#simon jimenez

[cherriielle]

painting practice w/ keema 🫶

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot series)

Endorsement from submitter: "Soft hopepunk scifi novellas are just the best shit out there"

Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.

Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

Science fiction, cozy scifi, science fantasy, philosophy, slice-of-life, novella, series, adult

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.

But that god cannot be contained forever.

With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.

Fantasy, epic fantasy, metanarrative, experimental, adult

[peachesobviously]

jun & keema from the novel The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

[spittinwatches]

jun & keema

[aroaessidhe]

The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Fumiko Nakajima/Dana Schneider- The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

Esther/Cye- Upright Woman Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Achilles/Patroclus- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Wes/Isaiah- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

[wingedshadowfan]

just finished the spear cuts through water, thought i'd jump up on tumblr, see what the talk is about. tell me why no one NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE DEFECT TURTLE THAT STARTED A TURTLE REVOLUTION BY SHARING WITH ITS BRETHREN AN IMAGE/MEMORY OF A PEACEFUL RIVER MORNING

[cimmeria-writes]

(ID: a digital drawing of jun and keema from the spear cuts through water by simon jimenez. they are drawn from the waist up and in profile. keema is cradling jun’s face with his hand while they touch foreheads. behind them is an early sunrise, stars and a crescent moon above their heads. END ID)

[freckles-and-books]

Currently reading, and I’m loving the narration!

Also, I just remembered I have to work tomorrow after having the full week off, and I’m not sure I remember how 😭

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

02.Sep.2024 - Currently Reading

The stories are everywhere, you cannot avoid them. Every day you tell a story to yourself; the details of your day become a part of your myth. It is reordered. It is made sense of.

The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez

[libraryleopard]

recent micro-trend in fantasy literature

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 4

Book summaries below:

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.

Science fiction, time travel, multiverse, epistolary, adult

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.

But that god cannot be contained forever.

With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.

Fantasy, epic fantasy, metanarrative, experimental, adult

[birds-and-spears]

you ever think about how keema is literally just a poor boy/orphan caught up in this grand world changing event by accident and ended up having two royals of the moon throne fall in love with him for no other reason besides the fact that he was just there.

[spittinwatches]

love a duo in charge with toppling an empire and forced to homoerotically bond

[platypusinplaid]

Who else got their mind consumed by god-killing homosexual war criminals this year?