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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Preliminary Round

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Tithenai Chronicles (A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, All the Hidden Paths) by Foz Meadows

Endorsement from submitter: "Incredible plot, incredible worldbuilding, incredible relationship building."

“Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.”

Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he’s ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different plans: for Vel to marry his former intended’s brother instead.

Caethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock.

With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. Survival is one thing, but love―as both will learn―is quite another.

Byzantine politics, lush sexual energy, and a queer love story that is by turns sweet and sultry, Foz Meadows' A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. It is a book that will live in your heart long after you turn the last page.

Fantasy, romance, arranged marriage, politics, murder mystery, secondary world, series, adult

Dark Water's Embrace by Stephen Leigh (Mictlan series)

Endorsement from submitter: "What happens when you find out ancient inhabitants of your world shared something fundamental with you? Something that make you a "freak" in your own time and place. And what if that "freakishness" was crictical to your people's survival? What then? Thought provoking. Gorgeous. Deeply queer."

It has been a century since a small group of humans was marooned on a distant planet. Now their descendants struggle with rising infertility, infant mortality, and mysterious birth defects for which no cause--or cure--can be found. Reproduction has become essential, and those who cannot produce children are scorned. Anais, a brilliant female doctor born with inexplicable physical abnormalities, falls victim to this severe treatment. But then comes a startling revelation during an examination of a remarkably preserved corpse, a member of the planet's long extinct native race. With horror, Anais discovers that the ancient creature has deformities nearly identical to her own. There must be some link between the planet's past and the plight of the present-day humans, and Anais must find it before she is exiled forever--thwarting her society's last chance for survival. 

Science fiction, speculative fiction, series, adult

[crabgirlfriend]

“WTNV walked so [insert whatever media] could run” no. WTNV did not walk, it was fucking running marathons while other media was crawling on the ground gasping for air. it’s still running and the world needs to catch up

[official-sonic-team]

“she’s too hot is a valid excuse” i don’t even know where to begin. wow.

[demetera-kaziaik]

i believe in Gomez-and-Morticia dynamic supremacy

[st-dionysus]

Beating every cisbian over the head with a copy of Stone Butch Blues and Sons of the Movement.

[aloneinthedark-eagle]

RESTING THE SOUL 🌊🐠🐳🐬🦭🐡🦐🦞🦀🦑🐙🪼🪸🦂🦈🐚

[loserbutch18]

thinking abt a femme letting me indulge in my nerd obsessions. oh she knows i like star wars? she’s surprising me by dressing up like padmé (and she’s letting me user my light saber toy).

oh i like marvel? she’s dressing like black widow in tight leather (and riding me)

let me play my video games while she’s sitting in my lap telling me how good i play mhm

let me infodump to her while i make her eyes roll into the back of her head

yeah…

[gentlebeard]

If I could hold you for a minute, Darling, I’d go through it again

For @edsbacktattoo & @stedesearring 💕 Show: Our Flag Means Death - Season 1 & 2 Music: Francesca by Hozier YouTube

[daeyumi]

Spiritbond ✨🔮💫

[Linktober 4: Sage]

[thecraftyninjacat]

what the fuck man

[fireylesbianhell]

Doc: I’ve come to make an announcement; Grian touched my fucking red stone. that’s right he took his grubby little hands out and broke my red stone and wrote “oh i’m sorry” and i said that’s pathetic so im making a callout post on my youtube dot com

[fairyofshampgyu]

BASSIST BEOMGYU BASSIST BEOMGYU BASSIST BEOMGYU BASSIST BEOMGYU

[tiedupwithabow]

reminder that butch/femme is a working class exclusive community with communist roots. if i see one more post that's like "i want a rich butch/femme" or "i want to be a rich butch/femme" i'm actually going to lose my fucking mind.

this post is on an nsfw blog and is about t4t lesbians. minors, terfs, and men (including trans men) dni.

[minecraft-sex-mod]

kian stone moodboard. thumbs up emoji

@dykes4timrand @red-might-be-dead @arandompigeon5 @codecicle

[tswiftupdatess]

Rolling Stone ranks ''Mean'' By Taylor Swift as the greatest country song of all time (#20)

''On the frolicking “Mean,” Taylor Swift sounds like she has queen bees, bullies, I’m-a-let-you-finishers, and corrosively cruel music critics in her banjo machine-gun’s sights. From 2010’s Speak Now, the song was an eventual Number Two country hit — and Number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 — partly because it captures the sting of “words like knives.” It’s real power lies in giving enough ammo to empower victims of bullying even worse than those Swift suffered.'' (x)

[nastiiuu]

Wedding Speech