#pyrrhambles

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god i love it when homer speaks directly to the characters

#the iliad #homer #emily wilson #pyrrhambles #“but menelaus you were not forgotten by the deathless gods” #i am chomping!

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queer (fantasy) recommendations

queer

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe ➡️ memoir told in graphic novel form, the author’s journey to identifying as non-binary and asexual. as a genderqueer asexual person, this book really resonated with me

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston ➡️ YA novel about a girl who gets kissed by her rival at prom, who then disappears. it sucked me in and i read it in two days

Loveless by Alice Oseman ➡️ college girl discovers that she’s aroace as sapphic chaos explodes in the background. again, the aroace rep is really good

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta ➡️ verse story about a mixed race, queer teen who finds a community in doing drag at his university. the coming out poem in the back made me cry when someone sent it to me without context

queer fantasy

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ➡️ lesbian necromancers in space, or: girl with a sword gets dragged into a set of bizarre challenges with her nemesis to become one of the saints to necromantic god. this gave me tsoa-level emotional damage but for different (and similar) reasons

Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ➡️ the sequel to Gideon. even more batshit insane (/pos) than the first book, basically answering the question of “what happens if you have a really repressed, depressed lesbian and she has to work with some weird old people”. continued the standard set by Gideon and made me emotional

Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer ➡️ graphic novel about space gays who want to take down the patriarchy. I’ve only read the first volume (the second one is being released chapter by chapter online and I haven’t been vibing with that style lately) but it is GOOD

honorable mentions

Sabriel by Garth Nix ➡️ high fantasy about a girl going into the dangerous, magical Old Kingdom to saved her father from the realm of Death. some seriously inventive, well-written worldbuilding and definitely my favorite depiction of death/necromancy. remarkably progressive gender-wise considering it came out 25 years ago

Circe by Madeline Miller ➡️ story of Circe’s life. crosses paths with multiple big greek mythology figures and there are several tsoa references. MM seems to have taken more creative liberty with this one and some of it I’m not a fan of but overall a good book

i will probably have more to add to the queer fantasy section of this once I’ve read more of my tbr. please please read circe if you read and loved tsoa

if anyone has other recs feel free to share them!

#pyrrhambles #gender queer #i kissed shara wheeler #loveless #the black flamingo #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #cosmoknights #sabriel #circe #book recommendations #book rec list

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hold up hold up hold up emily wilson iliad coming september 19th? we've had a release date for almost a year and i only found out about it now?????? i thought i'd seen everything about the release

#vibrates #pyrrhambles

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hey so this blog has recently hit 1k followers, which is more than I ever expected to have happen. it’s been over a year and my tsoa hyperfixation has started to fade, but y’all, it’s been fun. thank you

on an unrelated note, would anyone be interested in me posting a list of queer/fantasy book recommendations

#the song of achilles #pyrrhambles

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listening to going invisible 2 by the mountain goats while rereading the page of the anne carson trojan women comic where hecuba and the chorus watch troy burn is. ha

#“i'm gonna burn it all down today/and sweep the ashes away” #pyrrhambles