#and ronoah from the heretic’s guide….

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tagged by @doshwashing thank you this is fun :-)

Rules: list your favorite characters from four different pieces of media and let everyone vote on who matches your vibe best

i am tagging @imgladyourehereholdme @dogwoodbite @airshipvalentine @kazoofiasco @stylesheet and @animusbell !! and you, reading this, if you would like to :-)

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life.

Fantasy, portal fantasy, metatextual, adult

The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming series (Book 1: Theory, Book 2: Practice) by Sienna Tristen

Endorsement from submitter: "Part travelogue, part coming of age, this has a really intense focus on the main character's personal growth, with a backdrop of an entire continent's worth of new cultures to explore."

“Life is transformation. You change or you die.”

Ashamed of his past and overwhelmed by his future, Ronoah Genoveffa Elizzi-denna Pilanovani feels too small for his own name. After a graceless exit from his homeland in the Acharrioni desert, his anxiety has sabotaged every attempt at redemption. Asides from a fiery devotion to his godling, the one piece of home he brought with him, he has nothing.

That is, until he meets Reilin. Beguiling, bewildering Reilin, who whisks Ronoah up into a cross-continental pilgrimage to the most sacred place on the planet. The people they encounter on the way—children of the sea, a priestess and her band of storytellers, the lonely ghosts of monsters—are grim and whimsical in equal measure. Each has their part to play in rewriting Ronoah’s personal narrative.

One part fantasy travelogue, one part emotional underworld journey, The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming is a sumptuous, slow-burning story about stories and the way they shape our lives.

Fantasy, metanarrative, secondary world, series, adult

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Ronoah Genoveffa Elizzi-denna Pilanovani from The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming is grayromantic asexual!

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Preliminary Round

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch

Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make- out session with a beautiful man behind a seedy bar one night.

But the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to do his duty: he will marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess and his brother’s not-so-secret crush. A situation that has disaster written all over it.

Things go from bad to worse when a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princess’s hand…and Coal comes face-to-face with his mysterious behind-the-bar hottie: Hex, the Prince of Halloween.

It’s a fake competition between two holiday princes who can’t keep their hands off each other over a marriage of convenience that no one wants. And it all leads to one of the sweetest, sexiest, messiest, most delightfully unforgettable love stories of the year.

Fantasy, romance, adult

The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming series (Book 1: Theory, Book 2: Practice) by Sienna Tristen

Endorsement from submitter: "Part travelogue, part coming of age, this has a really intense focus on the main character's personal growth, with a backdrop of an entire continent's worth of new cultures to explore."

“Life is transformation. You change or you die.”

Ashamed of his past and overwhelmed by his future, Ronoah Genoveffa Elizzi-denna Pilanovani feels too small for his own name. After a graceless exit from his homeland in the Acharrioni desert, his anxiety has sabotaged every attempt at redemption. Asides from a fiery devotion to his godling, the one piece of home he brought with him, he has nothing.

That is, until he meets Reilin. Beguiling, bewildering Reilin, who whisks Ronoah up into a cross-continental pilgrimage to the most sacred place on the planet. The people they encounter on the way—children of the sea, a priestess and her band of storytellers, the lonely ghosts of monsters—are grim and whimsical in equal measure. Each has their part to play in rewriting Ronoah’s personal narrative.

One part fantasy travelogue, one part emotional underworld journey, The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming is a sumptuous, slow-burning story about stories and the way they shape our lives.

Fantasy, metanarrative, secondary world, series, adult

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stolen from lune @whale-blanket and used to procrastinate while at work ;--;

left to right:

agathe (witch hat atelier)

meryl stryfe (trigun maximum/trigun stampede)

cassian andor (andor)

link legendofzelda (botw/totk)

iachimo (cymbeline)

riz gukgak (fantasy high)

essek thelyss (critrole) (art by theminttu)

coop (twin peaks)

riza (fmab)

eleanor vance (the haunting of hill house)(NOT the tv show)

spock (star trek)

pisania (rsc cymbeline specifically)

wolfwood (trigun maximum/trigun stampede)

figueroth faeth (fantasy high)

the little prince

lovelace (wolf 359)

mob (mob psycho 100)

frodo and sam (lotr)(do not separate)

jester (critrole)

caleb widogast (critrole)

gorgug (fantasy high)

ronoah (the heretic's guide to homecoming)

kirk (star trek)

brushbug (witch hat atelier)

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Review: The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming | my new favorite book!!

Review: The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming | my new favorite book!!

The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen

“Life is transformation. You change or you die.” 

Ashamed of his past and overwhelmed by his future, Ronoah Genoveffa Elizzi-denna Pilanovani feels too small for his own name. After a graceless exit from his homeland in the Acharrioni desert, his anxiety has sabotaged every attempt at redemption. Asides from a fiery devotion to his godling, the…