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mothmans_mum
- Severina: Not a huge fan of this. Just seemed over-the top and bizarre. Mostly couldn’t stop tho king about real-life workplace harassment in fashion outlets.
- Illumination: The twist at the end was nice and interesting, and I liked the metaphor of the eagle, but overall didn’t find that all the pieces fit together as well as I would have liked. Unfortunately it felt like a “the whole is less than the sum of its parts” situation.
- A Literary Lesson: This story was fun and cheeky enough that I looked past the workplace harassment issues
- The World Turned Upside Down: A beautiful story set in 1920s Berlin, but with such a tragic ending it felt out of place in the collection.
- Making Up: Probably my favourite story in the whole collection. A romance between two makeup artists on the set of a soap opera, that played out like a soap opera. Both heartwarming and very funny.
- A Good Show: set in the British punk scene. The first half of the story was nice, but I didn’t feel the second half added anything.
- Candy Topping: A fun premise, although the dynamic of young rockabilly hipster and older woman who hates hipsters, seems to be a favourite of the author (it’s also used in A Curious Woman), and her obsession with hipsters feels at least a decade out of date.
- A Different View: An interesting premise
- Ephemera: I liked this one
- Last Stand: Couldn’t really focus on anything that happened in this once I twigged that it’s a Warhammer 40k fic
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God I fucking hate Charlie, the controlling, man-handling, manipulative POS stalker. Real Owen Hunt vibes
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love this representation of a visibly-trans character, and especially that the character is a Jewish transwoman union organiser!
I really liked this, but if there’s one thing I hate, it’s when there’s a story where the main conflict is that the MCs don’t communicate well and don’t talk about what their problems are, and instead just sleep together to avoid talking, then when we get to the end of the boom and the MCs finally come together to finally talk and resolve their problem… they just sleep together again. Please actually talk!!!!