. and Race" by Joel Anderson for Slate

"The Coiled Ferocity of Zendaya" by Matt Zoller Seitz for Vulture

"OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that Nicole Brown should have had" by Moira Donegan for The Guardian

"Norm Macdonald Was the Hater O.J. Simpson Could Never Outrun" by Miles Klee for Rolling Stone

"Trans Stylists and Makeup Artists Are Reshaping Red Carpet Looks. Will They Get the Credit They’re Due?" by James Factora

"The ‘perfect Aryan’ child used in Nazi propaganda was actually Jewish" by Terrence McCoy for The Washington Post

"There Are Too Many Books; Or, Publishing Shouldn’t Be All About Quantity" by Maris Kreizman for Literary Hub

"An O.J. Juror on What The People v. O.J. Simpson Got Right and Wrong" by Ashley Reese for Vulture

"Super Cute Please Like" by Nicole Lipman for N + 1 Magazine

Essays:

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxanne Gay

Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

"On Chappell Roan and Gen Z Pop" by Miranda Reinert

"In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson" by Andrea Dworkin

"My Gender Is Dyke" by Alexandria Juarez for Autostraddle

"Columnists and Their Lives of Quiet Desperation" by Hamilton Nolan

Nonfiction:

Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women by Lyz Lenz

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams

Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson

Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education by Joshua Hunt

What it Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees

Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam

The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird by Dan Schreiber

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Fiction:

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Just as You Are by Camille Kellogg

Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia

The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist by Ceinwen Langley

Family Meal by Bryan Washington

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

Blackouts by Justin Torres

We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer

The Faithless by C.L. Clark

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Institute by Stephen King

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

Snuff by Terry Pratchett

Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

[windywallflower]

So this is all that was left on our table at the end of TCAF this year and the two of us are both still pretty emotional about it. I know we post a lot of promo and yelling about our next big thing so I wanted to take a little second to say thank you!

It's been a bit of a dream of ours to sell out the whole table (mostly all our books) at a con and between Calgary Expo nearly selling us clean & TCAF's clean sweep here, we're both feeling really emotional about it and really touched that people like our work this much.

Neither of us has a huge following (that folks can see via numbers on social media) but I know I (Winter) have been doing conventions and festivals for 11 years now & Tas has been running SanCirc for nearly 10 years. The two of us combined have been pushing Windy & Wallflower for almost 5???? Insane. I feel like the two of us have only grown more and more from our start with A Tempo & Paint The Town Red. (or Sancirc..... and Badmouth if you wanna get REAL old here).

It means a LOT that folks have taken the time to just read our work. I get emotional and weepy every time someone comes up to tell me they've not only read their favourite Prism Knights story once but MULTIPLE times & thank me for even making this silly indulgent thing. aaaaaa I can't even put into words how it makes me feel.

We've been getting a lot of input from folks about PTTR & Augustine in the comments on their websites, and just getting asks from folks here on tumblr, excited for our newest step into our nautical Moby Dykes.

We're a mess, basically. Feeling really overwhelmed with love & appreciation, so thank you thank you for supporting our work, we try to keep things as accessible as we can by offering a lot of our work for free or as cheap as we can so that folks can experience the work that's made us who we are now <3

IDK where or how to end this. We're going to be at MCAF this last weekend in May (24-26) come say hi if you're around. Maybe Augustine will win the award its nominated for (waaaahh!!!)

Thank you all again, so so much ;v; <3

[mobydykes]

Hey folks! We've been pretty busy lately but we've been posting some work over on Patreon (its kinda turned into Moby Dyke Mondays over there LMAO;; I (Winter) have spent a bunch of time making a bunch of big posts collecting all of the artwork we've done so far & we're gearing up to continue with a bunch of our NSFW Moby Dyke art over on our nsfw tier the likes of which have never been revealed! Gasp! A lot of the art is art you've already seen on the sfw side. But there are a couple spoilery things we've shared there that we haven't over here just yet.

(For those who can't afford the monthly charge, don't worry, been there, almost everything is subscription these days, we WILL be offering a saucy PDF on our shop later on this year with whatever we've accumulated (its gonna keep to our $5cad pdf shop rule <3)

As always thanks so much everyone for your interest in these babes ;;;A;;; we're extremely emotional about it, it's made sharing them with you all really fun.

We'll always do our best to keep our stories free to read so whenever we get around to writing these guys (ok so im already working on a first draft shshhshh) it will be available online somewhere to peruse without $$$