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argentum-in-aqua · 1 month

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Silver in the Ashes (Argentum in Aqua #2): Chapter 57

A candle flame bright enough to swallow the world

In which Mortimer’s suspicions are confirmed, and Fest comes to a realisation all too late

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peaceloverobbie · 5 months

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How has Tumblr not heard of this fantasy "should read" yet?! Anyway. Follow me for more from this author. (Me, duh!)

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creator-of-calm-queer-chaos · 8 months

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Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Book Review

HOLY CRAP!! It deals with such important topics SO WELL I LOVE IT!!!

Okay here you go:

Fast facts:

Title: Ace of Spades Author: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Pronunciation Guide: Fa-ree-dah Ah-bee-keh Ee-yee-mee-deh Genre: YA Thriller Rating: 10/10

Review:

When you mix the mystery/thriller quality of One of Us is Lying but better with the complexity of race from The Weight of Blood but better, you get Ace of Spades. I cannot put into words how much I loved this book. It genuinely held me on the edge of my seat the whole time I was reading it. It deals with genuinely difficult subjects with a skill level I have NEVER seen before. This story is supposed to be dark, and to shove the horrors of systemic racism at you so you cannot ignore them, as so many people do. If you are able, and especially if you are white, I beg you to read this book and to actually think that shit like what happens in the book is real. We see it in slightly more toned down versions more frequently, but this shit happens. It is supposed to be dark. And it is supposed to teach you a lesson about what gets hidden away.

Okay, okay, what's the plot?

Devon and Chiamaka are the only two Black students at Niveus Private Academy, a fancy high school made of white legacy students. Devon is a musician with dreams of getting into Julliard to help his mom and younger brothers get out of their struggling home. Chiamaka is a popular girl who, while her family is well off and stable, doesn't have a legacy to lean back on.

As Devon and Chiamaka enter their senior year, they are made Prefect and Head Prefect, respectively. Chaimaka is not shocked. Devon is. At first, it seems like senior year will work out splendidly.

And then Aces comes into play. An anonymous texter (or texters?) starts sending texts to the entire school with information about Chiamaka, Devon, and a few other students - information that they all thought they had buried deep.

Chiamaka and Devon end up teaming up to uncover a nasty history of racism, secret societies, and discover just how far Aces is willing to go to bring them down.

Told in a dual perspective, this book explores the horrors of systemic racism and what it means to be Black in a world of weaponized white privilege.

DUN DUN DUUUUN!!!!

Seriously though, it is a fantastic book. I read it for a book club and I cannot wait to discuss it.

It deals with some pretty heavy topics, so I will put those, along with how prevelent/how much it is discussed below the cut. Spoilers in the sense of that these topics will be discussed, but no plot details. I would suggest skimming those, or feel free to message me if you just want a yes/no answer about a specific topic.

Again, I want to highlight that this book is dark. It is supposed to be dark. If you read it and think it is a fluffy thriller, you have missed a fundamental part of it. This book is about racism and the depths of white privilege - and weaponizing race.

Check out Àbíké-Íyímídé's website about Ace of Spades here, and where to buy it: https://www.faridahabikeiyimide.com/aos

Potentially triggering topics and how long they are dealt with (spoilers in the sense of these things will come up, no major plot points are revealed. Some small scenes will be spoiled.)

Racism: The entire book (more obviously in the second half) deals with racism. This includes institutions that are explicitly trying to ruin the lives of Black students specifically. This includes benefits of having white legacy parents. This includes what it feels like to have curly hair, and the power that wearing your 'natural' hair can have. This book deals with racism, and it does not hide how terrible it is.

Stalking: Aces stalks Devon and Chiamaka. Like, explicetly stalks them. There are major invasions of privacy that happen. A character is photographed changing - levels of stalking.

Homophobia: There is quite a bit of homophobia throughout the book. A character is non-consensually outed, multiple friendships/relationships are broken because of fear of how people would treat them if they knew they were queer, and a character is beaten up (it's show as a memory) because he is gay (in this scene/memory, he remembers being called slurs)

Bullying: Most of this story is about bullying. I don't know how else to put it. People are assholes in this story.

Toxic friendships: There are many many toxic and fake friendships, including when the main character is the toxic one.

Death/murder: A character killed another character pre-start of the book (we do see this scene in a vivid memory/nightmare, more in this in car accident/death), and that haunts them throughout most of the book. We learn about a group of people who killed at least one person, though we do not know how.

Hate crimes: There is a group of people who commit terrible crimes (including murder, as mentioned above) to people of color. This is a major premise of the book, more explicitly in the second half as the characters figure out what is going on.

Drug dealing: One character dates a drug dealer and works for them at one point. The person they are dating gets arrested later in the story.

Drug use: A character is revealed to have been using drugs, and it is rumored that another character also used drugs. These themes are present for about a page each.

Car accidents/death: A character gets into a car accident with another character that kills someone, and they do not report it. This haunts one of the main characters throughout the story. The accident is described in detail for a few pages, and the character has flashbacks to aspects to this scene multiple times.

Suicidal thoughts/attempts: It is mentioned that a character tried to commit suicide very briefly (the whole conversation lasts less than five lines).

Gun violence: A character is held at gunpoint towards the end of the story. This part lasts about two pages.

Police brutality: It is mentioned that a character is killed by a police officer (we do not know the character who was killed). This part lasts for only a few lines.

Incarceration: A drug dealer above gets incarcerated, and a main character visits them in prison. A main character's father was incarcerated, and we read a memory of the main character visiting their father in prison as well.

Sexual assault: There are two instances where characters were assaulted, one where a character does not remember pictures being taken of them, and another where pictures are found of an unknown character and a character describes the photos as feeling nonconsensual and as if she was being 'used.' Each of these instances are maybe a third of a page long.

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thekricks0krickass · 11 months

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sometimes I get sad then I remember that I opened a bookstagram telling Sophie Gonzales how much I appreciated her book “Perfect on Paper” and she was the FIRST ONE TO LIKE THAT POST AS WELL AS SHARE IT ON HER STORY SO YES LIFE SUCKS BUT GOOD PEOPLE EXIST

#perfect on paper #darcy phillips #bi MC #biphobia #bi erasure #bisexuality #queer #sophie gonzales

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authorkarajorgensen · 1 year

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We finally have a blurb for Flowers and Flourishing!

For those who don’t know, Flowers and Flourishing is a newsletter freebie that I will be releasing in January (hopefully/tentatively if all goes well). It takes place about 20 years before The Reanimator’s Heart and bridges that series with Kinship and Kindness. If you want to get it when it comes out, I hope you will sign up for my newsletter and stick around until it releases early next year.

Without further ado, here is the blurb:

The plan had been simple: arrange a marriage of convenience with her best friend, get him a position at the Paranormal Society, and get the hell out of California, but even the best laid plans go awry. What Louisa Galvan never accounted for was Felipe being transferred to Manhattan or finding a woman like Agatha Pfeiffer.

Agatha hadn’t asked to be a plantmancer. Her dream had always been to become a professional artist, but after hours sweltering in the Paranormal Society’s greenhouses, painting is impossible. In exchange for time off, Agatha is expected to convince Louisa to stay at the Manhattan Branch, but she quickly finds her reasons are wholly selfish.

As their feelings grow, Louisa realizes she has two choices: continue to hide or reach for a life she never knew was possible and convince Agatha to come with her. But Agatha and Louisa aren’t the only ones conspiring. Can Louisa convince Agatha that she deserves the life of her dreams or will their love wither on the vine?

#sapphic romance #flowers and flourishing #paranormal romance #ff romance #cis trans romance #trans woman mc #lesbian mc #bi mc #jaguar shifter #plantmancer #lavender marriage #paranormal society #historical fantasy #kinship and kindness #the reanimator's heart #newsletter freebie

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queerbookmasterlist · 2 years

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(via Review - Never Ever Getting Back Together)

Representation: two sapphic bisexual MCs with different POVs. wlw relationship. Gay SC.

Never Ever Getting Back Together follows two girls, Maya and Skye, who both dated Jordy, a charismatic charmer who is now-famous and everyone loves. They’re invited to participate in “Second Chance Romance” which is a bachelor-esque reality TV show, with all of Jordy’s exes seeing if they can rekindle something.

The twist? Maya isn’t there for Jordy. She’s there for revenge. According to Maya, Jordy cheated on her with Skye and Skye knew about it. According to Jordy, he tried to break up with Maya but she said no and went crazy stalker ex on him. Let the drama ensue.

Holy cow. I have been blessed by the gods to read an early copy of this. I’m not even sure how to put into words how much I loved this book, but I do know that I will be ordering a physical copy as soon as the paperback format comes out. I’ve already been gushing to my friends (and my chiropractor?) about this book.

If you loved the first book of The Selection and you wanted MORE of that dating show drama, this book is for you. This is everything I wanted from that series, but also, make it queer.

Congratulations to this author for making me hate this fictional guy more than I’ve ever hated any other. He is detestable in the most believable way. Truly, this book is the ultimate “the guy sucks lets just get together instead” and I’m so here for it.

And remember, never trust a guy with a J name.

Thank you NetGalley for a free e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

#never ever getting back together #wlw romance #queer books #bi mc #sapphic mc #sapphic li #bisexual li #bi li #bisexual mc #contemporary romance #young adult

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bookspotlight · 1 year

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The Outlands Pentalogy

A thousand years in the future, the last of humanity live inside the walls of the totalitarian Kingdom of Cutta. The rich live in Anais, the capital city of Cutta, sheltered from the famine and disease which ravage the rest of the Kingdom. Yet riches and power only go so far, and even Anaitians can be executed. It is only by the will of the King that Nate Anteros, son of the King’s favourite, is spared from the gallows after openly dissenting. But when he’s released from prison, Nate disappears. A stark contrast, Catherine Taenia has spent her entire life comfortable and content. The daughter of the King’s Hangman and in love with Thom, Nate’s younger brother, her life has always been easy, ordered and comfortable. That is, where it doesn’t concern Nate. His actions sullied not only his future, but theirs. And unlike Thom, Catherine has never forgiven him. Two years pass without a word, and then one night Nate returns. But things with Nate are never simple, and when one wrong move turns their lives upside down, the only thing left to do is run where the King’s guards cannot find them – the Outlands. Those wild, untamed lands which stretch around the great walls of the Kingdom, filled with mutants and rabids. Here.

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alesuggestprompts · 2 years

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Almost 30 years old, a man lives a solitary life in a big city, too busy working and too shy to forge bonds. He feels inadequate and he's surrendered to failed relationship- whatever romantic, of friendship or familiar.

In the last 6 months he started to have vivid dreams: sometimes they were about trying to escape from somewhere he didn't recognize - it was more a feeling than a place. Other times he dreamed of places or people that didn't exist in real life. There were recurrent symbols and flash of lights in his dreams, and sometimes they appeared in his thoughts too.

The most strange were the erotic dreams: they started as vague and as time passed they became more vivid, and he recognized they were only about two people. Sometimes he dreamed of a woman with deep and bright eyes - they seemed like purple - and a sweet laugh he started to hear everywhere. Sometimes there was a man with a wide smile and that always spoke tender words, but there was something strange about him, as if his skin was electric.

Strange colors and strange feelings, but the most strange was the dreams: he kissed them and touched them, had sex with them but even walks, trips in unrecognizable lands, and plenty of smiles, talks and laughs. Sometimes he dreamed of them separately, other times together.

Those people became an obsession, he craved them like they were a missing piece of himself. He thought it was the aftermath of loneliness.

One day, he meets the man and the woman of his dreams right outside his office. He starts to cry uncontrollably and the two of them seem relived.

"You can feel if" says the woman " They didn't removed all of it"

" What? " he asks in tears

" Your memory" replies the man "you could feel that it was all fake, right? That the last 10 years of the life that you remember are made up"

" You left us only 6 months ago. What you're living is only the hypothetical life you could have lead if you didn't discover your magic at 19. They erased your memory because they wanted to erase your power. But they didn't erased all. You still remember us" the woman almost cries.

" Do you want to go back to your old life? "the man smiles.

#writing #writing prompt #story prompt #my prompts #memory loss #fantasy #queer love #magic #polyamourous #discover prompts #hidden power #bi man #bi mc

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juliangreystoke · 11 months

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Hey Julian, are your books gaaaaaay? Why yes, yes they are! Looking for some pride reads from indie authors? Look no further!

#The Wolf and The Hawk #fantasy romance #Bi lead character #Bi MC #queer book #indie book #indie author #writers of tumblr #booktube #queer book recs #pride #pride 2023

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ca-3 · 9 months

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I bet Joker's diary is just about him realizing he's Bisexual 🫢🩷💜💙 or maybe athletes are just hot...

this all started because of some tweets I made lol

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #ryuji sakamoto #sakamoto ryuji #kasumi yoshizawa #sumire yoshizawa #how the hell do you tag her--#persona 5 protagonist #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #mc is no better tbh #anyways same joke boy same #p5 is a Bisexual hell but you cant be bi and its annoying sobs #ca3 art #Bisexual #pegoryu #shusumi #btw conclusion athletes are hot 🔥

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1-siracha · 6 months

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solomon: i’m gay

thirteen: ew.

thirteen: only liking one gender? in 2023? basic bitch. get with the times and be bisexual.

mc: im lesbian

thirteen: oh my gosh pookie bear!! i’m so proud of you! keep slaying!! <3

#we love thirteen and mc #bi thirteen propaganda #obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me nightbringer #obey me shitpost #obey me crack #obey me incorrect quotes #obey me thirteen #om! thirteen #obey me solomon #om! solomon

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argentum-in-aqua · 11 days

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Silver in the Ashes (Argentum in Aqua #2): Chapter 59

Upstairs, downstairs

In which Mortimer has entirely too many things to deal with

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peaceloverobbie · 5 months

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The Book:

The author:

Follow for more looks and for updates on the upcoming Zodiac Coven Series!

Here is a link to a major journalist listing MY SELF PUBLISHED BOOK with some of YOUR FAVORITE FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME!!! 📚

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dreamayy · 11 months

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I'm hear to say one thing and one thing only

Can someone out there please make a headcanon or oneshot about the NRC reaction of Eliza, the ghost bride, in instead of taking Idia she taked Yuu instead...

But the twist is Yuu is a girl, so Eliza is like 'all this boys don't fit my standards so you know what let's finds some girlies instead' and the first one she saw is Girl!Yuu

Like please someone do a headcanon or oneshot about thisss!!!!

And tag me so I can read them I'll really appreciate someone making one...

#twst #twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #twst mc #Girl yuu #This is just me wanting a bi Eliza feeling attracted to girls #please someone do this #Bi Eliza I want it #twisted wonderland x reader #twst x reader

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devildom-moss · 6 months

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How's your head?

MC: Hey, Levi, how's your head?

Asmodeus: Hun, you can't get a review for a business that isn't in operation. My head, on the other hand, gets five-stars. Why do you ask? Want head? My lip gloss is smudge-proof~

MC: . . .

Leviathan: . . .

MC: A bookshelf fell on Levi this morning and hit him on the head.

Asmodeus: That's all the more reason to ask me for head instead of Levi. What if he has a concussion, poor thing!

MC: . . .I WAS ASKING IF HE WAS FEELING OKAY!

Leviathan: Lol. It's so unlikely that someone would care about a yucky otaku that he just assumed you'd rather have sex with me.

Asmodeus: To be fair, I also thought that was unlikely, but I don't know. I thought maybe the snake tongue did something for MC.

MC: . . .no comment.

#first the bi flag brothers and now the lesbian flag colors chat. woo. Although the top stripe looks red. So maybe I need to include Beel?#leviathan #asmodeus #gn!mc #obey me chat text #obey me #obey me leviathan #obey me asmodeus

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ryuubff · 1 year

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Doodle page of android!solomon from the new future au ft. him in simeon’s UR+ outfit cuz he’s sexy in it

#obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me solomon #obey me mc #om!#obey me fanart #solperi #i draw skrunkly #obey me simeon #obey me luke #i gave his outfit bisexual colors . Its the bi in me #hes so sexy inwant him so bad #i also have a little s9mething brewing for android solomon soon #DONT THINK I DIDNT KNOW #THE ANGST POTENTIAL IN THAT IS CRAZY #HES SO BABYGIRL #My babygirl solomon #me giving him a. million kisses. mwah

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