more sports, and spending the week alone
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isunshowerrecently had the pleasure of reading the prospects by kt hoffman which was a DELIGHTFUL romance novel about gay trans baseball. i was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to go along with the fiction. often in ownvoices rep like this--which really, tiktok diversity bingo is fine for YA but less so in books for adults--i get distracted by how unrealistic certain things are. not that diversity is unrealistic lol i live in a city on the east coast and live and work with almost entirely queer women, but there are times it just feels like the author is ticking boxes for social media points. not so here. the rep--deaf rep, service dog rep, lesbian rep, and of course the titular gay and trans baseball players--feels natural. he starts out by saying okay, this is a fantasy world first of all because there's a portland oregon major league team, work with me here. AND IT WORKS.
i think part of it is because gene's transness takes a backseat in the narrative. it's not ABOUT gene being the first trans baseball player in the major leagues, even though it is. yes there's institutional transphobia mentioned, but the bulk of the narrative is actually about the team changing around him and his boyfriend being in the closet. not sure i'm selling this well but the whole book flowed so naturally (even if i did only skim the sex scenes lol) and i cannot recommend it highly enough. also, i love the three kyles <3
and rather than finishing this book at work i finished it in my bedroom because guess what: after four and a half years i've tested positive for covid for the first time! i'm only a little bit miserable and mostly because i'm missing rehearsals, i'm in really minor discomfort and feel mostly fine. i've spent the week hiding from my roommate and, inexplicably, jumping back onto the doctor who bandwagon. i've got nearly 5k of self-indulgent torchwood post-canon oc fanfiction written on my phone that's about ella fitzgerald and grief and child soldiers and i think i might build it up into something sort of postable once i can sit down and plot out "gwen's canonical daughter's adventures as a doctor who companion" on my laptop in a few days. fucking surreal. it's been ten years (11?) since the summer i didn't have a camp to go to and i shut myself in my bedroom with my dad's laptop and binged the david tennant and matt smith series while literally every other room in our house was getting rewired. and here i am writing OC fanfiction in the year of our lord 2024.
because like the thing is it's actually sort of good and has themes and motifs. ok?
i think part of it is because gene's transness takes a backseat in the narrative. it's not ABOUT gene being the first trans baseball player in the major leagues, even though it is. yes there's institutional transphobia mentioned, but the bulk of the narrative is actually about the team changing around him and his boyfriend being in the closet. not sure i'm selling this well but the whole book flowed so naturally (even if i did only skim the sex scenes lol) and i cannot recommend it highly enough. also, i love the three kyles <3
and rather than finishing this book at work i finished it in my bedroom because guess what: after four and a half years i've tested positive for covid for the first time! i'm only a little bit miserable and mostly because i'm missing rehearsals, i'm in really minor discomfort and feel mostly fine. i've spent the week hiding from my roommate and, inexplicably, jumping back onto the doctor who bandwagon. i've got nearly 5k of self-indulgent torchwood post-canon oc fanfiction written on my phone that's about ella fitzgerald and grief and child soldiers and i think i might build it up into something sort of postable once i can sit down and plot out "gwen's canonical daughter's adventures as a doctor who companion" on my laptop in a few days. fucking surreal. it's been ten years (11?) since the summer i didn't have a camp to go to and i shut myself in my bedroom with my dad's laptop and binged the david tennant and matt smith series while literally every other room in our house was getting rewired. and here i am writing OC fanfiction in the year of our lord 2024.
because like the thing is it's actually sort of good and has themes and motifs. ok?
