#KISSING U ON THE MOUTH FOR THIS THANK YOU LMK IF YOUVE READ ANY OF THESE !!!!!!!! I LVOE LOVE LOVE

[mothmage]

Only now saw your pinned post and I NEED YOU TO RECOMMEND ME FIVE BOOKS RIGHT NOW 🤯💖😎🖤

oh my god what kind of books??!! genre??!! my top five favorite fiction books (i think VC fans would like most or all of these, actually):

Carmilla - Sheridan le Fanu (short, lesbian vampire, Dracula's blueprint, we all know this one) (this doesn't count as one of the five, but it's obligatory)

Perfume, the Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind (descriptive and evocative writing, weird and gross, guy with the most sensitive nose in the world, this WILL change the way you think about smell and scent, also murder, i first read this years ago and genuinely still think about it once a week)

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward (new southern gothic, ghost story but the ghost may or may not even be real, the horror is the intergenerational trauma, the prison industrial complex, and race in the american south - Ward is reinventing the genre right now, and i'm following every new release like a dog at her heels)

The White Castle - Orhan Pamuk (17th c science and understanding of the world, huge huge intrigue about identity and personhood and individuality, who am i and who are you and who are we type questions -- this one did send me into a psychosis episode the last time i read it, but would still 10/10 recommend if you arent me)

Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder (descriptive in kind of a gross way that im obsessed with. reality-unreality is a little blurry, but this is like...gnawing chewing going feral except it's kind of literal for the main character. good for her except it's not in a toxic feminism way it's in a really weird way. good for her. bark)

This is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar (tbh still not sure what this one is about, something something dystopian future time machine battle, it doesn't even matter. this is the most romantic love story i've ever read, and the writing is like. this rewrote my brain. epistolary so it's all in letters. it's so confusing but if you accept that the relationship is the whole point and the actual war is the background, it's like...breathtaking)

ok this is actually six seven, but also Gods of Tango - Carolina de Robertis (ambiguously butch/transmasc/transman main character, but this is about MUSIC. italian violinist in early 1900s argentina. some crazy messed up relationships. music!!! music!!! this is the most "music above all else" character i've ever read in my life)