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luxaofhesperides · 6 months

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OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

miri + leah

#our wives under the sea #julia armfield #collage #digital collage #litedit #bookedit #adultlit #sapphic fiction #lgtbq lit #my edit #finally got my own copy of this book after reading a library copy!! gonna reread this SO many times

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insomniac-arrest · 7 days

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Before June Pride is in full swing, check out these free queer reads

#freebies #lgtbq+#free books #queer books

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victoriadallonfan · 4 months

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There's Shadiversity drama????

I just know him as the funny shout man complaining about back sheaths.

Oh you have no idea.

Dude is an absolute alt-right moron. He got upset his daughter enjoyed Princess Peach, because Princess Peach wore pants and wasn’t a damsel in the Super Mario movie.

He openly says that he doesn’t believe people of the same sex should be able to get married.

He follows Matt Walsh (open fascist and Nazi), and several other white supremacist/alt-right YouTubers/podcasters/comic writers (including that former Injustice artist who went on to work on the “Blacklist Comic Universe”… because he got banned from mainstream comics for being an asshole)

He openly believes that women are biologically inferior to men and that they should be satisfied with the “soft power” they have as “home makers” and not focus on politics or wanting more rights.

He wrote a book called “Shadow of the Conqueror” which has a Mary Sue Hitler/Stalin/Mao expy who is 90 years old be given a “sexy” 17 year old body and tries to romance one of his many rape victims (who was 14 when the MC raped her as an adult btw, which makes her 40 years old by the time of the story starts…) and then beats her up and mocks her when she realizes he’s her rapist… while also claiming he can’t die because being allowed to live and see how much he’s hurting her is “a punishment greater than death”) to him.

Also when he’s confronted by all his former rape victims, the MC notes that the ones who were REALLY upset were women who didn’t get pregnant from said rape. Also also, any woman who is raped and exposed to darkness in the setting turns into sex crazed succubi (only the women and only by men; men can’t be raped or molested, not even his son whom the MC kills by impaling anally with a broken piece of wood) . Not that you would notice because literally every single woman, especially the sexually abused ones, throw themselves at the MC to have sex with them

You know what, go watch this review of the book

Anyways, after the book came out and more and more people started to realize this book is awful, sexist, homophobic (guess how many times the MC calls his friend gay… even for things as simple as “hey do you want to just walk around town and enjoy the view?”), and rape apologetic, Shad then created a video where he decides to read only positive (some of them non verified book purchasers) recent reviewers but is not smart enough to edit out the negative reviews that he scrolls by, so you can pause the video and read the ones that point out how bad the book is.

He is just a stupid, petty, bigoted man

#shadiversity #Shadiversity is a bigot #book review #bigotry #lgtbqia+#shadow of a conqueror #lgtbq #tumblr #books #book #alt right #Parahumans

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annoyingvoidzombie · 10 months

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The little sad smile Henry let's out as Bea mentions "At least you'll never be king" is both happy and sad because he just feels like he let down both himself and Britain, but Henry baby.. my sweet baby, you'll always be "His Majesty" to Alex ❤️

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rogue205 · 9 months

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Looking at Heartstopper, Red White and Royal Blue and lastly Young Royals… did anyone notice that the protagonist couples are almost exact duplicates of each other? In looks I mean.

Two exceptions are that Alex doesn’t necessarily have a curly ‘fro like the other two do and Henry has blond hair as opposed to red(ish). (Likely bc they’re on Amazon. 🤷‍♀️ Otherwise Henry would have the same darker hair as the others and Alex’s hair would be way more curly if Netflix got them)

Is this apparently the only way one can depict a same sex couple these days? 🤔

#don’t get me wrong #I LOVED red white and royal blue #fan of the book too #heartstopper is adorable #actually just found out about young royals 🤔#but seriously #Netflix the word is creativity #I think RWRB gets a pass because it’s on Amazon prime #no LGTBQ hate here #I swear!#just an observation I made #idk 🤷‍♀️#heartstopper #red white and royal blue #young royals

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fangirlforthewin · 9 months

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LGTBQ+ Protagonist Book Recommendations

Mostly young adult, but they're still good and highly recommended. These are all mostly fantasy because that's all I read, so I hope you like fairies, and prince/princesses, and pirates!

Please feel to add your favorite recs to the list!

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Captive Prince by C.S Pacat

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adriene Tooley

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Colthurst

Breaking Legacies by Zoe Reed

A Song of Silver and Gold by Melissa Karibian

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yael-moxic · 5 months

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So here it is boys and girls, my first book I wrote and let me tell you... As someone who has a broken heart herself right now... I literally kind of put a lot of my own pain in this. But instead of harsh reality, this should leave you with a big smile and a warm and fuzzy feeling in the end. You might also want to strangle or slap these two idiots occacionally, maybe you'll also have a chuckle and later on it might even get spicy 🤭 So definitely not safe for work peeps...

But in the end... well, you'll see. 🤗 So get yourself a nice cup of coffee or tea, snuggle in and get yourself a treat with my two idiots Jasper and Oliver. 😊

Have a look here~

Oh and for anyone who is interested, I also made the cover myself. What do you guys think? I might change it later on, as I can never settle for just one 🤭 lol... anyway. For now I very much like it. Have fun!

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cosmo-lexies · 2 months

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OC Picrew Tag

No one tagged me but I don't see this tag game lately and I really want to play and here we are.

Rules: Use THIS picrew to make your OC's!

I'm working on and publishing Wolf Trip, a bi romantic werewolf story (yeah, I have finally dared with a romantic story). The protagonists are Jon (Jonathan Thompson) a seventeen-years-old suburban guy who has been bitten, and Romulo Winterstorm a nineteen-years-old dominant (it's an alpha but I don't wanna call him in that way, okay) who is trying to protect Jon while they are travel to his pack in the other coast of America

Jon Romulo

I have some new mutuals that I met thanks to writblr and I'm gonna tag you. But this is a gentle tag, if you feel like playing, good. If not, good too. This is for fun.

@vyuntspakhkite-l-darling @luchadorbard @chewingonmylaptop @stesierra @spitefulbull @pluto-murphy-writes

#writers on tumblr #tag game #writblr #writing #creative writing #fiction #lgtbq #writers #writblr tag games #books #fantasy #romantic #writeblr #werewolf

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biggayenergypod · 5 months

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We are covering Red, White, and Royal Blue next on the podcast! Our discussion episodes are releasing later this month, and we will have interviews throughout the next 2 months. Make sure you are subscribed to our YouTube channel or following on podcast platforms so you don't miss anything!

#red white and royal blue #prince henry rwrb #rwrb movie #rwrb #casey mcquiston #first prince #prince henry of wales #alex claremont diaz #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #representation matters #lgtbq book #big gay energy podcast

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deducemyheart · 9 months

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If you’re looking for a book to read, please consider The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. The characters are so endearing to the point that I can’t stop thinking about them, and the love story is so gentle and precious. I’ve read it twice and plan to read it many more times. It’s one of those special books that I dearly wish I could read again for the first time.

#tj klune #the house in the cerulean sea #book recommendation #lgtbq characters #it’s a love story #sooo fluffy #with a dash of angst

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demi-shoggoth · 8 months

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2023 Reading Log, pt. 11

51. The Book of Fun by Russ Frushtick. This is a collection of anecdotes about and descriptions of various ways that people have fun, such as toys, games, festivals and theme parks. Each page has a paragraph or two of text and a painting to accompany it, and the book covers everything from the history of Coney Island to the time World of Warcraft had a plague. It’s a fun little miscellany, a good bathroom reader type of book, but not very substantial.

52. Queer Ducks (And Other Animals) by Eliot Schrefer. This book is aimed at young adult audiences (think high school students) and is about animal sexuality. It summarizes quite a bit of research, including pretty new material, covering homosexual behavior in animals. The thesis, of course, is that animals have a wide range of sexual behaviors, so these existing in humans as well is perfectly natural. The book also has interviews with a number of queer biologists about their research and their experiences with representation, intersectionality and other topics. Plus, there’s cartoons! Honestly, the cartoons are probably my least favorite part; they’re cute and have a funny premise (a QSA meeting at a high school for animals), but the animals are all mean and judgy with each other. This feels like it misses the point, even if it might be more accurate to the high school experience. Still, the writing is good, and it covers some stuff I had never heard of, like velvet bucks and other mammals that have common intersex members.

53. Sentient by Jackie Higgins. This book is about senses, using examples from the animal kingdom as a launching point to discuss how the sense works in humans. The book starts with vision, covering the many (tumblr famous) cones of the mantis shrimp, but how recent evidence suggests their color vision isn’t actually particularly good. I was familiar with most of the animal examples discussed, but a lot of the content on human health and senses was new to me. The material that wasn’t new to me, like the controversy over whether humans have pheromones are not, is told very well. And the coverage of the different kinds of touch, and how humans have touch receptors that seem to be linked to areas that are commonly groomed in other primates that are connected to things like mood and mental health… well, that helped put my touch starvation into context.

54. The Devil’s Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching. I usually quite like Edward Brooke-Hitching books, so this one was something of a surprise disappointment. The book talks about how different religions and cultures have conceptualized heavens, hells and other afterlives, with copious illustrations. My first complaint is the sorting into heavens and hells, when a lot of the afterlives discussed don’t really fit into the model of paradise or torment. The coverage of each is pretty superficial—there’s a post-script about utopias (including More’s Utopia) that I feel could have been cut in place of more thorough takes on the religions. My biggest complaint, though, is an editing one. No fewer than eight chapters are cut off, so that the last sentence (or even paragraph) is incomplete. It’s remarkably frustrating, and it took me right out of the book.

55. Snakes of the World by Mark O’Shea. Another in the X of the World series put out by Princeton University Press, this is pretty similar in content to the other books in the series. The first quarter or so of the pages are devoted to an overview of the biology of the group, and the rest of it is surveys of its biodiversity, organized by subfamilies and geographic regions. Mark O’Shea also wrote Lizards of the World, and this book seems in many ways to be a direct sequel to it. The main draw, of course, are the species accounts, which include gorgeous photography of a wide variety of species, including some very obscure taxa.

#reading log #snakes #herpetology #comparative religion #folklore #art book #animal behavior #neuroscience #biology #lgtbq #queer #games

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themutantages · 2 years

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Shout out to X-Men Evolution for throwing in a family portrait of Rogue with her two Moms.

#x-men #x-men evolution #gay #lgtbq #destiny #mystique #marvel #marvel comics #comics #comic books #the mutant ages #mutants

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brunette-crisis · 6 months

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Let me write for you. The Shadow can fulfill your every desire. It lives to please so long as you submit.

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(I’ve always been told I have nice hands so I did a little photoshoot and thought it came out great. Below are some of my favs. Please send me validation if you like I’m a slut for praise.)

#smut #books #18+ only #18+ account #bd/sm kink #corruption kink #branding #brainwashing #lgtbq community #bdsmkink #bdsmplay #bd/sm community #smut writing #smut blog #trans nsft #lgbt nsft #my post

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 5 months

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Queer Holiday Books

🦇 Good afternoon, my wonderful bookish bats. I'm LOVING all your amazing holiday book guides, but what about adding a few queer holiday books to the list? Here are a few to consider asking for under the tree this year!

✨ Sapphic 🌟 Season of Love by Helena Greer 🎁 Under the Mistletoe by Everly James 🌟 Checking it Twice by Lucy Bexley 🎁 Under a Falling Star by Jae 🌟 Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun 🎁 In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae 🌟 Silent Night by Lily Seabrooke 🎁 The Christmas Ball by Lily Seabrooke 🌟 Christmas in Mistletoe by Clare Lydon 🎁 All I Want for Christmas by Clare Lydon 🌟 Higher by Roz Alexander 🎁 Collie Jolly by Leigh Landry 🌟 The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish (also m/m) 🎁 How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow 🌟 Monica Adams Skips Christmas by Krista Harper 🎁 Whiteout (Anthology) 🌟 Set the Record Straight by Hannah Bonam-Young 🎁 Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

✨ Gay 🌟 Faux Ho Ho by Nathan Burgoine 🎁 A Boyfriend for Christmas by Jay Northcote 🌟 Glass Tidings by AJ Cousins 🎁 What Happens at Christmas by Jay Northcote 🌟 You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky 🎁 The Working Elf Blues by Piper Vaughn 🌟 Merry Elf-ing Christmas by Beth Bolden 🎁 Let Your Hearts Be Light by Fae Quin 🌟 Merry & Sprite by Dani Lakely 🎁 In the Winter Woods by Isabelle Adler 🌟 Tangled in Tinsel by Ellen Mint 🎁 The Inside Edge by Ashlyn Kane

✨ M/F 🌟 Meet Me in Los Feliz by Kelly Reynolds 🎁 The Mistletoe Motive by Chloe Liese 🌟 A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

✨ Nonbinary 🎁 Sugar & Spice by Eli Wray 🌟 The First Noel by Eli Wray 🎁 Secret Santa by Eli Wray 🌟 Christmas Inn Maine by Chelsea M. Cameron

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annoyingvoidzombie · 11 months

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"Christ, you are as thick as it gets" he says, and he grabs Alex's face in both hands and kisses him.

And in that moment I knew with all my heart, someone there truly, deeply, madly has read the book, thank you for that ❤️🤍💙

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theultimatenonbinarynerd · 14 days

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Introducing The Rainbow Book Club

Introduction

In its bid to listen to fans, Storygraph has finally allowed for Book Club and I think it's great as it brings a bit more community into the app. This has been a long time over due and I'm absolutely buzzing with excitement.

For those who don't know advocating through reading is a huge passion of me. I'm a 100% on the train of trying to diversify your tbr and as a queer person I've felt it especially important to get queer literature out there. I've set up an Lgtbq+ Book Club at my college and hopefully at my university. Its a way to have a space for people to explore different queer books and find ones they might not even be aware of.

Its been fun running an in person Book Club so I knew I wanted to do one online so let me introduce you too...

What Is The Rainbow Book Club?

Under a much better name then Lgtbq+ Book Club, The Rainbow Book Club is going to be an online Book Club open to everyone that will focus on reading and discussing Lgtbq+ Books. All books will be books that are labelled as and include Lgtbq+ representation.

The goal of this book club is to get people to essentially read with pride and each month on the Storygraph a poll will go up so that people can vote for the queer book they want to read. Unfortunately it'll have to be queer books I've read as it's harder to do an online Book Club without having read the book.

It'll run entirely online with this year's sessions being sometimes on tik tok live whilst other times zoom. From January 2025 though all book club discussions will be hosted on my tik tok live. Depending on circumstances as I'm aware America is potentially gonna have the app banned all together. I'd love to do zoom but I think larger numbers are more likely to be on live streaming.

When Will The Book Discussions Take Place?

All Book Discussions will take place on the last Sunday of each month from 8:30 GMT in order to give non UK folk a chance to join if they want too. So for example May and June's meetings will take place on the 26th and then the 30th. Unless I get ill or promptly too tired or something comes up, I intend to stick to the schedule.

I'll also be hosting readalongs on the side of Storygraph for anyone who just wants to take part on the reading side and not the discussion part.

For the first meeting we will be discussing Pageboy By Elliot Page. I thought I'd be best to starting with a queer book I've recently read in order to refresh the mind. On the 26th of May I'll be hosting a live stream discussion about Pageboy on my tik tok @fierymelody and will invite those to take part in the discussion on screen if they wish to be part of the live. I'll last from an hour as I won't be constraint by not paying for zoom.

Conclusion

I'm very excited to have set this up and I hope that it can evolve and gain more members once I've got into the flow of things better. Pageboy and Loveless are the first two picks and I'm excited to get many more after June's ended. Although the polls are still gonna consist of books I've read I'm sure the discussions are gonna be super interesting. Won't spoil but I certainly have some interesting thoughts about Pageboy.

I hope things go well and I'm gonna try get my tbr more diverse so that there's more diverse poll choices. I'm very excited to get this started. I've also made rules banning problematic authors and I'm gonna do my best to stick to that. Hopefully despite starting uni this year I can make things work. I'm really looking forward too it.

I'm sorry to say but after having both Storygraph and Goodreads, Storygraph has way better visually looking book club page. Now book clubs are here I hope it gets Storygraph haters quieter about the fact it had no social connections but now it does.

I use both but prefer Storygraph.

For those interested see you May 26th.

-Melody-

They/Them

#storygraph #book club #bookish #bookworm #booklover #book tumblr #bookblr #lgtbq community #lgtbqia+#lgtbtq #own voices #queer representation #queer authors #pageboy

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