#sunbooks

[sukunasun]

I'm not the person who sent the sex scenes ask but your writing, altogether, fascinates me so as a lit buff I'll gladly get your recommendation/influences list, for smut and non-smut if you will. I'm soo curious

from one lit buff to another pls send me a list too. or just one book shall do. but make it a rly good one.

warning: keep in mind that these are my preferences so feel free to discuss, disagree, or discard my suggestions completely because 1) read whatever you like. 2) erotica isn't usually my genre of choice (says the person who writes about dick and fictional men) so i have yet to fully explore the plethora of great books waiting to be read.

3) some of the writers and works i've listed below touch upon strong /controversial sexual themes, deviant sexualities, and a tad bit of psychosexual analysis. they are not inherently smut or romance stories but i'm focusing on the writing and how said themes and subject matter are dealt with. they might also require some further reading to get some context, i find understanding and analysing a book makes the experience more worthwhile beyond any initial judgement/review.

4) these are less influences and more informants because i have nothing to pull from irl so i rely on writers to tell me what love and sex is like for them. i wouldn't ever dream of writing this well since my pool of experience is merely a puddle. the fact that my writing fascinates you is praise beyond what i actually bring to the table, so thank you anon, i hope to reach a point where i write about these themes as poetically and profoundly as these writers do.

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin (a great introductory erotic work)

"You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examination of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are the fuel that ignites it. Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its blood. If you nourished your sexual life with all the excitements and adventures which love injects into sensuality, you would be the most potent man in the world. The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine."

Lady Chatterly's Lover / Women in Love / Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence (ah yes...the one and only)

"They threw off their clothes, and he gathered her to him, and found her, found the pure lambent reality of her forever invisible flesh (…) the body of mysterious night upon the body of mysterious night (…). She had her desire of him, she touched, she received the maximum of unspeakable communication in touch, dark, subtle, positively silent, a magnificent gift and give again, a perfect acceptance and yielding, a mystery (…)"

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (the revenge...the jealousy...the utter malice!)

"I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms."

Fanny Hill by John Cleland (this is so old but its most known for its genitalia euphemisms, a.k.a. 'how else do i describe a cock without calling it a cock')

"...and now, disengag’d from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ’d, it must have belong’d to a young giant. Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even ventur’d to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory! perfectly well turn’d and fashion’d, the proud stiffness of which distended its skin, whose smooth polish and velvet softness might vie with that of the most delicate of our sex, and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root..."

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (see also: Bad Behavior – Mary Gaitskill. includes 'Secretary')

“Oh, I am suffering frightfully.” “Poor friend!” she brushed my disordered hair back from my fore-head. “I hope it isn’t through any fault of mine.” “No—” I replied,—“and yet my love for you has become a sort of madness. The thought that I might lose you, perhaps actually lose you, torments me day and night.” (...) “I can no longer live without you, oh wonderful woman,” I said. “Believe me, believe only this once, that this time it is not a phrase, not a thing of dreams. I feel deep down in my innermost soul, that my life belongs inseparably with yours. If you leave me, I shall perish, go to pieces.”(...)“It shall never end,” I cried excitedly, almost violently. “Only death shall part us. If you cannot be mine, all mine and for always, then I want to be your slave, serve you, suffer everything from you, if only you won’t drive me away.”

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas (a fictional fmc writes to a fictional freud and psychoanalysis ensues)

Emma by Jane Austen (my fav austen book and the prime example of the friends-to-lovers trope. matchless wit and charm. knightley still makes me swoon to this day)

James Joyce's letters to his wife (i picture nanami writing this while huffing and puffing in anxiety as his stuttering, fountain-pen gripped fingers spill ink alongside his guts onto paper)

"My darling Nora, I am panting with eagerness to get your replies to these filthy letters of mine. I write to you openly because I feel now that I can keep my word with you. Don’t be angry, dear, dear, Nora, my little wild-flower of the hedges. I love your body, long for it, dream of it. Speak to me, dear lips that I have kissed in tears. If this filth I have written insults you bring me to my senses again with the lash as you have done before. God help me!"

Lust, Caution / Half a Lifelong Romance / Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (see also: Cosmopolitan Love by Sijia Yao as a further read in understanding the ideas of chinese love and western love)

The Kites by Romain Gary (i recco'd this a few months ago and i'm bringing it up again!)

"I really don't know where I had come up with the idea that love could constitute the whole of life's work and meaning. Probably I had inherited this total lack of ambition from my uncle. Perhaps, too, I had loved too early, too young, with all my being, and there was no room left over in me for anything else."

Crash by J.G. Ballard (i read this after watching the movie adaptation, it's definitely edgy but also violent so proceed with caution)

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (gah. i had to power through this but he writes so viscerally. sex is life and also death)

"She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die."

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier (my beach read pick about the constraints of women and the timeless fantasy of lusting after a pirate or what it ultimately symbolises—freedom)

"There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate."

THANKS FOR MAKING IT TO THE END. these are some that piqued my interest, there's a whole lot more i can't remember atm but i hope they're enough for now. do look them up before diving into them in the case of any triggering subjects. and check out other works by these authors too if you like them. thank you for sending in this ask and happy reading!

[sleepyezzy]

i dont usually share my sunbook doodles on here but this was really dumb

if you want me to draw your oc polygonal tell me and i will. because im SOOOO FUUUUUKKIIINNNNNNGGGG BOOORRRREEDDDDD

[treedisc]

*gives you a flower and runs away*

-💐

Oh? …Why, it’s lovely! Thank you so much! I appreciate it! Oh my stars…They’re lilies of the valley! I love these! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

-☀️📔

[a-narcissists-warren]

I wish I knew…He mutters, almost bitterly, more to himself than to Afonso. His voice is also croaky, either due to sickness or talking excessively. Or both. Knowing him, both is likely.

’M a little…I think I’m lost…Or, I was, until I found you. I don’t know how I did it—It’s miraculous…Not to sound like a conspiracist or anything…

I feel weary, if that’s a good way to put it.

You notice that they’ve been leaning on the wall the whole time, for support, with their posture being horrendous. They yawn mid-sentence, covering their mouth to be polite. After a couple seconds of silence, he continues staring into the core of Afonso’s eyes pensively. It feels almost as if they were waiting for something to happen, which, to be frank is quite foolish of him.

…What’s been happening in the void as of late? More anons, I presume? Always. Always more anons.

You know, I don’t think that…parallel has left yet. And neither has his…Um, whatever they may be. It isn’t any of my business, really. But, I think they returned to their own void long ago, have they mot? They were supposed to. No offense to them, of course, but…I don’t want them to replace us after all we have here…

-💽🎞️ (BOTH TREELORD AND DISC GOT LOST. IDIOTS but i lovr them…or at least i love treelord…also in the last UHMM paragraph hes referring to sunbook amd volcanopeasant ofc…those…HOMOROMANTICS…im going to crush them…also this means i may use my blog again. perhaps. ’twas a bit dumb of me to take refuge in disc and trees account lest anything happen when i could have simply logged out, but, well, its not like they got activity anyway :P ALSO SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY I WAS IN. SCHOOL!!! or sleeping 💤💤💤)

,, yes? I'm pretty sure they went back like... a,, months ago.?

Disc, did you wander off far from the main area?? ouhh,, where HAVE you been??? You know beyond here there's ,, like- nothing. when was the last time you ate???

[cloudstongue]

Important costume notes

Clown - colored clown instead of black and white

Dean/🖤🗑️ - Sam from trick r treat

Eren/🖤🥀 - A vampire

Dean loves Halloween a lot

-Clown anons mod

PSHSHEHR?? CLOWN MOD??? HELLO?? YOURE HERE AGAIN THATS SO UNEXPECTED YM!!!

clown being a colored clown i love that..ough

VAMPIRE EREN VAMPRIW EREN!!! dean loving halloween…also desn. idk who tjat is (who hes dressing up as)

disc would be a pirate. btw. sunbook wouldnt celebrate. mermaid anon wouldnt either cuz itd be hard to swim everywhere.

uhhh..(me struggling to remember my own anons) i think thats everybody

[ryuatewater]

tee bee aych when it comes to anonvoid im basically you just nice

i could be a rascal too i guess but theres too much of those already. also i dont wanna be known as a bad guyz. and who could be mean to afonso?

theres so many kind people though it intimidates me/j

i have nothing to do with sunbook anymore and all disc has going for him is explosion lord and tree and maybe boneviolet, but after all that i dont really know infeel like were both gradually fading into obscurity i think only the first bundle knows our stuff…it isnt fair yall we were first /j

Yeah uh i feel that

The most popular one is peanut i think idk how but uhm yeah

I wish we both got more attention, we were the first and i feel were deserving of it

When people are asked how anonvoid happened they just say "well some people started sending asks--" like stfu it wasnt some people it was cloud and theyre theonly reason this whole shit happened what the fuck do you mean you dont know.who dvd is ill fucking choke you you ficking bitch

Soery im tired and angry rn

[qualitypurseempathuniversity]

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[littlebitchsposts]

nope i don’t have any more plans books! i might make s’mores with my sister and watch a little reality tv. before i go to bed i’ll work on my french and read! what about you? -🌅

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[worldfoodbooks]

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[sukunasun]

Would you be able to recommend some books for me to read? I'm really eager to find something new, but I'm not sure where to start. I don't have any particular preferences, so any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much in advance for your help!

here are some i've read in march! the genres are kinda all over the place but i hope you'll check them out, do share some stuff you've been reading too!

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (one of my fave writers of all time, this one's insanely creative no matter how often i read it, such witty commentary, so poetic and artistically written. imagine a true crime story being told but he talks with structure almost, you don't know what's reality and what's just his own allusions of fantasy.)

Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow by Karl Hagstrom Miller (a great insight into country/southern music)

The Kites by Romain Gary (i'm on the hunt for romances this year, much needs to be explored, this genre has yet to keep me intrigued, i always come out disappointed and disgusted, but i know there's got to be good ones out there, the kites being one of them! excerpt: 'I was jealous of her solitudes, of the paths she walked down without me, of the books she took with her and read as if I did not exist. I now knew how to poke fun at myself in these excessively demanding moments, to make light of my tyrannical terrors. I was beginning to understand that you must learn to let all things leave you from time to time—even your reason to live—to grant them their right to be a little inconstant: to take up with solitude, with the horizon, or with those tall plants whose name I did not know, the ones that lose their white heads at the tiniest gusts of wind.')

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (didion is such a significant and distinctive prose stylist, picking up any of her books and jumping into them is always an experience)

[sleepyezzy]

ok theres blood obviouslr. and a gun. its not colored tho

does anyone wanna see sketchbook dead. im quite proud of it

[treedisc]

are you sigma in the digital circus?

No. Get out.

-☀️📔

[chexawe]

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[cloudstongue]

alright thank u :3 also i can relate to being too scared to do that stuff with friends x_x ... -📁

gah…dgmw i love sunbook and volcano (tbh i planned my top secret anon romance before) but. theyre a bg couple anyway. i wont have to rp tthem that much

[spanky606]

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[zmuzikpradoocer]

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