HAPPY BELATED VALENTINE'S DAY, DI! Thank you for gifting the fandom with your gorgeous stories.
I'd rec some Arthur/Eames fics because I was in the Inception fandom back in the day as a lurker, but I have a feeling you know all the ones I can think of. Mm, writing about this makes me want to go back and reread some old favorites now.
Let's see..I think I recommended this already in the server, but if you like sci-fi and speculative fiction, one of my favorite books last year was The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. It's a slim book so you can get through it in one sitting. I'll copy what I wrote to ki: It's about a scientist named Evelyn who finds out that her now ex-husband cheated on her with her clone, Martine, whom he made with research he stole from her and the two women having to figure out what to do with him when Martine kills him. Sharp, icy, restrained writing, with a headstrong scientist who is harsh with everyone, the satisfaction of a man who sucks being offed, and the dilemma of having to deal with not only a clone of you, but your work being misused in such a horrific way!
Queer media recs that I got over the past 12 months!
Book: - Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters This is a contemporary novel, but it deals with queer/trans/gender exploration, is a really great character study-type book, and it's so dramatic, messy, and I don't know. I was sucked into the world immediately and the prose is just so good. I think there are some things that people are divided on, but hey, it might be something you're interested in!
TV shows: - Arcane Summary: Amidst the escalating unrest between the rich, utopian city of Piltover and the seedy, oppressed undercity of Zaun, sisters Vi and Jinx find themselves on opposing sides of a brewing war over clashing convictions and arcane technologies.
Note: This is a show based on the game, League of Legends. I don't know a single thing about LoL, but I enjoyed Arcane. The animation is BEAUTIFULLLLLL and really unique, like paintings come to life, and I really liked the world it was set in. And you have a queer female protagonist!
- Killing Eve Summary: Eve's life as a spy is not adding up to what she had hoped it would be when she started. She is a bored, very smart, MI5 security officer who is very desk-bound. Villanelle is a very talented killer, mercurial in mood, who clings to the luxuries of her job. Eve and Villanelle go head to head in a fierce game of cat and mouse, each woman equally obsessed with the other as Eve is tasked with hunting down the psychopathic assassin.
Note: The seasons got wobblier as they went, but wow, the acting! The tension and suspense! Enemies-to-lovers???? Two sides of the same coin, two women who bring out the worst in each other and are drawn to each other like magnets because they're soulmates.
Movies: - God's Own Country Summary: In Yorkshire a young unhappy farmer is living with his grandmother and sickly father. He numbs his frustrations with drinking and casual sex until a Romanian migrant worker sets him on a new path.
Note: This film wasn't what I expected, but that was good because it made me think about it long after I finished watching it. I can't believe the director never went to film school and he was in his late 40s when he made this! It was his first film! Anyway, it doesn't try to romanticize anything. The countryside is brutal and miserable. The characters, at first, aren't tender with each other because their circumstances prevented them from being that way, but much like there's beauty to be found in the wilderness, both in delicate things that manage to survive their harsh settings and in the strange allure of raw, tough, uncompromising surroundings, there's beauty in their relationship too, in the prickly moments and quiet, soft ones! They learn how to love each other!
- The Handmaiden Summary: A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Note: I am OBSESSED with this movie. Obsessed. It's sumptuous, it has twists that keep you on the edge of your seat, and it's a mish-mash of genres. It's a gothic romance. It's a caper. It's a dark comedy. The romance between the two women is so breathtaking and UGUhhghUGHGhhgHG please watch it if you haven't! I will say, though, that it's very explicit as a warning so it might be something you want to watch by yourself haha.
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Date: 2022-02-16 04:59 am (UTC)I'd rec some Arthur/Eames fics because I was in the Inception fandom back in the day as a lurker, but I have a feeling you know all the ones I can think of. Mm, writing about this makes me want to go back and reread some old favorites now.
Let's see..I think I recommended this already in the server, but if you like sci-fi and speculative fiction, one of my favorite books last year was The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. It's a slim book so you can get through it in one sitting. I'll copy what I wrote to ki: It's about a scientist named Evelyn who finds out that her now ex-husband cheated on her with her clone, Martine, whom he made with research he stole from her and the two women having to figure out what to do with him when Martine kills him. Sharp, icy, restrained writing, with a headstrong scientist who is harsh with everyone, the satisfaction of a man who sucks being offed, and the dilemma of having to deal with not only a clone of you, but your work being misused in such a horrific way!
Queer media recs that I got over the past 12 months!
Book:
- Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
This is a contemporary novel, but it deals with queer/trans/gender exploration, is a really great character study-type book, and it's so dramatic, messy, and I don't know. I was sucked into the world immediately and the prose is just so good. I think there are some things that people are divided on, but hey, it might be something you're interested in!
TV shows:
- Arcane
Summary: Amidst the escalating unrest between the rich, utopian city of Piltover and the seedy, oppressed undercity of Zaun, sisters Vi and Jinx find themselves on opposing sides of a brewing war over clashing convictions and arcane technologies.
Note: This is a show based on the game, League of Legends. I don't know a single thing about LoL, but I enjoyed Arcane. The animation is BEAUTIFULLLLLL and really unique, like paintings come to life, and I really liked the world it was set in. And you have a queer female protagonist!
- Killing Eve
Summary: Eve's life as a spy is not adding up to what she had hoped it would be when she started. She is a bored, very smart, MI5 security officer who is very desk-bound. Villanelle is a very talented killer, mercurial in mood, who clings to the luxuries of her job. Eve and Villanelle go head to head in a fierce game of cat and mouse, each woman equally obsessed with the other as Eve is tasked with hunting down the psychopathic assassin.
Note: The seasons got wobblier as they went, but wow, the acting! The tension and suspense! Enemies-to-lovers???? Two sides of the same coin, two women who bring out the worst in each other and are drawn to each other like magnets because they're soulmates.
Movies:
- God's Own Country
Summary: In Yorkshire a young unhappy farmer is living with his grandmother and sickly father. He numbs his frustrations with drinking and casual sex until a Romanian migrant worker sets him on a new path.
Note: This film wasn't what I expected, but that was good because it made me think about it long after I finished watching it. I can't believe the director never went to film school and he was in his late 40s when he made this! It was his first film! Anyway, it doesn't try to romanticize anything. The countryside is brutal and miserable. The characters, at first, aren't tender with each other because their circumstances prevented them from being that way, but much like there's beauty to be found in the wilderness, both in delicate things that manage to survive their harsh settings and in the strange allure of raw, tough, uncompromising surroundings, there's beauty in their relationship too, in the prickly moments and quiet, soft ones! They learn how to love each other!
- The Handmaiden
Summary: A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Note: I am OBSESSED with this movie. Obsessed. It's sumptuous, it has twists that keep you on the edge of your seat, and it's a mish-mash of genres. It's a gothic romance. It's a caper. It's a dark comedy. The romance between the two women is so breathtaking and UGUhhghUGHGhhgHG please watch it if you haven't! I will say, though, that it's very explicit as a warning so it might be something you want to watch by yourself haha.