#adult ficiton

[brightbeautifulthings]

Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

"'Listen,' she says, 'this is the best piece of advice I can give. As long as you're kind, and unprejudiced, and haven't hurt anybody: Refuse. To. Be. Ashamed. Wear your mistakes with pride. Look them in the eye and own your space on this Earth. Own it shamelessly, without regret, and no fucker has any power over you.'"

Year Read: 2024

Rating: 3/5

About: After a fateful Tweet that went viral in the worst way, Willow's life is falling apart. She's been fired from her sitcom, her fiancé's left, and the internet as a whole is calling for her head. A retreat to Camp Castaway, where adults who want to put their mistakes behind them and disconnect from their phones, comes at the perfect moment. But Camp Castaway hides a dark history, and when campers start to go missing, it's clear someone wants to cancel all of them… for good. I received a free e-ARC through NetGalley from the publishers at Penguin/Putnam. Trigger warnings: character death (on page, graphic), decapitation, child abuse, gore, cancer, severe injury, addiction, homophobia (countered), strong religious themes, bullying.

Thoughts: This is a perfectly fine adult slasher novel and a nice addition to the genre. Winning doesn't skimp on the gore or the body count, and, not surprisingly, the horror scenes were my favorite parts. They're nicely cinematic and well-paced, as well as a loving (bloody) homage to slasher films of days gone by. There are a couple of powerhouse Final Girls as well, and I especially loved Juniper as the aged, tough Final Girl who takes no shit and offers wisdom to the younger generation. It's harder to get a read on Willow since she's having a bit of an identity crisis, but she's a worthy heroine who always tries to help her fellow campers, even before the heads are rolling. There's also a sweet but complicated wlw romance, representation that still isn't as prevalent in horror as I'd hope.

One of my favorite things about horror and what basically cemented my love for George Romero movies in high school is horror's natural ability to be a vehicle for social commentary. Winning targets cancel culture with Head Will Roll, and one has the sense many influencers would rather be chased through the woods by an ax murderer than be "canceled" on Instagram. Not being much of a social media person myself, it's not an issue that particularly resonates with me, but it's nicely developed throughout the novel. Occasionally, I did feel like the issue was overshadowing the story and the horror a bit, but had I connected more to it, I might not have felt that way. All in all, it's fun, gruesome, and meaningful, as horror should be.

[the-worlds-between-pages]

Rhythm and Clues by: Olivia Blacke

Published by: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: 3/26/2024 As always, I’d like to start this review by thanking NetGalley and SMP for access to this eARC in exchange for an honest reviewe. I would also like to note: SMP has been boycotted due to their horrible handling of an employee’s racism and xenophobia , the queerphobia that has been happening as well as the way they’ve been favoring…

[gardenfeather-book-reviews]

"The Spirit Bares its Teeth" by Andrew Joseph White

Silas Bell, a young autistic transgender man living in the 1880s in England, wants to be a surgeon. Not a wife and mother. After a botched escape from a future devoted to a husband, he is diagnosed with “veil sickness,” a disease that causes violet eyed women to open the veil and communicate with the dead, an act that is illegal for women to do. 

        He is sent to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanatorium and engaged to a wealthy lord's son. But Braxton might not be what it seems. And Silas is the only one who can save the life of his new friends by uncovering the secrets of the school, all while fighting the voice in his head telling him to just do as he is told. For Silas, doing as he is told is not an option.

        Andrew Joseph White has crafted an incredible story. All of the characters are complex and every character has so much depth. White is able to balance the main character, Silas, with all aspects of his identity. They are all woven throughout the story in an authentic way that gives him personality outside of those defining traits while still acknowledging how important they are. It is one of the best representations of autism I have ever read.

       The setting and accuracy to historical detail makes the stakes seem real and send you to the time period. He uses the time period to bring light to the story he wants to tell. His use of imagery is terrific. 

        White is able to discuss so many important topics throughout the book, all of which apply in some way to our society today. He somehow is able to highlight and tackle each complex theme in one book while giving them each the space to be recognized for their individual importance.  

        Gory and dense while also romantic, The Spirit Bares its Teeth is an amazing novel with an incredible message to fight for your life and happiness, even if the whole world is against you.   

[wolfertinger]

I know this is about wolfertinger, but could you share some of the censored feral art from nepeteaa jpegdisco and vecb? They're big names, and it's good people are aware of their past works/support

all of these artists often post vaugely about things like "artistic expression" and "anti puritain" things. however they understand talking publicly about drawing feral art is frowned upon. so they all talk extremely vauge about it on purpose. they know its wrong and hide it good.

disco and nepeteaa, (vecb being in this circle of people but most losely related), for example are friends with artkour. nepeteaa namely, got a fursuit from them, and blocked everyone who told them that artkour is an animal abuser dating another zoophile. who unlike most of these other artists. ACTUALLY ABUSED real life animals and actively identified as a irl zoophile, publicly even for a short time. proof nepeteaa owns an artkour suit as well. if you look up "artkour zoo", people are aware and repeatedly brought this, to their attention. all of these people were blocked.

proof and more information, regarding artkour and their partner.

most big name furries, are awful awful people. and if this is how you learn it i am sorry.

[miakate-writes]

Juniper Sloan

"Juniper had always been that boy in the back of the class with the bright eyes and beautiful smile that could make even the coldest day warm again. He looked at life like a challenge, like a bucket list of things he could say he had done. He covered himself in oversized jumpers and random notes on paper and countless pairs of high-tops. Juniper did everything with no care in the world, so much so that sometimes Maeve found herself wondering if his brain was formed the same as hers. Did he have one less part of his brain? The part that conducted all of Maeve’s overthinking, did he not have that?"

[fuzzyfeltmemories]

guys i need gorillaz mutuals so bad 😭 i need to scream about old men with SOMEONE.

also need... ideas on what to draw...

[jessahmewren]

Page & Palette Signing a Success

Author Jessahme Wren aka Brandi Clark entertained patrons and visited with special guests at her signing yesterday at Page & Palette in Fairhope, AL. A wonderful time was had by all.

[jonathanpongratz]

Book Review: The Fever (Replica #9)

  Hello Blogiverse, How are things going? I am so ready for fall I can almost taste it! I always start the celebration of the season in September, so I’m excited for me and the boyfriend to deck out our house to the nines and get some fun events going. The grad school semester is still in its beginning stages, so I’ve been able to continue my binge of the Replica series. This time I read The…

[schlock-luster-video]

On April 13, 1976, Fantastic Planet debuted in Portugal.

[teojira]

heyyyyy, i love your writing❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

i just got obsessed with shadow like last week, and he’s so cool and badass and emo and all that <3 but like my friends clocked my tea and called me a furry when i said that shadow is my new obsession

and when i was looking through the shadow reposts, i noticed nsfw. so do that make people zoophiles??? i love shadow but, i just got to know bc i don’t wanna feel weird😭 but yea, i love you, shadow, and ur work❤️❤️

Listen, I've been on the internet for a long time and I've always used the harkness scale to guide me on whether it's okay to be into a ficitonal character. Shadow is for all intents and purposes, a grown ass man who is an adult and can consent!

No one is attracted to Shadow (at least I'm not) BECAUSE he's a hedgehog, it's his personality and story!

Shadow is also just an anthropomorphic hedgehog, no different than a furry. There is nothing wrong with being attracted to him because he isn't real and you are not harming anyone by being into him, he's of age, can consent, and capable of thought just like you and me.

Not everyone who likes Shadow is into him sexually and that's cool too! It's whatever you're comfortable with but I'm heavy on that ficiton ≠ reality, you're allowed to want to ficitonal characters, they're not real.

Sorry that that is such a long response but it's something I'm passionate about! Loving ficitonal characters in your brain doesn't make you a creep, it's only a problem if you look at real animals that way and that's where the line is drawn.

People have been wanting to date and have sex with anthropomorphic characters since the day they were first created, and are just into the characters bc of their lore, personality, etc.

Anyways! Thank you for the love and support, I hope I helped clear it up!

[dwreader]

st. louis day 11 / literature part 1 - if i'm daniel's publishing house, these are some sample book covers i would use to promote the book to certain demographics. #1 is giving sexy airport thriller, your mom definitely picked this up from the hudson bookstore at terminal 3 and read the whole thing on her flight. #2 is appealing to teens and young adult in a v.e. schwab kinda way, you can gift this to your little sister for christmas and she'll write a book report about it for AP lit. #3 is aiming at the girly millennial literary fiction reader about a 20-something who gets fired from a temp job and has to join a thruple or she'll be homeless, think my year of rest and relaxation or elif bautman's the idiot. #4 is the celebrity memoir where we sell ldpdl as the star like he's meghan markle (and daniel is just the ghostwriter) and is for your one friend who only reads books by celebrities even it maintains plausible deniabilty by being a "fictional" memoir. #5 is historical ficiton written by a man, think a gentleman in moscow and all the light we cannot see, a little schmaltzy but historically accurate enough that you dad feels comfortable reading it, #6 is where we just pretend the book is an old classic so all the english majors can read it on the subway without shame. @iwtvfanevents

[wif-san]

I understand that people have squicks, those squicks differ as people have different tastes. I also understand that there are people who have triggers, as some people have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lives. I understand (and respect) the people who don’t engage with their squicks/triggers, do everything in their power to avoid them, and don’t bother anyone who happens to like or just not mind said squicks, but doesn’t bother anyone else with them.

What I don’t understand? Is the people who not only actively engage with their squicks but people who like/don’t mind said squicks, who btw are always just minding their own business in these cases. I don’t get the whole giving more importance to fiction and fictional characters over real life, actual people (insults, threats, suicide-baiting real people over fictional content). I also don’t get the need to react so disproportionately to their squicks, but more than anything? I think what confuses me the most is why anyone gives a flying fuck about what anyone else enjoys in FICITON with PURELY FICITONAL characters, or why anyone engages in any type of dark fiction.

Like, you don’t need to like any problematic or dark theme, or anyone’s reason for engaging with a specific type of fiction/fictional themes, but why the absolute shit-balls do you care? What does it actually matter what type of fictional themes someone is engaging with, or why they want to engage with it, as long as all they’re planning to do is engage with pure fiction? I promise you the characters don’t care because, wait for it, they’re fictional. They’re made up. They don’t actually exist. As for the people engaging with said problematic fictional themes? By-and-large they are ok with far more things in fiction than they are in real life, precisely because it is fictional.

The over-the-top reactions to squicks and the people who engage with said squicks? I’d expect that sort of reaction to be saved for actual child porn and other such harmful videos and content, that y’know, required real life children and adults to actually be tortured and exploited to create and consume. However, we are largely talking about online bullies who will use whatever manipulative tactics they can think of to try and get their way, so there’s no getting them to care about anything other than their agenda, clearly.

[creatorbiaze]

gonna ramble to you about books

The protagonist of The Book Thief, Liesel Meminger, is a young girl, i think like 12? When the book starts? Somehwere between 10-12 and it takes place in Molching, Germany (a made up town, basically Munich essentially) in 1939

So it starts with her on a train with her younger brother and her mom. Her mom cant provide for her children anymore so liesel and her brother are being adopted. During the train ride, liesel’s brother dies so they get off at the next stop and buries him and has a funeral for him then it continues on where she eventually is picked up by her new family

Her adoptive family is an older couple with two kids but their kids are adults and live away from them. The woman is very stern and strict and the man is a bit distant cus work but overall pretty warm.

So liesel meets some neighborhood kids and she automatically isnt liked, and gets into a fight with them. One of them, Rudy Steiner, looked up to Jesse Owens a lot

So Liesel and Rudy have a rough relationship, often getting into fights, though it eventually just becomes Rudy trying to impress Liesel and they become frenemies and then eventually friends. Liesel ends up going to school, and since she is behind from her peers, struggles quite a bit. Rudy at this point is in the Hitler Youth program

Nazis come through and burn and break jewish owned places, raid houses to arrest every jew they can find (and people hiding them) and they collect a bunch of stuff (everything they can find) that was owned by jewish people to throw in a big pile and burn

Liesel is there during that, and she ends up stealing a book that was still pretty together, save for being a bit singed. Her adoptive father finds out and just gets onto her but ends up helping her hide the book so she can keep it

We then are introduced to a new character, Max Vandenberg, a jew in hiding. He eventually makes it to the house with liesel and her adoptive parents, to which they end up hiding him in their basement

They dont talk much at all (since they.. really cant-) but over time liesel and max form a sort of bond

Liesel also helps with doing the neighborhoods laundry and sometimes go to work with her father where shes sometimes given champagne

Her and rudy eventually find a group of kids who steal good from a nearvybfarmer and join the group though they accidentally get caught and drop the boy which leads to a massice fight but then its ok!

Theres also something with liesel and the mayors wife?? I forgot but theres something

So then the children of the parents come home for holidays, and the son is a nazi soldier, so tensions are high. Though nothing bad happens!

Then a group of nazis later comes by and checks all the houses to which max was almost foujd but he wasnt!

Liesel also suffers from nightmares? I remember that

Um rudy ends up dying to which liesel realizes she liked rudy back then (cus he had confessed to her awhile back by this point) so she feels lost there having also lost really her only friend

Theres another historical ficiton book i read, When My Name Was Keoko, which takes place in korea during world war 2 and is told from a little girl with somw family issues where the japanese come and take over korea and make everyone change their names and live on very strict rules otherwise theyre killed and the girl’s brother was drafted to be a kamikaze (but he survives) and they live to be rescued after all the horrible stuff

2 series i love

In order theres: City of Ghosts, Tunnel of Bones, Bridge of Souls

The main character is a girl who almost died (and kind of did) but was saved right before she fully died so she can now see ghosts! And she can see The Veil which is what she calls the fabric between life and death because shes living with one foot on each side. Her best friend is a ghost and her parents are paranormal investigators

They travel around the world for her parents show and in each book she faces a ghost (each stronger than the last) that she has to stop and in the second book she makes a living friend who has the same thing and they work together (and she comes back in the third book to help as well) and shit gets crazy

Then the other series in order is: Girls of Paper and Fire, Girls of Storm and Shadow, Girls of Fate and Fury

So um the protagnist is a girl who is recruited to be a ‘paper girl’ for the king which is basically a prostitute, and she meets other girls there who she befriends one and then has a secret relationship with another

Things get.. crazy. Her and her gf kill the king which puts a bounty over their heads and they run and then meet up with a group and train and then thigns get rocky between her and her gf (especially when her gf’s ex comes into the picture) so they have a break up but get back together after one of them almost dies

Then one of the people in the group does die (i cried</3) and things happen and they seek an alliance with another kingdom and her gf turns out to be the last living person from this all mighth powerful tribe and then yada yada yada i need to read the books again and then i think decent ending!

ooo fascinating :> those all sound like good books :D

[finishinglinepress]

Off the Wall by Kari Wergeland (Finishing Line Press) has been selected to be featured in the Reimagined Indie Author Experience at the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books. Kari Wergeland will be signing copies in the Indie Authors Pavilion (adult fiction and non-fiction)

on Saturday, March 15, 10 am - 1 pm.

https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/ #booksigning #authorevent #event #awardwinner #books #ficiton #novela #novel

[zeroducks-2]

Hi, soooo the antis found me (got any tips?)

Apparently shipping Sladick makes me the worst kind of person.

I'm sorry to hear that. Are you okay? Feel free to write me if you need to vent, I understand the feeling.

So a couple of tips. If you're getting hate asks/comments/reblogs, report them and block them (I also suggest checking out who comments on the posts on their blogs and block them too, doing this saved my ass a couple of times). If you're getting anon hate, do not delete the hateful asks but do not publish them either. Report them (now you can report anons) and try going by the block feature, sometimes it works even on anon. Not always though, so if you want to, feel free to screencap the hateful ask and post the screenshot for public shaming. This also worked with me and the harassers sent some kind of explanation ask, outing themselves, and then blocked me (thank fuck).

More in general, try not to argue with these people. Yes, Slade and Dick meet the first time when Dick is certainly over 19 (might even be over 21, his age is written as an unspecified young adult because ages in DC continuity make no sense). But even if we were talking about TT03 it still wouldn't be p3dophilia, since p3dophilia means attraction to a child younger than 13. And not only these are FICITONAL FUCKING PEOPLE, but Robin is most certainly not younger than 13 anyway.

HOWEVER! Explaining things to this kind of folks, those who harass real living people to defend the "honor" of fictional characters is as useful as peeing in the wind. They don't care, they just want an excuse to harass people and feel morally righteous.

Do not engage directly, do not personalize (it's not you, it's them. You did nothing wrong, they're the ones with issues), try not to be too upset over that. If this doesn't work and you feel that the hate is overwhelming you, log off and deal with the situation when you have the strength to do it, it's really easy to feel burnout in this kind of situations.

Be safe. I'm here if you need anything. I'm really sorry these fuckers decided to take it out on you.

[lilveeblog]

✧ intro ✧( ˘ ³˘)♥︎

❤︎︎ hi !! i'm vee. i write age regression stories and post them here! most are criminal minds fan ficitons because it's just impossible not to pair my comfort show with my ultimate comfort (regressing).

i'm a regressor myself (due to trauma) and it's often involuntary . this will sometimes be shared here but otherwise, this account is managed by the adult side of me (who is 20). i'm a big fan of bluey, my little pony, sofia the first and all things soft. pls be nice and gentle here, share my stories, send in requests and interact ! i promise i don't bite hehe.

lots of love, enjoy ❤︎︎

✧ my master list ✧( ˘ ³˘)♥︎

❤︎︎headcanons

character headcanons little!JJ mood board her bedroom jay's faves jay's space cg!penelope cg!elle more jj headcanons more headcanons JJ Q&A JJ photo captions HOH!JJ caregiver!willifier cg!will

❤︎︎cg!emily

come here, jay smiles and giggles shouted shopping trip ft. garcia promise promise pt2 summer games build up not so nice surprise accidents mama's present behaviour problems theme park poorly girl ft tara overload pizza and forts girls night superundies sick and alone I've got you, bug

❤︎︎cg!elle

headcannons sleepy girl nap? derailed brave baby ft. hotch the butterfly effect ft. emily and the team sad icecream jealous baby hiding no no no !! little witch baby bat sweet creature mad

❤︎︎pen and JJ

sisters to the rescue monday blues potions, fairies and mayhem

❤︎︎other cg

not so bad ft hotch sick ft garcia

❤︎︎little!reader

don't want to sleep! (cg!jj and will) late night calls (cg!jj and will) misbehaving headcanons (cg!jj and will)