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Nah, convinced the top teams formed a temporary alliance on the sole purpose of fucking with Emma Hayes

couldn’t decide whether i wanted chelsea to win for the good of english football, or if i wanted barca to win because it’s funny so 🤷‍♀️

had a tiny giggle

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that ref was horrific but also it’s chelsea so it’s quite funny

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who do we think’s going through to the uwcl final then

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How is the Keeper of the Sapphic Stash doing today

the keeper of the sapphic stash stayed out until 6am, did a walk of shame at 11am, and is still slightly hungover, very tired, and watching greys

#great night

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I did my own little searchy search for sapphic books and here is a few I found and checked you didn’t already have on your list.

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray / Christine Calella / Fantasy

Ask, Tell / E.J. Noyes / Romance

The Map That Lead To You / Ella McLeod / Fantasy

The Honeymoon Mix-up / Frankie Fyre / Romance

Hers For The Weekend / Helena Greer / Romance

Bachelorette Number Twelve / Jae / Romance

First Comes Death / Avrah C. Baren / Sci-fi

Of course my eyes could’ve skipped over if any of these were actually on your list but we’ll see ahah I also have more if you would like them ❤️

ahh amazing thank you! i’ll add them sometime later when i get home xx

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Do you read EXTRA spicy books?? If so I have two suggestions that I have not read myself but absolutely am going too

not really tbh i’m not a huge fan of ‘spice’ unless it’s like actually part of the plot, i don’t mind it but it’s not something i go looking for (i do read shitty romances when i want something to switch off to and so it doesn’t put me of or anything ofc - i don’t have a problem with it i just usually am not bothered lol)

however if they’re sapphic send them my way bc they can still go on the list!!

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my sleep schedule is so so fucked why am i not tired

#also now i’m annoyed bc i spent years slagging off greys anatomy while my housemate was watching it and now i’m addicted #and i can’t stop

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omg not the civic skater boys

Did a bit of shooting yesterday, these two pictures were my best outcome of Plymouth 😎

(Taken on a Canon EOS 4000D and edited to give film camera vibes)

#these are such sick photos tho

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Not sure how you would feel about this one but The Gilded One’s which is the first book in a trilogy was personally sooooo good. It’s not sapphic, it’s YA Fantasy. Honestly you’d have to research the description cause I suck at describing books ahaha but I definitely recommend it

oh nice i’ll keep it in mind thank you!

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Curious to know how you keep track of non sapphic books? Is there another huge Google doc, honestly wouldn’t be surprising aha

there is not phaha, i just use the storygraph app to track everything i’ve read, the google doc was born out of the fact that storygraph only has an lgbtqia+ tag, so there was no way for me to track purely sapphic books

plus the majority of books i read are sapphic anyway lol

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Honestly the writing style, the plot, the love story, everything is just so perfect. Even my sister who hates fantasy books loved it

maybe i’ll have to bump it up on my list, tbf haven’t read a fantasy book in a while so maybe it’s overdue

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Criers war has my heart, I rave about it non stop ahaha my family are starting to get annoyed

it’s quite poor from me that i STILL haven’t read criers war lol, everyone says it’s so good

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just checked and you can still filter on the spreadsheet without having to make your own copy, for some reason it won’t keep my frozen rows frozen (the headings) but you can still do a temporary filter (means it won’t affect anyone else’s view) by sorting from A-Z on any of the columns, (and then by choosing to filter by contents if you wish), but sorting by a-z is usually how i do it if i wanna find something specific (eg specific genre, find a specific author or book etc.)

obviously if you wanna replace my read, owned and ratings with your own you’ll have to make a copy but if you’re just browsing that might help!

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Two books to add to your list

The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott - YA Romance

If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So - pretty sure it’s a YA Romance

if you still recognise me is on there! it’ll be up top in the section of books i’ve read

thanks for the lucky list though! not sure how that one slipped through the cracks bc i’ve defo heard of it before lol

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I tried making a Google doc of sapphic books coming out this year…. I gave up, don’t know how you do it but I applaud you

tracking upcoming books is so hard tbf, i add them when i see them but i’d never be able to get them all, the list is nowhere near exhaustive and definitely will never be

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What’s your opinion on men writing sapphic books?

i mean it’s not like my fave thing in the world. normally my opinion is men should stay WELL AWAY from lesbians, but i think it depends on the book and the content

for example, legends and lattes is one of my fave books, it’s not a romance but it does have a sapphic romance side plot, and that was written by a man. there’s no sex, there’s no deeply lesbian specific experiences, it’s just that two female characters happen to get together, and i don’t think there’s anything wrong with a man writing that.

also my absolute favourite book of all time is this is how you lose the time war, which was jointly written by a man and a woman. again, while that’s completely focused on a sapphic relationship, nothing in it feels like fetishisation, probably because it’s also sci-fi. i have no problem with that partially being written by a man, because it just feels like good storytelling, that happens to be about women (debatable bc one’s kind of a fairy alien and one’s kind of a robot alien but they both use she pronouns so we won’t get into that)

i would say if it’s a book about specific wlw emotions and experiences, for example coming out as a lesbian, or comphet or internalised lesbophobia etc etc, i don’t think a cis man should be writing that, because he has no business doing that. mainly because like, why would a man even want to write that? also like it would just be shite.

on the other hand, a specifically lesbian romance written by a man? (especially if there’s smut) fucking weird. that just reeks of fetishisation, and you know it’s just gonna be gross. none of that thanks.

but yeah, i think there’s nothing wrong with men writing books with sapphic characters or romances in theory, as long as intentions are pure. for example say a man wrote a high fantasy series with various plots and romances, some of which were gay - nothing wrong with that (unless the lesbianism is weirdly sexualised or misogynistic ofc). however if it’s like a book which is focused on the sapphic experience then i don’t understand why a man would even want to write that, so that’s a no from me.

(for the record this also goes for women writing mlm books, fetishisation of gay relationships is not talked about enough and i personally think it’s weird)

there’s a lot of lesbian books which i would feel very weird about had they been written by a man. but there’s probably a few which had they been written by men, i wouldn’t mind. (i can’t think of any atm but i’m sure there are some)

so overall, completely depends on the book and the author. i’d say it depends on how forefront the sapphics are. it’s not a complete no, but there’s a line, you know?

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I’ll get to it one day, for now it can sit on my shelf and look pretty. I absolutely love the cover, it’s stunning.

it’s such a gorgeous book, i really need to read the prequel too