#February Masterpost

[lulu2992]

❈ The Seed Family ❈

Joseph - Jacob - John - Faith

[kitten4sannie]

𝖋𝖊𝖇𝖗𝖚𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝖋𝖎𝖑𝖙𝖍 𝖋𝖊𝖘𝖙

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1. spit play/hate fucking ￫ San 

2. somnophilia ￫ Seonghwa 

3. uniform ￫ Yunho 

4. public sex/feminization ￫ Wooyoung 

5. dacryphilia ￫ Mingi

6. auralism ￫ Mommy! Hwa 

7. aphrodisiacs/overstim ￫ Jongho 

8. degradation ￫ Yeosang 

9. oral fixation ￫ Mingi 

10. threesome/ritual ￫ Hongjoong/Wooyoung

11. impregnation ￫ San 

12. nipple play ￫ Hongjoong 

13. mirror sex/edging ￫ Yunho 

14. soft dom/sub, roleplay, food play ￫ Seonghwa 

15. size kink ￫ Mingi 

16. sadism ￫ Jongho 

17. daddy kink/praise ￫ Yeosang 

18. femdom ￫ Hongjoong

19. double penetration ￫ Yunho/San

20. deepthroat/collaring ￫ Hongjoong 

21. voyeurism ￫ San/Wooyoung

22. masturbation ￫ Yeosang 

23. cheating/creampie ￫ San

24. pegging ￫ Jongho 

25. manhandling/strength kink ￫ Mingi  

26. omegaverse/vampire ￫ Seonghwa 

27. furry/hybrid ￫ Wooyoung

28. mommy kink/breathplay ￫ Mommy! San

[optiwashere]

Anotheropti's Femslash February 2024

OK, so I have something of a problem and apparently the only cure is writing for these monthlong fic challenges. This time it won't be every day, but it is a a fair bit of femslash. We as a fandom deserve far more F/F works, and I'm nothing if not dedicated to the task.

Most of the prompts are taken from the list by @doomedgirls in this post.

The prompt for the 14th is part of BG3 Valentine's Day! That one was taken from this list posted by @baldursgays3.

The prompts, ratings, and ships for each fic I'll be doing are under the break. I'll be posting on my AO3 as usual and I'll update this with links as I post the fics. All fics are for Baldur's Gate 3.

Asheera is my primary Tav. I write just an awful lot about my favorite trans fem half-orc paladin, and she's naturally taking up half the prompts. If you're interested, you can see some (spoilerish) screenshots of her here! And some art of her...

Here, here, and here! 💜

February 1: Morning after (Shadowheart/Asheera - Rated M)

February 4: Lipstick (Nocturne/Shadowheart - Rated T)

February 7: Letters (Aylin/Isobel - Rated T)

February 9: So close (Shadowheart/Asheera - Rated E)

February 10: Reckless (Shadowheart/Karlach - Rated M)

February 12: Meeting the family (Shadowheart/Asheera - Rated G)

February 14: Collars + Restraints (Shadowheart/Asheera - Rated E)

February 16: Rain (Allandra Grey/OC - Rated E)

February 18: Transformation (Araj/OC - Rated E)

February 19: Quid pro quo (Nine-Fingers/Amira - Rated E)

February 22: Hands (Shadowheart/Asheera - Rated E)

February 25: Everything (Shadowheart/Asheera - Rated E)

February 28: Freedom (Minthara/Lae'zel - Rated M)

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

We are grateful to all the fabulous writers who took this year’s Valentine’s Challenge. You are helping to keep our fandom alive!

This is the masterpost of everyone who took part. HERE is the link to the challenge on AO3. When you’re done reading their works, please be kind and leave kudos and/or a comment. If there are late comers who haven’t yet finished, we will update and reblog this post. Please let us know if you have additions that need to be reblogged and added to this masterpost. Again, thank you so very much. 💗

~The Library Admins

Happy Valenklaine's Day 2024 by ItsNotEasyBeingQueen

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14 Stones Of A Curse by @shame-is-a-wasted-emotion [WIP]

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Annotations of the Heart by @gleefulpoppet

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Klaine Poetry by @fallevs

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Love in Later Chapters by @annepi-blog

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@esilher 's beautiful art can be found in her #KlaineValentines2024 tag

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@nerdywriter65 wrote for day one of the challenge HERE.

[vegaly-art]

Considering making more masterposts for characters I like. Mostly Kody, Brachium, and Marcus. (Brachium I find fascinating but actually do not like very much but like... he is so cool to analyse so he's being put on the list too.)

Also in the meantime I've got a fucking fic to finish- hhhhh- I will try to get it done by tomorrow but we shall see.

[mrgabel]

Everyone who sent me an inquiry was lovely to talk to and I had a very good time drawing for them :D Thank you for these wonderful two weeks of drawing and the friendly conversation!!

I wish everyone a happy day full of love and appreciation 💖

[trordiscord]

FEST MASTERLIST

Huge thank you to all of our amazing participants! We have a total of 15 submissions from 11 creators who produced a total of 2 fabulous art pieces and 46,688 written words for this fest!

Please check out all our amazing entries under the cut!

❤ Insatiate by doshu E | 1.9k | Complete | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Voldemort stole both Harry and the Philosopher’s Stone, and doomed Harry to live a half-life. That was ten years ago.

❤ In the library [Art] by chiocchi G | Art | No Archive Warnings Apply

Tom Riddle was always the last one to go to sleep and the first to wake up. Sleeping was a waste of time that left him in a vulnerable state and he didn't trust anyone. Dating Harry wasn't going to change that. Or so he thought.

❤ Friends with Knives (and Benefits) by ChemFreak E | 5k | Complete | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Tom discovers that his fuckbuddy/friend with benefits/roommate Harry has a very compatible kink. What begins as a mutual arrangement quickly develops into something more.

❤ nothing left to lose by eleven_eaves E | 7.4k | WIP | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Earlier that day, they had gotten into such a disagreement, the same one as always. But Tom held all the cards, and he knew it. “Please...” Harry begs. “Please, put it... put it back in me. I need to feel it again.” Tom smiles down at him, vicious and coldly amused. “No.”

❤ monochrome by Ilyaa_zzz M | 5.4k | Complete | No Archive Warnings Apply

Tom deals with soulmates. “I found her,” you say, and it is the tone of your voice that clues me in on what you are talking about. We have gone over this before- the name tattooed on your wrist. We have talked about what would happen if we ever found her, what you would like me to do or say if it were me who crossed paths with her. I called you paranoid, then, because it is only a small percent of people in this world that ever cross paths with their soulmate. But I should have known, if someone could have such luck, then it would be you.

❤ Anniversary by doshu E | 3.7k | Complete | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

There’s a feather-light touch to Harry’s scar, one that lingers before trailing around the side of his face, coming to rest over his lower lip and tugging it slightly. Harry steels himself, then opens his eyes. “Hello, husband,” he says, facing Voldemort’s hungry gaze. “Happy anniversary.”

❤ Identity by crowthing E | 5.1k | Complete | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

It's been a year since Harry and Tom started dating, and a few days since Tom found out about his inheritance. They decide to celebrate their anniversary by taking a trip to the middle of nowhere to check out the Gaunt estate. This should be fine and perfectly safe. If Tom's warnings about his alter ego were actually serious, it would have come up by now.

❤ Stress Relief by Lolo_69 E | 2.7k | Complete | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Tom gets back from a grueling day of work at the MoM only to find his boyfriend already in bed, asleep.

❤ it's kind of tripping me up babe, i've got it bad for you by Limonium E | 3.4k | Complete | No Archive Warnings Apply

This could've been prevented, if they were paying attention. Harry says they were. Voldemort sighs, exasperated. His little menace. “Were we?” “Yeah.” Harry answers confidently. Paying attention to each other. Voldemort pinches him on his side for his cheek. Who would’ve expected magical books to be so volatile around people having sex? * In which they get isekai'd into a cursed erotica book.

❤ We're (Not) Together by doshu E | 3k | Complete | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

From Tom's point of view, they never broke up.

❤ you alone of all creatures by pwplicity (duplicity) E | 3.3k | Complete | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

You never ask, and I do not offer. What we have—what we do—is an illicit, unspoken affair. There is no place for us in the light, where my robes bear a Prefect’s badge and you are addressed as ‘sir’, and so I have been cornering you, for weeks now, in darkened corridors and dusty, abandoned classrooms.

❤ silk of midnight and dawn by Sinning Ilya (Ilyaa_zzz) E | 2.9k | Complete | Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con

Harry approaches, quietly, arms raised in front of him. But it doesn’t take long before pale skin transforms into soft fur as dark as the night sky. Red eyes, now green, look at Harry with such an intensity that he has to take a step back. Four-legged and as imposing as he is when standing in two, Tom Riddle has transformed into a panther. It’s a big thing, compared to Harry’s short build, exuding raw power as if it was a second skin clinging to it. It stalks around him, sniffing his clothes with what Harry hopes is harmless curiosity. Harry swallows thickly, with difficulty, the sound almost audible in the sudden silence that appears to have fallen over them. Deep down Harry knows he is safe. He knows Tom remains somewhere inside the beast’s head, that Tom would never let anything happen to him. But it isn’t often that one encounters such a ferocious animal, dangerous and on the loose, so who can blame him if he feels like he is going to shit his pants any second now?

❤ Because it is his by TheOnceandFutureQueenofTarts E | 2k | Complete | No Archive Warnings Apply

He glanced over his shoulder and caught Tom staring intently at Harry’s… well, Tom’s arse. “Tom.” To his credit, Tom showed not an ounce of shame as he let his eyes drift up to meet Harry’s. “Yes, darling?” “Were you just effectively checking yourself out?” Or: One time, someone told Tom to go f*** himself. He took that to heart.

❤ The Green Herring by duplicity G | 0.7k | Complete | No Archive Warnings Apply

There are more important things to know about Harry Evans.

❤ That's Your Boyfriend by solavonn (vonnibel) G | Art | No Archive Warnings Apply

In which Tom decides to try out Quidditch and Harry is in awe featuring Ron Weasley.

[nightyslibrary]

☆ FIC LIST MASTERPOST ☆

✨️ Fandoms currently include rottmnt & animaniacs & tloz & warrior cats & pokémon

✨️ you can also read most of them on my AO3

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🐢 ROTTMNT

🧸A Friend Against Dark

Raph centric, tot Raph & Splinter, one-shot, fluff no angst, 1115 words.

Six years old Raph is afraid of the dark, so Splinter gets an idea- and a friend.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🩵Finish The Tale, Ven, Please?

Where You Belong AU, tot Leon and Venus, one-shot, fluff, 988 words.

Leon cannot sleep, so he asks his sister Ven to finish her tale about two warriors.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🌌finding your stellar association

based on ashwii's celestial au, one-shot, fluff, 2917 words. tw: referenced/implied character death (not detailed).

Moving Group, also called a Stellar Association.

A loose grouping of stars which travel together through space.

On their first trip to Earth, the brothers find a lost part of their family.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🌙so I dive straight back in the ocean

post movie, Leo centric, one-shot, hurt/comfort, 1304 words. tw: panic attacks, anxiety.

Leo goes to a lake for swimming to calm down.

> AO3 / tumblr < ☆ [playlist]

❤️Little Talks with a Big Robot Turtle

based on Cass Apocalyptic Series by somerandomdude on tumblr, Raph centric, one-shot, fluff, 2452 words.

Raph has some questions, and Casey Junior has some answers.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🌆Last Resort

Let's Grab a Slice Together AU (but can be read with no context), Mikey centric + Draxum, bad future, one-shot, angst, 1705 words. tw: implied/referenced character death

Mikey has a talk with his mentor.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🍄Last Night in Mushroom Forest

post movie, disaster twins, 2 chapters: one fic two versions, horror/comedy, 7246 words. possession and horror elements in ch1, ch1 also include unreality, anxiety, and similar events.

Leo and Donnie decide to go and explore the Mushroom Forest. Leo has a very bad case of brain fog, while Donnie has a very bad case of deja vu while trying to save his twin.

Meanwhile, in chapter 2 there's a different version where the boys have some silly adventure and it's just shenanigans and a lot of sibling banter.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🌠It's Not Always the Rabbit Who Takes the Wrong Turn

Dimension Hopper Leo AU, multichaptered, mostly Leo centric, many crossovers, ongoing. Warnings will be included in chapters.

When Leo ends up in Prison Dimension, he manages to hold onto his katana. So he does his thing and portals out... except he arrives at the wrong place.

(AKA what Leo portals himself to the wrong dimension and has to find his way back home again, and again, and again... Meanwhile his family is trying to find him.)

> AO3 / tumblr masterpost (tba) <

🍕Pizza Means Family

Where You Belong AU (Separated au), multichaptered, various povs, ongoing. Warnings will be included in chapters.

Another separated au, where Mikey is the only turtle Splinter saves. While he finds April accidentally and wastes no time to call her his sister, his siblings are raised by two of the famous bad guys. This get out of control when six of them end up at the same place, and each sibling has to decide what to do with what they learn.

aka where you belong au because I'm either too good with titles or too bad haha

>AO3 / tumblr <

💜Deep (Purple) Thoughts (and Realizations)

Donnie centric (mostly), multichaptered, ongoing, post invasion. Warnings will be included in chapters. Hurt/comfort.

As Donnie repairs Shelldon, he comes across some realizations which lead to some discoveries. It turns out there is still much unsaid about the invasion, even after weeks.

(Aka Donnie remembers he records everything all the time.)

>AO3 &lt; ◇ tumblr: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 ◇

🍲Mystic Sickness

This is based on @/turtleblogatlast 's post about mystic sickness idea :D Hope you like it!!!

Warnings: a brief mention of throwing up, nothing else i can think of ^^

>AO3 (tba) / tumblr<

🍵Portal Bros Sickfic

a short sickfic i wrote for my friends :]

>AO3 (tba) / tumblr<

🟣(A Short Fic About) A Normal Day With Your Double Mutated Brother

A gift fic for heckitall's armageddonnie au!! Fluff. Oneshot.

>AO3 (n/a) / tumblr<

🎃 Baby's First Halloween

My @/rottmnt-secret-gifting gift for @/bambiraptorx :]

Mikey forces Draxum joining him and his family for trick and treating.

>AO3 / tumblr<

💭 A Reminder

this one is Cass Apocalyptic Future fanfic ( by @/somerandomdudelmao) written for Comfortember 2023, day 1: safe

Sometimes Donnie forgets he and his family are safe now.

>AO3 / tumblr<

❄️ Till the Cold Pass

Another fic for Comfortember 2023, this time focused on day 4: warmth.

Splinter learns something new about his sons when winter cold arrives.

>AO3 / tumblr<

💙 Leo Blues

inspired by @/tmnt-event-blog's prompt (hot cocoa)

Leon (Future Leo) realizes that his younger self is feeling a bit blue and decides to help him feel better.

>AO3 / tumblr<

🐀 ANIMANIACS

🐇Welcome Back, Doc (Space Jam: New Legacy crossover fic / multichaptered ongoing / Dad Bugs) AO3 [on hiatus but might finish it before the end of may <3 ]

👑Years Ago, A Winter Night (Wakko's Wish fic / a lot of angst & hurt/comfort / multichapter & completed / XMas fic) AO3 | Playlist

🌸Happy Allergies Dot!! (one-shot / Dot centered) AO3

🧢Guilt Is Eating Him Up (one-shot / lots of angst & hurt/comfort / Wakko centered) AO3

🎞️Toons (Storks AU / multichaptered ongoing / kinda on hiatus??) AO3

⚜️There's a Beast in There (Beauty and the Beast AU but without any romance / multichaptered ongoing / *holds it gently* this one is my fav) AO3

🗡 TLOZ

Breath of the Wild

🫕Warmth (Zelink / One-shot) AO3

🎄Christmas Together (Multichapter Modern AU Xmas Fic / Ongoing / Includes Zelink and Miphvali) AO3 [currently on hiatus]

🩸Following the Silent Princess (Modern AU / includes Zelink and Miphvali / multichaptered ongoing) AO3 [currently on hiatus]

Zines: By Your Side Zelink Zine

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

🗻Mountain Walk (Miphvali / One-shot) AO3 | Chinease Translation (AO3)

🎶For You (Zelink / written for Fated: Through Time digital zine / one-shot) AO3

🐈‍⬛️ WARRIOR CATS

˚☽˚｡⋆One Last Night (Leafpool x Hawkfrost / one-shot) AO3 | Turkish Translation

🎮POKEMON

🌲Lost & Found

Touko gets lost in Lostlorn Forest, only to find a familiar face.

Touko x N ship fic, one shot, I headcanon Touko being 16 and N 17 in Black/White. I didn't know about their canon ages until recently, thought it would be good to add it here.

>AO3 <

ZINES:

-Your Journey Awaits! (A free digital zine focusing on the beginning of the Pokémon journey.)

-Dreams and Destinies (a Kingdom Hears x Pokemon fanzine)

[brrroker]

Tumblr User Arrrchive’s Official SCP Recommendation Masterpost

Classic Creepypastas: 

SCP 173: The Sculpture

SCP 027: The Foot Of The Bed

SCP 231: The Seven Brides (tw: sexual assault, child abuse)

SCP 439: Bone Hive

SCP 682: Hard to Destroy Reptile

SCP 1981: Ronald Reagan Cut Up While Talking

SCP 2852: Cousin Johnny

Short Stories and Format Skews: 

SCP 001: Lily’s Proposal (The World’s Gone Beautiful)

SCP 001: Locke’s Proposal (Daybreak)

SCP 1171: Humans Go Home

SCP 1715: Online Friend

SCP 2000: Deus Ex Machina

SCP 2072: Prime Ministerial Pet Cemetery

SCP-2272: Ellis Canastota, P, Pensacola Blue Wahoos

SCP 2432: Room Service

SCP 2508: The Long Wait

SCP 2556: Indefinitely Suspended Stratojet

SCP 3515: Unearth

SCP 3799: A Short History of Snowfall 

SCP 3939: [NUMBER RESERVED: AWAITING RESEARCHER]

SCP 3972:  “Ken Burns Presents: SCP-3972”

SCP 4205: In The Eyes of The Beholder

SCP 4699: and only the doorway remains.

SCP 5002: A Death In Containment (tw: mention of sexual assault)

SCP 5031: Not Another Murder Monster

SCP 5320: The People’s Church Of The Fish That Just Goes On Forever

SCP 6005: Cascadia 

SCP 6278: HARBINGER II: Welcome to Marvin's!

Non-Standalone SCPs:

SCP 2317: A Door To Another World

SCP 4156: Last Bastion

SCP 4646: Sing Me A Song For The End Of The World

SCP 4833: The Syncope Symphony

Longer Narratives:

SCP 3001: Red Reality

SCP 3999: I Am At The Center Of Everything That Happens To Me

SCP 4231: The Montauk House (tw: abuse, sexual assault)

[toadallytickles-backup]

I really can’t believe this but Tumblr UNFLAGGED @toadallytickles-old (my original blog I’ve had since 2015) overnight after I just started setting up and moving things over to this new blog…

So it’s accessible again.

I guess I’m moving back over there and this new blog will be backup incase something happens again!

[thetopichot]

So, I've been updating my masterpost today including some of the collections too. I was wondering in my cat brain. "What is the limit of how many links can I put in a single post?" since there is like a shitload of Auron posts in his collection. (Bro is fine leave me alone 😩) With that I looked it up.

You can have about 100 links within a single post & I'm like "Okay, I could just make another collection or just like organize for that specific thing so I can have more space."

Then I dunno, I got curious & just like scrolled down. Another thing, I've figure out is how many posts can you make within a single day. You can make up to 250 posts within a single day. I wondered who figured out the limit lol. Just like when crazy & Tumblr said like "Ayo can you shut the fuck up bro goddamn."

I dunno I like to ramble about stupid shit all the time. Hence the existence of the all mighty Topic Hot. Well there's other reasons why exists too but it all leads to just wanting to talk about stupid shit because hey if anyone is gonna talk ya ear off about stupid shit. Hell, let it be me.

[katajainen]

February Ficlet Challenge 2023 Masterlist

...19,760 words, 28 ficlets, written and posted in 6 weeks. Given my usual (glacial) pace, that’s A LOT.

Which is why I want to recap, in their full questionable glory, ALL my FFC 2023 ficlets in one post. This year’s ship list was Tolkien-themed (LOTR and the Hobbit), and includes both romantic and platonic relationships.

1. Sea-luck. Éowyn/Faramir, G, prompt: wave.

2. With Some Resignation. Dori&Ori, G, prompt: caught in the rain.

3. What Hope of Dignity. Bilbo/Bofur, G, prompt: “What’s up, doc?”

4. What Gardens Are For. Éowyn/Merry, T, prompt: second love.

5. Home on a Journey. Frodo/Sam/Rosie, G, prompt: roadtrip/backpacking.

6. Onward. Bilbo&Frodo, G, prompt: pirate AU.

7. One Day, Perhaps. Balin/Dori, G, prompt: carnival.

8. Pick a Side. Aragorn&Elladan&Elrohir, G, prompt: “This is the last time I bail you out!”

9. The Go-between. Aragorn&Gimli&Legolas, Gimli&Legolas (could read as pre-slash), G, prompt: soulmate AU.

10. A Few Choice Words. Bilbo&Thranduil, G, prompt: opposites.

11. Until the Morning Light. Dwalin/Nori, T, prompt: “Why are you naked in my bed?”

12. The Quiet Upon the Land. Éomer&Éowyn, G, prompt: first snow.

13. Pushing Back the Moon. Frodo&Sam, T, prompt: werewolf AU.

14. Sea-given. Balin&Dwalin, Dwalin/Nori, T, prompt: merfolk AU.

15. Speak Softly (On This Crackling Ice). Fili/Ori, M, prompt: ice.

16. Chance Met in Rivendell. Aragorn&Bilbo, G, prompt: starting a new tradition.

17. A Draught of Sun and River-water. Gimli&Legolas (could read as pre-slash), G, prompt: skinny dipping.

18. Cursed Trifold. Fíli&Kíli, T, prompt: curses.

19. Soup and Stars. Bofur/Nori, T, prompts:  blood is thicker than water AND star.

20. Salvage. Faramir&Pippin, G, prompt: silver lining.

21. Stabbing into Spring-melt Snow. Éowyn/Tauriel, T, prompt: flood.

22. More Fool Them. Bofur&Bombur, T, prompt: plenty of fish in the sea.

23. As the Circumstances Warrant. Bilbo/Dwalin, G, prompt: oasis.

24. Above Water. Merry&Pippin, G, prompt: flotsam and jetsam.

25. Stormbreak. Aragorn/Arwen, G, prompt: lighthouse.

26. Out of Sight and Mind. Balin&Bilbo, G, prompts: first they must catch you AND “What’s the worst that could happen?”

27. Prelude. Dwalin/Thorin, G, prompt: nontraditional format.

28. If Given a Choice. Boromir&Faramir, T, prompt: still waters run deep.

[nellasbookplanet]

Book recs: black science fiction

As february and black history month nears its end, if you're a reader let's not forget to read and appreciate books by black authors the rest of the year as well! If you're a sci-fi fan like me, perhaps this list can help find some good books to sink your teeth into.

Bleak dystopias, high tech space adventures, alien monsters, alternate dimensions, mash-ups of sci-fi and fantasy - this list features a little bit of everything for genre fiction fans!

For more details on the books, continue under the readmore. Titles marked with * are my personal favorites. And as always, feel free to share your own recs in the notes!

If you want more book recs, check out my masterpost of rec lists!

Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

Something massive and alien crashes into the ocean off the coast of Nigeria. Three people, a marine biologist, a rapper, and a soldier, find themselves at the center of this presence, attempting to shepherd an alien ambassador as chaos spreads in the city. A strange novel that mixes the supernatural with the alien, shifts between many different POVs, and gives a one of a kind look at a possible first contact.

Nubia: The Awakening (Nubia series) by Omar Epps & Clarence A. Hayes

Young adult. Three teens living in the slums of an enviromentally ravaged New York find that something powerful is awakening within them. They’re all children of refugees of Nubia, a utopian African island nation that sank as the climate worsened, and realize now that their parents have been hiding aspects of their heritage from them. But as they come into their own, someone seeks to use their abilities to his own ends, against their own people.

The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

Novella. After having failed at establishing a new colony, starship Calypso fights to make it back to Earth. Acting captain Jacklyn Albright is already struggling against the threats of interstellar space and impending starvation when the ship throws her a new danger: something is hiding on the ship, picking off her crew one by one in bloody, gruesome ways. A quick, excellent read if you want some good Alien vibes.

Dawn (Xenogenesis trilogy) by Octavia E. Butler*

After a devestating war leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, survivor Lilith finds herself waking up naked and alone in a strange room. She’s been rescued by the Oankali, who have arrived just in time to save the human race. But there’s a price to survival, and it might be humanity itself. Absolutely fucked up I love it I once had to drop the book mid read to stare at the ceiling and exclaim in horror at what was going on. Includes darker examinations of agency and consent, so enter with caution.

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson*

Utterly unique in world-building, story, and prose, Midnight Robber follows young Tan-Tan and her father, inhabitants of the Carribean-colonized planet of Toussaint. When her father commits a terrible crime, he’s exiled to a parallel version of the same planet, home to strange aliens and other human exiles. Tan-Tan, not wanting to lose her father, follows with him. Trapped on this new planet, he becomes her worst nightmare. Enter this book with caution, as it contains graphic child sexual abuse.

Rosewater (The Wormwood trilogy) by Tade Thompson

In Nigeria lies Rosewater, a city bordering on a strange, alien biodome. Its motives are unknown, but it’s having an undeniable effect on the surrounding life. Kaaro, former criminal and current psychic agent for the government, is one of the people changed by it. When other psychics like him begin getting killed, Kaaro must take it upon himself to find out the truth about the biodome and its intentions.

Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh

Young adult. A century ago, an astronomer discovered a possibly Earth-like planet. Now, a team of veteran astronauts and carefully chosen teenagers are preparing to embark on a twenty-three year trip to get there. But space is dangerous, and the team has no one to rely on but each other if - or when - something goes wrong. An introspective slowburn of a story, this focuses more on character work than action.

The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

After the planet Sadira is left uninhabitable, its few survivors are forced to move to a new world. On Cygnus Beta, they work to rebuild their society alongside their distant relatives of the planet, while trying to preserve what remains of their culture. Focused less on hard science or action, The Best of All Possible Worlds is more about culture, romance and the ethics and practicalities of telepathy.

Mirage (Mirage duology) by Somaiya Daud

Young adult. Eighteen-year-old Amani lives on an isolated moon under the oppressive occupation of the Valthek empire. When Amani is abducted, she finds herself someplace wholly unexpected: the royal palace. As it turns out, she's nearly identical to the half-Valthek, and widely hated, princess Maram, who is in need of a body double. If Amani ever wants to make it back home or see her people freed from oppression, she will have to play her role as princess perfectly. While sci-fi, this one more has the vibe of a fantasy.

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Life on the lower decks of the generation ship HSS Matilda is hard for Aster, an outcast even among outcasts, trying to survive in a system not dissimilar to the old antebellum South. The ship’s leaders have imposed harsh restrictions on their darker skinned people, using them as an oppressed work force as they travel toward their supposed Promised Land. But as Aster finds a link between the death of the ship’s sovereign and the suicide of her own mother, she realizes there may be a way off the ship.

Where It Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon

The planet Swazembi is a utopia of color and beauty, the most beautiful of all its citizens being the Rare Indigo. Lileala was just named Rare Indigo, but her strict yet pampered life gets upended when her beautiful skin is struck by a mysterious sickness, leaving it covered in scars and scabs. Meanwhile, voices start to whisper in Lileala's mind, bringing to the surface a past long forgotten involving her entire society.

Eacaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus duology) by Nicky Drayden

Seske is the heir to the leader of a clan living inside a gigantic, spacefaring beast, of which they frequently need to catch a new one to reside in as their presence slowly kills the beast from the inside. While I found the ending rushed with regards to plot and character, the worldbuilding is very fresh and the overall plot of survival and class struggle an interesting one. It’s also sapphic!

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah*

In a near future America, inmates on death row or with life sentences in private prisons can choose to participate in death matches for entertainment. If they survive long enough - a rare case indeed - they regain their freedom. Among these prisoners are Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker, partners behind the scenes and close to the deadline of a possible release - if only they can survive for long enough. As the game continues to be stacked against them and protests mount outside, two women fight for love, freedom, and their own humanity. Chain-Gang All-Stars is bleak and unflinching as well as genuinely hopeful in its portrayal of a dark but all to real possible future.

Parable of the Sower (Earthseed duology) by Octavia E. Butler*

In a bleak future, Lauren Olamina lives with her family in a gated community, one of few still safe places in a time of chaos. When her community falls, Lauren is forced on the run. As she makes her way toward possible safety, she picks up a following of other refugees, and sows the seeds of a new ideology which may one day be the saviour of mankind. Very bleak and scarily realistic, Parable of the Sower will make you both fear for mankind and regain your hope for humanity.

Binti (Binti trilogy) by Nnedi Okorafor

Young adult novella. Binti is the first of the Himba people to be accepted into the prestigious Oomza University, the finest place of higher learning in all the galaxy. But as she embarks on her interstellar journey, the unthinkable happens: her ship is attacked by the terrifying Meduse, an alien race at war with Oomza University.

War Girls (War Girls duology) by Tochi Onyebuchi

In an enviromentally fraught future, the Nigerian civil war has flared back up, utilizing cybernetics and mechs to enhance its soldiers. Two sisters, by bond if not by blood, are separated and end up on differing sides of the struggle. Brutal and dark, with themes of dehumanization of soldiers through cybernetics that turn them into weapons, and the effect and trauma this has on them.

The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds duology) by Micaiah Johnson

Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s a catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying. As such she has a very special job in traveling to these worlds, hoping to keep her position long enough to gain citizenship in the walled-off Wiley City, away from the wastes where she grew up. But her job is dangerous, especially when she gets on the tracks of a secret that threatens the entire multiverse. Really cool worldbuilding and characters, also featuring a sapphic lead!

The Fifth Season (The Broken Eart trilogy) by N.K. Jemisin*

In a world regularly torn apart by natural disasters, a big one finally strikes and society as we know it falls, leaving people floundering to survive in a post apocalyptic world, its secrets and past to be slowly revealed. We get to follow a mother as she races through this world to find and save her missing daughter. While mostly fantasy in genre, this series does have some sci-fi flavor, and is genuinely some of the best books I've ever read, please read them.

The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings*

In an alternate version of our present, the witch hunt never ended. Women are constantly watched and expected to marry young so their husbands can keep an eye on them. When she was fourteen, Josephine's mother disappeared, leveling suspicions at both mother and daughter of possible witchcraft. Now, nearly a decade and a half later, Jo, in trying to finally accept her missing mother as dead, decides to follow up on a set of seemingly nonsensical instructions left in her will. Features a bisexual lead!

The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden

South African-set scifi featuring gods ancient and new, robots finding sentience, dik-diks, and a gay teen with mind control abilities. An ancient goddess seeks to return to her true power no matter how many humans she has to sacrifice to get there. A little bit all over the place but very creative and fresh.

The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson*

Young adult. Young artist June Costa lives in Palmares Tres, a beautiful, matriarchal city relying heavily on tradition, one of which is the Summer King. The most recent Summer King is Enki, a bold boy and fellow artist. With him at her side, June seeks to finally find fame and recognition through her art, breaking through the generational divide of her home. But growing close to Enki is dangerous, because he, like all Summer Kings, is destined to die.

The Blood Trials (The Blood Gifted duology) by N.E. Davenport

After Ikenna's grandfather is assasinated, she is convinced that only a member of the Praetorian guard, elite soldiers, could’ve killed him. Seeking to uncover his killer, Ikenna enrolls in a dangerous trial to join the Praetorians which only a quarter of applicants survive. For Ikenna, the stakes are even higher, as she's hiding forbidden blood magic which could cost her her life. Mix of fantasy and sci-fi. While I didn’t super vibe with this one, I suspect fans of action packed romantasy will enjoy it.

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

1960s classic. Rydra Wong is a space captain, linguist and poet who is set on learning to understand Babel-17, a language which is humanity's only clue at the enemy in an interstaller war. But Babel-17 is more than just a language, and studying it may change Rydra forever.

Pet (Pet duology) by Akwaeke Emezi

Young adult novella. Jam lives in a utopian future that has been freed of monsters and the systems which created and upheld them. But then she meets Pet, a dangerous creature claiming to be hunting a monster still among them, prepared to stop at nothing to find them. While I personally found the word-building in Pet lacking, it deftly handles dark subjects of what makes a human a monster.

Bonus AKA I haven’t read these yet but they seem really cool

Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes

Alternate history in which Africans colonized South America while vikings colonized the North. The vikings sell abducted Celts and Franks as slaves to the South, one of which is eleven-years-old Irish boy Aidan O'Dere, who was just bought by a Southern plantation owner.

The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow

Young adult dystopia. Ellie lives in a future where humanity is under the control of the alien Ilori. All art is forbidden, but Ellie keeps a secret library; when one of her books disappears, she fears discovery and execution. M0Rr1S, born in a lab and raised to be emotionless, finds her library, and though he should deliver her for execution, he finds himself obsessed with human music. Together the two embark on a roadtrip which may save humanity.

Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase

Lelah lives in future Botswana, but despite money and fame she finds herself in an unhappy marriage, her body controlled via microchip by her husband. After burying the body of an accidental hit and run, Lelah's life gets worse when the ghost of her victim returns to enact bloody vengeance.

Orleans by Sherri L. Smith

Young adult. Fen de la Guerre, living in a quarantined Gulf Coast left devestated by storms and sickness, is forced on the run with a newborn after her tribe is attacked. Hoping to get the child to safety, Fen seeks to get to the other side of the wall, she teams up with a scientist from the outside the quarantine zone.

Everfair by Nisi Shawl

A neo-victorian alternate history, in which a part of Congo was kept safe from colonisation, becoming Everfair, a safe haven for both the people of Congo and former slaves returning from America. Here they must struggle to keep this home safe for them all.

The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Space opera. Enitan just wants to live a quiet life in the aftermath of a failed war of conquest, but when her lover is killed and her sister kidnapped, she's forced to leave her plans behind to save her sister.

Honorary mentions AKA these didn't really work for me but maybe you guys will like them: The City We Became (Great Cities duology) by N.K. Jemisin, The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull, The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

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WOO, finally got this ref chart together! the art's actually kinda old by now (I started this back in february) but I didn't feel like redrawing everything outside outfit changes sooooo,,,,,my apologies 😅 here's the main cast! you can find individual refs in this masterpost

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KVD 2024 SONG LIST

Here is a list of the 14 songs (in order) that we used for this years Klaine Valentines Challenge. We know the challenge is technically over, but perhaps some of you writers might get inspired by listening to the songs and create new stories? 😘 ~Lynne

Day One: Padam Padam

Day Two: Angel of Mine

Day Three: Sh-Boom

Day Four: Handle With Care

Day Five: Power of Love

Day Six: The Story

Day Seven: Love You I Do

Day Eight: Kiss You All Over

Day Nine: Lover

Day Ten: Last Night on Earth

Day Eleven: Longer

Day Twelve: Now and Then

Day Thirteen: This Will Be An Everlasting Love

Day Fourteen: If I Should Fall Behind

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It's taken me a year to get to this point.

And now I can finally say.

We're in it now.

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Thank you guys for your continued support! I'm going to take a briiiief break from posting Wanderer so I can work out the plot for the next arc, as well as some very important details!

In the meantime check out @twinpathy for a small side project I'm working on with a good friend.

I'll probably post doodles related to Wanderer, and I'll update you guys for when its return will be!

Stay Tuned for an Anniversary Event on February 1st!

Also mega shout out to hhumanoid for making this absolute banger that somehow let me power through the flu and finish this comic! Drop by and say hi :D