#The Tithenai Chronicles

[noahhawthorneauthor]

I loved the audiobooks so much, I acquired trophies. 🎧📚🌈

Or vice versa in the case of The Last Sun (and series), and A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. I borrowed A Strange and Stubborn Endurance from the library, loved it, then listened on audiobook and later acquired a hard copy. I bought The Last Sun and series, and later listened to the audiobooks at least five times each.

Yes, really.

There's a method to my madness, I swear. In case you haven't noticed, I'm big on rereading, and relistening. I love to annotate, and I love the emotion that narrators put into the stories I love. It's a hand in hand experience for me. I've recently listened to Silver Under Nightfall and The Scottish Boy, so the next time I experience them will be in pages and pencil.

The second slide are audiobooks that I love, but haven't collected the print editions yet.

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle series)

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Science fiction, classics, speculative fiction, anthropological science fiction, distant future, adult

The Tithenai Chronicles (A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, All the Hidden Paths) by Foz Meadows

Endorsement from submitter: "Incredible plot, incredible worldbuilding, incredible relationship building."

“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.”

Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he’s ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different plans: for Vel to marry his former intended’s brother instead.

Caethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock.

With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. Survival is one thing, but love―as both will learn―is quite another.

Byzantine politics, lush sexual energy, and a queer love story that is by turns sweet and sultry, Foz Meadows' A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. It is a book that will live in your heart long after you turn the last page.

Fantasy, romance, arranged marriage, politics, murder mystery, secondary world, series, adult

[vxlinart]

just starting All the Hidden Paths and oh man we’re really goin through it huh

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

tithenai chronicles characters except they're pins I saved on my phone, and I don't explain anything

Cae: Vel:

Markel: Asrien:

Telitha: Naza:

Liran: Keletha:

I don't have any for Riya or Laecia, sorry 😭

[xxlilnifflerxx]

Tithenai Chronicles - Incorrect Quotes Part 1/?

Caethari: Why are you following me?

Velasin: Because we’re married now.

Carthari: Okay…what about Markel?

Velasin: We’re a package deal.

Asrien: Everyone is addicted to my fun and flirty personality.

Asrien: Lives have been destroyed.

Carthari the moment politics are involved: If anyone has experience with anything or knows anything about something please let me know 🙏

Markel: Look, the only person who can fix this mess is-

Velasin, whispering: Please don’t say me, please don’t say me

Markel: -you

Velasin: [sighs]

Markel: I left instructions for everyone while I’m gone.

Velasin: Mine just says “Vel no.”

Markel: You should apply it to every possible situation.

Velasin: You have thirty seconds to run, and I’ve already started counting.

Asrien: What-

Velasin: [lunges]

Asrien: [screaming]

Carthari: I can’t believe you assassinated our father!

Laecia: “Assassinated” implies it was politically motivated. I killed him because he was a dick, so it was murder.

Riya: That doesn’t make it any better!

Tiern Halithar: If you got arrested, what would it be for?

Riya: Theft

Velasin: Disturbing the peace.

Carthari: Aggravated assault.

Markel: Arson.

Laecia: All of the above, it that order, and more.

Caethari: It’s not my fault my love language is acts of service and all I know how to do is fight.

[acer-whumpstuff]

Book I’m reading just had a scene where the main character gets his throat slashed, and someone literally reaches inside his open neck and holds his arteries shut to keep him from bleeding out.

[metalandmagi]

I need everyone in the Captive Prince fandom to read the Tithenai Chronicles by Foz Meadows....not because I loved the series as much as Capri or anything, but I need all the good fanfic writers to make some fics for Asrien/Genral Naza ASAP! I'm starving over here!!!😭

[swordsswordsswords]

General Naza: fuck the Ralians

Asrien: *flirty wave* hey there big boy

General Naza: (ok but like, *fuck* the Ralians tho…)

[queersinsituations]

qiqa being like "y'all are literally insane and i love it, sign me up" is honestly so relatable

[escapedramatica]

here's 250 words [under the cut] of Caethari using a ✨magical✨ vibrating dildo on Vel, because I have nasty thoughts about THAT paragraph in ASASE about how he want to "help Vel accept praise"

you can also read this on AO3 :)

Velasin would be a liar if he said that Cae's proposition wasn't intimidating. It was fairly simple, really. Let me help you learn to take compliments, he'd cooed as his fingers carded through Vel's hair. It was the conversation afterwards that was complicated. So many, yes, nos, and maybes.

That was what brought Vel to having his legs spread over the arms of a chair, with Caethari kneeling between them. He'd started with his fingers, but had worked up to the dildo that he was slowly gliding in and out of Vel's wet hole. Every few strokes he'd tilt it up just a bit, hitting the spot that made Velasin's toes curl. Then he would return to teasing, patiently watching Vel take it.

"Say it, Vel," He murmured.

"I—" Vel gasped, his hips twitching in pleasure. "I'm a good husband."

"And?"

"And smart, and gorgeous! Fuck, Cae, please!" He begged.

Caethari grinned. "Good enough, I suppose."

On his command, the dildo rumbled to life. Vel gripped the edges of his seat, his head thrown back in a moan. His legs wanted to close themselves, but trapped where they were, he was forced to submit to the vibrations shaking him apart from deep inside.

Leaning down, Cae dropped a kiss on Vel's stomach, then the inside of his thigh. He took Vel into his mouth, reveling in the way his hips couldn't decide where to chase their pleasure. He'd make his husband come apart for him, just the way Velasin deserved.

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Preliminary Round

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Tithenai Chronicles (A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, All the Hidden Paths) by Foz Meadows

Endorsement from submitter: "Incredible plot, incredible worldbuilding, incredible relationship building."

“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.”

Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he’s ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different plans: for Vel to marry his former intended’s brother instead.

Caethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock.

With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. Survival is one thing, but love―as both will learn―is quite another.

Byzantine politics, lush sexual energy, and a queer love story that is by turns sweet and sultry, Foz Meadows' A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. It is a book that will live in your heart long after you turn the last page.

Fantasy, romance, arranged marriage, politics, murder mystery, secondary world, series, adult

Dark Water's Embrace by Stephen Leigh (Mictlan series)

Endorsement from submitter: "What happens when you find out ancient inhabitants of your world shared something fundamental with you? Something that make you a "freak" in your own time and place. And what if that "freakishness" was crictical to your people's survival? What then? Thought provoking. Gorgeous. Deeply queer."

It has been a century since a small group of humans was marooned on a distant planet. Now their descendants struggle with rising infertility, infant mortality, and mysterious birth defects for which no cause--or cure--can be found. Reproduction has become essential, and those who cannot produce children are scorned. Anais, a brilliant female doctor born with inexplicable physical abnormalities, falls victim to this severe treatment. But then comes a startling revelation during an examination of a remarkably preserved corpse, a member of the planet's long extinct native race. With horror, Anais discovers that the ancient creature has deformities nearly identical to her own. There must be some link between the planet's past and the plight of the present-day humans, and Anais must find it before she is exiled forever--thwarting her society's last chance for survival. 

Science fiction, speculative fiction, series, adult

[vxlinart]

some doods from A Strange and Stubborn Endurance

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the funniest part of The Tithenai Chronicles is when Vel literally just smiles and Cae is instantly like

[xxlilnifflerxx]

Okay, serious post done. Y’all, I’m about to be so unhinged about these books.

[vxlinor]

rereading A Strange and Stubborn Endurance and remembering that I spent my first read through absolutely convinced Caethari was going to die because his pov was in third person

[polycraftory]

Here we observe a wild Gabe in their natural habitat: in front of a large bookshelf telling you all about their favorite books from this year so far!

Featured in this video are: The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller, The Tithenai Chronicles by Foz Meadows, Witch King by Martha Wells, and Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher! Also an honorable mention for the Hollow Places also by T. Kingfisher. If you want to read Gabe's book reviews, you can check out their Storygraph account.

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