#i do care about biologically accurate bees

[crazysodomite]

"bees arent cute and fluffy and cuddly" "bees dont cuddle their larva and dont let them nuzzle their fur" "baby bees dont look like that" "baby bees dont exist because baby bees are larva and eggs" I DONT CARE. FURRY CUDDLY BEE BLAST!

[juniper-and-lamplight]

DGHDA Feedback Fest prompt: Femslash or fic starring women

I added this prompt to the @dghdafeedbackfest rec prompt list because I hoped people would use it, and so obviously I’m going to kick off my recs for the week by using it myself! I’ve recced a lot of these fics previously, but I’ve added some newer ones, too, because I’m always looking to read about the weird, brilliant women on this show. Recs are under the cut, in alphabetical order by author.

A Moment of Clarity - electricteatime | @kieren-fucking-walker - 7k, G, Farah/Tina “Farah is saved from answering when Tricia promptly throws up on her own shoes. She would be more annoyed, but in the moment she finds herself too preoccupied to care. Girls with girls. There’s a thought.“ If you believe that Farah Adrienne Black deserves ALL the love and acceptance, from herself and from others, then you absolutely must read this fic.

real and okay and beautiful - embraidery | @blueandnoah - 2.8k, G, Farah/Tina/Amanda (but mostly just friendship) "Mona’s feeling down in the dumps (body insecurities) and her friends try to help her feel better about it all!” Do you love awesome women supporting each other and feeling free? If so, read this!

Keep the Home Fires Burning - @flightinflame - 16k, M, Farah/Tina, AU “Bergsberg is a small town off the beaten track. For Project Vesta, a Blackwing runaway, it offers a fresh start and the chance of a friend in the town’s sheriff.” A painful, cathartic fic that gives Tina’s character some real attention, and gives Farah and Tina the happiness they deserve.

Casual (Isn’t Something I Can Do) - @gallantrejoinder - WIP, E, Farah/Tina “Farah Black may have come to terms with being a lesbian, but that doesn’t mean she’s … out, exactly. And there aren’t that many opportunities for closeted lesbians to gain any experience with other women. Enter Tina Tevetino - bisexual, out, and experienced. And more importantly, extremely good at maintaining the "benefits” part of a friends with benefits arrangement.“ This is the Farina fic of my DREAMS, y’all. The characterization feels so deeply accurate to me that I’m not sure I can convey the feeling with words? I just. Love it. SO HARD.

pray for the thunder and the rain - inkyfishes - 7k, T, Farah/Amanda "A Farah-centric slice of a possible future. Everything has gone wrong. Everything is broken. Farah works through her anxiety whilst beginning their lives on the run. Her place in the universe is, as yet, undecided.” An excellent and all-too-brief glimpse into Farah’s psyche, with a steady undercurrent of Faranda.

i was born in a summer storm (i live there still) - janeseyre - 10k, G, Farah & Todd & Dirk “Farah confronts the vestiges of her past as she, Dirk, and Todd travel east to visit her mother. It turns out Farah isn’t as over her father’s death as she thought she was.” A deeper look into Farah’s families, both biological and chosen; full of lovely little smile moments and Farah getting the closure she deserves.

Never Played It Cool - @lavellington - 1.8k, T, Farah/Amanda “Dude,” Amanda says, squeezing her tight while her hair tickles Farah’s face. “It’s so good to see you.��� “You too,” Farah says, meaning it, and when they break apart Amanda’s hands linger on her shoulders for a second longer than they have to, and that’s nice. That’s enough to feed her borderline pathetic crush for a week, at least.” Short, sweet, a tiny bit steamy, and beautifully in-character.

Hold Her Fast - Lynds | @gold-from-straw - 11.9k, T, Farah/Amanda, AU “Farah Black is the new girl in Amanda’s school, and she’s captivating. Everyone has a story about her. Amanda just can’t quite figure out why her entire being is so totally aware of her, why her skin prickles when she’s around, why Farah looks more real than anyone else she’s ever known.” I’m not typically into high school AUs, but this one is funny, moving, angsty, and gloriously DEFIANT.

Firearms Proficiency 101 - @nekosmuse - 3k, T, Farah/Amanda “I can’t believe you took me to your private shooting range on our first date. That is so punk.” Do you enjoy awkward Faranda? ME TOO. Especially stuff like Farah saying: “I… I am… into you as well.” These nerds

you will soothe my worried looks - orphan_account - 2k, T, Farah/Amanda “Farah sees a therapist. It’s a strange journey, but not one she needs to take alone.“ I would read many thousands more words of Farah in therapy, honestly.

there’s cell reception on this widow’s walk - strix_alba - 2k, T, Farah/Tina "In which Tina sort-of-kind-of asks Farah to stay with her in Bergsberg, and Farah kind-of-sort-of wants to say yes.” Clumsy flirting, Farina styles! Tina mentally describes the Jacket Team as a “bunch of hot, uptight weirdos,” which is p e r f e c t.

Coincidental - tastewithouttalent - 3.7k, M, Farah/Tina “It turns out that blue is a ridiculously good color against the dark of Farah’s skin, and also that that shirt fits her better than any shirt has any right to fit anyone, and also apparently Tina has more of a uniform kink than she realized she did.” You just have to love a babbling, awkwardly-crushing Tina.

And finally, this fic isn’t femslash-focused, but it has enough Faranda in it that it deserves an honorable mention:

Stuck in the Middle - @dont-offend-the-bees​ - WIP, T, Farah/Amanda, Dirk/Todd “Dirk returns to the Ridgely after an impromptu jaunt across the Nordic wilderness, and finds life has moved on somewhat in his absence. With Farah camping in his bedroom, Bart and Ken living in (alleged) domestic bliss, and Todd freshened up and back on the dating scene, he finds himself with no one to commiserate with but his agoraphobic landlady Amanda; who, sadly, remains the one person he can never be truly honest with, on account of the whole ‘lying to get the flat’ thing.”  Seriously, the intensity of the Faranda flirting in this fic is off the charts, and it’s laugh-til-you-snort funny as well.

Further fic recs | Fic bookmarks

[sickjoonie]

fic recs for each ship

i love every ship and read fics for each ship... so i made a masterlist of my favorite fics for every ship lol. also i apologize in advance because i read really long fics

yoonjin

Precisely When Somebody Shows You to the Ocean - 21k - M

The longer Yoongi hangs around the tank in the aquarium, the more he thinks that Seokjin is, in fact, a real mermaid.

“You’re really real,” he says, keeping his voice neutral. “You’re not acting, are you?”

Seokjin smiles, yet it’s the saddest Yoongi has seen him. “I am acting, though. I’m pretending to pretend to be a mermaid.”

(we love a chaotic but soft duo)

2seok

hashtag trashbag - 15k - T

Hoseok plays video games for a living. Also, he's gay. Like, so deep in the gay, dicks in his mouth kinda gay.

(this one is fucking hilarious. i love reading it)

namjin

cotton candies and sugar addicts - 6k - T

In a final, desperate attempt to get Seokjin to notice him, Namjoon dyes his hair pink. However, Seokjin avoids him more than ever and Namjoon doesn't know what he did wrong.

(namjoon is an angsty overgrown teen but it’s okay jin loves him anyways)

jinmin

The Golden Rule of Love Curses - 16k - G

A comprehensive list of things Seokjin expected when he took a job at the library:

a decent paycheck to mitigate his growing student loan debt

time to catch up on his reading

and by "reading" he means his DS. He's going to play video games.

admittedly this is bordering on ironic seeing as he's a librarian but a chef's life isn't all about food, so he figures a librarian can enjoy other pursuits.

his would be, though. If he was a chef, it would be all food, all the time.

An incomprehensive list of things Seokjin did not expect when he took a job at the library:

a talking seagull.

did he mention the talking seagull, because he feels like no one is properly panicking about a talking seagull?

oh, and also a wizard places him under a curse.

sorry, correction, a wizard places him under a spell. There is obviously a very significant difference, apologies Jimin. A spell is so much better than a curse.

(put the two sassiest members together and you get this)

taejin

i put the EEL in fEELings - 11k - T

"Average person expresses 3 genuine feelings a day" factoid actually just statistical error. Average person expresses 10 genuine feelings per day. Spiders Seokjin, who lives in a dorm and expresses -10,000 feelings each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

(Wherein Taehyung woos Seokjin with flowers, cooking, RJ heads, and a potato, and Seokjin... totally doesn't have a meltdown. Ever.)

(ao3 tag seokjin is bad at feelings but taehyung is a good boy)

jinkook

Fake Sugar - 87k - E

Hedge Fund wunderkind and Certified Awkward Gay Jungkook needs a sugar baby to show off at work, and Professional Competitive Eater and Objectively Beautiful Human Jin just wants to stop working shitty side-jobs. Fake Sugar Daddy AU. A trope and a half.

(this is so long but so funny but also so sad. love it. seokjin eats a lot)

yoonseok

could roses bloom - 5k - NR

Yoongi looks up and finds himself staring at a gorgeous stranger with dyed brown hair and dark circles under his eyes. He startles a bit and watches as this other man sets a glass of lukewarm water in front of him.

"In case you get thirsty," the man smiles and it's like a fragment from a dream.

(this one is kind of like a sickfic and i think that’s mainly why it’s my fav lmao)

namgi

what rhymes with pug me - 62k - T

namjoon and yoongi share a sweater (and also some feelings)

(JTOWEFWJFIWOEJF IF CUKING LOVE THIS FIC ITS MY FAVORITE AND I LOVE NAMGI OWJEFO)

yoonmin

You’re a Flame In My Heart - 29k - T

Yoongi is a permanently exhausted part-timer in a flower shop who hates flowers, and Jimin is a dancer that is allergic to pollen and needs a better boyfriend. Yoongi thinks Jimin might be his favorite flower, and he's biologically human, what the fuck.

(yoonmin often has yoongi as this cold, edgy guy. this fic accurately portrays them. also some soft, caring yoongi heals the soul)

taegi

my heart flutters from the sugar high - 5k - M

Yoongi and Taehyung sneak around together, cheating on their diets. The group? They've drawn different conclusions.

(also fucking hilarious. they’re oblivious)

yoonkook

let the light in - 65k - T

There is magic in the world, but for years Jungkook has shied away from his gift. (It's intrusive, unwelcome, dangerous.) Now, he's in New York City, battling loneliness and a college course he hates. Until on one particularly bad day, he turns down a side street in East Village and his life changes forever.

(you think you won’t cry but you will. you WILL.)

namseok

tadhana - 32k - E

The site was in English, and Namjoon really should've checked it over before Hoseok booked the room, but there's nothing to be done about it now.

They've got a ten day honeymoon package on a beautiful island, and they're going to make the most of it. Even if it means pretending they're newlyweds to win extra prizes from the resort.

(probs the least angsty fake dating au. i feel like this is the most accurate portrayal of them)

jihope

out of the blue and into my world, you could be the making of me - 23k - E

jimin and hoseok are spies who are deep undercover. everyone thinks they're happily married and at some point, the two just stopped pretending.

(wholesome soft husbands. also there are kittens, that’s important)

vope

Vortex of Death - 16k - M

Jung Hoseok is mortally afraid of roller-coasters and water-slides. He’s also fatally attracted to the boy who works as a lifeguard at the theme park’s greatest attraction: the Vortex of Death.

(hoseok gay panicking for 16k words)

hopekook

DOES/DOES NOT - 20k - G

Jeongguk thinks Hoseok likes him. Hoseok thinks Jeongguk does not like him.

They are both wrong and get yelled at by Yoongi.

(character developement....chef’s kiss)

minjoon

of dogs & men - 20k - T

I work at a vet clinic and you work for the mafia. You started coming in to get patched up and threatened me to not to turn you into the police. Little do you know that I remember you as my high school crush, and you have no need to threaten me, because I'm still charmed by you

(an ACCURATE mafia au. mafias aren’t sexy and this depicts what it is actually like. namjoon isn’t too deep involved, just as a spoiler)

vmon

i see the sun in your ocean eyes - 14k - T

Taehyung is a selkie who wants to live in the human world; Namjoon is a boy who doesn't know how to. They figure it out together on an island off the coast of Jeju.

(this is soft and sad. good for rainy days)

namkook

bees, knees, and emotional crises - 20k - T

Jungkook and Namjoon meet at the weekly farmer's market where Namjoon sells honey that he makes himself, and Jungkook has a crush the size of Pangea and also cries about bees a few times because they're important, damn it

(bees. bees! BEES!)

vmin

we feel the same within our veins - 12k - T

the au where taehyung wakes up glowing, jimin is probably his soulmate, and everyone is reasonably concerned

(WE ALL KNOW VMIN ARE SOULMATES OKAY. OKAY??? THIS IS SOFT)

jikook

oh boy (will you awaken the hidden me?) - 6k - T

Jimin thinks he's lucid dreaming and kisses Jeongguk.

(shy jungkook is my aesthetic. they do some smooching)

taekook

Cinnamon Crisp - 21k - M

Jungkook needs his daily dose of cuddles and Taehyung likes to wear Jungkook's clothes. They don't care that alphas and omegas aren't supposed to be best friends.

(if you want non traditional/toxic abo fic... with soft taekook cuddles.... and soft warm fuzzy love...this is it)

[daddysfavouriteboytoy]

Project - Heir Nr. 74

This is a character for a cyberpunk omegaverse rp-group, which was deleted before I could actually use him. But I still like him so I posted him.

Name: Project - Heir Nr. 74 Nickname: PH, 74, Robot Doc (usually by lower-class people) Age: approximately 250 years, designed to look like early to mid-20s Gender: Male Secondary Gender: Beta Sexuality: Pansexual Species: Cyborg Appearance: (Face-claim: Toni Petkov)

Height: 1,89 m/6'2" Weight: 117 kg/258 lbs due to being build form heavy metals Body Type: despite being a beta, his design very muscular and on the taller side so he could fight back if someone started a fight with him Scent: Coffee and Petrol Personality: PH's strong will makes his dedication to his creator's intent of him possible, and he doesn’t give up his beliefs of equality because of simple opposition. This trait of his also mirrors in his dedication to giving everyone the opportunity to have a fair and good service. Tasks aren’t simply abandoned because they’ve become difficult or boring, he takes them up when they are the right thing to do, and they will be finished as long as they remain the right thing to do. However, PH is very easily annoyed when he's concentrating on his work, therefore it would be best to just leave him alone during that time if you can't handle his sass and cynicism. Being a cyborg and handling emotions different than humans, makes it sometimes nearly impossible to express his emotions properly and feel empathy for strangers. All of those traits don’t make PH a bad, introverted or uncaring person though, he is the most loyal, patient and reliable guy you can find. When he says he’ll do something, he keeps his word.  PH also a strong sense of justice and despite the fact he might lack empathy, he's still very protective of those who can't protect themselves. At the same time, PH is known to be an extrovert, a quite humourless one but still an open and talkative person, who is always interested in learning new things and has no trouble speaking his mind in straightforward statements. Relationships: Rowland Jonathan Lewkenor - "father"; human; alpha; deceased Bee Lewkenor - adopted "stray"; human; omega; 19 years old Likes: when people who knew his creator personally tell him stories about him, general when people tell him interesting stories, Bee, his customers being satisfied with his work, the fact that he doesn’t feel pain unless it destroys (parts of) his body (leaving a dent, breaking something, melting some part of him,...), challenges at his work, updating his database and his body, his regulars at his store, being able to keep peace in his store, being the best at what he’s doing Dislikes: being called old or outdated, people fighting in his store, alphas/betas trying to sexually harass Bee, having to kick someone out, being threatened (he knows they won’t follow through with their threat because they rely on his work too much), when his workplace is a mess, having to always keep an eye on Bee when they go out together, people trying to convince him to only work for them, the roles people are pushed into because of their secondary gender, the basement because his prototypes are still down there and they make him feel uncomfortable (he still takes parts of them whenever he needs them tho) Social Class: Middle class but quite popular throughout the other social classes Occupation: self-employed cybernetic specialists/cyborg mechanic Position: Switch Virgin: No Turn-ons: teasing, being called master, cream pies, dirty talking, sleep play (receiving) Turn-offs: vore, watersports, chastity, pegging, tickling Others:

he treats everyone as equal no matter their race or secondary gender

he has the body type that is usually typical for alphas so he can protect himself and his clients better if they get threatened

he is a father figure for Bee and very overprotective of him, especially when alpha clients get too touchy/close to Bee

Backstory: Rowland was one of the greatest inventors if not even the best one during his time. He created a lot of things that shaped the world and turned it in what it was today. However, unknown to a lot because his creations overshine this aspect of his life, his main occupation was repairing and improving cybernetic machines. His knowledge about these things seemed to be endless. Due to his accurate and flawless work, he was the first person the rich went to whenever they had problems with something technical. Even the poor loved him because of his generosity and the fact that he adjusted the price of his repairs to his customers' amount of income. In his mind, everyone should be able to afford good work, no matter their social class and or secondary gender. He was a very neutral person in aspects of politics and clan reigns. In his house, everyone was equal and got treated the same way. Once he got older, he realized he needed an heir to continue his work just the same way he did. Despite the fact that he took in all kinds of races and species from various backgrounds as an apprentice, none of them managed to satisfy Rowland. Therefore he got the idea to build himself an heir instead. A cyborg couldn't die of old age and always updated himself to keep his database up-to-date, a machine could also work even more precisely than any biological being on this world. However, this task turned out to be even more complicated than the man had thought. It took him 42 years to eventually create a cyborg he thought worthy of being his heir. Rowan never bothered to name his "son", he always called him by his project name or masterpiece. The last years of his life Rowan taught his creation everything he knew and could so it could continue his legacy until the end of time. After Rowan's death PH took over the store just like his "father" intended him to, however, he was just a machine so he lacked the creativity of an actual biological being so he was unable to invent things and his father’s legacy got forgotten. Nevertheless, his main priority was to repair the broken technology and cybernetic machines the people brought to him anyway. PH worked like this for centuries on end without ever getting worse at what he was doing. The cyborg was keen on keeping his database up-to-date and even modified himself to keep up with the newest technologies. Due to that, his physical appearance changed a lot over the years but his basic design always remained the same. He also never changed body parts if they weren’t broken or wouldn't improve his work in some way or another. Therefore his body is still incredibly heavy despite there being very light metals on the market which could decrease his weight. PH also never thought about settling down during all his years of existing. Due to being a beta, he didn't experience any ruts or heats and therefore also lacked the sexual desire for a mate, flings or sex friends. Besides, he was also infertile due to being only a machine. The single remarkable event in his life was only 19 years ago. After purchasing a few new things he needed for his work, PH was on his way home when he heard some strange crying coming from a dumpster he was just passing by. Obviously confused the cyborg took a look inside and saw that there was a baby boy laying on a pile of garbage. PH looked around but there was no one to be seen. His guess was that someone abandoned the baby and so he decided to take it with him and raise it. Despite the fact that PH soon realized that the baby he took in was actually an omega, he couldn't care less about that. Just like his creator, he thought everyone was the same and deserved to be treated the same. So he raised the baby just like his "father" raised him. And it turned out, just like his father PH was terrible at giving names when he named the baby after one of the first things he saw on his way home, a bee. He named the child, Bee Lewkenor. During all the years PH was raising the child, he was also teaching him what he knew about the world and his work. He treated the omega as an equal but was still very overprotective of him when they went out together. Bee grew up to be a talented and intelligent young man and he loved to show off in front of the customers. Fortunately, most didn't care that the boy was an omega and even enjoyed engaging in conversations with him while PH was repairing their stuff or themselves. However, whenever someone asked about their relationship, the cyborg replied by saying that Bee was only his maid. They tried to make it believable by Bee was always serving drinks and snacks to PH's customers when they were visiting. He knew how the world out there treated omegas and this was his way of protecting the child and being able to keep him by his side. He was scared if he would reveal the truth that someone would take Bee from him. Also, telling customers that Bee was working for him and therefore more or less his “property”, it prevented most of them from making inappropriate advances towards him or touching him inappropriately.

[words-that-form-a-rainbow]

Pantomime, and the problem with (Hollywood) diversity

Title of book: Pantomime (Micah Grey, #1)

Author: Lam, Laura

Would I recommend: Yes

Synopsis (From goodreads.com): Gene's life resembles a debutante's dream. Yet she hides a secret that would see her shunned by the nobility. Gene is both male and female. Then she displays unwanted magical abilities - last seen in mysterious beings from an almost-forgotten age. Matters escalate further when her parents plan a devastating betrayal, so she flees home, dressed as a boy. The city beyond contains glowing glass relics from a lost civilization. They call to her, but she wants freedom not mysteries. So, reinvented as 'Micah Grey', Gene joins the circus. As an aerialist, she discovers the joy of flight - but the circus has a dark side. She's also plagued by visions foretelling danger. A storm is howling in from the past, but will she heed its roar? 

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As if it wasn’t clear from the first two book reviews I’ve written on this site (Which you should totally go read and share, by the way), I tend to read books that include a lot of representation of all sorts, both LGBT+ and otherwise. And though I like to be optimistic the majority of the time, I am, as everyone should be, critical of them, because if the mainstream catches on to all this, would you rather them see some beautifully crafted, incredibly written prose about our struggles and lives, or that one gay sonic fanfiction you wrote when you were twelve? Yeah, me too.

But even if you are a lot more casual in your enjoyment of media (Which I wish I could be, at this point), it isn’t hard to notice to different levels of diversity certain minorities get over others. Now, I’m not trying to start any kind of war, because even the most represented groups are horribly outweighed by the straight whites of the West, but come on. There’s nothing wrong with effeminate gay men, or (Usually dead) lesbians, or sassy black women who say “Aw hell naw” like it’s the only thing keeping society as we know it afloat (Which isn’t wholly from the truth, actually), it can get a little tiring after a while, especially when you see another series or book written by someone who either a) has never actually met a gay person in their life, and/or b), is horribly fetishistic to a certain group and completely excludes literally anyone else, like those women who think gay men are their taboo sinners, yet find Sapphic women and trans folk predatory (They’re so gross).

And to be honest, I’m tired of it. And I know a lot of other people are, too.

And that is why I was (Very happily) surprised when I read Pantomime, the first of the Micah Grey trilogy, by Laura Lam. And do you know what it has? A queer main character who is neither gay nor perfectly attractive, and whose identity isn’t the only facet of their character! Oh boy, I felt like a kid in a sweet shop. And then I felt a kind of sadness, that we, as a community, were celebrating the fact that a character was, y’know, an actual character and not just a walking stereotype. This is the bar we’re setting for ourselves. This is the bar the mainstream has made us set.

And hell, I’ll shout from the rooftops with praise for any kind of media that raises it. Even if it’s by just a little.

So a big part of what I liked about Pantomime was the main character, Micah Grey (Also called Gene in some parts of the book, but as they almost exclusively choose to use Micah to refer to themselves, I’ll use that), who is, one of if not the first intersex character in a novel, or at least is certainly the only one I know about. Now a lot of you may be going, “Oh, gee, Scotty, I know all about them Ells and Gees and Bees, but what the hell is an intersex?” And that, is precisely the problem.

If I were to answer the question scientifically, an intersex person is one who is not born entirely male or female, biologically. They make up around one percent of the population, (Which is around 80 million people, and about twenty percent more people than the entire population of the UK, so don’t even dare try to tell me that it’s too small of a number to care about), are not the same as trans people (Which is all about gender identity), and yes, exist, either as having both sets of genitalia (Like Micah does), or any other mix, for example being born with XYX chromosomes, wrong amounts of hormones, etc…

But you don’t care about that, right? You wanted a book review, not a biology lesson. Fair enough. But my point is, this is the representation we need. An actual character, with unique identities and struggles and strengths that many people go through and can relate to. Because fuck political correctness, diversity within media just straight up makes it more interesting, as well as eliminates the feeling of many, many people feeling excluded from the little penthouse party Hollywood have got going on for any kind of shithead, as long as you’re cishet and white and can make a lot of money. Just fuck the rest of them, right?

Sorry, I just… the Harvery Weinstein thing happened this week, and though I’m not a huge film guy generally, I knew this guy was at the top of the food chain. And the fact that it happened for years… let’s just throw the whole Hollywood out, to be honest.

Anyway, I’m getting off topic. Back to Micah.

What I liked about the way Lam portrayed them is that she struck a nice balance between the aforementioned, “Let’s make their identity the only part of their personality/development,” and the even less accurate idea of them having no struggles with other people and, just as importantly, themselves. Throughout the book, they find themselves torn between their given identity of wholly female, and the identity they chose as male at the circus, which is where most of the story takes place. And although the main reason for them running away from the circus is to avoid corrective genital surgery (Which, yes, is a real thing, and also yes, is done on a lot of people without their consent, usually when they’re much younger than Micah), and even after their intersex identity is found out by some of the other characters, they still use the same name, they never directly state if they strictly identify as one or the other, (Bearing in mind this is only the first book of three, I’ve only just started reading the second), which is also why I choose to use they/them pronouns throughout this review.

It’s done well, really. Generally speaking, the more conflict and challenges the character faces at the beginning, the more satisfying the overcoming is at the end, and their feelings never felt out of place, or rushed. Good job, Lam.

The bisexuality of Micah is also an interesting talking point, particularly how it develops not only their sexuality but also their gender identity. Their first real love interest, Aenea, not only makes them realise their bisexuality, but also questions the masculinity within them, highlighting an interesting talking point about a subconscious idea in society that, even within the LGBT community and/or people who completely negate labels of gender altogether, we still conform to the traditional, heteronormative ideals we try to break away from. There’s always the question asked of who’s the man and woman in the relationship. There’s always the assumption that trans people are straight. One of the girls always has to wear a suit and a dress at the wedding. It’s stale, you know?

And while some people might criticise this arc for perpetuating that idea, I would argue more that it shows the way a lot of LGBT people do still think, subconsciously, including me, even though I, like many others, know the whole idea is stupid and archaic. It shows how ingrained heterosexuality and heteronormativity is in us, no matter who we are.

It also shows change in Micah - that their identity in every sense is constantly changing and evolving to fit new people and situations, that gender is a fluid sort of concept to them that isn’t really one hundred percent labelled by them, which can be and is what many people choose to be. And to be honest, that’s just plain nice to see in a queer character, since most stories begin at the point when the character has finished that kind of emotional journey, or play it off like they’ve known precisely who they were all along (Which is another ridiculous stereotype, by the way. Stop expecting kids to be able to figure that out by themselves, or even care about it. There are more important things to them, like getting hyper off of ridiculously sugary drinks and making sure they catch that Pikachu.)

I like it a lot, can you tell?

One criticism I have (Which isn’t really one, but more of a concerned prediction), is that it’s a particularly concise story, meaning, generally, it doesn’t leave a lot open. Yes, Micah is on the run from the police with a character called Drystan, (Who is a gay man who conveniently explains what being gay means, but he’s somehow made clowns seem a lot less scary to me so I’ll allow it), which is an intriguing enough continuation, but apart from that, there’s not a whole lot to go on. We haven’t had much development of any of the other places, every character we got to know is either dead, (Sorry Aenea, I did like you), vaguely left at some point in the novel, or is too minor to really give any kind of mention. I’m scared that Lam will either waste her time for a few hundred pages by treading water in the shallow end of the pool, or try to set up a whole new roster of characters while completely abandoning the old ones, essentially destroying the relationships and need for a lot of the interactions in the first book, (Which, if we’re going with the swimming pool analogy, would be like getting out of the water and jumping out of the nearest window into the Mariana’s Trench with bricks tied to her legs).

But we’ll just have to wait until I read it, won’t we. Hopefully not long, eh? (No, not long, is the correct answer. You can at least try to humour me, you know. You’ve read the whole review so you must like me a tiny bit. Tiny tiny bit? Maybe?

Hm… I hope she does do the second one, to be honest… or surprises me with some kind of magical third option, but I’ve learnt that you get brownie points on the internet if you’re constantly cynical. Not that it matters. The inevitable passage of time will consume and leave us all behind, eventually, letting us to fester wondering, was it all worth it? Were my shitty book reviews a valuable contribution to human society, in comparison? And what even was the point of this system in the first place? Why do we even bother to try to be more than savages, or even calculate that yes, we are living, when it will do nothing but further realise the emptiness and complete loneliness of the vacuum of space? Or what if-

Sorry. It’s been a rough week. See you next time.)

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