#scrapegracers

[pensivegladiola]

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[detective-inspector-her]

Hehe

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Girls Night

YA contemporary

four unlikely girls are thrown together and decide start a fight club at their girls school, and quickly become friends

but things start to get out of control, putting their friendships and safety at risk, and they must decide whether to keep hold of the club or each other

4 POVs, all sapphic, a deaf MC

[billygaysanguine]

If Valkyrie and Scrapegrace had been the main duo-

...

Well, I don't know what would happen but it might have been funny. My mind blanked after the first half of that sentence.

ok ive actually thought before how they could have been friends maybe in a siblingesque way where they dont get along very well ever since that chapter in the faceless ones where they sneak around the sanctuary together THEY SHOULD HAVE HUNG OUT MORE.. anyways. scapegrace really has no reason to make friends with stephanie in the beginning but youre right it would be funny. she would 100% come out worse

[literary-illuminati]

ever heard of the scrapegracers trilogy by h.a. Clarke? might be the only ya I’ve ever liked

Never even heard of it, I'm afraid. What's the pitch?

[pizza-is-my-buziness]

Hope you’re having a nice day. Can I ask what are the best queer books you’ve read?

Okay anon. I feel like I've trained for this my entire life lol

So full disclosure, most of the queer books I've read are sapphic books so pretty much all of my recommendations will lean in that direction.

Realistic Fiction/Romance (YA)

She Gets the Girl (this is my absolute most favorite in the entire world I think lol)

Forget Me Not

Home Field Advantage

Melt with You (another top tier favorite -I finished this book and cried because it was what I had been looking for my whole life and that's when it dawned on me that I could just...keep reading books like this forever)

She Drives Me Crazy

The Lucky List

Not My Problem

Out of Character

6 Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did)

You Should See Me in a Crown

Margot Zimmerman Gets the Girl

Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea (middle grade not YA)

Realistic Fiction/Romance (Adult)

Delilah Green Doesn't Care/Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail

Mistakes Were Made

Cleat Cute (it isn't out yet but trust me it's so great)

In the Event of Love

Payback's a Witch

Kiss Her Once For Me

One Last Stop

Horror/Fantasy/Sci-fi

The River Has Teeth (I am obsessed with this author)

Squad (graphic novel)

I'm the Girl (definitely check trigger warnings for this one)

These Fleeting Shadows

The Bone Spindle

The Restless Dark (seriously this author)

The Dead and the Dark (obsessed)

Missing Dead Girls

Scrapegracers

*I would probably check trigger warnings for most of the horror stuff just in case!

Also honorable mention to the Truly Devious series which is just so awesome but a secondary main character is in a queer relationship with a non-binary character and another character identifies as ace. The mysteries are also amazing.

Historical Fiction

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Miseducation of Cameron Post (not so much romance, more coming of age)

The Mercies (does not have an on-page happy ending)

Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (I didn't love this one but it feels like it has to be said lol)

A Few Notes....

I know that I'm forgetting some. I basically sat by my bookshelf/went through my Goodreads for the past 3 years so I'm sure I'm missing some older ones or some classics.

Basically what I look for in a queer book is that it's going to make me happy and make me feel good so hopefully that will be true for other readers -horror is, of course, my favorite and...wow the romance just hits differently

I have a huge TBR I have amassed that has lots more titles that I haven't read personally but would be happy to post for anyone interested

I know that a lot of these books are of similar perspectives/backgrounds/etc. and would love further recommendations and suggestions!

If anyone wants to add to this list I would be thrilled!

[detective-inspector-her]

Scrapegrace

[detective-inspector-her]

When I was doing my re-read I saw this in the second book and was like 'hmmm... Alexander Remit... sounds familiar. I'll take a picture to remember it for later.' Some of the other names like Ode come up later as Elders which is bad enough. You think you can kill an Elder? Especially with all of the Cleavers they will have around them at all times? Okay bro.

But then...

A few books later when Valkyrie is shunted over to Malevolent's dimension we meet Alexander Remit... and he's a teleporter. A TELEPORTER! NO FUCKING SHIT YOU COULDN'T KILL ANYONE SCAPEGRACE! THE BOOK DIRECTLY AFTER THIS HAS THE FACT THAT TELEPORTERS ARE HARD TO KILL AS ONE OF THE PARTS OF THE MYSTERY!

'I'm the killer supreme. I make murder into an art form. I've never killed anyone yet- not even someone without magic so my next step it to kill someone who can DISAPPEAR TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY\PLANET AT WILL. Yes, there is nothing that can go wrong with this plan.'

'Failing this, I'll kill the Prime Minister.'

To be fair, it's impressive he managed to go so long with out being caught- what with all his targets being either:

A. High profile and highly difficult to kill due to magical abilities

B. High profile and highly difficult to kill due to political advantages

C. Both

Either way, just something I noticed and didn't know how\where to bring up until now lol

Being honest I noticed the Teleporter one and none of the others lol.

But also, this dude is dedicated and I respect him so much for it.

@billygaysanguine come and respect the dedication.

[billygaysanguine]

Trans vampire Scrapegrace

hmmm true actually

[sapphicbookoftheday]

The Scrapegracers by H.A. Clarke

Today's sapphic book of the day is The Scrapegracers by H.A. Clarke!

Summary: "An outcast teenage lesbian witch finds her coven hidden amongst the popular girls in her school, and performs some seriously badass magic in the process.

Skulking near the bottom of West High’s social pyramid, Sideways Pike lurks under the bleachers doing magic tricks for Coke bottles. As a witch, lesbian, and lifelong outsider, she’s had a hard time making friends. But when the three most popular girls pay her $40 to cast a spell at their Halloween party, Sideways gets swept into a new clique. The unholy trinity are dangerous angels, sugar-coated rattlesnakes, and now–unbelievably–Sideways’ best friends.

Together, the four bond to form a ferocious and powerful coven. They plan parties, cast curses on dudebros, try to find Sideways a girlfriend, and elude the fundamentalist witch hunters hellbent on stealing their magic. But for Sideways, the hardest part is the whole ‘having friends’ thing. Who knew that balancing human interaction with supernatural peril could be so complicated?

Rich with the urgency of feral youth, The Scapegracers explores growing up and complex female friendship with all the rage of a teenage girl. It subverts the trope of competitive mean girls and instead portrays a mercilessly supportive clique of diverse and vivid characters. It is an atmospheric, voice-driven novel of the occult, and the first of a three-book series."

[detective-inspector-her]

This is both Scrapegrace, Nefarian and somehow Saracen all in one go.

he's forty years old. he's babygirl. he's unhinged. he's creating problems for himself and everyone else. he's god's favorite punching bag. he's a whore. he's pathetic. he's my poor little meow meow

[wishesofeternity]

Scapegracers is the queer witchy small-town coming-of-age girl-gang masterpiece that I've always wanted

[thesummerstorms]

Now I low key want to commission art of my Changeling OC, Anna, because the last time I got art was in like... 2012 maybe?

In that time she's gone from a slightly callow House Fiona centrist teenager with a penchant for fire magic who spent most of her time bothering werewolves, generally a thrill-seeking, spoiled scrapegrace who liked pretty things and truly believed she was untouchable...

To a Modernist Knight of House Scathach, banished from her birth House of Fiona when she chose to become an Autumn Sidhe and remain among mortals during the Shattering, as quick with a blade as with a laugh. She's still a thrill-seeker and often tangled in affairs of the heart (because you can strip her of her former title but not of her soul) but tempered by dreams of noble responsibility and Idealism. She's a little older, her eccentricities no longer excusable as a childhood quirk, but still often misled by her curiosity.

From a teenage girl sneaking over fences in frilly skirts to a woman in silver armor and a grey cloak, the faintest slip of red silk teasing from beneath her collar. From a well-meaning but easily distracted young member of the elite to someone despised by the upper echelons for her strange convictions and disregard of her own former station.

I love her so much, and I love how she's grown up as I've grown up. (I was maybe 16 or 17 when I first made her as the 13-year-old character "Siana ap Fiona".)

[ask-them-bois]

They sure are, darling~. My beloved slaughtering scrapegrace bequeathed them to me when I gazed upon their incomprehensible 7orm~. Be7ore my lord was so kind, my eyes were... unsightly, no pun intended~. I still prefer to keep them covered though, as their appearance 7rightens the unworthy~.

[detective-inspector-her]

Don't call us dead men, I don't really want to be shot, stabbed in the back or burned, ya'know?

We're like Thrasher, Clarabelle and Scrapegrace.

No they're zombies.

Ok ok ok. We're... All Desmonds and Melissas. I am a Desmond. I tend to forget where buildings are.

i always mean it when i say i love you btw

[turtleferret]

Writeblr Introduction!

Hi there! My name is Turtle, and I write sci-fi/fantasy and horror! I’m 26yo, LGBT+, POC, and I use she/her pronouns.

In my life, I’ve dabbled with writing, drawing, and coding, but the one I always come back to is writing. I have gone to school for Graphic Design and IT, but it’s been literature that’s kept me goin honestly.

I wanted a place to share my thoughts and hopefullymaybe some future fanfic or original fiction in whatever piques my interest, so here I am and it’s lovely to meet yall :D

WIP Influences

Gail Carriger’s Soulless Pentalogy

KC Alexander’s Necrotech/Nanoshock

Arkane Studios’ Dishonored

Bioware’s Dragon Age Series

Chris Sharp’s Cold Counsel

Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive

Brian Staveley’s Chronicles of The Unhewn Throne

Hannah Abigail Clarke’s Scrapegracers

Joe Abercrombie’s First Law

Mattel’s Ever After High/Monster High

Anberlin

Betty Who

Coheed & Cambria

Paramore

The Midnight

ALEX

Battle Beast

What I Write

I am a soft woman. I have seen and been through Enough and I like soft things. At the end of all the suffering, I’d like there to be respite in a place surrounded by everyone I love and a nice spot where I can live in solitude away from them when those types of moods hit.

But I am also a woman who is weak for violence because violence may not be the answer in real life, but in fiction, when you’ve had Enough, you can break a face in and beat your problems into submission. Also the idea of being born in some unforgiving landscape, weaned on Mother Nature’s breast and taught by those who have suffered her moods is highly appealing to me.

My WIPs usually involve non-A/B/O werewolves, magic, makeup, and some sort of mishmash all of the above.

Socials

Discord: turtleferret#1648

Goodreads, Twitter, AO3, Spotify: turtleferret

Pinterest: amayaturtle

I’m always up to message, meet new people, and get book/music reccs should anyone seeing this want to share or chat! Thank you for reading!