Hamilton + Gay's The Word = INCREDIBLE WEEKEND

Hello my darlings! I went to see Hamilton in London last Friday and it was incredible! The cast are all really good, and I loved all of them. It's so different seeing it all in motion than listening to the soundtrack! I know, I know, Captain Obvious Is Obvious, but it adds such extra layers even when the music is so visual! Random things I wanna yell about:

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(I did end up dressing up for it, in the dress I wore to the Hugos and my "How do you write like you're running out of time" bracelet from thebaconfat in case anyone was wondering how that twitter panic turned out.) (Also: the theatre is NOT ACCESSIBLE. Fair warning.)

AND: I got to go to Gay's the Word, because it turns out that it's just the next stop from St Pancras? Their second hand gay fiction shelf wasn't that great when I went (there was a lot of DRAMA, like "our hero was abused as a child by a priest but now he's living high life with sex, drugs, rock and roll, a rentboy, and a lover with HIV" and you think I'm exaggerating but I swear to god that was the summary of a book I picked up. I just want the murder mysteries and the fantasy novels and... Things not set in the nineties US club scene?), but I ended up looking at pretty much every lesbian fiction book they had. And then I left with like eight mysteries with queer female leads, Carmen Maria Machado's short story collection, and a Lynn Flewelling book.

COME ON, IT'S ME, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT.

(Aside: if they have a bisexual section, I didn't see it. LGT, yes, all clearly labelled, and three separate non-fiction sections depending on whether you wanted history or sociology/politics or practical information, a kid's section, yep, but... No obvious shelf labelled bi? I must have missed it!)

But yes, WHAT A GOOD WEEKEND. There is probably more yelling to do and I am just too brainfried for it, but: SO GOOD. SO. GOOD. <3 And today I was a responsible adult who finally got around to booking a doctor's appointment to see if I DO have anxiety or just a bad personality, so I feel like I earned that weekend in advance. :)