#snailgal

Port Able - Collectors' Curse

saying she was drawn to pulp novels because "it tends to feature fem-on-fem relationships, which you don't see as much in contemporary queer media" AND "i've always felt more of a connection to gay male culture than I have to lesbian culture. you know, pop stars and uppers and laughing" what universe is she living in !? we all know laughing is antithetical to lesbian culture. anyway thanks for giving me a new writer to hate on xx

it's funny that you mention the author's gripes about the lack of fem-on-fem relationships in media, because the main character in p&p gripes about exactly the same thing, almost word for word, only i assumed that it was something the author was mocking because HUH?

the whole experience is like being at a party and listening to a washed up drunk 40-something year old try to be edgy while they constantly glance around to see how their comments are landing, anxious that their age has - in their mind - barred them from creating any kind of significant, innovative cultural contribution.

Port Able - Snail

Port Able - Candy Dispenser

Port Able - Oops

4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

the only bookshop i really frequent is the spca charity bookshop (there's a bit of a bookshop desert where i live and the closest regular bookshop only stocks the extreme basics). i usually skim the magazines first (since they're on the table outside) for any birding magazines and any cats that might be snoozing there (usually have more luck with the cats). then i usually take a quick look through the generic/romance section for authors i might recognize (don't have much luck here, mostly because i don't often have the time to properly go through that section), then to the history/anthropology, then to the gardening/indigenous plants section, then through to the animals for anything on birds, then the classics shelf. i'm usually accompanied by the shop cat, mrs tom, the whole time

17. top 5 children’s books?