#‘but theyre just fictional characters’

[sonknuxadow]

you know i never said you couldnt make your favorite characters be all lovey dovey or whatever i specifically made this post thinking of characters that dont really feel like they fit that sort of thing but commonly have it applied to them anyway. but i keep getting tags on this that are like "yes he would" "i can do whatever i want actually" etc so im here to announce that it's now illegal for fictional characters to be in love or get married or have children . if you try to write your favorite characters in domestic scenarios a meteor will be automatically summoned to hit your exact location. sorry i dont make the rules.

[mini-minish]

regarding that recent discourse on tw*ter of if andrew would like aaron's kids or not: im not listening to any of you. neil josten literally sent me these pictures himself 🧡

[eijminds]

i finished reading jjk yesterday IM SO SAD i feel so fucking empty

[blackkatdraws2]

[⚠️The Amazing Digital Circus SPOILERS] This episode was interesting!

[northern-passage]

my time to shine. tho i tend to read more horror/gothic romances that aren't really cozy like the others you listed, i'll try to give you ones that more fit your vibe. but if you liked dowry of blood i think you'll like these other vampire ones:

An Education in Malice - same author as Dowry, Carmilla retelling

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson - a new take on the Elizabeth of Bathory legend. this is a horror romance

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez - a black lesbian feminist classic that follows our mc across centuries. probably the most lighthearted take on vampires but still deals with some heavy subject matter

Night's Edge duology by Liz Kerin - mainly about the mc and her relationship with her mother but there is a sapphic romance subplot

A Long Time Dead by Samara Berger - i haven't read this one or really know much about it but i know it's a lesbian romance

more (no vampires):

The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordan - dark fantasy with a sapphic romance-ish subplot

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling - a horror book with another sapphic romance-ish subplot.

(these first two aren't "happy" romances and aren't meant to be read as such and theyre not the main focus of the story; but i like them because they're exactly like you said, they just happen to be lesbians and it's not a huge deal)

everything Sarah Waters has ever written - she writes a variety of historical fiction and i think all of her books have lesbian romance or lesbian "themes" lol. not sure if it fits your vibe but she's a powerhouse in the genre (the handmaiden movie was based on her novel the fingersmith)

The Fall That Saved Us & A Wolf Steps in Blood by Tamara Jeree - Jeree writes really lovely sapphic romances i can't recommend them enough. the first one is an angel/demon romance and the second one is wolf shifter/blood witch romance.

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - a mermaid horror book with a large diverse cast and a lesbian romance subplot with the main lead

The Fireborne Blade and The Bloodless Princes by Charlotte Bond - fantasy novellas with a slowburn sapphic romance. i've only read the first one so far so i cant really say how the romance progresses because it's very subtle in the first book 🤔

The Jasmine Throne series by Tasha Suri - on my TBR 😩

The Space Between Worlds series by Micaiah Johnson - also on my TBR..

hopefully there's something here that catches your eye! like i said i tend to read darker stories and i don't read contemporary romance at all 😅 but i'm always hunting for lesbian stories and characters in the books i read. also i always recommend checking tws on these too, some of them do explore heavier themes along with the romances.

otherwise here's a big rec list with a bit more variety from The Lesbrary!

Recommendations needed

Okay, I'm coming to you guys for this now because I am going out of my mind. I cannot, for the life of me, find good novels with a f/f romantic lead plot. Do they not exist? I've been reading what I can find but I am not enjoying them. It's to the point where I'm wondering if there is something wrong with me. So, I'm coming to all of you. I do not want YA. I get a little icked reading novels about girls my daughter's age. I prefer fantasy but will branch out into other genera's. I'm looking for something that is not a coming of age or a discovering the characters are gay. I just want two leads that are living their life and also happen to be lesbians. I cannot seem to find a story of women falling in love without it being politicized or demonized by either them or other characters in the book.

I've read The Priory of the Orange Tree (romance was decent but I felt most of the story dragged)

I've read You Can't Spell Tea Without Treason (the romance felt one dimensional)

I've read The Stars Too Fondly (the characters were all way too immature for being individuals with their doctorates)

Even Though I Knew The End (It felt like it was written as a hetero relationship that they just switched the pronouns to female in the editing phase)

Legends and Latte's and Bookshops and Bonedust ( I loved this one. Peek cozy fiction. Believable romance)

Noteworthy read is a Dowry of Blood but that was more poly than lesbian and there was a male involved.

[bloominglegumes]

i love normal guys doomed by the narrative

[sourmiiiilk]

If Seung-min had Snapchat

[eyefocusing]

they mean everything to me fyi

[mini-starfruit]

Yeah! There are some. Moments but overall i thought it was quite good. I like isadora and green eyes and evan. Blake is a such a silly billy (derogatory) so having him as the main character is a bit of a trip. Big fan of:

Blake: fuckkk why does everyone hate me so much, why dont they trust me and listen to me

Also blake, while in control of more things than your average pact character: everyone, including my closest allies, hates me and wants me to die

SPOILERS I GUESS DOWN THERE

also like. Not to kvetch about the validity of a fictional character's trauma but really??? Thats how you got your uncontrollable, even violent aversion to touch? I just feel like we spent the whole story building up to this reveal and it turns out to be like. Really low-key and kinda waahed out. Wildbow likes it when characters in the story have the ability to fuck but doesnt like delving into thw implications of characters that have an actual sex life. Like come on. At least the branches and birds are a really sweet motif

I think the systems in pact are neat but because theyre so much more formalised and rule-based than e.g. worm, lots of solutions to problems manifest as wildbow making something up. Moreover, wildbow has always been much better at Coordinating a fight scene than he has at political intrigue, ane unfortunately pact is way more intrigue than fight scene. Ive gotta say that the most compelling parts of pact were the hyena hunt and the drains and the ending arcs didnt maintain the hype

I pretty much immediately picked up pale after finishing pact—pale seems wayyy more laid back and that slow pacing tends to bring wildbow's less exciting authorial habits to light. At least one of the main characters is gay and things on that front have been mostly normal.

wildbow should make an all protagonists crossover episode that either takes place at a beach or with all the protagonists being sent on a polar expedition together

[comfort-character-central]

The selfshipper feeling when you've had a long or hard day so you just:

*sigh* it's time.

*opens wattpad/tumblr/ao3/pinterest/youtube/etc*

[scalpelsister]

Misc. Neve 🩵

[potatobugz]

i was hacked by a very unhappy man!

[mothfinite]

new selfship art idea: draw your s/is and f/os as those fucked up spongebob memes

like these:

pr0ship/c0mship dni

[autisticlancemcclain]

Could you explain your position on Shallura? Since Allura was established as a teenager when she started dating Lance and Shiro was very clearly an adult. I can understand the bi shiro headcannon but the shallura thing worries me

i am going to remind yall that i have been in this fandom since 2016. and in the early seasons, allura was not established as a teenager. in fact she was coded as older, as closer to shiro's age -- there was a specific divide between her and the younger paladins that she did not have with shiro. they made her younger (both explicitly and in mannerisms) as the show went on. and i do not give a fuck about voltron like...post s4 and i didn't even watch s7-8. so like. especially with older fics, im going to enjoy shallura.

[ghostofsnails]

so did you guys know theres this character called tristan vik disventure camp and

[brutally-loving]

Me: yay the picture that my darling friend made for me is getting likes and reblogs!!

Also me: what do you mean your beloved. No.