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Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Book Review
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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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beauvandalen · 4 months
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New Year's Resolution for 2024: let's stop outing queer authors & questioning authors writing queer books who haven't disclosed!
I got outed this year because of this, I hope we'll know better than to do this to someone else next year.
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redborowski · 11 months
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I’m replying The Golden Rose again.
Here's some old fanart, I fixed it a bit)
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scholar-of-yemdresh · 4 months
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The TERF brigade in the BES fandom makes my skin itch. God forbid you interpret Mizu as transmasc. Like having a different interpretation of the character is somehow taking anything away from cis women. Musty asses already castigated any HCing Mulan as transmasc are you not tired of harassing asian transmascs by now???
Anyway instead of getting cis "people" in your mentions crying about the "evil [white*] transes taking away wombmyn stories". Protect your peace and stan a book series that's got a transmasc asian(fantasy Korean not Japanese) swordsman as one of the main characters, his name is Keun-ju and he's so pookie ☺.
It's called The Crimson Empire trilogy by Alex Marshall. It's a batshit heavy metal dark fantasy trilogy with pretty much every queer imaginable. Also If you can handle the gore/violence of BES then this shouldn't be an issue. The Main character(there are a lot of important characters) is a scarred up brawny bi woman who's in her late 50s/early 60s.
Oh and all those ot3 Mizu/Akemi/Taigen shippers I see you...so Keun-ju is bi and gets into a throuple with a feisty(Low key a dumbass tbh 💀) princess(who's his childhood friend and he's her bodyguard because I know yall eat up that shi) AND a cis guy who he starts out with a pseudo antagonistic/rivalry relationship.
Caveat unlike BES these three do start off the series as teens (16-17/18) but by the end they're all firmly adults.
*Totally ignoring the trans POC specifically the East asian trans people because "transness is a taint forced by white people" or some other bullshit. And it make it easier for the TERFs to pretend they're fighting the "oppressor" if they act like trans poc calling them out on their shit don't exist.
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heartbeatbookclub · 3 months
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Sayori tends to catch feelings for people very easily, but very rarely acts on them. She doesn't think she's good enough for anyone, and believes she'd only burden them in any potential relationship. She doesn't want to hurt anyone, or ruin a good friendship. I don't think she would really think about her sexuality very often or strictly define it, because she "has a lot of love for everybody!", so she'd probably just ambiguously identify as queer and let her actions speak for themselves.
Yuri initially tries to avoid the conversation entirely. It's not that she's ashamed per se, more like she's had bad experiences with people in the past, and finds the entire concept of romance to be very embarrassing to talk about openly. She's accepted her sexuality as just another thing that makes her "weird", and mostly keeps it to herself because she doesn't really want any of her relationship with the others to change. She doesn't want any of them to "get the wrong idea and think she's creepy" or anything.
Natsuki keeps it on the down low, but makes it clear that she doesn't really like boys. Maybe she likes specific ones. Fictional ones, mostly. I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other as to whether or not she's strictly lesbian or something else, but if she is attracted to men, she's the type to do the whole "Aren't you attracted to men too?" "*gag* ...yeah." bit. I think she's unlikely to personally pursue someone romantically, in large part because she's afraid that she'll hurt them.
Basically, they're all some kind of gay, they just don't really talk about it, for variable reasons.
That is, until Monika walks in one day and starts a conversation on the topic, the end of which being the reveal that "I'm...starting to think I'm not quite straight! Ahaha..."
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blazingflareon · 11 months
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happy pride month!! theyre gay ur honor
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griffinsboyfriend · 2 months
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Thank you @hydn-jpg for another fantastic Choices fan art!! These are the best boys from Open Heart!
Rafael Aveiro, my male MC (Vincent Valentine), and Bryce Lahela!
I love this specific friend group so much. That male bond between three queer men is something no other book has replicated iirc, so this is special to me! Regardless of any feelings between the three, their friendship is paramount!!
Send Hayden love and more~!!! :D
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celestial--sapphic · 2 months
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Kiss me (like you wanna be loved)
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Ao3 link
Summary:
Evelyn Caddel takes Poppy up on that offer of a butterbeer in the Three Broomsticks (minus Highwing) and fifth year does not end the way in which she expected. In fact, it's much, much better.
Or: Self indulgent Poppy Sweeting x f!MC to fulfil my sapphic heart
Pairing: Poppy Sweeting x f!MC (Evelyn Caddel)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Word count: 10,858
Chapter: 1/?
Relationships: Poppy Sweeting/Evelyn Caddel / Poppy Sweeting/Original Female Character
Tags: Developing Relationship/First Relationship/First Kiss/Post-Game(s)/wlw/Sapphic/LGBTQ Female Character/LGBTQ Themes/Evelyn is an anxious mess when it comes to pretty girls/Fluff Slytherin/Hufflepuff relationship/pick and choose historical accuracy/Imelda is a bitch but we love her/Poppy Sweeting is Bisexual/MC is a lesbian
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angeledeggs · 10 months
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Main 6 + The Courtiers with a MC/Partner that's extremely affectionate
Some head cannons I wrote while chilling :) requests are open, so feel free to make some as long as you follow the rules, I love requests! Hope you enjoy, Xoxo!
Asra💜:
They think it's absolutely adorable, really, that you're so affectionate towards them.
Asra's love language is physical affection, so to have a partner that is also affectionate is like a bonus! But he expressed his love in other ways, too, of course.
Most of the time he doesn't even realize that he's touching you, he just is since he's so used to it by now.
Usually goes for hand holding or hugs from behind, since that's their favorite form of affection.
He still isn't used to his past partners being so affectionate, either, so when you show him any touchy affection he gets a bit blushy and smiles real big before returning the affection enthusiastically.
If you get embarrassed showing physical affection in public, he obviously won't do none of that in public because he respects your boundaries. But if not, he'll usually just hold your hand or give you a few chaste kisses on the cheek every now and then
Muriel💙:
Gets extremely nervous and happy whenever you touch him at all. He'll usually return the affection very briefly and bashfully.
He does really appreciate the affection, since it makes him feel all warm and fuzzy, he just gets nervous and fumbles a bit when you do, since it surprises him each time.
He'll get really red if you kiss him in public (though he won't object at all--) but will always hold your hand since you're always so affectionate.
When he initiates physical affection, he always catches your eye to make sure it's okay with you before he continues. And if not, he'll pull away and probably feel a bit bad and say a quiet apology just to let you know he doesn't want to make you feel uncomfortable.
His favorite form of affection is cuddling, since it feels so close and nice to him. He usually likes to be the big spoon, but will sometimes be the little spoon, too.
Julian🦠:
He absolutely loves it that you're so affectionate!
He probably brags to Portia about it, too, and will rant to her about how much he loves being around you and that you're so affectionate.
If he ever happens to wear his gloves while you want to touch or hold his hands, he'll definitely take them off just to make the contact more nice feeling rather than his latex gloves lol.
He loves it whenever you hug him or even jump on him, and will give you a happy and brief little squeeze around the back to show his appreciation. It's definitely his favorite part of you being so affectionate.
Will make sure to ask you before y'all go into public if it's okay for him to hold your hand or sling an arm around you. He just wants to make sure, after all.
Nadia💎:
Is very touched by how affectionate you are towards her. She finds it extremely romantic that you are.
She'll most likely always be touching you now that she knows how touchy you are, whether it's a hand on your shoulder or holding your own hand throughout her day.
Likes to be more discreet affection wise in public, but will most likely hold your hand or keep a guiding palm on your back.
Rarely gets embarrassed and if she does she can hide it very well. Except for the first time you gave her a big hug. She actually had a blush, but thankfully her dark skin made it barely noticeable. But you noticed the brief stutter she had developed at the hug. If you ever mention it, she'll deny it. But it's hard to really believe her when you notice that she is vigorously fanning her blush.
Loves it when you touch her hair or hands, but her favorite form of affection is probably a head massage because of her headaches. She always finds that if you're around during a headache, it becomes a bit easier just from your presence.
Portia🧡:
Is also very affectionate, and thinks it's awesome that you are too!
She loves to hold your hand, and that's probably her favorite way to show her affection. She always grabs your hand when you two walk together, and always does a quick look over at you to make sure it's okay with you before she squeezes your hand and grins at you.
Excited that you both are affectionate together, and will probably get all happy whenever you initiate physical affection.
Always finds excuses to be affectionate whether it's straightening your jacket (she's done that five times in an hour, once) or 'feeling your temperature' by holding your hand.
She blushes each and every time you're affectionate with each other, and it always makes her lips tilt up when you are.
Loves to cuddle you a lot. Her favorite cuddle position is your head in her lap or on her chest while you two either do your own things or nap together, since it feels so close and cozy to her.
Lucio👑:
Is surprised that you're so touchy. After all, his love language is acts of service, and he never really got affection as a child. Its... strange.
In a good way! Of course in a good way if it's you. He's just not used to it. He'll play it off cool like he always does, but that won't hide his blush at first. Or his smirk when he gets more comfortable.
After awhile of getting used to you being affectionate, he'll start to initiate affection by slinging an arm around your shoulders (as long as it's okay with you, of course).
His favorite form of affection is you playing with his air, since he dosent let anyone besides you touch him, and especially his hair.
Will probably never admit out loud that you being so affectionate makes him really bashful, and will hide his nervousness and giddiness with a soft smirk whenever you're affectionate.
His smirk dosent hide his red blush, though.
Valerius🍷:
Can't make up his mind if he loves it, or hates it. On one hand, it's you, and how can he hate anything you do-- and then on the other hand he finds himself stuttering so hard that he is making a complete fool of himself whenever your hand slips into his.
If you notice and ever attempt to pull away for him to save face, he will immediately take your hand in his own once more and say nothing, simply sip his wine that is nearly as red as his flushed ears.
He'll get quickly used to it, though it still surprises him each time you do it. He prefers for you to initiate the affection, and has to bite back a smile each time you do. He can't quite bite back his red, blushing ears, though.
But after awhile, he'll start to take your hand in the privacy of your own home. Then in the palace, sometimes, when he needs to feel your hand. Then in public. But just so he dosent lose you amongst the crowd. Or at least, that's what he tells himself.
If you ever try to tease him or mention the fact that he likes it when you hug or touch him, he'll make a choking noise that he turns into a loud scoff and will hurriedly find an excuse to get more wine, even though his glass is always full.
Vlastomil🐛:
Finds it so romantic and cute that you're physically affectionate.
Will most definitely brag to the other courtiers that, 'they don't make partners like that anymore' and that you're the cutest partner ever. In fact, his rants about you almost are as much as his worm rants.
Loves to tap his rings against any jewelry you might have on, or against your palms, it's his favorite type of affection to give. He just does, dosent really know why.
He'll also insist to 'guide you' in public by holding your hand or putting his palm against your back. He gets visibly smug when you let him.
Just does a quick glance every time he grabs your hand to make sure it's okay, then gives your hand a kiss just because he can.
Valdemar🧠:
Acts as though it's annoying at first. They'll shake away your touch and scoff. But then they'll beckon you over and have you sit on their lap as they work. If you say anything about it, they'll threaten to make you get up. But you know they won't.
Always wears their gloves unless they are asleep or alone with you, so their fingers are always latex encased when they hold your hand in public. They hold your hand with a thumb pressed against your pulse.
Their favorite form of affection is either to have you in their lap or just generally close to them, or they'll hook an arm around yours in public.
If you happen to tease them about it, they give you a cold look and will pull away until you apologize. But they'd go back to touching you anyway, even if you didn't apologize. Their ego will never let them admit it, though.
Once they've established that you are affectionate, they'll most likely establish affection more often in the form of a 'check up' like feeling your head for a temperature or your pulse.
Volta🍰:
Is so happy that you like hugging her! She likes hugging you, too!
Definitely hugs you every time she sees you, even if you were just one for a few minutes. She likes to do it since she knows how affectionate you are.
In the beginning she'll ask for permission each and every time to touch you, but once she understands how affectionate with you, she'll just look at you and make sure you're okay with it before she hugs you.
Her favorite form of affection is kisses on the cheek, since she thinks it's cute and romantic. Especially when you do it.
Her love language is more so acts of service, but she's definitely affectionate, too, and will hug and kiss you every chance she gets.
Vulgora⚔️:
Gets aggressively happy when you do, and has to remind themselves constantly to not squeeze you too hard. They never do, though.
Will probably spin you around in a hug whenever you two greet each other, just cause they like to.
Will give you high fives and fist bumps, which seems out of character of them. But they love to do it, to, "celebrate imminent victory".
Has the strength two, and most likely will lift you and carry you whenever they feel like it (which is often).
They probably also like to carry you the best, just so that they can show off their strength to you and have you in their arms.
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wizardandorlizard · 10 months
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A fanfic I desperately wish to read as an Irreplaceable!MC from Obey Me. A new student rolls around, but all the brothers are busy thinking of MC, helping MC, and comparing the new student, YN to MC.
I have yet to find one and will write this fucker myself if I must.
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captainjacklyn · 2 years
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Okokok so we already have various characters reacting to being served their own species on a plate by mc, but can I request Trey and Kalim reacting to mc while in the process of cooking said food? Like, they look over and see mc cooking something odd-looking so they ask and mc’s only response is “Revenge :)”
Well well~ another episode to my cooking series, I'm in for a new challenge !
Cooking disaster event MASTERLIST can be found here
Warning(s) : cussing here and there, mc is gender neutral, cooking weird food cause why the fuck not. This is pure CRACK
Trey & Kalim walking in on Mc making the 'special' meal :
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Ooooh what are you making mc ?
It's for Jamil ? Nice !
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Not to judge or anything but why is it purple and am I the only one who sees the floating snake heads ?
wait a minute.
WAIT A MOTHERFUCKING MINUTE-
mc please tell me why there are dead snake floating in your meal and it's making bubbles now ok this is weird WHY ARE YOU SMILING SO EVILY ARE YOU OVERBLOTTING ?!
"Revenge."
Ah.
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Mc why are cooking a whole ass bird with feathers still on it- ?
Also who is this for ?
Crowley ?
"It's revenge."
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Understandable ! Try asking lilia for help while you're at it.
Crowley is hiding from mc who is walking around with the cooked crow just menacingly searching for bird man.
Yuu is about to make this game an official fucking horror movie.
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hope you enjoyed !
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nerdyenby · 1 year
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Since the next MCC is gonna be pride, I’m bringing this back!! @defonotsmajor I know it’s probably not very feasible but I think it’d be fun if we had a pride event with teams by identities :))
Please keep in mind that all this information is from wikis so it may not be 100% accurate to ccs actual identities, I’m also not able to balance very well considering the limited selection. With that out of the way, let’s get into it!!!
Scarlet Sapphics: Gem, Kara, Lizzie, and Puffy
Amber Allies: False, H, Impulse, and Scar
Golden Gays: Ant, Joey, Red, and Scott
Neon Nonbinaries: Aimsey, Eret, Ranboo, and Sniff
Shamrock Straights: Callum, Grian, Jimmy, and Joel
Cyan Cishets: Beky, Oli, Phil, and Sneeg
Aqua Aspecs: 5up, Shelby, Tina, and [a new player]
Blue Bisexuals: Elaina, Illumina, TapL, and Vixella
Purple Pluses: Martyn, Meghan, Squaishy, and [a new player]
Pink Pansexuals: Dave, Gumi, Jojo, and either Niki (inactive) or [a new player]
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beauvandalen · 3 months
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So happy to share another lovely artwork of Prince Hal, Kaiser and Elwood, from my gay romantasy series 'The Prince's Dearest Guards' about a trans Prince who romances his two guards - Book 2 is coming out this February, so excited for this release! 👑💕✨🌸
Art by the wonderful @vita-divata ! 🥰✨
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rando360ina03 · 4 months
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Wenclair Children
they had children 4 children, um idk how u can guess how if u want to idc
Both are set of twins👶
First set: lucien & Claire
Lucien fester sinclair addams: he's male he has enids powers, he did not develop any of Wednesday's powers. Lucien is a very open child as enid but he's stubborn & rude at times come from his other mother. He hates when people yell at him even when he's wrong he has a bit of a nassartistic behavior. Witch enid and wednesday both agreed to get him therapy it did help but there are still aspects. He's very athletic but when it comes to academic view he's not good he usally has C's only in English he has an A. He's a pure wolf
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(Wha he kinda looks like)
Claire murray sinclair addams: enid named her 1st daughter after her father(Murray Sinclair). She has a very enid personality, very open & energetic but she has wednesday attributes skillfully & intelligence . She dose have more of wednesday ideals, she uses violence rather than words, athletic but smart unlike Lucien. She dosent fence like wednesday instead she trains with enid is wearwolf hand-to-hand combat, she also target prices with guns she dose use bows but not anymore she did when she trained with wednesday. She hates reading, she's a pure wearwolf like her mama
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(she kinda looks like this, btw this is imorge from heatstopper)
Second set of twins: Lucifer & Ophelia
Lucifer Gomez Sinclair Addams: he's name after his grandpa(gomez). He has more of wednesday personality, introvert & 'bother me and I'll make u suffer' mentality. He's quite, he will only speak when spoken to he hates fight, as he has enids ideals. He hates fight hates the idea of fencing as a sport as he sees it as a violent way to hurt people. He likes to talk ot trough. He has social anxiety, he dose like to read and enjoy hiking he isn't trained in ay hand-to-hand combat or anything but his mother wednesday told him to carry a pocket knife witch he hates having it but keeps it as it's his mother's wish. He's a phyicic like is mom
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(Him but never really smiling js like his mama)
Ophelia Emilia Sinclair Addams: she's had wednesday personality quiet but sheis extervoeted she the most Luke wednesday. She dosent let anyone talk her down she sees violence as a last resort if needed she will use it. She was trained in hand-to-hand combat. She's smart and athletic she dose fencing, arching and track and she liek to read like her twin. She has both phyicic & wearwolf powers basically a hybrid.
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(looks js like wednesday but with blue eyes & her hair in a messy bun insted of braids)
Ask me qestion if you'll like i don't kind answering!
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scholar-of-yemdresh · 4 months
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Will anybody be interested if I made a list of adult transmasc and Nonbinary/transneutral main/major characters in adult fantasy and Science Books.
Because I'm legit sick of the infantilisation both within and outside the community. Why is so much of the NB and transmasc rep children 😭.
Even outside of the miniscule rep Even less of it are grown adult main characters. None of that side character's love interest is a trans dude business, or a they/them appears for one page and is never seen again.
Anyway I've got a handful of characters in books I've read/on my TBR and I want to share them with others looking for this kind of rep.
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tavoriewrites · 19 hours
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Actual dynamic between Jeron and Sylus.
Except Jeron's hasn't seen Sylus' true form yet and not even Sylus wants to see it.
Artist uncertain. There's a watermark but I can't decipher it and reverse image searching didn't get me anywhere useful besides a Twitter post and I do not use Twitter anymore. If anyone knows, let me know!
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