Hello, everyone! Welcome back!
Spring has sprung in New England, at least for now. I’ve experience snow days in mid-April, so I know not to get too comfortable.
Tonight, I’ll be playing pub trivia! I haven’t done that in so long and I’m excited to get together with some of my dear friends. We’re also reconvening our D&D sessions this Sunday! We put them on pause for the holidays and for moving apartments. Hopefully my dice rolls aren’t too rusty.
If you’re into board games, my friend recommended Dungeons, Dice and Danger. You roll dice to progress through a dungeon, though people can make different pairs equaling different sums to guide their characters down different paths. It’s quick to learn and games usually take about an hour or so. There are also four different maps to choose from.
Lots of things are movin’ and groovin’ on this end. How about you?
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Love’s Sweet Arrow, a romance bookstore in the Chicago area is moving spaces and needs the community’s help! You can donate through their GoFundMe here.
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I know this is an old story, but it popped up on my Instagram feed by one of those promoted media aggregate accounts. However, I think a dog named Friar Mustache, adopted by monks, is an evergreen topic.
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Autostraddle, a digital publication serving queer communities, is at risk of closure. We’re big fans of Autostraddle and hope you are too! There are several ways to help the site, including memberships and donations.
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Did you hear that Penny Reid launched a Kickstarter to celebrate ten years of Knitting in the City?! There are special editions, knitting patterns, and swag up for grabs as part of the campaign.
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I don’t typically care about awards season, but I was so happy to see all the awards won by Everything Everywhere All At Once. If you’re also in love with that movie as much as I am, enjoy this video of outtakes!
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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
For fans of queer romance, I love Sky Kilean’s monthly posts with new & recent queer romances – focused on self-pub, small press, and marginalized authors writing books that can get overlooked. You can also sign up for the newsletter.
https://skyewritesromance.com/new-queer-romances-march-2023/
Just discovered Cinema Therapy through their YouTube discussion, “Relationship Therapist Ranks LOVE ACTUALLY Romances” (https://youtu.be/kR6H4eGHZJM). While it is a Christmas episode covering a movie that I truly, deeply and madly HATE (!!!), the insights into romance in this movie and more broadly were outstanding. According to the blurb: “Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright rank the relationships in Love, Actually to show which ones are the healthiest, and which ones seemed doomed for failure (or at least some pretty major problems to work through.) Love Actually is in love with the idea of love, but there’s a difference between love, lust, and infatuation — it takes a lot more to make a lasting relationship work than the infatuation most of the relationships in this movie are based on.” Some of the other movies they take on in other episodes include, “Titanic,” “The Addams Family,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “Spirited Away,” and “Disney Romances” (1 & 2).
Talking about D&D reminded me I recently saw this article on the Polygon webiste. Looks like some interesting options for more role-play heavy gaming!
https://www.polygon.com/what-to-play/23632869/dnd-dungeons-dragons-alternatives-role-play-storytelling
The dog adopted by monks is a very good doggie, and the way they talk about him is so wholesome.
The Trans Rights Readathon is going on through March 27! It’s been great to see what everyone is reading and which organizations they’re donating to. https://bookriot.com/trans-rights-readathon/