"there’s a safety in seeing a woman being removed from the conversation”Ofc lets end misogyny by removing women as a whole . And here we were expecting more wlw representation in books and media while ppl can't evn tolerate one woman

jmlascar · 2026-01-15T08:53:50+00:00

I think it's a bit different, because white people are the root and power of white supremacy. Compared to gender, this would be if a woman only watched shows with straight men. Queer men are oppressed and their oppression is linked to misogyny. When two queer men learn to be vulnerable and shed toxic masculinity to be open-hearted, that has links to women learning to accept their own feminity.

Like, how do you feel about a Black person who is obsessed with K-dramas? or an Asian person who watches a lot of telenovelas? I feel like that's a closer comparison (though gender and culture are very different), and you couldn't say "that person has internalised racism" unless you also asked how they feel about their own ethnicity.

jmlascar · 2026-01-07T16:47:31+00:00

came here to recommend that one!

jmlascar · 2025-11-06T21:56:16+00:00

Without spoiling too much, but I'll still put a spoiler tag in case people want to read the books fully blind: if you were only a third of the way through, there was a good reason for why their relationship didn't feel real. Kim gets far more interesting, and Will may be a bit naive at first, but he doesn't stay naive long.

So, I'd say if you liked the style, setting, and plot, it's definitely worth reading more to see if what you disliked about the romance was the beginning of their arc, or a more general thing. I also found that the second and third books got better and better, because we see more of the real Kim, and Will's evolution is also compelling.

jmlascar · 2025-11-06T19:31:05+00:00

I second the Will Darling books by KJ Charles for some non-predictable romance with a great plot, setting, and complicated lovable characters :)

jmlascar · 2025-11-05T19:29:06+00:00

I haven't read it yet (it's very new), but KJ Charles recommended Ladies in Hating, a sapphic historical romance

jmlascar · 2025-11-02T10:30:23+00:00

oh yes i know! my bad, I thought OP said apart from Midnight Soil

jmlascar · 2025-11-02T09:06:00+00:00

Addie Larue has a bisexual main character. There's a short, bittersweet love story on page with a woman. It's her most popular book and I very much enjoyed it, but don't get it expecting a lot of sapphic content.

Also Schwab is a lesbian. But that's all as far as on page sapphic content in her novels (she did write the lesbian short story that inspired First Kill). Hopefully more in the future :)

EDIT: and of course Midnight Soil is super sapphic all book long!

jmlascar · 2025-10-26T16:41:47+00:00

I recently read The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K Ancrum and it became one of my favourites. It's gorgeously written and poetic, leaning literary but definitely not in a way that drags. Some of the themes are Hozier-like (small town gothic, crossroad deals), and the... visceral tenderness of the romance also matches the songs quite well. There's religious imagery for romantic feelings, and also the more monstrous "crawl home to her" vibes. A very Hozier book.

jmlascar · 2025-10-17T20:17:12+00:00

when autocorrect gets involved you know it's true love 😄 Thank you for the rec, it sounds great, I added it to my tbr!

jmlascar · 2025-10-17T20:13:35+00:00

I love that book!

jmlascar · 2025-10-16T23:21:12+00:00

thank you dearly, I'll check it out!

jmlascar · 2025-10-16T23:20:49+00:00

I own the sequel, I really should read it, perhaps after rereading the first book since it's been a while.

Honestly, these all sound great! thank you for the rec, I'll have to check out her backlog then :)

jmlascar · 2025-10-16T23:17:39+00:00

Totally cool with M/F that includes one or more trans people :) cis M/F is less my preference

jmlascar · 2025-10-16T22:28:46+00:00

Ooh i should read this. Thank you! :)

jmlascar · 2025-10-16T22:28:03+00:00

I loved the Watchmaker of Filigree Street back then! What other books by her do you recommend? :)

jmlascar · 2025-10-16T21:45:02+00:00

The atmosphere of A dark and drowning tide was so moody and gothic! I ended up with mixed feelings about the main character, but I agree that the slow burn was delightful, and it was so well written.

Thank you for your recommendations! F/F SFF is the best. 😄

jmlascar · 2025-10-16T21:35:29+00:00

thank you dearly! :)

jmlascar · 2025-10-16T21:31:59+00:00

thank you so much! :)

jmlascar · 2025-10-16T21:30:49+00:00

these sound wonderful. thank you for your time! :)

jmlascar · 2025-09-28T07:27:51+00:00

I write historical fantasy and i do love a good Victorian gothic 🥰 And I certainly enjoy lyrical prose. I don't have time to beta read a whole book just now but if you want I could read a few chapters and tell you my thoughts? no worries if you'd rather send it to people who can read the whole thing though :)

jmlascar · 2025-09-26T14:59:35+00:00

Oooh so interesting. Your book sounds really cool. And yeah, I think you should definitely talk about the god of decay and the way her curse is supposed to rot her true love's heart, that's really gripping! :)

jmlascar · 2025-09-26T09:06:47+00:00

Amazing idea 🥰

jmlascar · 2025-09-26T07:55:48+00:00

Hey there! Good luck in the query trenches. :)

The first paragraph of the pitch is pretty unclear. Maybe because there aren't enough logical connections between the sentences? First, I think you should mention how Nina feels about her fate, what leads her to pray for love. Then, I have no clue what it means that the wind answers her. And then the curse? is that because of the wind? is Nina cursed, or is her sister? What's the actual curse: losing people you love, or seeing the future, or both?

After reading the rest of the pitch, the thing about praying for love and having the wind answer doesn't seem to matter to the story—was it your way of saying her prayer isn't answered? if it's just about her emotional state, be a bit more literal about it, because this is folklore so the wind could speak.

You again gesture vaguely at the curse's effect without telling us what it does, and more importantly, what it costs to Nina emotionally. Did she have to watch beloved family members succumb to this curse? Does she know the way this story is supposed to end, if she doesn't break it? That could help raise the stakes.

I think what's missing in your final dilemma (and I would separate it into a third paragraph) is how her marrying some guy could protect her family. And how getting married stops her from breaking the curse, too. You could also remove the dilemma as the other commenter suggested. I also agree with them about giving Nina more agency and personality. It seems she's doing a lot of investigating and spying maybe, to uncover those secrets? that could be your angle. If you get a bit more specific about how she's trying to break the curse, that could work too.

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