#otherbound

[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.”

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[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!

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[snarktheater]

btw if you still want recs for sapphic/-adjacent books: The Jasmine Throne; A Dowry of Blood; Girl, Serpent, Thorn; The Abyss Surrounds Us; Girl Made of Stars; Priory of the Orange Tree (this one's really long and probably doesn't need to be as long but I personally don't mind so); She Who Became the Sun; Otherbound;

Truth be told, I don't read nearly as many sapphic books because unlike m/m romances they don't hit the immediate personal appeal note, but I'm always open to check out a few…though granted the issue is that my TBR is always more full than I'm able to work through it.

In this list, three of these were already on my TBR (The Abyss Surrounds Us, which I'm pretty excited to check out just because Emily Strutskie Bloodright series has been so good so far; She Who Became The Sun and Otherbound), but I'll have a look at the others!

And in case anyone else wants to follow these recs here are easy Goodreads links:

The Jasmine Throne

A Dowry of Blood

Girl, Serpent, Thorn

The Abyss Surrounds Us

Girl Made of Stars

Priory of the Orange Tree

She Who Became the Sun

Otherbound

[kinshiftcafe]

I propose a new term for something that I personally experience but haven't seen anyone talk about or assign a name to. I know not everything needs to be named, but I wanted a word for it!

Otherbound: an alterhuman identity tied to believing you will be something in your next life, or in the afterlife

"Bound" as in "intending to go : going"

Boundtype and [type]bound would also be words to go alongside it.

You can have something be a boundtype and a kin/link/heart/ecttype. For example, I'm demonbound but I am also demonkin and demonhearted.

I'm also aware some people use otherkin as a word for this, you don't have to suddenly start using this terminology! I coined this for myself

This is very spiritual-centered and I know that won't resonate with everyone, but I hope at least some of you can find some use with it!

Reblogs heavily appreciated!! <3

[book-quotes-and-moodboards]

She had gone from having no choices to having too many. What did you do when life wasn’t just choosing the lesser evil? What did you do when you were the only one to decide where to walk, what to say? She didn’t know where to start.

Otherbound (by Corinne Duyvis)