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Any Human Power by Manda Scott was awesome! A ghost watches over her family as her grandchildren start a revolutionary movement against the patriarchy and the corruption of democracy.

It has beautiful prose like an old-school novel. I was especially interested in the activism plotline, though it stops at a random place (not a cliffhanger, don't worry). The book isn't listed as part of a series on Goodreads, but I've found mention of a sequel on the author's website, so that makes more sense.

The grandmother is a lesbian, one of the grandchildren is aroace and probably on the autism spectrum, the twins are part of a polyamorous community, and a few more characters are also queer.

The first three episodes of X-Men '97 S2 were awesome!

I loved that we got an episode focused on X-Force (and X-Factor, but sadly without Rictor/Shatterstar).

Morph is canonically enby, though it's only a mention in the character sheets of the ending credits. These episodes needed more Morpherine, but the Cherik scenes were fun. <3

Disclosure Day was great. (So was the AC.)

It's actually more of a vibe movie, without a lot of action, as can be expected from Spielberg. I could have done without the religion talk, though.

Eux by CM Deiana was a lot of fun! It's the sequel to Lui and takes place after the first Covid lockdown.

I bought this novel through crowdfunding, but it rose more slowly than for the first book, so the author will probably only do preorders next time.

There's major m/nb, the m/m couple from the first book, two sapphics and a trans man. A few characters are POC.

The graphic novel Just Between Us by Adeline Kon was fun. Lydia and Elaine compete for the gold in figure skating.

I like the fact that it's in black & white & golden. The story is well done, but there's never anything unexpected about it.

Lydia is Chinese American, with a few hanzi here and there. Elaine is Malaysian. There's major f/f, as well as a semi-major trans sapphic character.

The first episode of the GL Thai drama Love Beyond Dreams was awesome! After Lené (some sort of spy?) gets assassinated, Ran goes back into the past to save her life.

I'm so happy Aya is getting a full GL. <3 I loved her in Wedding Plan and Love Sea (both were BL with secondary GL). I don't know Mie yet, but she seems great too.

It's available on iQiyi.

Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman was excellent. After being rejected by his biological father, Griffon, a trans boy, is adopted by Etoine and Zaffre Keming. They're artists and refugees from a city where a revolution failed.

I love fiction in the form of non-fiction. Here, Griffon writes Etoine and Zaffre's biography, based on Etoine's memoir. The prose is beautiful.

Griffon is a gay trans man. Etoine and Zaffre are T4T m/f. Etoine is a recovering alcoholic walking with a cane, Zaffre suffers from depression and sometimes hallucinations.

Alter Ego by Estelle Daurore was absolutely amazing! Nivalis aims to become the weapon master of the kingdom, but the awakening of his magic threatens to give him a different destiny.

I bought this novel at a local book fair. It was originally crowdfunded, so I got a pretty illustration and free bookmarks with it. The author's genius idea is that the glossary is on one of the bookmarks.

All the characters are hermaphrodites (reminder not to call actual intersex people "hermaphrodites," which is only to be used when the whole species has male and female characteristics) and fall under three genders. Most of the enbies use the French neo-pronoun ul and a grammar invented by the author. A bigender character and a genderfluid character use il/elle.

My darling Nivalis is autistic and I ship him with an enby. <3 They're likely to become canon in the future, I think.

I've tried both the first episode of Kusunoki's Garden of Gods and the first episode of Kujima: Why Sing, When You Can Warble? and I've opted to watch Kusunoki's Garden of Gods.

Minato lives in a cozy fantasy with gods and spirits, while Harima lives in a dangerous exorcist story. Shall I ship them?

It's available on Crunchyroll.

Project Hail Mary was excellent. I was warned to avoid the way-too-spoilery trailers and I'm glad I did.

For a movie adapting a novel by Andy Weir, who's recently declared he dislikes woke stories, I didn't expect it to be so homoromantic!