Stuff I distracted myself with before the move
Regency romances:
His At Night by Sherry Thomas: Regency romance about a DEEPLY messed up heroine who entraps a seemingly brainless lord into marriage to escape her abusive home...but he's secretly a spy! There's something very refreshing about Sherry Thomas's regencies, this one had decent portrayals of chronic illness, caring, abuse, homosexuality (very minor), and characters from genuinely difficult backgrounds while still being a fun romance. One of the early sex scenes pinged me as a bit rapey but I think that was a case of (intended) sexiness before clarity.
The Duchess War by Courtney Milan: I was told this was weak and it was. Not BAD, and I liked the characters, I just...didn't care about the romance as much as I wanted to, and somehow she made crossdressing boring. The other two books in this series are much more fun.
Live Action TV:
Death In Paradise: Another "black English actors pretend to be from an exotic locale" murder mystery show, this time set in the Carribean with more men and white people. I found the pilot much less annoyingly twee than the "Number One Ladies Detective Agency" but I felt a bit dirty watching it. Maybe when I'm SUPER bored.
Brooklyn 99: had a very satisfying end to Season 2.
Elementary: remains watchable.
Anime:
Toradora: Tall, intimidating, stoic guy ends up friends with tiny, loud, moody girl. I watched all of this quite quickly, and liked it! Unfortunately it's a romance where I cared more about the friendships, so while it valued the various friendships quite a lot and I liked the romance, the focus on the central romance at the end made me a little frustrated. I wanted them to all move in together as a big poly chosen family. Also, while the female characters are well rounded enough that I initially mistook it for shoujo, it gets a bit "all the girls love the main male character" near the end.
Witch Craft Works: the pilot was a bit nonsensical and I've heard it only gets worse from there so I stopped.
Kill la Kill: continues weird.
Sakura Trick: continues to be moe yuri fanservice.
Samurai Flamenco: Interesting take on superheroes in the real world with a central pair of guys with very different personalities, wasn't bad but I haven't felt inspired to watch more.
RWBY: Seemed like a VERY generic shonen-y "girl joins magical army school" anime from the pilot, except made by Americans with cell shaded CGI.
Manga and comics:
Aoi Hana: A cute highchool yuri manga which sadly contained enough scenes of young teenagers having angsty sex (often in flashback) to trigger my "sad children" and "children having sex" buttons and I had to stop reading.
Chaos Life: A cute and funny autobiographical gag comic created by a queer couple (an agender person and lesbian with schizophrenia) with cats. I've seen these all over tumblr but I didn't realise they were from the same comic. One cartoon really annoyed me, you'll probably know it when you hit it.
Visual Novels (links go to my new games tumblr which I totally forgot to announce here >.>):
Long Story: Demo for a nice but unexciting visual novel about a young American girl dealing with school. Probably more appealing to actual teenagers! It is quite pretty, and the creators are making a definite effort to include diverse sexualities and ethnicities. Doesn't do so well on disability but NOBODY EVER DOES.
Tarradhin: Game about privilege set in a slave-owning-human-sacrificing generic African Country, imo ends up pretty racist.
Coming Out on Top: Demo for a cheerfully explicit original slash dating sim. A bit stilted and not really my thing but seemed ok for what it was, I laughed in a few places, the characters were mostly likeable and I'm curious to know how the various plotlines will play out. Has three possible explicit scenes if you like that sort of thing. All the guys have similar hunky body types but you can add beards and body hair, lol.
Currently reading:
"Zero Sum Game" by S L Huang, urban fantasy about a woman with maths based superpowers. I started reading this and it was ok (and didn't piss me off like most urban fantasy, woo!) but I got distracted. That was while SUPER stressed about moving, I should pick it up again.
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