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ajibooks · 1 year

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I made a list of published books I've enjoyed with asexual and/or aromantic main characters for a friend on Discord and I am sharing it here with links.

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alloromantic asexual characters, primarily romance novels but have plots unrelated to the romance:

- The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz - my favorite f/f book, about a robot and a mechanic who works on robots. CW for bigotry (against robots). Sci-fi.

- The Rat-Catcher's Daughter by KJ Charles - m/f (cis man and trans woman). This one is loosely linked to a longer series but stands alone. Historical (late Victorian London).

- His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto - m/m, one man is a sex-repulsed asexual and the other is demisexual, they are co-workers who fall in love. Looks very normal from the cover and blurb but is actually very strange and dreamlike. Contemporary.

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aromantic characters:

- A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland - secondary world fantasy, aromantic bisexual main character, other queer characters.

- The Murderbot Diaries (series) by Martha Wells - sci-fi adventure novels. The main character is agender, aromantic, and asexual.

- The Dragon of Ynys by Minerva Cerridwen - fantasy and all-ages fairy tale about an aromantic asexual knight who befriends a dragon and finds queer family while on a quest.

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Possibly of interest but these do not have explicitly aro or ace characters:

- Sword Dance trilogy by AJ Demas - M/nb romance with intrigue and mystery. I read the nonbinary character as gray ace. There is on-page sex in this series (not in any of the other books I'm listing here). Secondary world fantasy (set in an imaginary version of the ancient Mediterranean).

- The Design by China Miéville - m/m with non-specific queer vibes, is not a story about being queer. Horror-themed. Historical (early 20th century). Audio version is free online here.

- The Apple-Tree Throne by Premee Mohamed - m/m (ish) but even less romance-y than the last one. Also horror-themed. Set in a fantasy version of post-WWI England. Audiobook is on Hoopla.

- The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley - m/m, definitely a romance but undefined in nature. Fantasy, magical realism. Historical (set in Victorian-era Peru).

#books #fiction #queer fiction #original fiction #my book lists

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smalltownfae · 1 year

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Here's a list that will be easier for most people to beat my score because I own too many ebooks that I don't read.

I got 43 out of 270 😂

#booklr #book list challenge #like before I feel like I am forgetting some books but oh well #I had to add fingersmith last minute xD #I had forgotten I had a digital copy of it because I finished it years ago #my book lists

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reclaiming-god · 5 months

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thinking about this today

#OP said the book is hunters in a narrow street #by jabra ibrahim jabra #going on my to read list #palestine

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supermarketcrush · 1 year

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what's a book you read as a teenager that was so magical and personally profound to you it literally changed your life, doesnt matter if the book was actually well written or not. mine's probably the catcher in the rye

#looking for books to add to my 2023 to read list mutuals plssss rb #rb game #by phoenix

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peevishpants · 1 year

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/ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\: u like book? u want buy book? two dollar *falls asleep*

available as a print here!

#CAT #artists on tumblr #i am going to make a list of every book in this drawing later #they are all some of my faves!!!#i ripped this joke from bts's suga from that show where they had to demonstrate american swag #weiwei art #pls reblog this its my favourite thing ive drawn all year

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nonasuch · 5 days

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#this list is pulled exclusively from books that are currently either in my home or in a box in my parents’ basement

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iphigeniacomplex · 5 months

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it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

#it speaks!#sondheim understood this with into the woods; the deconstruction of narrative itself is able to happen because we are able to believe in ->#<- the fairy tale logic he employs prior to this.#its a kids book but adam gidwitz understood this with a tale dark and grimm!!#cant speak for the rest of the series but that first book uses the absurdity of fairy tale logic to speak about the absurdity of ->#<- adulthood and the pedagogy present in many fairy tales to discuss the ways parents hurt their children.#rule of threes is important but theres so much on my list ive yet to read; always welcome recommendations.#fairy tales #into the woods #<- this comes from musings on how successfully i feel that musical functions so it gets the tag

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seasicksilver · 2 months

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reading the Iliad is an experience

#help how do i tag this #greek mythology #athena #ares #zeus #the iliad #genuinely this is untaggable #fan art #artists on tumblr #digital art #sketch #doodle #my art #the autism is winning. on book 11 of the iliad boys #i love how reading the iliad book 1 is like 'ok this isnt bad at all' then BOOM book 2 hits you with the biggest list of characters EVER #like oh okay this is what we're doing

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yrsonpurpose · 4 months

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He grabbed my hair in a way that made me understand the difference between rugby and football. bonus ±

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ajibooks · 1 year

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Published books I've read & recommend with a nonbinary main character or love interest in which you never learn the character's AGAB or too many details about their presentation.

Note that I'm not saying this quality is good or bad; it's just one way of writing nonbinary characters. Queer & trans identities are pretty much completely incidental in all these books.

Short list today - please add to it if you know of more:

Infernal Affairs by Jordan L. Hawk - Paranormal romance novella in which a male demon falls in love with a nonbinary human. This book is very funny and a little sexy, but the sex is not too explicit. This is the only one on today's list in which the nonbinary character does not have any point-of-view sections.

American Hippo by Sarah Gailey - Fantasy and alt-history about hippo-riding cowboys in the 1800s American South. This is primarily an action-adventure novel (with explicit violence) but the m/nb romance plot is fairly prominent. There is another nonbinary character as well (genderfluid).

The Heartbreak Handshake by JR Hart - Contemporary romance, m/nb pairing. Cute fake-dating plot, engaging characters, and a sweet small-town setting. Both characters are also ace-spectrum. Disclaimer: I beta-read this book.

Also of possible interest: Lock In series by John Scalzi - The main character's gender is not given, and you can imagine them any way you'd like. Their physical body is (sort of) separate from their consciousness, due to a disability accomodation. These are fun near-future sci-fi mystery novels and they don't have romance plots.

My previous book lists:

Books with trans men as main characters (x)

Books with aromantic and/or asexual main characters (x)

Books with grumpy/sunshine pairings (x)

#queer romance #books #lgbtq books #my book lists #romance novels

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smalltownfae · 1 year

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Books from around the world - start

I decided to track how many authors from different countries I have read. The results were not surprising, but they were upsetting.

1st place - US: 131 authors

U.S. Virgin Islands: Kacen Callender (Saint Thomas)

2nd place - UK: 70

3rd place - Japan: 35

4th place - France: 14

5th place - Canada: 12

Portugal: 8 (Augustina Bessa-Luís; Inês Botelho; Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen; Luís de Sttau Monteiro; Eça de Queirós; Aquilino Ribeiro; Gil Vicente; Alice Vieira)

Germany: 7 (Christiane Vera Felscherinow; Anne Frank; Cornelia Funke; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Brothers Grimm; Hanna Johansen; Patrick Süskind)

Australia: 3 (Liane Moriarty; C.S. Pacat; Markus Zusak)

New Zealand: 2 (Lloyd Jones; Juliet Marillier)

Brazil: 2 (Jorge Amado; Paulo Coelho)

Italy: 2 (Carlo Collodi; Elisabetta Gnone)

Sweden: 2 (John Ajvide Lindqvist; Astrid Lindgren)

Russia: 2 (Nikolai Gogol; Vladimir Nabokov)

Mexico: 1 (Tony Sandoval)

Poland: 1 (Andrzej Sapkowski)

Iceland: 1 (Sjón)

Singapore: 1 (Neon Yang)

Chile: 1 (Isabel Allende)

Czechoslovakia: 1 (Franz Kafka)

Spain: 1 (Laura Pérez)

Finland: 1 (Tove Jansson)

Denmark: 1 (Hans Christian Andersen)

Malaysia: 1 (Zen Cho)

The first 7 places don’t surprise me in the least, but I didn’t expect US to be that far ahead. I did this list for when I want to try authors from other countries in order to check the ones I already read at least a little from. I am surprised I only read one Spanish author to be honest.

#books #my book lists #I can stop reading french books since I got more than 10 authors covered XD #I joke #I happen to be interested in some french classics #I have been wanting to tackle some russian classics but they are all huge it seems #it will take me months to read one book

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why-the-heck-not · 8 days

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the saturday-sunday night diabolical "life is falling apart"- to do list followed by a mad scramble

#in the middle of said mad scramble bc ohmygod I have 30+ things on that to do list that I'd like to get done by Tuesday at the very VERY #latest so like eeee it's a uhh something something #my sunday's have been starting on saturday evenings lately time's getting more condensed !! yikes #no one ask me when I'm planning on sleeping if I'm here drinking coffee at 1:30am I don't know I'll cross that bridge when I get to it #studyblr #bookblr #booklr #aesthetic #books #study #reading #read #book #studyspo #april 2024 #2024

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theramblingvoid · 2 years

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Low level/continuous pain tips for writing

Want to avoid the action movie effect and make your character's injuries have realistic lasting impacts? Have a sick character you're using as hurt/comfort fodder? Everyone has tips for how to write Dramatic Intense Agony, but the smaller human details of lasting or low-level discomfort are rarely written in. Here are a few pain mannerisms I like to use as reference:

General

Continuously gritted teeth (may cause headaches or additional jaw pain over time)

Irritability, increased sensitivity to lights, sounds, etc

Repetitive movements (fidgeting, unable to sit still, slight rocking or other habitual movement to self-soothe)

Soft groaning or whimpering, when pain increases or when others aren't around

Heavier breathing, panting, may be deeper or shallower than normal

Moving less quickly, resistant to unnecessary movement

Itching in the case of healing wounds

Subconsciously hunching around the pain (eg. slumped shoulders or bad posture for gut pain)

Using a hand to steady themself when walking past walls, counters, etc (also applies to illness)

Narration-wise: may not notice the pain was there until it's gone because they got so used to it, or may not realize how bad it was until it gets better

May stop mentioning it outright to other people unless they specifically ask or the pain increases

Limb pain

Subtly leaning on surfaces whenever possible to take weight off foot/leg pain

Rubbing sore spots while thinking or resting

Wincing and switching to using other limb frequently (new/forgettable pain) or developed habit of using non dominant limb for tasks (constant/long term pain)

Propping leg up when sitting to reduce inflammation

Holding arm closer to body/moving it less

Moving differently to avoid bending joints (eg. bending at the waist instead of the knees to pick something up)

Nausea/fever/non-pain discomfort

Many of the same things as above (groaning, leaning, differences in movement)

May avoid sudden movements or turning head for nausea

Urge to press up against cold surfaces for fever

Glazed eyes, fixed stare, may take longer to process words or get their attention

Shivering, shaking, loss of fine motor control

If you have any more details that you personally use to bring characters to life in these situations, I'd love to hear them! I'm always looking for ways to make my guys suffer more write people with more realism :)

#voidrambles #writing #whump #does this count as that? whatever those folks will probably enjoy it at any rate #this is honestly mostly for my own reference but i hope it can maybe help some other people too :)#I'm so pulled in by books that write pain in a human and detailed way and not just when it's dramatic or intense #would love to see more of that and incorporate it into my own writing #oh i should have added. distraction seeking to that list #like writing a really long post about.#...yes i may be chronically ill and having a flare today and yes i may be farming myself for writing tips for Future Me hdgfhfhsjs #but hey gotta do your research somewhere babeyyy it all goes in the creativity soup #tw injury #tw illness

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deoidesign · 1 month

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