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alias_sqbrHither, Page, Miss Not So Sidekick, Lonely Girl ni Sakaraeai, Subnautica Below Zero, Grim Tales 2, Cooking with Pride, A Thousand Autumns, Yes No and Maybe (has a content note for consent issues)
Books:
Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian: a fluffy m/m romance about a spy investigating a mystery in a little English village between the world wars. This didn't make a huge impact on me but I enjoyed it.
Comics/manga:
Miss Not So Sidekick: A het rom-com fantasy webtoon of the "normal Korean girl finds herself reincarnated as the villainess in the cheesy fantasy romance she was reading" genre. Silly and doesn't hold up to deep thought, but fairly funny, and the story is complete and fairly satisfying. I was only partly convinced by the main pairing: he's way more of an asshole than her, but they're both cheerfully blunt steamrollers and definitely enjoy each other's company.
Lonely Girl ni Sakaraeai: Tropey f/f romance yuri manga about a lonely girl who blackmails the girl she has a crush on to kiss her (but she's confusedly into it, so it's fine). Shallow fluff.
Games:
Subnautica Below Zero: An enjoyable sequel to the original underwater survival/exploration game Subnautica, with a few tweaks to the formula and a new, more fleshed out main character. You could play this without having played the original but you'd miss out a little worldbuilding context, and it doesn't explain what to do as much so it could be confusing. If you liked the original, you will probably like this. If you haven't played the original and are into exploring cool underwater ecosystems, gathering rocks, and occasionally running away from sea monsters, play Subnautica first!
The base plot of Below Zero is that you're a scientist investigating your sister's mysterious death on a scientific base run by the shady Alterra corporation on a frozen alien planet. The scifi plot is pretty thin, but a little more in-depth than the first game. It's fluffier and and a little cheesier than the original's more gloomy environmental storytelling, with a much higher living:dead character ratio. The dead sister is into women while the (black, female) protagonist's orientation never comes up, it didn't feel too Dead Lesbian to me but ymmv.
Grim Tales 2: Song of the Dark Swan: A moderately enjoyable hidden object game based on the Swan Princess fairytale. Turns out Good Old Games have a bunch of Artifex Mundi games and they are frequently on sale.
Youtube:
Cooking with Pride: A cooking show with lgbtq+ people. Not my sort of thing but I feel like some of you might like it.
TV and movies:
A Thousand Autumns: Another censored adaptation of a Chinese BL xianxia/fantasy romance, this time in shonky 3D. The main pairing are cute and quite shippy: a virtuous cultivator who's become blind and penniless, and sexy morally ambiguous Bad Cultivator whose plan to corrupt the hero to the Dark Side mostly seems to involve helping him out and flirting. I got a couple of episodes in and it was ok but I got bored of all the drama about warring sects I didn't care about and couldn't keep track of.
Yes, No, and Maybe: Tropey BL anime movie m/m rom-com about an animator making the intro for a news program and the reporter interviewing him, who has a smoothly perfect work persona but is a whiny grump off the clock. Both identities separately become friends with the animator, causing identity porn shenanigans. A bit silly, but cute.
***Content Note: Consent Issues***
The sex scene right at the end is tropily dubcon, I felt able to gloss over it as a genre/kink thing, you could also just stop watching once they get together.
Books:
Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian: a fluffy m/m romance about a spy investigating a mystery in a little English village between the world wars. This didn't make a huge impact on me but I enjoyed it.
Comics/manga:
Miss Not So Sidekick: A het rom-com fantasy webtoon of the "normal Korean girl finds herself reincarnated as the villainess in the cheesy fantasy romance she was reading" genre. Silly and doesn't hold up to deep thought, but fairly funny, and the story is complete and fairly satisfying. I was only partly convinced by the main pairing: he's way more of an asshole than her, but they're both cheerfully blunt steamrollers and definitely enjoy each other's company.
Lonely Girl ni Sakaraeai: Tropey f/f romance yuri manga about a lonely girl who blackmails the girl she has a crush on to kiss her (but she's confusedly into it, so it's fine). Shallow fluff.
Games:
Subnautica Below Zero: An enjoyable sequel to the original underwater survival/exploration game Subnautica, with a few tweaks to the formula and a new, more fleshed out main character. You could play this without having played the original but you'd miss out a little worldbuilding context, and it doesn't explain what to do as much so it could be confusing. If you liked the original, you will probably like this. If you haven't played the original and are into exploring cool underwater ecosystems, gathering rocks, and occasionally running away from sea monsters, play Subnautica first!
The base plot of Below Zero is that you're a scientist investigating your sister's mysterious death on a scientific base run by the shady Alterra corporation on a frozen alien planet. The scifi plot is pretty thin, but a little more in-depth than the first game. It's fluffier and and a little cheesier than the original's more gloomy environmental storytelling, with a much higher living:dead character ratio. The dead sister is into women while the (black, female) protagonist's orientation never comes up, it didn't feel too Dead Lesbian to me but ymmv.
Grim Tales 2: Song of the Dark Swan: A moderately enjoyable hidden object game based on the Swan Princess fairytale. Turns out Good Old Games have a bunch of Artifex Mundi games and they are frequently on sale.
Youtube:
Cooking with Pride: A cooking show with lgbtq+ people. Not my sort of thing but I feel like some of you might like it.
TV and movies:
A Thousand Autumns: Another censored adaptation of a Chinese BL xianxia/fantasy romance, this time in shonky 3D. The main pairing are cute and quite shippy: a virtuous cultivator who's become blind and penniless, and sexy morally ambiguous Bad Cultivator whose plan to corrupt the hero to the Dark Side mostly seems to involve helping him out and flirting. I got a couple of episodes in and it was ok but I got bored of all the drama about warring sects I didn't care about and couldn't keep track of.
Yes, No, and Maybe: Tropey BL anime movie m/m rom-com about an animator making the intro for a news program and the reporter interviewing him, who has a smoothly perfect work persona but is a whiny grump off the clock. Both identities separately become friends with the animator, causing identity porn shenanigans. A bit silly, but cute.
***Content Note: Consent Issues***
The sex scene right at the end is tropily dubcon, I felt able to gloss over it as a genre/kink thing, you could also just stop watching once they get together.
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