#otherbound

[asexualbookbird]

Have You Read My TBR?

Now with even MORE choices! To be honest, I don't know where this book came from or anything about it. I think a friend gave it to me? So I'm very interested in what people have to say!

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 2, Poll 11

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Amara-Otherbound

Qualifications:

Amara is canonically bisexual and mute (due to mutilation)

Propaganda:

She's a bi character, written by a bi woman, who's shown to have relationships with a man and a woman, also she has healing magic but it doesn't really work right. She uses signing, and is learning to read and write despite it being super against the rules.

Anything Else?:

tbh i don't expect her to get very far at all even on the off chance she gets in bc like nobody knows about this book, but i love it, so a few hundred people even seeing that it exists would be awesome

Submitted by @smilesandexits

Takashi ‘Shiro’ Shirogane-Voltron: Legendary Defender

Qualifications:

Lost an arm and ptsd and marries a guy

Propaganda:

Listen it’s Voltron but it’s also true

[douknowthisgaydisabledcharacter]

Do You Know This LGBTQ+ Disabled Character?

Amara is mute, Bisexual, and uses she/her pronouns.

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - Feb 10 - #OwnVoices

Corinne Duyvis is the YA author who coined the #OwnVoices hashtag 🥰

[deathcuteroz]

Thinking about starting to use the term otherbonded instead of otherkin or therian because I like the ambiguity that comes with it. Otherhearted is similar, but otherbonded is like on a completely different playing field.

Like, “I’m omnibound/omnibonded.” instead of “I’m omnikin/omnihearted.”

[zakzaikin]

An 'OtherBound' announcement is 'SaturdayBound'.

[the-bi-library]

Bisexual BIPOC books

Here is the part one of my bisexual BIPOC books posts where I post books with MCs that are both bi and BIPOC

If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar Son of Sin by Omar Sakr The Disasters by M.K. England Lulu Sinagtala and the City of Noble Warriors by Gail D. Villanueva Last Chance Dance by Lakita Wilson Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Notna by J.D. Cunegan To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose She is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran When the Stars Alight (The Essence of the Equinox, #1) by Camilla Andrew The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz Fall Into You by Georgina Kiersten A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar When It All Syncs Up by Maya Ameyaw Bidding for the Bachelor by Jackie Lau Bearly A Lady by Cassandra Khaw Between Bookshelves by Olívia Pilar Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar by Anahita Karthik I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis Cupid Calling by Viano Oniomoh The Nightmare-Verse series: A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney A Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinney

[lavendershowcase]

Community Recs | 08.24.

Community recs for this month!

Detransition Baby by Torry Peters, recommended by @yvesdot | "Torrey Peters deconstructs the taboo of detransition in a novel about three absolutely heinous people just trying to make the impossible work. There's snappy dialogue, clever insights, and catharsis galore; it is incredibly rough to read and simultaneously impossible to put down." The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, recommended by @justsome-di | "Danmei novel about a generation of cultivators through years of war and schemes. Follows rogue cultivator Wei Wuxian and the second son of a powerful clan Lan Wangji from teenage years to adulthood. A large ensemble of characters and a truly slowburn romance create investing subplots and lore that can be dived into even after finishing." Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis, recommended by @pridebooks | "incredible worldbuilding and characters, with realistic conflict in a convincing fantasy setting"

Community recs are a monthly list of LGBT books, recommended by you! Submitted a book but don't see it yet? Keep an eye out for future months! Only three books get posted at a time! Interested in submitting your favorite books? Fill out the Google Form here!

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

Heeding the call to action and happy to help further: The Fever King by Victoria Lee, Fall of Angels by L.E. Modesitt Jr., The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, 17776 by Jon Bois, Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, Edge of Nowhere by Felicia Davin, Ship of Fools by Cesar Vitale, Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asmiov, Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau, Here & There by Joshua Scher

hello! these are mostly queued, with a few exceptions and clarification requests. :-)

the clarification requests:

were you looking for just the first Maze Runner book, or did you want the sequels as well?

Corinne Duyvis’s Otherbound looks to me — based on the blurb and on looking through some Goodreads reviews — like fantasy, rather than sci-fi. could you, or someone else who’s read it, clarify what would make it science fiction?

I can only find Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” published in the short story collection of the same title. has there been a standalone edition of it, in English or another language, that you or someone else could point me towards?

the exceptions:

while it has certain science-fictional elements, N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy is fundamentally a secondary world fantasy — much though I hoped while reading the first two that it would be revealed to be far-future science fantasy — and as such I’m inclined to exclude it from these polls (I’ve already polled all three of them on the fantasy blog).

I’d decided previously not to count Jon Bois’s 17776 as a book for the purposes of these polls — see this ask for my reasoning.

as far as I can tell, Isaac Asimov’s Nine Tomorrows is an unlinked short story collection, which I’m not currently accepting for these polls.

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

Hello! First of all: love this blog! Second: I read a lot of queer books and as it turns out a lot of them weren’t already on your spreadsheet so uh. Sorry in advance for what I’m about to do to your inbox/queue 😅

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

The Time Slip Girl by Elizabeth Andre

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Queen of Cups by Ren Basel

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

Werecockroach by Polenth Blake

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

Wain: LGBT Reimaginings of Scottish Folktales by Helene Boppert and Rachel Plummer

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Tremontaine: The Complete Season One by Patty Bryant, Malinda Lo, Racheline Maltese, Joel Derfner, Ellen Kushner, Paul Witcover, and Alaya Dawn Johnson

This Other World by AC Buchanan

In Memoriam by Nathan Burgoine

The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé

Felix Ever After by Karen Callender

Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

Once & Future by AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy

The Brilliant Death by AR Capetta

XX by Angela Chadwick

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

The Vela by Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, Yoon Ha Lee, and SL Huang

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

The True Queen by Zen Cho

The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho

The Water that Falls on You From Nowhere by John Chu

The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Dreadnought by April Daniels

Sovereign by April Daniels

Thornfruit by Felicia Davin

Nightvine by Felicia Davin

Shadebloom by Felicia Davin

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Stay Another Day by Juno Dawson

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

We Go Around in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire by Jules Grant

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

Keeper of the Dawn by Dianna Gunn

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

The Outside by Ada Hoffman

The Fallen by Ada Hoffman

The Infinite by Ada Hoffman

Mindtouch by MCA Hogarth

Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson

The City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itäranta

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

The Beast of Callaire by Saruuh Kelsey

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy

An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

The Faerie Godmother’s Apprentice Wore Green by Nicky Kyle

Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee

Not Your Villain by CB Lee

Not Your Backup by CB Lee

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales by Yoon Ha Lee

Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Adaptation by Malinda Lo

Inheritance by Malinda Lo

Natural Selection by Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

The Hand, the Eye, and the Heart by Zoë Marriott

Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald

Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Forbid the Sea by Seanan McGuire

In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire

The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara

An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows

A Tyranny of Queens by Foz Meadows

All Out: The No-Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages ed. Saundra Mitchell

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

Princess Princess Ever After by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Society by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O’Neill

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Stormsong by CL Polk

Soulstar by CL Polk

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Tiger’s Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera

The Phoenix Empress by K Arsenault Rivera

The Warrior Moon by K Arsenault Rivera

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Birthday by Meredith Russo

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Dying for a Living by Kory M. Shrum

Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

The Traitor’s Tunnel by CM Spivey

Nimona by ND Stevenson

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver

Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by KM Szpara

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Crier’s War by Nina Varela

Iron Heart by Nina Varela

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

System Collapse by Martha Wells

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune by Neon Yang

The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang

The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang

Waiting on a Bright Moon by Neon Yang

Taproot by Keezy Young

Phew! Finally got all of these queued! Thank you so much for the list, and for arranging them so neatly, which definitely made it easier to transfer over to a spreadsheet!

[walpywalpy]

It’s weird looking back and realizing that a lot of the books I read in middle school where I had internalized homophobia had queer subtext. For example, I read a book called Otherbound and it had bisexual representation. I didn’t even know that’s the reason why it resonated with me. Even those that didn’t have queer representation at the time eventually will have queer representation. An example of that is Percy Jackson.

[elusivemellifluence]

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin - when the soul of a dead goddess is grafted onto yours

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis - it can really fuck up your life when just closing your eyes transports your consciousness into the mind of some girl from another world

The Sector General series by James White - when you're a doctor at a multispecies space hospital you can't be expected to learn all the medical knowledge necessary to treat every alien species, so you just download the brain of a doctor from another species (or several at once if you're really good)

The Lives of Tao and The Rise of Io by Wesley Chu - when you see someone die and the alien who was living in their head immediately jumps over to possess you instead, then expects you to start training as a soldier in their alien war

this post of Sapphics With The Voice Of An Annoying Guy In Their Head is still going around and I thought I should make a broader list of Guy (gender neutral) In Your Head books

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A Psalm of Storms and Silence - when the malevolent god you made a deal with attaches himself to you until you complete your end of the bargain

The Scratch Daughters - when your soul gets stolen so your witch coven's book demon sits in your body to keep you alive until you get it back

Vespertine - when you touch a saint's relic and get possessed by a petty ancient revenant

This Dark Descent - when the voice in your head telling you to give into the darkness might not just be your conscience, but have something to do with the book you learnt illegal magic from

A Memory Called Empire - when you're the ambassador going to the centre of the empire with a copy of your predecessor implanted in your brain, investigating his death together

Ninefox Gambit - when you're a space army captain and you get the ghost of a traitor general put in your head in an attempt to win a war

The Genesis of Misery - there's an angel in your head that leads you to the centre of the space empire where you become a messiah

Fever Crumb - you have machinery in your blood that your grandfather put there and you keep seeing his thoughts and memories

Wolfpack - when you escape a cult only to become the host for an angelrobot that uses you to help it on its revenge mission

Odder Still - you have a sentient alien parasite attached to you and you become the voice to save its species from extortion

The Midnight Bargain - when you practice sorcery in secret and summon a spirit to help steal back a book, and its price is to possess you while you experience your first kiss

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words - the alien cultural ambassador you translate for died and his ghost stuck around in your head and wants to you figure out who murdered him

Black Water Sister - when you move back to Malaysia and your dead grandmother posesses you and wants you to exact revenge against a gang boss who offended her god

feel free 2 add

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 2 Matchups

Floofty Fizzlebean (Bugsnax) vs Heart (Moonlight Chicken)

Nathaniel Thorn (Sorcery of Thorns) vs Wei Wuxain (The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi)

Fu Shen (Golden Terrace / Huang Jin Tai) vs Elphaba Thropp (Wicked)

Ben Scott (Yellowjackets) vs Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows)

Riku (Kingdom Hearts) vs Darth Maul (Star Wars)

James ‘Bucky’ Barnes (Marvel) vs Eichi Tenshouin (Ensemble Stars!!)

Anna Tromedlov (Hench) vs Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

Shallan Davar (The Stormlight Archive) vs Hiccup Haddock (How To Train Your Dragon)

Scavenger (Arknights) vs Norma Kahn (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

Arthur Lester (Malevolent) vs Li Shimin (Iron Widow)

Amara (Otherbound) vs Takashi “Shiro” Shirogane (Voltron: Legendary Defender)

Korra (Avatar: The Legend of Korra) vs Will Kenrith (Magic: The Gathering)

Song Lan (The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi) vs Link (Legend of Zelda)

Ambrosius Goldenloin (Nimona) vs Lenore Vandernacht (Nevermore)

Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier) vs Even Bech Næsheim (SKAM)

Wayne Terrisborn (Mistborn) vs Amaya (The Dragon Prince)

Check out the other waves here.

[starrlikesbooks]

Do you have any recs for books that are along the same lines as Merlin or Prince/King x Bodyguard/Wizard adventuring? Bonus if LGBTQ+ and they smooch. <3 I love your blog!

Oddly all the books that come to mind in terms of "queer bodyguard romance" are sapphic!

Otherbound by Corrine Duyvis

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn

Some non-queer bodyguard romances you may like are Blade of Secrets, The Bodyguard, and maybe even The Merciful Crow.

[pridebooks]

Oh boy do I have more for you, including some middle grade recs!

YA:

On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis The Lightness of Hands by Jeff Garvin The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley

Middle Grade:

The Pants Project by Cat Clarke* The Real Boy by Anne Ursu** Planet Earth is Blue by Nicole Panteleakos

Also worth checking out, Ada Hoffmann (author of The Outside) has this page on their website - a huge list of autistic speculative fiction (with autistic characters and/or by autistic authors)

*disabled character is secondary, not main **disability is unnamed, but intended and clear

*chanting in the style of the Bill Nye the Science Guy intro*: books! books! books! books!

Here are some of our recs for disability pride month!