Spotify Premium ad: “Imagine playing music without interruptions! Infinite skipping! Replay the song you want! And even do it offline? No ads! Whatever songs you want! For a small monthly payme-” Me: *nods, turns off Spotify and turns on my MP3 player and does all the things they offer, but for free and with songs they don’t even have*
You can also rip audio files from youtube and find files all over the internet. It is far easier to come across great and lesser known music if you dont limit yourself to spotify.
“…to justify attacks against us in that park. When they come
you’re going to turn right around and say we deserved it. We haven’t done
anything. We’re a totally peaceful racist group of—” [crowd goes wild with laughter and inaudible shouts]
why are wlw books so angsty and deep all the time like where is my casual wlw romcom or my fantasy lesbians, space bis and trans princesses like not every wlw has some lost love in some town in the middle of nowhere
I live for posts like this, because there are soooo many good f/f books out there that don’t get the attention they deserve because of the way wlw are marginalized. So!
Here are some recs for casual/feel-good f/f representation! All links are to my reviews.
Promises, Promises - parody of LotR/D&D starring three lesbians on a quest for magical stuff
Everything Leads to You - Hollywood f/f YA about a young set designer who falls for a girl she meets under mysterious circumstances
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - ensemble-cast “crew of a spaceship” story. Mostly just random adventures, includes a f/f couple who survive the book.
Roller Girl - contemporary f/f romance about trans woman who joins a roller derby team
Not fluffy, but the angst is SFF-stress rather than “living under homophobia/biphobia” stress:
Ascension- queer disabled ladies fighting Big Pharma in space–you wanted space bi’s, come get your space bi’s (actually, if you want more space bi’s also check out the anthology Fierce Family.)
Chameleon Moon - review is of an earlier edition and I hear the new one has even more great representation. Trans woman superhero with two female partners living in a dystopian city that’s on lockdown from the government after everyone develops mutant powers in response to a wonderdrug.
Not Your Sidekick - in the future, what happens when your parents are superheroes but you never developed powers? You intern for the baddie, of course! MC is bi and ends up in a f/f relationship, and the sequel will star her trans bestie.
Hope this helps. Feel free to browse my “lesbian books” tag for more recs (there are bi/pan girls in some of those recs, too.)
All I Want For Christmas by Clare Lydon - Fluffy wlw romantic comedy (I know it’s not really in season at the moment but it’s so cute)
Gay Pride and Prejudice by Kate Christie - What it says on the tin. Elizabeth Bennett is a lesbian and the haughty Caroline Bingley is the last woman she could ever be prevailed upon to love.
Heart Trouble by Jae - A doctor gets shocked by a defibrillator while saving a woman’s life in the ER. Now they have a soul bond!
Finding Ms Write by Jae & Jove Belle - Collection of short stories about women who love women and also love books.
The Wind City by Summer Wigmore - Urban fantasy drawing on Maori mythology. Protagonist describes herself as “at least 60% gay” and falls in love with a monster girl.
Sword of the Guardian by Merry Shannon - Bi princess and lesbian bodyguard fall in love.
Gossamer Axe by Gael Baudin. It’s been a while since I’ve read it, but it’s fantasy. Basically one of the most epic quests to save a lover I’ve read, more enjoyable because it’s based on music and the magic thereof. It’s not in print, so it can be a little hard to get a hold of, but worth it.
i feel like cis people assume if you’re trans you’re either gay or straight and that’s why you barely ever see positivity posts for trans bi people so here’s your daily reminder that we’re here and we’re great! bi trans women? amazing. bi trans men? amazing. nonbinary bi people? you guessed it, amazing!
jockbi
the amount of thanks i’ve gotten in the tags for this simple post just further proves my point… support bi trans people!!!
A lot has been said about Rob Zombie’s second Halloween movie, released ten years ago, and how different if not outright contradicting it was to the Michael Myers mythos, and througout the years many have wondered… Why? Why is the movie… like that? Is it just random?
I don’t think it’s random. For all that can be said about Rob Zombie, I admire how he manages to make exactly the movies he wants to make (even if they are not the movies everyone wants to see), how he gets the best performances out of the actors (even if what they are given isn’t to everyone’s tastes) and how he manages to put his thoughts and experiences into the final product for us to see through film filters (even if not everybody can relate to them).
Case in point:
Hobo Michael Myers. Unmasked Michael Myers. Bearded Mychael Myers. Eating-from-garbage-can Michael Myers. Angry Micheal Myers.
What could Rob Zombie have possibly been thinking when he made this decision?
The answer is “how mental patients were being neglected back in the 80s”.
Skip to 1:25 in this interview he gave at Comic-con back in the day:
“I remember hearing back in the 80s during the Reagan years when they were closing out mental hospitals, just dumping the patients onto the streets. So you see these crazy people lying by garbage cans, they could be complete psychotics and I thought, well, it’s kind of interesting that Michael Myers is sort of like living out there in the world, that’s why he’s like this kinda big bearded guy. Yeah I mean you never see him, he could be this kind of like mountain man living off and then Halloween comes and so the light bulb goes off in his brain, you know.”
Rob Zombie’s Michael Myers is not the boogeyman from the original, he’s not mysteryous. Instead this Michael Myers is a victim. First he was a victim of an abusive father, then he was put in a mental hospital and became the victim of a shitty system. A shitty system that Dr. Loomis is part of.
Listening to this interview made me re-think Rob Zombie’s version of Dr. Loomis, a heroic character in the original film and follow-ups but a major asshole in this movie. Many have found his jump from the nice guy from the remake to the douche in this sequel to be jarring, but maybe it wasn’t? You know when he says to that audience that kid-Michael has “the eyes of a psychopath” even though he didn’t seem that hopeless? Maybe that wasn’t the movie being clumsy and “not getting it”. Maybe this Loomis was already being exploitative and sensationalist. Maybe he was using a traumatized kid to sell his work from the begining. And maybe in this movie, the sequel, rather than doing a 180º like we though… he simply became bad at hiding his true colors.
Remember in the director’s cut of the sequel how at the end Michael takes off his mask, looks at Loomis in the eyes, and screams “Die!” before killing him? Angry all the way through? Maybe it wasn’t random. Maybe it’s this Michael getting his revenge on the second man that ruined his life after his father. Maybe it really was the end of this Michael’s story arc.
Many people have considered the Rob Zombie Halloween films as missing the point of the original, but to be fair, haven’t all the sequels until last year (regardless of quality) also miss the point by making Michael Myers eternally obsessed with his sister, wich was a last minute retcon of the first sequel? He stopped being the boogeyman because he had a clear motivation and a connection to his victims, he even was reduced to the slave of a cult at one point. In my opinion we didn’t get a “real” Halloween sequel until the 2018 movie wich ditched the sister angle and even made fun of it (again, not saying the movies are bad because of it).
But now that we got that movie, I find myself wanting to be more open minded about what Rob Zombie and this duology aimed to do, as I wait patiently for both Rob Zombie’s and Michael Myers’ respective next movies.
