#ian haramaki

[stargazingisgay]

LETS FUCKING GO I LOVE THEM

#books #lgbtqia #mercy #ian haramaki

[andromedaexists]

Mercy || Ian Haramaki

★★★★☆

TW: EXPLICIT SEX, SUICIDAL IDEATION, ABUSE, ALCOHOLISM, HOMOPHOBIA, PHYSICAL ASSAULT, CATHOLICISM (DEPICTION OF)

Oh God, where do I start with this book. Firstly, I received an ARC of this book in return for a fair review! Thank you Ian, I'm still crying over it <3

There are a lot of thoughts pinging around in my brain about this book. I guess I'll start with the reason why it received 4 stars and not 5 stars, considering just how much I loved it:

It was simultaneously too slow at the start and also way too fast. I had an issue in the first 25% of the book where I felt as if the plot was going nowhere because it felt like the entire plot of the book was complete by then. I think this may have just been a me issue, as I went into this book expecting it to be something more akin to the horror and dark fantasy I've been reading recently.

But it's not. This is Romantasy. It is cozy romance with horror elements.

On this end, the book does a fantastic job with it's characters! Though I had a hard time getting behind the rapid mood swings of Danya and Ilya at the beginning of the story, by the end I was absolutely enamored by both of them!

I mean, Ian handed me a buff redheaded angel with anger issues and expected me not to cry over him? It's as if Danya was made specifically for my tastes!!!

And Ilya, poor Ilya. My baby boy, he deserves to be wrapped up in a blanket so he can watch as Danya burns the world to the ground for him...

There is a lot to love in here! Especially towards the middle and end! There was one point where I looked down at the progress I had made in the book (Chapter 11 *wink* *wink*) and realized that after that cute ass tender and intimate scene, I was only 36% of the way through the book. The amount of fear and terror that wound through my very soul at that realization...

And it was warranted. I mean, we start out the story with intense body horror and horror elements, but then they go away until ~80% of the way through the book. Heed this as a warning, there is a HEA (Happily Ever After), but it is earned.

And I wouldn't have it any other way! I cannot wait to get my hands on the stunning physical edition!! I think everyone should keep their eyes out for this book, you will love it if you are a fan of things being Wrong:tm: in the church and big dumb puppy men (well, I guess he's actually a bird... but you know what I mean)!

Oh! Before I forget! Here are some quotes that I just adore:

To call it a body was perhaps beyond the point of useful description. (The most BANGER OPENING LINE AAA)

"And what's with the boob window?"

"If you come anywhere near me while I'm cooking I'm going to gut you and add you to the dish."

"Whose balls are you touching that are as cold as a blizzard?"

Quoth Danya, 'What the fuck.'

I could spend the rest of my life devoted to him and it wouldn't be enough time.

Okay, one last thing if y'all will let me rant about just random out of context things:

THE BOOB WINDOW????? amazing top tier

The fucking SASS on that motherfucker

THE CONFESSIONAL SCENE??? Two books in a row man, got me thinking things I shouldn't be thinking now that I've make peace with my Catholic upbringing

The literal praise and want to never think about his Mother

Okay. That's all. I swear. Please read this book you'll love it

#andi reads #book reviews #booklr #bookblr #lgbt books #queer books #queer book directory #mercy #ian haramaki

[nicosraf]

Hi! I loved Angels Before Man so much (just finished my second reread of the year) and I'm desperately craving more queer angel/bible books, do you have any reccomendations?

hello !! i just made a list of recs on Insta for queer angels in specific, so here it is! ->

Exodus 20:3 by Freydis Moon (@freydismoon) - erotica, MxM, trans

Mercy by Ian Haramaki (@cometkins) - romance fantasy, MxM

First Creation by Mars Adler (@marsadler) - horror erotica, MxM, trans

The Fall that Saved Us by Tamara Jerée - paranormal romance, sapphic

These are all authors I'm friendly with! And I think they are all very cool and inspiring. Please check them out! And thank you for liking ABM :)

#:) #mine #ask #queer books

[mikahorror]

a wallpaper inspired by my latest wip so even if i don't finish it, something came out of it.

here's some youtube recs this time

NYGHIL - wow was clicking on this like picking up a random book & and seeing a plot that is nearly identical or what? 😭

All Tomorrows timeline & audiobook videos - watched these awhile ago. wasn't sure i wanted to write about not-quite humans since i haven't seen this in fantasy except as anthromorphized animals & this will still have horror elements

can't remember which video i watched first, but this is a pretty good explanation of the deal with alia from dune. my MC's situation is entirely intentional though

ambient soundtrack for outlining & getting overwhelmed at just how much stuff there is:

Barzakh

Desert of the Forgotten, Ch. 2: The Unveiling

Midnight

some more books on my tbr. these are a mix of (gothic)horror & fantasy:

Mercy by Ian Haramaki

The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield

there's a book i saw on instagram but can't find anymore. it's about a priest (& maybe a partner) who's fighting demons & it reminds me of Chrono Crusade

but i can't remember anything but the cover art D=

full ambient track. made in music maker jam

full artworks on miPic (clothing, accessories)

miPic 🥀Fiverr 🥀 YouTube: DiLöria | M.D. Tucker 🥀 Instagram: mika.horror | wytchdoom

transparent images below

#TBBU wip #starry ai #grim #sci fi #fantasy

[bookish-monster]

Book Rec

Devout: An Anthology of Angels

edited by Quinton Li

with creative contributions from:

Freydís Moon

Morgan Dante

Emily Hoffman

Dorian Yosef Weber

Daniel Marie James

Angela Sun

Cas Trudeau

Rae Novotny

Tyler Battaglia 

rafael nicolás - @nicosraf here on tumblr

Ian Haramaki

Aurélio Loren 

(I gathered as many social links and author websites as I could, but was sadly unable to find all of them! If you're the creator of one of the contribution to Devout, feel free to reach out so that I can update this rec to include your links; I'd love to promote your work).

The Storygraph link for this book includes information such as page count, publication date, and community-created content warnings.

This anthology includes short stories, poetry, and a few pieces of artwork from a plethora of amazing creatives, all focused on themes of Christian and Jewish faith and the way angels intertwine with those belief systems—as well as how they interact with queerness, religious trauma, and much more. In the first story of the collection (written by Freydís Moon, who also wrote the superb Exodus 20:3 that I have reviewed here) the protagonist is a young trans man who has an erotic tryst with Satan in the back of a church after the fallen angel gives a sermon to the miracle-hungry congregation. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 

This recommendation would be impossibly long if I were to describe every piece of creative work in this 200+ page anthology. I will try to be brief, then, and describe only my three favorite additions. However, one thing that stood out to me about all of the creative work in the anthology is that each written work is prefaced with content warnings created by the author. Since many of the stories and poems deal with content and themes that could be triggering, this was a really welcome addition.

The first story that grabbed me by the throat in Devout is “Seasons of God” by Angela Sun, which focuses on two French missionaries who come to a village in rural China to convert the locals to Catholicism. The story focuses on one of the missionaries, Francis, who attempts to save a local girl named Rui from being sold by her widower father due to her supposed uselessness. The story grapples with colonial attitudes and the possessive “love” of men who want to mold colonized people into perfect little Christians for further exploitation. Rui has a special power: she can see a strange, terrifyingly eldritch angel haunting the village. The story reaches an explosive conclusion when Rui’s father bursts into the church during Mass with an axe, seeking revenge for the financial loss of his daughter. 

The second story I loved is “And the Mountains Melt like Wax” by Tyler Battaglia, which is set during the modern era and follows a firefighter named Abel who is on a hiking trip with his service dog, Cain. Abel has severe PTSD after a particularly bad fire, and is seeking clarity on his hiking trip into the mountains. He is alone except for the dog. Abel finds an impact crater where an angel (whose design is inspired by the Book of Ezekiel) has fallen to earth, and shares a granola bar with the creature. Abel asks for forgiveness for what happened when he entered that burning building, and I think the beauty in this story is that he receives neither absolution nor damnation for what he did—just like with real-world religious torment, there are no easy answers or simple solutions.

The final story I want to speak about is “Misery in Company” by Morgan Dante (whose other book, Providence Girls, I have recommended here). This story is an adaptation of Doctor Faustus, a play originally written in the Elizabethan era by Christopher Marlowe, where the protagonist is the demon Mephistopheles rather than the human magician (Dr. Faustus himself) who sold his soul to Hell in exchange for amazing powers and knowledge… and receives the services of a demonic manservant as well. In this story, Mephistopheles falls in love with the magician whose orders he is required to obey, and dreams of sharing a place in Hell with his beloved once his mortal lover dies of old age. Like other demons, Mephistopheles is a fallen angel who constantly reckons with his betrayal of God, and is always searching for a way to upstage his creator. Ultimately, however, he is thwarted in that attempt—just as the original play is a tragedy, so too is this short story. And like everything I have so far seen of Morgan Dante’s work, it is also masterfully written.

These three short stories are just my personal favorites from the collection. For those who favor more of a raunchy good time, I think they would enjoy “Paradises” by rafael nicolás, which features the angel Gabriel (a twink) becoming the lover of the Aztec rain deity Tlāloc behind God’s back, as well as Freydís Moon’s aforementioned contribution. There’s something in this anthology for everyone, I think.

You can find this book on Amazon Kindle or Smashwords

#book recommendation #bookblr #book recs #angel x human #queer fiction #lgbt fiction #trans romance #books and reading #spicy books #queer books #fantasy fiction

[queerbookdirectory]

NEW BOOK SUBMISSION

DEVOUT || ed. Quinton Li

Today the QBD spit a very special book back at me; Devout: An Anthology of Angels!!

This anthology is chock full with amazing writers and even more amazing stories! It was one of the first ARC reads I ever did, and I'm very happy to say that I loved it!

This anthology has a little bit of everything:

making the trans body holy

horror

the mundane

romance and most of all it has Angels! So many angels!!!

I genuinely hope that y'all get a chance to pick this one up, it's amazing and you will not be disappointed

SUMMARY

Featuring work by Freydís Moon, Dorian Yosef Weber, Angela Sun, Ian Haramaki, Tyler Battaglia, Daniel Marie James, Morgan Dante, Cas Trudeau, Aurélio Loren, Rae Novotny, Rafael Nicolás & Emily Hoffman.

A collection of stories, poetry, and art dedicated to the angelic.

Here you will find the strange, the creepy, the funky, slightly silly, pieces with feeling. An experience buried deep inside, it might be from another dimension. Something questionable that makes you wonder if your first impression of the world is accurate enough to trust.

Or maybe something human — too human.

How about a feeling between a feeling? Longing, yearning. Conflict between moral and love. World between worlds.

Above all — angelic.

Are we what angels make of us, or are angels what we make of them?

This anthology is for mature audiences due to themes and explicit content. Our genres include, but are not limited to: Contemporary Fantasy Romance, Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Horror, Historical Fantasy Romance, Mythological, Gothic Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror Drama

CONTENT WARNINGS

each short story has it’s TW’s listed beneath the title, but major ones are body horror and sex

REPRESENTATION

Various, depending on the story, but mostly M/M, trans (incl. non-binary)

GOODREADS LINK LINK TO PURCHASE THE BOOK

#queer book directory #qbd #devout: an anthology of angels #quinton li #book submission #indie books #queer books #queer anthology

[myah--reads]

Mercy by Ian Haramaki (@cometkins) is coming November 19th!

I've been given the opportunity to review this bad boy and it's SO GOOD!! I cannot wait to share my thoughts with you guys. The art is by the talented Soren Häxen. Just LOOK AT IT. Keep reading for blurb and links.

Blurb:

A PRIEST AND HIS ANGEL...

Father Ilya Pavlovich Sokolovis a lonely priest and pariah of his small town. Tasked with killing an injured monster in the woods, Ilya is certain of his death. Instead, he heals the monster’s injury and lifts its curse, revealing a handsome, memory-less man.

Cocksure Danya is a man lost in an unfamiliar world. He struggles to recall his past life, flashes returning as he and Ilya grow closer. Soon, his appearance begins to change once more, but not into a beast — instead, Danya grows into something just like the Sun that Ilya has worshiped all his life.

With complicated pasts between them, the two must work together to deal with the corruption of Ilya's own church, as well as their blooming feelings for one another.

Will be on KU and sold through most major retailers. Preorder now! http://books2read.com/MercyNovel

#coverreveal #upcomingreleases #romantasy #mmromance #romancebookrecs #fantasybookrecs #IanHaramaki #Cometkins #SorenHaxen #romance #fantasy

[primordialpals]

Hi!! I was just wondering if you have any other form of social media or place you sell things? Also if you plan on any more conventions soon? I bought a pin from you at a con last year and I absolutely LOVE it and would love to get a few more either online (if possible) or in person if you do more cons.

Hi there! I do have an Etsy shop, but this is my carrd here with all of my other socials :) The shop is closed for the moment as I've been pretty busy this con season!

[paintingdragonfeathers]

Hello peeps! This week's Feather goes to Ian Haramaki--aka Cometkins! Purveyor of adorable dinosaur, Poke'Mon, and fandom art. Their art is always so vibrant as they combine painterly colors with smooth cartooning lineart. You can find them here--> http://cometkins.com/

#cometkins #paintingdragonfeathers #dragons of a feather #creator spotlight #ian haramaki

[cometkins]

i’m gonna think about name change stuff because that’s a much smaller pain in the ass than this somehow!!!

obvs i’d be ian haramaki but i don’t want my existing middle name so i’m debating having it changed to my great grandpa’s name...... but idk. i might just go without

[sals-bookblr]

Welcome Sal's Bookblr.

You can all me and masculine/neutral S name and I'll respond. I don't really have a lot of people to talk to about the books I read. Because of that I decided to make a blog and post about the books I read and how I interpret them. I'm queer, autistic, and disabled so that may reflect how I view the books! Feel free to add your own thoughts to my posts.

I'm almost always open to recommendations of any kind, right now I'm trying to read any many books as possible that contain any of the following:

Low fantasy

Jewish lead (not set in WWII)

Catholic lead

Trans (any kind, not strictly binary) lead

Aspec lead

(Best) friends to lovers romance (basically the only romance I can tolerate sorry)

South Asian lead

Reading list:

Zachary Ying and The Dragon Emporor by Xiran Jay Zhao

Splinter by Jasper Hyde

Mercy by Ian Haramaki

Nadia by Christine Evans

If You Still Recognize Me by Cynthia So

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

Matzo Match by Roz Alexander