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my unpopular opinion (i think?) is that shane doesn't really use pet names on ilya, at least not at first and not before he works through some of his internalized homophobia, and then, the first time he absentmindedly drops a 'babe' on ilya, ilya nearly brains himself on the nearest surface
like everything with them, it happens during sex first. ilya's eating him out slow and sloppy, spit dripping down his chin, two fingers teasing at shane's prostate, when shane pulls his hair and whines "ilya, baby, please."
blood rushes to ilya's dick so fast he almost blacks out. baby. he pulls away. shane whines again, pulls again, begs again, "nononono don't stop, baby, please--"
"say it again," he croaks. he'd meant it to come out stronger than that, but he's fighting shane's hold and flailing for the lube and trying to slick himself all at once while his brain goes baby baby baby he called me baby i'm his baby.
"please."
"not that. what did you call me? call me that again."
he lines himself up while shane tries to collect himself. finally recognition lights his eyes. he sniffles. "...baby?"
ilya sinks into him with a groan. shane's tighter than they usually like, but he keeps pressing forward anyway, through the stretch, through the heat, through their combined cries of pleasure, and he fucks shane until neither of them can speak.
after that, shane quickly learns calling ilya "baby" is the quickest way to make his brain stop working. ilya gets him a ginger ale from his parents' fridge, shane says "thank you baby" and ilya walks into the wall. they're coming off the ice after practice, shane says "hey babe don't forget--" and ilya trips over his own skates and almost causes a ten-Centaur pileup. shane says "babe will you--" and ilya stands up so fast he bangs his knee on the table.
but he never gets embarrassed no matter how ridiculous he looks, and he never chirps back no matter how relentlessly he's mocked. if anything, he leans into it all, puffing out his chest and playing up his reactions until shane's belly laughing with delight.
"is only reaction when you are shane hollander's baby," he declares. "only natural. no other choice. you would not know this. you will never understand. he is mine, and only i am his baby."
when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.
is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?
why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?
core concept: what is gender essentialism?
is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?
look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?
what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?
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I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me
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Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.
(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)
L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)
The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a
In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.
“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”
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I post my reviews throughout the month on Storygraph and Goodreads, and do roundups here and on patreon.
Before I get to the reviews, I am once again asking you to call your representatives in the United States to say no to THREE DIFFERENT FEDERAL BOOK BAN BILLS currently circulating. This information is from June 1 2026.
NO ON HR 2616! Full text here. This bill has unfortunately already passed in the House, so now it's time to call and complain about it in the Senate. If passed, it would cut funding from all US public schools that “teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology,” using definitions from Executive Order 14168. It frames itself as protecting children. In practice, it represents another attempt to eliminate not only trans and nonbinary books, but also any acknowledgment of gender non‑conforming people in public education. It would also require parents to sign consent forms before their kids could use preferred names or pronouns at schools.
Here's a call script for 2616: “My name is [name] and I’m calling from [city, state, zip code]. I’m calling to ask [Senator] to vote no on HR 2616. I oppose HR 2616 because it would restrict student’s access to books and would specifically harm trans, nonbinary, and intersex students. Please stand against book bans and support queer students!”
NO ON HR 8705! Full text here. Rather than naming specific books or categories of literature, if passed this bill would block federal funding for American History and Civics Education from being used to promote what it calls “discriminatory equity ideology” or “gender ideology,” definitions drawn from a January 29, 2025 executive order. Likely impacts would include fewer books on racism and civil rights, less discussion of sexism and inequality, narrower civics curricula, and publishers pulling back on diverse perspectives. This bill has passed out of committee but not yet been introduced in the House, so call your House Reps about it.
NO ON HR 7661! Full text here. This bill has passed out of committee but not yet been introduced in the House, so call your House Reps about it. If passed, it would cut federal funding to any public school in the US which offered programing or books which “involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism”. This would essentially ban every book I’ve ever published from all public schools in the country unless they were willing to risk their funding, but more importantly it would cut off the ability of students to learn about the full spectrum of human experience (or their own experience) in public education.
Here's a call script for both 8705 and 7661: “My name is [name] and I’m calling from [city, state, zip code]. I’m calling to ask [Representative] to vote no on HR 8705 and HR 7661. I oppose these bills because they would restrict student’s access to books and accurate history, and would especially harm trans, nonbinary, and intersex students. Please stand against book bans, support education, and queer students!
Reviews below the cut.
Queer and How We Got Here: A (Personal) History by Hazel Newlevant
Newlevant weaves together memoir and history in this timely reminder that all of us are the beneficiaries of generations who have fought for our human rights for centuries. Honest, informative, and stylish, this book made me grateful for the activism of the past and gave me courage for the fights to come!
Bellies by Nicola Dinan, read by Nathaniel Curtis and Octavia Nyombi
Ming and Tom meet at a bar, in their last year of university, and are drawn to each other instantly. Ming is a playwright, hiding deep grief and insecurities under wit and charm. Tom is more newly out as gay and awkwardly trying to figure out his path and place in the world. They fall into a relationship with surprising ease. But after moving in together, Ming reveals that she is actually trans, and has been taking steps towards transition without telling Tom. Ming's withholding is reinforced by Tom's lukewarm support of her gender journey. Both of them love each other and both of them hurt each other. I appreciated this novel's arc, of two people who care for each other deeply, but might not be able to find the bridge to carry that care across. This book also takes friendships as seriously as dating, and places romance into a web of other kinds of relationships including those of family and creative partnerships. It's a trans coming out novel quite different from any I've read before. I also really enjoyed the two different narrators reading each character's alternating POV chapters.
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin read by George Guidall
I first read this book in high school, nearly 20 years ago, and it was fascinating to see what I remembered from it. There are two sentences I remembered word for word: "It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end" which I liked so much I made it my yearbook quote; and "The king was pregnant." Before rereading, I would have said that Genly and Estraven's trek across the ice sheet was about 80% of the plot; I was very surprised to realize it's in fact only about 15-20% of the story in the final act. I had forgotten basically all of the political maneuvering that make up the bulk of the story and what remained in my memory was the gender fluidity of the native population of Winter and the interpersonal relationship between. Genly and Estraven. This is one of the early books I read with this kind of gender fluid sci-fi world building and that impressed me so deeply at 17. Reading the book today, it's easy to see the male human Terran main character as rather misogynistic, inflexible in his thinking, and trapped inside his own definition of masculinity. This is part of the point! To show how hard it is for a human man (as written by a female author in the late 1960s) to comprehend a society in which everyone is physically and psychologically equal and there is no "lower" or "weaker" half. Nicola Griffith explored this same concept in reverse in the 1990s with her sci-fi novel Ammonite which more than ever feels to me like a spiritual sequel to Left Hand of Darkness, and they are very interesting when read in conversation with each other. I highly recommend both. I will note for audiobook readers that the audio of Left Hand of Darkness is not great; I hope someday they re-record it with two different narrators for the two different POVs, because having them both read by the same narrator without any voice changes is tough. It's also difficult that Genly's last name is "Ai" pronounced exactly the same as "I". If you are reading Left Hand of Darkness for the very first time, I'd recommend reading it in print!
Champion of the Rose vol 1 by Cat Aquino and Dominique Duran
Princess Rosa is newly the heir to the throne of Sagrada (fantasy Spain). She prays to the Dying God for the chance to be a more just and charitable ruler than her father. But that opportunity grows increasingly distant when when the king declares a massive gladiatorial tournament of death and blood magic to win her hand in marriage. In desperation, Rosa makes a deal with a trans swordsman, Rey, a refugee from Himala (fantasy Philippines) which Sargrada has violently colonized. Action packed and gorgeously illustrated, this tale of blood and magic doesn't shy way from the brutality of colonial violence or religious fanaticism. I'm hooked! For fans of The Locked Tomb, there's some fucked up death cult and necromancy stuff with some queer themes to enjoy. Thank you to Viz for sending me an advanced copy to read!
Armaveni by Nadine Takvorian
Nadine, the daughter of Armenian immigrants growing up in San Francisco in the early 2000s, yearns to know her family's story. Her parents are very insistent that their kids speak Armenian at home, and Nadine and her brother attend classes and have community at their Armenian church. But her parents freeze up or deflect every time Nadina tries to ask for family stories, especially stories of how her maternal grandmother survived the massacres in her hometown and ended up moving to Istanbul, and then California. Writing essays for a high school class and a church trip to Armenia and Turkey finally give Nadine a chance to learn the family history. It's heavy, but its hers. This is a very beautifully illustrated fictionalized memoir, covering a period of history I've never read about in a graphic novel before. The image of the fire bird woven though ties the present and the past together with hope for the future.
He Who Drowned The World by Shelley Parker Chan
This book is a masterclass. I was so impressed at how well and how hard it hit its reoccurring themes- gender, power, ambition, the fear of/experience of living in a disabled body, the violence born of grief, the hollowness of revenge, and how damaged people with no release strike out against the world around them. Shelley Parker Chan is digging into the intersections of disability and dysphoria in a way I've never seen in another book. I was riveted by two characters who are opposite sides of the same coin- a powerful military general and warrior who was castrated as a child and hates the feminine coded aspects of his body and an ambitious would-be emperor born a girl who has lived the majority of her life as a man, and lost a hand in the previous book. To complicate these further, there's also a high-ranking bureaucrat with a very effeminate presentation, who has been punished his whole life for his perceived queerness, but who is straight. Each of these characters trouble the binaries of male/female, queer/straight, respected/reviled, confidence/shame which shape the world they move through. The way they are presented within the historical understandings of their time is so much richer and more interesting than if the author had decided to move a contemporary understanding of transness or queerness back into the 1300s in China. My reading of this book did suffer a little since it had been about three and a half years since my reading of book 1- I had forgotten the names and motivates of some side characters, and had to play catch-up. Ideally, I would suggest reading She Who Became The Sun and He Who Drowned The World back to back for greatest impact!
Night Chef by Mika Song
A food-loving raccoon who grew up in the walls of a restaurant yearns to cook her own recipes. But when an egg she planned to eat hatches into a baby crow, she leaves the restaurant for the first time to seek for the baby bird's family. Along the way, the raccoon meets fellow cooks, stretches her skills, and learns about her own past. This is a very simple story but I loved the watercolor art and the fun animal character designs. A fun comic for early readers.
Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition by Maia Kobabe
The Annotated Edition of Gender Queer is out! I’m so grateful to all of the smart, wonderful people who contributed their thoughts, notes, and comics to this edition:
⭐ Jadzia Azelrod (author of Galaxy: The Prettiest Star)
⭐ Andrea Colvin (original editor of Gender Queer)
⭐ Alex L Combs (author of Trans History From Ancient Times to Present Day: A graphic novel)
⭐ Dr Sandra Cox (English Professor, Southeast Missouri State University)
⭐ Eli Erlick (author of Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950)
⭐ Mel Gillman (author of Other Ever Afters, Stage Dreams, As the Crow Flies)
⭐ Ashley R Guillory (contributor to Queers at the Table)
⭐ Justin Hall (editor of No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics)
⭐ Kori Michele Handwerker (author of Tiny Book Science)
⭐ Phoebe Kobabe (my sibling and colorist of Gender Queer)
⭐ Tara Madison Avery (publisher, Stacked Deck Press)
⭐ Ajuan Mance (author of Gender Studies: True Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw)
⭐ Hazel Hewlevant (author of Queer and How We Got Here)
⭐ Matthew Noe (Librarian at Harvard Medical School)
⭐ Hal Schrieve (author of Out of Salem, Vivian’s Ghost, Fawn’s Blood)
⭐ Matt Silady (Comics professor at California College of The Arts)
⭐ Rani Som (author of Spellbound, Apsara Engine)
⭐ Shannon Watters (co-creator of Lumberjanes)
⭐ ND Stevenson (author of Nimona, Scarlet Morning)- reprinted the foreward from the hardcover edition.
This month, Gender Queer has been out for 7 years, and it has spent 5 of those years in the top 3 most challenged books in the United States. This has only strengthened my resolve to keep writing, supporting, and defending queer and trans stories for the rest of my life.
if you want to experience life more deeply you have to find more beauty. stop training yourself to dismiss, to mock, to assume the worst all the time — when you do this you build walls between yourself and the world. and after a while you stop feeling the warmth of it entirely.
beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.
let yourself be affected. let yourself find things beautiful and let that be enough. life is not asking you to be cool, sitting on the sidelines and nitpicking everything. it’s asking you to see life and experience it fully.
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