#Stake sauce

[thesylverlining]

Happy Pride 2024! Have some Weird Queer books, games, and sounds!

Hey y'all, I'm RoAnna Sylver, and I write really queer books and interactive fiction about superheroes and vampires and space wolves and refusing to die - and EVERYTHING of mine is 50% off right now, individually or in a big beautiful bundle!

That's 7 books, 2 games, and my Indie Ink Award finalist audiobook CHAMELEON MOON!

Every single one of my books are also 99 cents on Amazon - And more importantly, every other book vendor I can reach!

Thank you so much for reading, whether my books or just this post. Thank you for still being here. I'm glad you are.

And to all of you:

Happy (defiant, quiet, introspective, angry, mourning, joyful) Pride!

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: vampires

Odd Blood - demisexual woman MC

Fallen Thorns - aroace man MC, aroace woman SC

From The Dark We Came - demisexual man MC

Stake Sauce - greyaroace MC, aspec side chars

The One and The Other - gay ace MC (energy vampires not blood vampires)

How To Sell Your Blood and Fall In Love - 1/2 MCs is demi/greyaro

In The Ravenous Dark - ace major character

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

[transbookoftheday]

Stake Sauce, Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient Is Love. No, Really by RoAnna Sylver

ARC 1, IN WHICH: A cute punk-rock vampire and a disabled firefighter-turned-mall-cop with a dark past join forces to battle the forces of evil.

Jude used to leap out of helicopters to rescue/protect people from terrifying infernos. Now, by day, he protects the local mall from rowdy teenagers who ride their skateboards inside. By night, he protects the the parking lot, and the rest of Portland, from undead, bloodsucking creatures of the darkness. Or would if he could find them. But he’s just about ready to give it up (living with PTSD and pain from the traumatic event that cost him a leg, a friend, and a lot more is hard enough), when something crashes into his life. And his window. It’s one of these creatures of the darkness - and he’s a lot less scary than expected. More cuddly, with dark fuzzy wings, and neon-bright hair.

His name is Pixie, and he refuses to bite anyone. Assault/murder/draining fluids isn’t punk, even if being a vampire really kind of is. He’s very hungry by now, and the much bigger, meaner, deadlier vamps kick him around on the nightly. Jude would love to find and fight some actual undead bullies. And Pixie could use some help staying… ‘alive.’ Time to make a deal.

Of course, life still sucks when you’re a vampire who refuses to suck blood. Fortunately, there’s a really interesting new barbecue restaurant in the mall, with an intriguing new recipe. (We hear that the secret ingredient is… love. No, really.)

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

August Landry/Jane Su - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Susan Arkshaw/Merlin St. Jacques - The Left Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

Jude/Pixie - Stake Sauce Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient is Love (No, Really) by RoAnna Sylver 

Paul Fleischer/Julian Fromme - These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

[iwouldliketoart]

94.

This speedart is based on a post about characters from a book called Stake Sauce Arc 1: The Secret Is Love. No, Really by @thesylverlining. It's Jude feeding spoiled pocket bat Pixie, who really wants fireballs. It's a very cute series, go check it out!

Erased: 10 times.

[danothan]

i followed you for your arcane art and stayed for your dc art and rambles

good, you better buckle in bc this dc thing is still going strong

[genderwizard]

rice . a vegetable . a sauce.

[thesylverlining]

Happy Pride! Have Some Queer AF Books and Games, FREE!

(Or pay what you want, including nothing! Tips always appreciated, but never expected!)

Yes, for the next two days only, ALL my extremely queer ebooks and indie games are pay-what-you-want on Itch.io! Eleven Things, all of them very queer sci-fi and fantasy, including:

F/F Witch/Mermaid Romance

M/M Vampire/Human Fun Horror goodness

Polyamorous dystopian superheroes of Basically Every Gender and Sexuality (including asexual dragon boys, front and center!)

Enjoy, and remember to celebrate yourself! <3

[thesylverlining]

Thank you! <3 I hesitated because it's not A Formal Romance, but CHAMELEON MOON has a central F/F/F triad, and... a complex polycule (mostly M/M/NB) that unfolds over the course of two books and many short stories lolol. STAKE SAUCE also gets into polyam territory in its second book (with The Pining set up in book 1 and short stories)!

Do you have a list of poly romances? I'm desperate to read actual in-text polyamorous stories and I keep coming up empty. QLL is phenomenal, thank y'all for everything you do!

hello! we are working on building up a list - purchasing a few more each month as we go, but we don’t have enough yet to post it up on Libby yet. however! i can give you a sneak peak from the drafts

Couplets by Maggie Miller

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao

The Hunger Pangs & Crewel Intentions by Joy Demorra @thebibliosphere

we’re also growing up our poly non-fic! a few titles we’ve already got include Multiamory, Polysecure, & Entwined: Essays on polyamory and creating home

[playingonedchess]

steaktake more like misteak

[transbookoftheday]

💚 Trans Aro Books To Read For Aromantic Visibility Day 💚

("Godly Heathens" isn't out yet, but you can preorder it or request an ARC on NetGalley.)

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Luc O'Donnell/Oliver Blackwood - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Jude/Jasper/Felix - Stake Sauce Acr 2: Everybody's Missing (Somebody) by RoAnna Sylver

Daisy Wells/Amina El Maghrabi - Death Sets Sail by Robin Stevens

Jake Fischer/Alex Angelides - Diamond Ring by KD Casey

[yourfavebooklrsfavebooklr]

(Image IDs at the bottom)

Here are some!

-The Reckless Kind: A YA historical fiction book where the main character runs away from her awful betrothed to live with her two best friends in a cabin. The plot revolves around them winning enough money to continue their life. Disability rep includes an mc with Waardenburg syndrome (with single-sided deafness), an mc with Brown-Séquard syndrome and a prosthetic arm, an mc with an anxiety disorder, and a side character with post-concussion syndrome. Also has aspec and m/m rep (might be gay rep but I don’t want to assume & it’s been a while since I read it.)

-Iron Widow: YA dystopia. Takes place in a world where humans pilot giant mechs in pairs, which often kills girls. Mc becomes a pilot with the goal of avenging her sister’s death and ends up surviving, which kicks off a long chain of events. Disability/Neurodivergent rep is a mc with chronic pain who is also a wheelchair user. Also has Chinese rep, bi mcs, and a polyamorous relationship.

-A Lady For A Duke: Regency romance. Main character faked her death in order to transition and ends up visiting her old best friend. The two end up forming a new friendship which leads to romance. Disability/Neurodivergent rep is a love interest with PTSD. Also has trans woman rep.

-The Stand-In: Romance. Main character gets mistaken for a Chinese celebrity and ends up hired to appear as her for a few public appearances, and she ends up taking the job to be able to afford help for her mother. Disability/Neirodivergent rep: MC with depression & anxiety. Also has Chinese rep.

-Stake Sauce: Arc 1: The secret ingredient is love. No, really: Paranormal. Main character became a vampire hunter after his friend was killed by one during an accident. He ends up teaming up with a punk vampire to hunt other vampires. Disability/Neurodivergent rep is a mc with ptsd and a prosthetic leg. Other rep is various queer characters and relationships.

-Nimona: Fantasy. the graphic novel that got adapted into that movie that got rlly popular around here. It’s about a ‘supervillain’ trying to take down an evil society and getting a shapeshifter as a sidekick, who is much more evil than him. Disability/Neurodivergent rep is a character with a prosthetic arm. Other rep is two queer male characters.

-Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute: Contemporary romance. I haven’t read this one yet but I’m excited about it! It’s about a star football player and a conspiracy-theory-loving content creator who are ex-best friends. They join the same survival course and end up stuck in the woods together and grow closer. Disability/Neurodivergent rep is OCD, other rep is black mcs, fat mc, and I’m pretty sure one of the MCs is bi.

[Image IDs:

The cover of “The Reckless Kind” by Carly Heath, with the title in the middle and the author’s name at the bottom. There is a black background and art emphasizing teal swirls, dark green leaves and stems, and red flowers. Some of those flowers are pointsettas. There is also a horseshoe in the middle.

The cover of “Iron Widow” The text of the title is in a font invoking a neon sign. by Xiran Jay Zhao. It features a woman in a skintight black suit with golden geometric accents, most of which are among her spine. There is what appears to be the orange and yellow wings of a giant metal bird which is mostly offscreen, some of which covers the bottom half of the woman.

The cover of “A Lady For A Duke” by Alexis Hall. A small blurb at the top from entertainment weekly reads, “Alexis Hall is a dizzyingly talent writer.” It has a blue background and shows a woman in a float yellow dress and white elbow-length gloves. Her waist is held in a romantic fashion by a taller man in a regency-style blue jacket and light brown pants. Their foreheads are leaned in together.

The cover of “The Stand-In” by Lily Chu. A white line vertically separates two halves of this cover, one with a teal background and one with a pink one. The pink side shows a woman with long hair, a sparkly blueish-green dress, and a marching dangling earring. The teal side shows the same woman with a bob and a t-shirt. On both sides, she’s wearing makeup including red lipstick.

The cover of “Stake Sauce: Arc 1: The secret ingredient is love. No, Really” by RoAnna Sylver. This text is in a red color. The image shows a grey hand with black fingernails and a spiked black bracelet in resting on a black surface. It also shows a red pin with the anarchy symbol in black, a pride flag pin, a skull and crossbones pin, and a patch that says “This Machine Kills Fascists” in punk-like lettering. Many of these are not fully visible.

The cover of “Nimona” by ND Stevenson. The background is dark green and is covered with faint sketches of various creatures, both real and mythical. It shows a person with dragon wings, red hair that’s shaved everywhere except the bangs, and what appears to be a long-sleeves green dress with a sleeveless purple dress on top of it. Next to her are a long-haired blond knight in golden armour raising his fist and black-haired goateed man in silver armour with a prosthetic arm holding a sword. A silver sticker with a book labels the book as “National Book Award Finalist” while a pink sticker says “Available Now: the fire never goes out: a memoir in pictures.” A blurb at the top reads that Rainbow Rowell says this book is “full of humor and heart.”

The cover of “Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute” by Talia Hibbert. The title is in a white font except for “unfairly cute” which is in a pink font and has a heart over the “i.” The cover shows a long-haired person in a cropped alien t shirt, an backpack and a puffy jacket. Behind her is a taller character with shorter hair who is wearing a hoodie and a backpack. He is smiling at the person in front of him. In the left corner is three pine trees and three birds which are in a simplistic art style.

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yo besties - do any of y’all have book recs that have disabled / neurodivergent rep?

[girlishfrenzy]

you can tell im out of adderall because i'm regressing to my college-era ways of coping with deadlines that are stressing me out

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[blujayonthewing]

aubree doesn't think of her cooking as 'a hobby' and would be lowkey annoyed if you said it was but modern!aubree would spend SO much time looking up unusual and complex recipes and trying out new stuff in the kitchen