#which is sff

[tenrose]

My brain when I read two books and wants to quit my job: what if you could go back to university, it was fun right? 🤗

Me: You're not helping, shut up please.

[transcendragon]

New uquiz! Please enjoy!

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Last Hour Between Worlds

fantasy locked room murder mystery

set in a world with alternate universes that bleed into it that get increasingly more eldritch as they go down, following a woman able to step between them

she’s on leave to take care of her newborn, but decides to attend a new years’ party to give herself a short break to socialise

but when everyone is murdered - only to suddenly be alive again, but with the whole building shifted one echo down, she realises she’s caught in a dangerous looping game and will have to find a way to stop them from dying permanently…. with the help of her rival slash almost-ex

very lightly demi-coded bi MC, f/f

[solradguy]

I thought the early 2000s "strong yet naked/mostly naked woman kept in her place by stronger, bigger, beast/monster or gang of racist caricatures" trope* was known by basically everyone but I mentioned it as a criticism of this older art book I'd flipped through recently to a friend and it turns out it isn't lol Maybe I've just read too many Heavy Metal issues... It used to be HORRIBLY inescapable in any sort of mature art scene back in the day lmao

*This trope is different from the pre-2000s one because the women usually look like they COULD fight back for at least a little bit whereas the previous trope had them be completely helpless damsels in distress

[earthsoulbarbie]

I got my ex (cishet man) to read gtn and one of his comments was that gideon as a character felt "a bit too much like fan service for women who like women", and i keep remembering it because its SO FUNNY as a "criticism". Like what about it??? Was it disorienting to read the female gaze for once in your life? Let us be served, haven't we suffered enough

[essektheylyss]

Day two of reading SFF shorts! Here's today's:

[rackartyg]

in therapy today i just talked about the dark urge and astarion and my therapist was elated about it. it was fantastic. “wow you’ve really been using this story and those characters to process things. that’s amazing!”

the era of being ashamed of my interests is over. it’s apparently Cool and Healthy to use fiction to cope. i wish i could tell fifteen year old me about this it would blow her mind

[briannysey]

In the shower I was possessed by a vision of a new story, nearly whole and completely formed

[thisbluespirit]

Endless list of favourite characters: VILA RESTAL (Blake's 7, Michael Keating, 1978-1981)

“Hello there. How are you? Excuse me wandering about your premises but I wonder if you can help me. I’m an escaped prisoner. I was a thief but recently I’ve become interested in sabotage, in a small way you understand, nothing too ambitious, I hate vulgarity, don’t you? Anyway, I’ve come to blow something up. What do you think will be most suitable?”

[b-a-pigeon]

Interest check: would any of you all participate in an online queer SFF book club??

Fell & I have discussed this as an option for our (inactive & mostly empty) Discord server that we made for readers/patrons and I will actually start organizing if we get any interest!! Interact with this post or I guess just join the server now & I'll make it happen if enough people seem down :)

[kalpalatas]

trying to write animanga fic takes you strange places

[vgilantee]

wip title game

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how nondescriptive of ridiculous. let people sent an ask with the title that intrigues them the most, then post a little snoppitnor tell them something about it

so @alwayskote tagged me but i hate titles so they’re usually the last thing i come up with… so most of my doc titles are boring and only there at all so i don’t have a million docs called “document x”. but also the ones with titles are so old i actually procrastinated my way into a title lmao

finish what he started - commander cody smut

apex predator - john price smut (it’s actually called monster price… i need to change that whoops)

soft focus fog - benedict bridgerton series

kix x reader - what it says on the tin

ethan landry - on camera - abandoned… lmao

chaos cubed fic

worlds apart - neteyam sully series, also abandoned

NPT: @glossysoap @xxshadowbabexx @the-rain-on-kamino @cas-backwards-tie

[j-esbian]

i’m so tired of the popular writing style lately. i feel like it’s mostly sci-fi/fantasy and stuff that’s adjacent to it. yes marvel movies are the big example but other things are not excepted from this bc it’s permeated the genre so deeply

they’re written like they’re a half-comedy, and there’s a quippy one-liner on every page. doesn’t that get exhausting??

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Those Beyond The Wall

sequel/companion to The Space Between Worlds, set a decade later

character-focused sci-fi set in an area divided in two, the rich protected city on one side and everyone else in the post-apocalyptic desert

follows a woman who works under the Emperor in Ashtown, keeping the peace

when mangled bodies start showing up with seemingly no murderer, she’s tasked with finding the cause, and finds out that it’s the result of corruption spanning both cities and multiple worlds

explores oppression and messy revolution, police violence and apartheid

bi & polyamorous MC

[kazz-brekker]

people often make a big deal (at least in the online circles that i move in) over book awards like the hugos and nebulas, but for me it's also very interesting to see which books stand the test of time and actually end up being remembered in the popular conscience. for example, a game of thrones by george rr martin actually didn't win the nebula award in 1997 for best sci-fi or fantasy novel published in the us that year and was instead beaten by the historical fantasy novel the moon and the sun by vonda mcintyre, which has since not really gone down as a particularly well-known book despite at the time being blurbed by a number of famous authors like robin mckinley and diana gabaldon, while a game of thrones is now one of the most famous fantasy novels ever written. furthermore, the moon and the sun was eventually adapted into a movie called the king's daughter which was filmed in 2014, locked in a studio vault for various reasons for 8 years, and then very unceremoniously released in 2022 and watched by almost no one even though it has a number of famous people in the cast (it also has a 21% on rotten tomatoes). ANYWAY this is all just to say that i was at a used bookstore when visiting my grandparents over the weekend and i found an EXTREMELY cheep and very nice hardcover first edition of the moon and the sun, so i am now determined to read the book and then watch the movie and see for myself if either of them are any good, thus satisfying my curiosity over this whole little anecdote in sff history.

[spellscribe]

I'm up to chapter 4 of the Starter Villain audiobook and at this point, I'm pretty sure it's a book about two cats and happens to have a human side character.