My #TBRChallenge read was Dauntless, a gay romance with some mystery set on a very isolated Australian island. Bonus Simpsons overtones. 😂
https://willaful.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/tbr-challenge-dauntless-by-lisa-henry-and-j-a-rock/
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wil
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Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter.
#ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub
My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance.
My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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pronouns, for now:
they/she
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litsy, dumb industries, the satellite of love
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Community, The Good Place, Scrubs
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The Department of Queer Complaints
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 13, 2026
@azteclady I've almost finished The Book Witch and I think you should read it!
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@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 12, 2026
#AmReading, still, The Book Witch and interested in where the plot is going. Also, the "fictional" Duke is decidedly charming.
But it's driving me up the wall that a book so obviously designed to appeal to book lovers (both the story and the physical object) has editing/proofreading mistakes! I bet it drives the author up the wall too. The Book Witch herself must be dying of embarrassment.
@bookstodon
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But it's driving me up the wall that a book so obviously designed to appeal to book lovers (both the story and the physical object) has editing/proofreading mistakes! I bet it drives the author up the wall too. The Book Witch herself must be dying of embarrassment.
@bookstodon
#RomanceBooks
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@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 12, 2026
@alissaazar Freak out ICE and support the sex toy industry!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 11, 2026
@azteclady love it!
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@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 07, 2026
@SuperWendy Those didn't help either. :-( @azteclady
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@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 06, 2026
I read To Broadway by Maurane Mazars, a #GraphicNovel with images that made me think of Jules Feiffer's passionate modern dancers. That's apt because it's set in the late 1950s.
Uli is a young gay man studying dance at a prestigious studio in Germany. But no one there understands his love for popular dance. (One of my favorite scenes is of him alone in a theater, entranced by what I recognized as an impressionistic watercolor vision of "An American in Paris.")
He decides to pursue his Broadway dream, but nothing is as he expected; his new friends mock pop culture too, and the Black American dancer he fell for in Germany won't pursue a relationship with him.
There's not a lot of text in this--it's mainly images and atmosphere and you have to work a bit to follow the story. I found it very relatable and often beautiful.
(Thanks to the #QueerLiberationLibrary for making the book available)
@bookstodon
#Bookstodon
#AmReading
#LGBTQBooks
Uli is a young gay man studying dance at a prestigious studio in Germany. But no one there understands his love for popular dance. (One of my favorite scenes is of him alone in a theater, entranced by what I recognized as an impressionistic watercolor vision of "An American in Paris.")
He decides to pursue his Broadway dream, but nothing is as he expected; his new friends mock pop culture too, and the Black American dancer he fell for in Germany won't pursue a relationship with him.
There's not a lot of text in this--it's mainly images and atmosphere and you have to work a bit to follow the story. I found it very relatable and often beautiful.
(Thanks to the #QueerLiberationLibrary for making the book available)
@bookstodon
#Bookstodon
#AmReading
#LGBTQBooks
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 05, 2026
@SuperWendy I was using a google account, though I prefer not to so thanks for changing it. I'll see if it works now. @azteclady
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 05, 2026
@SuperWendy Something going on with your site? I haven't been able to leave a comment.
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@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 03, 2026
@azteclady I just discovered I can turn on notifications for you. Hooray!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Apr 01, 2026
I'm still reading my fourth #TransRightsReadathon book (Pretty by KB Brookins -- it's intense and can't be gulped down) so I've donated $40 to the Transgender Law Canter and $40 to a local organization that I've found helpful.
I haven't seen a whole lot of posts about the readathon this year, I hope people are talking about it other places.
I haven't seen a whole lot of posts about the readathon this year, I hope people are talking about it other places.
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@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Mar 29, 2026
@electricbraindump@mementomori.social Welcome! I'm not sure if we have a specifically AuDHD group here but there's lots of autistic folks. Check out @autistics@fedigroups.social and #ActuallyAutistic for some connections.
You might also enjoy this site, we watch all kinds of music videos and lesser known movies.
https://dumb-industries.com/weird
You might also enjoy this site, we watch all kinds of music videos and lesser known movies.
https://dumb-industries.com/weird
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Mar 21, 2026
My second #TransRightsReadathon book was Women's Hotel by Daniel Lavery. I immediately felt right at home, because though set in 1960s Manhattan, it reminded me so much of the sort of classic British books #FurrowedMiddlebrow reprints -- which I later learned was quite deliberate. https://mainstreetmag.com/a-conversation-with-daniel-m-lavery/
I thought it somewhat lacking in plot and through line -- which can be an issue for me with those books as well. Perhaps Lavery found the perfect way to play to his strengths and weaknesses as a writer, by being somewhat out of time.
My favorite part of the book was the depiction of early AA and one character's journey with alcoholism.
@bookstodon
#LBGTQBooks
#HistoricalFiction
I thought it somewhat lacking in plot and through line -- which can be an issue for me with those books as well. Perhaps Lavery found the perfect way to play to his strengths and weaknesses as a writer, by being somewhat out of time.
My favorite part of the book was the depiction of early AA and one character's journey with alcoholism.
@bookstodon
#LBGTQBooks
#HistoricalFiction
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Mar 16, 2026
@MicroSFF very happy-making.
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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wil
@wil@beige.party
Reader, dancer, gardener, parenter. #ActuallyAutistic #Bloomscrolling #Bookstodon #RomancelandiaClub My background is a screen shot from the game #JustDance. My avatar is fan art of Garnet and Stevonnie from #StevenUniverse playing #DDR together. If you know the artist, please let me know so I can credit them!
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Mar 02, 2026
@herhandsmyhands LOL! That professor knows what's she's doing!
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