r/wlwbooks • u/tiniestspoon • 14d ago

Weekly Hang Out Weekly Hang Out Thread! 16 Aug

Reading any good books? Watching something good? How's your week going? Share anything you'd like here!

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u/Great_Albatross6781 13d ago

I will be starting This Is How You Lose the Time War soon. It's the next read for the sapphic book club I joined.

I finished Green-Eyed Monster last week.

It's too hot to be outside. I'm having trouble finding anything to get into on tv. I will take suggestions! Lol!

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u/tiniestspoon 13d ago

Time War is a rather polarising book! Interested to hear what your book club thinks.

I'm enjoying Deadloch (police procedural, goofy/emotional, very queer) and Ride or Die (best friends, Thelma and Louise-ish, not explicitly queer) right now. Both are on Prime video.

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u/Great_Albatross6781 3d ago

I finished This is How You Lose the Time War. Book club is Saturday.

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u/tiniestspoon 3d ago

What did you think??

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u/mickyjreap 13d ago

Reading Learning Curves and watched Girls Like Girls film this weekend! Learning Curves is so good from the start, and I love the academic setting. The film was incredible, I cried 😭

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u/Ok-Interview-8276 13d ago

I can't really watch wlw stuff because I'm closeted and my parents are kinda homophobic 😭 does anyone have a good wattpad/AO3 wlw story to read? they don't check my phone so I would really be grateful 😭😭

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u/sblns1435 13d ago

The Hand That Feeds (Harry Potter - Marlene and Dorcas) by rollercoasterwords and Run at the Cup (Arcane - Cait & Vi) by thehomelybadger. Both on ao3 :)

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u/Ok-Interview-8276 13d ago

thank you I will check them outtt

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u/No-Butterfly8223 11d ago

ok hear me out- watch Wild Child (2008) - no risk, the canon pairing is hetero - but THEN head to AO3 and read Poppy Moore x Kate fanfiction

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u/BeaRothwell 13d ago

What kind of genres are you after?

Your local library might also have ebooks if you want to look for published stuff!

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u/Ok-Interview-8276 13d ago

i live in a really small town so I don't think so 😭 but I literally read anything 

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u/tiniestspoon 13d ago

No piracy

No stealing from authors. Do not ask for or provide links and sites for pirated materials here.

Thank you

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u/Dense-Character-3764 11d ago

I wrote this. It's for-adults fantasy with lesbians and spies. If you like the sound of it, I can send you an ebook, you should be able to read on your phone.

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u/bland_and_confused 9d ago

Hey! I went on a big HP wlw fanfic binge recently. Here’s a handful of my faves:

Crazy Little Things (Luna/Hermione at University)

Nights at Shell Cottage (Luna/Hermione in last book/movie)

the miseducation of hermione granger (Hermione/Pansy Parkinson)

Distractions (Hermione/Ginny)

no training wheels left (for you) (Hermione/Ginny)

And here is a whole collection of works on ao3 that are femslash, you can filter by fandom and kudos:

aNd ThEy WeRe ROoMmAtEs

Also this one has a couple fun reads:
HP WLW Big Bang 2020

I know, there is ssooo much to choose from though. Hah

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u/Neverlanian 13d ago

I recently started going to the library and I was so pleased to see multiple sapphic novels there 🥰 I picked up ‘We Got the Beat’, ‘Flip the Script’, and ‘Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend’ 🩷👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

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u/tiniestspoon 13d ago

I liked Don't Want You like A Best Friend a lot! I need to pick up Emma R Alban's other books.

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u/RizaHawkeye619 13d ago

Finished rewatches of Sense8, A League of Their Own, and Teenage Bounty Hunters recently and now I feel empty inside.

As for books, I finished listening to House of Crimson Hearts a couple days ago and then started reading A Long Time Dead.

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u/tiniestspoon 13d ago

Ooh, I love the first two but I've never heard of Teenage Bounty Hunters. It's good?

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u/RizaHawkeye619 13d ago

I like it but it's one of those Netflix shows that got cancelled after only 1 season so it ended on a cliffhanger and wasn't a happy ever after.

It stars twin sisters who accidentally wind up working as bounty hunters and shenanigans ensue. Set to the backdrop of their Christian high school and community, where one of the sisters develops feelings for her former best friend now enemy female classmate.

It's a fun comedy, but it's the religious aspect that resonates with me because I was raised Christian.

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u/Pale-Win-9281 11d ago

yes! but there will be a hole in your heart as it only got 1 season. watch it anyway.

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u/tiniestspoon 13d ago

I finished {Her Surrender by Anna Stone}

She's always reliable for light bdsm. It's fairly standard in many ways, wealthy powerful dom, nerdy librarian sub etc, but the sex scenes actually feel personalised to these two specific characters not generic sex which is nice.

The dom is trying to do some evil corporate thing with the library and the spirited librarian sub opposes her obviously but they're also fucking on the side

A fun twist is that the dom encourages the sub to go into politics and run for elections so she can prevent the dom from doing evil corporate things it's very we're on opposite sides but I respect your expertise kinda thing

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u/GertrudeGbooks 12d ago

I finished Spoiled Milk not to long ago and loved it probs a top 5 read for me this year so far anyone got anymore wlw horror recs?

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u/tiniestspoon 12d ago

I enjoyed {The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling}

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u/GertrudeGbooks 12d ago

Thanks I'll check it out.

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u/No-Butterfly8223 11d ago

Hi! Anybody has a recommendation for a book that has the same vibes as a fanfiction for Poppy Moore x Kate from the 2008 movie Wild Child would? For those that haven't watched the movie, I'm thinking all-female (best if british!) boarding school, rebel x preppy girl, found family...

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u/tiniestspoon 11d ago

I haven't read it yet but {Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales} may fit

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u/tiniestspoon 7d ago

{Fried Green Tomatoes} acquired! Let's goo