[ SECRET POST #2423 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2423 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Amanda Palmer]


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03.
[Breaking Bad]


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04.
[Free]


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05.
[Urdnot Wrex (Mass Effect)]


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06.
[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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07.
[My Chemical Romance]


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08.
[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]


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09.
[Twin Peaks, Audrey Horne and Agent Dale Cooper]


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10.
[Johnny Weir, American figure skater]


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11.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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12.
[Arrested Development]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 026 secrets from Secret Submission Post #346.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Read any good books lately?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm working my way through a recommendation list of lesbian novels for summer reading. I'm five down, and thus far every one of them has been shockingly bad. :(

Re: Read any good books lately?

[thene]

That sounds fun :( Your taste is clearly very different from the reccer's...maybe you should try something else, like looking for lesbian novels within a genre you already know you like?

Re: Read any good books lately?

[(Anonymous)]

In the reccer's defence, I begin to suspect I'm too picky to be helped. I want lots of feelings and fluffy happiness with plenty of narrative focus on the relationship. And I want adults rather than teens. Unfortunately, this puts me squarely in the 'romance novel' genre. And that seems to mean dodgy prose, embarrassment squick, and infestations of Old-School Mary Sues.

(It seems like there's always the brooding alpha who looks like a Hollywood A-Lister but can build her own motor-bikes while singing arias to orphans. Alas, she is unhappy because of nonspecific angst that might involve parents, or an ex, or both. But it's okay - she's going to fall for our plucky questioning femme. Plucky femme may be prone to triggering the reader's secondhand embarrassment squick, but is super feisty and so gorgeous that the alpha will probably have to save her from over-zealous male/butch attention. Then alpha'll get even more broody and cryptic when her collection of campy friends start cheerleading for the two of them because they've nothing better to do with their lives.)

I have in life stumbled across a few wonderful lesbian romances hidden in books that never mentioned them on the blurb. But LGBT rec lists and blogs are not winning for me, alas.

Re: Read any good books lately?

[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried Sarah Waters' work? Beautifully written and down to earth. No teens, either, and set in really fascinating periods. I'm a fan of Night Watch.