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charliejaneanders · 2 days

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Rejoice! April is a *banner month* for science fiction and fantasy. I loved all four of these books about winged cyborgs, shapeshifting monsters, and people fighting for liberation in space. My latest SFF book review column is up at the @washingtonpost 👀📚🚀

Gift link: https://wapo.st/4aMrKk1

#books #book reviews #writing #book tumblr #book wyrm #book worm #bookworm #reading #book review #booklr

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scifrey · 3 months

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NINE-TENTHS

Twenty-four is one year too young for a quarter-life crisis, but hey, Colin's always been an overachiever. He's got a degree in Sustainable Tourism, which his family says he's wasting as a barista, an annoying anxiety disorder, and no freaking idea what to do with his life.

The only thing going his way is the cute coffee shop regular, a homo draconis named Dav (who, in his humanshape, is a total hottie.) Still, it'd be easier if Dav didn't have a habit of accidentally setting things on fire when he's startled. Like the café kitchen.

When Dav breaks draconic taboo and volunteers as a replacement bean-roaster to apologize for the inferno meet-ugly, sparks really fly. Everything's finally happening for Colin, until he learns that hooking up with Dav means that under dragon law, Colin is absorbed into Dav's hoard.

Possession may be nine-tenths of the law, but becoming his boyfriend's property does not make this whole identity crisis thing easier. Especially now that Colin must navigate politics, paparazzi, and legal questions about his personhood. Colin's still angling for his Happily Ever After, but the growing scrutiny on his relationship with Dav threatens their budding romance.

And if he's not careful, Colin's fight for agency may just destroy symbiotic human/dragon relationships worldwide.

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A sassy, queer, alternate universe romance from Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2011 author J.M. Frey. Wrapped in discussions of autonomy and colonialism, Nine-Tenths meets in the middle between Red, White & Royal Blue and the Temeraire series.

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Part One

There's this thing in stories called the "inciting incident".

And mine? It's a goddamn doozy.

It’s the part of the book, right at the start, where the lovers have their meet-cute, the farm boy leaves for the wider world, the Chosen One is attacked by her first evil monster, blah, blah, blah. You know what I mean. It's the place where everything opens up and you have no idea what you're in for—only that it'll be exciting.

I know all about Inciting Incidents because I was going to be a writer.

No, I thought I was going to be a writer. Historical romance, that’s my jam. Dukes, rakes, windblown-gowns, dropped handkerchiefs, cliffside confessions—I am a slut for that stuff. Forget real history (totally flunked ‘We’re-Feeding-You-Colonialist-Narratives-Disguised-As-Education’ 101). Give me made-up kingdoms and far-flung pirates. Give me the fantasy of a happily ever after that lasts beyond ‘the end’. Give coffee and stories, and I am a content boy.

But right before he got sick, in the summer between my first and second year of university, my Dad and I had a serious talk about writing. How much work it is. How long it takes to start paying off. Backup plans.

And then… after, I thought, well, he wasn’t wrong. If life was going to be pointlessly, stupidly, cruelly short, then I should spend my time trying to do something good, right? I switched majors. Science makes sense. Science is logical. Science creates vaccines and saves lives. Science can bring species back from the brink of extinction. Science doesn’t break your heart.

All of this is to say that I can—with complete and utter certainty—point to the exact moment when my life became a trash fire. It was my twenty-fourth birthday, and my big sister Gemma gave me the dumbest, but totally plot-inciting gift: a sunrise alarm clock.

The Incident starts like this, in Mum’s pokey poppies-and-roosters kitchen, with Gemma leaning on the back of my chair:

"I have a perfectly good alarm clock." I hold up my phone, then let it slap back down onto the plastic tablecloth. "Goes ding when there's stuff."

My sister heaves the kind of sigh only eldest-born siblings make, indulgent and frustrated at the same time. I love making her make that noise. It's hilarious.

"It wakes you up gently," Gem says. "So you’re not cranky."

"I’m not cranky in the mornings."

Everyone laughs. I may have snapped at Stuart this morning when he shook my foot through my childhood bed sheets like an aggressive chihuahua. Okay. So I'm cranky in the mornings.

"I don't see how it's supposed to work." Stu grabs the clock. "How can you see the light if your eyes are closed?"

As the younger brother of twin siblings, I am used to having the toys I’m playing with pulled out of my hands. Instead of trying to snatch it back, I fiddle with the iridescent green bow that was on my present, then stick it to my ear. Mum smirks at my accessory, but otherwise her prim little 'all my babies are home to roost' face stays in place.

I'm the only one of us who went away to school, and stayed away. Gem came back to live with Mum straight after she finished her undergrad, so Mum wouldn't be alone in the house. Stuart never left the city, though he's got his own place now. But that's why I stayed away after I graduated last year. Mum and Gem don't need me, and if I came back, Stu would try to get me to join his crew.

I go weak in the knees for the kind of person jacked enough to pick me up and consensually throw me around. Standing on a roof next to a whole crew of pretty roughs trying to help them replace shingles? That's gonna lead to me swooning and dying of a broken neck. Stu doesn’t want that on his conscience.

Because she's a bossy know-it-all, Gem takes my present from Stu and opens it to show me how it works. She huffs. "You can see sunlight through your eyelids. It just works, okay?"

Stu helps himself to another piece of my birthday cake, licking the icing off his fingers and the serving knife. Mum slaps the hand holding the knife, and Stu flushes up and sets it down. He descends on his third piece like a wolf, but at least now he's watching his manners.

"There's an instruction manual," I point out as Gem tosses the booklet on the table.

"The day you read the instructions," Mum says, "is the day I'll know for sure the fairies really swapped you."

It's an old joke, being the Changeling child. I'm the only one of them with dark hair. The rest of my family are blond as heck.

Mum’s grinning into that little curl in the side of her mouth that holds secrets. Dad always called it Mum's 'Peter Pan Kiss’. He'd wrap his arms around her waist and kiss that corner, and Mum would swat at him for ruining her lipstick.

Thinking about Dad reminds me he's dead.

I hate the swoop-and-stab sensation in my chest that comes with remembering. Especially when there's a moment you want to share, and you turn your head to his chair and start composing the sentence in your head: "Hey, Mum's doing that—" and then you stop.

You stop composing. Stop turning. Stop thinking about sharing. Stop breathing.

Because that chair is empty.

Dad's dead.

And you'll never get the chance to point out the Peter Pan kiss again. Or watch Mum swat him. Or listen to him tease us for falling for Mum's Old World fairy stories. Or hear his stupid har-har-har donkey laugh, thick with his French accent.

It's my birthday.

He's not here.

I'll have another birthday, next year, and he won't be there for that one either.

I try to control my breathing, but Mum hears it hitching. I'm already staring at Dad's terrible empty chair, so it's not like I can hide what I'm thinking about. Mum curls her fingers over my knuckles.

"I wish he was here too, mo leanbh," she says softly.

Stu and Gem go quiet.

"Sucks," I cough out, deciding to give no one the pleasure of watching me actually cry. I'll save it for later, when I'm back in my own apartment. Not because of any kind of 'real men don't' toxic masculinity bullshit, but because I hate the fuss. They take the shit my therapist tells them about being my support network too much to heart.

"More tea, Mummers?" I ask instead.

"Time for something stronger, don't you think?"

Next Part | Read on Wattpad

Trailer Music: "A Thousand Years" by The Piano Guys Cover Art: @seancefemme

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godzilla-reads · 3 months

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Still in awe over this book- I started reading the single issue comics in junior or senior year of high school (I have a hard time remembering exact years) but then I fell off after 2 issues and wondered for a long time what ever became of that series I liked so much.

And to my amazement it was collected into a single volume book- but lo and behold! It’s expensive and hard to find and no longer in print!

Fast forward several years and I have found a copy of this magnificent book and I read and relive the magic I once felt when I was young. Oh, the joy of it all!

#godzilla reads #Jim Henson’s the Storyteller #dragon books #comic books #graphic novels #book dragon #book Wyrm #dragons #booklr #bookworm #reading #bookish #book blog #Spotify #books and music

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chronicteller · 6 months

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The other kids sensed the hunger behind the smile and avoided me out of an animal certainty that, if we were all shipwrecked together, I’d be found six weeks later picking my teeth with their bones

- Starling House by Alex E. Harrow

#starling house #alix e. harrow #book quote #we are all hungry on the inside #some are just better at hiding it then others #book wyrm #ink eater

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1000lightsinthedark · 1 year

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#joke #dragon #meme #book worm #book dragon #book wyrm #wyrm #book lover #992

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the-5e-classist · 2 years

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I’ve been playing nethack more recently and I died to a paper golem on one run and I started thinking about why anyone would make a paper construct and all I could think of is a wizard that needs a minion to collect knowledge for them. So I combined that with a pun about book worms and the book wyrm was born

#d&d #dungeons and dragons #homebrew #custom monster #dragon #book wyrm #paper dragon #book worm #custom spell #wizard spell #5th level spell

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jay-avian · 6 days

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Behold, my latest project!

I'm so glad the dragon part is finished. It took so long 😭

#not writing #embroidery #book wyrm

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leondanteart · 2 months

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Finished this book by Nicole Bailey a few days ago! The first in a series, A Veil Between Gods and Kings. The writing reminded me of Wattpad, it moved at the speed of light, and had many redundant lines. Such as: Tongue clicking. Though I will admit it was fun to imagine Alyssa Edwarss tongue popping 😂 The author has written like every character all up on eachother, there's like no sense of distance. The writting at times felt performative. Especially when it comes to Apollo and Temi visiting the kingdom. Like politics is not a strong suit here.

The story was going nowhere fast, the enemies to lovers troup was hardly enemies at all. I did like that it was another Queer retelling of a mythos. The book has a good spirit but it is not written very well. It has heart but it's a pass.

Unfortunately I will compare it to Song of Achilles, which had better story pacing and fleshed out the characters nicely. If you're looking for a queer romance with mythos, just pick up that one instead of A Veil.

#mythology book #book review #booklr #books and reading #bookblr #books & libraries #greek book #greek mythology #apollo #apollo and hyacinthus #queer books #book wyrm #book worm #booktok #wattpad

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kingsprinkle · 1 year

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#dnd #dungeons and dragons #white dragon #library #book wyrm #book hoarde #book hoard #dragon book horde #this is actually my character #art #oc #character art

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tinynavajoreads · 7 months

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Another one because I think people dont send enough asks anymore! Number 35!

I agree! Thank you for the question!

35. Least favourite trope in your most favourite book genre

Oh jeez....I love fantasy. It is my genre, it has my books, if I could live in a fantasy world, I probably would. What I absolutely HATE is when a fantasy world is basically the worst of the real world with some flashy magic placed on top. The best example of this is The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. The magic system is wonderful, but the people, the story, the motivation of everyone felt like the absolute worst of humanity and people I hear on the news and I hate it. It makes me not want to read that book. It was the start of a series and I haven't touched a book in that series after that. Hate hate hate.

Ask me more book worm questions!

#ask game #questions answered #booklr #book worm #book wyrm #book talk #tropes #fantasy #the black prism #brent weeks

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charliejaneanders · 3 months

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Just FYI… Folio Books (where you've been able to order signed copies of my books, and they ship all over the USA) is going out of business at the end of Feb. :(

I'm heartbroken.

But if you want to get a signed/personalized book by me from Folio, the last day to do so is Feb. 16.

#books #bookstores #folio books #book tumblr #book worm #book wyrm

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thistle-nightshade · 3 months

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#thistle and nightshade #queer bookshop #queer booksellers #queer books #diverse books #book dragon #book wyrm

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specialagentartemis · 3 months

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tell me more about classic filk i know a few songs but never got deep into it

Heck YEAH

"Filk" is music (often but not always folk music-style, often but not always song parodies to the tune of famous pre-existing songs) about sci-fi, fantasy, and other fannish topics. Filk circles are popular events at science fiction conventions, and that's really where the genre started. The word "filk" actually arose from a typo in a convention program once, and people just rolled with it ever since!

Some of the most iconic albums in the filk world are the anthology albums "Minus Ten And Counting" (songs about space exploration and the real-life space program), "Carmen Miranda's Ghost" (songs about sci-fi space shenanigans and space ghosts), and "Finity's End: Songs of the Station Trade" (songs set in the world of CJ Cherryh's Alliance-Union novels, and my personal favorite. I've never read any of CJ Cherryh's books, but these songs paint such a vivid world.) "Space Heroes and Other Fools" is another big one, it's more hit-or-miss for me but it's iconic. Other really good and foundational ones are "Divine Intervention" by Julia Ecklar, "Avalon is Risen" by Leslie Fish, and "We Are Who We Are" by Vixy & Tony.

I lean more towards sci-fi and space than fantasy, but fantasy and paganism are huuuugely popular filk topics too.

Some of the most popular names to look into include Leslie Fish (intensely prolific, barely a fraction of her work is on any streaming or music service), Julia Ecklar (famous for her "ose," the filk-world word for sad songs - because they're "ose, more-ose, and even more-ose), Juanita Coulson, Kristoph Klover, Vic Tyler (who just recently died :( rest in peace), Duane Elms, Kathy Mar, Bob Kanefsky, Alexander James (trans, with lots of filk under his previous name as well), Vixy & Tony, and Seanan McGuire. (I like Seanan McGuire's filk music better than her books, hah.) Some other great ones include Cat Faber (most acapella), Astrisoni, The PDX Broadsides, Kari Maaren, and Sassafrass (also mostly acapella. Includes Ada Palmer). Heather Dale, Tom Lehrer, and Jonathan Coulton are kind of honorary filkers too haha.

The best place to get the ones from 80s and 90s cassettes are on the Internet Archive or Youtube; a few filkers who are more currently active have their stuff on Bandcamp.

And I'll leave you with a few of my Favorite Ever filk songs:

"Sam Jones" by CJ Cherryh and Leslie Fish

"Pushin' the Speed of Light" by Julia Ecklar and Anne Prather

"Chickasaw Mountain" by Leslie Fish

"Fire in the Sky" by Jordan Kare

"The Phoenix" by Julia Ecklar

"Freedom of the Snow" by Leslie Fish

"Burn it Down" by Vixy & Tony

"Hope Eyrie" by Leslie Fish, or this Minus Ten And Counting version

"Rocket Rider's Prayer" by Kristoph Klover, Ernie Mansfield, and Cecilia Eng

"Dawson's Christian" by Duane Elms, performed by Vic Tyler or Vixy & Tony

"Somebody Will" by Sassafrass

"Chances & Choices & Fortunes & Fates" by Astrisoni

... my tastes lean sentimental and ose but I swear there's a lot of very funny filk out there too

"Never Set the Cat on Fire" by Frank Hayes (a famous one)

"Banned From Argo" by Leslie Fish (an INFAMOUS one)

"Don't Push That Button" by Duane Elms and Larry Warner

"No More SF Cons" by Juanita Coulson

"One More Ose Song" by B. J. Willinger

everything Bob Kanefsky writes

#asks #book--wyrm #filk #music

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rainingriversofyou · 1 month

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“The First Trial” - A Court Of Thorns And Roses

Artist: listening_stars_

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randomperson1234sblog · 6 days

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Caraxes ❤️‍🔥🩸🍷

Be prepared for the house of the dragon wallpapers in honour of season two coming out.

#caraxes #the blood wyrm #daemon targaryen #house of the dragon #dance of the dragons #dragon aesthetic #fantasy aesthetic #book aesthetics #aesthetic #wallpaper #books #fantasy

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ibrithir-was-here · 9 months

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Ok! Last one for a while I promise xD

But here's all the covers I've done over the last few months! Super pleased with them if I do say so myself x)

As always please go check out the novels featured(wrll you dont really have to do Twilight 😅) especially @rosesnwater and @theboarsbride who's original novels/ wips are featured in the first and third rows, they're all amazing!

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