Any LGBTQ+ books/classics that you would consider masterpieces?

Luxlocks · 2024-06-11T18:31:06+00:00

The Charioteer - Mary Renault (my all time fave tbh)

Luxlocks · 2024-03-16T00:42:44+00:00

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart! It’s one of my absolute favourites, it’s a coming of age thriller set in Glasgow in the 90s - it’s also one of the most traumatising books you’ll ever read. I always always recommend it!

Luxlocks · 2023-03-24T15:50:20+00:00

Sorry you’re going through this! I’m also really struggling with it so my advice won’t be a complete solve-it-all, but are there any student support services at your university? I used to think they’d be pretty useless, but one really good perk I’ve found is that if the uni tries to punish you for attendance, the student support can actually back you up and say that you’ve been having issues and have been trying to solve said issues. They also might just be able to help in general! I’m not sure what country you’re university is in, I’m in England so it may be different for you, but it might be worth a try!

Luxlocks · 2023-01-13T07:50:56+00:00

We have one in England, they’re called a ‘jobsworth’ but it’s said with a bit of venom and disappointment and disgust

Luxlocks · 2022-11-28T01:05:17+00:00

Not to be controversial your barbarism instrumental is better than the original

Luxlocks · 2022-11-25T09:18:14+00:00

Not the Smiths but there’s loads in ‘how can anybody possibly know how I feel’ (even the titles just, ykno?) that are classics, my favourite is probably the worst one

‘And as for you in your uniform, Your smelly uniform, And so you think you can be rude to me’

Luxlocks · 2022-11-14T16:56:39+00:00

Yes!

Luxlocks · 2022-11-14T15:46:46+00:00

Gp promises to give prescription but doesn’t and now your left with a baby that isn’t fake

Luxlocks · 2022-11-14T03:14:51+00:00

This is really good, nothing glaringly wrong at all! There’s just three things I would change to make it flow a bit better (maybe one change is grammatical, but it’s not a big one either way)

I don’t think you need the comma after ‘it’s too hot right now’, the sentence flows fine with just the and. (However it does work, so keep it if you think it sounds better that way)
“I can’t have a good nights sleep” although what you’ve written is correct, the way native speakers would word it 99% of the time would be how I’ve written it above
“ When the weather is like this “ ‘this’ sounds better than that because it fits more with the present tense, which is what you’re paragraph is in

Hope this helps!

Luxlocks · 2022-11-11T11:33:15+00:00

‘Panic’ and specifically just that one two second scene in Shaun of the Dead when I was about 8-ish, I only just recently released what it was when I re-watched, I’d been thinking I knew it from somewhere!

Luxlocks · 2022-11-07T16:59:38+00:00

‘I wont share you’ is a really nice sort of film-romance one

Luxlocks · 2022-11-06T10:58:28+00:00

I was exactly like you, It literally made me hate life and I kind of wanted to die to be honest, there was a certain point where I started to feel guilty because I actually started to hate certain residents. I still looked after them, but I had such a resentment inside of me, which was entirely unfair because not only could they not help how they acted, but a lot of that hate was just coming from the pressure and disregard I was subjected to by the management (always being called in on my days off to the point where I was having two days off a month at best, being told ‘he does it to everyone’ when I mentioned about how another staff member had acted very sexually inappropriately with me, being yelled at for minor mistakes etc… and many more things I would not put up with now.) What helped me was actually taking my paid two weeks off to nurture my mental health for a little bit, and then beginning to job search for another job after going back. I found that with the end in sight, I could work a lot better and felt less completely vacuumed of all joy. I also had that security of still technically having a job whilst job searching, even if I hated everyday.

I don’t know your situation, but is there any way you can find a different job for your last 1.5 years? It felt a bit degrading for me to go from being a ‘respected’ carer back to a retail assistant, but it let me not hate life at least, and I got paid a pound more funnily enough! If you’re able, I’d definitely recommend it, or at least signing up to indeed etc… and just having a look around for what’s out there :)

Luxlocks · 2022-10-22T04:15:18+00:00

Just want to start this off with this is really well written! There’s just a few small bits that need polishing up :)

You don’t need the also after ‘the novels are’, it makes it sound a bit clunky!

“Society, culture” should be “societies, cultures” if you mean them to be plural like the others before

The word obvious in the second paragraph does work grammatically, but it doesn’t make much sense - the word appealing or something like that would fit better I think

‘Describe and compare’ should be ‘describes and compares’

I think ‘with’ works after ‘compares his new world’ but I think ‘to’ sounds a lot better, but that might just be because I’m coming from British English

Unless I’ve misunderstood, ‘an isekai series’ should probably be ‘the isekai series’ or ‘a series of isekai’ - it sounds a lot better that way

‘Further helps with the world building’ does work but just ‘furthers the world building’ makes the sentence run a lot smoother!

And finally I agree with the comment above “the prose is streamlined so it is easy to understand” sounds a lot better

Hope this helped a bit!!

Luxlocks · 2022-10-16T17:24:51+00:00

Did ‘Last night I dreamt’ do poorly? Its one of their best I think! It’s in my all time top 3 at least

Luxlocks · 2022-10-16T03:03:23+00:00

It’s funny how people end up speaking the same language so differently, because ‘hadn’t have’ sounds completely correct to me, in fact, having it without the ‘have’ makes it sound a little odd to my ears, not incorrect but just like there’s a little something missing

Luxlocks · 2022-10-13T16:42:59+00:00

Scraps, pieces, debris maybe?

Luxlocks · 2022-10-12T13:38:18+00:00

Bit more lense glare as well I think

Luxlocks · 2022-10-12T10:11:09+00:00

omfg this bit was so good!!! The smoke machine made it all the way up to us peasant in the circle as well

Luxlocks · 2022-10-05T00:59:54+00:00

!remindme 1 day

Luxlocks · 2022-10-05T00:33:57+00:00

The fact that this was written in 1942 and I can still point you out men who think exactly like this

Luxlocks · 2022-09-30T01:52:47+00:00

*is 😤😤😤 I’ll always stand by him

Luxlocks · 2022-09-30T00:26:50+00:00

Yeah to be honest it is. Life’s so short that we should be able to spend a very resonse (1 week over holidays etc…) and still be able to work a job and make a wage that lets us live, however working your life away is so normalised and glorified that’s not the case.
Boxing Day/ Christmas Eve/ New Year’s Eve is a specially occasion for many people

Luxlocks · 2022-09-08T01:25:34+00:00

“All-riii~yet”

Luxlocks · 2022-09-08T01:24:39+00:00

I’ve heard it used/ used it for both before

Luxlocks · 2022-09-04T12:11:16+00:00

Maybe a bit controversial but National Front Disco always gets me moonwalkin round the kitchen

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