Thank god for fun books It's been 15 books since I've had a 5 star read, Tricia. Thank you for your service.
I cannot stress this enough: this is fuckinThank god for fun books It's been 15 books since I've had a 5 star read, Tricia. Thank you for your service.
I cannot stress this enough: this is fucking fun. Don't go into these books expecting the political drama and the world building of a lifetime. This is for those who love the sillier episodes of Buffy and won't apologize for it because, newsflash! if you read for entertainment, having a great time is the goal...more
Conflicted because it being short is the reason I gave it a try, yet after reading it, wishing it was 400 pages. This was wonderful. So wonderful, in Conflicted because it being short is the reason I gave it a try, yet after reading it, wishing it was 400 pages. This was wonderful. So wonderful, in fact, that I have decided to pick up the other books. I felt connected to every character despite not knowing them very much, the story was fast paces and interesting, the time jumps were executed perfectly and never confusing, it was sapphic, it had a cool ending, loved the writing style. Will update you when I read HMRC. [image]...more
r/AmItheAsshole Am I the AH for wearing white to my sister's wedding to the shadow king and ratting out my nemesis as a con artist before even cutting r/AmItheAsshole Am I the AH for wearing white to my sister's wedding to the shadow king and ratting out my nemesis as a con artist before even cutting the cake?
Fun! Fun! Fun!
“That we are. We are as arrogant as the gods, deciding who gets to live or die.” “If the gods didn’t want us killing men, then they shouldn’t have allowed them to hurt us so much.”
You get taken out by a pillow? [image]
Horns? [image]
Best boss ever founding a Book club [image]
Nico on a random Tuesday [image]
Happy couple [image]
The King and Queen waiting till they're done: [image]...more
Welcome to my rant! [Not about the book, though. The book was great]
I need people who’ve made certain classics their entire personality to stay away fWelcome to my rant! [Not about the book, though. The book was great]
I need people who’ve made certain classics their entire personality to stay away from retellings. This is very clearly not for you. It’s for people who like fun. If I read one more ‘’Ohhh nooo, they’ve ruined this one character! They would never do this! This is not how the story goes!!’’ I will become violent.
The only new-works-related-to-classics that need to respect all of that, are those that have been approved/requested-to-be-written by the people who own the original works. If you’re hired to write a new Nancy Drew novel, sure, you’ll have to follow their guidelines. Retellings are not it.
They’re supposed to change shit. Why would I pick up the same exact story, just worded differently by three new authors every year? This is madness. It’s a ‘’what if?’’
What if it happened during this time in history? What if we made this character good and this one evil? What if we added magic? What if we took the magic away? What if we tell it from someone else’s point of view and make the original protagonist unreliable? What if we add backstory to these unexplored characters? What if it’s gender-bent? What if [insert quite literally anything here]?
If a piece of literature is so dear to you, that any alteration to its original structure would be insulting, why would you purposefully pick up retellings? If you would only enjoy the exact same story but with more chapters, then you do not want a retelling. Leave them alone.
‘’Why not just write something else entirely if so much will be changed?’’ Because we like fun. It’s fun to be presented with something we know well and then have the whole thing turned upside down. It’s fun to have both the comfort of something familiar and the surprise of new shit. Everything has been done before, so we’re already taking inspiration from something else each time we come up with a story; it’s fun to lean on the inspiration if it comes from one obvious sourse.
I love Buffy. Would never pick up one of those Buffyverse-inspired novels. Because I know I’m way too attached to the original show, so I don’t want to read someone’s ‘’what ifs?’’. I don’t care about their takes on characters and storylines. In my brain, the actual show is untouchable. So I just.. don’t consume those novels.
Moulin Rouge meets Holly Black in a thrilling sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy
Contrary to men, women can actually be friendly before marriage This wMoulin Rouge meets Holly Black in a thrilling sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy
Contrary to men, women can actually be friendly before marriage This was wonderful! [image]...more
This book means everything to me and if you don’t like it you can suck my non-existent dick [image]
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The Golden Cobra at any given pointThis book means everything to me and if you don’t like it you can suck my non-existent dick [image]
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The Golden Cobra at any given point [image]
“Can I kneel at the altar?” “Sorry, what?” He lifted his head to kiss her mouth, deep and filthy. “May I speak in tongues at nature’s treasury?” She smiled bewilderment into the kiss. She didn’t know what he was talking about and didn’t care, as long as he didn’t stop. “What is the point of the king?” Key sighed, and slid down along her body to his knees. “Oh, you mean going down.” [image]
“Villains,” she announced. “Let’s unionize.” [image]
“I love you as a knife loves a throat,” he murmured as the dead overwhelmed her. “I crawled out of hell to fall at your feet.” [image]
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The king about to go down [image]
Biblically accurate Lia [image] [image]
“Apparently, the Cobra had made yet another fortune inventing ‘sunglasses’ last summer. ” [image]
Biblically accurate Emer [image] [image]
At the market [image]
Eric with his little meow meow [image]
Rae wearing red to get in the zone [image] [image]
Two theater kids in their favorite book that happens to have a musical adaptation [image] [image]...more
“Our mouths can no longer make words our throats cannot make sound but still we reach out. The living are so warm. Have you seen what has Outstanding.
“Our mouths can no longer make words our throats cannot make sound but still we reach out. The living are so warm. Have you seen what has been done to us? Do you understand? Do you feel it the way we felt it? Please say you do please”
This book was great; the characters, the concepts and magic system, the ambiance, but above all the writing.
“That is not self-betrayal. That is self-preservation.”
Being in Silas head this whole time and hearing all his thoughts about not only his own identity but women in general, and his interactions with the girls ended up being one of the best showcases about girlhood I’ve ever read. So thank you Andrew, for this.
“ I love women as men are expected to, but the way only one who has ever experienced womanhood can.”
I won’t write down a whole essay about the kinship between women and trans men cause this is just a quick silly review, but I think he put it into words so beautifully: having experienced what womanhood is, performed, imposed, knowing what it’s like to have the world see you this way, makes them have a level of empathy that cannot be learned any other way but by having been at the receiving end of this bullshit.
At the end of the day, we all know who the real enemy is. Cis men. Mostly from England.
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“How is that fair? How am I a bad person for not knowing things? I was a kid. I didn’t know what I was doing wrong. I didn’t understand.”
Ellen when someone else could leave before her
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Silas as soon as Daphne introduces herself
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“Or maybe I’m just confusing love with comfort, and I’m okay with that. Is there any difference between love and a safe harbor from a storm? Should there be?”
George when asked about his involvement [image]
Every adult here [image]
“My reflection is not my own. It is more a sculpture, an artist’s creation, than something that actually exists. It is something my parents would have commissioned to replace me.”
When the victim becomes an abuser by proxy, the current victim does now owe them understanding nor patience
Ooh, Miss Taylor Swift, the album you could write about this one...
“But this girl, this Carmilla… she undid all my domestication” I want to take a momeOoh, Miss Taylor Swift, the album you could write about this one...
“But this girl, this Carmilla… she undid all my domestication” I want to take a moment to convince every bi girl and lesbian reading this review to pick this book up, and I'll start with a few quotes to set the mood.
“I wanted nothing more than to be the voyeuristic ghost in the room when she read those poems in her bed at night.” [image]
“every inch the creature out of myth in her platform shoes”
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“Can I confess that I loved it? I loved getting under her skin. I loved knowing that, if I tried hard enough, my words could pierce the armor of her popularity and her persona and disturb something inside her”
“ I worked myself into a fever over her, hunched over my typewriter in my dorm room while my tea went cold on my bedside table”
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“I domesticated my own wildness, starved the odd appetites inside me. ”
“What was Carmilla when she wasn’t safely trapped behind the bars of one of my poems?” [image] [image]...more
Listen, I love dark, gothic, stories. We know that. But a soft, hopeful, sweet sapphic witch story might be all I need to be happy again
EDIT after finiListen, I love dark, gothic, stories. We know that. But a soft, hopeful, sweet sapphic witch story might be all I need to be happy again
EDIT after finishing it: It was. Do not be fooled by my tears. [image]
My usual TS playlist: -seven -But Daddy I Love Him -The Albatross -Timeless -Cruel Summer -It's Nice to Have a Friend -I'm Only Me When I'm With You -A Place in This World -Sweeter Than Fiction -Invisible String -Willow...more
A Sapphic Dark Fantasy with an animal-based magic system that challenges the idea of (soul)mates by focusing on compatibility. This is a fast-paced coA Sapphic Dark Fantasy with an animal-based magic system that challenges the idea of (soul)mates by focusing on compatibility. This is a fast-paced coming of age in the darkest times, with an academic setting as the force catapulting our characters into the people they could be, only if the decide to. I think this is, up until this point in time, the best example of a high fantasy novel that can be incredibly queer without feeling like it's pandering to the imaginary readers. Imagine a world where everyone is assumed bisexual and any variation of gender expression and expectation is accepted not with with an air of superiority and rainbow-washing, but with total normalcy instead.
I'm crossing my fingers, hoping this gets a big enough audience to one day find tiktok edits of Rosy x Who's Afraid of Little Old Me and Shaw x The Prophecy
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Now to the out of context memes
Rosy [image]
Our biggest enemy for the first month of class [image]
Shantie: If my calculations are correct you have to drink three times you body weight before it even started affecting their magic. And at that amount, some of the ingredients in here can become fatal
Rosy: [image]
The glass familiars' table [image]
Rosy switching from mouse to horse in 2.5 seconds [image]
