#brujo!alex

[thiswasinevitable-rwrb]

THE WAY i just bought this deck so fast lmao

Brujo!Alex is so on the way.

[snxw-blind]

brujo_ari art style study

rgghh i need to keep practicing

[wisteriasymphony]

i need to inject brujo_ari into my veins so bad. their art style is like crack to me. kate and Alex my beloveds <3

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in August 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

[ Text list below ⤵ ]

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Failure to Comply - Sarah Cavar 🧡 I Spit On Your Celluloid - Heidi Honeycutt 💛 You're Embarrassing Yourself - Desiree Akhavan 💚 Death of the Hero - Briona Johnson 💙 Between Dragons and Their Wrath - Devin Madson 💜 The Crimson Crown - Heather Walter ❤️ Sacrificial Animals - Kailee Pedersen 🧡 Oath of Fire - K. Arsenault Rivera 💛 The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 This Ravenous Fate - Hayley Dennings 💜 Mistress of Lies - K.M. Enright 🌈 Wolf Bite - T.J. Nichols

❤️ In the Valley, A Shadow - Samantha Tano 🧡 Follow My Lead - Adrian J. Smith 💛 The Last Woman I Kissed - Venetia Di Pierro 💚 Full Shift - Jennifer Dugan & Kristen Seaton 💙 Hers for the Weekend - Helena Greer 💜 Come Out, Come Out - Natalie C. Parker ❤️ Rules for Ghosting - Shelly Jay Shore 🧡 How to Leave the House - Nathan Newman 💛 Plot Twist - Carmen Sereno 💙 On the Far Side of a Crescendo - Kalyn Hazel 💜 Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions - Maxwell I. Gold 🌈 Daylan and the River of Secrets - Edd Tello

❤️ The Italy Letters - Vi Khi Nao 🧡 The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie - Lee Wind 💚 The House Where Death Lives - Alex Brown 💙 Ash's Cabin - Jen Wang 💜 The Avian Hourglass - Lindsey Drager ❤️ The Heart Wants - Krystina Rivers 🧡 A Grand Love - Janna Barkin 💛 You Can't Go Home Again - Jeanette Bears 💜 Libertad - Bessie Flores Zaldivar 🌈 Her Golden Coast - Anat Deracine

❤️ Mighty Millie Novak - Elizabeth Holden 💛 Rise and Divine - Lana Harper 💚 Dying for You - L Flowers 💙 I'll Have What He's Having - Adib Khorram 💜 Changing Her Tune - Amanda Kabak ❤️ Monogamy? In this Economy? - Laura Boyle 🧡 The Rainbow Age of Television - Sayna Maci Warner 💛 Medusa of the Roses - Navid Sinaki 💙 Confounding Oaths - Alexis Hall 💜 Idol Lives - K.T. Salvo 🌈 Brother's Keeper - Quinn Cameron

❤️ Key Lime Sky - Al Hess 🧡 Crushing It - Erin Becker 💛 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 💙 Tasting Temptation - JJ Arias 💜 Ami - S. Jae-Jones ❤️ You're the Problem, It's You - Emma R. Alban 🧡 Cubs & Campfires - Dylan Drakes 💛 The Dark We Know - Wen-yi Lee 💙 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 💜 Riyati Rebirth - Kalani Shimizu 🌈 The Brujos of Borderland High - Gume Laurel III

❤️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen 🧡 Dance of the Starlit Sea - Kiana Krystle 💛 Scattered Snows, to the North - Carl Phillips 💚 Beyond a World Apart - Caitlin Myers 💙 Don't Let It Break Your Heart - Maggie Horne 💜 Nothing Heals Me Like You Do - Harper Bliss ❤️ How It All Ends - Emma Hunsinger 🧡 How Do I Sexy? - Mx. Nillin Lore 💛 The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 Prince of the Palisades - Julian Winters 💜 Better Left Buried - Mary E. Roach 🌈 Back to Back - Jo Fletcher

❤️ DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID] - Tommy Wyatt 🧡 The Love Archives: Bonus Scenes & Excerpts for Palestine - Various 💛 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Ying Priest 💚 The Sunforge - Sascha Stronach 💙 Queering Reproductive Justice - Candace Bond-Theriault 💜 Gender Explained - Diane Ehrensaft & Michelle Jurkiewicz ❤️ The Unlikely Pair - Jax Calder 🧡 In Universes - Emet North 💛 We Love the Nightlife - Rachel Koller Croft 💙 Lessons from Cruising - Martin Goodman 💜 Wild Ginger in the Rhubarb - Eule Grey 🌈 Not My Circus - Delicia Niami

❤️ Asunder - Kerstin Hall 🧡 The Phoenix Keeper - S.A. MacLean 💛 Encounters with James Baldwin - Various 💚 Verity's Game - Jennifer Giacalone 💙 Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase - Fae Quin 💜 The Audacity Omnibus - Carmen Loup ❤️ Haunted to Death - Frank Anthony Polito 🧡 Blood Orange - Paige Grunewald 💛 The Bad Things We Did - Chris Archeske 💙 Dark Restraint - Katee Robert 💜 Worth the Wait - Kenna White 🌈 The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifueko

❤️ Loving Corrections - Adrienne Maree Brown 🧡 The Last Witch in Edinburgh - Marielle Thompson 💛 The Duchess of Kokora - Nikhil Prabala 💚 The Scales of Seduction - Rien Gray 💙 Survival Is a Promise - Alexis Pauline Gumbs 💜 Loka - S.B. Divya ❤️ The Every Body Book of Consent - Rachel E Simon 🧡 Southern Lights - Liz Arncliffe 💛 Then Things Went Dark - Bea Fitzgerald 💙 Death at Morning House - Maureen Johnson 💜 The Last Doorbell - William Parker 🌈 The Pairing - Casey McQuiston

[brujarojaxx]

Rant about why I dislike Kate Medrano.

Ok, a explication, if someone knows about Brujo Ari and his old art you would know that he used to draw a Noriaki Kakyoin with headcanons (more like an auto-insertion), thats was a hyperfemenine transmac autistic mexican-japanese teenager and now its a oc named Kate Medrano, a genderfluid mexican-american, again, autistic, with mommy issues and a enemy named Mary (before she was Marina, Jotaro's ex-wife and in the AU a girl who liked him).

Mary (Marina) and Kate.

Ok.

Starting with my rant.

First, her personality, even before, Kate or Nori was this type of anti-protagonist said by her creator. I think its cool having a protagonist that its no the average protagonists of teenagers movies or something like that.

I don't have problems with her backstory, I think, but I don't like that sometimes she is not able to see others, for example, in the story, its said that she and Mary were friends at first but after Mary didn't defend her at a party where a boy humiliated her, Kate got angry with her and decided not to be her friend anymore, I mean yes, it is logical, but after that she began to treat Mary as if she were the devil himself. Then, Kate makes Mary fall or something and holds her hand to help her up while she tries to hold back her mocking laughter. After that, Mary wanted to return the prank on Kate but it went wrong and she ended up breaking Alex's arm (the boy she likes and who I'll talk about later) and for some reason the school opens some kind of investigation to look for the responsible.

Now, who is Alex? Well, Alex was Jotaro, another mexican-japanese autistic (?) transmasc. My problems with him and Kate its that both lacks of emotional responsibility. In the story we are told that Mary and Alex were very good friends and that they liked each other (apparently Alex loves blondes) but with Kate's arrival at the institute, Alex became disinterested in Mary, but neither he nor Kate confessed, AND ALEX NEVER HAD THE NEURONS TO TELL MARY THAT HE NO LONGER LOVED HER ROMANTICLY. Then Mary only understood that because of Kate Alex no longer spent time with her (hence Mary also hates Kate).

It also doesn't help that Mary is the stereotype of the pretty, rich blonde girl with loving parents, lots of friends and good grades (something like Cher Howoritz). Because there really is no real reason to hate her other than her jealousy. xd

My main problem with these two is that they seem to think with their uterus because neither of them has emotional responsibility with the rest of the people around them. And something I hate is that Brujo Ari fans forget that they are both gray characters with a background, but many ignore the subtext between the two of them.

I don't hate Brujo Ari, actually, I like his art and Mary. But I don't have another place to write my opinion without being cancelled or something lol.

Edit: Now it seem that either a joke or something real, Kate now is something like a gatekeeper femcel and hates popular girls because he is not popular. (Also she sometimes she likes them too, because is a bi, obviously)

Edit 2: Apparently, their love triangle it's not longer canon, but I don't give a fuck, it doesn't make him better person.

[freezergroom]

The man behind the slaughter (cringe gay art) …..I never done this before lol, I also stole the oufit from brujos aris Alex

[westwingsolo]

Ok. I have an idea for like, a supernatural world AU for FirstPrince. I'm going to put it under a cut because it's going to be mostly rambling but I just need to get this out of my brain before I forget it.

Also, thank you @hstoryhuh for letting me word vomit to them on discord because I just needed to tell someone about this idea as well as helping me hash out some of this idea!

Ok so supernatural creatures are known in the world. They are still a minority though. Vampires are one of the oldest, and also one of the most powerful. They tend to make up the royal families of Europe, aka, playing with the idea of keeping their bloodline pure and what not.

So in that case, Henry is of course a vampire.

Blood helps give them strength to be able to be out in the sun and live fairly normal lives.

Everyone smells different to them.

Alex comes from a long line of brujas, or witches. It's usually women, but can be men, or brujos, but it is more rare.

Alex's grandmother was a community leader in her hometown in Mexico where brujas were respected for their wisdom and power.

Oscar did not inherit the gift.

June also didn't inherit so it was just assumed that the gift wasn't passed down through Oscar's line.

They learned that it was indeed passed down to Alex, who saw and heard the ghost of past presidents haunt the halls of the White House after the family moved in.

He also gets flashes of others' emotions.

Alex doesn't know how to control his gifts at all, and usually just tries to ignore it because it's easier to make sure no one knows.

Americans typically, are a little weary of supernatural creatures, so they keep it a secret to make sure he wouldn't affect poll numbers.

This was not on the "Fact Sheet" and no one knows except the family, Nora, and Zahra.

The reason why Henry avoided Alex like the plague was because Alex smells really, really good to him and Henry isn't sure he can control himself around Alex.

They still get stuck in the closet, just for a lot longer than what was in the book/movie.

Henry might get thirsty.

Alex offers to help for the sake of not ending up having a feral hungry vampire later on.

Alex may taste good.

Henry knows right away that Alex is not human and is very confused that he didn't know what.

Sharing his blood with Henry may make Alex more sensitive to Henry's emotions. Yes it makes their "relationship" even more confusing in the long run.

Henry's family, because they are so old keeps very good, meticulous records of all kinds of supernatural creatures around the world. At one of their meet ups, Henry gives Alex books about the culture of magicians in Latin America.

Alex is besotted. Henry just likes pissing off his family but giving away pieces from the royal collection.

I just want cuteness of Henry sharing supernatural culture with Alex, and Alex learning more about himself (both with his sexuality and his gift) through Henry.

[ivarswrath]

jens mikkelsen ( sietemaravillas )

(28) nacido en dinamarca. brujo perteneciente al aquelarre pythia. obtuvo el título de médico forense e imparte clases de lo mismo en la universidad. de las maravillas y habilidades posee piroquinesis, transmutación, concilium, empatía, inuisibilitas y lectura de runas. perteneció a la hermandad de cazadores de brujes y ante la exposición de los nombres decidió abandonar nueva orleans y empezar una vida en dinamarca. casado con aisha kassis, con quien tiene dos hijos. faceclaim: alex høgh andersen.

#.        (*)      jens mikkelsen  ⸻  interacción.

#.        (*)      jens mikkelsen  ⸻  apariencia.

#.        (*)      jens mikkelsen  ⸻  pensamientos.

#.        (*)      jens mikkelsen  ⸻  armario.

#.        (*)      jens mikkelsen  ⸻  buzón.

#.        (*)      jens mikkelsen  ⸻  inspiración.

[ivanreydereyes]

Ante la probabilidad de que la CAPITAL DEL MAL o del ANTICRISTO BORBON como es MADRID..tenga PLAYA por un DILUVIO [y no la q hicieron en tiempos de la II REPUBLICA en el Rio MANZANA+eRES donde hoy esta la PISCINA del Parque SINDICAL o la mas GRANDE DE PUTA ESPAÑA]..recuerdo q Malogrado Alex CASADEMUNT [q se lio en Operacion TriUnFO con VERONICA ROMERO q se lanzo con cd LA FUERZA DEL SOL y cd LLUVIA así como versiono AMOR BRUJO de Manuel de FALLA y a la q vi la ultima NOCHEVIEJA en sala MOROCCO pasando luego x el restaurant CHINO PALACIO IMPERIAL q hace esquina con calles VIRGEN DE LA PAZ y VIRGEN DE LA ALEGRIA o donde celebre mi 45 cumple cuando se estrello el AVION "LA MIA" con el equipo de futbol CHAPEOCENSE..para luego fotografiar la PINTADA "SOLO QUIERO TU DINERO" en el MURO de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las AME_RICAS ] q se salió de FORMULA ABIERTA antes del 2do cd LA VERDAD para liarse con MERCHE [única mujer directiva de la SGAE junto a VIRGINIA MAESTRO] q se lanzo con cd MI SUEÑO [y de nadie más como el de los IDOLOS DE ORO Y que cuestan PESADILLAS a los demas] seguido de cd AUTENTICA..recuerdo q ALEX CASADEMUNT versiono AQUI NO HAY PLAYA de valencianos THE REFRESCOS q es una BURLA al CENTRALISMO del ESTADO ESPAÑOL..y empezando tocandose los HUEVOS llevando por atuendo una camisa con el símbolo de HARLEY DAVIDSON pero donde pone PURE DESTRUCTION BLEND, un COLGANTE DE UN CRUCIFIJO y un cinturón con hebilla en la q pone SAMURAI q se hacen el HARAKIRI

La playa artificial más grande de Europa, al lado de Madrid, se abrirá este 2023

Alovera Beach se desarrolla dentro del sector I-15 Las SUERTES, al sur del casco antiguo de la localidad, vinculado a los desarrollos residenciales del municipio

[deherejeacreyente]

"Explorando la Historia: Desentrañando las Mentiras sobre la Caza de Brujas (Parte 2). 📚🔍

Querida comunidad,

En mi continuo esfuerzo por arrojar luz sobre la historia y comprender la verdad detrás de la caza de brujas, quiero continuar explorando algunas de las mentiras y mitos que han surgido en torno a este tema. Mi objetivo es proporcionar una visión más completa y equilibrada de este período oscuro en la historia.

Otra mentira común es la idea de que la caza de brujas fue un fenómeno universal que afectó a todas las regiones por igual. Sin embargo, la caza de brujas varió significativamente en términos de su alcance y severidad en diferentes partes del mundo. Algunas áreas experimentaron olas de persecución más intensas y duraderas que otras.

La imagen de las brujas como mujeres que practicaban magia negra y se reunían en aquelarres siniestros es otra representación exagerada. Si bien hubo casos de acusaciones de prácticas mágicas, también es cierto que muchas personas acusadas de brujería eran víctimas de malentendidos, chismes y paranoia colectiva. Además, los hombres también fueron acusados y perseguidos como brujos.

La conexión entre la caza de brujas y la misoginia es un tema importante que a menudo se pasa por alto. Si bien los hombres también fueron acusados, las mujeres fueron desproporcionadamente afectadas. Esto se debió en parte a las normas de género de la época y a la percepción de las mujeres como más susceptibles a la influencia del diablo.

Es crucial entender que la caza de brujas fue el resultado de una combinación de factores, incluida la religión, la política y la histeria social. Las tensiones religiosas y políticas, así como el temor a lo desconocido, jugaron un papel importante en la propagación de estas persecuciones.

Mi intención al compartir estas reflexiones es promover una apreciación más precisa de la historia y sus complejidades. Al desmitificar las mentiras y mitos que rodean la caza de brujas, podemos aprender de los errores del pasado y trabajar hacia un futuro en el que la tolerancia, la justicia y el entendimiento sean fundamentales.

Con gratitud y respeto por la historia,

Alex 🩷

[thiswasinevitable-rwrb]

Sleepy Hollow au where Alex is a brujo but doesn't quite know it (or admit to himself) and his family moves to New England for his parents' work. He's not thrilled since he's going from a very mixed race society (Mexico still owns Texas) to a very conservative one.

At least, he thinks it's conservative, but then he thinks they're bat shit crazy due to their superstitions.

Autumn descends, and t night, wolves sing loudly in the woods. Then it's not just the wolves, but the dogs in the village. Alex hears a horseman riding down the streets and over the nearby bridge. He's used to a noisy neighborhood, but this is something else. The whole town swears they don't hear anything, but they outright threaten him to stay inside at night. Shudder the windows and blow out any flames.

It's Alex, so he doesn't. The horseman comes around like clockwork, probably a delivery person of some kind, bringing the papers from New York or Philadelphia, or doing the late night work of some other business. Goodness knows the silversmith stays up at all hours, so he's probably the one paying the obnoxious rider...

Alex sees the dog first. A smallish hound that sees him right back. It bays up at the moon, and through the shadows, a large horse's silhouette joins the dog's. Alex knows a male rider when he sees one, but the headless horseman legend might not be a legend after all.

The rider and dog run off, but Alex finds them night after night. He even manages to get way too close and learns that the dog is dead - cloudy blue eyes, half its jaw missing, and somehow still walking and running with a compound fracture sticking out of its legs.

It's when the horseman lifts the dog to carry it that Alex sees the glint of a ring on his pinkie.

Another night, push comes to shove, and Alex wrestles that ring off the zombie's hand and flees. All he has to go on is a gold signet ring, the curvaceous H stamped on it, and the almost worn away engraving inside:

act ii, sc iii XXXVI - XLIX

He has no idea what it means. He's assume it's a Bible verse except his sister has been making trips to the nearby cities to see the plays. She collects the scripts and tells him it's a citation from a play. But which one?

Alex runs out of time trying to figure it out, because the next night, an incessant knocking rattles the house door in its frame before being knocked down entirely.

To both Alex's and June's surprise, the horseman holds out his hand. Alex sets the ring on his dead palm, and he...leaves. For having no brain, the body is oddly sentient.

"Did you see his clothes?" June asks.

"What? No, I'm busy looking for his eyes."

"It's a stage costume. He's wearing a stage costume. It's too colorful."

Long story short, June and Alex search through records to find an actor who died with an H last name. Instead they find Arthur, an actor with a son named Henry. They died in the same week.

"Which one is it?"

"Henry. It must be Henry," June insisted.

"A father would wear his son's ring," Alex reasoned. "He's looking for something every night."

Either way, Alex must find out how they died, and why one of them is riding. The real question, is who is the horseman searching for every night? The search is getting more and more invasive. The townspeople aren't able to turn a blind eye anymore, and things are getting violent.

And yet, the horseman never harms Alex.

[hieloyfuegorpg]

Guardianes del equilibrio

Historia del clan

Ethan Hazel

Raza: Brujo | Edad: 28 años | Orientación Sexual: Homosexual | Estado Civil: Soltero | Nacionalidad: Escocés | Aquelarre: Guardianes del equilibrio | Pb: Libre

Ethan proviene de una familia de brujos de varias generaciones y se crió con la creencia de que los brujos tienen una responsabilidad moral de proteger a los humanos de los peligros sobrenaturales que existen en el mundo.

Desde joven, Ethan se destacó por su habilidad para el combate mágico, lo que le permitió proteger a su comunidad de amenazas sobrenaturales y ganarse el respeto de sus compañeros brujos. Con el tiempo, fue ascendiendo en la jerarquía del aquelarre hasta convertirse en el líder actual.

Ethan es un hombre justo y dedicado, que cree firmemente en la importancia de mantener el equilibrio entre el mundo humano y el mundo sobrenatural. Trabaja incansablemente para entrenar y preparar a los brujos de su aquelarre para enfrentar cualquier amenaza que pueda poner en peligro a la humanidad.

Aunque su tarea es difícil y a menudo peligrosa, Ethan sabe que es importante para el bienestar del mundo y está dispuesto a hacer lo que sea necesario para protegerlo. Su liderazgo ha llevado a su aquelarre a ser una fuerza poderosa y respetada en el mundo mágico, y ha establecido un ejemplo para los demás aquelarres que también luchan por proteger a la humanidad.

Alexander Maclay

Raza: Brujo | Edad: 21 años | Orientación Sexual: Heterosexual | Estado Civil: Soltero | Nacionalidad: Escocés | Aquelarre: Guardianes del equilibrio | Pb: Libre

Nació en una familia de brujos dedicada a proteger a los humanos del mundo sobrenatural. Desde joven, Alex aprendió a controlar sus poderes y a usarlos para el bien común.

Cuando cumplió la mayoría de edad, decidió unirse al aquelarre de Ethan, ya que compartía sus ideales de proteger a los humanos de los peligros sobrenaturales. Ethan y los demás miembros del aquelarre le dieron la bienvenida y rápidamente se convirtió en un miembro valioso del grupo.

Alex es un brujo muy habilidoso y poderoso. Tiene la capacidad de manipular los elementos, lo que le permite controlar el agua, el fuego, el aire y la tierra. También es muy bueno en la adivinación y puede prever el futuro con gran precisión.

Su lealtad al aquelarre y a la misión de proteger a los humanos es inquebrantable, y está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa para asegurarse de que el mundo humano esté a salvo del peligro sobrenatural. Además, es un buen amigo y aliado para los demás miembros del aquelarre, y siempre está dispuesto a ayudar en lo que sea necesario.

Amélie Dubois

Raza: Bruja | Edad: 17 años | Orientación Sexual: Heterosexual | Estado Civil: Soltera | Nacionalidad: Francesa | Aquelarre: Guardianes del equilibrio | Pb: Libre

Amélie nació en una familia de brujos que siempre habían defendido la coexistencia pacífica entre humanos y seres sobrenaturales. Desde joven, Amélie había mostrado un gran interés en el arte de la hechicería y había sido instruida en él por sus padres y abuelos.

A medida que crecía, Amélie se dio cuenta de que muchos brujos y criaturas sobrenaturales no compartían las mismas creencias que ella y su familia. Viendo la creciente tensión entre los humanos y los seres sobrenaturales, decidió unirse al aquelarre de brujos que defendía la protección del mundo humano.

Amélie se convirtió rápidamente en una de las brujas más poderosas del aquelarre gracias a su habilidad para manipular la energía de la naturaleza y crear conjuros complejos. También era muy inteligente y sabía cómo usar su magia de manera estratégica para defenderse a sí misma y a sus compañeros de aquelarre.

A medida que pasaba el tiempo, Amélie se convirtió en una de las más fieles defensoras del aquelarre y de su líder, Ethan. Trabajaba incansablemente para asegurarse de que los humanos estuvieran protegidos de los peligros sobrenaturales y que el aquelarre se mantuviera unido. Aunque su trabajo a menudo era peligroso, Amélie nunca perdió la fe en su causa y siempre luchó por lo que creía que era correcto.

[ivanreycristo]

VIRGINIA MAESTRO..1er chiste q te dedico en 23..y es q estaba en la disco MOROCCO en NOCHEVIEJA como estuve y una PUTA BORRACHA me quiere quitar la COPA DE LA BARRA aprovechando q empezaba su show VERONICA ROMERO [q debuto con CDs LA FUERZA DEL SOL y LLUVIA así como represento AMOR BRUJO d Manuel de FALLA y se lio en Operación TriUnFO con malogrado ALEX CASADEMUNT q se salió de FORMULA ABIERTA antes del cd LA VERDAD para lanzar cd INQUIETUDES y liarse con MERCHE cuando debuto con cd MI SUEÑO y cd AUTENTICA]..y me dice que es su SANTA TERESA [=RON] y yo le digo q no que es mi ABSOLUT [=VODKA] y que si quiere q lo PRUEBE..y me dice pues si es ABSOLUT no se xq pensé q había pedido SANTA TERESA cuando además SOY UNA PUTA BORRACHA QUE SOLO FOLLA CON EL Q INTERESA jaja

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in August 2024 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Failure to Comply - Sarah Cavar 🧡 I Spit On Your Celluloid - Heidi Honeycutt 💛 You're Embarrassing Yourself - Desiree Akhavan 💚 Death of the Hero - Briona Johnson 💙 Between Dragons and Their Wrath - Devin Madson 💜 The Crimson Crown - Heather Walter ❤️ Sacrificial Animals - Kailee Pedersen 🧡 Oath of Fire - K. Arsenault Rivera 💛 The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 This Ravenous Fate - Hayley Dennings 💜 Mistress of Lies - K.M. Enright 🌈 Wolf Bite - T.J. Nichols

❤️ In the Valley, A Shadow - Samantha Tano 🧡 Follow My Lead - Adrian J. Smith 💛 The Last Woman I Kissed - Venetia Di Pierro 💚 Full Shift - Jennifer Dugan & Kristen Seaton 💙 Hers for the Weekend - Helena Greer 💜 Come Out, Come Out - Natalie C. Parker ❤️ Rules for Ghosting - Shelly Jay Shore 🧡 How to Leave the House - Nathan Newman 💛 Plot Twist - Carmen Sereno 💙 On the Far Side of a Crescendo - Kalyn Hazel 💜 Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions - Maxwell I. Gold 🌈 Daylan and the River of Secrets - Edd Tello

❤️ The Italy Letters - Vi Khi Nao 🧡 The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie - Lee Wind 💚 The House Where Death Lives - Alex Brown 💙 Ash's Cabin - Jen Wang 💜 The Avian Hourglass - Lindsey Drager ❤️ The Heart Wants - Krystina Rivers 🧡 A Grand Love - Janna Barkin 💛 You Can't Go Home Again - Jeanette Bears 💜 Libertad - Bessie Flores Zaldivar 🌈 Her Golden Coast - Anat Deracine

❤️ Mighty Millie Novak - Elizabeth Holden 💛 Rise and Divine - Lana Harper 💚 Dying for You - L Flowers 💙 I'll Have What He's Having - Adib Khorram 💜 Changing Her Tune - Amanda Kabak ❤️ Monogamy? In this Economy? - Laura Boyle 🧡 The Rainbow Age of Television - Sayna Maci Warner 💛 Medusa of the Roses - Navid Sinaki 💙 Confounding Oaths - Alexis Hall 💜 Idol Lives - K.T. Salvo 🌈 Brother's Keeper - Quinn Cameron

❤️ Key Lime Sky - Al Hess 🧡 Crushing It - Erin Becker 💛 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 💙 Tasting Temptation - JJ Arias 💜 Ami - S. Jae-Jones ❤️ You're the Problem, It's You - Emma R. Alban 🧡 Cubs & Campfires - Dylan Drakes 💛 The Dark We Know - Wen-yi Lee 💙 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 💜 Riyati Rebirth - Kalani Shimizu 🌈 The Brujos of Borderland High - Gume Laurel III

❤️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen 🧡 Dance of the Starlit Sea - Kiana Krystle 💛 Scattered Snows, to the North - Carl Phillips 💚 Beyond a World Apart - Caitlin Myers 💙 Don't Let It Break Your Heart - Maggie Horne 💜 Nothing Heals Me Like You Do - Harper Bliss ❤️ How It All Ends - Emma Hunsinger 🧡 How Do I Sexy? - Mx. Nillin Lore 💛 The Palace of Eros - Caro De Robertis 💙 Prince of the Palisades - Julian Winters 💜 Better Left Buried - Mary E. Roach 🌈 Back to Back - Jo Fletcher

❤️ DITCHLAPSE / [REALLY AFRAID] - Tommy Wyatt 🧡 The Love Archives: Bonus Scenes & Excerpts for Palestine - Various 💛 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Ying Priest 💚 The Sunforge - Sascha Stronach 💙 Queering Reproductive Justice - Candace Bond-Theriault 💜 Gender Explained - Diane Ehrensaft & Michelle Jurkiewicz ❤️ The Unlikely Pair - Jax Calder 🧡 In Universes - Emet North 💛 We Love the Nightlife - Rachel Koller Croft 💙 Lessons from Cruising - Martin Goodman 💜 Wild Ginger in the Rhubarb - Eule Grey 🌈 Not My Circus - Delicia Niami

❤️ Asunder - Kerstin Hall 🧡 The Phoenix Keeper - S.A. MacLean 💛 Encounters with James Baldwin - Various 💚 Verity's Game - Jennifer Giacalone 💙 Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase - Fae Quin 💜 The Audacity Omnibus - Carmen Loup ❤️ Haunted to Death - Frank Anthony Polito 🧡 Blood Orange - Paige Grunewald 💛 The Bad Things We Did - Chris Archeske 💙 Dark Restraint - Katee Robert 💜 Worth the Wait - Kenna White 🌈 The Maid and the Crocodile - Jordan Ifueko

❤️ Loving Corrections - Adrienne Maree Brown 🧡 The Last Witch in Edinburgh - Marielle Thompson 💛 The Duchess of Kokora - Nikhil Prabala 💚 The Scales of Seduction - Rien Gray 💙 Survival Is a Promise - Alexis Pauline Gumbs 💜 Loka - S.B. Divya ❤️ The Every Body Book of Consent - Rachel E Simon 🧡 Southern Lights - Liz Arncliffe 💛 Then Things Went Dark - Bea Fitzgerald 💙 Death at Morning House - Maureen Johnson 💜 The Last Doorbell - William Parker 🌈 The Pairing - Casey McQuiston

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Book recommendations: witches

Everyone loves witches, right? They're certainly one of my favorites and somehow keep showing up in most of the books I write. So I picked out a couple of witch books that I loved and will tell you a little more about them.

I'm starting with These Witches Don't Burn and This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling

This is a complete duology set in modern day Salem, following Hannah, an elemental witch, with as you guessed, power over the elements. She has to keep her magic a secret from everyone non magical, including her best friend Gemma. When Hannah starts discovering signs of dark magic in her town, she suspects a blood witch, but her coven doesn't believe her, so she's forced to team up with her ex girlfriend Veronica, another elemental, to figure out who's responsible.

This book is really the kind that balances contemporary teen life and romance with magic and action, and you do have to like that, but generally the book is fast paced and easy to get through. There's a romance built up inbetween the action between Hannah and a new girl in town called Morgan, and a lot of tension comes from the old fashioned YA magic girl who has to keep her powers secret from best friends and potential girlfriends.

Other books from this author: The Coldest Touch, which is a sapphic vampire book

Next I'll talk about Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova, which is first in a complete series but the books are more companions than direct sequels. I realize now that I never actually bought or read the third book, so maybe I'll put that on my wishlist.

The series is about a latine family of brujas, which each book focusing on a different sister and the first one follows Alex. Alex is an Encantrix, the most powerful bruja in her generation, but she struggles to control her magic and would much rather be rid of it. On her Deathday celebration she tries a spell to get rid of it, but instead she accidently makes her family disappear. To get them back, she has to travel to Los Lagos, a mysterious alternate world she has to traverse to find them. She has the help of Nova, a brujo she doesn't trust, and her best friend Rishi.

There's somewhat of (bisexual) love triangle, but Alex makes a pretty clear choice pretty soon so it's not dragged out or in the way of the story.

The second book is about the oldest sister Lula, whose boyfriend dies and she tries to use her healing power to bring him back, only to accidently start a zombie apocalypse. It's been a while since I read these books so I don't remember it well but I loved the first one in particular.

Cemetery Boys is the first novel by Aiden Thomas (I have talked about his newest book the Sunbearer Trials before, which is also amazing)

Cemetery Boys is a contemporary fantasy set in California, where a local latine community has magic powers. Their magic is gendered, and while it does mention the potential of non binary witches, this is not further explore. Brujas have the power to heal while brujos have power over the dead. Yadriel is a trans boy, and while his family seems to accept that he's trans, they don't accept him as a brujo and won't let him prove himself. So he decides to do the ritual himself to prove he is a brujo, and he ends up accidently summoning Julian Diaz, a boy from his school who was recently murdered, and Julian wants nothing more than to find out what happened to him. Yadriel decides to help him, but the longer Julian spends around him, the more Yadriel doesn't want him to leave.

This book has a lot of mystery and intrigue, with Yadriel and Julian following clues to figure out what happened to him, but there's also a lot of relationship building. I also really liked the inclusion of Maritza, Yadriel's best friend and another bruja. Her bruja powers require animal blood to work, but she's vegan and therefore doesn't use her powers, which I think was an interesting choice.

Sweet and Bitter Magic is the first book by Adrienne Tooley

Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation, but after committing a terrible magical sin she's exiled from the coven and cursed so she can't feel love. The only way to get the ability back temporarily is by taking love from others. She lives in a village in the human lands where she sells her magic abilities in exchange for people's love.

Wren is a source, a much rarer being than a witch. She's made of magic but can't use it herself. Instead, she can see magic and allow a witch to take power from her. Wren has hidden this ability all her life, because she would be taken away to train with the Coven and she has to take care of her sick father.

When a plague ravages the land, caused by a witch using dark magic somewhere, Wren's father becomes one of its victims, and Wren makes a deal with Tamsin to save her father in exchange for her love for her father. Together, they'll set off on a journey to find out what caused the plague and put an end to it.

This is a very character driven book, with a lot of emphasis on Tamsin's past and what caused her to be exiled and cursed. It's also good to remember that in the story Tamsin is still a teenager, meaning she was twelve or so when she was exiled and cursed. Meanwhile, Wren has always put her father before anyone else, including herself, and has to learn to stop letting her life revolve around him. This is a sapphic book, with the main relationship between Tamsin and Wren, and I guess you could classify it as enemies to lovers? Or at the very least, dislike each other to lovers.

The last book on this list is Sofi and the Bone Song, Adrienne Tooley's second book

Like Sweet and Bitter Magic, this is a stand alone, and while there are also witches in here, this book is in the first place about music, and takes on and challenges the idea that suffering creates the best art.

In the land of Aell, winter is eternal and magic is easily available through paper spells made by witches that can be bought. Music is the last artform that has been untouched by this magic, and to ensure it stays this way there are only five Musiks, each playing a different instrument, who are allowed to compose and perform music. Other people can learn to play from these Musiks, but only as amateurs. Sofi is the daughter of one of the Musiks, and she wants nothing more than to become his successor. She's been practicing music all her life and has quite a brutal routine for herself to ensure she is the best, a routine that her father taught her.

On the day of the auditions for her father's successor, Sofi meets unexpected competition. Lara has never played the lute before, all her musical experience is with singing, but somehow she plays so well that the judges choose her over Sofi.

When her father dies on the same day, Lara immediately inherits the Musik title and has to go on a tour through the kingdom to play her own music, something she has no experience with whatsoever. Sofi doesn't believe Lara's talent is genuine, after all, who plays the lute perfectly when they've never played before? She offers to help Lara with the intent of finding proof Lara used illegal magic to enhance her performance, so she can win the Musik title back.

But the more time Sofi spends around Lara, the more she starts to question what she knew about her family, her practice routine, and if her father was truly as great as she thought he was.

Sofi can be described as an unlikeable main character, especially at first. She only really cares about becoming Musik at first, and offers to help Lara with the idea of exposing her, but despite that I found her easy to root for and I loved seeing her grow and challenging the ideas she was brought up with. I think this is a very underrated book and I hope more people buy it

Next up by Adrienne Tooley is the Third Daughter, a first book in a duology

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