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Wild & True

Revisado: 06-27-24

Finally got a chance to listen to this yesterday, it was well balanced with history of the 'Wild West' and it's queer joy and sadness - I did laugh, and cry (hearing Patrick Haggerty's dad story) in parts !

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A Modern Bacchanalia Delight

Revisado: 07-03-23

Having not been able to get my hands on the "Dykes To Watch Out For" comics, this was a great second option, I really enjoyed hearing about Mo, Lois, Toni, Clarice, and the rest of the Dyke characters. It was mostly upbeat comedy with some fun relationship drama, but when it hit the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights episode, I was sobbing, they used recordings from that event in the episode and it hit different.

I was born a year later than that and we just have lost so much of what could have been from queer people of that generation, so I really treasured that episode and it meant a lot to me that this adaptation didn't move the characters forward to the present day like so many reboots do.

Bravo all around, and if you like Dykes to Watch Out For I also recommend the podcast musical "The Flame" as well (thanks to Liv Albert for giving it a shout out on her podcast "Let's Talk About Myths, Baby") about Jamie (Ellie Brigida), an LGBTQ bar owner, and Sam (Jasmin Savoy Brown), the woman selling the building the bar inhabits, and the inevitable sparks that end up flying between them!

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"A Bad Man's Scribe"

Revisado: 06-19-23

I ADORED this and have actually hoped to read or watch something like this for a long while. Virgil is being hunted by Augustus for his supposedly mostly complete Aeneid (it is not complete at all) when Sulpicia (based on a actual woman and Roman poet who's name we know!) comes along to help him.

Sulpicia is known for her love poems and her love of women and her determination here to save Virgil, who knew her growing up, leads her to ghost write the Aeneid and may lead her to face the same fate if she does not succeed. Off to Carthage they go where Virgil's lost love and Augustus catch up to Virgil - and lines in the Aeneid are added and myths told along the way throughout mixing and melding with the story's "history" and the poems happenings. Everyone is delightfully queer and I loved how different kinds of music and songs played into things.

Things suspected by historians are nodded to and I really hope Maria Dahvana Headley makes a transcript and the voice actors get credited to their roles in writing here because some Roman names and personas I am familiar with - others I can only guess at.

Loved it!

(maybe this can be a series? Ovid and his Metamorphoses? the Many Homers and the Iliad/Odyssey? Sappho? Euripides!?)

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Twin Power!

Revisado: 09-15-22

I enjoyed Weruche Opia wonderful narration of Reni K. Amayo's Daughters of Nri, breathing rich new life into the old trope of magical twins separated at birth to defeat a evil.

Daughters of Nri is a fascinating world shaped by the tyrant hero Eze Ochichiri who is ever on guard of the prophecy of his defeat at the hands of twin children of Ala, and now, destroying villages. Naala grows up in one of these villagers while Sinai lives in the Eze's palace.

I think there may be a little LGBT+ rep as Kora (one of Naala's four companions) confesses to have almost had something happen with Isioma, another woman and a survivor of another of the purging of villages the Eze's list. I and also rooting for Sinai and Ina!

I regret that I missed the chance to listen to Descendants of the First from Audible for free when it was available by Plus Catalog.

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A Hench Against A Bad Hero System

Revisado: 09-10-22

I enjoyed this it reminded me of Hero (by Perry Moore) or Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain (by A. Lee Martinez), perhaps Girl Reporter (by Tansy Rayner Roberts) and Soon I Will Be Invincible (by Austin Grossman) or the TV show Invincible or The Boys where the "bad guy" has a very good reason to dislike the hero.

Hench is about the beginnings of "the Auditor", hired as a villains accountant from a temp agency and having her life upended and her leg mangled by a hero throwing her aside to get to a villain. It gives her time to think on the damage heroes do, and her findings get the attention of the mysterious Leviathan.

The system of this world is fascinating, with children tested and sorted into a system of support for heroes and villains! Categories that our budding hench refers to as "meat" and "drivers" and such.

I wish though that Anna had pursued a romantic interest for June (fellow hench and best friend who cuts off contact rather than see Anna hurt more), or Quantum Entanglement (a superhero and a hench!?) or Melinda (a driver).

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Tea For The Soul

Revisado: 09-10-22

A thoroughly kind and nurturing exploration of a alien world by a tea monk of many gods and a wild robot.

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Twins & Changelings

Revisado: 09-10-22

I listened to a good chunk of Little Darlings as part of #24in48 Readathon 2022 where you read 24 hours in 48 hours. I'm on hour 9! :) I do count audio books, if you don't, oh well!

I've enjoyed Little Darlings, some years ago I came across Eggs and Crumbs a song (I particularly enjoyed a Heather Alexander/ Alexander James Adams version) and this book perfectly captures a modern take on Changelings from a mother's perspective.

There's actually two mothers here, one of them Lauren Tranter - who's husband is scum of the highest order cheating on his pregnant wife and painting himself as a dotting father and loving husband while making her, alone, do all the work of raising, feeding and caring for twin newborns and later probably fucking the nanny while she's under psychiatric investigation.

With a husband like that, what woman wouldn't go mad? I certainly hope Lauren gets a all was well ending later.

Then there's DS Joanna Harper who's in The Hidden and had a child- Ruby, raised as her sister. Joanna is beginning a relationship with Amy, a reporter who's motives and help are suspect but welcome.

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Summoning Luna!

Revisado: 09-10-22

So this wasn't the Roman goddess Luna being summoned by a lustful witch, Poppy Woods' comes close to using Roman and Greek myths but none mentioned here actually happened (Orion in myth doesn't die being drained of his Immortality by witches, for example). I enjoyed Alandra Michaels narrator very much except when Luna's lines were said by her and it felt mocking? It was harder to get immersed into.

Ultimately a fascinating take on witches covens, the families that make or break them and Luna and Alandra finding love despite what, or who, tries to come between them.

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Unanswered Mysteries

Revisado: 06-18-22

I got confused by rapid character switches - if this was a podcast, I am sure I would have loved it more because it deserved to be told with more than one voice (the narrator, or author, seemed only to be invested in Jude and Rumor's romance, with Nyx Llorca & Dahlia close behind and Braeden Tennant and Jude's brother Trick(sp?) being hinted at).

Afraid that the build up to get to the next book - and there obviously not being a next book, fell a bit flat. The mystery of a moon that hums and the native inhabitants and why people from Earth arrived and stayed won't be solved, but I enjoyed this diverse team up to discover something both about themselves and the mother moon. (Tiny bit reminded of Powers That Be but I was hoping that this would be fantasy gargoyles/chimera rather than science fiction aliens). I read this free from Audible Escape (which shuts down Nov 1st).

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Lucy's Eyes

Revisado: 06-18-22

I received a eARC of The Loop from NetGalley prior to September in 2020 but ended up buying and listening to the Audible edition instead when I saw it was on sale as a Daily Deal last month in March. Inés del Castillo's narration was just what I needed to be sucked into it all.

Right from the start we know something is going on at Turner Falls, the Nightwatchman podcast having done some investigating on it but most people of Turner Falls apparently don't take Nightwatchman podcast seriously. Our eyes and ears in Turner Falls? Lucy.

Lucy, a adopted orphan from Peru with a traumatic past involving absent alcoholic parents and the car crash that killed them, being a "ghost" on the streets and bullying by other children, until adopted by the Hendersons and moved to Turner Falls, Oregon, has already, clearly, been juggling a lot, for a long time. A outcast among the rich and white teens of Turner Falls and Spring Meadows, she's witness with her class to the breakdown of a classmate who blinds another student, that turns into a murder of her teacher - and the "police" who murder her classmate.

Lucy, surviving that, goes with her best friend Bakhit "Bucket" Marwani and Danny Brewer (who has a crush on her) to a graduation party in some caves in the desert. It turns into the a nightmare of science gone very wrong, INTECH being behind a project called "Oracle" that turns teens into blue eyed and twitchy, seeking only to scratch a itch to cruelty for the feeling of 'pleasure', a loop they can't escape.

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