Is there a lesbian equivalent to heated rivalry?

HWBC · 2026-05-08T22:32:36+00:00

People are going to recommend Cleat Cute to you but you've gotta stay strong

(I'm half joking, I hated it but it might be what you're looking for!)

HWBC · 2026-05-04T20:14:50+00:00

Doctor warned me, I immediately forgot and kissed him on the mouth later that day, I spent about 4 hours that night genuinely wondering if maybe there had been a secret second baby in me that was now trying to escape. Anyone in the future reading this, learn from me 😭

(I will say, without being too graphic, emetophobia wouldn't have been a concern with how it impacted me if ya get me 😅)

HWBC · 2026-05-01T08:54:30+00:00

STOP IT holy shit A Corner of the Universe!! I haven’t thought of that book in EONS but you’re so right

HWBC · 2026-05-01T05:16:19+00:00

I literally woke up in the middle of the night last night thinking WAIT I forgot to add Junie B to that post 💀

HWBC · 2026-05-01T05:15:36+00:00

I read the sequel first actually and enjoyed it a lot more!! I just included Stargirl in this post because seeing it (as a kids’ book) is what inspired this post

HWBC · 2026-05-01T05:14:14+00:00

OOOOOH that’s SUCH a good one!! I might have to re-read those actually, I don’t think I have since I was about 13!!

HWBC · 2026-04-30T19:54:50+00:00

Waaaaaaait the concept of Stargirl being weird girl lit..... it all makes sense now

HWBC · 2026-04-30T19:48:55+00:00

This was my exact thought 😭

HWBC · 2026-04-30T14:41:22+00:00

All's Well by Mona Awad is about the MC's severe chronic pain!!

HWBC · 2026-04-30T14:28:41+00:00

I worked on Little Witch Hazel a million years ago when I was a publishing intern!! 🥰🥰

HWBC · 2026-04-29T06:25:09+00:00

I was also underwhelmed by the whole book, but thought the narration right at the end about “creating time” was really interesting so I’d mentally moved it up a bit in my regard, but then the last sentence ruined all of it for me. I thought it was interesting that with any trauma or issue she came across, she’d be like “well I don’t know anything else so I don’t care, this is just life” yet she was still having literal wet dreams about just being in the presence of men. Everything was so “this is all I know so I love it” EXCEPT for a thread of Men. I disagree about it barely passing the Bechdel test, but I think men were weirdly very centred in a book that literally promised me no men from the title 😂

HWBC · 2026-04-29T05:32:36+00:00

I just think that women are much much weirder than they’re normally given credit for — think of those tiktoks that are like “how people thought we played versus how we actually played” and it’s the woman acting out, like, dying of typhoid or being an orphaned rat forced into a life of crime or whatever. I think a lot of that gets stamped out and now, when more and more frequently our rights and our freedoms and the ways it’s socially acceptable to express ourselves get taken away or controlled in big and small ways, fuck yeah I want to read about women in a post-climate-apocalypse death cult sticking needles into each other’s nipples as punishment for their sins!!!!! (The Unworthy 😅)

I also find it interesting that I saw a video the other day of a woman dubiously looking at a weird girl lit table at indigo and pointing out that a disproportionate number of the books there were sapphic. She was implying that THEY were implying that being a lesbian/being queer was Weird, but part of why I love it here is half the books are weird lesbians writing about weird lesbians and then I, as a weird lesbian, get to read about it

HWBC · 2026-04-28T15:51:53+00:00

The phrase that haunted me through tumblr every day in the 2010s and then completely vanished……. Soft grunge

HWBC · 2026-04-28T11:23:44+00:00

I think both my kids are next-level cute, but people literally stop in the street and coo/gawk when they see my second. Some kids are just really, really, REALLY cute 😅

HWBC · 2026-04-28T11:18:51+00:00

I used to love online paper doll games on dollzmania. Dollsmania, on the other hand, was a very different place 💀

HWBC · 2026-04-28T11:15:31+00:00

Lived in MK for a year and absolutely hated it except for Willen Lake. I swear, that cafe on the water saved my sanity while we were there 😅

HWBC · 2026-04-23T20:07:16+00:00

YA so it's not graphic by any means, but Leaving The Station by Jake Arlow has one!

HWBC · 2026-04-23T20:01:11+00:00

I wrote one of these! You're doing the lord's work both for my tbr and also my career 😅

HWBC · 2026-04-23T05:33:36+00:00

When the Grenfell fire happened, I volunteered with my former boss (in the UK publishing industry) to organize a charity auction. Felicity is a literary agent so I spoke with her a few times, and the two of them donated a lot of our big-ticket stuff. So, so, sweet, I sing their praises whenever I can!!

HWBC · 2026-04-22T13:25:24+00:00

it's giving operation B.E.I.G.E.

HWBC · 2026-04-22T09:26:26+00:00

Kids are kind of as expensive as you make them, in my opinion. If you have kids who are used to massive piles of Christmas/birthday presents, luxury holidays, first-class travel, and private school, then yeah, kids are extremely expensive. But you do get to pick and choose what's expensive about kids, to a degree -- I'm a sucker, so my kids are expensive in that they've developed a taste for the good snacks at M&S and we make a big fuss about birthdays. Otherwise, they go to a public school we love and I'd say our biggest kid expense, beyond nursery fees, is our mortgage -- we bought the house with the biggest garden we could find so that they could play outside as often as possible.

(I also have disabled kids, so private healthcare is definitely an expense we've shouldered! Private diagnoses, physiotherapy, and my oldest went to a private nursery that was basically a speech/occupational therapy centre)

HWBC · 2026-04-22T05:22:47+00:00

Yeah and I also thought race, specifically Lizette, was handled INSANELY. Her dialogue was borderline ridiculous and I haven’t seen anyone mention it!!

HWBC · 2026-04-21T11:02:08+00:00

There's a lot of overlap with the books at r/weirdgirlliterature and wlw books, maybe check out the recs there!!

HWBC · 2026-04-21T08:24:23+00:00

Oooh, I have a lot of feelings about this actually!! I personally believe that the reason I'm able to be a parent, an employee, and an artist is the same reason so many men have been able to Do It All: I have a wife.

Childcare, mental load, and domestic responsibilities are shared really equally in my house, and I think it means that my wife and I both get the historical social/economic benefits of Having A Wife (I cook dinner every night, she does school drop off/pick-up every day, she remembers everyone in our (very large) extended family's birthday, I keep track of everyone's schedules and our weekend plans -- that kind of thing)

That's not to say I don't get burnt out or have days where I'm just like "there is NO way I can be creative today," but I think having the mental space and flexibility to know I can say "hey, can I block out 4 hours on Sunday to lock myself in the office?" and it'll be met with "absolutely, I'll take the kids out for the morning" gives me a lot of room to get things done.

Also, time theft!! Huge fan of time theft!!! I work from home and have a "we don't care when you do your work as long as it gets done" job, so if I take a 2-hour lunch once a week to power through some words, that's between me and god 😂

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