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[makingqueerhistory]

I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.

This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.

For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco     

Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright    

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley   

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

IRL by Tommy Pico        

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages             

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom          

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow              

Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser

Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower            

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam   

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon 

Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume      

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw  

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman 

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun     

Witching Moon by Poppy Woods 

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt    

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman    

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist           

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi             

Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed      

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto

[segretecose]

i understand that people don't like daemon or they have doctor who ptsd or are just not into the habsburg jaw of it all but at some point we'll have to admit that matt smith is doing all the heavy lifting acting wise in the male department of hotd fabien frankel is 3 seconds from being swallowed whole by his armor ewan mitchell hasn't blinked or modulated his voice once in 5 episodes freddie fox is doing some rupaul's drag race main challenge SISTAAAHH acting for some reason harry collet keeps relapsing into his zoolander face tom glynn carney was kinda serving for a sec and then they basically killed him for it so like. matt smith is all we have

[strawlessandbraless]

Jensen Ackles watching his boyfriend Misha Collins and Taylor Swift make headlines for being straight

[finelythreadedsky]

when helen calls herself and paris οἷσιν ἐπὶ Ζεὺς θῆκε κακὸν μόρον, ὡς καὶ ὀπίσσω ἀνθρώποισι πελώμεθ᾽ ἀοίδιμοι ἐσσομένοισι "those on whom zeus laid a dreadful fate, that we should be a subject of song even for men yet to come" (il. 6.357-358) and when achilles reconciles with agamemnon and says αὐτὰρ Ἀχαιοὺς δηρὸν ἐμῆς καὶ σῆς ἔριδος μνήσεσθαι ὀΐω "but i think the achaeans will remember all too long the quarrel between you and me" (il. 19.63-64)... the prescience and the resentment! they know this iliad will be sung about them for generations upon generations and they are bitter about having to be part of it!

[otrtbs]

ykw i do go back and sometimes read winterlude and tcb! and giggle to myself like damn ,,, i gave myself everything i wanted in a fanfic that’s crazy how u can just do that

[evilscuderia]

Keeping Up with Scuderia Ferrari

[daddyisastateofmind]

This has been rotting in my brain, so you all need to suffer too:

*Pre-inversion, in a universe where Darlin' and Lovely menstruate*

Darlin: I just asked because Quinn liked it

Sam: First of all, do not compare me to that limey fucker. Second of all.....that is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard of

Darlin: He said that quite a few vampires like doing it, and that's why historically vampires were portrayed as preying on mainly women.

Sam: Literally no other vampire does that, Darlin'. Should have known he'd be into some weird shit like that.

Darlin: *shrugs* I just asked

Sam: So what, you'd just sit on his face while you were bl-

Darlin: Sometimes. He also like me to keep my tampons in the freezer.

Sam: .....you made him blood ice pops? O_O

Darlin: *now uncomfortable*...I didn't say I got anything out of it, he just asked me to and I -

Sam: Oh, Darlin'. Listen to me, I'm not judging you. I'm definitely judging him though. I don't know how any self-respecting vampire would actual-

Vincent walks in, tampon string hanging out of his mouth: Hey guys, what's up?

Sam: *nopes the fuck out of life*

[moonshynecybin]

everyone is saying marc is down bad in that valencia presscon and yes it’s true that he was still like. maybe we can fix it level stupid at that point. but i ALSO think he’s at the tail end of two of the worst weeks of his LIFE due to constant media harassment surrounding him and vale’s falling out, where everyone is saying he wants vale to lose the championship. saying he sabotaged him. so of course when there’s a softball question lobbed at everyone about vale’s chances he’s gonna hop up there first and be like HEY. actually i think he can still win it! that penalty from him kicking me bc i was being annoying DEFINITIVELY is not the reason he might lose, the onus is on his ABILITY TO RIDE. like he’s very obviously trying to control the narrative and PROTECT himself, not simping for vale imo

[mrshayakawa]

chainsaw man announcing asa is his ex potential girlfriend and we know somebody was watching the fight bc they helped him so they must have heard…give me the denji/chainsaw man/asa love triangle NOW

[montythehumancrow]

i love when crystal is like 'EDWIN AND I ARE WALKING ON EGGSHELLS' and edwins like EXCUSE ME I HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING AB THIS WHY AM I IN THIS??

[fanfictionroxs]

Nothing just give me Mobei-Jun and Shen Yuan fighting over who gets to be Shang Qinghua's sugar daddy. Shen Yuan does NOT trust that icicle to not take advantage of the hack author under the guise of being a sugar daddy (does sy even KNOW what a sugar daddy is? also the hack author would very much like to be taken advantage of.. please ravish him mobei, his balls are bluer than you are) while said icicle is turning into a puddle of seething vinegar. Also, Binghe is crying in the background for obvious reasons.

[segretecose]

i respect jeremy irons' commitment to never once pronouncing an italian name right in three full seasons of the borgias

[ladyaryawolf]

I'm a bit late on the TV Show.

So just clearing up

They made Lucerys' death be an "accident"

And they kept Jaehaerys death be a vengeful act from the Blacks

And people still believe that HBO is trying to make the Blacks look like the good guys only because they excluded Neettles from the narrative?

[mistergreatbones]

Au where Cass stuck around after Bruce’s “death” and helped Dick and Damian fight Scarlet and Red Hood and now Cass believes that Jason is manipulating Sasha into being a murderer so she goes “my child now.”

[ekanatsume]

I just dislike how the orv fandom is always making the ending of orv (the last scene where they open the door) and making it always like yjh gets the spotlight in being so much happy over kdj returning. And if you think about it, the only reason why hsy is the one whos mentioned the most in the last chapters of orv is bc yjh wrote it (other than the fact that she was the one whos in the last few chaps bc she was trying to tell the story of kimcom trying to cope with kdj's 'death'). Hsy is the type who never talks about her feelings, and she is the one who always felt like she wasnt that important of a person to kdj than yjh. But the thing is, to kdj, both of them were important. One was the protagonist who made him not give up and the other was the writer who kept him alive with the story (even if he didnt know that, she still was the only one person who could understand kdj and give him the feeling of reassurance bc she was the plagiarist who read wos, the same story as kdj, and could easily communicate with kdj, a bookworm who never had friends). To hsy, she probably doesn't think kdj might think of her as important (recall the "will you read my story?" question? She didn't even think kdj would think about reading it) and thats why most of orv has the relationship of kdj and yjh (bc its the story he loves with his life, and yjh is the protagonist) we never see hsy expressing that much of her feelings unless they are in important plot points and even if she does, it's always for the plot points or "kimcom loves kdj more than anything, hsy is also a part of kimcom so she loves him too".

Ive always felt like the last scene of orv where hsy runs in crying and smiling to the door felt a bit out of character, like she isnt the type to cry easily according to her scenes in orv (and i understand that shes only a human that struggled for so long to get kdj back, crying is only natural). But like the last few scenes were extremely hsy focused and that makes sense bc yjh was the one who wrote those scenes. And the fact that yjh wrote those scenes of hsy expressing her feelings and being desperate so much tells you how hsy didnt include her actual feelings in orv. And the fact that yjh wrote the "this story is only for that one reader" from hsy's viewpoint says a lot (yes i understand that its from kimcom's perspective but then again the writer was hsy). So its only natural that hsy rushed in to get that door bc (if youve read sidestories, SPOILER you just know how desperate hsy is to get back kdj) hsy has always been the one who get back kdj, whether it be destroying worlds or dooming everyone. So to see that the focus is always on yjh and kdj (as the ship) i mean i get it, its the popular ship but then again, how can you really just toss away hsy? She literally went through hell and back in every lifetime to save kdj. Not even yjh was this meticulous about kdj at first. It should be both of them being happy at getting kdj back in those fanart scenes. I just dont like it that everyone just thinks of hsy as the "bestie". Like literally both of them are besties to kdj (if i had to term it like that) it doesnt even make sense that only yjh is on it. They both went through hell and back in the last half of orv (and SPOILER in the sidestories too) along with kimcom to get back kdj. I really dont like how hsy is just thrown away bc shes the "bestie" and she shouldnt "interrupt" on the "lovers reunion" fanarts. Damn it. Yes im rambling. I could just pretend to not see it but the reason im rambling is bc there isnt enough "hsy finally getting her reader back that she desperately wanted to save for her whole life" fanarts.

[tolerateit]

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