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mermaidyke:

welcome!!!!!! this is long overdue. i’ve been promising myself i’d made this forever. so here it is - the ultimate masterpost of wlw (women loving women) books. not all characters are lesbians, some are bi or pan, though all books feature f/f relationships and/or themes. there are 150+ recommendations, so enjoy!

YOUNG ADULT CONTEMPORARY:

• the miseducation of cameron post by emily m. danforth
• keeping you a secret by julie anne peters
• grl2grl by julie anne peters
• lies my girlfriend told me by julie anne peters
• far from xanadu by julie anne peters
• rubyfruit jungle by rita mae brown
  
• annie on my mind by nancy garden
• kissing kate by lauren myracle
• everything leads to you by nina lacour
• dare truth or promise by paula boock
• gravel queen by tea benduhn
• her name in the sky by kelly quindlen
• tell me again how a crush should feel by sara farizan
• no one needs to know by amanda grace
• my best friend, maybe by caela carter
• dirty london by kelley york
• ask the passengers by a.s. king
• empress of the world by sara ryan
• pages for you by sylvia brownrigg
• waiting in the wings by melissa brayden
• breathing underwater by lu vickers
• hood by emma donoghue
• between you & me by marisa calin
• starting from here by lisa jenn bigelow
• about a girl by sarah mccarry
• the flywheel by erin gough
• the necessary hunger by nina revoyr
• the house you pass on the way by jacqueline woodson
• about a girl by joanne horniman
• gravity by leanne lieberman
• another life altogether by elaine beale
• great by sara benincasa
• the gravity between us by kristen zimmer
• taking flight by siera maley
• the road to her by k.e. payne
• the summer i wasn’t me by jessica verdi
• unspeakabe by abbie rushton
• beauty of the broken by tawni waters
• read me like a book by liz kessler
• starring kitty by keris stainton
• holding back by mila kerr
• cam girl by leah raeder
• not otherwise specified by hannah moskowitz
• an unstill life by kate larkindale
• look both ways by alison cherry
• a story of now by emily o’beirne
• my summer of love by helen cross
• marionette by t.b. markinson
• the difference between you and me by madeleine george
• the bermudez triangle by maureen johnson
• girl walking backwards by bett williams

FANTASY/PARANORMAL/SCIENCE FICTION:

• the dark wife by sarah diemer
• twixt by sarah diemer
• the witch sea by sarah diemer
• sugar moon by sarah diemer
• far by sarah diemer
• carmilla by joseph sheridan le fanu
• ash by malinda lo
• huntress by malinda lo
• adaption by malinda lo
• the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinson
• karen memory by elizabeth bear
• bleeding earth by kaitlin ward
• lady knight by l.j. baker
• the second sister by rae d. magdon
• wild by meghan o’brien
• santa olivia by jacqueline carey
• everafter by nell stark
• iron & velvet by alexis hall
• silver kiss by naomi clark
• with her body by nicola griffith
• ammonite by nicole griffith
• the windup girl by paolo bacigalupi
  
• a harvest of ripe figs by shira glassman
• seven by jennifer diemer
• braided by elora bishop
• crumbs by elora bishop
• labyrinth by pearl north
• the drowning girl by caitlin r. kiernan
• the red tree by caitlin r. kiernan
• the big lie by julie mayhew
• the first twenty by jennifer lavoie
• the girl in the road by monica byrne
• every dark desire by fiona zedde

CRIME/MYSTERY/THRILLER:

• black iris by leah raeder
• dangerous girls by abigail haas
• far from you by tess sharpe
• slow river by nicola griffith
• the blue place by nicola griffith
• stay by nicola griffith
• vanished by e.e. cooper
• keepers of the cave by gerri hill
• hunter’s way by gerri hill
  
• child of doors by j.s. little
• scars by cheryl rainfield
• trust me, i’m trouble by mary elizabeth summer
• out of order by casey lawrence
• reconstructing amelia by kimberly mccreight
• vicious little darlings by katherine easer

HISTORICAL:

• the paying guests by sarah waters
• tipping the velvet by sarah waters
• affinity by sarah waters
• the night watch by sarah waters
• fingersmith by sarah waters
• the price of salt by patricia highsmith (also known as carol)
  
• wildthorn by jane eagland
• silhouette of a sparrow by molly beth griffin
• lies we tell ourselves by robin talley
• patience & sarah by isabel miller
• the hours by michael cunningham
• the well of loneliness by radclyffe hall
• mrs dalloway by virginia woolf
• the world unseen by shamam sarif
• map of ireland by stephanie grant
• hild by nicole griffith
• honey girl by lisa freeman
• letters never sent by sandra moran
• fall on your knees by ann-marie macdonald
• the last nude by ellis avery
• the teahouse fire by ellis avery
• olivia by dorothy strachey
• the friendly young ladies by mary renault
• moon at nine by deborah ellis
• the marriage recital by katharine grant
• the crimson ribbon by katherine clements
• the other typist by suzanne rindell
• days of grace by catherine hall
• desert of the heart by jane rule

ADULT FICTION:

• sing you home by jodi picoult
  
• and playing the role of herself by k.e. lane
• i can’t think straight by shamim sarif
• stone butch blues by leslie feinberg
• curious wine by katherine v. forrest
• the color purple by alice walker
• jericho by ann mcman
• oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson
  
• gut symmetries by jeanette winterson
• why be happy when you could be normal? by jeanette winterson
• written on the body by jeanette winterson
• where we belong by catherine ryan hyde
• at the water’s edge by harper bliss
• behind the green curtain by riley lashea
• 96 hours by georgia beers
• all that matters by susan x. meagher
• give me a reason by lyn gardner
• ice by lyn gardner
• my last season with you by s.v.c. ricketts
• taking the long way by lily r. mason
• nightwood by djuna barnes
• living at night by mariana romo-carmona
• choices by nancy toder
• cassandra at the wedding by dorothy baker
• landing by emma donoghue
• stir-fry by emma donoghue
• pitifully ugly by robin alexander

COMICS BOOKS/GRAPHIC NOVELS:

• blue is the warmest colour by julie maroh
• fun home by alison bechdel
• dykes to watch out for by alison bechdel
• honor girl by maggie trash
• skim by mariko tamaki
• potential by ariel shrag
• strangers in paradise by terry moore

NON-FICTION:

• odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman
• surpassing the love of men by lillian faderman
• chloe plus olivia by lillian faderman
• to believe in women by lillian faderman
• sapphistries by leila j. rupp
• inseparable by emma donoghue
• passions between women by emma donoghue
• dear john, i love jane by candace walsh
• a woman like that by joan larkin
• aimee & jaguar by erica fischer
• the femme mystique by leslea newman
• boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky kennedy
• different daughters by marcia m. gallo
• between women by sharon marcus
• charity and sylvia by rachel hope cleves
• lesbian culture: an anthology by julia penelope
• alice + freda forever by alexis coe
• behind the mask by matthew dennison

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AU: International pop sensation Hannah Montana and critically acclaimed actor Keanu Reeves are Hollywood’s hottest couple. The two have recently become engaged and on the night of Keanu’s first Oscar win, Hannah suffers a terrible accident whilst performing at her sold out show at Madison Square Garden. Hannah is rushed to hospital but there is nothing the doctors can do to save her life. Keanu is devastated and left with no option other than to terminate her life support.

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avouer:

17 Girls / 17 Filles (2011)

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disparition:

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fencehopping:

Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.

H O W 

like you can tell me all you want how the sound is stored in the grooves but fucking H O W 

HOW DOES THAT GET INTO THE NEEDLE

HOW ARE THE VIBRATIONS TURNED INTO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN HEAR???

H O W

The vibrations aren’t “turned into” music, they are music. When vibrations occur inside your inner ear, your brain processes this as sound.

The grooves in a record are an analogy for these vibrations, a method of remembering them so that they can be recreated later on. 

Put your hand on a speaker while loud music is playing and you’ll feel the vibrations. Those are exactly the same vibrations happening inside your ear when you hear the music. 

But how do you capture that? 

Take a surface that vibrates strongly when a sound is played, like the skin of a drumhead for example. Connect that surface to a little tool - when sound causes the surface to vibrate, the tool digs a little bit into some wax, leaving behind a pattern that matches - in proportion - the vibrations of the surface caused by the sound. This is your analogy (hence: analog music). 

Now, when there’s no sound playing, you run that little tool back over the pattern. This causes the skin to vibrate again, this time in response to the tool running over the pattern instead of because of an external sound. The vibrations should match, proportionally, the original vibrations of the music.. and thus these new vibrations, if you were to amplify them, would be a recreation or “recording” of the original music. 

That’s oversimplified of course and things have changed a lot since the days of wax, but that is very basically how the process of recording music worked at first, and the general idea of how sound gets from a groove in a record into your brain. 

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