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Media I Like

Books and Short Stories

  • The Locked Tomb Series - Tamsyn Muir
    • ➳ Lesbian necromancers solving mysteries in space!
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
    • ➳ A man thinks back to the forgotten magic and horrors of his childhood.
  • House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
    • ➳ A house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, and a manuscript about a movie that doesn't exist.
  • I Signed Up To Be The Substitute Familiar Of A Struggling Witch To Pay My Bills And I'm Just Now Realizing What I Got Myself Into - Alex Zandra
    • ➳ A fun, sweet story with magic and transgender feels! Also recommend Zandra's other writing, including Feline Therapy and Cat Wishes.
  • Lonely Castle in the Mirror - Mizuki Tsujimura
    • ➳ After being bullied into dropping out of middle school, a girl finds the entrance to a magic castle in her bedroom mirror. A mystery and an emotional journey about the struggles of teenagers.

Video Games

  • Pathologic (Classic + 2)
    • ➳ Three healers have twelve days to resolve a plague in a small Russian town.
  • Spiritfarer
    • ➳ A game about accepting death and dying.
  • Pokemon Reborn
    • ➳ A cool Pokemon fangame with a mature tone and excellent storytelling.
  • Please Be Happy
    • ➳ A WLW romance visual novel about a gumiho whose magic makes people forget about her. A lovely story all the way through! One of the few games I've 100% completed.

Movies

  • The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
    • ➳ A man tries to forget the woman he loves and recalls their memories together.
  • The Shape of Water (2017)
    • ➳ A woman working as a janitor falls in love with an amphibian man.

Anime

  • Haibane Renmei
    • ➳ A group of people with charcoal gray wings live in a small town, and fledgling Rakka explores its secrets.
  • Sweetness and Lightning
    • ➳ A single widower learns how to cook for his excitable daughter.
  • Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
    • ➳ A weird shounen series. My favorite parts are One and Five.

Manga

  • Dungeon Meshi
    • ➳ A group of adventurers seek to revive their friend who got eaten by a dragon, and along the way, they learn the importance of food and eating.

Comics

  • Pinky & Pepper Forever
    • ➳ Two lesbian puppygirls go to Hell.
  • 25 Lives
    • ➳ "The very first time I remember you, you are blonde, and you don't love me back..."
  • Laika's Comet
    • ➳ "Small-town hero by day, Laika and her adoptive father Yue seek to study the very thing that set Furth off kilter to begin with - a comet from deep space with mysterious powers."

Poetry

Music