Thursday Recs

[soc_puppet]

Hello, all! It's time for Thursday Recs again!


Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!

Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!

Comments

[matsushima]

I have a story out in Archive of the Odd, Issue 3! It's not explicitly queer but it is about the friends we made on '00s-era LiveJournal and that one girl who disappeared off your friends list, never to be heard from again - formative queer experiences for a lot of (Extremely Online) people my age. (Everything I write is queer. This has a F/M crush but people reading my work should assume that's not cis straight.)

[facethestrange]

"the friends we made on '00s-era LiveJournal and that one girl who disappeared off your friends list, never to be heard from again - formative queer experiences for a lot of (Extremely Online) people my age"
Damn, this just hit me like a ton of bricks - it's not even that I had this specific experience, but it's still so extremely relatable, and not something I've heard anyone talk about before.

[matsushima]

It's a repeated theme in my writing. This is the only published piece, but I have two MG/YA novel WIPs that take place on LiveJournal - one's a riff on The Princess Diaries and the other is about soulbonders. LiveJournal was extremely important to me as a queer teen in a rural town and it comes up a lot!

I'll stop (unless you want me to keep going, in which case, I will always talk about LJ).

[fred_mouse]

I've just read YA graphic novel Decelerate Blue, which is a near future surveillance state dystopia; there is the tiniest bit of F/F romance in it. All the standard warnings for the genre, including but not limited to police brutality, death, fascism, suicide. It is a very very good example of the genre.