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25+ | she/they | Let's go lesbians. And cats. Storygraph: electrifyingpenguin

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opened my music player app and this popped up first thing lmfao 😅 bug yuri and doomed yuri claiming all my brain cells
Screenshot from my music player app Musicolet of my most played tracks in October. It's basically all Silksong and Alien Stage music, with "Enter Pharloom" from the Silksong soundtrack coming first at 118 plays.
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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yeehaw 🤠🏹
Photo of the Love Bullet standee at the Yen Press booth. Photo of me holding the two Love Bullet promo cards.
October 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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At NYCC today! Here for the yuri ofc 😤 #CatchtheCupid
Photo of the massive Love Bullet banner at New York Comic Con
October 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Review of But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo: 4⭐

'Tis the season for bug yuri!!! 🕷️🕸️ It should've been me, I want to marry an Eldritch spider lady too... 🥺

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Front cover of But Not Too Bold, featuring a cobalt blue spider sitting in the middle over a soft pink background. A net of threads criss cross over the cover, and the edges are decorated with blue and red floral trim. Review of But Not Too Bold: Love the giant Eldritch spider lady who can't stop eating her brides. Love the main character too for being totally unbothered and flirting with the great spider lady anyway. Classic freak 4 freak gothic monster romance, with lots of spiders and great writing.
October 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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except I got killer too LMAO
October 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Review of Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn: 4.5⭐

It's technically still international lesbian day over here, so have some iconic toxic yuri for the unhinged girlies. 💅

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Front cover of Perfume and Pain, featuring a perfume bottle enclosing an image of a woman lying down with her eyes closed. The background is a bright bubblegum pink. Review of Perfume and Pain: White women behaving badly, but make them all lesbians!!! Astrid is the ultimate girlfailure MC, juggling alcoholism, drug abuse, an attraction to equally toxic women, and her complete inability to pretend to have her shit together in any professional setting. She's hilariously bad at being a marketable, inoffensive lesbian to the mainstream, and her scathing commentary on queer, creative culture in LA makes for some seriously iconic moments (the great lesbian faggot debate will always haunt her but omg was I crying at one of those scenes LMAO). This is the unhinged, toxic, problematic yuri that I signed up for when I got this book!!! What an icon.
October 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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this whole scene had me cackling omfg 🤣🤣🤣😭 Perfume and Pain, the icon that you are!!!
Scene from page 146 of Perfume and Pain. It reads: "You know your friend here"-he looks right at me and lowers his voice to a whisper-"said faggot." He sips his drink again. "In a Barnes & Noble." Otto rolls his eyes. "God, this again," Otto says. "She is a faggot! She watches Bravo nonstop, counts calories excessively, and she's Azealia Banks's biggest fan. All her friends are gay men, and she can't even look at a woman without trying to lick her pussy." Penelope stifles a laugh, and I glare at her, then glare at Otto, shuddering at his crude and masculine reduction of lesbian behavior. "Astrid can say faggot," Otto says. The bartender who slipped me the alcohol looks over at us. Otto lowers his voice. "It's old news, queen," he hisses at the twink. "She's a Karen," the twink says. Otto rolls his eyes again, this time more theatrically. "She's not a Karen, she's a feral faggot with little to no impulse control." Penelope unleashes a laugh this time. "Why don't you get lost?" Otto says. "Go bottom for Hillary." The twink spits in my direction, then skips off to a gaggle of similarly corny, triangularly shaped men who are all saying yasss.
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Happy spooky month!!! Or LGBTQ+ History month, or both. I had soooo much fun and read a ton of books for Sapphic September hehe 🌈📚💙

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My storygraph September 2025 wrap-up graphic. Books read: 9 Pages read: 1,713 Average rating: 3.81 Highest rated reads: Hanamonogatari by schwinn The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes Average book length: 190 pages Average time to finish: 3 days My storygraph rating collage for September 2025. From left to right, top to bottom: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes: 5 stars Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang: 2 stars The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray: 5 stars If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar: 4 stars The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes: 4 stars The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar: 3.5 stars Hanamonogatari by schwinn: 5 stars Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver: 2 stars My Girlfriend's Not Here Today volume 1 by Kiyoko Iwami (unrated)
October 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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looking at my photos from the Hyuna + Mizi bday cupsleeve again to cope with having to go back to work tomorrow 😩
Group photo of all the cosplayers at the event! Group photo of all the Mizi and Sua cosplayers.
September 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Review of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar: 3.5⭐

Love the fairy tale feel, and the audiobook is beautiful, but I felt it was a little too short.

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Front cover image of The River Has Roots, featuring two red flowers and a pink one, with a stream curving around and connecting them all. Review: A very touching fairy tale exploring different types of love: between sisters, between lovers, and the love that prevails beyond the boundaries of life and death. The audiobook is amazing; I loved the addition of the environmental sounds and the singing from the narrator. The physical copy also had some beautiful illustrations that added to the fairy-tale feel of the novella. But despite all the bells and whistles added to this book, I felt like it was still missing a chunk from its story. I would've loved some more exploration of the love between Esther and her lover, and the magical world of Arcadia.
September 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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AAAAAAA aughhhhh BUNNY MAID MIZI!!!!!
Photo of @bg_meok cosplaying Mizi in her bunny maid costume at the café.
September 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Went to a Hyuna + Mizi bday cup sleeve today ahhhhhh my queens ♥️

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Photo of the large cardboard standees of Mizi and Hyuna in their maid outfits. Photo of @mad_ace_cos cosplaying Hyuna in a maid costume, posing in front of the Happy Birthday decor.
September 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#SapphicSeptember check-in:

I've already blazed through 6 books so far, whoa 😳 My favorites are The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes and The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray! Happy wlw month everyone!!! 🥳🌈📚
Image of the 4x4 Sapphic September Readathon bingo card for 2025. Books read: Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang (fills AAPI author) The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray (fills Indie or small press author and transfem main character prompts) The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (fills 2025 release and book from my physical TBR prompts) The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes (fills disabled sapphics) The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes (fills the choose your own prompt) If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar (fills new/new to you author and poetry or nonfiction prompts)
September 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Also went to Kinokuniya today and saw the gorgeous Love Bullet pop-up and all the merchhhh aaaaaa I love girls 😍
Photo of the life-size cardboard standee of the four main cupids from Love Bullet.
September 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Review of The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes: 4⭐

Another iconic hit from Sonora Reyes, many thanks for the tears (I loved it). Also love that Ariana is selectively mute but was easily the most ballsy out of all the characters, what a queen.

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Front cover image of The Luis Ortega Survival Club, featuring a vibrant, colorful comic-style illustration of four characters standing in a high school hallway, looking straight at the viewer. The walls are lined with lockers and decorated with graffiti, stickers, and magnets. Review: Another hit from Sonora Reyes!! I love the choice on seeking revenge against the rapist, because justice is so elusive for women, especially women of color. Ariana's journey working through her trauma and eventually coming to name and shame her abuser as a rapist is so emotional and tumultuous. The author writes their characters with so much nuance, especially while they struggle against rape culture and their own self-blame, and the whole "Luis Ortega Survival Club" becomes such a heartwarming source of support and strength for the characters. It felt so good to see Luis get his comeuppance, but the side plot surrounding Ariana's parents felt like it could have used another chapter for its resolution imo.
September 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Review of The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray: 5⭐

Hot, sensual, poetic, historically accurate smut. With snake women (and one them is trans too). 10/10 would read again.

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Front cover image of The Scales of Seduction, featuring a person being bound by a massive serpent, the illustration cut off below the figure's head. The figure is surrounded by a trim of art featuring women. Review: This is the most poetically written smut I've read lol. But it fits so well! The author's use of language is so vivid for the worldbuilding, and the smut is soo sensual and hot. The use of Greek terms adds another layer of immersion in the setting; I'm just in awe at the level of research that went into this novella! And Petra and Medusa are such great characters too; their connection feels so real in their shared pain and condemnation from society. I love that their relationship started out as a camaraderie between two snake "monsters," which then develops into a moment of self-discovery for Petra as she sheds her human disguise to embrace her true self, through acts of violence and sex. The smut was hot, of course, but it was emotionally cathartic as well, both for me and for the characters.
September 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Review of Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang: 2⭐

Every once in a while I need a reminder of what a meh book feels like, and this is that book. 🤪

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Front cover image of Land of Milk and Honey: an abstract painting of waves of different colors overlapping each other. It kind of looks like a view of a beach and ocean framed by the opening of a cave. Review: This was honestly hard to stomach (pun intended). In a world destroyed by climate change and pollution, the MC works as a chef for a rich family secluded in a post-apocalyptic-style bunker, cooking exotic and extinct animals for the wealthy to enjoy while the rest of the world collapses from starvation. The people who join those dinners are written to be absurdly fake and inhuman, and that was probably the point, but when the MC starts sleeping with her boss's daughter and jumping through mental hoops to justify her actions, it was just a little too much immersion in how cold and un-humanlike they are. The last two chapters or so get a little better, but by then I was already so done with this story and just wanted it to end.
September 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I fangirled so hard over the cosplayers playing Mizi and Sua at the alien stage fan event in NYC today AAAAAAAA 😍✨✨💓💓

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Photo of @v2niee and @irisjadeirises cosplaying Mizi and Sua in sparkling gowns. Photo of @irisjadeirises posing in front of the Ivan and Mizi standee.
September 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Review of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes: 5⭐!!

I love Yamilet, the lesbian immigrant struggles are so real 😭 and I'm super excited for the spinoff about Cesar that's coming out really soon too!! (Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar)

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Front cover image, featuring a comic-book style illustration of the main character, Yamilet Flores, wearing her school uniform (I think) while rocking her hot pink lipstick and hoop earrings. The whole cover is done in bold, striking lines and colors. Review: This book is for all the queer daughters in immigrant families. I felt the pressure, frustration, and uncertainty that Yamilet was going through in the story, but despite the struggle of being one of the only queer (and closeted) POC around, she is still such a funny MC to follow, and I love that she lets herself be silly as she gets closer to Bo (oh I love them, they're soooo adorable together!!!!). Seeing them grow closer and fall for each other is so heartwarming, and I felt so happy for them as they supported each other through tough moments later in the story. I love that the author didn't gloss over the dark themes about mental health and shitty coping mechanisms, on the toxic relationship between mother and daughter in immigrant families, on harsh expectations placed on immigrant kids—and the fact that the characters grow and seek help makes all the pain bearable. I definitely cried at some moments, but this book is just so rewarding and healing to read. We love an immigrant family that goes to therapy and tackles their trauma together!!
September 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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My current tbr for Sapphic September ✨ (incl. my current read cuz there's no way I'm finishing lesbiana today lol) 🌈📚
From left to right, top to bottom: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray Felicity by Mary Oliver The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar Hanamonogatari by schwinn My Girlfriend's Not Here Today by Kiyoko Iwami
August 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Love my summer fridays giving me more time to nap and read 💙📚 I'll miss them but yay fall is coming!! 🍂
my August 2025 storygraph wrap-up graphic. books read: 7 pages read: 1529 hours listened: 6.18 average rating: 4.42 highest rated reads (all 5 stars): Get Real, Chloe Torres; Sappho: Poems and Fragments; and This Monster Wants to Eat Me volume 4 average book length: 246 pages average time to finish: 6 days
August 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Review of Get Real, Chloe Torres by Crystal Maldonado: 5⭐

Shout-out to the bookseller at my local indie bookstore for this rec. Women supporting women both irl and in the book 🥰

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Front cover image of Get Real, Chloe Torres, featuring an illustration of three women lying in a grassy meadow surrounded by flowers and butterflies. Review: Omg. This is. SO. CUTE!!! It's just the perfect blend of silly-goofy girls trying to rekindle their friendship on an impromptu road trip while working through personal struggles without making things too cringey or heavy. I just LOVE how this book centers female friendship and queer joy above all else, and I also love how relatable Chloe is! The ADHD and sapphic struggles are so real lol. Definitely worth picking up for a short and sweet coming-of-age story.
August 31, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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#CurrentlyReading Get Real, Chloe Torres

Just started this today and I'm blazing through it!!! The girls are so cute and funny and I love their friendship so much 🥹 MAN I really miss reading a fluffy, feel-good YA.

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Get Real, Chloe Torres by Crystal Maldonado. The front cover is an illustration of three girls lying in a field, smiling and looking super cute together and surrounded by flowers and butterflies.
August 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Review of Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror, translated and edited by Xueting C. Ni: 4.5⭐

A wonderfully diverse introduction to Chinese horror, with some very insightful cultural and social commentary from the translator. We def need more of this over here 😤

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Front cover image of Sinophagia, featuring a dilapidated shed, an apartment complex, and a range of cliffs all towering against each other, with various creatures and spirits scattered around the scenery. Review: A wonderfully diverse collection of horror stories across a range of Chinese authors, including a good number of women! There's something for everyone in this collection, from the old reliable paranormal encounter in the middle of nowhere to gothic stories and disturbing dives into the horrors of the human psyche. The translator's notes on the cultural background for the creation and inclusion of these stories add a very nice touch to the cohesiveness of the collection. That said, this really could have used another read-through before publication—there are weird paragraph breaks in the middle of sentences, and I'm not entirely sure if the inconsistencies in translating certain Chinese words versus writing them in pinyin with or without the tones are deliberate choices or oversights in copyediting.
August 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Review of Sappho: Poems and Fragments, translated by Josephine Balmer: 5⭐

I need to read more poetry about sapphic love because wow... didn't know words could do that to you... 😳

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Front cover image of Sappho: Poems and Fragments, featuring an ancient Greek vase painting of a naked woman carrying a large pot and a bundle of clothes to a basin, as if preparing to bathe. Review: I loved this so much!! The translator did such a wonderful job of summarizing the cultural and political background during Sappho's time, while also explaining the difficulty of translating incomplete and fragmented poetry verses into English while retaining the essence of Sappho's words. Major props to her—even in fragments, I am in love with Sappho's poetry, especially those about love and loss, and in the new fragments, you can see the difference in translation and meaning from the added lines. All her poems are just such a beautiful celebration of women—loving each other, caring for each other, celebrating their marriages, and worshiping the goddesses of love and marriage. I'm just in awe that such a talented women is so obsessed with other women, thousands of years ago.
August 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM