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Cant wait for season 3

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, and others) by Tamsyn Muir

Endorsement from submitter #1: "An extremely fun, humorous romp! A heart-breaking, soul crushing catharsis inducing tragedy! A thoughtful piece on imperial structures and trauma. On queerness, Muir flawlessly and without announcement, cracks gender open like an egg and spills its disproven guts across the page. The Locked Tomb does it all also bones, bitch."

Endorsement from submitter #2: "Lesbian necromancers in space. So many fascinating, sort of fucked up sapphic relationships going on."

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier.

Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. Of course, some things are better left dead.

Fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, humor, series, adult

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala (Time to Orbit: Unknown series)

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.

Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

Science fiction, mystery, series, adult

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my least favourite turn based strategy game is email

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My friends dog whitey got a kiss on his little apple head and now it won’t come off

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In fact, as soon as Dryden’s note had arrived requesting a meeting, several investors had been invited to a presentation on Zemeni oil futures that had nothing to do with the fictional Johannus Rietveld. Of course, Van Eck and Dryden didn’t know that. The important thing was they believed they might lose their opportunity to invest. Nina was almost sorry she wouldn’t get a chance to hear Jesper hold forth on the resources market for an hour. 

   ‘Radmakker,’ said Van Eck. ‘You were there. You met with Rietveld.’    Radmakker’s nostrils flared.   ‘I know nothing of this Mister Rietveld.’ ‘But I saw you. We both saw you at the Geldrunner-’  ‘I was there for a presentation on Zemeni oil futures. It was most peculiar, but what of it?’

hello yes I am still obsessed with imagining Jesper giving this presentation in Crooked Kingdom, had to draw it. 

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"I hate that after ACOSF, people suddenly hate Rhys!"

Good! Not 'sudden' enough. I wish it had happened sooner, but better late than never.

"People are so hateful just because Cassian didn’t say 'I love you'! He was thoughtful about a lot of things!"

Yeah and broken clocks are right twice a day—doesn’t mean you have to tolerate their uselessness.

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Athena to Penelope when Odysseus and her reunite:

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Cassian and Azriel looked to Rhys, who merely sipped from his own wine. Amren’s order held. As Rhys’s Second in this court, short of Rhys overruling her, her word was law.

ACOSF, Ch. 29

Note how Feyre is left out here. Amren is RHYS' second and short of RHYS overruling her, her word is law. Feyre isnt even worthy of a mention here? Surely as High Lady she can overrule Amren, right?

I'm sure she can, and I'm sure that Cassian and Azriel only look to Rhys in this moment because Feyre went to bed early and isn't present. But her absence is telling. Feyre is our original protagonist. She's the one we rooted for through the original ACOTAR trilogy, and she's not even included in this Inner Circle scene. Not a single Archeron sister is present during the debate of "Which Archeron sister can we put into danger to search for the Trove, those powerful objects that bear an innate darkness? Elain or Nesta? Nesta or Elain? Who tf cares about Elain, anyway. Make Nesta do it." No Archeron to advocate for themselves. Instead, you have a gaggle of ancient geezers trying to decide which 20-something should look for a brew pot's evil accessories.

And, btw, we know the Night Court has codified laws because Cassian during The Intervention in Chapter 2 thinks to himself, "Amren had combed through their laws for this?" The sentences above seem to suggest that codified law exists for the plebs, the hoi polloi, the masses, and not for the rulers who can make or break laws as they see fit. (Oh, and before we forget, Amren lied. Chapter 2 again: "I didn't even know we had laws like that about court membership."/"We don't.") Who wants to take bets that the Night Court had a magna carta that was about as ineffectual as the real one passed in 1215? Anyone? Anyone?

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You can only REBLOG THIS TODAY

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🐼: remember we were sitting in the kitchen with george and we were sharing the grapes and he was trying to give us the shitty pruney grapes? what a bastard bro. absolute bastard.

🟩: he stole your plate. he put his gross grapes on your plate.

🐼: i had a little napkin that was my plate for my grapes and then he just put his disgusting— you know like the pruney grapes? they’re basically fucking raisins. i was like why are you putting that on my plate? and he’s like “how’s it a plate? 🤓 it’s a napkin 🤓 it’s for trash 🤓”

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I'm forever angry that Nesta is treated poorly by the Inner Circle and I don’t want to hear excuses like “NeStA wAs s0 sELf DeSTruCtIVe aNd THey WeRe hELpINg hEr.”

Her sister locked her up "for Nesta's own good," even though that same sister knows full well—after spending so much time complaining herself—what it's like to be in the same situation.

Amren, who claimed to be Nesta's friend, preaches to everyone about "keep reaching out your hand," yet abandoned Nesta the moment Nesta acted as rude as Amren always does to everyone else.

Cassian acted like a predator, badgering her until she was too tired to maintain her boundaries.

Mor thought it was a good idea for Nesta to go to CoN and live there, putting her in the same environment Mor herself knows is cruel and dangerous to women.

Rhysand was consistently cruel to Nesta, so threatened by her that he repeatedly endangered her safety, threatened her life, and insisted she work under his supervision.

Azriel was complicit in many of these scenarios.

The only reason Nesta actually got better was because of her friendship with Gwyn and Emerie. It was them. And I don’t want to hear, “WitHOuT rHYs, NeStA wOUldN’t hAvE mEt GwYn AnD eMErIe” because without Rhysand and Feyre’s stupidity and narcissism (they think they’re the only ones who can prevent the war somehow *gag*), Nesta wouldn’t be traumatized by that damn cauldron in the first place and wouldn’t have been in that war. As if she didn’t already have enough unresolved trauma from her childhood.

SJM is just ignorant and hypocritical, too blind to see how toxic the IC is. If by the end of this, Nesta killed Rhys and wiped the IC off the planet, people would hate Nesta so much—but I would applaud Nesta and SJM, because for once, SJM would have done something right for acotar.

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Female Power Romantasy novels can be indulgent as they like with giving the MC all the powers and hottest love interests and overcomplicated backstories, and I will cheer that on. Yes, there is a place for this! I see your vision, girl!

But the moment it starts talking about blood purity, her divine right to rule, and how ubermensch her babies will be with the man with the equally super special bloodline? You're doing girlboss eugenics at that point.

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seems like most of us is wrong drawing mumbo’s eyes dark brown/black, because he headcanons himself BLUE eyes

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