#any book or media recs

[ghost-proofbaby]

when taylor swift said “no one wanted to play with me as a little kid” and halsey said “still a little kid who can’t make friends” and orla gartland said “maybe you don’t really want me there at your birthday party”

[quirkyenby]

Imagine if QPRs had an entire fiction genre like romantic relationships do.

Think about it: the drama, the identity introspection, the "is this romantic or not" angst, other people interpreting your internal frustration as the denial of romantic feelings when it's so much more complicated than that, etc.

Especially if they come right out and say queerplatonic.

So much creative potential.

[911-on-abc]

hunter!eddie AU snippet

Eddie Diaz killed his first werewolf one month before his twelfth birthday and knew that it was wrong. It was too soon. It was customary that a Diaz would make their first kill at 15, but his father sat him down and told him that he needed to be a man now. So he did it.

What he didn't know was that his mother was pregnant with his sister. What he didn't know was that his father would be home less and less. What he didn't know was that the tension between the werewolves and the hunters was getting worse and worse. Or maybe he did and just didn't want to.

What did know was that he needed to be a man, so he shoved a wooden stake into a woman's heart, saw the life drain out of her eyes, and he knew that it was wrong.

tagging: @loserdiaz @thewolvesof1998 @watchyourbuck @jesuisici33 @exhuastedpigeon @wildlife4life @wikiangela @rainbow-nerdss @pirrusstuff @alliaskisthepossibilityoflove @steadfastsaturnsrings @housewifebuck @your-catfish-friend @tsunamibuckley @elgascreamslikehell @cal-daisies-and-briars -- I am most definitely missing mutuals/people who have tagged me over the past couple of weeks so please forgive me for that. If you want to be tagged when I post of this AU please let me know!! No pressure to write anything at all of course -- this isn't a tag game lol although I appreciate everyone who has tagged me in them -- okay I'm shutting up now <3

[thatone-churro]

there’s really not enough sci-fi sapphic stories out there fr

[hollowistheworld]

The worst thing about being an avid reader on the aroace spectrum is trying to find books for adults that don't stop to preen about how their characters love having sex every two pages

[twinkubus]

got tagged by @librarycards for a book rec list. ærs covered Q2'23; i'm just gonna do my faves from the first half of the year!

i've been reading a different crop of books since i made last year's list--i've taken a big dive back into sf, especially books by cj cherryh, as well as indie horror (that's... well, you'll find out when you look at the list).

again, they're ordered by when i read them. here we go!!!

Shmutz, Felicia Berliner (contemporary fiction, young hasidic woman comes of age, tries to find a husband, and gets obsessed with porn)

Father of Lies, Brian Evenson (psychological horror centering on a mormon religious leader. if you like books that make you feel gross and bad, this one's for you)

Any Other City, Hazel Jane Plante (fictional memoir of a trans musician. the book is split between her life right before she comes out, and then decades later when she's an established musician)

Camp Concentration, Thomas M. Disch (not even sure how to describe this one. fat, lapsed catholic, conscientous objector Louis Sachetti is imprisoned for refusing to become a US soldier and is sent to a prison where the (mostly black) inmates are being injected with experimental drugs. the author is gay and there's a lot of parallels to hiv/aids despite this being written in '68)

The World Cannot Give, Tara Isabella Burton (what if the secret history was catholic lesbians)

Amygdalatropolis, B.R. Yeager (another "if you like gross books" rec. i don't even know if i liked this one, but it was certainly interesting. chronicles the existence of a 4chan NEET)

Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet (1957 french experientalism, i read this bc dennis cooper referenced it in an interview. believing his wife to be cheating on him, the narrator spies on her through a jalousie window, recording everything in his frame of vision that he can see. v interesting stylistically and could also rly benefit from a postcolonial reading)

The Pride of Chanur, CJ Cherryh (i read the entire trilogy pictured above, plus the first two books of her Foreigner series. it's basically a courtly fantasy/first contact mashup in space, really well developed alien cultures with lots of factions among them. tons of fun)

Frisk, Dennis Cooper (third "if you like gross extremist fiction" on here. this is my fave cooper after The Sluts and the most thematically resonant. if you haven't read the sluts i'd rec starting there. if i was a prof i would assign them together or even do this in a short course if there wasn't time for a longer book)

tagging @thebestestbat @tsubakiscarlet @danishprince @dovebeast @stackslip @eraserheadcrybaby @interstellarhitchhiker @kollapstradixionales @papika & would be happy to see book rec lists of anyone else!! fiction or non fiction or anything else idc whatever you're into ^_^

[kaus-quietis]

A Circus Library - quick recommendations of short stories, poems, comics and novels I've recently read #1

Hello there! I'm the circus resident poltergeist, Eliott, managing this blog until Lav comes back. Today I offer you a slightly different formula of my super awesome super rare super bookclub post, as Lav would say!

Hello hello hello! Is this a bookclub?! Is this chaotic ramble?! Ding ding! You got it wrong!

Writing full on reviews is tiedous and long, and while I appreciate doing it, I'm myself not always in the mood to read a long post explaining why a book is genius. Do I love that from time to time? Yes! Do I have the attention span to write one now? Nope! However, I still wanted to share some titles I recently (re)discovered, and that I think are marvellous reads for anyone wanting to dive into something new.

Here you'll find a few recommendations with the shortest of words to tell you why they are great, or just scream about it.

short disclaimer before I begin because this is tumblr and while I forgot a lot about this website, I remember how the TW thing works lol, it's at your own discretion to search for the works beforehand if you have any trigger you don't want to encounter.

Jack Spicer - Billy the kid

The master of my fate, captain of my soul as Timothée Chalamet would say idk I barely know the guy. Classic and gold, Spicer is an amazing writer and this poem is phenomenal. It's quite short and perfect if you want to know more about the wonder that was US American poetry during the 20th century. Of course I'd encourage you to read all of his works, but Billy the Kid is perfect to start somewhere.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen

Classic and iconic, I've recently pushed further than Rashomon and boy oh boy am I never turning back. Hell Screen is a phenomenal short story displaying all the elegance and cruelty Akutagawa can incorporate in his works. It's mesmerizing, it aches, it's everything I love. I read this story in Jay Rubin's translation (Penguin Classics), and even though I do not speak Japanese so I cannot compare, I dare say it's a very good one.

Lucie Bryon, Thieves

I never recommended comic books before but I wanted to for a change! I am a huge comic book lover, but most of the ones I usually read are not available in english language. This one is, though. Thieves is a beautiful comic about growth, falling in love and finding acceptance in others and in yourself. It's light and heartwarming, like eating candy.

Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

Now, this book exploits one of my biggest plot weaknesses ever, and that is fucked up people in medieval settings. Lapvona tells the story of Marek, a sheperd's son, who'll be caught in a series of unfortunate events, political struggles, and secrets, all inside the town of Lapvona. It's dark and unsettling, the characters are scandalous and horrible, yet sickeningly human. Now, I said to check the TW yourselves, but be very careful with this one, if you can think of a TW, then it's certainly in this book.

Osamu Dazai, Early Light

In the Storybook ND series, this book contains three short stories : Early Light, Three Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, and Villon’s Wife. I'd recommend the three of them, as it's a fantastic dive into Dazai's shorter works. I think that reading his short stories is very important to understand his work and the width of the subjects and stories he wrote about. It helps that once again, in my opinion, the translation chosen by this publishing house is so good.

This is it for today! Here you have five of the works I read (or re-read) this summer, and that I'd warmly recommend. There are two short stories (Dazai, Akutagawa), a comic book (Bryon), a novel (Moshfegh) and a poem (Spicer). 'Till next time!

[star-spangled-man]

might fuck around and start obsessing over a new piece of media again to fill the void

[lesbienneanarchiste]

Putting "sapphic" on the tall shelf so booktube and booktok can't reach it anymore until they learn to behave. Start saying what the rep is in the book you're recommending 🔫 make an effort 🔫

[oldtvandcomics]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll

Honestly? Hype this one up.

(The book cover.)

No Man of Woman born is the second anthology in Ana Mardoll’s Rewoven Tales series. It is an anthology, containing seven short stories with seven heroes from different places on the transgender spectrum, all of whom somehow manage to trick a prophecy by not following the gender requirements set in it.

It is a nice book, though by no means perfect. Like all anthologies, some of the stories in here are better than others, and like all fairy tale / myth retellings, some are more original than others. But they are all nice stories, and every one of them features a different trans or nonbinary identity, with different neopronouns used for the heroes. I personally really liked this book and would absolutely recommend it.

You can get it from Amazon, as ebook, paperback or audiobook.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

[iwontloveaghost]

I prefer to be engulfed in fantasy, actually

[dejune]

i literally hate booktok so much no matter what platform im on cant find any books recs that arent the same ten awful romance books my god

[bellygunnr]

I've started reading some Star Trek books, and so far it's been The Vulcan Academy Murders and Spock's World. The former was good, with some weird fucking sideplots, and Spock's World so far is. Interesting.

Why is there a chapter dedicated to giving me a play by play of the creation of the planet Vulcan?

[doll-disjointed]

the dollkin struggle of being so so tired of the "evil creepy murder doll" trope. desperate for media where dolls aren't the villains. please.

[the-sailing-snail]

Does anyone know a good book about media literacy, social media bubbles, pipelines/online radicalisation and such? Preferable not a scientific study but something more casual tonality wise? My parents recently got started spending more time online and talking to them I learned that they never heard of these things and I just want them to be safe and sane online and my mom expressed interest when I broached those topics. (I've searched around a bit but havent found much thats suitable so far)

[orangesnapplefarm]

So I really enjoy the idea of making mystical or supernatural concepts work in modern day. I actually really love the US version of Being Human and how they handled this. It's a total cornball show to some, sure. But I love to go back from time to time and watch it. Its fun to watch, and the characters still smile despite their circumstances, but at the same time its got this mix of edgy vampire-isms, trauma of transformation, and existential crisis of first being human and trying to regress back to that.

And want to consume more stuff like that!

No big adventure needed, just these characters existing and having to deal with the reality of how part of them doesn't fit in society.

Any recs?