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that-bookworm-guy · 4 months

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I got my favourite books subscription back!!

They do ship internationally but check shipping prices and time!!

I've had incredible books from them!! Books from different cultures, books that have been translated into English, and books I maybe wouldn't have picked up myself but still ended up loving!!

Check them out here

#books #booklr #book blog #book #bookblr #book blogger #bookworm #nerd #geek #book lover #queer book box #queer books #queer #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq

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stardustandrockets · 10 months

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What's a book that left you speechless?

It has been a while since I've read Blackfish City. This dystopia novel takes place on a floating city in the Arctic Circle. It's a queer, multi-POV story that will leave you questioning a lot of things. At least, it did me. I remember really liking how thought-provoking and relevant the story was. It took me a little bit to get through, but was so worth it. The twist and turns and how the author weaves the characters' stories together left me speechless at the end.

Have you read it? I was lucky enough to get a copy annotated by the author from a book box that no longer exists and it's so fun to have that insight.

Today is the last day of the 'Fight Like Hell' @rainbowcrate challenge. The prompt was to showcase the mug inspired by The Deep by Rivers Solomon with something watery. What better than a book set on a floating island in the Arctic and turning my dining room windows into the ocean? 😉

Synopsis: After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city's denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges--crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side--the city is entranced. The "orcamancer," as she's known, very subtly brings together four people--each living on the periphery--to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.

#RCMay23 #rainbow crate #rainbow crate book box #blackfish city #sam j miller #the deep #rivers solomon #lgbtq reads #lgbtqia #queer book recs #read with pride #read queer all year #queer book box #lgbtqia book box #queer authors #stardustandrockets #backlog from june #june 27

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transbookoftheday · 2 months

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Trans Horror Podcasts

My post about trans horror books last year was much more popular than I expected, and since I've recently fallen in love with fiction podcasts and audio dramas, I thought I'd make a post about trans horror podcasts as well.

If you like trans horror, please give these a try - especially if you enjoy listening to audiobooks!

Hello From The Hallowoods:

Come walk between the black pines! In this award-winning queer fiction podcast, an eldritch narrator follows the increasingly connected residents of the forest at the end of the world. It's a bittersweet story that explores queer identity, horror genre tropes, and finding hope in humanity's last moments.

Hello From The Hallowoods is my absolute favorite podcast! If you only listen to one podcast from this list, please make it this one - it's so beautifully written and super queer! Also: season 4 starts today!

Trans main characters include:

our nonbinary eye-affiliated podcast host

a nonbinary "Frankenstein's creature"

a transmasc ghost

a genderfluid storm witch

a trans woman who can visit other people's dreams

multiple characters using neopronouns

Camp Here & There:

Good morning, campers! Camp Here & There is a weekly horror comedy podcast tuned in to the loudspeakers of a small midwestern sleepaway camp plagued by supernatural terrors and natural disasters. Sydney Sargent, resident camp nurse, cheerfully reports on all the terror we must face with a big smile. Let’s hope there’s nothing weird about that!

Sydney is a trans man.

Dos: After You:

Things have changed. Deck has fallen in love with someone who isn't human, and leaves a hungry house behind to see him again. Will he be waiting for you? The world has changed… but what about him? Dos: After You is a queer urban fantasy/horror audiodrama available in both English & Spanish

Deck is a trans man.

Jar of Rebuke:

Follow Dr. Jared Hel's journey as he works to re-discover his forgotten past and finds his place within the small Indiana farm town of Wichton and the cryptozoological organization he works for called 'The Enclosure'. These audio journals, and other recordings, dive deep into Midwestern US cryptids and folklore while also telling a mystery about identity, queerness, neurodivergence, and community.

Jared is nonbinary.

Spirit Box Radio:

Spirit Box Radio is an award winning, horror audio drama podcast about a radio show for enthusiasts of all things arcane. Follow Sam Enfield a former postboy with no experience in the arcane arts, who finds themselves forced to take over running the show, following the disappearance of the previous host. Sam soon discovers there are more than ghosts haunting the show, and finds himself amidst a mystery which threatens everything he knows about the world beyond his tiny basement broadcast studio, and maybe even himself.

Sam is a trans man.

The Silt Verses:

Carpenter and Faulkner, two worshippers of an outlawed god, travel up the length of their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations amongst the reeds and the wetlands. As their pilgrimage lengthens and the river’s mysteries deepen, the two acolytes find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, but also come into conflict with the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territories. This is a world where divine intervention takes place through prayer-markings scratched into stumping-posts, and offerings are left squirming to die in the flats of the delta. This is a world of ritual, and hidden language, and sacrifice. This is folk horror, and fantasy, and a dark road trip into the depths of unusual faith.

Faulkner is a trans man.

The Magnus Protocol:

The Magnus Archives 2: The Magnus Protocol is the prequel/sequel/”sidequel” to the internationally renowned Magnus Archives podcast. The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assessment and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger. If this intrigues you then it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Office of Incident, Assessment and Response. Make sure you pick up your badge at desk and report to your line manager before sitting down. Oh and stay away from I.T., seriously.

I'm not sure if Alice is canonically trans, but her voice actress is a trans woman.

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werewolf-transgenderism · 11 months

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froggy says happy pride! 🌈💖✨🏳️‍⚧💞⭐ they are sending a lil forehead smooch to every queer and trans person on planet earth <3

#I think my two queerest medieval books and the little box of queer trans medieval zines and the trans flag candle really make the image #I just made these overalls and I loooooove them 🥺#frogposting #knitting tag

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do-you-know-this-queer-character · 5 days

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Do you know this queer character?

Li Yu is MLM and uses he/him pronouns!

#so uh. what the fuck is this source lmao #when I was trying to find confirmation of the queer rep I found that it has mpreg so i'm very scared of everything about this #also the person who submitted this submitted a stock image of a common carp in the photos box and I'm losing my mind sorry I didn't use it #li yu #the disabled tyrant's beloved pet fish #the disabled tyrant's pet palm fish #tumblr polls #fandom polls #poll #mlm #he/him #manga #books #xue shan fei hu #lgbtqia #do you know this queer character

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apolline-lucy · 3 months

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It’s been nearly impossible to keep this to myself so I am delighted to announce that THE SILVER BIRDS is the FOX & WIT book box March Subscription Title!! It is getting a beautiful foiled hardcover case designed by Chiara (grigiochiara on IG )✨

I cannot wait for you to see it! And for me to hold it in my hands 🖤🌲🐦‍⬛ If you like it witchy, gothic, dark, mysterious, and sapphic, this book might be for you 👀

The beautiful art above on the left was made by makomeri 💚 The original book cover art was made by @ouijacine

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rotten-whispers · 1 year

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Hello! I'm Baroque Forrest, a 23 year old queer author who writes strange, surreal, or satiric stories with LGBTQ+ characters. Visit the wonders of the Complex, and you will never be able to leave.

📦 Boxes: Nonbinary Baxley is abandoned to a facility overrun with monsters, and must escape. 📦Masterpost, Link to purchase

🍭 Tales from a Mall: Ferrets have mechanical attachments, people have tails, and bones are no longer purely internal! 🍭 Masterpost, Link to purchase

🐟 Fish Bowl: Two young men are abducted by aliens. Will their love be enough to survive? 🐟 In progress

Short Stories, Art, and Inspiration

Amazon Author Page , Redbubble and Discord

Other links

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cmrosens · 5 months

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Christmas Box Set Sale!

THIS IS THE LAST FESTIVE SALE! Canelo Horror have bought the rights to The Crows and Thirteenth, so they won’t be in my box set after May 2024. This means that 2023 is the last complete eBook box set sale on my Ko-Fi… but that some signed author copies and so on might be up for grabs later next year! Meanwhile, this is your last chance to get this box set at a hefty discount – 50% off – AND have…

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#box set sale #christmas sale #cosmic horror #discounted ebooks #ebook sale #eldritch horror #featured #gothic horror #horror books #indie horror #Pagham-on-Sea #queer adult SFF #queer horror

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moonyinpisces · 8 months

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when did they talk abt sodom and gomorrah? was it in the “hard times” intro

all i remember is aziraphale seeing sandalphon and saying something like “ah yes, sandalphon. sodom and gomorrah. you were doing a lot of smiting then”

#also i’m exhausted. in case anyone cares #not w you anón #but the people loudly yelling at me ab how these characters feel outside of what the literal text shows us #what happened to saying this shit in a lgbt+ youth center and having a mean lesbian throw queer theory books at you #that would fix the majority of the people interacting w my posts i think #ask box

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ariesisms · 10 months

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Im gonna kill everyone who says there aren’t good published books out there with queer representation AND complex compelling storylines outside of the identities of the characters like literally ill kill you with my BARE HANDS just fucking SEEK THEM OUT i hope ao3 is down forever

#im not a. fanfiction hater! i just think some people are stupid and fanfiction makes them stupider #anyway im reading the final strife by saara el-arifi and not only is it so fucking fascinating #but also like EVERY character so far she’s introduced is explicitly peppered in as being queer #GOOD BOOKS EXIST YOU JUST DONT WANNA READ THEM anyway stepping OFF my soap box

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starrlikesbooks · 1 year

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Look what surprised me today! I'm too sick-gross to unbox it today 😅 but I'm excited to take a look soon!!

#spell bound #ft lukens #queer books #queer fantasy #gay fluff #bookblr #booklr #book blog #ya books #starrlikesbooks #new books #book box #promo box #castorstarr

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stardustandrockets · 10 months

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What do you look for in a subscription box? If you don't subscribe or haven't subscribed, what are you currently reading?

I always look at past boxes to see what types of items are included, genres of books, what fandoms have been included, etc. Most book boxes I come across are rather fantasy heavy and I prefer a good mix of things.

@rainbowcratebookbox is really good about mixing not only the type of queer rep they've got in each box but also genres. Unless, of course, it's a theme specific box, but those are an exception.

I've been subscribed to Rainbow Crate since September '21 and, while I haven't read every book I've gotten from them, several of the included books were already on my radar. They're definitely the box I've stuck with the longest.

#RCAnniv2023 #rainbow crate #rainbow crate book box #lgbtq reads #lgbtqia #queer reads #queer book recs #read with pride #read queer all year #queer book box #lgbtqia book box #reading nerd #bookish spam #stardustandrockets #backlog from june #june 16

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theirwolfbicanthrope · 3 months

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also if anyone has urban fantasy, high fantasy, and/or monster romance book recs that really break down the gender binary I would be most appreciative!

#book recs #gender issues #as a bisexual enby who leans femme and identified as female most of my life i am a sucker for traditional monster romance #but sometimes i really really wish FANTASY and SCIFI books weren't so overwhelmingly focused on male and female #even some of the ones that have queer romances #it feels very lacking and frustrating when it comes to the characters' gender identities #also yes I can enjoy me some breeding kink but also all the breeding and pregnancy shit and gender stuff is also exhausting #idk if this makes any sense #I myself am still struggling with my own identity and learning #which might be why I crave outside the box fantasy books when it comes to gender rep

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xslytherclawx-writes · 8 months

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hey i’m reading your ravenclaw au (love it so much so far!) and i was wondering if you had a list of older queer literature? because i’d like to start reading more of it!

thank you so much!!!

well, with the caveat of "what defines 'older'?"

first, there's the literature I've titled Ravenclaw AU after:

the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud (less overtly queer works-wise and a lot is meant to be as shockingly disturbing as possible but he did very much run away with Verlaine lol)

the works of Thomas Mann in general - Death in Venice is considered a classic (though I'd look up content warnings if you're sensitive to certain things), but I quoted Tonio Kröger which is a short story

Maurice by E.M. Forster

(Philippe Besson is a contemporary writer, but I'd recommend his works regardless)

Walt Whitman has a few poems on the subject of male beauty etc. that are flowery enough to be quoted outside

Ronald M. Schernikau!!! He died in the 90s at a young age, but regardless, I would consider him of a previous generation of queer literature - born in East Germany, emigrated to the West with his family, moved back to East Germany of his own free will (and studied in Leipzig like truly). I quoted kleinstadtnovelle, but die tage in l. is also highly recommended - though with the caveat that idk if his work has ever been translated and it's not stylistically an easy read for non-native speakers

(Aciman is also a contemporary writer, but again: highly recommended)

Klaus Mann! Yes, related to Thomas Mann (he's his son). I haven't actually read Mephisto though I've owned it for like a decade lol

the poetry of Wilfred Owen

Works / authors that I haven't referenced but would also recommend:

The Charioteer by Mary Renault

Gertrude Stein's works

the poetry of Allen Ginsberg. was the dude shit? yes. but his poetry is amazing.

Gore Vidal!

Larry Kramer!!!

Tony Kushner!

Patricia Highsmith

Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story (and subsequent books) is like... extremely fucked and very much a product of its time, but I think it's very good

and you didn't ask but contemporary works i'd recommend include:

literally anything Cat Sebastian has ever written, especially if you like Ravenclaw AU, because she specializes in coziness (my favorites are Two Rogues Make A Right and Peter Cabot Gets Lost)

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

Olivia Waite's works are very good as well - she specializes in F/F romance

KJ Charles if you like plottier romance (but they are romance)

Again reiterating: André Aciman and Philippe Besson!

I have not read Sarah Waters but people who I trust highly recommend her works.

But if you're looking for books that have similar vibes to Ravenclaw AU, definitely look at Cat Sebastian, even though she's a contemporary writer; most of the older works I've listed are not as, um, cozy.

#and if you want queer books i fucking hate: cemetery boys is at the top of that list #caveat that i am casually acquainted with at least one author on this list lol #ask box

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resentful-reads · 8 months

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Any Way the Wind Blows By Rainbow Rowell

#resentful reads #any way the wind blows #rainbow rowell #simon snow trilogy #book 3 #bookblr #book quotes #book excerpt #spoliers #baz perspective #baz pitch #tyrannus basilton grimm pitch #simon snow #mlm #queer love #ah yes the struggle of trying to find a box to fit your spectrum of humanity into #maybe that just makes me yours

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apolline-lucy · 18 days

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Today’s writing place is Vegan Mama’s bakery in Seoul~ sweet potato bagel + oat latte + The Silver Birds — Fox & Wit hardcover exclusive edition, which was featured in their March box✨

The design is STUNNING; I’m obsessed with the tree and the skulls 💀

THE SILVER BIRDS

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