#but also in other lands is a delightful fantasy book by NOT tj

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (28 May-3 Jun 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰Where You Are (lemonoclefox) - 45K, modern no powers stucky - a sort of 'Falling Inn Love' AU [reread]

🥰Waking Up Slow (odetteandodile) - 44K, shrunkyclunks - single dad Bucky, living in a isolated lighthouse in Canada, finds an amesiac, just thawed Steve Rogers washed up on his beach… [reread]

🥰👂‍Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) (Travis Baldree, author & narrator) - delightful, warm fantasy about retired orc barbarian Viv deciding to open a coffee shop and the found family she accrues along the way - when i started listening to this i was like, whoa this author is a really good narrator and it turns out that's his other profession.😆so yeah, excellent audiobook

🥰Pages To Fill (Legends & Lattes #0.5) (Travis Baldree) - prequel short story (also included after the main text of L&L published book)

🥰Calico Skies (musette22, author; britbrit99, artist) - 52K, shrunkyclunks - super hot carpenter Bucky, demisexual steve [reread]

😊So Alive (GottaSaveBucky (Cosmic_Entity_1of4)) - 109K, stucky no powers modern AU - bookstore mgr baby bucky, comics writer/publisher daddy steve - very schmoopy, a tiny bit silly & OTT, good smut; a bit of copaganda for plot reasons (i.e. the cops are friendly and on their side) but still enjoyable

😊At Last (Caedmon) - 69K, BlackBonnet modern AU, wedding planner Stede+caterer/bar owner Ed

💖💖 +262K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Slide To Answer series (relenafanel) - MCU: stucky, 13K - very funny & cute modern wrong number AU [reread]

I Wanna Kiss You (But I Want it too Much) (xiaq) - Stranger Things: steddie, 13K - loved this! - all outsider POV, especially loved Wayne's OC boyfriend

wanna have fun (and be in love with you) (CoraRochester) - MCU: stucky+thor, 15K - modern no powers AU, established stucky adding thor - very, very hot [reread]

some of them want to use you (some of them want to get used by you) (voxofthevoid) - MCU: stucky+thor, 14K - mer!bucky/hydra!steve, A++ quality hot tentacle sex [reread]

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Um, Actually - s3, e8-12

Ted Lasso - s3, e12

TJ Alexander | Chef's Choice (in conversation with Cat Sebastian)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tick Collection

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - Trusting Ted Lasso to Stick the Landing (with Alex McDaniel)

Re: Dracula - Bonus 2: Victorian Class and Gender

⭐The Soundtrack Show - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - the Music (Parts I-III)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Woman with the Handbag

Shedunnit - The Villa Murder

Re: Dracula - May 31: New Scheme of Villainy

⭐Vibe Check - Dear Prudence with Sam, Saeed, and Zach

ICYMI Plus - The Only People Who Made Money From Tumblr

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Koutammakou

Ologies with Alie Ward - Black American Magirology (FOOD, RACE & CULTURE) with Psyche Williams-Forson

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Tonopah Mining Camp

⭐99% Invisible #415 - Goodnight Nobody [rebroadcast]

Welcome to Night Vale #229 - The Accused

Song Exploder - Feist "In Lightning"

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - KG • Paul on Ted Lasso

Into It - What Was 'Succession' Really About? And Is 'Ted Lasso' Over or Not?

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse And What's Making Us Happy

Endless Thread - OK, Lamp!

Switched on Pop - Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007

Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein - James Lance

Off Menu - Ep 194: Tim Minchin

ICYMI Plus - Meet NPR’s TikTok Boy

⭐You're Dead To Me - Medieval Irish Folklore (Live)

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting Tina Turner

Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John [Juliana Hatfield]

Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police [Juliana Hatfield]

Xanadu (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Presenting Olivia Newton-John

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Southern Culture on the Skids

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

Homework [Daft Punk] {1997}

Discovery [Daft Punk] {2001}

Human After All [Daft Punk] {2005}

#sunday reading recap #bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks #legends and lattes #fanfic ftw #if you like either tj alexander or cat sebastian you should watch that panel - so much fun #the ted lasso finale wasn't so terrible it tanked the entire series for me and that is all i could really hope for after this season tbh #olivia newton john #tina turner #my life with the thrill kill kult #daft punk #southern culture on the skids #juliana hatfield #you're dead to me podcast #99% invisible podcast #the soundtrack show podcast #re: dracula #vibe check podcast #the atlas obscura podcast #welcome to night vale #switched on pop podcast #endless thread podcast #song exploder podcast #shedunnit podcast #ologies podcast #richmond til we die podcast #off menu podcast #films to be buried with podcast #pop culture happy hour podcast #into it podcast

[merlinsear]

I’m going to need a lot more people to start talking about the books I like because I can’t keep scrolling through tags of ten posts forever.

#in general I mean any and all tj Klune books because you guys already know my thoughts and feelings #but specifically last night I started thinking about ‘in other lands’ again and I’m going to need a fandom presence to magically appear #because I need more of Elliot and Luke and the internet is FAILING me #(yes this book was published in 2017. yes I read it months ago. no neither of those things are relevant) #sarah enjoys escapism #also I definitely can keep scrolling through tiny tags but it’s not as much fun help a girl out #maybe I should write some sort of list of books I need people to read #but also you can’t judge my taste in books thanks there’s a reason I don’t actually use goodreads #also these tags are confusing tj klune did not write in other lands #so basically read tj Klunes books #I can’t vouch for every single one but the 20+ I’ve read tend to range from mindlessly entertaining to life ruiningly amazing #with a few detours to wtf was that I couldn’t stop reading but did I enjoy it? #but also in other lands is a delightful fantasy book by NOT tj #and it is somehow silmutaneously enemies to lovers and childhood best friends to lovers #and also you’ll hate the main character but also you’ll want to protect him from everything #and it’s just a very interesting ride and the word ‘bisexual’ is said outloud so that’s always a plus