#the malinda family

[gaygryffindorgal]

the malinda family

a while back i did one of these for the quinn family so i wanted to give the malindas the same treatment. i don't have faceclaims for all the members out there but i included everyone i did have and some spouses too. additionally, acacia malinda is now canon, good for her!

founders' era:

devon terrel as fergus gryffindor nathalie emmanuel as iseult of caen

victorian era:

jacob anderson as timotheus malinda ruby barker as agnes malinda dalmar abuzeid as jacob macmillan ashley madekwe as aravis malinda by @potionboy3 nick sagar as leonidas malinda by @potionboy3

fantastic beasts:

gugu mbatha-raw as ethel malinda lucien laviscount as everett malinda antonia thomas as eloise malinda jamie dornan as rory o'neill by @unfortunate-arrow jude hill as miles o'neill by @unfortunate-arrow millie davis as jane o'neill malia baker as catherine "kate" o'neill by @unfortunate-arrow

hphm:

chiwetel ejiofor as mervyn malinda thandiwe newton as juniper malinda, née raeburn elliot knight as jacob malinda iman benson as verna malinda bianca lawson as elinor greengrass, née malinda savannah steyn as eliza greengrass samantha logan as evangeline "angie" greengrass celeste o'connor as evenin "eve" greengrass

hpma:

lauren ridloff as verna malinda keri russell as merula malinda, née snyde eren m. güvercin as rowan "roe" malinda nico parker as acacia malinda

#the greengrass sisters actually have a dad but i don't have a faceclaim for albert greengrass so rip him! #the malinda family #fergus gryffindor #iseult of caen #timotheus malinda #agnes malinda #jacob macmillan #aravis malinda #leonidas malinda #ethel malinda #everett malinda #eloise malinda #rory o'neill #miles o'neill #jane o'neill #kate o'neill #mervyn malinda #juniper malinda #jacob malinda #verna malinda #elinor greengrass #eliza greengrass #evangeline greengrass #evenin greengrass #merula snyde #roe malinda #acacia malinda #*mine #there are way too many of them lol #anyway i decided to canonize acacia so now i have to make some content for her

[endlessly-cursed]

hp families + their female version

somerset ; dubois ; durand ; arcano ; brokenshire ; alderly ; doherty ; cairncross ; pendleton ; hexley ; battersea ; malinda ; greenaway ; hopper ;

tagging the owners of each family; @cursed-herbalist @kathrynalicemc @cursebreakerfarrier @gaygryffindorgal @hphmmatthewluther @kc-and-co @the-al-chemist @unfortunate-arrow @potionboy3 @thatravenpuffwitch

#let me know if you want a pt two with the male version of other of y'alls other families!!! #only condition is that they must have at least two generations of the hpverse existing somewhere in the canon #hphl #hp families #picrew #the somerset family #the dubois family #durand family #arcano family #the brokenshire family #the alderly family #doherty family #the cairncross family #pendleton family #hexley family #battersea family #the malinda family #the greenaway family #hopper family

[potionboy3]

A concept to deepen the Byrn family lore with hints of Malinda in it... Details to this coming later...

@gaygryffindorgal

#The Byrn family #The Malinda family #hp victorian era #It's a dynamic I need in my life

[beansschool]

I love silly parodies which is great except I usually can't make references cause no one knows what I'm on about and its disappointing

#gradient jumpscare #gradually watermelon #tbh all of gts i love malinda #centuries by fall out boy but you replace the thumps with NOOT NOOT #etc etc #the list goes on #even worse some are family ones i forget about until the song plays and i laugh uncontrollable

[spookebich]

Hey I know YA is a genre a lot of people dislike but… maybe read Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo? Especially if you need a (somewhat) gentle introduction to queer spaces.

(“A story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Red Scare”)

#warnings for racism/homophobia/xenophobia #Malinda Lo is legitimately a FANTASTIC queer author and she deserves your read #sapphic romance and family history with a political side dish and drag #also with current events??? #book recs

[princesssarisa]

This… out of curiosity

Do you know the different meanings of the name of Cinderella's Stepsisters?

Charles Perrault's Cendrillon

Javotte: A nickname for Geneviève, which means "of the race of woman," "woman of the family," or "white wave."

(Perrault only reveals the older stepsister's name in one scene, not the younger one's.)

Rossini's opera La Cenerentola

Clorinda: “Youthful” or “greenery.”

Tisbe: Unknown; it’s a name from Greek mythology.

Massenet's opera Cendrillon

Noémie: “Pleasantness.”

Dorothée: “Gift from God.”

The 1947 Russian film

Anna: “Grace” or “favor.”

Marianna: A cross between Mary, meaning “bitter,” “drop of the sea,” or “beloved,” and Anna (see above).

The Let's Pretend radio adaptation

Flora: “Flower.”

Isabella: A form of Elizabeth, meaning “My God is an oath.”

The Disney version, animated and live action

Anastasia: “Resurrection.”

Drizella: Probably a variant of Drusilla, meaning “little strong one.”

The 1955 film The Glass Slipper

Birdena: “Little bird.”

Serafina: “Fiery one.”

The 1957 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical

Portia: “Pig.”

Joy: Self-evident.

The 1965 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical

Prunella: “Little plum.”

Esmeralda: “Emerald.”

The Muppets' Hey, Cinderella!

Mona: “My lady.”

Lisa: Derived from Elizabeth, meaning “my God is an oath.”

Rankin/Bass's Festival of Family Classics

Fatima: “To abstain” (though it serves as a play on “fat,” because she is fat)

Leania: Probably derived from Helen, meaning “light” (though it serves as a play on “lean” because she’s scrawny)

The 1969 Czech film

Katerina: “Far off” or “pure.”

Dorota: "Gift from God."

The 1973 Czech film Three Wishes for Cinderella

Dora: “Gift.”

The 1976 film The Slipper and the Rose

Isobella: “My God is an oath” (see above).

Palatine: “Of the palace.”

The 1978 African-American adaptation Cindy

Olive: "Olive," of course.

Venus: "Love."

The Faerie Tale Theatre adaptation

Arlene: “Honor” or “eagle.”

Bertha: “Bright.”

The Grimm's Faerie Tale Classics adaptation (English dub)

Phoebe: “Bright.”

Griselda: “Gray battle.”

Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods

Florinda: "Flower."

Lucinda: "Light."

The Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child adaptation

Margarita: “Pearl” or “daisy flower.”

Esmeralda: “Emerald” (see above).

The musical A Tale of Cinderella

Moltovoce: “Much voice.”

Seppia: “Squid.”

The 1996 Burbank Animation version

Nellie: A nickname for Ellen or Helen, meaning “torch” or “light.”

Melba: Derived from Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne means “mill stream.”

(Their names are inspired by the famous Australian opera singer Nellie Melba, whose birth name was Helen Mitchell and who took her stage name from her home city of Melbourne.)

The anime series Cinderella Monogatari

Catherine: “Far off” or “pure.”

Jeanne: “God is gracious.”

The 1997 version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical

Minerva: “Intellect.”

Calliope: “Beautiful voice.”

The 1998 film Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Marguerite: “Pearl” or “daisy flower.”

Jacqueline: “Heel-grabber” or “supplanter."

Gregory Maguire's novel Confession of an Ugly Stepsister

Iris: "Rainbow" or "iris flower."

Ruth: "Friend."

Margaret Peterson Haddix's novel Just Ella

Griselda: "Gray battle" (see above).

Corimunde: Possibly a variant of "Clarimond," meaning "shining defender."

The Shrek franchise

Doris: "Dorian woman."

Mabel: "Lovable."

The 2000 stage version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical

Grace: Self-evident.

Joy: Self-evident (see above).

The 2000 British TV film

Goneril: Unknown meaning.

Regan: "Little ruler" or "king's child."

(In case anyone didn't know it, their names are taken from the evil sisters in Shakespeare's King Lear.)

The Simsala Grimm adaptation

Agatha: “Good.”

Beatrice: "One who blesses.”

The novel and film Ella Enchanted

Hattie: A nickname for Harriet, meaning “home ruler.”

Olive: Self-evident (see above).

The 2004 film A Cinderella Story

Brianna: "High" or "noble."

Gabriella: "God is my strength."

Malinda Lo's novel Ash

Ana: "Grace" or "favor" (see above).

Clara: "Clear" or "bright.

The 2010 Märchenperlen adaptation

Clothilde: “Glorious battle.”

The 2011 Sechs auf einen Streich adaptation

Annabella: "Grace and beauty."

The 2013 stage version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical

Gabrielle: “God is my strength” (see above).

Charlotte: “Free woman.”

Alma Deutscher's opera

Griselda: “Gray battle” (see above).

Zibaldona: Possibly derived from Zebada, which is derived from Zebadiah, meaning “God has bestowed.”

Betsy Cornwell's novel Mechanica

Piety: Self-evident.

Chastity: Self-evident.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Bad Cinderella

Adéle: “Noble.”

Marie: “Bitter,” “drop of the sea,” or “beloved.”

The 2021 Sony/Amazon film

Narissa: “Sea nymph.”

Malvolia: “Ill will.”

#cinderella #fairy tale #cinderella's stepsisters #name meanings

[ya-boi-haru]

Bored so I'm going to explain some of the songs I added to my Fable playlist, cause thinking of songs for playlist go brrr:

• Meant To Be Yours - (Heather's musical): Corrupted Caspian vibes

• Kiss Your Dreams Goodbye - Derivakat: Enderien vibes

• Saints - Echo's: Trying to decipher which God to believe about the war

• Viper - Derivakat: Season 2, Sculk arc coded

• Nightmare - Derivakat: Villain/Snapped Rae coded

• Daddy Issues - The Neighbourhood: 👀

• Gasoline - Halsey: Rae or Seven (theory)

• Don't make me - MALINDA: Enderien

• Freaks - Jordan Clarke: Lodestone Grove family

• Boyfriend- Dove Cameron: Enderien + Isla

• Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes: Enderien + Isla

• Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths: Centross (Stuck in the End arc, specifically)

• As The World Caves In - Sara Cothran: Resets

• Burned - Grace VanderWaal: Rae, Icarus, Ulysses

• Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi: Ghae (Early S2 - Pre-Memory return)

• Dollhouse - Melanie Martinez: Morningstar family

• Just a Man - Epic Musical: Fable

• Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift: Gods at war/Revenge

• God Must Hate Me - Catie Turner: How Rae sees himself vs

• Just The Way You Are - Bruno Marz: How his boyfriends see him

• She - Dodie: Enderien + Isla

• What Was I Made For - Billie Eilish: Isla

• The Hammers Coming Down - Nickleback: Resets

• Satalite - Nickleback: For the couples having their soft moments

• The Grudge - Olivia Rodrigo: Icarus + Quixis

• Killer In The Mirror - Set it off: Icarus

• Assassin - Au/Ra: Icarus & Ulysses

• Devil In Me - Halsey: Athena

• Naked - James Arthur: Wolftross or OciexCentross

• Blue - Derivakat: Athena and their cats vibes

• Would You Be So Kind - Dodie: Any of those sweet little gays trying to confess

• Memento Mori: the most important thing in the world - Will Wood: Centross (Rae, theory)

• Zydrate Anatomy - Repo! The Generic Opea: All the lil science nerds (Rae, Icarus, Ulysses, Aax)

• Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson: For the times they tried to claim back their blissful/calm moments

• Rockabye - Clean Bandit: Isla

• Livin la Vida Loca - Ricky Martin: Souly because when I asked where c!Hayley was Connor said "she's living la Vida loca"

• Love Like You - Caleb Hyles: Centross

• I Found - Amber Run: Centross

• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead & Nightmare - Set it Off: Rae

• Safe and Sound - Taylor Swift: Isla with Icarus and Rae or Alerion & Vivian with Will

• The Quiet - Troy's Sivan: Caspian while Rae was gone (S2)

The others are vibes checks or suit 3 different things (or are obvious lol)

#did this while waiting for hair dye lol #fable smp #fable smp songs #fable smp headcanon

[displayheartcode]

hello! what are your top 5 (or 10, if you can't choose) wlw books? doesn't have to be in the romance genre!

ONE LAST STOP by Casey McQuiston - a time slip romance between a jaded former detective and a woman from the 1970s thanks to the Q train.

THE LOCKED TOMB by Tamsyn Muir - several elite necromancers and their sworn swordsmen are invited to compete for sainthood.

A SCATTER OF LIGHT by Malinda Lo - a YA coming-of-age story about a teenager exploring the queer art scene – also related to LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB.

AFTERWORLDS by Scott Westerfeld - after her manuscript is picked up, recent high school graduate learns the most painful truths of being an author – the self-imposed misery of finishing the book

A LESSON IN VENGEANCE by Victoria Lee - a book that's very much for meeeeeeeeeeeeee!

HONEY GIRL by Morgan Rogers - done with completing her PhD, Grace is adrift after an accidental marriage causes her to confront what she wants in her future.

THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - rival assassins fight each other across space and time, leaving letters behind.

Anything by Alexandria Bellefleur!

EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END by CL Polk - a private detective's life is on the line in Chicago as angels and monsters play their own games.

THE SECRET SUMMER PROMISE by Keah Brown - Andrea's summer bucket list implodes after a fight with her best friend.

BONUS

FROM DUST, A FLAME by Rebecca Podos - Hannah's mother vanishes after a curse awakens. Now determined to understand her complicated family legacy, Hannah learns that her past is littered with golems, dybbukim, and the demonic deals our loved ones will make to save us.

#anyone else need recs? #otterandterrier

[girljeremystrong]

COMING OF AGE

YOUNG MUNGO by Douglas Stuart

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars (Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic) and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends. (TW abuse)

LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB by Malinda Lo

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.

RAINBOW MILK by Paul Mendez

At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives he finds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity.

HISTORICAL FICTION

THE GREAT BELIEVERS by Rebecca Makkai

In 1985, Yale Tishman is about to pull off an amazing coup. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. The AIDS crisis and how it affects a group of Chicago friends and the survivors who meet decades later in Paris.

STILL LIFE by Sarah Winman

A sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a richly drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms. A group of english outcasts used to meeting in a London pub end up in Florence.

SWIMMING IN THE DARK by Tomasz Jedrowski

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide.

A TIP FOR THE HANGMAN by Alison Epstein

Christopher Marlowe, brilliant aspiring playwright, is pulled into the duplicitous world of international espionage on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. A many-layered historical thriller combining state secrets, intrigue, and romance.

TELL THE WOLVES I’M HOME by Carol Rifka Brunt

A moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them. 

 CONTEMPORARY FICTION

THE GOLDEN SEASON by Madeline Kay Sneed

A love letter to the places we call home and asks how we grapple with a complicated love for people and places that might not love us back—at least, not for who we really are.

JUST BY LOOKING AT HIM by Ryan O’Connell

A darkly witty and touching novel following a gay TV writer with cerebral palsy as he fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world.

REAL LIFE by Brandon Taylor

Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses.

SKYE FALLING by Mia McKenzie

Told in a fresh, lively voice, this novel is a relentlessly clever, deeply moving portrait of a woman and the relationships she thought she could live without.

FUTURE FEELING by Joss Lake

An embittered Trans dog walker obsessed with social media inadvertently puts a curse a young man—and must adventure into mysterious dimension in order to save him—in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming novel about illusion, magic, technology, kinship, and the future.

GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER by Bernardine Evaristo

Follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.

MEMORIAL by Bryan Washington

Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston, and they've been together for a few years -- good years -- but now they're not sure why they're still a couple.

THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS by Laurie Frankel

Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.

ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong

a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born.

DETRANSITION, BABY by Torrey Peters

A whipsmart novel about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.

EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD by Emily Austin

Gilda, a twenty-something lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.

 SHORT STORIES

FILTHY ANIMALS by Brandon Taylor

It’s a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.

THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES by Deesha Philyaw

Explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good.

 NON FICTION (MEMOIRS)

IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado

About the complexities of abuse in same-sex relationships. (TW abuse)

ALL BOYS AREN’T BLUE by George M. JohnsoN

Weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.

 THRILLERS & MYSTERIES

WHERE THE TRUTH LIES by Anna Bailey

When a teenaged girl disappears from an insular small town, all of the community’s most devastating secrets come to light in this stunningly atmospheric and slow-burning suspense novel.

BATH HAUS by P.J. Vernon

Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving partner. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed.

DEAD DEAD GIRLS by Nekesa Afia

Set in 1920s Harlem featuring Louise Lloyd, a young black woman caught up in a series of murders way too close to home.

#THESE ARE ALL REALLY REALLY GOOD BOOKS #would love for you to read them and then come screaming at me #books #book recs #book recommendations #bookblr #lgbt #young mungo #last night at the telegraph club #in the dream house #brandon taylor #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #ocean vuong #swimming in the dark #the great believers

[roseaesynstylae]

Here's a list of what type of horror movie villain One Piece characters would be, in my opinion.

Killer: He has all the tools to be a slasher villain. He wears a mask, wields two eye-catching weapons (when you think about his Punishers, they'd be pretty nasty in real life), is very durable and fast, and has the potential to be creepy (especially after he ate that SMILE). Plus, I can't think of a name for a killer in that particular subgenre that fits better than 'Killer.'

X Drake: He'd be a good antagonist for some kind of cross between Jaws and Jurassic Park. Much like a surprising amount of things in One Piece, his Zoan transformation would be pretty scary in real life.

Doflamingo: For some reason, I feel like he'd fit in well in the Hostel franchise. After Audition, I think everyone has a better idea of the horrible things razor wire (or, in this case, sharpened strings) can do to our sensitive parts.

Kid: I can picture him as the villain of some sort of sea-based horror film. Imagine the Victoria Punk emerging from the fog to attack an unfortunate ship, possibly to the tune of MALINDA's version of Hoist the Colors. Like a ghost ship...

Law: Medical horror. Just... Medical horror. It's halfway canon already.

Charlotte Family: They'd probably be a cannibal clan, similar to the ones featured in Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Wrong Turn series. I mean, Big Mom has eaten people in canon (hell, possibly outside of the incident with Mother Caramel and the other orphans) and I have some questions about some of the others.

#one piece #killer one piece #x drake #donquixote doflamingo #eustass kid #trafalgar law #charlotte family

[gaygryffindorgal]

hpma/next gen; the malinda siblings

rowan "roe" malinda, slytherin, born in 1996

acacia malinda, slytherin, born in 2008

#generations of proud gryffindorism ended by disaster siblings #they both take after merula in many ways lmao #roe malinda #acacia malinda #the malinda family #hpma #magic awakened #hp next gen #hp next gen oc #acacia steals roe's clothes and roe teases acacia constantly

[aaronstveit]

read in 2023!

i did a reading thread last year and really enjoyed it so i am doing another one this year!! as always, you can find me on goodreads and my askbox is always open!

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book by J.R.R. Tolkien (★★★★☆)

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo* (★★★★★)

Beowulf by Unknown, translated by Seamus Heaney (★★★★☆)

The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Lee (★★★★☆)

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (★★★★★)

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (★★★★☆)

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (★★★★★)

The Shadow of Kyoshi by F.C. Lee (★★★★☆)

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (★★★★★)

Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson (★★☆☆☆)

Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón (★★★☆☆)

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (★★★★★)

Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt (★★★★★)

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (★★★★☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (★★★★☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

The Guest List by Lucy Foley (★★☆☆☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

The Princess Bride by William Goldman (★★★★☆)

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (★★★★★)

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid* (★★★★★)

Goldie Vance, Volume 1 by Hope Larson, Brittney Williams

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (★★★★☆)

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (★★★★☆)

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (★★★☆☆)

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (★★★★★)

The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (★★★☆☆)

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. (★★☆☆☆)

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★★★★)

Going Dark by Melissa de la Cruz (★★★☆☆)

Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie by Ellen Cassedy (★★★★☆)

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley (★★★★☆)

Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, and Berenice Nelle (★★★★☆)

Heavy Vinyl, Volume 1: Riot on the Radio by Nina Vakueva and Carly Usdin (★★★★☆)

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (★★★☆☆)

Heavy Vinyl, Volume 2: Y2K-O! by Nina Vakueva and Carly Usdin (★★★★☆)

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (★★★★☆)

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (★★★★★)

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (★★★★★)

The Backstagers, Vol 1: Rebels Without Applause by James Tynion IV, Rian Sygh, and Walter Baiamonte (★★★☆☆)

The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (★★★★☆)

The Backstagers, Vol 2: The Show Must Go On by James Tynion IV, Rian Sygh, and Walter Baiamonte (★★★☆☆)

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (★★★★☆)

Happy Place by Emily Henry (★★★★★)

After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis (★★★☆☆)

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (★★★☆☆)

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (★★★★☆)

A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy (★★★★☆)

Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street by Victor Luckerson (★★★★★)

Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Oscar O. Jupiter, and Val Wise (★★★★★)

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by assorted authors, edited by Saundra Mitchell (★★★★☆)

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher** (★★★★☆)

St. Juniper's Folly by Alex Crespo** (★★★★★)

The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan** (★★☆☆☆)

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (★★★★★)

Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould** (★★★★☆)

Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass** (★★★★★)

Princess Princess Ever After by Kay O’Neill (★★★☆☆)

Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis** (★★★☆☆)

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron (★★★☆☆)

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (★★★★☆)

Devotions by Mary Oliver (★★★★★)

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan* (★★★★☆)

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan* (★★★★☆)

The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan* (★★★★★)

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)

Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Muñoz** (★★★★☆)

The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (★★★★★)

All That’s Left to Say by Emery Lord (★★★★★)

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (★★★☆☆)

The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Joseph Andrew White (★★★★★)

Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

M Is for Monster by Talia Dutton (★★★★☆)

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)

Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by assorted authors, edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz (★★★★☆)

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall (★★★★☆)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (★★★★★)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston (★★★★☆)

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)

The October Country by Ray Bradbury (★★★★☆)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (★★★★☆)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (★★★★☆)

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)

The Appeal by Janice Hallett (★★★★☆)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (★★★★☆)

The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón (★★★★★)

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi (★★★★★)

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (★★★★★)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)

Know My Name by Chanel Miller (★★★★★)

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd (★★★★★)

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (★★★★☆)

The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith* (★★★★★)

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (★★★★★)

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi (★★★★★)

The Witch Hunt by Sasha Peyton Smith (★★★★☆)

That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally** (★★★★☆)

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (★★★★☆)

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson (★★★★☆)

Pageboy by Elliot Page (★★★★★)

All This and Snoopy, Too by Charles M. Schultz (★★★★☆)

The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter (★★★★☆)

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill** (★★☆☆☆)

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente (★★★★☆)

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei (★★★★☆)

Spell on Wheels Vol. 1 by Kate Leth, Megan Levens, and Marissa Louise (★★★★☆)

Spell on Wheels Vol. 2: Just to Get to You by Kate Leth, Megan Levens, and Marissa Louise (★★★★☆)

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis (★★★★☆)

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (★★★★☆)

The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett (★★★★☆)

So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014 - 2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★★★☆)

Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict (★☆☆☆☆)

Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon (★★★★☆)

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie (★★��★☆)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (★★★★★)

The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani (★★★★☆)

The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson (★★★★☆)

The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan (★★★☆☆)

Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger (★★★☆☆)

Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia (★★★★☆)

An asterisk (*) indicates a reread. A double asterisk (**) indicates an ARC.

#text #personal post #reading thread

[gl1tched-r4bb1t]

You should tell me what Cash acts like-

🔫 Now

/silly

But Fr I wanna make chaotic sibling shit and I know Lilith irl so I know her character, but I wish to include cash in sibling chaos, since, yes.

Oh! Tysm- I’ve been scared to join the madness, because I’m terrified to annoy people…

But, Cash is basically the quiet kid. In fact, he probably was suspected to be nonverbal because he RARELY spoke as a child. He’s super shy and is the type of kid to watch everything going on but just be silent in the background. He definitely hides behind objects, and when he’s scared he folds his dollar bills in half like “hiding” his face. He loves his family though.

I definitely think he’s the rational sibling. Like if Enosh and Malinda conspire some chaotic plan, he’d be like: “not a good idea”…

BUT- I imagine they could convince him to tag along. But he’d be very against it, almost ABOVE it, if that makes sense?

He completely dodged Narcy’s stubbornness and stole Sethes rationality but had Narcys fearful nature (sorta)

#ship kids #tadc narcissus #tadc sethe

[wlwbookshelf]

PRIDE MONTH: READER’S CHOICE BOOKS Thanks to everyone for sharing their favourites! The books our readers wanted everyone to know about are (listed alphabetically by author family name, and grouped by row):

Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

Scatter by Molly J. Bragg

Compass Rose by Anna Burke

Afterlove by Tanya Byrne

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

The Private Life of Jane Maxwell by Jenn Gott

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Before You Say I Do by Clare Lydon

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Verifiers by Jane Pek

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

On Sundays, She Picked Flowers by Yah-Yah Scholfield

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Malice by Heather Walter

The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee

Our readers also nominated fav comics and fav fan fic if you wanted to check those out!

#books #book recommendations #wlw books #bookblr #litedit #yalitedit #storyseekers #booksociety #dailylitgfx #lgbtqialitdaily #sapphic literature #novelsnet #fictionnet #userrainbow #uservalentina #userk8 #userhella #usersteen #pride month #reader's choice

[queerism1969]

Here are 50 books Texas parents want banned from school libraries:

"Drama," by Raina Telgemeier

"When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball," by Mark Weakland

"Lawn Boy," by Jonathan Evison

"Better Nate Than Ever," by Tim Federle

"Five, Six, Seven, Nate!" by Tim Federle

"The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison

"Out of Darkness," by Ashley Hope Pérez

"Ghost Boys," by Jewell Parker Rhodes

"l8r, g8r," by Lauren Myracle

"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," by Jesse Andrews

"White Bird: A Wonder Story," by R.J. Palacio

"Ground Zero: A Novel of 9/11," by Alan Gratz

"Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic," by Alison Bechdel

"Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)" by L.C. Rosen

"City of Thieves," by David Benioff

"Gender Queer," by Maia Kobabe

"This One Summer," by Mariko Tamaki

"We Are the Ants," by Shaun David Hutchinson

"The Breakaways," by Cathy G. Johnson

"All Boys Aren't Blue," by George M. Johnson

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower," by Stephen Chbosky

"Michelle Obama: Political Icon," by Heather E. Schwartz

"Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You," by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

"New Kid," by Jerry Craft

"Class Act," by Jerry Craft

"Salvage the Bones," by Jesmyn Ward

"Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice," by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Olivia Gatwood

"Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness," by Anastasia Higginbotham

"How to be an Antiracist," by Ibram X. Kendi

"A Good Kind of Trouble," by Lisa Moore Ramée

"We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices," by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson

"On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God," by Louise Rennison

"The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini

"It's Perfectly Normal," by Robie H. Harris

"Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out," by Susan Kuklin

"Monday's Not Coming," by Tiffany D. Jackson

"Happier Than Not," by Adam Silvera

"George," by Alex Gino

"What Girls Are Made Of," by Elana K. Arnold

"I Am Jazz," by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings

"So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed," by Jon Ronson

"King and the Dragonflies," by Kacen Callender

"Go With the Flow," by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann

"Last Night at the Telegraph Club," by Malinda Lo

"Weird Girl and What's His Name," by Meagan Brothers

"Flamer," by Mike Curato

"Milk and Honey," by Rupi Kaur

"A Court of Mist and Fury," by Sarah J. Maas

"47," by Walter Mosley

"Girls Like Us," by Gail Giles

#lgbt books #queer #lgbtq #lgbtq community #nonbinary #lgbt pride #lesbian #lgbtqia #sapphic #nonbinary lesbian #gay girls #bookstagram #bookblr #booksbooksbooks #reading #booklr #books and reading #books #texas government #uvalde texas #mississippi #wisconsin #ohio #kansas #kentucky #wlw love #wlw nsft #wlw ns/fw #wlw #wlw art

[moodywyrm]

just finished reading abby x bookworm! reader and it just so sweet. had me giggling and kicking my feet

do you have any sapphic book recommendations or just book recommendations in general?

im so glad you liked it!!

n oh my god this is the moment I've been waiting for, i love giving book recs. obvs the two big sapphic recs are the two I mention across the two abby fics, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo and One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston. The first is about a Chinese-American teenager named Lily figuring out her sexuality in 1950s San Francisco, I read it last year and absolutely loved it, honestly I want to reread it for an honors thesis. The other is one of my favorite books, about a girl named August who moves to New York n finds a mysterious girl named Jane on her commute. Huge found family elements, bi x lesbian relationship, there are some things that August said pertaining to racism that are dumb, but overall I really like the book.

For a sci-fi rec, I really love Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. It's pitched as lesbian necromancers exploring a decrepit castle in space, which is absolutely perfect. I haven't continued with the series yet bc I'm not buying extra books this year (rip) but I really fucking love this book n want to reread it n I think every Abby n Ellie lover would love Gideon Nav <3

I also really like the Girls of Paper and Fire series by Natasha Ngan, although I haven't read the third book yet. It follows Lei as she is basically forced to become a consort, a 'paper girl' to the demon king, alongside eight other girls. I would check the trigger warnings for this one, but I'm enjoying it so far.

Oh and my ultimate favorite sapphic duology is We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia. I haven't read it in like a year or two but I remember I fucking loved it, n it was one of the few sapphic latine books I had found. It follows two girls who marry the same, very powerful man (as it goes in the world of the book), n they have a sort of rivalry as his wives. You can guess where that goes but it also has some insane revolutionary stuff going on that I love.

Honestly, I feel like I haven't read enough sapphic books, but some that I really want to read n will likely buy at the end of the year are The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, and Legend and Lattes by Travis Baldree. I would love more sapphic recs though!!

#anon #book stuff #book recs #sapphic book recs