#*avra

[bardistraee]

dragon's dogma ii (avraham 3/∞)

[queereads-bracket]

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

[specks-of-time]

avra helvaci

[heyitsrink]

Small collection of doodles as I work my way through the Running Close to the Wind audiobook. Clearly I'm having a great time.

[nightingalesails]

Avra, being asked to climb something for practical reasons: This is too haaaard... I am but a frail, sexy wretch... I need Upsies Avra, seeing some high place from which to cause Mischief: able to ascend vertically with the sudden alacrity (if not grace) of a mountain goat

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

sometimes i draw

[thevampsvault]

Avra Bennett

[vashti-lives]

Julian trying to work out which parts of Avra and Teveri’s relationship are kink and which parts are dysfunction:

(SURELY if he can fix Avra and Teveri’s relationship and see them happy with each other this will be enough and he won’t have to further question the last fifteen years of his life or make any more choices about the direction he’s going!!!!!)

[bumpyfrog]

Avra cleared his throat.

“Buddy, no,” someone muttered.

(From Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland)

That’s it that’s the book

[promithiae]

I think one of my favorite things about running close to the wind is that two of the main protagonists have canonically mediocre sex. And it doesn't stop them from continuing to have sex. Like, one could make the argument that Avra's such a slut he'll sleep with anyone offering, but Tev isn't. They're still willing have sex with a person they pretend to only barely tolerate even though they have a box of perfectly good haunted dildos. And it's not even all that good! It's very.... refreshing that they don't have mind blowing sex every single time.

[punishertruther]

verdaderamente no podía ser más feliz. estaba casade con la mujer de sus sueños y ahora tenían une hije en camino. cada vez que recordaba cuando el predictor de ingrid salió positivo le entraban ganas de llorar de la emoción. era cierto que todavía era muy pronto en el embarazo pero elle ya se había venido arriba y había empezado a comprar cosas para el bebé además de mimar y consentir a ingrid todavía más de lo que ya hacía normalmente. tras sacar a arbus al poco de amanecer, le preparó a la pelirroja un desayuno de lujo mientras la can se acurrucaba a su lado y es que si antes ya nunca se separaba de la arqueóloga, ahora menos. una vez tuvo todo listo y las vitaminas que wanda les recomendó, subió con la bandeja y la dejó junto a su mesilla de noche, no dudando en besar primero los labios de su esposa y después su vientre. "buenos días a mis dos personas preferidas del mundo." murmuró. "hoy no hagas vomitar a tu madre, por favor, que le he hecho su desayuno preferido." y es que sí, ya se tiraba horas hablándole al vientre de su esposa. // @qvimcra

[bardistraee]

dragon's dogma ii (avraham 2/∞)

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 2

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Burning Kingdoms series (The Jasmine Throne, The Oleander Sword, The Lotus Empire) by Tasha Suri

Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother.

Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless waters — but is now little more than a decaying ruin.

Priya is a maidservant, one among several who make the treacherous journey to the top of the Hirana every night to clean Malini’s chambers. She is happy to be an anonymous drudge, so long as it keeps anyone from guessing the dangerous secret she hides.

But when Malini accidentally bears witness to Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess seeking to find her family. Together, they will change the fate of an empire.

Fantasy, epic fantasy, politics, secondary world, series, 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

[specks-of-time]

he's giving avra helvaçi

[vintagegoddesses3]

[nightingalesails]

teveri: ugh horrible i'm going to fuck avra again i can't believe i'm being forced to suffer through yet another indignity this is the worst thing none of you care about my wellbeing

everyone: you don't have to fuck him

teveri, sighing loudly: no, unfortunately i'm going to

avra, elsewhere: - experiencing an unexpected spike in the background radiation of general horniness he experiences, like a dog pricking up its ears because it senses food in the vicinity -