#iron widow xiran jay zhao

[theinyshlobster]

“Men want us so badly for our bodies, yet hate us so much for our minds.”

Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

[high-quality-tiktoks]

🤷‍♂️publishing can’t ask us to write bestsellers for them on no money

[incorrect-ironwidow]

Shimin: How do you two just eat when there’s a dead body laying there?

Yizhi, sharing a confused look with Zetian: What? Is that rude?

Zetian: Am I supposed to share?

[kajaono]

The German edition from Iron Widow printing Zhaos cow picture extra large on the inner cover 😂

[wedarkacademia]

"You know what I think? I think this whole concept of women being docile and obedient is nothing but wishful thinking. Or why would you put so much effort into lying to us? Into crippling our bodies? Into coercing us with made-up morals you claim are sacred? You insecure men, you're afraid. You can force us into compliance, but, deep down, you know you can't force us to truly love and respect you. And without love and respect, there will always be a seed of hatred and resistance. Growing. Festering. Waiting."

Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

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[ghostedgrim]

I fucking love "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao

Polyamorous bitches

🖕 to men, and it's written beautifully

Gets her revenge in the first three chapters by killing a powerful ass man. Gets arrested, turns the most powerful guy to exist into her bitch.

Wu Zetain thrived off spite, rage, and unwillingness to be told what to do.

Wu Zetain is a powerful ass woman, and my favorite character. Iron Widow is a 10/10 book, it deserves a bigger fanbase. It's also a sci-fi retelling of a Chinese Empress, and China's only ever female empress to rule over China. That very Empress' name was wu Zhao, but otherwise known as Wu Zetain.

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

peak romance

[yourfavebooklrsfavebooklr]

Some books I’d recommend that feature disabled characters to read this July!

image IDs in alt text!

Note: I’m aware that not all everyone in every community represented on this list considers themself disabled. As an outsider, it’s not my place to say- they are included because some people in these communities do consider themselves disabled, especially with many being spectrums where different people will experience different severities.

Cosmoknights - Amputee side character (major character in book 2)

Nimona - Amputee main character

Before the Devil Knows You’re Here - Dyslexic love interest

The Spirit Bares its Teeth - Autistic main character, autistic side character

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue - Love interest with epilepsy, main character becomes deaf in one ear, MC with anxiety in the third book of the series

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath - Autistic major side character, wheelchair user minor side character

A Lady For a Duke - Love interest with PTSD

Cemetery Boys - Love interest with undiagnosed ADHD (confirmed by author)

Into the Drowning Deep - Autistic character, two Deaf characters

Don’t Be a Drag - MC with depression and anxiety

Iron Widow - Wheelchair user MC with chronic pain

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Little person character

[via-rant]

As excited as I am for the PJO show I am going to ALWAYS beg people to pirate it!! Every single time!! I love the series just as much as anyone but I'm not gonna pay for these piles of shits!! Yes I'm also talking about Rick!! Him being "Neutral" about the Palestine Genocide is absolutely disgusting!! The idea that people don't care that innocent lives, including infants, are dying day by day is honestly concerning for them!

That being said there are many other authors who do support Palestine 100%!!!

. Andrew Joseph White - Author of "Hell Followed With Us" + "The Spirit Bares Its Teeth"

. Xiran Jay Zhao - Author of "Iron Widow"

. Aiden Thomas - Author of "The Sunbearer Trials" + "Cemetery Boys" + "Lost In The Never Woods"

All books are very Queer and POC also so you'll be supporting those communities as well!!

Please please please feel free to add any authors you can think of that support Palestine!! FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸!!!

[theinyshlobster]

“I am exactly the kind of ice-blooded, rotten-hearted girl he fears I am. And I am fine with that.”

Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

[high-quality-tiktoks]

The screenwriters are my comrades and I fully understand how they feel🫡

[incorrect-ironwidow]

Qin Zheng: I am a very bad person. Very, very bad person. I am a horrible person.

Zetian:

Shimin:

Yizhi:

Sima Yi:

Qin Zheng: “No you’re not, A'Zheng! We still love you, A'Zheng!”

[kajaono]

„Don’t get invested in a love triangle, Zetian“

Zetian: „don’t you know basic physics? A triangle is the most stabile shape“

Zetian: *keeps on bringing up that argument and dates two boys*

Xiran Jay Zhao really looked at this 👇 and said: hold my beer, I am gonna reference that in my book“

[theravenlyn-art]

been procrastinating posting this lol because colouring my art is my personal nightmare but then i realised,, i didnt need to lol so here's monochrome with some colour for spice

my madman scrawlings below:

[thebisexualwreckoning]

i think the funniest story i have about my adhd memory is that once right after the mulan life action was released id gone on youtube to find out what actual Chinese people were saying about it and I found this one video on every single cultural inaccuracy in the movie and at the end of it they advertised their book and I was like that sounds interesting and ill read when it comes out and 3 years later I find the book through completely unrelated means and immediately flash back to when xiran made a whole ass youtube channel because they hated the movie so much and wanted to drag it through the dirt. and I knew. i knew I had to read that book simply for the level of pettiness that they displayed that day. so I got an ebook and now 6 months from that incident later I'm finally buying my physical copy.

So at least the fucking live action mulan movie did something right.

Ps: go read Iron widow by Xiran jay zhao for queer people being angry and taking down the government!

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Li Shimin/Wu Zetian/Gao Yizhi created by @xiranjayzhao.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

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