#it's gay and it slaps

[onmyliteraturebullshitagain]

Midyear queer book rec 2023: even more gay, even more slaps!

Another wide selection of achillian, sapphic, and bisexual (is there a term for that?) relationships, basically all adult fiction and lots of romance, historical, and fantasy with happy endings because of who I am as a person. But these are all books I gave at least 3/5 stars that offer a fun range of relationships and writing styles!

If you want even more queer book recs, check out my many previous posts! Now go enjoy some queer reading and support authors writing queer fiction!

#queer book recs #gay book recs #it's gay and it slaps #wicked beauty #something fabulous #the charm offensive #a restless truth #a gentleman never keeps score #two wrongs make a right #the library of the unwritten #achillian books #sapphic books #bisexual books #queer relationships #book recs

[samcat18]

Samantha shannon has really made good on her promise that this book is more gay than the last one -- the amount of bi/gay/lesbian panic, secondary to all the blood and dragons and danger in the plot, is a delight

#samantha shannon #a day of fallen night #the priory of the orange tree #gay panic #it's gay and it slaps #am reading

[cursedgamerchild]

"internet historian's alt-right anyways" "great day to have never liked james somerton" "never even heard of illuminaughtii before this lol"

that's great buddy but don't go around thinking you're immune to this. if you're not looking for plagiarism, you likely won't notice it unless its egregiously obvious. hell, you've probably consumed plagiarized content without even realizing it. even hbomb pointed out that these people disguised what they presented pretty well as long as you didn't try and dig deeper. don't come away just thinking of this as a callout piece, take this as an important lesson about vetting your sources. if googling scripts in quotes was enough to expose the original, we should all start doing that shit!!

edit: it got a little too doomer-y a little too fast so one quick addition

this is hbomb's curated playlist of queer creators, many of whom were victims of plagiarism

this is producer kat on reddit calling for any more plagiarism discoveries and for queer content creators to be uplifted

please take some time to uplift these creators and recommend any you know! if you can help uncover more of the original creators whose work was lifted that would be great too :)

UPDATE- From Hbomb's twitter: "We're in the process of cataloguing everyone James Somerton plagiarised and finding their contact information. Which is quite a task, so to help us out: If you see this and happen to be one of the people Somerton stole from, please email us at [email protected]"

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#hbomberguy #james somerton #illuminaughtii #internet historian #vice #ign etc have had issues with plaigarism before #this isnt just some youtuber scandal remember #even books can fall victim to this #kaz rowe's history vids exemplify this pretty well #i'd recommend the triboulet ass slapping myth one if you want a good breakdown #and somerton absolutely had problems with the way he discussed foreign media and anyone that wasnt a cis gay man #but considering most of his ideas werent his own that doesnt dismiss the original authors' work keep in mind

[darlingfettucini]

EVERYONE, look at this fan animation that my friend salty marshmallow on tik tok made for my queer superhero romance novel!! It's posted to my handful of bees account (with salty's express permission/blessing.)

Rules for Superhero is gay and it slaps. Posts daily for free on tapas! Please go give it some love!

#writing #writeblr #story #lgbtq #romance #rules4superheroes #queer #writers community #writersblr #friends to lovers #angst #pining #fic #webnovel #queer books #It's gay and it slaps

[ryuuna]

she just gives really nice compliments she can’t help it

#hades game #nyx #Aphrodite #Athena #all of this was just to justify drawing that slapping meme fml #I can’t just draw a lil shitpost #gotta make it gay and over elaborate #ryuunart

[its-hell]

Words Cannot describe the emotion I felt when I saw looney tunes was no1 on trending only to find it was cause baffy is canon

#it was like 2 slaps to the face #it was very iconic of them tbh #bugs bunny #daffy duck #baffy #gay

[bigcatbulges]

Source - wuedti

(Artist's Bluesky FurAffinity and Plurk)

#gay furry #gay furry pecs #gay furry bulge #gay furry belly #gay furry bull #artists twitter above #I won't hit your sir but you can hit it from behindyour balls slapping against my ass might aound like punching

[celestialrealms]

we can't keep letting him get away with this 🤬

#YOU ARE MY GOOD CONSCIENCE. hello????????? #this particular brand of content is honestly what he has over everyone else for me #there was no kiss in this card but imo this slapped enough to make up for it #obey me barbatos #barbatos x mc #barbatos obey me #obey me #obey me nightbringer #anyway is it gay to call another man your conscience ? asking for barbatos #long post /

[biggercatbulges]

Source - GrimfaustBLT

(Artist's Patreon and FurAffinity)

#gay furry #gay furry pecs #gay furry bulge #gay furry tiger #artists twitter above #see that looks like a bulge that if i got slapped with id lose a tooth #my hole is activating like a hoover i tell you what though

[mrghostrat]

Big Name Feelings - 8/16

what are they looking at? find out (with a second drawing!!) at the end of this chapter :)

As far as Aziraphale was concerned, Crowley didn’t gift him a bowtie, not really. He gifted him that smile, that smug little grin as he slid his visa across the counter and tapped the receiver without so much as glancing at the price tag. It made him shine with pride, for all the work he’d done to earn that shiny black card, and palpable satisfaction for the small opportunity to share his wealth. Azirphale wanted to kiss it off him, and had to concentrate to bury his sigh deep where neither of them would hear it. “I have one stipulation,” Crowley announced once the ties were officially theirs. “Oh good, a condition for the gift I don’t want.” Crowley continued as if he hadn’t heard, “You have to wear it now. Don’t make me carry it around all day.”

#*slaps chapter* this baby can fit exactly 12294 words in it #THE GAY NERDS ARE BEING SOOOO GAY AND NERDY IN THIS ONE YOU GUYS #good omens #gomens #bnf au #rat writes #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley

[onmyliteraturebullshitagain]

Midyear queer book recs: it's gay and it slaps part 3! Check out my previous posts for additional recs.

All 4-5 star reads spanning a wide range of styles, genres, and pairings all with happy endings (other than "They Both Die at the End," but that's built into the title). Mostly adult vs. ya but not entirely, and you know what a fan I am of loving and supportive relationships, so you can expect that too.

Special shout out to "A Marvellous Light" for being so beautifully written and romantic and "Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead" for being such a vividly accurate portrayal of mental health. And you know what? Shout out to my own book "The Play's the Thing: a Shakespeare Mix-up," which is a queer retelling of Shakespeare's works focused on the (not so) tragic Danish boyfriends of Hamlet and Horatio. :) Check it out on Amazon or free on Kindle Unlimited!

Now go forth and read some fabulous LGBTQ+ books, and always feel free to recommend me more!

#gay book recs #it's gay and it slaps #they both die at the end #so this is ever after #everyone in this room will someday be dead #legends and lattes #the hellion's waltz #winter's orbit #the queer principles of kit webb #a marvellous light #the play's the thing #lgbtqia+ representation #queer books recs

[chill--cat]

☕️🥞 🐹🎧

#vivid bad squad #my art #akitoya #anhane #prsk #vbs #pjsk #toya aoyagi #touya aoyagi #idk i guess i'll spell his name both ways??? #kohane azusawa #akito shinonome #an shiraishi #project sekai #pjsekai #fanart #pixel art #i posted some of these on reddit a while back lol #music that slaps so hard that i overcame the fear of being perceived to post gay people #i'm posting this at 3:31am instead of going to sleep

[jelixpo]

there was gonna be a third panel to this but i chickened out

so this is all you get

#bowser #bowuigi #luigi #gay #art #slap some colour on paper #artists on tumblr #bowser x luigi #luigi x bowser

[high-fructose-lesbianism]

Anyone ever think about how wild it was that back in ~2014, the biggest piece of lesbian fandom media was Carmilla, a webseries about vampires executive produced by a tampon company?

#and it slapped! #but also when people say you had to search for crumbs of gay rep in the 2010s this is what they meant #going to a tampon company’s YouTube channel to watch my beloved 7 minutes of lesbians every week #Carmilla #carmilla webseries #Carmilla (2014)

[salthien]

bugs. gay ones, even

#hollow knight #quirrelhollow #hk quirrel #hk the hollow knight #thk #quirrel #ive been doing pomodoro method for packing and rewarding myself with ipad time #right one was initially going to have 'i survived being doomed by the narrative' shirts but i got lazy #please enjoy more gay bugs. i want to draw others eventually but i need to put thoughts into How i want to draw them #so will likely have to wait until after move #also shoutout to yrlocalghost for letting me appear out of nowhere slap art into a discord convo and then vanish again #i dont have anywhere else to test post/preview stuff (god knows im not posting qh art in the hk discord) #makes me less anxious when Someone Else likes it before i post anything :') #lorne art

[kelocitta]

In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-

Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.

To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)

And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.

Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.

The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.

They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri

#rain world #rw shipping #tagging that just cause this is explicitly about that even though I usually dont do shipping stuff #with that said i dont even think this particular interpretation of a possible dynamic needs to be romantic its just kinda #about companionship in general. companionship thats going to absolutely shred an already unstable slug emotionally but thats #the point. friendship and love in spite of the unavoidable ending #just noticed this is like 80% theme analysis and 20% 'these go together just trust me' #but also theyre both girls because i want them to and also because im channeling hornet from hollow knight #who made me so deeply ill that my rain world tags still havent outcompeted my Hk tags because i drew her so much. so so much. #hunter is hornet coded to me and artificer is like if angela and gebura from lc combined into a deeply fucked up ferret #also i did tag the poll because they kinda inspired this but also. i wasnt gonna put all this out here WITHOUT a readmore thats embarassing #but i guess this is propaganda for a ship already seen as popular but like... idk i think theres something to it even as someone #who did literally slap them together originally because they were both red slugcats i considered girls. predownpour so we didnt have anythi #anyway hi tag readers i have so much work to do im being bad by writing about gay slugs. i need to get myself together #its so late this might just be nonsense bwaaaaaaa