#favourite fantasy books

[annafromuni]

Clockwork Prince - My Favourite Cassandra Clare Book

The title speaks for itself, but it wouldn’t be a good book review if I didn’t note a few things. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare is the second in the Infernal Devices trilogy, following Clockwork Angel and leading up the the riveting finale Clockwork Princess. It has the action of a good ya fantasy novel with the setting of a beautiful historical fiction book and a romance plot for the ages…

[becca-e-barnes]

Bucky pinning you down so you can’t squirm and he’s just sitting inside you while he tortures your clit feeling you clench around him. He makes you cum over and over until he finally cums.

Overstimulation + super soldier stamina = …

- 🍯

Dear God, I know I just don't have it in me to behave during cock-warming. When it comes down to it, I genuinely have no patience at all 😵‍💫

"You..." Bucky begins, pressing you down onto the bed before gripping your ankles and forcing you to flip over onto your front. "Have a problem with control."

With your face turned away from him, you can't help but smile to yourself. No one has ever said it out loud but you know he's right.

Being in control is where you're most comfortable. No hands are safer than your own. Except maybe his. You know he won't fuck this up.

"And you..." He continues, gathering your wrists behind your back, holding them tightly with one hand. "Need to learn how it feels to have control taken from you. Do you understand?"

As soon as you begin to nod your head, you feel him start to tape around your wrists, holding them together behind your back. Once he's content they're secure, he sits on the edge of the bed, facing the mirror before he pulls you onto his lap.

"Legs spread over the top of mine." He orders and you do as you're told, not because you have to but because you want to.

You notice the way your cunt is already glistening in the mirror and you're almost embarrassed because he hasn't even touched you yet.

"Fuck, you're made for this." He groans, lining his cock up to your slick entrance and you wonder if he's holding his breath too while he slides into you, as deep as your bodies will allow.

You're obsessed with the sight in front of you; your own naked body, with your legs spread so far apart you can see how your cunt is stuffed full of him.

Being shorter though, your feet can't touch the ground like this. There's no way you'll get enough leverage to fuck yourself on him but as soon as you start to tell him that, he silences you with two thick fingers between your lips.

"I'm not letting you fuck me." His free hand roams over your body, squeezing your breasts, pinching your nipples and then settling between your spread thighs.

"I'm going to play with you. I'm going to see how much you can take. I'm going to work out exactly how you like your clit stroked and I'm going to do that until your legs are shaking and your body won't let you cum any more. Maybe then I'll fuck you but sweetheart, that will be hours from now." His breath is hot against the side of your face, his fingers slipping from your mouth to your waist while he starts to flick gently against your clit.

"I'm going to start slowly. I'm going to do everything I can to drag this out as long as possible. I can feel every clench and flutter of this pretty little cunt and I'm going to enjoy it until you're dripping over my balls." At this rate, it won't be long until you're dripping onto the carpet, never mind over him. You dreamed he'd want to take control like this but you never imagined the way your body would respond.

"And then, when you've cum more times than you can handle, I'm going to tell you that I love you while I fuck you like I don't."

Update: Part 2

[dangoulains-devotion]

[erika-xero]

My obsession with Yennefer (long post!)

Yennefer was ALWAYS my favourite character from an entire Witcher franchise and easily my favourite character from any fictional story. I drew her, sketched her, wrote about her obsessively since I first read the Witcher in 2013.

Let's give it a try and gather all of the Yennefer pieces and sketches I ever did, because I had a Witcher brainrot for many, many years. Spoler alert: all of my Yens are totally different!

This one from 2014 was probably inspired by the The Bounds of Reason.

The one that was inspired by the very first Yennefer render from CDProjektRed.

The weird one. I don't really like her.

2015! The Shard of Ice Yennefer:

Don't have much to say about this one either, I guess it was an experiment.

The one I don't remember drawing. Somehow I predicted the Netflix!Yen having these exact eyeshadows.

Oh I love this one! This is a mix of game!Yen and book!Yen:

The next one is pure game!Yennefer, even though I never liked her in-game design (especially the bangs, the small nose and the lips):

Basically, this is how I saw it: game!Yen meeting the book!Yen.

Late 2015/early 2016 traditional sketches (yes, the second one is Yen from the Hexer):

THE FAVOURITE ONE. I haven't watched Farscape until 2018 and when I first saw Claudia Black I GASPED, because to me she looked exactly like this Yen version I drew back in 2016 and still is madly in love with.

Apparently there was an infinished second piece of this exact Yen design but I never posted the high resolution of it which is kinda sad.

2017! I saw early game!Yen designs and did a sketchy portrait of her. And then I decided to make the second version with the book!Yen:

Finally, Yennefer from 2022 (original sketch and the colored sketch). This design seems the most book accurate to me, but I still love all the previous ones I did (except the weird one, she is creepy).

And the last, but not the least: my own Thanedd ball outfit for Netflix!Yen, portrayed by Anya Chalotra.

And a small bonus! The very first Yennefer sketch I ever did (2013!)

[thedomesticanthropologist]

I don't want my favorite characters to be right! Or morally clean! Or justified! Or unproblematic!

It is not a deal breaker for them to be abusive or cruel or murderous or selfish or unkind or to make mistakes without atoning for them!

I just want them to be interesting, layered, compelling

I want to be ENGAGED when I'm reading about them I want to have things that make me THINK and Question, I want to be inspired to ANALYZE them and rotate them in the rotisserie spit of my mind until their meat becomes tender and they fall off the bone

[teeth-draws]

He’s trying to be cool about it but he shouldn’t have opened that and you should probably get out of there…

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Gods Below

high fantasy, start of a series

a world in ruins after a divine war, which ended with one god taking over and slowly spreading magical Restoration - rejuvenating the land, but transforming any any humans who survive

follows two sisters who are separated when the Restoration sweeps through their home: one who becomes a sinkhole miner, collecting precious gems, who becomes part of a resistance when she discovers she can channel the magic from them

and her younger sister who becomes changed, and is rescued by a woman who trains her into a devoted godkiller, hunting down all other remaining gods

as well as an inventor traveling deep into the earth with his best friend, in hopes of finding the gods’ realm to find a cure for her sickness, and his cousin, searching for a way to restore her family’s ruined reputation

and a god far in the past, at the beginning of the war

bi, aro, m/f & f/f

[howlsmovinglibrary]

...Any codependent besties want to start an eldritch underwater god cult with me? Question our loyalty to each other, while we learn about the cosmic horror underlying our universe... and the burdensome responsibility of carrying that knowledge forward, lest we let it be forgotten?

[rosekasa]

You’ve read Lolita ?!! Such a great but misunderstood book

idk if youve ever seen this interview of halsey talking about how she would obsessively watch romeo and juliet over and over again because she just felt something in her being pulled at by it so much? that's exactly how i feel about lolita. ive read it once when i was 14, once when i was 17, and once again recently and it destroys me everytime. i cant stop reading it. even during the IB, my EE topic was literally about lolita's abuse

it's an INCREDIBLE book in that nabokov is a master of his craft. but it rips me to shreds everytime. it makes me feel simultaneously 8 years old and whatever age i am when i read. i want to wrap dolores in a hug and hold her forever

[annafromuni]

R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War - High Fantasy With All The Good Parts

R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War is a novel I cannot forget, not only in its narrative plot, but in its strong characters, intense political setting, and the touches of historical inspiration and imagery. It is the adult fantasy that made me reconsider my preferences in fantasy, shifting from YA to the more gritty, more layered content of adult fantasy. It is also the book I remember taking days to get…

[belle-keys]

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[amiablesummer]

my favourite stories - 2/? - The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens

Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of its own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice.

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

I don’t know how long I’ve been here.

Sometimes I sit in the chair, sometimes on the floor, sometimes I pace the room. Most of the time I lie curled up next to Leander, staring into space. I’ve counted the freckles on his shoulders and memorised the tiny scar on the webbing of his right thumb. There’s one tuft of hair behind his ear that always sticks out no matter how many times I brush it back. Initially, I wished Leander good morning or good night, and talked to him about whatever I could come up with. I stopped after a while. He can’t hear me anyway.

It’s hard to sleep in a room with someone who doesn’t breathe. I would wake up in a panic, feeling Leander’s shoulder under my cheek, but not hearing his quiet snoring or the way he grumbles when he dreams. My hand would fly to Leander’s chest, desperately feeling for a heartbeat, cool relief washing over me when I felt its steady thrum under my fingers. I started sleeping with a hand on the left side of his chest after that.

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

r/fantasy recommend books other than by the same 7 cis white guys challenge: level herculean.

It's genuinely disgusting to me how myopic their recommendations are. No wonder we keep getting posts asking for books with good female characters or POC or Queers because the image of fantasy you project is cishet dude mantasy slop where women are rape doll incubators(the more underaged the more "realistic") and poc/queers are more mythical than dragons.

I swear to God if I see one more neckbread bleating about The First Song Of Wheel Storm Name Winds Law by T.R.M McWhiteman I'll b*mb an orphanage.

Seriously if the only "zomg must read most epicest bestest fantasy everrrr!!!" Are ALL the SAME cis white men, your reading tastes are shit, your literature pallet is unrefined to the point of non-existence, you have no idea what you're talking about, you have no ability to give actually good book recommendations, you're just shovelling the same mantasy slop that the ur-neckbreads shoved at you, your recommendations are bad and you should feel bad.

Are you giving worthwhile recommendations that fit the brief or are you just throwing your uwu favourite books at a person, damn the fact that it doesn't fit or might even be the exact opposite of what the OP is looking for? Hmmm???

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Ghost of Hexes Past

book two in a sapphic urban fantasy romance series about witches

an ostracized necromancer is trying to get the approval from the coven council to make her own coven to keep her adopted kids safe

while her ex is struggling with her own role among the witches and her family

when the latter receives a mysterious threat, and the former is getting increasingly haunted, their tenuous new relationship is tested

[godricsvalley]

As she nodded, she realized they would not spend the day sleeping together, side by side, in his bed. Or hers.

She took a sip from her water glass and marveled at how you could sit so close to someone and still have him be totally far away from you.

Lover Revealed (2007) - J.R. Ward