sovay: (Viktor & Mordecai)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-07-23 10:45 am

I got my heart inside a loom

I start my week again with no sleep. I am having a lot of trouble just existing right now.

Internet hivemind, does anyone have books to recommend for a fourteen-year-old who has just come out as bi and is looking for congenial literature? She reads science fiction and mainstream fiction but not really fantasy, so naturally most of the examples coming to my mind of bisexual main characters or societies where bisexuality is normative are in the wrong genre. I am planning to suggest Ursula K. Le Guin and Phyllis Gotlieb [edit: and Yoon Ha Lee!] and I have no idea what middle-grade/YA looks like these days.
moon_custafer: neon cat mask (Brigitte)

[personal profile] moon_custafer 2018-07-23 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
in the equivalent of the masked ball scene, female Romeo crashes a Halloween party in a Darth Vader costume

It is my opinion that any masked ball scene needs to involve costumes that cover up enough of the individuals involved for mistaken/unknown identity shenanigans to be plausible, so props to this.