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this is just my little gallery of media that i enjoyed (or want to enjoy when i have time!), found interesting, or was recommended. this page is an eternal work in progress, but if you have any recs based on what is posted here, please don't hesitate to drop them my way. it is also viewable on my dreamwith for easier reading! education and analysis 
these are only a few topics that personally interest me, i hope i can expand this section soon!
LESBIANISM, SEX, GENDER
- Stone Butch Blues; Leslie Feinberg
- The Lesbian S&M Safety Manual; Pat Califia
- Fucking Trans Women; Mira Bellwether
- The Femme Mystique; Lesléa Newman
- Celebrating Black Lesbian Thought: Spotlight on Ma Rainey; emily
- The Persistent Desire: a Femme-Butch Reader; Joan Nestle
- Transgender Liberation: a Movement Whose Time has Come; Leslie Feinberg
- It Ain't All Bad as it May Seem: Young Black Lesbians Response to Sexual Prejudice; Sarah J Reed, Maria T. Valenti
- Femme, Butch, Trans and Gender Queer Reading; A Compilation
- Beware the Bite of the Were-Lesbian; Hc Guinevere
- Melting the Stone; Persistently Fem
- Slick Lesbian Singers Through History; Girlfriends of Dorothy
- TransGothic in Literature and Culture; Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
- Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters; Judith Halberstam
- You've Been Traumatized Into Hating Reading (and it Makes You Easier To Oppress); Ismatu Gwendolyn
- Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny; RS Benedict
- In Defence of Critique: Let People Enjoy Not Enjoying Things; Charlie Squire
- Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert Humbert?: A Forum on "Likeability"; The New Yorker
- Mattel, Malibu Stacy, and the Dialectics of the Barbie Polemic; Charlie Squire
- Learn About Abolition; Charlie Squire
- An Unseemly Emotion: PW Talks with Claire Messud; Annasue McCleave Wilson
- booktok, brainrot, and why it’s okay to be a hater; alisha not alihsha
- Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation; Nicholas Sammond
- Resident Evil's Most Unsettling Theme Isn't Zombies - it's Eugenics; Kazuma Hashimoto
- Like a Dragon: Ishin! Can't Outrun the Yakuza series' past; Kazuma Hashimoto
- Resident Evil 4’s Creator Explains What Makes a Good Remake; IGN
- The Male Loneliness Epidemic and Silent Hill 2; MertKayKay
- A Thorough Look at Resident Evil; Noah Caldwell-Gervais
- Firearms Expert Reacts To Resident Evil 4 (2023)'s Guns; Gamespot
- Sephiroth and Me: Playing Final Fantasy VII As A Jewish Person; Ria Teitelbaum
- MetPublications; metropolitian museum of art books on various artistic and historical subjects
- Lavender Zines; archive of old lgbt+ magazines and media
- JSTOR.ORG; read academic papers
- Cowboy Frank; long-running gay bear's website with all kinds of resources and history
- LGBT+ History Across the Globe; multiple resources
- Anna's Archive; world's largest open library
- Butchspace; masterpost of butch literature (fiction and non)
- Google Drive; massive collection of penguin little black classics by @howlsbooks
leisure and fun 
stuff i always have on retainer for when i need a pick-me-up or just want to relax!
AMBIENCE
- The Tops Casino; Ambiance Magic
- Spencer Mansion Tour (playlist); ASMR in Games
- Team Fortress 2 Banana Bay; Source of Ambience
- Training School Main Hall; Atmospheric Gaming
- Resident Evil and Chill (playlist); mkfan786
- Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles/Wesker's Report; RE TV
- Wesker's Story [Report + Umbrella Chronicles Gameplay]; Wayne Bunnell
- Resident Evil 4 + Separate Ways (2023) Chronological Order; Gamer's Little Playground
- Resident Evil 5 Full Game Movie; Gamer's Little Playground
- Resident Evil 4 Original Site; Internet Archive (potential autoplay warning)
- Resident Evil Code Veronica Original Site; Internet Archive (potential autoplay warning)
- Resident Evil (2001) Original Site; Internet Archive (potential autoplay warning)
- Retro Raunch; archive of nude photos (nsfw)
- Gay Men's Magazine Scans; archive of vintage raunch magazines (nsfw)
- Inside Country Music Star Orville Peck's Mid-Century LA Treehouse; architectural digest
- Ghost of the Doll; 80s and 90s Toy Archive
- Pug Collectibles and Trinkets in the 1700 and 1800s; Geri Walton
- Nosferatu (2024) script; Deadline
- Resident Evil 4 (2023) script; Gamescripts Wiki Blog
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man-made natural disasters (titanic, hindenburg, cheronobyl), animatronics, kink/sex history, orcas, gender, crocodilians, horses, bovine, feminism, vultures, marine life, semi trucks, boats, trains, lesbian/lgbt+ history, videogame analysis
man-made natural disasters (titanic, hindenburg, cheronobyl), animatronics, kink/sex history, orcas, gender, crocodilians, horses, bovine, feminism, vultures, marine life, semi trucks, boats, trains, lesbian/lgbt+ history, videogame analysis
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