Stranger Things recs
12 Jun 2025 09:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
In the Kitchen or the Tulips by teddywesworl
Steddie
Soulmate AU
Ink-Stained and Love-Filled series by writersagainstwritersblock
Steddie
Steve gets Eddie to tattoo him. Multiple times.
the shame is on the other side by scoops_ahoy
Steddie
Steve finds acceptance in a gay bar.
off-script series by pukner
Steddie
Steve figures out he's bi before Eddie figures out that he's gay.
lonely is the night by intrajanelle
Steddie
Get-together post-season two.
Since You've Gone Universe
Steddie
Post-Vecna, Steve is the one in a coma.
Steddie
Soulmate AU
Ink-Stained and Love-Filled series by writersagainstwritersblock
Steddie
Steve gets Eddie to tattoo him. Multiple times.
the shame is on the other side by scoops_ahoy
Steddie
Steve finds acceptance in a gay bar.
off-script series by pukner
Steddie
Steve figures out he's bi before Eddie figures out that he's gay.
lonely is the night by intrajanelle
Steddie
Get-together post-season two.
Since You've Gone Universe
Steddie
Post-Vecna, Steve is the one in a coma.
silly post
4 Jun 2025 12:00![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
this isn't an update or a TTRPG-related post, but I've been obsessed with this mashup lately and I wanted to share it:
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2 Jun 2025 07:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1. I absolutely adore my ridiculous children. Fiona is reading War and Peace. It's the book with the most AR points, and we kept telling her that she was probably not going to like it or understand it well, which just fueled her desire to read it more. Joke's on us, I guess, because she's moving through it a pretty fair clip, and while I'm certain that a significant amount of it is going over her head, she seems to be understanding the plot well enough (we debrief what everyone is reading over dinner every evening).
2.
A Century of Poems - TLS 100 by The Times Literary Supplement
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Well, this makes clear that I do not share taste in poetry with the editors of the Times Lierary Supplement, all however many of them served for the 20th century. Lol
So many war poems, which I get given the time period, but I am not a fan of most war poetry. Also so much rhyming, way more than I'd anticipated.
I did like some of the poems, but on the whole not for me.
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3.
( Scholomance by Naomi Novik--major spoilers )
4.
The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I kept finding myself in the pages of this book as I read it. My people are not mountain Southern, but some things about being Southern are universal. The backstory of poverty and wringing a living out of the land with backbreaking work in Bragg's memoir could easily describe many aspects of the backstory on both side of my family. Most especially, though, reflected here is that truth that no matter how poor my grandparents were or how stingy my parents were when I was growing up to avoid poverty we still ate well. Like Bragg, my family was almost self-sustaining in eating what we grew, caught, and raised, and we ate like kings. Still do.
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5.
The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Christopher Looby
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This collection of short stories is divided into four sections: queer places, queer genders, queer attachments, and queer things. Most of the stories in the queer things section don't seem to be queer to me (especially the Melville one where the protagonist is obsessed with his chimney and the Hartman story where a little waif girl drowns herself in the sea). Many of these stories are sad and/or violent, but a few of them are happy and hopeful--notably the Walt Whitman and the Mary Wilkins Freeman. The titular story of the book is incredibly fascinating.
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I have a PDF copy of this book, so if you'd like to read me, PM me and I'll email it to you.
2.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Well, this makes clear that I do not share taste in poetry with the editors of the Times Lierary Supplement, all however many of them served for the 20th century. Lol
So many war poems, which I get given the time period, but I am not a fan of most war poetry. Also so much rhyming, way more than I'd anticipated.
I did like some of the poems, but on the whole not for me.
View all my reviews
3.
( Scholomance by Naomi Novik--major spoilers )
4.

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I kept finding myself in the pages of this book as I read it. My people are not mountain Southern, but some things about being Southern are universal. The backstory of poverty and wringing a living out of the land with backbreaking work in Bragg's memoir could easily describe many aspects of the backstory on both side of my family. Most especially, though, reflected here is that truth that no matter how poor my grandparents were or how stingy my parents were when I was growing up to avoid poverty we still ate well. Like Bragg, my family was almost self-sustaining in eating what we grew, caught, and raised, and we ate like kings. Still do.
View all my reviews
5.

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This collection of short stories is divided into four sections: queer places, queer genders, queer attachments, and queer things. Most of the stories in the queer things section don't seem to be queer to me (especially the Melville one where the protagonist is obsessed with his chimney and the Hartman story where a little waif girl drowns herself in the sea). Many of these stories are sad and/or violent, but a few of them are happy and hopeful--notably the Walt Whitman and the Mary Wilkins Freeman. The titular story of the book is incredibly fascinating.
View all my reviews
I have a PDF copy of this book, so if you'd like to read me, PM me and I'll email it to you.