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transbookoftheday · 1 year ago
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Books To Read For Genderfluid Visibility Week
Happy Genderfluid Visibility Week! Here are some books with genderfluid main characters you should read and/or preorder:
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Book titles:
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
Dragonfall by L.R. Lam
Something Spectacular by Alexis Hall
Salt the Water by Candice Iloh
Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray
Nine of Swords, Reversed by Xan West
Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
The Manor House Governess by C.A. Castle (comes out November 7, 2023)
A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford (comes out December 5, 2023)
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renthony · 6 months ago
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It's not currently the season for it, but I'm gonna recommend a holiday-themed erotica anyway. Eight Kinky Nights by Xan West z”l is a Chanukah-themed f/f BDSM romance between a 51-year-old gray ace femme submissive named Leah, and a newly-divorced 49-year-old stone butch dom named Jordan.
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Here's the official plot summary:
Sometimes the perfect Chanukah gift can change everything. Newly divorced stone butch Jordan moves into her friend Leah’s spare room, ready, at 49, to take on a new job and finally explore kink and polyamory. But moving to NYC during the holidays sends grief crashing through her, and Jordan realizes that when she isn’t solely focused on caring for others, her own feelings are unavoidable. Including her feelings for Leah. 51 year old queer femme Leah, an experienced submissive kink educator who owns a sex shop, has recently come to terms with being gray ace and is trying to rework her life and relationships to honor that. Leah has a brainstorm to help them both: she offers Jordan eight kink lessons, one for each night of Chanukah, to help Jordan find her feet as a novice dominant, and to create a structured space where Leah can work on more deeply honoring her own consent, now that she knows she’s gray ace. She’d planned to keep it casual, but instead the experience opens cracks in the armor Leah’s been using to keep people at a distance and keep herself safe. Now she needs to grapple with the trauma that’s been impacting her life for years. Can these two autistic queers find ways to cope with the changes they are making in their lives and support each other, as they build something new they hadn’t thought was possible? This kinky polyamorous Chanukah f/f romance includes a friends to lovers, roommates to lovers, kink lessons, seasoned romance and getting your groove back tropes, and polyamorous, gray ace, pansexual, Jewish, fat, autistic, disabled, arthritis, PTSD and depression representation.
I adore this book. I was actually a sensitivity reader for this one, helping give feedback on the aspec representation. I'm mentioned in the acknowledgments and am so, so happy to have gotten my hands on a paperback copy. I miss Xan dearly. Their Twitter account is forever marked as "on hiatus," and when we lost them, we lost the best damn kink-positive writer I've ever met. May their memory be a blessing, and may their writing find its way to everyone who needs it. <3
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lgbtqreads · 8 months ago
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Do you know any books with autism and bdsm/kink or asexuality and bdsm/kink? Sorry if you don’t want this kind of adult content on your blog feel free to ignore me
We talk content for all ages here! And I will also take any opportunity to talk about Xan West, may their memory be a blessing, who wrote exactly this and was such a fantastic advocate for all things. I did cover reveals for two of their books that are perfect fits:
Exclusive Cover + Excerpt Reveal: Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West!
Exclusive Cover + Excerpt Reveal: Eight Kinky Nights by Xan West
They very sadly passed in 2020, but their blog is still around, and can probably lead you to more work of interest: https://xanwest.wordpress.com/about/
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haveyoureadthisqueerbook · 5 months ago
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luvly-dreams · 1 year ago
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The negative images of stoneness impact how we are treated in our communities and our intimate relationships, as well as how we see ourselves. Stone folks and our partners are often treated badly for being stone. People sometimes partner with us hoping to melt our stone or “cure” us of being stone. We often internalize the idea that our stoneness is a problem, needs a cure, means something is deeply wrong with us. We sometimes start thinking of our sexual boundaries as illegitimate or hurtful to others. In my classes on stone sexuality, I concentrate on the idea of stone as a sexual orientation where pleasure/desire is centered on another person’s body and experience.
- Xan West
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girljpg · 1 year ago
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somebody for real is talking about metamours in the class forum this week. of course they do not explain what this is
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queerliblib · 6 months ago
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Any book recs featuring characters with chronic pain and/or hypermobility? Thanks for all your hard work!
absolutely <3
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner (chronic pain)
The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl (fibromyalgia)
Nine of Swords, Reversed by Xan West (arthritis pain)
Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield (chronic pain)
okay and this one is a bit outside the box (it’s also just in our wishlist, we haven’t been able to purchase yet) but Contingent Figure: Chronic pain and queer embodiment by Michael D. Snediker if you want some theory to go with that fiction. Also Hurting Like Hell, Living With Gusto is a memoir by a queer author Victoria Stopp.
& a few more fiction we don’t have (yet):
Even if We Break by Marieke Nijkamp (chronic pain)
Fight + Flight by Jules Machias (okay this one is middle grade HOWEVER it does have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos rep)
Take All of Us by Natalie Leif (chronic migranes)
Anatomical Venus by Courtney Bates-Hardy (chronic pain)
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read-alert · 8 months ago
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Happy Jewish American Heritage Month! Full titles under the cut!
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Just Shy of Ordinary by AJ Sass
Teacher of the Year by MA Wardell
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Ring of Solomon by Adrian Polydoros
Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen
Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West
How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
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duckprintspress · 1 month ago
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9 Queer Reads We Love for the Holidays!
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The holiday season is upon us! No matter what you celebrate at this time (if anything at all), what better way is there to spend those long, cold evenings—or hot, summer afternoons—than curled up with a great book? That’s why we compiled a list of 9 of our favorite queer, holiday-themed books, including works about the Winter Solstice, Christmas, and Hanukkah, and some with just general winter vibes (our reccers didn’t know any Kwanzaa books, sorry!). Grab a cup of tea and enjoy! The contributors to this list are: Nina Waters, polls, Shannon, Rhosyn Goodfellow, E. C., Mikki Madison and an anonymous contributor.
To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh
Serendipity, WA is filled with Christmas cheer, beautiful mountain views, and trans man Will’s feminist Wiccan family. Home for the holidays, he avoids their clumsy attempts at support by hiding in the local coffee shop and flirting with Bea, a friend from high school.
The beautiful landscapes can’t make up for the the realities of being queer in a small town, and Bea wants out. Will grabs for a prosperity spell, and finds a new way to connect to the magic he’s become estranged from. New romance and optimism get them through the holidays, ready to face their next problems.
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Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money.
Finding work at a local coffee shop, she’s just getting through the days—until Andrew, the shop’s landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie’s financial woes and isolation. They make a plan to spend the holidays together at his family cabin to keep up the ruse. But when Andrew introduces his new fiancée to his sister, Ellie is shocked to discover it’s Jack—the mysterious woman she fell for over the course of one magical Christmas Eve the year before. Now, Ellie must choose between the safety of a fake relationship and the risk of something real.
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How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow
It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru.
Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani’s plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her month-long paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously dumped days before winter break.
It could be going better.
But when a dog-walking gig puts her back in May’s path, the fossils she’s meant to be diligently studying are pushed to the side—along with the breakup.
Then they’re snowed in together on Christmas Eve. As things start to feel more serious, though, Shani’s hurt over her ex-girlfriend’s rejection comes rushing back. Is she ready to try a committed relationship again, or is she okay with this just being a passing winter fling?
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Eight Kinky Nights by Xan West
Newly divorced stone butch Jordan moves into her friend Leah’s spare room, ready, at 49, to take on a new job and finally explore kink and polyamory. But moving to NYC during the holidays sends grief crashing through her, and Jordan realizes that when she isn’t solely focused on caring for others, her own feelings are unavoidable. Including her feelings for Leah.
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The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch
Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make- out session with a beautiful man behind a seedy bar one night. But the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to do his duty: he will marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess and his brother’s not-so-secret crush. A situation that has disaster written all over it.
Things go from bad to worse when a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princess’s hand…and Coal comes face-to-face with his mysterious behind-the-bar hottie: Hex, the Prince of Halloween.
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Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
Kiskeya Burgos left the tropical beaches of the Dominican Republic with a lot to prove. As a pastry chef on the come up, when she arrives in Scotland, she has one goal in mind: win the Holiday Baking Challenge. Winning is her opportunity to prove to her family, her former boss, and most importantly herself, she can make it in the culinary world. Kiskeya will stop at nothing to win , that is, if she can keep her eyes on the prize and off her infuriating teammate’s perfect lips.
Sully Morales, home cooking hustler, and self-proclaimed baking brujita lands in Scotland on a quest to find her purpose after spending years as her family’s caregiver. But now, with her home life back on track, it’s time for Sully to get reacquainted with her greatest love, baking. Winning the Holiday Baking Challenge is a no brainer if she can convince her grumpy AF baking partner that they make a great team both in and out of the kitchen before an unexpected betrayal ends their chance to attain culinary competition glory.
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Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. Love — and the inevitable heartbreak — is the last thing she wants. So she fibs and says her latest set up was a success. Darcy doesn’t expect her lie to bite her in the ass.
Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate. But she knows it is most assuredly not Darcy: a no-nonsense stick-in-the-mud, who is way too analytical, punctual, and skeptical for someone like Elle. When Darcy’s brother — and Elle’s new business partner — expresses how happy he is that they hit it off, Elle is baffled. Was Darcy on the same date? Because… awkward.
Darcy begs Elle to play along and she reluctantly agrees to pretend they’re dating. But with a few conditions: Darcy must help Elle navigate her own overbearing family during the holidays, and their arrangement expires on New Year’s Eve. The last thing they expect is to develop real feelings during a faux relationship. But maybe opposites can attract when true love is written in the stars?
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Make the Yuletide Gay by Ivy L. James
Junior editor Grace Taylor is doubling as the temporary assistant to senior editor Nicola Valentine…and harboring a secret crush on her. Grace is devastated when a work conference forces her to miss her big family Christmas. However, she gets a gift she doesn’t expect when a snowstorm strands her and Nicola at a small B&B.
Nicola has no idea how to handle sharing a room with her gorgeous, vibrant assistant. As she learns to share her heart as well, her fear threatens the blossoming relationship. Can she let Grace in, or will Nicola’s past sabotage her chance at happiness?
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other. And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: Have you ever heard of such a thing?
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. 
America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father–despite his hard-won citizenship–Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
What are YOUR favorite queer holiday books? Maybe you know a Kwanzaa one we could check out?
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bookshelvesandtealeaves · 2 months ago
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🩷💛💙 PAN PRIDE DAY 💙💛🩷
QOTD: What’s a book you’ve enjoyed with a pan main character?
Happy Pansexual Pride Day to all my pan pals!
I still feel pansexuality is severely under represented in fiction (and when it’s there it’s often alluded to through wording rather than specifically differentiated from bisexual), but I’ve definitely come across way more (some intentionally and some by pure happy accident) since making my first ever pan post with only 5 books in it, some of the rep in that first post not even being main characters.
So here are some recs and some still on my tbr for you to add to yours if you’re looking for some pan rep to brighten your shelves!
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Fantasy
- Of Knights and Books and Falling in Love by Rita A Rubin
- A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson
- The Sound of Storms by Anya Keeler
- Evergreen by Devin Greenlee
- A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shittleworth
- Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee
Romance
- How to Bang a Billionaire by Alexis Hall
- Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan
- Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
- Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
- Get it Right by Skye Kilaen
- Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West
Other
- Who Could Love You, Astor Price? by Amy Jane Lehan
- The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis
TBR
- We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchison
- We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
- In the Ravenous Dark by AM Strickland
- Summer at the Scottish Castle by Rachel Bowdler
- Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min
- For Never & Always by Helena Greer
- Once & Future by AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy
- Stars Collide by Rachel Lacey
- A Song of Salvation by Alechia Dow
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transbookoftheday · 2 years ago
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♾️🌈 Trans Books To Read For Neurodivergent Pride Day 🌈♾️
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("The Spirit Bares Its Teeth" isn't out yet, but you can preorder it or request an ARC on NetGalley.)
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lgbtqreads · 5 months ago
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I’m interested in if you have any recs for books with kinky characters that aren’t necessarily straightforward erotica — stories where kinky people get to have full lives where kink is just a part of them. I’d love to see characters talking about how kink affects their lives and relationships, how they realized they were kinky, etc. Bonus points if it’s not about BDSM, because I feel like I see that much more commonly represented than other kink communities.
R.O. Kwon's a great place to start - check out her most recent novel, Exhibit, and the anthology she coedited with Garth Greenwell, Kink. Also check out Xan West's Eight Kinky Nights, and Reese Morrison has a whole Romance series on Daddies. And if you're interested in nonfic, check out Tina Horn's Why Are People Into That?
(Also, not queer, but a Romance I always think is great for this is Hold Me Down by Sara Taylor Woods.)
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qbdatabase · 5 months ago
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Hiii, do you know of any books with chronically physically disabled main characters? And books with housebound disabled characters?
For the previous ask, I would prefer if the disabled characters were also bi but it's fine if there aren't any books like that. I'm fine with queer in general too
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I'm not sure what you personally would consider *chronically* disabled (arthritis? amputee? deaf? HIV+?) but the QBDatabase actually has 411 books with disabled Main Characters or Love Interests! To try to narrow it down, I filtered for either chronic pain or chronic illness + bisexual (or pan / queer)
Full Disclosure by Garrett, Camryn: HIV+ black bisexual female
Sick Kids in Love by Moskowitz, Hannah: female MC with arthritis x bisexual male LI with Gaucher disease
Architects of Memory by Osborne, Karen: terminally ill bisexual female MC
Two Rogues Make a Right by Sebasian Cat: chronically ill demisexual male x bisexual male
Sorrowland by Solomon, Rivers: black albino bisexual intersex MC who is partially blind and has chronic pain
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Sebastian, Cat: mga disabled male with chronic pain who uses a cane x gay male
City of Shattered Light by Winn, Claire: chronically ill bisexual female MC
Tripping Arcadia by Mayquist, Kit: chronically ill bisexual male prominent SC
Fight + Flight by Machias, Jules: pansexual female MC with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
The Unbroken by Clark, C. L.: bisexual female MC who uses a cane and has chronic pain in her legs
Cruel Seduction by Robert, Katee: polyamorous bisexual male MC with chronic pain from a knee injury (FFMM bi4bi poly-pairing)
Eight Kinky Nights by West, Xan: FF pairing, pansexual x greysexual, one has arthritis but I don't know which one
The Friendship Study by Barrett, Ruby: bisexual male MC with chronic pain who uses a cane
If there's any other type of disability you're looking for, you can filter by 20 physical disabilities while also filtering for mga (bi, pan, omni, etc) identities!
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battyaboutbooksreviews · 6 months ago
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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in July 2024 🌈
🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats, and happy July! Pride Month may be over, but remember: Read Queer ALL Year. Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!
[ Release dates may have changed. ]
❤️ Earth to Alis - Lex Carlow 🧡 Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts - Adam Sass 💛 The Sky on Fire - Jenn Lyons 💚 The Meaning of Liberty - Sage Donnell 💙 Making It - Laura Kay 💜 The Black Bird of Chernobyl - Ann McMan ❤️ A Map of My Want - Faylita Hicks 🧡 The Devil You Know - Ali Vali 💛 The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power - Various 💙 The Second Son - Adrienne Tooley 💜 Cursed Under London - Gabby Hutchinson Crouch 🌈 Forbidden Girl - Kristen Zimmer
❤️ Rise - Freya Finch 🧡 Undercurrent - Patricia Evans 💛 Online Rebellion - Blue Matt Jeff 💚 Wolf Gift - T.J. Nichols 💙 Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream - Tehlor Kay Mejia 💜 Miller: Origin - Starr Z. Davies ❤️ The Shadows Beyond - T.J. Rose 🧡 The Ones Who Come Back Hungry - Amelinda Bérubé 💛 Their Viscountess - Jess Michaels 💙 Fast Holiday - Kerry Lockhart 💜 The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky - Josh Galarza 🌈 The West Passage - Jared Pechaček
❤️ The Hades Calculus - Maria Ying 🧡 Misrecognition - Madison Newbound 💛 One Last Summer - Kristin Keppler 💚 Waypoint Seven - Xan van Rooyen 💙 Hiding Him - Adam Hattan 💜 Thousand Autumns - Meng Xi Shi, Me.Mimo ❤️ The Adventure Zone, Vol. 6: The Suffering Game - Various 🧡 Rowan & Aldred - Lucie Fleury 💛 Yoke of Stars - R.B. Lemberg 💙 Casting Vows - Ariella Talix 💜 Count Felford's Vessel - S. Rodman
❤️ The Actor and His Secret - Ben Alderson, Laura R. Samotin 🧡 How To Die Famous - Benjamin Dean 💛 So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky 💚 The Amazing Alpha Tau Romeo and Juliet Project - Lisa Henry, Sarah Honey 💙 The Noble’s Merman - S.S. Genesee 💜 The Loudest Silence - Sydney Langford ❤️ Life is Strange - Brittney Morris 🧡 Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle 💛 I Will Never Leave You - Kara A. Kennedy 💙 The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington 💜 Under the Lupine Moon - A. Knightley
❤️ Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf - Deke Moulton 🧡 Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher - Katie Siegel 💛 The Ghostkeeper - Johanna Taylor 💚 Trespass Against Us - Leon Kemp 💙 Exes & Foes - Amanda Woody 💜 The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl - Bart Yates ❤️ Unbound - J.A. Vodvarka 🧡 StreamLine - Lauren Melissa Ellzey 💛 Time and Time Again - Chatham Greenfield 💙 No Road Home - John Fram 💜 Queen B - Juno Dawson 🌈 A Darker Mischief - Derek Milman
❤️ Beautiful & Terrible Things - S.M. Stevens 🧡 Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back Time - Elle Beaumont, Lou Wilham 💛 About Last Night - Laura Henry 💚 You Had Me at Happy Hour - Timothy Janovsky 💙 Moonbane - Jamie Jennings 💜 Between Fate & Failure - Amber D. Lewis ❤️ Blessed by the Cupid Distribution System - Robin Jo Margaret 🧡 Between Dragons and Their Wrath - Devin Madson 💛 Twisted Magic - Barbara J. Webb 💙 Rare Birds - L.B. Hazelthorn 💜 At the End of the River Styx - Michelle Kulwicki 🌈 Origin Story - Jendi Reiter
❤️ Eras of Us - Shannon O'Connor 🧡 Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema - Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner 💛 A Wolf in Stone - Jane Fletcher 💚 Toward Eternity - Anton Hur 💙 Portrait of a Shadow - Meriam Metoui 💜 Anyone's Ghost - August Thompson ❤️ Home Ice Advantage - Ari Baran 🧡 Unbelievable You - Chelsea M. Cameron 💛 Incorrect Eyes - Andromeda Ruins
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hearthown · 10 months ago
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The Middle Names
In this post, I explore why TTH gave the brothers their specific middle names. (Yes, I know it was for the game but there were 4 to choose from and as we know, there's a reason behind everything he does)
[These are my own interpretations!]
Davenport
Davenport was given to Grayson. In the game, the Davenport was a desk. Desks are all about seriousness because we use them to study and work. Everyone knows that seriousness is one of the prominent traits that Gray has and not only that, the Davenport desk has a secret larger compartment. Maybe TTH thought that Gray should have Davenport as his middle name bc he associated it with studiousness, seriousness, and bc he knew that Gray would always have to keep his deepest emotions, thoughts and weaknesses to himself (thus circling back to the secret compartment).
Winchester
Winchester was given to Jameson. In the game, the clue was found on a Winchester rifle. I personally associate rifles (and anything involving gunfire) with risks, adrenaline, spontaneity and thrill (sound familiar?). Jameson is all about taking risks and going out there and being adventurous. Also, TTH was a weapons collector (rifles, guns) and that can be considered as a favourite activity. It was mentioned several times that Jamie was his favourite grandson as he reminded him of Toby. Also, the whole family grew up shooting and something tells me that Jamie was one hell of a shot just like TTH.
Westbrook
Westbrook was Nash's. In the game, his middle name literally means west of a brook. Eventually, brooks flow out into oceans and oceans are vast and open. Nash is a free spirit with his nomadic lifestyle and his "don't care" attitude. I think TTH chose this one for him to represent the fact that you can never hold Nash back if he wants to be free. If Nash wants to go, nothing can stop him, but at the end of the day, he'll always return. (Like how seawater eventually becomes drinking water iygwim)
Blackwood
And finally, Xander's. In the game, his middle name represents The Black Wood which is the forest on the north side of the estate. Forests are filled with trees and where there are trees, there is knowledge. Xander is arguably the most intelligent Hawthorne (what with his ability to just CREATE contraptions, the number of patents he has and just XANDER in general). So as a summary, TTH chose Blackwood for Xander bc he might've heavily related it to knowledge and even growth. As a kid, Xan never really showed interest in the games but maybe TTH knew he would grow to love a good game and to love winning just like his brothers.
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thedisabilitybookarchive · 23 days ago
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Update: December 2024
Added:
"Oligoarthritis" category and tag
"Unspecified Depressive Disorder" category and tag
"Panic Attacks" category and tag
"Panic Disorder" category and tag
"Unidentified Panic Disorder" category and tag
"Double Amputee" category and tag
"Leg Brace User" category
"Vascular Conditions" category and tag
"Thoracic Outlet Syndrome" category and tag
"Allergies" category and tag
"Ovarian Cancer" category and tag
"Ataxia" category and tag
"Pernicious Anemia" category and tag
"Ostomy" category and tag
"Unidentified Seizure Disorder" category and tag
"Trauma" category and tag
"Osteogenesis Imperfecta" category and tag
"WLW" category and tag
"MLM" category and tag
"Transgender Author" tag
"Clean Romance" tag
"Welsh MC" tag
"Chinese-British SC" tag
"Sri-Lankan-Canadian MC" tag
"Clean Romance" to "Themes & Tropes" page
"Brothers Best Friend" to "Themes & Tropes" page
"Only One Bed" to "Themes & Tropes" page
"M/F/M" to "Themes & Tropes" page
"Christmas" to "Themes & Tropes" page
"Dinosaurs" to "Themes & Tropes" page
"Roller Derby" to "Themes & Tropes" page
"Robin Gow" to "Disabled Authors" page
"Mattie Bukowski" to "Disabled Authors" page
"Johanna Hedva" to "Disabled Authors" page
"Lizzie Huxley-Jones" to "Disabled Authors" page
"Natalie Lloyd" to "Disabled Authors" page
"1930s" to "Settings" page
"The Virgin Islands" to "Settings" page
Entries:
'The Undaunted'- Hart, Alan L.
'The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet"- Arlow, Jake Maia
'The Christmasaurus'- Fletcher, Tom. Devries, Shane
'A Not-So Holiday Paradise'- Mitchell, Gracie Ruth
'Make You Mine This Christmas'- Huxley-Jones, Lizzie
'7 Days for Fae'- Eisen, Lior
'Bruised'- Boteju, Tanya
'Dear Mothman'- Gow, Robin
'Hummingbird'- Lloyd, Natalie
Fixed:
Updated:
Categories and tags on 'Connection Error'- Albert, Annabeth
Categories on 'Back in the Saddle'- Kincaid, Beth
Categories and tags on ‘City of Strife’- Arseneault, Claudie
Categories and tags on ‘City of Betrayal’- Arseneault, Claudie
Categories and tags on ‘Icebreaker’- Graziadei, A. L.
Tags on ‘A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability’- Andrews, A
Tags on ‘The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability’- Barker, Clare. Murray, Stuart
Tags on ‘A Game of Thrones’- Martin, George R. R.
Tags on ‘A Spindle Splintered’- Harrow, Alix E.
Tags on ‘Beasts of Prey’- Gray, Ayana
Tags on ‘The Bedlam Stacks’- Pulley, Natasha
Tags on ‘Blood Price’- Huff, Tanya
Tags on ‘Borderline’- Baker, Mishell
Tags on ‘Bound to the Monarchs’- Winters, Brooke
Tags on ‘The Broken Kingdoms’- Jemisin, N. K.
Tags on ‘Carry the Ocean’- Cullinan, Heidi
Title and tags on ‘Growing Up Disabled in Australia’- Findlay, Carly
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