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Rakesfall by @adamantine

They met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. Later, in a demon-haunted wood, an act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey through the ages. As they reincarnate ever deeper into the future, a truth emerges: Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell.

Running Close to the Wind by @ariaste

In this queer pirate fantasy, Avra Helvaçi has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world. To avoid capture, he flees to the open sea, where only his on-again, off-again ex aka pirate Captain Teveri az-Ḥaffār can help him survive, profit, and become a legend.

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body and wears your skin. Welcome to Camp Resolution, a queer conversion center where everyone leaves a different person. In 1995, seven queer teens were abandoned here by their parents, but survived. Sixteen years later, they’re scarred and broken, but back to face an evil that threatens the world. 

Kinning by Nisi Shawl

In this alternate history where barkcloth airships soar and former colonies claim freedom from imperialist tyrants, the identity of the island of Everfair still wavers. Victorious in the wake of the Great War, a new threat looms. Can Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope for anticolonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces within and without? 

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by @rebeccathornewrites

Can one of the Queen’s private guard and the most powerful mage in existence leave their lives behind to settle down in their new bookshop that serves tea? This cozy fantasy is steeped in sapphic romance and nestled on the edge of dragon country. 

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. After a desperate attempt to prevent corruption and ruin in the four Londons, there are only three. Now the worlds are going to collide anew—brought to a dangerous precipice by the discoveries of three remarkable magicians.

Now available in paperback!

The Archive Undying by @emcandon

This is a story about misplaced faith, complicated love, so much self-loathing, and yeah—giant robots. Plugged into his AI god when its apocalyptic corruption renders him unfortunately immortal, sad gay disaster Sunai takes a die-again-or-die-trying approach to things. Unending life’s tough when intimacy is somehow scarier even than either of the warring police states set on turning you into a weapon or the rogue undead mecha-fragment of your old god that wants to eat you. 

Now available in paperback!

The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen

A dazzling historical mystery that dives into the shadowy, closeted world of the Navy, emerging in the gay bars of the city. It’s a whirlpool of missing people, violent strangers, and scandalous photos in 1952 San Francisco. 

Now available in paperback!

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[secondstar-acorn]

sure hatchetfield is full of eldritch horrors but it’s also full of soulmates

paul and emma

duke and miss holloway

steph and pete

linda and gerald

grace and murder

[incorrectgenv]

[tweetingukpolitics]

[quiesphere]

🧵 Routine, repeat

[hellish-cruelty]

Movie parallels - Phantom thread (2017), Yi Yi (2000), Babylon (2022), Footloose (1984), La la land (2016), Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), Indiana Jones and temple of doom (2984), The witches of eastwick (1987), Up (2009), It (2017)

[more-profound-bond]

Queer Books for Pride Month:

"All The Painted Stars" by Emma Denny

This is book two from The Barden Series and if you like badass lesbians, pretending to be knights in the 14th century, this one's definetly for you.

Presonally, I loved every second of this book.

Watching Lily and Jo go from friends to lovers was so hearwarming and touching. Their characters are incredibly distinct and well-rounded. They have good chemistry and play off each other really well.

The book is also written so beautifully and sometimes even poetically.

And I loved the journey of both characters finding their own happiness and figuring out how they want to live their lives.

I would recommend reading One Night in Hartswood first, even though this can be read as a stand-alone. It'll help fill out the blanks and give more context to the story.

[backlogbooks]

one thing i love about the silt verses is that like, it's been so long since i've had the "this is the best thing i have ever experienced and i have full trust in the creators to deliver" with a podcast--the last one was alice isnt dead

and i've loved podcasts since then, and not every podcast needs to be, or can be, that--but god there's something about the feeling of putting on my headphones for the next episode of tsv that's just Next Level

season three is gonna destroy me and i'm so ready

[tadpal]

but seriously if you're taking inspiration from emma for your story/characterisation and you DONT make them good friends who seek eachother out constantly . then you've simply missed the point

[saltedair]

closed for @strangersxxworld ( emma ! )

"be honest, do i smell like coffee? someone knocked the cup i ordered into me and i thought i cleaned it off but i think i still smell it."

[4fter-hours]

━━ ✦ ( @never-surrender )

Grabbing their orders from the counter, he carried the coffees back to where Emma waited. Placing her order in front of her, he slid into the seat across her and took a sip from his coffee. If it could even be considered that, since giving up the drink, sugar had become his substitute.

❝ How do you balance it? ❞ he asked frankly and honestly. ❝ The sobriety, the stress of parenthood? ❞ With his best friend moving soon, it added more to his list of things he was constantly worried about and he didn’t want to burden his wife with his struggles. ❝ I don’t know what to say to him half the time. Not sure if he even really likes me and then not wanting to bother Anna with it all. She’s taken on more than she should and with Lizzie leaving soon, I feel like the proverbial rug has been pulled from under my feet. Things are changing a lot faster than I care for them to. ❞ Taking another sip from his coffee, he chuckled. ❝ And don’t give me that shite they tell us at the meetings about taking deep breathes. ❞

[cs-rylie]

It seems I forgot to do the post for the new ToD chapter lol 🤦‍♀️ Chapter 3 on ao3 for the lovely @jrob64 😘

Tag list below the line, lmk if you want to be added or removed! (seriously, I have to keep it at 50 or less 🙄)

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[musesinked]

@myhappyxending continued from x

Emma’s body felt as though it was vibrating from the anger that was boiling inside of her. She had let down her barriers, allowed Regina in. Something, she hadn’t done in such a long time. “You can’t even look at me, can you?!” Talking to Regina’s back, was infuriating her even more. Each second she waited for a response, felt more like dragged out minutes.

The kiss they had shared, was unexpected but god it was more perfect than Emma could ever have imagined it to be. The butterflies that had erupted in her stomach, the feeling of pure happiness that had came with it. It had given her a high, one she had never experienced before.

As Regina now turned to face her, the anger that had been taking over, turned to hurt. The look on the brunettes face was heart aching, dark orbs speaking unspoken words. Silently she stood, unable to form a word as Regina slowly took a step closer towards her. Shakily Emma reached for the hand now offered to her, the warmth of the others touch made her heart sink. “I’m scared too.” Her words coming out as a soft whisper. Regina’s hand still in her own, she took steps to close the remaining gap between them. “I’ve wanted this for so long. To feel your touch, your lips on mine.. Regina I want this.”

[incorrectgenv]

[tweetingukpolitics]

[thegirlwondcr]

Open Starter

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This was her first ever group raid, in fact it was all the girls first ever group raid—and it showed. Everything was completely disorganized, there were only a few moments in the night that it appeared that the group of young teen girls had some sort of system. Emma kept more to herself, focusing more on what she individually could get rather than the entire group. Time and time again she was warning them what cases they should avoid break into as it would trigger an alarm…but it did not take long for the ear piercing alarm to go off. Everyone began to scramble, some completely abandoning all the things they managed to get out of cases—but not Emma. She was determined to get as much as possible, so if it meant trailing behind to grab the abandoned items so be it.

Like a kid out on Halloween, she stuffed her pillowcase but not with candy, instead with hundreds of thousands dollars worth of jewelry. She could see the light at the end of the tunnel, for herself. All the things she would get out of this. There had been hints that if she had returned to the girls home with enough things, she may actually get a photo of her parents. That seemed well worth the risk.

The teen rushed rushed to get whatever else she could, even if it meant going through cases where glass was shattered and covered the luxury items. A few cuts from glass seemed only to be a minor inconvenience to her. Just as she was about to leave, with her pillow case full of an assortment of jewelry—there at the entrance stood another. Without hesitation, Emma took a mannequin head and threw it at the stranger.