#ac: books

[apollo-cackling]

[transcript: "this is indeed a love story, down to the blade-dented bone." /end transcript]

ever just see a quote that just by itself makes you get the book

#my rambles #the spear cuts through water by simon jimenez btw #ac: books #but really that book's premise alone slaps hard

[pikatik]

Also quick Ace Day doodle for you!! :D

#from an ace to all of you aces :D #good omens #good omens fanart #book omens #crowley #aziraphale #asexual #ace day

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too #also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it #i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff #but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions #and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones) #i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people) #i would be more inclined to still ID as ace #but anyways! #aro #aromantic #<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote #also #described in alt text #also also #j tag #:/ #aro media

[ufofrommarss]

PRIDE MONTH YIPPEE

#pride #Ace #gay #lgbtq #book omens #good omens #book!omens #book!crowley #book!aziraphale #good omens fanart #gomens #genderfluid #agender #Crowley #Aziraphale #ineffable husbands #consenting bicycle repairmen #air conditioning #mars art

[moonlightequin1]

✨💫 TWST JP "ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL" FULL 3D PERFORMANCE 💫✨

I needed to share this video because it was region locked for this year's April Fools, but we finally got the full performance of the VDC tribe in TWST FES last year....😭🫶

WE WON EVERYONE 🎉🎊

LOOK AT THEM!!! 😭🎉🎉

#twisted wonderland #TWST #twisted wonderland april fools #vil schoenheit #rook hunt #epel felmier #kalim al asim #jamil viper #ace trappola #deuce spade #twst jp content #BOOK 5 SPOILERS #Pomefiore Arc #just ray ~ ramblings #just ray ~ posts

[torpublishinggroup]

Celebrate Pride with Tor Publishing Group!

Rakesfall by @adamantine

They met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. Later, in a demon-haunted wood, an act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey through the ages. As they reincarnate ever deeper into the future, a truth emerges: Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell.

Running Close to the Wind by @ariaste

In this queer pirate fantasy, Avra Helvaçi has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world. To avoid capture, he flees to the open sea, where only his on-again, off-again ex aka pirate Captain Teveri az-Ḥaffār can help him survive, profit, and become a legend.

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body and wears your skin. Welcome to Camp Resolution, a queer conversion center where everyone leaves a different person. In 1995, seven queer teens were abandoned here by their parents, but survived. Sixteen years later, they’re scarred and broken, but back to face an evil that threatens the world. 

Kinning by Nisi Shawl

In this alternate history where barkcloth airships soar and former colonies claim freedom from imperialist tyrants, the identity of the island of Everfair still wavers. Victorious in the wake of the Great War, a new threat looms. Can Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope for anticolonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces within and without? 

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by @rebeccathornewrites

Can one of the Queen’s private guard and the most powerful mage in existence leave their lives behind to settle down in their new bookshop that serves tea? This cozy fantasy is steeped in sapphic romance and nestled on the edge of dragon country. 

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. After a desperate attempt to prevent corruption and ruin in the four Londons, there are only three. Now the worlds are going to collide anew—brought to a dangerous precipice by the discoveries of three remarkable magicians.

Now available in paperback!

The Archive Undying by @emcandon

This is a story about misplaced faith, complicated love, so much self-loathing, and yeah—giant robots. Plugged into his AI god when its apocalyptic corruption renders him unfortunately immortal, sad gay disaster Sunai takes a die-again-or-die-trying approach to things. Unending life’s tough when intimacy is somehow scarier even than either of the warring police states set on turning you into a weapon or the rogue undead mecha-fragment of your old god that wants to eat you. 

Now available in paperback!

The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen

A dazzling historical mystery that dives into the shadowy, closeted world of the Navy, emerging in the gay bars of the city. It’s a whirlpool of missing people, violent strangers, and scandalous photos in 1952 San Francisco. 

Now available in paperback!

Celebrate Pride with more titles from Tor Publishing Group here!

#the archive undying #emma mieko candon #the bell in the fog #lev ac rosen #can't spell treason without tea #rebecca thorne #the fragile threads of power #v e schwab #cuckoo #gretchen felker-martin #kinning #nisi shawl #running close to the wind #alexandra rowland #rakesfall #vajra chandrasekera #tor books #tor publishing group #bramble romance #nightfire books #forge books #bramble #tordotcom publishing #tdcp #lgbtqia+ #gay reads #tbr #new books

[noahhawthorneauthor]

Happy International Asexuality Day!

Here are some books with ace and/or demisexual characters. A majority of them are the main, but in the case of some they are the love interest.

#noahs book recs #queer books #indie books #ace books #international asexuality day #asexual #demisexual #books to read

[ryllen]

RENEGADES - one ok rock

#this is totally his riot song #twst #twisted wonderland #ace trappola #fanart #book 1

[alistairlowes]

i'm sorry but this shit annoys me to no end. like this is about heartstopper and you all need to stop acting like that show invented everything.

fucking anyways

1. Koisenu Futari

Show that’s specifically made to be about aromanticism and asexuality as well as how aroace people are perceived by society. They are main characters. That’s the main plot.

2. Heartbreak High

Want a teen show with ace rep? No problem. One of the main characters is ace! Would you look at that! The representation already exists! It's got a ton of other rep too and it's on Netflix but somehow we never got that ace rep yet right? You don't even need subtitles for this one.

3. SkamFr (s12)

Is it a bit too much at times? Ye sure but you know what it also is? Another teen show where the main character is asexual that deals with asexuality as the main theme. And no you don't need to watch all those seasons before to get it.

4. Bojack Horseman

I didn't even watch this one but I'm aware.

5. Cherry Magic

Oh would you look at that a show with main mlm couple where one of the side characters is aroace? I mean surely it hasn't been done before.

6. Run On

You want some casual side character ace rep? Well here you go even kdramas have done it but I guess there just aren't any shows...

Honorary mention to Sex Ed for that one scene.

#asexuality #aroace show recs #aroace shows #i know there is more but these are ones me or my friend watched and we think they are good #alice o*eman would get a stroke over cherry magic because it's ~fEtIsHiSt BL so it couldn't possibly do what she does :// #and yeah i say that as someone who's fav book is radio silence #anyway if you actually cared about ace rep you would look beyond what is served to you by one streaming service goodbye #koisenu futari #heartbreak high #skam france #cherry magic #run on #bojack horseman

[viveela]

It must be weird to live so long that an integral part of himself is now accepted, he'll need more time to get there too

#veearts #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel redesign #alastor redesign #alastor #radio demon #redesign #charlie morningstar #charlie redesign #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel comic #aromantic #aroace #asexual #see peep the way the book he's got has ace colors... #his mouth ourple too...his clothes kinda green...my design for him is a lil coded lol #this is for aro week btw yeah. this is semi projecty too but not reeeally #anyway this was self indulgent I just needed to get this out my system #aroace character rep so important to me raaah

[perplexingly]

Books

#my art #ace attorney #I just wanted to draw this very specific set of books

[apollo-cackling]

I think the reason why I find it hard to process my opinion of Leviathan Wakes is that I just don't know the scope of what's possible.

#my rambles #also that most scifi I've read so far is hard(er) scifi - murderbot and the darkness outside us #so the protomolecule stuff kinda threw me lol #ac: books #ac: the expanse

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Aziraphale: You remember Jane Austen?

Crowley: Yeah. I'm not gonna forget her in a hurry, am I? The brains behind the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery. Brandy smuggler. Master spy. What a piece of work.

Aziraphale: She wrote books.Novels.

Crowley: Jane? Austen?

Aziraphale: Yes!

Crowley: Whoa, bit of a dark horse. Novels, eh?

Aziraphale: Yes. They were very good.

Crowley: Well. No, I'm just surprised, that's all. You think you know someone.

later in Aziraphale's bookshop Crowley sees Jane Austen's books on a shelf and picks the Pride and Prejudice:

Crowley: Jane Austen. Wrote books too. You people, I will never get the hang of you lot.

Bonus:

#good omens #goodomensedit #david tennant #michael sheen #crowley #aziraphale #2ep2 #2i2i6 #2i2i7 #jane austen #1810 clerkenwell diamond robbery #ac #dirty donkey #aziraphale's bookshop #aziraphale's shelves #aziraphale's books

[poppletonink]

Asexual Books

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Sounds Fake But Okay by Sarah Costello and Kayla Kaszyca

Is Love The Answer? by Uta Isaki

City Of Strife by Claudie Arseneault

This Doesn't Mean Anything by Sarah Whaler

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning Of Sex by Angela Chen

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Vanilla by Billy Merrell

Paper Planes by Jennie Wood

Being Ace: An Anthology Of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Various Authors

Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Rick by Alex Gino

Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt

Love, Ace & Monsters: An Ace Anthology by Various Authors

Summer Of Salt by Katrina Leno

#books #book blog #booklr #readblr #book reccs #book recommendations #bookaddict #bookblr #bookworm #books and reading #asexual #ace #aromantic #aroace #loveless #lgbt #lgbt fiction #asexual fiction #ace books #ace representation #book rec list

[fourteentheart]

Every time I see that particular photo floating around I'm reminded "Oh yeah, I want to draw Gaius and the Werlyt kids like that" and forget. Until today!

I've been wanting to draw this one since last summer. 😭

#ffxiv #gaius baelsar #sorrow of werlyt #allie baelsar #alfonse baelsar #ricon baelsar #rex baelsar #milisandia baelsar #all the baelsars that's their official last name in the books ok #ace scribbles #idm if you hate gaius and/or sow but be nice if you write anything in the tags lmao i do see it!

[mobydyke]

[sexting] no live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

#this exact post exists for anatomy btw but other incredible paragraphs about haunted houses deserve their own imo #the haunting of hill house #i should have snagged someone to read this book w me bc currently i'm just going insane on my own #when the mimetic crisis hits the haunted house book..... ooh boy #hill house #ace txt