#The Dark Dreamer Trilogy

[iespoke]

...How the moth had beaten against the walls for those first few days, until it learned it could not escape. And then, when Niall had died, it had of course fallen asleep, and it didn’t know whether it was in a box or free anyway.

⏤greywaren, m. stiefvater

[andrewminyardslawyer]

Every day I wake up and am forced to witness the most heinous interpretations of characters and storylines

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Bram Greenfield- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Kodiak Celius- The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

Remy Pendergast- Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

[bookishjules]

i've seen you carry family

wild horses - grace power // 2x06 - bridgerton // oil study - liza sivakova // jungwan chae // the mask - matt maeson // queen of air and darkness - cassandra clare // @/mothercain // 2x07 - bridgerton // benny - luke hemmings // the brothers - john clark // a man leaning on a parapet - georges seurat // greywaren - maggie stiefvater // queen of air and darkness - cassandra clare // uncharted territory of grief - tanaya winder // exhale - sabrina carpenter // lady midnight - cassandra clare // @ihopeucomehomesoon //greywaren - maggie stiefvater

[daydreamerwonderkid]

Warner Bros is selling the fucking Batmobile ...

At least it isn't a cyber truck asdgjk;lkasf

[thefeminine-urge]

I woke up, and the grief was murderous. Sufficiently insufferable. I am so happy and so sad. So sad, I want to write the shit out of it, but I didn't. The memoir, my Amor Fati, this rooting journey and how to fall asleep at night with myself, who most parts longing for a sanctuary. But, I don't belong. There's only one hideaway. It would entertain me by strange dreams and nightmares. A lot of explicit dreams in the past nights of July. An adulting fantasy at its finest. The opposite of dream is nightmare, I had one of many about being in a car with my mom, dad and brother - we were on a ride at the edge of the sea and the car flipped right into the water but I escaped while the others drowned in. How ironic, my life is a movie. The Evil Eyes are watching me, perhaps. Reading me through the mirror shaped like a door to the abyss I just placed in my room. I'm happy to get to see how much I have grown day by day, and I remember death, so I shy away on wanting too much. But in nature, I'm still a naughty rebellious girl. My growth goes, for an instance, not from the root of a tree but from its trunk being cut down. Now I understand why some trees were slaughtered or plants get trimmed, it's for them to grow anew. Just like hair scientifically. Just like me. I missed a lot of July's sunlight, and my favourite park is like my other abandoned hobbies and dreams. I befriended the capitalistic sapiens and let them milked blood out of my breast. Forgive me, for I have sin to keep this lung pumping and this heart beating. My after effect should cause them to grow fonder of life that is not merely all about hustling to the grave, but a good life is like having access to real nourishing food and as simple as real love should be and divine intervention to guide through path after path. In case life ends, I don't want us to leave an empty journal we wished to write because time is truly brutal, and the metaverse has taken us over. What we feel and think is precious, more than any currency will ever be, and AI will never reach a human's peak.

[clockworkbee]

the way some stories are all fun and games in the start: innocence and exploring life, shared jokes and struggles, finding love but also uncertainty, allowing oneself to be vulnerable while learning ‘oh no! not with just anyone, only my person’ but then you learn more of the story, and it's just secrets and secrets revealed, ‘I love you and I can't see you in pain (you deserve better)’ plus ‘I love and I can't show you my pain (you deserve better),’ and ‘let me keep you safe’ and ‘no! let me keep you safe,’ and seeing the sun shine through the loved ones even when there's a dark cloud on their head, and when it's time to go back to normal life, stories ending like ‘I've seen your darker shades and I'm not afraid, I'm here to help’ and ‘let's stick together’ and ‘we have come so far’ and loving each other stronger than ever, and I just so, so love it.

[crimeronan]

i know i’ve made this exact post before but once again i’m thinking about how k ABSOLUTELY thought ronan had also murdered his father (and maybe thought that declan had covered it up)??? because how does a teenage boy with a notoriously unreliable and bad-at-parenting negligence da get caught standing beside said da’s bludgeoned-to-death body with the murder weapon clearly visible and some new dark murderous snakelike malevolence in him...... and NOT get booked for it. k is positive that 1) ronan did it 2) niall had it coming 3) that’s why ronan and declan fell out and 4) this makes ronan like 100000x hotter.

[cabeswaterdrowned]

Cosmic Love is a Ronan + Hennessy song

[viis-ceral]

OH, WHAT A WASTE.

Hi red rising tumblr im back to hurt you again 🤭

[the-overanalyst]

maggie stiefvater watched dead poets society one time and thought "but what if it wasn't emotionally devastating?" and that's how gansey was born.

[lovelythethingsbrainrot]

"Ronan is worried. Declan is fucked."

-Notes for a multi-chapter Raven Cycle fic

[crispycostumes]

how awkward must those summers they spend in the barns post-canon be? i mean mór calls ronan “it”

[fandom]

Books

Vampires and lesbian necromancers and demigods, oh my!

Percy Jackson & The Olympians +2 by Rick Riordan

Dracula by Bram Stroker

The Harry Potter series -2 by J.K. Rowling

The Locked Tomb series +6 by Tamsyn Muir

The Warrior Cats series -1 by Erin Hunter

A Song of Ice and Fire +7 by George R.R. Martin

Six Of Crows -5 by Leigh Bardugo

The All for the Game series -3 by Nora Sakavic

Pride And Prejudice -3 by Jane Austen

The Silmarillion +1 by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Secret History -2 by Donna Tartt

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

A Court of Thorns and Roses series -6 by Sarah J. Maas

The Folk of the Air series -2 by Holly Black

The Trials of Apollo series -1 by Rick Riordan

The Discworld series +4 by Terry Pratchett

The Raven Cycle series -1 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Picture Of Dorian Gray +6 by Oscar Wilde

Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Song Of Achilles -5 by Madeline Miller

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Simon Snow series -1 by Rainbow Rowell

The Shadowhunter Chronicles -1 by Cassandra Clare

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

If We Were Villains +3 by M. L. Rio

Wings Of Fire -1 by Tui T. Sutherland

The Last Hours Series by Cassandra Clare

The Animorph series +8 by K. A. Applegate

The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn

The Iliad +10 by Homer

Red, White, and Royal Blue -13 by Casey McQuiston

The Stormlight Archive series -9 by Brandon Sanderson

1984 +8 by George Orwell

Wuthering Heights +8 by Emily Brontë

The Twilight Saga -3 by Stephanie Meyer

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Romeo And Juliet +1 by William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby -12 by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Dark Artifices -2 by Cassandra Clare

The Captive Prince series -21 by C. S. Pacat

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard -8 by Rick Riordan

The Fowl Adventures series -8 by Eoin Colfer

The Dreamer Trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater

The Wicked Powers +1 by Cassandra Clare

The Odyssey by Homer

The Throne Of Glass Series -17 by Sarah J. Maas

Renegades by Marisa Meyer

The Infernal Devices -9 by Cassandra Clare

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde -3 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

[mendingbone]

i keep seeing people in their late teens/early twenties having a "[X] content intended for younger audiences does not feel satisfying to me anymore but i don't know where to start to branch out into adult fiction" moment and i thought i would give some recommendations for adult fiction for my fellow creepy crawly queer people. all or at least a LOT of it will be on the darker and more fucked up side bc i primarily engage with horror and thriller media personally but feel free to add on with more or recommendations from other genres :)

edit: i am continuing to add to this list so there might be new recs (highlighted in pink) in here every once in a while! also want to add that there's a variety of POC, queer, and disabled authors in here as well, i am also all of the above (asian, aro lesbian, poly, disabled) and tried to incorporate as many wickedly talented, compelling narratives as possible. that's all, happy reading!

A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers

A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E Schwab*

A Dowry of Blood, S.G Gibson

Animal, Lisa Taddeo*

A Ripple of Power and Promise, Jordan A. Day*

Bunny, Mona Awad*

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi*

Cursed Bread, Sophie Mackintosh*

Dark Places, Gillian Flynn

Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry, Alex Ritany

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk*

Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh*

Fruiting Bodies, Kathryn Harlan*

Goddess of Filth, V. Castro*

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski

If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha*

Into the Drowning Deep, Mira Grant

Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao

Jackal, Erin E. Adams*

Juniper and Thorn, Ava Reid*

Kindred, Octavia Butler*

Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin*

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee*

Rabbits, Terry Miles*

Scorched Grace, Margot Douaihy*

Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn

She is a Haunting, Trang Thahn Tran

Slewfoot, Brom

Sorrowland, Rivers Soloman

Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo

Supper Club, Lara Williams*

The Centre, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi*

The Change, Kirsten Miller

The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling*

The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher*

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter, Soraya Palmer*

The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

The Locked Tomb, Tamsyn Muir

The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling*

The Red Tree, Caitlin Kiernan*

The Unfamiliar Garden, Benjamin Percy*

Vicious, V. E Shwab

Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin*

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher*