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LGBTQ Rec: Young Royals (tv show)
O M G! I can't express how excited I am about this show right now. Last year (century?) we got Red, White and Royal Blue a sort of young adult but not really romance between a fictional prince of England and the bisexual biracial first son of the United States (also fictional lol). But if you read and wanted visuals... here we come! The Swedish got you covered with Young Royals where the second prince of the Swedish Crown falls for his working-class biracial classmate at boa

N.J. Lysk
Jul 7, 20211 min read


Foreign languages—suggestions for writers
So the question of whether you should include foreign languages in your fiction comes down to whether you have a reason to do it at all. And no, ambience is not a reason. As a rule of thumb, the answer is just don’t. First of all, every word you write in a foreign language is a word you’re writing blind (obviously this is not the case if you’re a fluent bilingual) trusting another person to have understood what you meant and translated the nuance properly. Alternative: use

N.J. Lysk
Jul 26, 20203 min read


Queer foreign cinema and TV shows you shouldn’t miss. Subtitles are like reading, honest!
XXY (ARGENTINA) : Named after the intersex syndrome and more accurate in its representation of ambiguity than concerned with medical precision, it follows Alex, an intersex teenager presenting as a girl whose parents decided to refuse surgery for their baby. Alex is 15 and rapidly running out of time to get surgery before puberty hits full on and a surgeon comes from the capital to try and talk the family into operating. The surgeon brings along his own teenage son and Alex a

N.J. Lysk
Oct 20, 20183 min read
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