Wrap-up: December 2021

After giving you a couple of entire year wrap ups in the form of best of posts (books and tv/film), we’re taking a quick step back with our final wrap up post of 2021, before we continue forward into January’s post. So, if you’re interested in what we read, watched and listened to in December, take a look!

What we read

Anna

🔥 Fanfik by Natalia Osińska (trans gay mc, gay li, gay side character) – 5 🌈 tw misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, misgendering, deadnaming, bullying, assault, suicide ideation, medication
Eighty Days by A.C. Esguerra (Asian-coded achillean mc, achillean mc) – 4 🌈 tw blood, death, torture, violence, abuse

Charlotte

Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson (nonbinary characters) – 4 🌈
ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson (nonbinary characters) – 4 🌈
The Tinder Box by Kate Elliott (sapphic mc, lesbian side character) – 4 🌈
August Heat by Hildred Billings (lesbian mcs) – 3 🌈
Lost Without a Claus by Kaya LaSalle (sapphic mcs) – 2.5 🌈

The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan (gay mc) – 3 🌈 cw for gore, violence, rape, past gang rape, adult-minor relationship, homophobia (inc. violence & slurs)
Things to Do Before the End of the World by Emily Barr (lesbian mc, British Nigerian sapphic li, bi side character) – 2 🌈
Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood (bi/pan mc, lesbian li, gay side characters) – 4 🌈 cw for violence, past suicides, period typical homophobia, implied homophobic assault, domestic abuse, past child abuse
Murder Under Her Skin by Stephen Spotswood (bi/pan mc, sapphic side characters) – 4 🌈 cw for drug use, violence, implied past child abuse
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (bi mcs) – 5 🌈 cw for mentions of self harm, depression

🔥 Season’s Change by Cait Nary (gay mc, bi mc) – 4 🌈 cw for internalised homophobia, implied past homophobic abuse [review]
The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough (Koori gay mc & li) – 3.5 🌈 cw for anti Indigenous racism, homophobic slurs, internalised homophobia
Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly (queer mc, pan nonbinary mc, lesbian & trans side characters) – 2.5 🌈 cw for misgendering, transphobia [review]
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (gay character) – 4 🌈 cw for implied past child abuse, suicide
Spellcloaked by Stephanie Burgis (sapphic mc & li) – 3 🌈

What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah (Nigerian sapphic mc) – 3 🌈 cw for femicide, suicide, adult minor relationship, child abuse, implied child sexual abuse
There is a Light by Ban Gilmartin (biracial Indian Scottish gay mc with depression and anxiety, bi mc, Black trans side character, nonbinary side character) – 5 🌈 cw for alcoholism, past drug use, past suicide, suicidal ideation
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison (gay mc, sapphic side character) – 4 🌈 cw for suicide
How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole (Black pan mc, Black lesbian mc) – 3 🌈
The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O’Donoghue (sapphic mc, bi genderfluid li, biracial Filipino Irish sapphic side character) – 4 🌈 cw for transphobia, homophobia, self harm [review]

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston (bi mc, lesbian li, dyslexic Black gay character, Black nonbinary achillean character, lesbian, gay, bi & nonbinary side characters) – 5 🌈 cw for religious homophobia
Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee (East Asian coded gay mc) – 2.5 🌈 cw for gore, violence, femicide, suicides, torture, child deaths
The Secret Sunshine Project by Benjamin Dean (Black mcs, lesbian character, gay side characters) – 3.5 🌈 cw for death of a parent [review]
Hope’s Last Refuge by Patrick Morgan (Black lesbian mc, sapphic li) – 1 🌈 cw for racism, racial slurs (n-word), violence, homophobia, homophobic slurs, torture, eye gore
Perpetual West by Mesha Maren (gay Mexican mc, bi Mexican mc) – 2 🌈 cw for violence, drug use, past death of a parent, disordered eating, zionism (mention of birthright trip), self harm, vomiting, torture

Edie in Between by Laura Sibson (sapphic mc, Black sapphic li) – 3 🌈 cw for death of a parent
Brother Red by Adrian Selby (sapphic mc & li) – 2.5 🌈 cw for gore, violence
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa (Mexican American gay mc, Vietnamese American gay li, gay, lesbian, bi & pan side characters) – 2.5 🌈 cw for parental abuse (verbal & physical), homophobic slurs, outing, mc is kicked out
Lie to Me by Kaitlin Ward (bi/pan mc, lesbian side character) – 1 🌈 cw for assault, murder
Evershore by Brandon Sanderson (nonbinary character) – 4 🌈

Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich (lesbian mcs, Filipino trans side character, gay side character) – 2 🌈 cw for grooming, adult minor relationship, lesbophobia, d slur, racial slurs
Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson (gay mcs, Black lesbian side character, lesbian side character) – 2 🌈 cw for kidnapping, forced drug use, torture, physical & emotional abuse
Kept Animals by Kate Milliken (lesbian mc, lesbian character, bi character) – 3 🌈 cw for car crash, child death, death of a parent, racism, past rape & on-page rape, animal death, lesbophobia, racial slurs
Obie is Man Enough by Schuyer Bailar (Korean American trans mc) – DNF cw (up to chapter 5) for deadnaming, transphobia, transphobic slurs, transphobic assault (ch. 3), homophobia, homophobic slurs

What we watched (and listened to)

Charlotte

Single All the Way (gay mc, Black gay li, gay side character) – 2 🌈

Anna

Single All the Way (2021), dir. Michael Mayer (gay mc, Black gay li, gay side character) – 2 🌈
Christmas at the Ranch (2021), dir. Christin Baker – 3 🌈
Every Time a Bell Rings (2021), dir. Maclain Nelson (lesbian mc, Black lesbian li) – 3 🌈
Silent Night (2021), dir. Camille Griffin (lesbian character, Black lesbian character) – 4 🌈
An Unexpected Christmas (2021), dir. Michael Robinson (lesbian character, lesbian side character) – 3 🌈

Music on repeat

still got me by Sean Doherty
Cherry by FLETCHER & Hayley Kiyoko
girls girls girls by FLETCHER
Needle & Thread by Sean Doherty
Tlen by WaluśKraksaKryzys

NAJGORSZE RZECZY by WaluśKraksaKryzys
Shameless by Tyler Glenn
Idealny syn by Arek Kłusowski
Mi Fiderò by Marco Mengoni & Madame
Personal Heaven by Michael Medrano