The new issue of Intergalactic Mixtape is live and full of recs in a variety of formats: straight lists, author forward, monthly faves, and of course, award related. :D

when someone is reading the thing you like and they get to the part before The Part and you're just sitting there waiting for the other shoe to drop like this.

Apparently I am the only person Lex has heard using the phrase "dirty stopout" which either means 1) it's a northern thing 2) it's old lady slang or 3) Lex needs to hang out with more dirty stopouts. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hiring a part time bookseller! Ah! Change! If you fancy joining our tiny team and yelling about queer books on a regular basis, now's your chance docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL

ONCE AGAIN HAVING SQUISHY FEELINGS ABOUT SHE LOVES TO COOK AND IT'S NOT EVEN 7AM YET

Sir, this is the fourth floor, what are you DOING. Or: don't let your dreams be dreams????

Took an anxiety buddy with me to the dentist, made the whole thing more bearable! ... I am 36 years old and Very Brave, to be clear.

Is that a Madoka reference in my I Think Our Son is Gay?????

Shout out to Lex for being very understanding about me needing to scream about my smutty BL gacha game, because sometimes the scream cannot be contained.

Reading The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices and wondering how the lesbians get on in the world of this BL novel. So far it's mentioned straight and gay men, and straight women. *squints at manga* Bisexuals? Lesbians? Named female characters apart from the protagonist?

SHOUT-OUT TO THE ONE BEAUTIFUL SOUL WHO POSTED THE ONLY MAGICAL GIRL INCIDENT FIC ON AO3 SINCE I LAST CHECKED IT, YOU ARE A STAR

I want to read fanfic but the fandoms I want it for aren't on AO3.

I've been reading a ton of graphic novels recently so I decided to write a rec list and tell you all about some of my favorites! ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2026/04/09/g...

Intergalactic Mixtape is up for the week, with tons of book reviews and cool fan projects!

I post this and instantly notice Kodansha is running an ebook sale where a shitton of manga is 65p. So uh, here in my day you can buy 23 volumes of manga for £15?

Listen, I have never wanted a book to be adapted as a series of youtube videos before, but Rin Chupeco's We Are Not Safe Here perfectly captures the youtube vibe of video essay and collected footage.

*withered old crone voice* Back in my day you could buy three volumes of manga for fifteen pounds! Now they're nearly fifteen pounds each! *waves cane*

Read the word "bussy" in an actual official licensed translation. This is the timeline we're in.

In case you were wondering how Pokopia's going: I am very slowly draining the sea. Also I don't know how to get screenshots off my switch.

They Will Kill You: spectacular, no notes, absolutely incredible.

One of the problems with being mentally ill is working out how bad is "bad enough" for taking days off work. Like, I've gone to work while actively suicidal, and I know it doesn't NEED to get that bad, but the guilt. Also a day off won't actually solve the problem, but the stress.

I have also now read the two Blood-C manga. Incomprehensible, have a nice day.

1) So we're doing Thank Goodness You're Here, right? 2) That was definitely too much gunpowder

The problem with the "Omniscient Reader Viewpoint fans" and the "m/m fans" circles basically overlapping in the venn diagram is that I have to keep reminding myself that it's allegedly NOT a BL.

Still thinking about Goodbye Eri, which looks like generic "manic pixie dream girl dies and gives closure to some guy" and ends up being about the *construction* of unreliable narratives and how they shape our memories of a person.

Wait a minute. * Chronic pain * Amnesia ... Regret to inform you but Shadowheart is a Psyduck.

Tried chatting to one of my coworkers about anime because they said they love JoJo's Bizarre Adventures. Turns out the ONLY anime they watch is JoJo. ... I want to study them under a microscope (admiring).

Can't believe I made it to the credit roll of Pokopia without clocking the camera mode that labels what you're looking at. orz

Me: Okay, so there's this fandom trope called Hanahaki disease -- Lex: I remember that, you've explained it before. Me: ... I am SO sorry that it made it to your long term memory storage.

... You know, I wasn't expecting Blood+ to have a BL-styled spin-off set in early 90s Kowloon Walled City, but I'm not mad about it!+

SINNERS stats: • 4 Oscars • 3 BAFTAs • 2 Grammys • 2 Actor Awards • 2 Golden Globes • A on CinemaScore • $370M+ worldwide • 4 Critics Choice Awards • 97% on Rotten Tomatoes • One of the best reviewed wide-release films of the decade

Wishing all creators of top/bottom discourse a merry stop that.

The protagonist of The Village of Eight Graves needs to fall into a hole and let one of the competent women he's been judging take over.

Sometimes reserving books at the library is actually you helping them update their stock records!

ANNIVERSARY WITH LEX! TOGETHER FOR SIXTEEN YEARS AND MARRIED FOR TWELVE! ALSO JOB INTERVIEW TODAY! SCREAMING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

IT Guy at work: Someone drew a picture of Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield, let me show you -- Me: ... Okay, I was expecting something actually shocking. IT Guy: It's pink! There's Hello Kitty!

Why does this library have so many knives and so few forks

In the UK a response of “not bad” can cover any state from “I have been bathed in the warmth of God’s light and know only bliss” to “the existential horrors of reality mean I am seconds away from caving in my own skull with this rusty pipe I found in the car park”

*flails noodley Ditto arms in excitement* spindizzy.dreamwidth.org/2026/03/06/f...

I need to find a new ITTT for autoposting my dreamwidth studf to BlueSky. I had one for twitter and it was great.

Yesterday I was honest and told my dentist the winter sads meant I hadn't been brushing my teeth as much as I should, and she was just like "Okay, can you use mouthwash? Swish that on days you can't brush your teeth to get some fluoride in there." Holy shit, meeting me where I am? Being kind?

The Strange _______ books by Uketsu are such a weird experience. The characters make weird logic leaps and the narrative is like "But obviously they were correct!" And then despite that the whodunnit is exactly who you thought from chapter one.

Horrifying realisation that I'm going to need to expose some of my online activities to explain how I fit some of the criteria for this job.

I bet the urban explorer side of youtube in the Resident Evil verse is WILD.

Work are making stupid changes. Great-Grandboss assigned me a meeting to discuss the changes, I assigned him homework questions because I guess we're doing this. Showed my questions to my grandboss, and she said "It's obvious you really care about this job." So anyway, cried at my grandboss today!

Best compliment I ever received on my appearance was when @efamajic.bsky.social said I looked like I'd been sent from central casting as the cool librarian who tells the hot librarian not to date Ryan Reynolds. 💅💅💅

Me: I'm job-hunting -- Hairdresser, sympathetically: So you want -- Me: Yeah, if I look at all straight by the end, we're not done.

Me: I can walk past @pagefortyfive.bsky.social without buying books!

Me afterdiscovering I mislabelled a bobbin and cross-stitched a Doduo in the wrong colours: youtu.be/th4Czv1j3F8