#Stephanie Ahn

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Stephanie Ahn

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Do you know any sapphic books that’s about knights, demons, or something?

Sure, for demons try

Deadline by Stephanie Ahn

The Fall that Saved Us by Tamara Jerée

The Demon Equilibrium by Cathy Pegau

and knights:

*The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond (Amz)

The Knight Legends series by Bridget Essex

The Afterward by E.K. Johnston (f/f YA)

A Knight to Remember by Ceilie Simkiss

*available for preorder

Not sure what falls under "something," but here's a page to browse that might help: https://lgbtqreads.com/sff/paranormal-sff-by-protags/

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Chaekgeori, the Scholar’s Accoutrements. Late nineteenth-century Korea. Ink and color on paper, Ten-panel screen, 78″ (H) x 152″ (W). Private Collection.

Curated by a group of Korean art experts that includes Byungmo Chung (professor, Gyeongju University), Sunglim Kim (professor, Dartmouth College), Jinyoung Jin(Director of Cultural Programs, Charles B. Wang Center), Sooa Im McCormick (Assistant Curator of Asian Art, Cleveland Museum of Art), and Kris Imants Ercums (Curator of Global Contemporary and Asian Art, Spencer Museum of Art), this collection showcases marvelous and rare examples of chaekgeori screens alongside the works of a diverse body of contemporary artists who continue this genre into the twenty-first century. Seven contemporary artists featured in the exhibition are Stephanie S. Lee, Seongmin Ahn, Kyoungtack Hong, Patrick Hughes, Sungpa, Young-Shik Kim, and Airan Kang.

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WHY SO UNDERRATED??

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while i heartily agree with this, i think that it's very likely most people will be drawn more towards The Traitor Baru Comorant by Seth Dickinson. there's a lot of parallels there to both Gideon and Harrow in Baru Cormorant, so it'll probably have more immediate appeal.

She Who Became the Sun and especially A Memory Called Empire, i think, have some major differences that might be harder to adjust to for TLT fans. Became the Sun is kind of a bit more... brutal? and grounded. think a bit more the tone of those first couple chapters, especially when sticking tightly within Gideon's perspective of how things are going, and focus on that tone and feeling for much more of the book. it's made it a bit of a slog for me to get through just coz i keep having to take emotional breaks. ^^;

A Memory Called Empire, meanwhile, is almost the polar opposite. like... yes, it is excellent and beautifully written, and also is about a galaxy-spanning expansionist empire with some aesthetics drawn from antiquity... but replace necromancy with poetry, and everyone honestly kind of likes the empire, including the author even though they know it's dangerous and perhaps kind of wrong to like it. where TLT is categorically against the concept of empire, and its empire is unambiguously evil, AMCE's empire certainly isn't unambiguously good, and many characters present their own valid criticisms of it, the book's dedication really captures the perspective it holds:

This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own.

between that and the way that it's narrative is focused on politics in a remarkably nuts-and-bolts kind of way for a sci-fi novel, it's one that i think is much better to compare with TLT in retrospect, than when going into it.

another book that i finished rereading recently and am waiting to finally get my hands on a copy of the sequel that i feel compares to TLT pretty well is Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta, which is basically a moderately more YA-y TLT where the necromancy is swapped out for gigantic mechs, and BoE comes into the plot much earlier.

oh and while i'm at it, while the books are very different from TLT, the Harrietta Lee series by Stephanie Ahn could kind of be described as if you merged Harrow and Gideon into a single soggy cat of a lesbian, and gave her Harry Dresden's job in a magic-filled New York City.

father strange have you any book recommendations for lovers of the locked tomb. please your channel introduced me to it and i have read the series upwards of 4 times. i need to feed

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine & She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan both fill that need for beautifully written sci fi/ fantasy with queer characters for me

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20 Questions Writer Questionnaire

Tagged by @saturnine-saturneight

Is writing a hobby or way of life?

Still just a hobby, but I want to make it much more a part of my life. Getting off to a rough start, but this blog is part of that plan.

A journal full of writing notes or a clean, completed manuscript?

Hmm… I'd say 50/50 probably? During the planning stages, to figure out aspects of the world or my characters, I'll use notebooks as something like scratch paper to sketch things out (sometimes literally) before writing them up in digital documents. But all those notes are largely just for the sorts of things that could cause continuity errors. A character's appearance, the geography and climate of a location, etc. When I sit down to write, it's usually by opening a blank document and just writing by the seat of my pants.

Who (or what) is your writing inspiration?

Oh that's a tough one. There's a couple of authors who I look up to in aspiration, usually for stylistic reasons; Pratchett, Tamsyn Muir, Diana Wynne Jones…

But honestly? I think most of my inspiration comes from the people I think fell short. Like… "Okay, you had a couple good ideas here and there, but the overall story is just… so disappointing. Let me see what I can do with these pieces."

Oh! One work that does fall on both sides of this fence is Final Fantasy IX. Its world manages to feel so incredibly real to me, and I love how it manages to maintain an incredibly personal and intimate tone for all of its characters, even as the plot builds to saving all of reality from the manifestation of entropy (not kidding, the "Not Alone" sequence that kicks off the third act still makes me tear up). But it still has shortcomings inherent to being a turn-of-the-century JRPG, and not all of its characters get all the narrative attention they deserve. But writing a story that I can conceive as an improved version of FF9 (whatever medium it winds up being) is probably my number one writing goal.

Which is worse: someone you "idolize" reading your first draft or listening to you sing?

Probably singing? I'm not horribly self-conscious about it - I did have some lessons once (a long time ago) - but I pretty much always want people to read my writing, if only to give me feedback on what they did like, and what I might do better.

Has writing from someone else's POV ever changed your own perspective?

…Not unexpectedly. I'll actually sometimes do a little bit of writing as an exercise specifically to explore certain points of view. So like… usually, if my mind changes due to writing from a particular character's POV, I started writing with the intent to see if my mind might change. Granted, that's pretty oversimplifying of the process, and mind-changing tends to be pretty gradual and slow, anyway, but…

Tumblr, AO3, LiveJournal, or FFN?

AO3 and Tumblr. I've been active on Tumblr for years, though I've only recently started writing on it. Meanwhile, I've been reading fic on AO3 for ages, and …very occasionally post stuff to it. …I really ought to post a new chapter to my Freyatrix fic, thinking about it…

AO3 wordcount, and are you satisfied with it?

3,744 and I'm not horribly stressed about it, but as I mentioned in the previous answer, I should see about maybe hitting 5k soon.

What movie/book/fic gripped you irrevocably?

Counting games under this.

Final Fantasy IX, as previously mentioned

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Last Unicorn

The Locked Tomb

The Fallen Gods series by S.D. Simper

Backwards to Oregon by Jae

Heaven Will Be Mine

The Clinch by Nicole Disney (specifically for teaching me to appreciate present tense narration, which I had previously been firmly opposed to)

Carmilla and all its adaptations and spin-offs

The Harrietta Lee series by Stephanie Ahn

A Memory Called Empire

the mountain of unfulfilled potential in Warcraft has haunted me since I started writing

and a whole host of honourable mentions that I'd be listing all night, if I started

There will also absolutely be two or three things I think of tomorrow that I'll be slapping myself for having forgotten, but... alas.

What’s the highest compliment you’ve ever been given, and have you been given it?

I can't think of any single compliment I've been given, but the number of times people have complimented the flow of my writing has stuck with me.

What defines your writing style?

I think it's that flow, again, mostly. Whether it's action or description, I have a feeling I have a fairly signature way of handling it. I think I also have a knack for maintaining characterization.

Gonna pull the "I'm still new here so don't yet know a lot of people, so all of my followers may consider themselves tagged, if they wish." thing again.

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[foxeia]

Stephanie Ahn

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The one thing I can give recs on, ever.

**= Especially trashy rec

F/f:

Deadline by Stephanie Ahn

A Treason of Truths by Ada Harper (technically scifi I guess but it feels fantasy to me)

Wolfsbane Winter by Jane Fletcher

The Inthya series by Effie Calvin (not that trashy I guess but I'm shouting it out anyway)

(For that matter the Alpennia series is not really trashy at all but again. Still a solid rec from me.)

**The Blood We Spill by Jo Havens (also technically scifi. I'm sorry.)

M/m:

Curses, Foiled Again by Sera Trevor

The Imposter Prince by Wendy Rathbone

Bodyguard by Dassy Bernhard (technically scifi again, but I'm not even sure what genre this is tbh)

*******The Invisible Chains series by Andrew Ashling BUT ONLY IF YOU WANT THE DARKEST TRASHIEST SERIES EVER. SO SO MANY CONTENT WARNINGS. YOU CAN ASK ME IF YOU WANT TO KNOW.

Shards of Ice by R. Phoenix

Any book in the Familiar Mates series by TJ Nichols, so good, I haven't read all of them yet but it's all standalones anyway. My fave is The Siren's Familiar!

**Not All Himbos Wear Capes by C Rochelle (superheroes count as fantasy to me)

Levity by Leta Blake & Keira Andrews

**Devilfish by Anna Kensing

**The Duty & Magic series by S. Rodman

Other (polyamory, trans rep, etc):

**The His Piratical Harem series by Drake LaMarque

**Also, the Gentleman's Bounty series by Drake LaMarque

A Suitable Consort for the King and His Husband by R Cooper

Huntsmen by Michelle Osgood

i asked this on twt but i wanna ask here too, I'm really in the mood for some trashy queer romance fantasy books if anyone got some recs <3

[lgbtqreads]

Can you recommend any wlw/nblw books that combine romance and murder mystery and in which one of the romantic leads is a dominant femme/ femme fatale of sorts? Thank you for your wonderful work!

OK so I do not have perfect answers to your ask but I have a number of imperfect ones that were all great IMO (and one I haven't read yet but I have loved everything else by this author) so I'm just gonna say those anyway, and they are:

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski

Deadline by Stephanie Ahn

The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht

Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist

Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp

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well, if you haven't read Fingersmith...

i'm sure there's already been a dozen replies mentioning that book now, already, but just in case... anyway, let me dig out my rec list for this vibe. (edit: actually, looks like it's barely been mentioned so far? anyway, The Handmaiden is a perfectly decent adaptation, but i feel it's definitely made with a primarily male audience in mind. yes, it makes use of female gaze much more than male gaze, and does a lot else right, but like... even if it's 90% the same outside of the setting update, Fingersmith simply being made with a primarily female audience in mind makes a world of difference.)

Adijan and Her Genie by L-J Baker in fairness, definitely comes off more than a little orientalist in its handling of Arabian-based fantasy setting, but the main character is pure butch himbo, an utter disaster, and utterly devoted to her wife. like, there's a lot i can point to to criticize in this book, but the characters themselves and the love story are absolutely not among them. and when i say "utter disaster", Adijan is a drunken, slovenly wreck barely floating by from get-rich-quick scheme to get-rich-quick scheme at the start of the novel before wind up in possession of a cursed locket with a homophobic "genie" in it who can't grant wishes.

The Sting of Victory by S.D. Simper a melodramatic vampire romance set in a high fantasy world. Ayla, our vampiric love interest, is like if you took the worst, most toxic parts of Harrowhark, Ianthe, and Carmilla (the vampire, not Camilla), and bundled them all into a single person. and yet, the way the story unfolds, you see why our protagonist is willing to quite literally damn herself - several times over, also literally - to be with her. she does also pretty much damn the entire world a couple of times, too, so... can't say they don't belong together :D

The Fate of Stars by S.D. Simper set in the same world as the above, but something like a thousand years earlier. honestly, i feel like the sequels each drop half a step in quality, but the first book was plenty good on its own that that still means the third book is fine, but it also works fairly well as a stand-alone if you'd rather. also has a bit of that orientalism problem like in Adijan, but it's at least not permeating the entire story. here, our romantic lead kidnaps our protagonist from the ocean and drops her in a giant fish bowl in her imperial palace. yeah, Simper loves writing absolute shitheels for romantic leads, it's delicious.

Deadline by Stephanie Ahn i'm actually recommending the rest of the series more than the first book, it's definitely got that "pilot episode" problem of still feeling itself out, and having to deal with setup and stuff, but the next two books are two of my favourites of all time. it's also a bit of an odd one out here because it's an urban fantasy noir series first and foremost, and i can't even really say romance on the side. there are a couple of characters with romantic potential for our protagonist, Harrietta Lee but this is definitively her story more than anyone else's. regardless, she is a sad, wet, pathetic little meow meow who i absolutely adore, and who is more than capable of getting up after ever single hit she takes. which is good, because she takes a lot of them.

Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall basically just here for if you wind up wanting more lesbian urban fantasy noir with monster fucking. however, i'm also mentioning it to contrast with Deadline because it's much closer to... power fantasy. Kate Kane fits pretty comfortably into the hard-boiled PI mould where Deadlin's Harrietta Lee has this... almost Jackie Chan-esque quality to her in how she frequently barely makes it out of situations - both combat-related and not - by the skin of her teeth. not to bring everything back to The Locked Tomb, but you kind of look at these two like Kate is if Griddle was a PI while Harry is more if... well, Harry was a PI. but yeah, all this is to say that Deadline is probably more what you're looking for here. Iron & Velvet is good, too, though.

The Hellion's Waltz by Olivia Waite another departure from the form in that its protagonists are actually reasonably well-adjusted people, but it is not only set only a couple decades earlier than Fingersmith and in the same country, it even has an approximately similar plot. basically, The Hellion's Waltz is kind of what you'd get if you took Fingersmith's eleven and turned it down to a gently simmering two or three. bonus points for also being about unionization and seizing the means of production. quite explicitly. this is also part of a trilogy, each book focusing on a different couple during the early 19th century, which i mostly mention because even though they are definitely about much more well-adjusted couples than is being asked for here, The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows has become another one of my favourite books.

Do you want reccs for more interesting sapphic books? Last year I tried to read as broad a spread of books with wlw protagonists as I could find, and a lot of them seem to have flown way under the radar. I'm sure other people are sending you suggestions unprompted, but I thought I'd ask first, and if you are interested, maybe you could tell me a few things you like in your stories to help me narrow it down?

I think what I'm looking for is a f/f romance where shit is messy. Like both protagonists are kinda awful but like in a tragic way where they're products of their environment. They fuck nasty but can't talk about their feelings until the very end. Stuff in their personal and professional lives is constantly going sideways but they find solace in each other. Idk if this is making any sense but while I did end up enjoying Ashley Herring Blake's Hallmark Movie sapphics it did leave me longing for something a little less sugary and wholesome.

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Do you any recommendations for sapphic/lesbian demon stories? Or something along those lines.

Sure! Try Deadline by Stephanie Ahn, The Fall that Saved Us by Tamara Jerée, and The Demon Equilibrium by Cathy Pegau.