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Merry Christmas 🎄✨

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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Boundaries are sexy, boundaries are cool, boundaries are important, but

“No kissing on the lips” is not gonna stop you from falling in love. I’m sorry. I really don’t make the rules. I’m just stating the obvious.

Alan and Theo I’m looking at you

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Firstprince as Patrochilles for Halloween💛

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it’s time. tell me ur favorite book you read in 2024. also least favorite if you’ve got one!

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles' mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.

Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.

Fantasy, historical fiction, mythology, retelling, adult

Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

Endorsement from submitter: "Utterly hilarious romp. No actual sex, but somehow hornier than 90% of books with actual sex in them that I have read."

Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Araşti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world―and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea.

To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must ask for help from his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Ḥaffār. They are far from happy to see him, but together, they hatch a plan: take the information to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls, fence it, profit. The only things in their way? A calculating new Araşti ambassador to the Isles of Lost Souls who’s got his eyes on Avra’s every move; Brother Julian, a beautiful, mysterious new member of the crew with secrets of his own and a frankly inconvenient vow of celibacy; the fact that they’re sailing straight into sea serpent breeding season and almost certain doom.

But if they can find a way to survive and sell the secret on the black market, they’ll all be as wealthy as kings―and, more important, they’ll be legends.

Fantasy, humor, adventure, secondary world, queernorm, adult

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No you guys don’t get it bc Alex and Henry go to Pancake Billy’s on rainy Sunday mornings and late late drunken Friday nights because it’s a really short walk from the brownstones and they’re August’s regulars- they know her by name. She asks Henry for David photos and in turn David asks how her girlfriend is. They’ve been invited to house parties with the apartment squad. They’ve been to Christmas in July. And the Cafe in Paris was actually a place Kit was working for a while, he made the best pain au chocolat Henry’s ever had, and Theo just so happens to be an extended cousin on the Claremont side bc the world is so small. When Alex and Henry were going through the wedding guest list Henry read the Flowerday names and said “like, those Flowerdays?” And Alex snorted and said “yeah those are the Cali Claremont Cousins. Theo’s cool they’re around our age. You’d probably like their boyfriend”. You guys don’t get the McQuistonverse the way I do it’s all connected bro

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one of my favorite things about My Beloved Man Jack Alston

is that he's always like I Don't Care, I'm Not Involved, You Can't Even Imagine How Indifferent I Am, Leave Me Alone, I Don't Want To Be Here

but then the second you get him caring about someone even a little, he has absolutely ZERO CHILL about it

man's out here insisting he's a loner and acting all put upon about anyone intruding on his quiet solitude™, but all somebody has to do is snark at him once and he starts vibrating with the Need to Take Care of Them

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A very Firstprince winter ✨

Red, white and royal blue by Casey McQuiston

Available as print

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today I offer you a merman prince and a pirate. tomorrow? who knows...

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The Last Binding serie of Freya Marske @fahye for Dazzling Bookish Shop special edition 🚢📖🍂

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Hi! I’m in the US right now and I’m not feeling so good. The Tithenai Chronicles are my favorite books. Can you share some happy fun facts about the characters to cheer me up?

Once they settle at Ravethae, Cae and Vel soon find themselves custodians to a litter of kittens sired by Son of Spoons. One kitten in particular becomes so enamoured of Cae that she starts using his braid as a ladder to climb up and sit on his head, clinging on contentedly for as long as he'll allow it or until she gets bored. For this feat, Vel names the kitten Chamois, after the silk chamois that scale cliffs in the mountains, and so it becomes a not-uncommon sight at Ravethae for Cae to be seen walking around with Chamois riding him like the tiny, furry captain of an ambulatory ship. Cae, in turn, makes a game of pretending the kitten isn't there, to the bafflement of adult guests and the particular delight of various children.

When Yasa Kithadi comes to visit them and asks, somewhat exasperatedly, why there's a kitten on Caethari's head, the whole estate holds its breath to see if the heir apparent will commit to the bit, or break character in the face of his grandmother's judgement.

"What kitten," Cae says blandly.

Outwardly, Yasa Kithadi appears unmoved. Inwardly, she's endeared. And if Chamois just so happens to acquire a fetching collar during the course of the yasa's visit courtesy of some anonymous donor - well. That's neither here nor there.

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bro i'd give ANYTHING to live in the rwrb universe tonight

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What I love the most is when a story is told and there aren't any sequels, the story is over, but there are other stories set in the same world which occasionally mention the characters from the first story like oh! They're happy! They're living quiet unassuming lives!!! They have no more story to tell except the story of living peacefully!

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at least there's the ocean and crazy transgender gay sex and pasta

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inks for the turnarounds I had to do! I think I might make Sunai's braid longer, needs more ✨drama✨

not super jazzed with the expression sheet or scene, they were both rushed, but I'm hoping the time saved there will transfer to the end comic!

page sketches to come!

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Y'ALL. BIG NIGHT FOR ME THIS HALLOWEEN.

oh my god this was such a cool event! we got to dress up in costumes and they served fancy food and wine for the pairing, and casey of course was amazing. i love hearing talented writers talk about their craft - and folks. casey is considering ROMANTASY IN THE FUTURE. I DIE. they also dressed up as fabrizio's puppet which was just so good. best halloween EVER

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incredibly self-indulgent fanart of We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian. Nick and Andy I love you.