#Belle Revolte

[aroaessidhe]

ace books: f/f YA

the romance is a subplot in most of these!

Arden Grey - contemporary, ace lebsian MC

You Don't Have A Shot - contemporary, queer ace MC

Forward March - contemporary, ace lesbian MC

The Summer Love Strategy - contemporary, demi-aroace LI

Earthbound Hearts - contemporary + a little sff, ace lesbian MC

The Facts and Legends of Callie Catwell - contemporary + a little sff, sapphic ace MC

The Art of Saving The World - sci-fi, ace lesbian MC

Belle Révolte - high fantasy - 1/2 MCs is bi ace

Queen of Coin and Whispers - 1/2 MCs is a demi-coded lesbian

Here Goes Nothing - questioning bi/pan ace MC

Thanks For Listening - ace MC

Six Angry Girls - contemporary, 1/2 MCs is sapphic ace

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

[linseymiller]

Please be aware of your local aces this week!

This week, make sure you're aware of your local ace characters! I love all of my ace children equally, but y'all are allowed to play favorites.

Do you like reading about ace girls who choose to be kind when the world isn't? Ace girls who decide to hurt those in power as much as they've been hurt? Ace girls who use assumptions about aceness to their advantage?

And if none of these stories are right for you, please check out some other ace books this week, like Fire Becomes Her, Aces Wild, Beyond the Black Door, Silver in the Mist, Elatsoe, The Last Eight, ACE, The Sound of Stars, or So Let Them Burn.

Annette by @fictograph Lorena by @nicole.deal.art Euphemia (to-be-revealed) by @dianasousaart

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Please keep in mind I don't know most of the ships/couples in the preliminary round. If you think something doesn't belong in this poll, vote that couple/ship out & please be civil!

For Estrel and Laurence:

For Cecil and Carlos:

For Yasmina and Sammy:

For Killian and Carey:

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Belle Révolte

Author: Linsey Miller

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2020

Genres: fiction, fantasy, LGBT+, romance, retelling

Blurb: Emilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles, and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician...but society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work. Annette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings, and is desperate to be trained in magic...so when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts. Emilie and Annette swap lives: Annette attends finishing school as a noble lady to be trained in the ways of divination, while Emilie enrols to be a physician's assistant, using her natural magical talent to save lives...but when their nation instigates a terrible war, Emilie and Annette must come together to help the rebellion unearth the truth before it's too late.

[c-h-a-r-m-necklace]

So I read Belle Revolte this month and found it very adventurous and daring and pink!

[aroclan]

I'm not going to do a full review, but I read Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller [goodreads link]. fantasy setting, seems like an allegory for gender/trans issues overall. it's kind of dark. caused lots of emotions.

unless i missed something, the only relationships mentioned are afab/afab, and one MC turns out to also be asexual as in "i am romancing you but i never want to have sex ever." the lover promises that's okay, but we never really get to see how the relationship works. everyone's busy with plot.

and i think that's about all i can say spoiler-free.

[possible-streetwear]

[volleypearlfan]

may there never be another dan schneider or brian peck or anyone like that ever again, especially working around children

[fotos-art]

For Mexico's Independence Day, the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City

© Reinier Snijders

Getty Images

September 16 is Independence Day in Mexico, and visitors here in Mexico City can expect fireworks, fiestas, and décor in the colors of the Mexican flag—red, white, and green. In Mexico City, Independence Day festivities begin with a reenactment of the ‘Grito de Dolores’ (Cry of Dolores), an event in 1810 when priest Miguel Hidalgo rang the bell of his church and called for a revolt from Spain. Each year, on the eve of Independence Day, Mexico’s president rings the same bell that Hidalgo rang and delivers a patriotic speech at the National Palace.

[aaahhhhh-a-docuseries]

i lied, i don't actually like sex. put your clothes back on. Let me tell you about the events leading to the Conclave of Prague

[aroaessidhe]

My new traveler's journal map bookmark design! Plus some books with covers that kinda match and also the plot involves traveling across the land

[linseymiller]

the nerds are on sale!

From the author of the Mask of Shadows duology comes a standalone fantasy where two young women must trade lives, work together to stay alive, and end a war caused by magic and greed before it kills thousands. Emilie de Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work. Annette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. So when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts. Emilie and Annette swap lives? Annette attends finishing school as a noble lady to be trained in the ways of divination, while Emilie enrolls to be a physician's assistant, using her natural magical talent to save lives. But when their nation instigates a terrible war, Emilie and Annette come together to help the rebellion unearth the truth before it's too late.

[borgeslabyrinth]

Deeply annoyed that the pepper I'm eating is too sweet