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Queerplatonic book recs, that actually have QPRs, inspired by me seeing someone listing qpr books that were literally just queer people being friends 🤦‍♀️

These all have the main characters in queerplatonic relationships,  explicitly/unambiguously in a lot of cases - though actually I have added a few more that are more vague/word of god. but still more qpr-ish than anything else

The Thread That Binds

solarpunk-fantasy about queer bookbinding witches, 2/3 MCs are an aroace & an ace in a QPR

Baker Thief

superhero fantasy with a bigender aromantic superhero / demisexual woman QPR 

Not Even Bones

YA supernatural trilogy where the main characters initially seem to be developing a romantic relationship, but eventually realise in the final book neither actually feel that way, and settle into more or less a QPR (without labels, but it’s pretty clear). There’s a webtoon adaptation of this, and while it still doesn’t label them in the dialogue it does in the author’s note of the relevant episodes

Two Dark Moons

YA fantasy where an arospec girl & ace lizard kid accidentally get fantasy-married & develop a friendship/qpr

The Wolf Among The Wild Hunt

dark fantasy novella with an aroace wolfman & nonbinary knight qpr

Our Bloody Pearl

NA fantasy with a siren & ace pirate, originally marketed as a romance, but it is pretty much a qpr and that’s what the author intended!

The Reckless Kind

historical YA with an aspec girl becoming a family with her best friend and his boyfriend

Fire Becomes Her

YA, 1920s inspired fantasy world, demiro girl breaks free of her relationship and instead ends up in a QPR with a nonbinary transmasc ace.

If It Makes You Happy

YA contemporary about a girl navigating her queerplatonic relationship with her best friend, and a possible new romantic relationship.

Royal Rescue

high fantasy with an amatonormative royal marriage system, where the aroace MC has had enough, rescues himself, and starts to dismantle the system, finding a QPR on the way

The Heretic’s Guide To Homecoming (duology)

slow introspective high fantasy following two characters on a journey, doesn’t explicitly have them define their relationship in a QPR-like way, but undeniably focuses on complex platonic relationships and narratives & I think it’s satisfying if you’re looking for that

Mindtouch

a sort of cozy/slice of life sci-fi that centres a platonic relationship between two aliens, which is quite reminiscent of a QPR (though not exactly such). apparently there’s like 5 books now, I’ve only read the first so far!

Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty

NA dark fantasy/heist-ish story, Aro bi & allo MCs who become a QPR

Until The Last Petal Falls

fantasy novella, Nigerian beauty & the beast retelling with two aroace MCs who form a QPR

Lays of the Hearth-Fire (Hands of the Emperor, At The Feet of the Sun)

slow character-focused high fantasy duology (so far) about a . in book two their relationship develops into something akin to a QPR - there’s an in-universe name for it. it’s discussed and defined a lot.

Lord of the Empty Isles

scifi/fantasy adventure centering platonic relationships with no romance - the central relationship is marketed as a QPR though to me personally it reads as a platonic relationship with nothing specifically or explicitly QPR about it. but maybe others feel differently

Compound Fracture

YA thriller/horror, the MC has a light subplot of figuring out he’s aromanticism, and in the epilogue it’s mentioned that he might potentially be interested in a QPR with another character he became closer to in the book (so, adjacent)

The Spider and her Demons

YA paranormal. another one that’s not explicit, but the MC is pretty heavily aroacespec coded, and the main relationship develops in a very is-this-platonic-is-it-romantic-sapphic-aspec way. the author is aroace and says they consider it a QPR

D.I.Y

short story, the author labels them as a QPR though it’s not explicitly discussed

By Your Side

short story about a bi girl discussing and entering a QPR with her aromantic friend.

In The Jaws of an Oak

horror/erotica novella - I haven’t seen this called a QPR but I kinda interpret it as such? it’s romantic on one side, but one MC is aromantic and it’s made clear she doesn’t feel romantic feelings, just sex+companionship.

Archivist Wasp / Firebreak

honorable mention because i love them - all of the nicole kornher-stace’s works focus on platonic m/f relationships in a very aspec way, and have absolutely no romance anywhere. one of the central relationships is very much platonic soulmates/ qpr vibes (postapoc ghosty sci-fi/fantasy YA & dystopian anticapitalism)

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one of the most frustrating moods is Desperate Need to Create Something, Anything + persistent lack of motivation/attention/ability/time/inspiration/energy to do so 

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The problem w writing fiction is that you'll be like tee-hee I'm going to write a story about a fucked up little scenario that's got nothing to do with anything in real life, just some pure messed up nonsense, and then you finish it and take a step back and go aw rats I made a metaphor again

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What they don’t tell you about storytelling is that it becomes an instinct over time. You learn how to kind of … intuitively chain events together over time. That doesn’t mean it’s a cakewalk, or that you never get stuck on plotbeats, but you have a better time walking yourself out of corners that you as a less experienced writer would have been tempted to abandon your story over. Because you’ve been stuck in similar corners before; you know how you get out now.

I know its frustrating to keep hitting dead ends, but you got this. You’ll learn a little from every roadblock you hit.

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the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

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autumn is fast approaching and idk about you but i'm already getting into fall mode!!

get into the mood with honeyblood, everybody's favorite queer vampire horror romance!!

love has truly NEVER been so indulgently bloody!!!

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@unwanted-dandelion-seeds

(about this guy)

a kiln god is a small clay sculptural creature that stays on/in/near a kiln while it’s firing, to watch over the pottery inside and protect it

mine are all vaguely humanoid and holding pottery, but they can be anything

a lot of people leave their kiln gods unglazed, and only ever make one or two. because I work with a shared kiln, my kiln gods have to be inside the kiln so they don’t get bumped or broken, so it makes more sense to glaze them and keep making more

(^this one I kept, she lives on my pottery desk)

people have lots of little traditions around kilns and pottery. there are so many variables to successfully finishing a piece of pottery, and many of the steps are out of our control. it’s nice to have a kiln god watching over our work

if you take a pottery class, your teacher might mention the kiln gods. for some potters/studios they’re more of a concept than anything physical

what can I say, humans just love to make little guys

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If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

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how do y'all talk about your wips without spoiling the entire thing

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Not a terribly serious post, but a post nonetheless! My queer horror romance novel is a pretty serious book, but these unhinged AO3 tags were too fun to not use. If you’re looking for slow burn horror mixed with slow burn romance, exorcism and possession horror, or queer and disabled characters, look no further.

PRAY FOR HIM is out now!

Full description below 👇

PRAY FOR HIM - a LGTBQ+ possession horror novel, out now

A psychic priest is thrown headfirst into a battle of faith and love against the forces of Hell when his dearest friend becomes possessed.

Father Isaias Flores may not have much, but he has his faith—and his dear friend Hector to keep him anchored when he is mired in self-doubt. But when Hector’s daughter, Violet, comes to Isaias with concerns that her father is acting strangely, Isaias’s doubts only increase, now with no one to keep him steadfast. For Hector seems to be possessed by something darker than even the traumas of the past, and Violet has nowhere else to turn to save her only family.

This is a problem that may require divine intervention—the rites of exorcism.

Unsure of his place in the church, doubting his gifts from God, and struggling to make sense of his feelings for the man he had thought was only a friend, Isaias isn’t sure if he is strong enough to save anyone’s soul from damnation.

For what can one man do against the torments of Hell?

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How could you NOT fall in love with the glow of the moon and stars, the warmth of the sun, the ancient life within the trees, and the sweet melodies of the winds?