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Today I’m talking about Ziggy, Stardust & Me by James Brandon, a book which I’m fairly certain that I saw on Amazon one time as a recommended purchase but didn’t buy. I did end up buying it when I ended up going to a queer shop in the nearest big city to me. So, a few content warnings for this book: Homophobia, racism, one character tries to assault a minor. The blurb says that the year in 1973. The Watergate hearing are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And homosexuality is officially considered a mental illness. In the midst of these trying time is sixteen-year-old Jonathan Collins, a bullied, anxious, asthmatic kid who, aside from an alcoholic father and his sympathetic neighbour and friend Starla, is completely alone. To cope, Jonathan escapes to the safe haven of his imagination, where his hero David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and dead relatives, including his mother, guide him through the rough terrain of his life. In his alternate reality, Jonathan can be any...

  So…   Cassandra Clare. I’m very hit or miss with her work, and to be 100% honest, I’m not the fan that I used to be. For content, today I’m talking about The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu, which is the second novel in The Eldest Curses , a Magnus and Alec series. Now for why I’m not the fan I used to be of Cassandra Clare’s work, during my time at university, that’s when I really got into Tumblr, and in my earlier days of Tumblr, the Shadowhunters show was airing. I definitely got a bit bored of Shadowhunters towards the end of the show’s life and I was definitely only watching for Malec (Magnus and Alec) towards the end because I wanted that gay content but didn’t really care about any of the other characters. I’ve read the first six Mortal Instruments books and the first of the Malec books, but other than that, nothing. I’ll also be 100% honest, I’ve fallen off with The Mortal Instruments , but I had this book on my shelf, and figured I sho...

  Hello and welcome to this post of Trope Talk. The trope I’ll be talking about today is fake dating. And yes, it’s okay to cheer now! I won’t lie, fake dating is probably my favourite trope of all time. The thing with tropes is that they tend to work the same every time, and fake dating is no exception. Let’s be real, the majority some media with fake dating is that two people start dating each other for some reason other than actually wanting to be in a relationship with each other, then as time goes by, the feelings turn real. That’s often where the conflict stems from, as the two will usually end up stop fake dating as what they wanted to achieve with the fake dating will have been achieved in some form or another, but in shocking twist that no one ever sees coming, one of the two will have real feelings. I feel like that is the most basic of basic concepts for fake dating. Is it the same every time? Yes. Do I eat it up every time? Yes . I don’t know what it is about fake dat...