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[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Wei Wuxian- Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor- Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

[daflowerzine]

✨ PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN ✨

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This book features 30 illustrations and 18 original codex entries exploring the language of flowers, in the format of a traditional floriography book. Each illustration is paired with notes written by our writers, intrepid members of the Botanical Society of Thedas!

ARDENT BLOSSOM is available in the following bundles:

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[reverberation-layla]

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, co-founders of BioWare. Left simultaneously on September 18, 2012, officially ending the Classic BioWare era.

Casey Hudson, producer and director of KotOR and the original Mass Effect trilogy. Left in August 2014, but returned in July 2017 to lead the Anthem development and BioWare as a whole, then left again in December 2020.

David Gaider, designer on BG2, NWN, and KotOR, lead writer of the first three Dragon Age installments. Left in January 2016 to join Beamdog, before co-founding Summerfall Studios in 2019.

Aaryn Flynn, programmer on BG2, NWN, KotOR, JE, and DAO, studio head during the production of Dragon Age II, Inquisition, and Mass Effect 3. Left in July 2017 to join Improbable in September 2018.

Mike Laidlaw, lead writer on JE, creative director of the first three Dragon Age games. Left in October 2017 to join Ubisoft Quebec (for the record, this was around the time that Project Joplin, the original iteration of Dragon Age IV, was canceled), but left in January 2020 after his new project was canceled to co-found Yellow Brick Games.

Steven Gilmour, lead animator on BG1–2, NWN, KotOR, ME1, and DA1–3. Left in October 2017.

Drew Karpyshyn, designer on BG2 and NWN, lead writer on KotOR, JE, ME1–2, and SWTOR. Left in February 2012, returned in September 2015 to work on Anthem, left again in March 2018.

James Ohlen, writer/designer on BG1–2, lead designer on NWN, KotOR, JE, and DAO, and game director of SWTOR. Left in July 2018 to design D&D adventures with Karpyshyn and one more BW alumnus, Jesse Sky, and later joined Wizards of the Coast.

Jacques Lebrun, engine programmer and tech director on the Dragon Age series, left in September 2018 to join Improbable.

Fernando Melo, technical manager on JE and (online) producer on DA1–4, left in August 2019.

Mark Darrah, programmer on BG2, NWN, and JE, and executive producer of the Dragon Age series. Left in December 2020.

Matt Goldman, artist on BG1–2 and NWN, art director on JE and DA1–3, creative director of Dragon Age after Laidlaw's departure. Left in November 2021.

Mac Walters, designer on KotOR, writer on JE and ME1, lead writer on ME2 and ME3. Left in January 2023.

[i-sveikata]

hey, just curious if you could rec any particular authors you love read or rec any books to read? I tend to only read fanfic and when I try to read anything out there...ugh just the storyline is predictable and the dialogue is cringe. I trust your judgment, so anything you recommend?!

appreciate you love, hope you're doing well and take care of your health 💟💟

hello anon! i mostly read fantasy/queer novels so i can defs rec some of my favourites but if you have any triggers or things you don't like to read etc id recommend a bit of research on them here for triggers or here for goodreads synopsis. But here you go in no particular order:

-iron widow series/ Xiran jay zhao (1st book out 2nd coming out this year) -the radiant emperor series/ Shelley Parker Chan -the queens thief series/ Megan Whalen turner -the graceling realm series/ Kristin cashore -mo dao zu shi series (grandmaster of demonic cultivation)- Mo xiang ton xiu -all for the game series/ Nora sakavic -the cruel prince series/ Holly black -the celestial kingdom series/ Sue lynn tan -six of crows series/ Leigh bardugo -dark rise series/ CS pacat -villains series/ VE Schwab -leviathan series/ Scott westerfeld -a great and terrible beauty series/ Libba bray -legend series/ Marie lu -anne of green gables series/ lucy maud montogomery

heres some i've read when i was younger that are a bit more y/a but still slap and i still reread them every now and again

-the lightning thief series/ rick riordan -deltora quest/ emily rodda -the missing series/1800 where are you series/ meg cabot -the mediator series/ meg cabot -a series of unfortunate events/ lemony snicket

Also just some stand alone books I’ve read and really enjoyed: -the binding/ Bridget Collins -where the crawdad sings/ Delia owens -the martian/ Andy weir -life of pi/ Yann martel -green lights/ Matthew McConaughey -song of Achilles/ Madeline miller -howls moving castle/ Diana Wynne Jones -holes/ Louis sachar -the invisible life of addie larue/ Ve Schwab -the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo/ Taylor Jenkins Reid -the island of sea women/ Lisa see -aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe / Benjamin alire saenz -all our shimmering skies/ Trent dalton -red, white & royal blue/ Casey mcquiston -ella minnow pea/ Mark dunn

you'll probably find a few of these titles familiar already but a lot of these are favs of mine or are just really damn well executed stories. happy reading!

[favevoiceactorbracket]

Meet the Competing Voice Actors!

After the preliminaries and days of deliberating, here are you VOICE ACTORS COMPETING! One will take home the spot of Tumblr's Favorite Voice Actor!

A note before they are introduced! If you would like to support any of them send in an ask or make propaganda, any propaganda you make and post yourself should have me tagged! As well using the tags #favevabracket or #favevabracket2023!

And a quick reminder about the two rules that will be staying active!

No harrassment, hate, or vitriol will be tolerated. We are here to celebrate the work of voice actors not tear each other down

This is all for fun! Do not take it super seriously!

Good luck to all of our competitors!

Kirby Morrow

Rob Paulsen

Robbie Daymond

Tiana Camacho

Alex Hirsch

Khoi Dao

Megumi Ogata

Ray Chase

Sungwon Cho

tara strong

Yuri Lowenthal

Alejandro Saab

Billy Kametz

Billy West

bryce papenbrook

Cree Summer

Grey DeLisle-Griffin

Kevin Conroy

Phil Lamar

Zach Aguilar

Zeno Robinson

AJ Michalka

Alex Brightman

Allegra Clark

Ashley Johnson

Christopher R. Sabat

Daws Butler

Eartha Kitt

Erika Harlacher-Stone

Frank Welker

J. Michael Tatum

Jack De Sena

Jason Griffith

JK Simmons

John DiMaggio

June Foray

Kristen Schaal

Mark Hamill

Richard Horvitz

Steve Blum

Tom Kenny

Wendie Malick

Aaron Dismuke

Aaron Paul

Aimee Carrero

Alison Brie

Ami Koshimizu

Angela Bassett

Ashley Ball

ashly burch

Avi Roque

Ayumu Murase

Ben Schwartz, baby!

BETH MAY

bill farmer

Bill Scott

brandon rogers

Caitlin Glass

Casey Kasem

Cassandra Lee Morris

Cecil Baldwin

Christine Cavanaugh

Clark Duke

Colleen Clinkenbeard

Daman Mills

Dan Castellaneta

Dan Provenmire

Dani Chambers

Dante Basco

Dave Fennoy

David Tennant

Deedee Magno Hall

Deven Mack

Doris Grau

Doug Boyd

Dylan Marron

Elizabeth Maxwell

EG Daily

Elijah Wood

Ellen McLain

Eric Vale

Erin Fitzgerald

Josey Montana McCoy

Greg Chun

Gu Jiangshan

Guilherme Briggs (brazilian)

Haley Tju

Harry Shearer

Haruka tomatsu

Helen Gould

Hynden Walch

Jack McBrayer

Jackson Publick

Jaime Lynn Marchi

Jason Griffith

Jason Liebrecht

jason marsden

Jennifer Hale

Jerry Jewell

Jim Cummings

Jim Ward

John Burgmeier

John Swasey

Johnny Yong Bosch

Julie Kavner

Justin Cook

Kaiji Tang

Katey Sagal

Kdin Jenzen

Keith David

Ken Sansom

Kent William

Kevin Brighting

Kevin R Free

Kieran Reagan

Kimberly Brooks

Kimiko glenn

Kyle Igneczi

Kyle McCarley

Laura Bailey

Lauren Tom

Leah Clark

Liam O’Brien

Lorenzo Music

Lucien Dodge

Lucille Bliss

Lydia Mackay

Lydia Nicholas

Maddie Blaustein

Mae Questel

Mae Whitman

Maggie Robertson

Mara Wilson

Mark Oliver

Matthew Mercer

Matthew Zahnzinger

Maurice LaMarche

Max Mittelman

Mel Blanc

Melissa Hutchinson

Michael Adamthwaite

Micheal Sinterniklaas

Mike Judge

Monical rial

Natsuki Hanae

Nicole Tompkins

Olivia Olson

Olivia Wilde

P.M. Seymour

Parker Simmons

Patricia Ja Lee

Patrick Pedraza

Paul Castro Jr

Paul Frees

Penny Parker

Pete Gustin ( i think thats how it's spelled)

Peter Cullen

Phil Harris

Phil Hartman

Ricco Fajardo

Roger Craig Smith

Roz Ryan

Sandra Oh

Sarah Miller-Crews

Sayaka Ohara

Scatman Crothers

Scott Adsit

Scott Mcneil

Stanley Tucci

Stephanie Beatriz

Stephen Merchant

Steve Whitmore

Tabitha st Germain

Takaya Kuroda

Tom Kane

Tress McNeil

Veronica Taylor

Vincent Tong

Will Arnett

Yasuo Yamada

Zach Callison

Bobbie Moyinhan

Josh Brener

Andrew Francis

Brent Millar

Sebastian Todd

Kestin Howard

Lizzy Hofe

Andy Cowley

Todd Haberkorn

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Russi Taylor

[ofdemonsandangels]

Rules: in a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

I was tagged by @philosophicalparadox! 

1. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief- It’s the book that started it all for me. I wouldn’t be the reader that I am today if I didn’t pick up the Lightning Thief during my third grade class’ monthly trip to the school library. I love Percy and the world the Rick Riordan created and I’ll continue to love it.

2. The Poppy War- I was in a serious reading slump prior to reading The Poppy War, so devouring it all up in nearly one day and ordering the next book in the trilogy right after was a welcome surprise for me. This book reignited my love for reading and the historical fantasy genre. 

3. The Name of the Wind- If there’s one thing I love, it’s a hard and heavy fantasy book. Reading The Name of the Wind for the first time inspired me to finally open up a Google doc and write my first ever fic. I love its prose and how we’re in and out of Kvothe’s head throughout the book. Whenever I agonize over the fact that the Doors of Stone hasn’t been released, I reread The Name of the Wind to remind me that the wait will be worth it.

4. Mo Dao Zu Shi- You could say that I’m cheating with this choice but it is technically a singular novel broken up into smaller volumes. Where do I even begin with MDZS? I have yet to really fully read the official translation as I’ve already read the “official” fan translation, but I will say, reading that Exiled Rebels translation over the span of three hot and sticky summer night, completely in the darkness of my room, was one of the best reading experiences ever. I adore the rich world that MXTX built, from the sect politics to the admittedly loose laws of demonic cultivation. Wangxian is a couple that I love very dearly and I have yet to read a danmei novel that just grips me by the soul like they do. I was introduced to the danmei genre through this novel as well, and I couldn’t be happier that it was my first.

5. One Last Stop- This is my favorite of Casey McQuiston’s books. It’s a super cute and emotional sapphic book that fell into my lap at the exact same time that I was beginning to explore my sexuality and for that, it holds a very special place in my heart. 

6. Fool’s Fate- This quote and this quote alone is enough reasoning as to why I love this book so much: “I pushed his golden hair back from his tawny forehead. ‘Oh, Beloved’ I said. I bent and kissed his brow in farewell. And then, grasping the rightness of that foreign tradition, I named him as myself. For when I burned him, I knew that I would be ending myself as well.  The man I had been would not survive this loss.”

7. The Silmarillion- Unironically my favorite of Tolkien’s works, partly because the maiar and elves are hella gay and partly because I really like reading a fun history book from The Professor himself. 

8. The Hunger Games- It still stands as the best YA book I’ve ever read and I’ll happily reread it every year

9. The Tombs of Atuan- My favorite book of the Earthsea Cycle and arguably my favorite book from Ursula Le Guin. Tenar is just such a touching protagonist and her relationship with Ged is seriously sweet. I also really liked how Le Guin further built upon the world of Earthsea in this book.

10. The Way of Kings- Everyone has that one book that they wish they could forget about just to reread it again and The Way of Kings is that book for me

Tagging: @abyssalpeach @seaofolives, @beansterpie, and @marley-manson

[whatslucareading]

Hi! My name is Luca. I have created this account to review books I read and try to reach other people who have similar interests to me. I enjoy reading and writing queer stories. I also read queer mangas, but I don't really plan to talk about them. I live somewhere where people are less than accepting of queer people, which makes it hard to find queer friends who read. I hope to find people who want also want to have people who read similar things to them.

When I was around 11 years old I had figured out that I was queer and didn't identify with my sex. My family is very conservative, so I haven't come out yet. I felt that if I told my family, I would be ostracized from them and wouldn't be able to see my younger siblings. After some time most of the things I liked would have queer characters or queer themes. I have found it hard to talk about the things that I enjoy. I hope that this blog will connect me to people who have felt the same way I have.

I have loved reading and writing since a young age and had always wanted to become an author. Most of my writings were very simple with boring plots, but I always had fun while doing it. I would show my family my writings and getting their feed back. As I got older and learned more about myself, those things seeped into my writings. My characters were queer and I felt that I couldn't share these things with my family. I have another account on here that is focused on one of my main writings.

I very hesitant to start this blog because I personally find it hard to rate books because I enjoy most of the books I read. I don't think that my reviews will be good for people wanting to know if it is well-written, but I wanted to have somewhere to talk about my thoughts on the things I read. But I thought that this could be a fun way to talk about the books I read and try to make friends.

I identify as non-binary and go by they/them pronouns. As of right now I also identify as sapphic, but I am still trying to figure that out. I also believe that I am asexual. There are other things about my sexuality that I am still trying to figure out, but for right now I am fine with were I am right now.

Personal:

State: Texas

Want to live: New York

Career Path: Pre-school Teacher and Author

Other Interests: Queer Media, Pop Culture, Baking,

Favorite Movies: But I'm A Cheerleader and Doukyuusei

Favorite TV Show: Cherry Magic!, The Owl House, and Mo Dao Zu Shi

Favorite Youtubers: Sinjin Drowning

Pets: 1 Black Cat

Favorite Music Artist: Conan Gray and Olivia Rodrigo

Books:

Favorite Author: Casey McQuiston

Favorite Book: Carry On and Red. White, and Royal Blue (My favorite books become my favorites because of sentimental reasons.)

Books Owned (Including manga): 179

Favorite Genre: Rom-Coms

Favorite Trope: Enemies to Lover and Mutual Pining

Least Favorite Trope: Love-triangles and Misunderstandings

My Last Read: Unlikeable Female Characters by Anna Bogutskaya

My Next Read: Stonewall by Martin Duberman

If you would like to read my writings and give me feedback, my accounts name is: Lucaisaweeb. If you do, thank you so much!

[zeldahime]

Maybe it’s just because I mostly hang out in romance fandoms, but canon couples make up the default shipping option in my spaces with oodles of people paying attention to and squeeing over them. When I was into Yuri on Ice, everyone shipped Victuuri; when I was into MDZS, everyone shipped Wangxian; now I’m into Good Omens and everyone ships Aziraphale/Crowley, just to name a few. Other ships exist, of course, but they don’t get anything near the attention and love lavished upon the canonical couple. A romance fandom on the up might be just the ticket for you, anon.

Both Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death just had season 2 of 3 air, so there’s a lot of ambient fandom activity as people wait for seasons 3. Jane Austen fandom has literally never calmed down for a single second since she died (I should know, I was once in a literal Jane Austen fan club). Tian Guan Ci Fu (by the same author as Mo Dao Zu Shi) has the second season of the donghua currently simulcasting in China and on Crunchyroll, I believe, and the book is fully translated now. Red White and Royal Blue just got a movie and Casey McQuiston’ll be putting out a new book this summer. Without knowing what you actually like, I can’t really recommend any of them, but hopefully it gives you a place to start looking?

First as a disclaimer: I'm pretty sure I'm not an anti (I'm anti death threats and am fine with incest, age-gap, abusive ships etc)

However I'm probably still a social/political enemy for various reasons but you sometime post asks from people you disagree with I think and I think you might know this answer.

Anyway onto my question I'm the kind of shipper who likes canon compliant ships and looking for hints and stuff but these days it feels like everyone boasts about how much their ships deviate and poop on canon etc. Do other shippers with my mentality still exist and I just don't notice them (Outside of anti spaces) or are we actually a dying breed?

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Eh. I think "political enemy" has a pretty fluid definition if one is really into playing politics. If you aren't out campaigning on a white supremacy platform, we probably have some goals in common.

I usually block people for being extremely annoying on a day I'm feeling hormonal or for attacking people particularly viciously in my comments, not for nominally being in some other camp.

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I think the more canon-adjacent fandom flavors are actually really common.

They're a little lost in the tumult of "My headcanon is actually canon!!!" stuff on tumblr that we like to laugh at on my own blog.

They're also less common in oldschool m/m-shipping spaces because those are often inherently non-canon ships. In the past, it was because homophobic censorship wouldn't let anything be made. These days, it's because the flavor of m/m a lot of people like is more easily found by adding romance to a buddy canon than by trying to add buddy-ness to a romance canon in many cases, and this can be true even if canon is original m/m aimed at fandom types.

Here's the thing: oldschool m/m shippers tend to be particularly prone to building community spaces and recording our history precisely because it's so easily erased and so often attacked. This type of shipper also tends to have more of a cohesive identity. That makes it far easier to name ourselves and set up little fiefdoms on modern social media.

I'm one of these people. Shittons of the people doing amateur fandom history work are. Much of the OTW old guard are. And lots of us know each other at least a bit, so if you're running into one of us, you're probably running into more of us.

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However, that doesn't actually mean this type of shipping is the most common or that there have never been spaces devoted to something else.

That old Beauty and the Beast tv series with Linda Hamilton had epic canon shippers. So did Moonlight (the vampire tv series). So did and does Twilight.

A lot of these shippers had this as their first and possibly their only fandom and carried on being obsessed long after canon was over.

Lizzie/Darcy shippers put anything I have ever been a fan of to shame. No matter what the AO3 numbers show, this ship far, far exceeds the popularity of Destiel or any of the other m/m heavyweights.

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I think the problem you're running into is that in the modern era of binging things on Netflix and regular joes being huge media geeks, analyzing canon in a nerdy way and obsessing over your canon ships is just how a big chunk of the population engages with media.

Fan theories that are closely tied to what was actually on the screen/page are the bread and butter of water cooler conversations and have been since The Sopranos and its ilk.

Yes, I know some fuck will immediately show up and go "Ahem, ahem, I am a GEEK and SPECIAL and the people around me never have intellectual conversations about media literally ever!!!!" just like every single time we have this conversation. But times have moved on, and being overinvested in canon theorizing just is a normie activity now, and that's great! Except when you want a special term and space to find your people.

The only time canon shippers really stand out from that is if they're extremely fic-focused, and then they often start straying farther from canon, especially if they stick around the same fandom for a long time. Either they start becoming more fans of some fic writer or they start wanting to diversify what they themselves are writing.

The really good close-to-canon fandom activities are at their best when lots of fans find the same currently-running canon at the same time and before canon itself passes its prime.

Even I started out on alt.tv.x-files, analyzing the shit out of season 2 and not caring much about non-canon things. (Though, admittedly, I was more NoRomo than MSR.)

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That said, antis are not actually that canon-focused in most cases. They will do the "My headcanon is reality" thing as much as anyone. They just tend to spend a lot of time hating on explicit m/m and a lot of explicit m/m is of non-canon ships.

Honestly... anon... you might want to figure out what the latest CSI-ish franchise is and find the obviously-future-canon het ship from that. Those tend to get the 10 seasons of build up and fan theories that don't stray too far from canon.

This stuff is not only not a dying breed, but it's so common that one of the editors of NCIS delivered a deeply cringeworthy lecture at my film school about what "shippers" are and how the Tiva shippers affected the production.

People into those ships don't need tumblr: Major entertainment magazines are publishing their fan theories for them.

[saomie]

Casey loves riding her bike late nights 

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[littleredhatter]

[pestopascal]

dont mistake my reblogging for like full blown support and interest. sera’s writer is still on board never mind half of the others, matt rhodes churns out all this beautiful concept art only for them to write off 80% of it, i fully expect them to rewrite parts of the canon again to angle it into whatever they are invested in story wise, and this will probably end up being a filler to solas confrontation. you’re going to have to read side material to understand parts of the game again, as the comics are going to be incorporated (and probably that tevinter nights instead of just standalone spooky knowledge). oh, and the epilogue will be paywalled once more. which is scratching the surface of issues with da

[fishorse]

Again, you are generalizing.

First of all, while it is common, directly making Mass Effect’s team and development = to the Dragon Age’s team is wrong- Each have different directors, different teams, even if sometimes members of the team overlap in different sectors. I work in a studio and I can tell you that the people who call the shots on what should and what shouldn’t be aren’t the people who first consider it, but project managers/directors/the clients who ordered or allowed the project to be made to begin with. You can see that reflected in Veilguard already; there’s already speculation that Taash (A main companion)’s storyline will involve a trans awakening, whose writer is nb and the game’s director is a trans woman. ME1’s only LGBT romance was essentially women kissing for the male gaze, and it’s director is Casey Hudson, AKA my nemesis.

Which is why I included DAO, a game released around the same time as ME1, in my example. If they weren’t allowing gay storylines that weren’t tintilating for men and period, then by that logic Zevran shouldn’t exist.

Games are a collective process, but many times in big projects like these the people you should be blaming are the people involved in barring these storylines back in the 2000’s, not the people who are trying to provide a new experience today. Also, assuming the people who worked on ME1 are the same people working on VG and therefore should not deserve sympathy is. Bad!

So the Veilguard companions are all pansexual. Sweet. Should’ve been something they’ve been doing years ago though. But yknow, they were pussies who bowed to the bigoted demographic because they were the loudest and they were scared of losing money but whatevs. At least they go their shit together.

[cx-shhhh]

This decade has given so much.

We got a freaking Les Mis film in 2012 with beautiful actors and actresses, a metric heck-ton of Grantaires and Enjolrai on stage that ship ExR as much as we do, George Blagden and Aaron Tveit are happy (as Grantaire and Enjolras should’ve been), and so much more.

Drink with me (and Grantaire) to a new decade of hopefully a lot more ExR content and Les Misérables! 🍾

In addition, we got Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and fifty beautiful episodes of The Untamed... wow.

[i-sveikata]

Oh my gosh I loved Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat!! I'm so excited you like it too. If you have any other recs besides that one, please share! Also can't wait for the next chapter too!

yeah omg i LOVED it was so well done and im so keen for the next one. oh sure here's a list of some of my absolute favourite books in no particular order:

all for the game series- nora sakovic

the graceling series- by kristin cashore

mo dao zu shi- by mo xiang tong xiu

the binding- by bridget collins

iron widow- by xiran jay zhao

the folk of the air series- by holly black

the queen's thief series- by megan whalen turner

she who became the sun- by shelley parker chan

six of crows series- by leigh bardugo

red white & royal blue- casey mcquiston

a great and terrible beauty series- by libba bray

warm bodies- by isaac marion

the mediator series & 1800 where are you series- by meg cabot

the song of achilles- by madeline miller

captive prince trilogy- by cs pacat

life of pi- by yann martel

howls moving castle- by diana wynne jones

deltora quest series- by emily rodda

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the hidden universe- by benjamin alire saenz

educated by tara westover

all our shimmering skies- by trent dalton

the priory of the orange tree- samantha shannon

red queen series- by victoria aveyard

release- by patrick ness

dark places- by gillian flynn

the invisible life of addie la rue- by ve schwab

leviathan series- by scott westerfeld

im sure there's plenty here you already know but some of these i've come back to reread time and time again and others ive only just read and loved. lol but most of these are currently sitting in my bookshelf

[casecous]

yours, mine, and ours; wangxian family

cross-posted on ao3 [x]

When they have both mostly recovered, and Yuan is back to his smiling, playful self, Lan Wangji presents him with a forehead ribbon. Yuan’s little fingers bump into Lan Wangji’s thumbs as he traces the cloud motif along it. 

“You are Lan now. This is very important,” Lan Wangji tells him and Yuan looks away from the ribbon to meet his eyes. “You must not take it off as you please. Only family may touch it.” 

Yuan nods once, serious in response to Lan Wangji’s firm tone. Lan Wangji turns him around by the shoulders and encircles his little form with his arms as he holds the ribbon. 

“Hold onto both sides and I will guide you.”

Yuan gently grabs onto both sides of the ribbon, just inside Lan Wangji’s hands, and Lan Wangji lifts them to the back of Yuan’s head. He slides his hands over Yuan’s and begins to guide him through the steps of tying, just as his uncle had done for him when he was little. It is a slow process, but they get through it without having to restart.

“There. We will practice and soon you will be able to do it on your own.”

Yuan turns back around to him, face glowing with happiness as he lifts his hands to examine the new, silky material wrapped around his head.

“Family,” Yuan repeats. His voice sounds soft and certain, but he reaches out hesitantly to press his little index finger to the matching clouds on Lan Wangji’s ribbon at his forehead.  Lan Wangji lets him, and it burns when he swallows against the lump in his throat . He thought grief would feel the same, when he lost his mother and didn't understand, didn't know where to put all the love he had for her. It's different, he thinks, looking down at Yuan's little face and feeling an overwhelming surge of affection pour out of the hole in his chest all at once.

He takes a steadying breath before replying, “Yes, A-Yuan.” 

Yuan beams back at him, big and bright, like a little sun, and Lan Wangji feels something begin to rethaw.

--

“These are my rabbits,” Lan Wangji says to Yuan on a cool, Spring morning on the mountainside. 

The grass is dewy, but Yuan kneels down onto it anyway to pet them. Lan Wangji doesn’t have to tell him to be gentle, just watches tenderly as Yuan brushes the rabbits with his little hand, careful not to apply too much pressure, and introduces himself to them politely. 

“Hello bunnies, I’m Lan Yuan, it’s nice to meet you!” he says, and Lan Wangji knows they will become the best of friends.

Lan Wangji takes a seat near him in the grass and passes him leafy greens, carrots, and special raspberry treats to feed them. The rabbits gather around them in little clumps and Yuan never stops talking to them. As they nibble the fruit, Yuan giggles with delight, watching their white mouths slowly stain stark red with raspberry lipstick.

After the rabbits are mostly fed, Lan Wangji points out a hole in the ground full of baby bunnies, which Yuan wastes no time trying to coax them out of. They hop out, curious about the strange noise of Yuan clicking his tongue against his teeth and hesitant, until they realize there is no threat. They are perfectly Yuan-sized, white puffballs against the green backdrop of grass and Yuan giggles again. 

"Hi babies," he says softly.

Lan Wangji rests his hand on the ground, palm-up, until one takes the plunge and hops into it. He lifts it, holding where Yuan can reach it. The baby makes its way into Yuan's hands and he lifts it to his nose to nuzzle it while Lan Wangji picks up another to put in his lap. The other rabbits hop around them, grazing for any remaining scraps of vegetables.

“Hanguang-Jun, can they be my rabbits too?” Yuan asks, petting the baby and looking up at Lan Wangji with pleading eyes. 

“If you like,” he responds, face soft. "It seems they have already chosen you."

“I love them! I want to come see them every day!” 

“Then they will be ours.”

--

It's not every day that a member of the Lan Clan turns 15. At the banquet held in his honor, it is quiet, solemn, but between courses 2 and 3, Lan Sizhui meets Lan Wangji's eyes and grins at him. It catches Lan Wangji in the chest and he can’t help but lift the corner of his mouth in return while giving an almost imperceptible head shake, before dropping his gaze and returning his face neutral. Lan Xichen notices and smiles also, and Lan Wangji would think them both insufferable sometimes if he didn't care for them so much. He's not sure what it is about himself that attracts these insufferable loved ones, if Wei Ying were‒ 

If Wei Ying were here. He doesn't allow the thought to go much further than that, and returns to eating his soup. It is a celebration after all. 

Afterward, Lan Wangji waits patiently while Sizhui and Jingyi whisper at each other, before Sizhui finally spots him standing there watching him. His eyes widen slightly and he whispers one last thing to Jingyi before making his way over to Lan Wangji. 

The January night is dark and quiet on their walk to Sizhui's room. Sizhui thinks about all the things he wants to say, all the things that growing a year older, reaching a new period of his life, and getting a new name has made him reflect on and be grateful for, but the words get caught in his chest so he stays silent. Their footsteps slow as they reach his room and they turn to each other. Lan Wangji shakes out his sleeve, before placing his palm to the flat of Sizhui's temple, right where his ribbon meets his hairline. It is fatherly, comforting, and overwhelmingly affectionate. Sizhui swallows, tries to ignore the prickle in his eyes.

"You have grown up so much." Lan Wangji pauses, his eyes soft, but no other parts of his face giving anything away. "And I am proud of you."

Sizhui smiles up at him, hesitates only a moment before surging towards him to wrap his arms around him in a tight hug. Lan Wangji doesn't show any surprise at the sudden impact, but he goes very still when Sizhui says, voice muffled by the fabric at his shoulder, "Thank you, a-die." 

It's not the first time, but because it has been a while, and because tonight he has allowed himself to wish that Wei Wuxian were here to see Yuan now, something unnamed thuds against his chest with his voice ‒ This child is my son ‒ and it aches. He had carefully avoided it earlier, but now, half of him is thrown suddenly back to Yiling, meeting this little boy for the first time. A boy who wrapped his hand around Wei Wuxian's wrist in comfort, gave generous hugs, and confidently moved Lan Wangji's arm to slide onto his lap in its place and, smiling, spin the toys he had spoiled him with around his face. Little A-Yuan who, just like Wei Ying, unknowingly and too, too easily leapt over his walls to stick a flag into and claim a personal space in his heart. Lan Wangji lowers the hand in the air that had been at Sizhui's head and places it on his back, drawing him closer. They stay like that, a gentle breeze ruffling their ribbons, before Sizhui pulls away, returns to decorum, and bows respectfully. His cheeks are pink from the cold.

Lan Wangji's eyes glisten in the moonlight and he blinks softly at him before saying, "Goodnight, Sizhui."

The name settles around Sizhui like a warm blanket and he smiles again. “Goodnight, Hanguang-Jun.”

--

Sizhui is fairly certain his heart stops beating when Wei Wuxian reaches out to pat the side of his head. Only family may touch it, echoes in his ribcage and he spares a glance to Lan Wangji, finding his face impassive ‒ which is validation in its own way, really ‒ before looking down to try to contain the blush on his cheeks. The contact is tangible confirmation of everything his heart had been hoping for, when he couldn't quite put a name to what he was feeling towards Wei Wuxian, and other titles hadn't been enough. He had said that he felt safe when either one was around, and with his arms around both of them in a hug, he thinks it feels more like‒ whole.

He remembers years ago, sitting with his Uncle Xichen and feeling some personal thrill when he had broken sect rules and brought up the topic of Lan Wangji's happiness with him; to make sure he knew his tells, how to see it despite what he projected on the exterior and despite the ever-present undertone of melancholy he carried with him. 

"You are very important to him, to us," his uncle had told him. "Not just because you are a good student, but because you are you. I want to make sure you realize that."

He had, but it was reassuring to hear it in words. And now, Sizhui appreciates their talk more than ever, because he can see the shift in Lan Wangji all the more clearly. Some previously unknown missing parts, carrying on despite them, and now, finding them. It's something else they have in common and Sizhui tucks away that point of pride inside himself for safe-keeping. 

Like father, like son, or so the saying goes. And hadn't they just complimented the ways he was similar to each of them?  Like fathers, like son, now. It all makes Sizhui feel so inordinately happy he could burst with it. 

When Lan Wangji pulls him aside from Wei Wuxian and Wen Ning, and the excitement has subsided, Sizhui wants to ask, Why didn't you tell me? even though he thinks he knows why. What comes out instead is, "This doesn't change anything, does it? You're still my..." he trails off. It's a stupid question, a prickle of insecurity, but he just wants to hear-

"Always," Lan Wangji reassures him. "Nothing has changed that you don't want."

Sizhui doesn't respond. His head swarms with thoughts of himself in red, silly?, of saying "my real family," only to feel instant doubt, because what is more real than the man in front of him who raised him, more real than both men who saved him and gave him their homes? Lan Wangji must be able to see the panic building behind his eyes because he places a hand on his shoulder. 

"You have time to meditate and reflect on your feelings. I am sorry I could not tell you earlier."

Sizhui begins to shake his head. “I… I am more grateful to you now than ever before.”

“Sizhui, there is no need. I did not do a favor for you. Family-," he swallows. "-takes care of each other."

Shizhui wipes away an errant tear that escapes against his will, and repeats, his voice full of adoration, “Family.” 

Their eyes both flicker up the hill to Wei Wuxian then back.

Lan Wangji smiles softly, as though he cannot help it, and he says, "Yes, A-Yuan. We will see you back at home."

--

"What was it like, raising him?" Wei Wuxian asks Lan Wangji with his ear against his chest as they lie in bed. 

He has one arm wrapped around his middle and a knee thrown between his legs. Lan Wangji drags his fingers down Wei Wuxian's arm and back up as he considers his answer. 

"He was happy. Empathetic, observant, and a fast learner. It was difficult to remain impartial."

"Ohh, a star disciple,"  Wei Wuxian says as he turns to look up at him, with his chin resting on the back of his hand and his mouth upturned into a teasing smile. "Sounds familiar. Did you try asking your uncle for advice?"

Lan Wangji ignores him. 

"He also likes to tease. As you know. Always tries to do what is right," he continues, looking down to meet Wei Wuxian's eyes. "He was...a comforting reminder, as well as the best distraction." 

“Lan Zhan-" he starts, and his eyes sparkle. “-your son is also lucky to have you.”

Lan Wangji halts the brush of his fingers and instead wraps them tightly around Wei Wuxian’s bicep.

“Our Son,” he corrects, and Wei Wuxian smiles like a cat who caught the canary.

“Hmm...I bet you just love to say that,” Wei Wuxian whispers conspiratorially and in an instant, Lan Wangji pulls him upward and onto him to capture Wei Wuxian’s lips between his own. 

If Lan Wangji's goal was to kiss the smile off of him, it's an instant success, and something they’ll never get tired of. Wei Wuxian doesn’t resist the heavy force of gravity pulling him into Lan Wangji; he just lets himself fall and kisses him back with equal fervor. His hand slips beneath the folds of his robe at his stomach and palm to skin, he begins a long, slow stride until it slots into place at his heart. Wei Wuxian opens his mouth, and Lan Wangji deepens it; kisses him so thoroughly and possessively that every fiber of his being pulses with Lan Wangji’s heartbeat against his hand, yours, yours, yours. Lan Wangji grips him closer, as if he pulled hard enough they would meld together but it still wouldn’t be close enough, and then Wei Wuxian finds himself suddenly beneath him, pressed deep into the bed, arms raised overhead and crossed at his wrists by Lan Wangji’s large hand. Lan Wangji breaks the kiss - and Wei Wuxian's lips try helplessly to follow - to bite at Wei Wuxian’s neck instead, his lips vibrating against his skin as he claims him.

"My husband.”

“Yes,” Wei Wuxian exhales, tilting his chin up to give him better access. “And mine.”

Lan Wangji’s grip tightens again at his words and his tongue scorches against Wei Wuxian's throat as his teeth continue their onslaught. Wei Wuxian swallows against it, his skin ablaze.

“Our son,” Lan Wangji repeats again, his voice rougher than before and Wei Wuxian's feels drunk with the power of causing it. 

“Our son,” he repeats in a daze, with Lan Wangji’s entire mouth searing and insistent at his neck.

[multi-dimensional-turtles]

If it's hard to read, here's what the text boxes say:

Hamato Yoshi Splinter

54 y.o.

Heir to the Hamato Clan before it was destroyed by Shredder

Was the star pupil however his father was harsh

Married Tang Shen and was going to NYC for their honeymoon before they were attacked

Escaped to NYC afterward

Made a successful dojo there

Mutated by the Krang

Raised his sons as warriors since that's all he knows about raising kids

Constantly stressed for his sons' safety

Loves his sons deeply but never learned to properly express his emotions

Eyesight is poor as shit so he color coded his sons

April O'neil

20 y.o.

Biracial like the original

Goes to college in NYC to get away from family

Parents are weird about her being bi

Family is from Ohio (has a farm house there)

Lives in her own apartment

Uncle has a dojo

Learned Tai Quan Dao from him

Hobby: Journalist intern (takes pictures)

Huge superhero nerd, was super excited when she met the turtles

Casey Jones

19 y.o.

Named his weapons Bludgen and Striker

Hobby: plays hockey in a college team

Injured his shoulder awhile ago

Dad was killed by the Purple Dragons

Brass knuckled from dad

Moved out but still visits family frequently

Young aspiring himbo

Huge family guy

Either worst or best liar, no inbetween

Autism and dyslexia

Splinter's height is 4'11, April is 5'5, and Casey is 6'1

Here are the other players! (For now that is, got more characters planned for the future)

They also have their own colors, April is yellow (like the original), Casey is green, and Splinter is pink! Because that's the color of the wrapping around his jutte, the weapon he'll be using most (and there is a story about that)

Now that they're all here, the story will begin