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do any of my mutuals know the rifter series?
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Get to know me
Tagged by @willowaus
FAV COLORS: Green, red-orange, magenta pink
LAST SONG: Sucker for Pain by Imagine Dragons and others
CURRENTLY READING: Lots of fanfics, particularly Beasts of the Hill and Serpents of the Den by @demonscantgothere / Rereading the Emperor's Edge series by Lindsay Buroker via the audiobooks / Rereading The Rifter Series by Ginn Hale / The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
CURRENTLY WATCHING: Rewatching Rings of Power, I'm on season 2 / various Christmas movies
CURRENTLY CRAVING: More writing time, haha / food wise I'm craving mint chocolate chip ice cream and drink wise a good honey whiskey
COFFEE OR TEA: I like both but have been more in a coffee mood lately (with lots of cream and sweetener
HOBBY TO TRY: I want to get back to drawing fanart. It has been a long time since I drew seriously. I have a graphic tablet and everything. I have no excuse except being busy. I want to draw Annatar so badly!
CURRENT AU: I'm still working on my canon-divergent fic, Morgoth's Shadow on Ao3 / I'm also doing behind the scenes work on my Emperor's Edge modern setting Amaranthe's Corner Cafe. I will work on that once I complete Morgoth's Shadow. But I also want to work more in the TROP/Tolkien world. I have so many fic ideas for multiple Fandoms. / I also eventually want to finish my Yuuri on Ice vampire au long fic
I'M TAGGING: @demonscantgothere and @marshmellin and anyone else who wants to do it!
#rings of power#lord of the rings#tolkien#the rings of power#tolkien fanfiction#fanfiction#Trop#emperor's edge#the rifter series#yuuri on ice#About me
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Behold, Thaendric!
Another character who was sorely in need of an update/color/actual ref.
This masked vigilante is going through the multiverse and trying to undo the damage that his adoptive dad has done, and is planning on being an angsty loner about it (fate has other plans).
#thaendric#rifters#rifters series 2#ocs#scribe draws#salt and light#my ocs#original characters#digital art
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adsfjks I love this sm, like the coloring and the framing and also the everything asdlkjf
An illustration I did for a scene in the story @larissa-the-scribe is writing. The first version is more accurate to the setting, the second is easier to see lol You know those therapy sessions at 3am...
#August how could you do this to me#august my beloved#friend art#ocs#rifters#writerblr#rifters series 2#zo#tamaki nozomu#lyn#evelyn vordur
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Please vote based on the picture AND the description!
Doctor Victor P. Henley [Empire Reimagined—-a Star Wars au series @musewrangler]
This man is always the smartest person in the room. No no. THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM. Ahem. That singular eyebrow raise that Henley gives has been known to reduce medical interns and junior doctors to floods of tears. There is thus a reason that Lord Vader chose Henley as his personal physician. This Doctor has no karks to give---even for a Dark Lord of the Sith [ESPECIALLY for a Dark Lord of the Sith] and voices his opinion, medical or otherwise, whenever he wishes. Ultimately however, he is also loyal down to his molecular structure and shows that he cares about the crew of the Executor by giving them the best doctor in the galaxy. [Himself, in case that wasn't clear]
Eabennor (Benn) Bethaz [Rifters @larissa-the-scribe]
Grew up trained to be a super-powered weapon, but then got too close to someone on an infiltration mission so now he's a loving husband and father (whoops). Used to be Angsty (tm), now widely considered to be the Voice of Reason(tm)—but that's mostly because of the people he's being contrasted against.
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What queer books do you recommend?
oh honey i have a whole rec page here if you're up for anything, but i mostly read adult m/m fiction. lots of weird and old stuff with dark tones more often than not. if you want some specific titles as a flavor list, here's a few favorites! i'll link their storygraph pages so you can read their synopses too:
Fantasy: The Rifter by Ginn Hale (dark fantasy featuring a romance that spans years and time and space in decaying world with a destroyer god, and bones. so many bones. has one of the most interesting and well written story structures i've encountered. very moody and dark, hits just right).
Scifi: Body after Body by Briar Ripley Page (erotic adult scifi novella with transmasc and transfem MCs. dreamlike and grotesque, delicate and stomach churning, it's about a group of mind-wiped laborers tending genetically engineered mutant bodies.)
Historical: The Still by David Feintuch (my book series of all tiiiiiiime. it's fantasy too but mostly medieval military fiction. don't even talk to me about Rodrigo if you're not ready to be hit with a twelve page verbal essay i'm not joking, that is a threat. not a typical romance, expect heartbreak and plenty of it and to never recover.)
Horror: Hexslinger series by Gemma Files (planning a reread of this one soon to see if it still holds up but this series has stuck with me like a fly to molasses. it's a fucked up time full of desperation, Mayan gods and godessess, faggotry, blasphemy, and witchery) go with the Bound in Flesh anthology instead if you want good trans body horror, or Down by Ally Blue for deepsea suspense horror.
Contemporary: All for the Game by Nora Sakavic (you probably know about this classic but for me it still tops most everything else i've read. it's got sports, mafia drama, and trauma). for something a little different (but still traumatic) try Mo Du / Silent Reading by Priest (dark mystery set in China that follows several disturbing cases and the psychology behind them + romance between a detective and a rich pretty boy)
but yeah i talk about books a lot on my personal/main blog @wiltking (in lieu of updating my actual rec pages these days, it seems) if you ever want more real time recs! i'm a book guy. i like books a normal amount :)
#god i really tried to keep this list short i swear#ask wilt#if you want lighthearted recs i am quite simply not your guy 😶#i mean i do have some lighthearted recs if you really want them. they're just not the ones that stick in my heart quite like these!#lgbt books
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the weekly inquisition book club has commenced; the book is swords and shields chapter 14 by Cassandra's request; she goes on an eighteen minute rant about the Knight-Captain being demoted and how the Commander's actions are antithetical to his character arc. Dorian has notes and they're all critical of the book; he gets into a screaming match with Cass just for the thrill of it. Josie mentions that she finds that the romance scenes having been lacking lately--Bull adds he wonders if the main love interest even know where the clit is. Sera is on the rifters; she's stolen Cass' copy and started doodling in the margins--most of them are about her getting anally fisted (she made sure to give her the best cheekbones). Vivienne is simply there for the wine and the drama; she finished the entire series and already wrote to Varric. Right before Cass can reach over and throttle Dorian for saying the Knight-Captain is unrealistically written as woman, the door to the tavern opens up. Someone shuffles in wearing a Lion helmet and takes his seat next to Bull. He clears his throat and says his name Dullen Wutherford. He also thinks the romance scenes were lacking and have very little development between that and the smut.
somewhere in another tower, varric is writing the world's most awkward sex scene out of pure spite--he uses the term 'flower' for vagina at least twenty seven times and sips with his ale with glee.
#cassandra pentaghast#dorian pavus#vivienne de fer#cullen rutherford#the iron bull#iron bull#sera#josephine montilyet#writing#dai#dragon age inquisition
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I realized that essentially all of my favorite book characters have autistic or ADHD traits. Taylor Hebert (Worm) and she's the same from the funfic "A Wand for Skitter", Murderbot ("The Murderbot Diaries" by Martha Wells; there is also a coincidence in my agenderness and grey/asexuality), Lenie Clarke and Ken Lubin (Peter Watts' rifter book series), Harry Potter and Hermione from HPMOR ("Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky), Miles Vorkosigan ("The Vorkosigan Saga" by Bujold), Ciaphas Cain and his loyal assistant Ferik Jurgen (Warhammer 40,000, Sandy Mitchell).
Overall, this is not surprising given my personal history of ADHD and autism. The funny thing is that I began to reflect on the topic of my own autism precisely after I read the Murderbot Diaries and came across a discussion of the character’s autistic traits. I was undermined from within by the thought, “What if all this bunch of coincidences are not just coincidences?”
Much was the same, but some things were not characteristic of autistic people, but at the same time, they were clearly not characteristic of the majority of people around me. I don’t remember the first time I heard about ADHD, but I immediately recognized some of my traits. When I read that ADHD and autism are often combined, I decided to take tests online first... and got high scores on both topics. Then, the doctor officially confirmed it for me. Bingo.
#skitter#taylor hebert#parahumans#worm#wildbow#wormblr#cosplay#adhd#autism#murderbot#vorkosigan saga#hpmor#ciaphas cain#ferik jurgen#lenie clarke#rifters#peter watts#agender#asexual
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I remember reading this for the first time and being so floored with it. This is when I realized John was not a simple case of someone who ended up in a parallel fantasy terrifying world but someone terrifyingly more.
This is from my favorite fantasy queer romance btw, and one of my fantasy series ever. If you have not read "The Rifter" by Ginn Hale PLEASE DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND READ IT.
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Thank you for posting all those rare/out-of-print lesbian books!! Do you have any all time favorite romance or fantasy recommendations?
Aww you are welcome !! I’m so glad you enjoy them ! 😊
I do! I have some reviews for them on my blog under the tag “lesbians and gays of the past”
Favourite Romance:
- Galveston 1900 Swept Away by Linda Crist
- The Grase Widow by Nanci Little
Fantasy:
- The Rifter series by Ginn Hale
- The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek
Thank you so much for popping in! I hope you have a wonderful day ♥️
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okay so here is the 2023 books year-in-review, this is going to be v. long because I ended up reading & re-reading a lot of my backlog after rebuilding the bookshelves in our house. This is going to be roughly sorted, and I'll try and say a little bit about each thing.
Hazel Jane Plante
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) - I adored this! It's a slimmer book, closer to a novella, but it was maybe my favorite piece this whole year. The central premise of this is that in a haze of grief after the death of her bestie a woman gets way too into their shared fandom and writes a combination of TV show fandom zine, obituary & love letter. The two-part narrative structure is something that Plante would go on to play w/ more in
Any Other City - also a great book! This is written as the memoir of a trans punk rock star split between her journal style letters in the 90s as she navigated an art scene as a woman who doesn't realize it yet, and then picks up again in the 2020s after her own celebrity was cemented.
Casey Plett
Little Fish - Really rad slice of life about a mennonite trans woman in Canada who has a lot of feelings about that. This feels more than anything like a strong expansion upon several of Plett's short stories in A Dream of a Woman.
A Dream of a Woman - I got lost in so many of the stories in this anthology, Plett writes the lives of these women so vividly it feels like you know them. You probably *do* know them.
A Safe Girl to Love - Plett's first anthology, recently re-published. I was not *as big* a fan of this one, but it still holds up very well and is a good example of her style generally.
The Locked Tomb - I am gonna talk about all three of these in one go, actually. These were really sweet, really nice, I really like the approach to necromancy as just sort of another kind of science or physical force, worked through a process very close to magic. I've been seeing art of these characters around for a long time now and it is nice to finally put a personality to the faces. The pool scene in GtNth especially really hit.
Gideon the Ninth
Harrow the Ninth
Nona the Ninth
Peter Watts - This is also gonna get a block review because so many of the things here are interconnected to one another. Starfish to Behemoth are all in The Rifters Trilogy, and Blindsight & Echopraxia are a pair. Watts has a really great way of tearing down the human brain and playing with all the ways that trauma can influence it, how adaptational quirks can be weaponized. Starfish is probably the single best way to get into his work, but if 'vampires in space' sounds more your speed then Blindsight has it covered.
Starfish
Maelstrom
Behemoth
Blindsight
Echopraxia
qntm
There Is No Antimemetics Division - This is a republish of qntm's large body of work on the SCP wiki, sharing the same name. This is really solid, and the use of narrative negative space is interesting.
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories - A slim collection of short stories and an overall much better showing from qntm, no longer tied up w/ SCP stuff. The things that delve into the implication of human mind based AI constructs especially is really strongly written and will leave you thinking for a while after.
The Division - Broken Dawn is the older entry and did not really capture my attention very strongly, it felt phoned in more than anything else. Recruited & Compromised by contrast could stand on their own w/o The Division branding though both are very well integrated into the game, w/ events going back and forth between the two now that the game is getting more narrative content to it.
The Division: Broken Dawn
The Division: Recruited
The Division: Compromised
D&D - You can probably guess why I jumped into these and what game got me to do it. Drizzt is something I avoided for a very long time because of the associations in the fandom and that was probably not unwarranted tbh. I probably won't continue w/ the series after Exile. It is competently written but these things are creaking w/ their own age and just don't have enough going on to stand on their own unfortunately.
Drizzt: Homeland
Drizzt: Exile
The Devil You Know - Another entry in the Brimstone Angels series, which is my favorite of any of the longer running D&D series. Centered around the misadventures of a Tiefling Warlock and how she gets pulled into the big-dick-swinging matches between various devils trying to make their weird little power plays.
40K
Horusian Wars: Incarnation - This was stellar. Great look at the Inquisition and how insular and back-stabby it can be, I hope more comes from this.
Kasrkin - A mostly by the numbers book that was written entirely to promote the 'kasrkin vs necrons' Kill Team box that came out a bit back. Competent but doesn't have anything new or interesting to say.
Pariah - Eh. This wasn't bad, but it wasn't that good either. Abnett has long been one of my favorite authors in general, not even just in 40k specifically, but I don't think it is controversial to say he has fallen off lately. Compared to his earlier stuff w/ the Inquisitors, hell even compared to stuff like that Horusian Wars book and Pariah just doesn't do enough and the whole Bequin sequence right now feels like it is mostly being done to shift things around in the meta-narrative rather than be good books that stand on their own feet.
The Armour of Contempt - I re-read this one recently and it was just as good as when I first picked it up in high school. Abnett is at some of his best here.
General Fiction (Unsorted)
The Archive Undying: The Downworld Sequence Book 1 - Homosexual activities in a sci-fi fantasy world once dominated by city-scale god-king AIs that went critically rampant a long time ago. This is a really great start to what I hope will be an excellent series.
The Darkness That Comes Before - Re-read after initially reading this when it was new and I was like a pre-teen. Definitely not a book a pre-teen should read and maybe some of that explains why I am like this now. Let's not look at that *too* closely, yeah? This still stands on its own after all these years, though I hear the series in general kind of flagged after a while. If you're into nihilist fantasy check it out.
Burning Chrome - Re-read and enjoyed yet again. Classic Gibson, lays the frame upon which the rest of his body of work would be built.
Pattern Recognition - Re-read this and it still holds up. Gibson is at his height here, calling shots that would start to land almost *immediately* after he published it. Reading this may re-orient your fashion sense entirely so be forewarned and have a bit of space in your wardrobe first I guess.
All You Need Is Kill - Another re-read! I got back into this after realizing that a lot of that traumatized mech pilot pornography I was writing drew so much inspiration for this. I still love the story, I still love the framing, I still love the short and brutal way it is written and the translation is very solid.
Wasteland: Stories of the Apocalypse - Yet another re-read. I originally read this in high school and I owe a great amount of creative debt to some of these stories, hugely influential works and I recommend picking this up.
This Shape We’re in - A tiny little novella by the author of Motherless Brooklyn (which is currently sitting in my 'to do' pile). There is no adequate way to describe this that wouldn't sound like a joke, it is Lethem's most unusual and maybe his best for that.
Poetry
In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting the Earth - Mostly translated poetry, this was solidly collected and a great example of Global(tm) Poetry.
One Hundred Apocalypses and other Apocalypses - More microfic really but I liked this. The different ways the world can end, be it physically from bombs or emotionally in a bad text message.
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound - Simply beautiful collection of work by torrin a. greathouse, I *adored* this.
Non-Fiction
Underlands: A Deep Time Journey - This was beautiful, simply put. A deep dive (hehe) into places beneath the earth and the people that spend more time beneath the surface than above it. I especially loved the travelogue in the cordoned off sections of the Paris catacombs, you can really feel the claustrophobia and danger of it all.
Bitch: The Female of the Species - I picked this up solely because it had a picture of a hyena on the cover. I do not regret that, it was great and that is something I seldom stay about pop-academic gender books.
Emergence: Labeled Autistic - Temple Grandin's first autobiography. This has been heavily dated in how she talks about being autistic and she has changed her views on this several times, to the point where depending on the version you pick up there may be several introductions from the author in a sequence reflecting on this. It is rare to see autobiographies from notable autistic women, it is rare for there to *be* notable autistic women, so I am really happy that I read this.
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us - Mostly a photo book that I picked up while on a trip to MFABoston w/ my girlfriend. This is a great little table book if nothing else.
Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure - A somewhat dry but well researched dive into massive infrastructure projects and the death cult attitude that empowers them.
Queering Mennonite Literature - A university press publication, you know the drill w/ these. Good base to start from if you want to get more into the intersection of queer & menno literature, which is why I picked it up after reading a lot of Casey Plett's books.
David Graeber
Bullshit Jobs - Maybe the best that Graeber has been, and also an example of him leaning really hard into the pop-science aspect of his public persona. If you've got an office job that feels completely fake please read this.
The Dawn of Everything - Graeber's last work before his death and... Well I think it is really good, well written, broadly researched, but much like Debt you're going to either agree w/ his premise or not. There are some rather radical takes here. I highly recommend it though.
Debt: The First 5000 Years - There has been a lot of back and forth on this and there will never be a solid answer. I think the arguments made here are fairly strong, pretty convincing, but if you're involved in this academically in any way you're liable to have a lot of strong opinions one way or another as you read it.
LitMags
Clarkesworld: Every sci-fi enjoying homosexual has a Clarkesworld subscription these days so I don't have a lot unique to say about this. Great year for work, I love the regular infusion of translated works as usual, and I hope that the recent business hits they've taken don't impact it too hard. Definitely re-subbing.
Alaska Quarterly Review: There were some good entries to this but for the most part it kind of felt like an 'eating your vegetables' situation. I probably won't renew for the next year, but I don't *regret* picking it up this year either.
McSweeney’s: Solid as ever, though I found the 'halloween' issue they did to be kind of boring overall. Everything else was primarily hits, and I'll be carrying this forward next year.
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i forgot how funny the rifter series is
#book things#the rifter series#reread#was rereading the second paperback book#and john and kyle are actually so funny#like kyle being jealous of that ourath dude#and the mushrooms thing#and john carrying ji
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Palladium Books Presents: The Rifter #1 - Nightbane: New Morphus Tables
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POV: you suddenly don't want to be watching the monitors at your supervillain boss's base
(another repost from the tournament. also I just like how it turned out)
#kathryn is a menace#honestly yeah that should just be her tag lol#kathryn carvalho#kathryn#rifters#rifters series 1#ocs#my ocs#scribe draws
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