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LGBTQ+ Fantasy Book Rec List

Few notes: All books redirect to goodreads page. My focus is on high/heroic/historic/mythological fantasy, any other genres are stated in the brackets. Please, add books and notes at will but remember to include only these in where either the protagonist or an important side character belongs to LGBTQ+. (I also have a list here, which I’m going to update every time someone adds another book to this list)

GAY/BI MALE CHARACTERS

Rain Wild Chronicles (part of Realm of the Elderlings series), Robin Hobb

The Books of Outremer, Chaz Brenchley

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

The Tale of the Five Omnibus, Diane Duane

The Last Herald Mage series (part of Valdemar series), Mercedes Lackey

Nightrunner series, Lynn Flewelling

The Steel Remains (part of A Land Fit fot Heroes series), Richard K. Morgan

The Wode Series, J. Tullos Hennig

Mordred, Bastard Son, Douglas Clegg

The Knights of Camelot series, Sarah Luddington

The Mortal Instruments, Cassie Clare

Kirith Kirin, Jim Grimsley

The Fire’s Stone, Tanya Huff

Shadowdance, Robin Wayne Bailey (trigger warning for rape)

Doctrine of Labyrinths series, Sarah Monette

Swordspoint & The Privilege of the Sword & The Fall of the Kings (part of Riverside world), Ellen Kushner

Iskryne World Series, Sarah Monette

Torsere Series, Annabelle Jacobs

Captive Prince Series, C.S. Pacat

The Harmatia Cycle, Madeleine Emily Vaughan

Micah Grey series, Laura Lam (a bisexual intersex afab male protagonist)

Gay Knights And Horny Heroes: Tales from the Court of King Arthur, Michael Gouda (very nsfw in a very ridiculous setting. Also spoiler: everyone is gay and horny)

[steampunk] Havemercy series, Jaida Jones, Danielle Bennett

[steampunk] A Book of Tongues (Hexslinger series), Gemma Files

[steampunk] The God Eaters, Jesse Hajicek

[steampunk] Lord of the White Hell, Ginn Hale

[urban fantasy] Rifter Series, Ginn Hale

[urban fantasy] Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

[urban fantasy] The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice

[sf] Bas-Lag Trilogy, China Miéville

[sf] Warchild series, Karin Lowachee

[dystopian sf] Mind Fuck, Manna Francis

LESBIAN/BI FEMALE CHARACTERS

Good Lesbian Books - it’s worth checking this site; it’s a guide to lesbian books, with books neatly organized into genres and themes

Circle of Magic, Tamora Pierce

Huntress & Ash, Malinda Lo

The Steel Remains, Richard K. Morgan

Chronicles of Tornor, Elizabeth A. Lynn

When Women Were Warriors series, Catherine M. Wilson

The Saga of the Renunciates & Thendara House (from Darkover series), Marion Zimmer Bradley

Lythande, Marion Zimmer Bradley

Elemental Logic series, Laurie J. Marks

Banshee’s Honor, Shaylynn Rose

Kushiel’s Legacy series, Jacqueline Carey

Wolfcry (part of The Kiesha’ra series), Amelia Atwater-Rhode

The Dark Wife, Sarah Diemer

The Witch Sea, Sarah Diemer (for free! The link leads to the download page)

Sappho’s Fables: Lesbian Fairy Tales series, Elora Bishop and Jennifer Diemer

Queen’s Champion: The Legend of Lancelot Retold, Cris Newport

Celaeno series, Jane Fletcher

Green Universe, Jay Lake

Sing the Four Quarters (part of Quarter series), Tanya Huff

Fires of the Faithful (part of Eliana’s Song), Naomi Kritzer

Dragon Age: The Masked Empire (part of Dragon Age series), Patrick Weekes

Nantuket Trilogy, S.M. Stirling

By the Sword, Mercedes Lackey

Sword of the Guardian, Merry Shannon

[urban fantasy] Underdogs, Geonn Cannonn

[urban fantasy] The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan

[urban fantasy] Gossamer Axe, Mass Market

[urban fantasy] The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan

[urban fantasy] The Cirlce, Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren

[urban fantasy] Modern Faerie Tales, Holly Black

[sf] Ascension, Jacqueline Koyanagi

[sf] Jacob’s Ladder series, Elizabeth Bear

[sf] Santa Olivia series, Jacqueline Carey

[sf] Ammonite & Slow River, Nicola Griffith

[sf] The Telling, Ursula Le Guin

[sf] Dreamships, Melissa Scott

[sf] The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson

[sf] Adaptation series, Malinda Lo

[dystopian] The Holdfast Chronicles, Suzy McKee Charnas

OTHER SEXUALITY

Vows and Honor series (part of Valdemar series), Mercedes Lackey (asexual female protagonist. Trigger warning for rape as a background story!)

The Fire’s Stone, Tanya Huff (one of protagonists is an asexual mage princess)

Banner of the Damned, Sherwood Smith (asexual female protagonist)

The Deed of Paksenarrion (part of Paksenarrion series), Elizabeth Moon (protagonist may be read as asexual, she certainly isn’t interested in anyone)

[sf] Jacob’s Ladder series, Elizabeth Bear (asexual lesbian protagonist)

[sf] short stories: A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea) , Mountain Ways, Unchosen Love (both from The Birthday of the World and Other Stories) , Ursula Le Guin (polyamorous marriages - between two men and two women)

GENDER NON-BINARY & TRANSGENDER CHARACTERS

Farseer Trilogy & Tawny Man Trilogy & Fitz and The Fool Trilogy (part of Realm of the Elderlings series), Robin Hobb (gender non-binary major character)

Eon series, Alison Goodman (one of side characters is trans woman)

Bloodhound (part of YA series Beka Cooper), Tamora Pierce (features a trans woman)

The Bone Palace (part of The Necromancer Chronicles), Amanda Downum (major trans female character)

A Story of the First History series, Mary Gentle (gender non-binary protagonsit)

Children of the Triad series, Laurie J. Marks (one of the species, Aeyrie, is genderless, referred to with gender-neutral pronouns Id, Ids and Idre)

Micah Grey series, Laura Lam (a bisexual intersex afab male protagonist)

Tamír Triad, Lynn Flewelling (Princess Tamir is born female, but to protect them they are magically transformed into male and raised as a boy. Later in the books they are transformed into female again)

[urban fantasy] The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (main character is in a relationship with her transgender girlfriend)

[dystopia] The Butterfly and the Flame, Dana De Young (trans female protagonist)

[dystopia] Bone Dance, Emma Bull (agender protagonist)

[sf] The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard (an anthology of transgender narratives)

[sf] Vorkosigan Saga, Lois McMaster Bujold (major intersex character, trigger warning? for referring to them with “it” pronouns)

[sf] The Left Hand of Darkness (part of Hainish Cycle), Ursula Le Guin (intersex society)

[sf] 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (very broad range of gender and sexual identity)

[sf] Imajica, Clive Barker (one of characters is an interdimensional traveler whose body can shift between sexes)

[post-apocalyptic] Wraeththu series, Storm Constantine (intersex society)

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a comprehensive collection of weird-ass wikipedia articles to read when you're bored

fair warning: while some of these articles are just silly or weird, i do like to freak myself out, so a fair amount of these are creepy and/or morbid! some of the links involve death and occasionally suicide, so consider this your blanket warning for potentially upsetting/tiggering stuff! also when you’re white-knuckled gripping the bedframe at four am because you’re too freaked out to go get a glass of water and you think there’s an axe-murderer in your closet, don’t go a-blamin’ me. you clicked the link.

list of unusual deaths

post-mortem photography

nocebo

list of people who disappeared mysteriously

vrillon

ancient astronauts

list of nuclear/radiation accidents

lord uxbridge’s leg

suspicious incidents at disney parks

demon core

milgram experiment

list of film accidents

collyer brothers

new chronology & phantom time

cosmic latte

list of sexually active popes

spontaneous human combustion

list of methods of torture

cellar door

voynich manuscript

tarrare

list of inventors killed by their own invention

zone of alienation

randy gardner

list of entertainers who died during a performance

dancing mania

vodka eyeballing

tacoma narrows bridge

troy huturbise

list of alleged extraterrestrial beings

lucid dreaming

son of sam law

mary toft

list of banned video games

elizabeth bathory

marvin heemeyer

list of serial killers

quantum suicide

mcdonald’s urban legends

cockle bread

list of reportedly haunted locations

ball lightning

mellified man

armin meiwes

mobius syndrome

moon landing conspiracy theories

the case of taman shud

the euthanasia coaster

capgras delusion

raining animals

voluntary human extinction movement

trepanning

s. a. andrée’s arctic balloon expedition of 1897

list of reported ufo sightings

astral projection

maximum lifespan

oscar the cat

mill ends park

criticality accident

words that mean opposite things

list of video games notable for negative reception

parapsychology

uncombable hair syndrome

gloria ramirez

that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

spite house

john titor

list of unsolved murders & deaths

sleep paralysis

list of common misconceptions

ames room

list of impostors

korean air lines flight 007: alternate theories

list of political decoys

psuedoscientific planets

list of conspiracy theories

sawney bean

loudness war

body farm

list of messiah claimants

lazarus syndrome

betty & barney hill abduction

fixyourwritinghabits

Research, plot bunnies, prompts or procrastination. We got you covered.

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harry brought draco home and we had dinner

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“Getting” yourself to write

Yesterday, I was trawling iTunes for a decent podcast about writing. After a while, I gave up, because 90% of them talked incessantly about “self-discipline,” “making writing a habit,” “getting your butt in the chair,” “getting yourself to write.” To me, that’s six flavors of fucked up.

Okay, yes—I see why we might want to “make writing a habit.” If we want to finish anything, we’ll have to write at least semi-regularly. In practical terms, I get it.

But maybe before we force our butts into chairs, we should ask why it’s so hard to “get” ourselves to write. We aren’t deranged; our brains say “I don’t want to do this” for a reason. We should take that reason seriously.

Most of us resist writing because it hurts and it’s hard. Well, you say, writing isn’t supposed to be easy—but there’s hard, and then there’s hard. For many of us, sitting down to write feels like being asked to solve a problem that is both urgent and unsolvable—“I have to, but it’s impossible, but I have to, but it’s impossible.” It feels fucking awful, so naturally we avoid it.

We can’t “make writing a habit,” then, until we make it less painful. Something we don’t just “get” ourselves to do.

The “make writing a habit” people are trying to do that, in their way. If you do something regularly, the theory goes, you stop dreading it with such special intensity because it just becomes a thing you do. But my god, if you’re still in that “dreading it” phase and someone tells you to “make writing a habit,” that sounds horrible.

So many of us already dismiss our own pain constantly. If we turn writing into another occasion for mute suffering, for numb and joyless endurance, we 1) will not write more, and 2) should not write more, because we should not intentionally hurt ourselves.

Seriously. If you want to write more, don’t ask, “how can I make myself write?” Ask, “why is writing so painful for me and how can I ease that pain?” Show some compassion for yourself. Forgive yourself for not being the person you wish you were and treat the person you are with some basic decency. Give yourself a fucking break for avoiding a thing that makes you feel awful.

Daniel José Older, in my favorite article on writing ever, has this to say to the people who admonish writers to write every day:

Here’s what stops more people from writing than anything else: shame. That creeping, nagging sense of ‘should be,’ ‘should have been,’ and ‘if only I had…’ Shame lives in the body, it clenches our muscles when we sit at the keyboard, takes up valuable mental space with useless, repetitive conversations. Shame, and the resulting paralysis, are what happen when the whole world drills into you that you should be writing every day and you’re not.

The antidote, he says, is to treat yourself kindly:

For me, writing always begins with self-forgiveness. I don’t sit down and rush headlong into the blank page. I make coffee. I put on a song I like. I drink the coffee, listen to the song. I don’t write. Beginning with forgiveness revolutionizes the writing process, returns its being to a journey of creativity rather than an exercise in self-flagellation. I forgive myself for not sitting down to write sooner, for taking yesterday off, for living my life. That shame? I release it. My body unclenches; a new lightness takes over once that burden has floated off. There is room, now, for story, idea, life.

Writing has the potential to bring us so much joy. Why else would we want to do it? But first we’ve got to unlearn the pain and dread and anxiety and shame attached to writing—not just so we can write more, but for our own sakes! Forget “making writing a habit”—how about “being less miserable”? That’s a worthy goal too!

Luckily, there are ways to do this. But before I get into them, please absorb this lesson: if you want to write, start by valuing your own well-being. Start by forgiving yourself. And listen to yourself when something hurts.

Next post: freewriting

Ask me a question or send me feedback! Podcast recommendations welcome…

epeeblade

I need to read this again and again and again

mikkeneko

holy shit

adorehxxrry

Jesus christ

recklessabxndon

lovely ; songs i listen to when i’m so full of love that i feel like i could burst.

1. cherry wine - hozier // 2. nothing - lewis watson // 3. you - keaton henson // 4. only love - ben howard // 5. holocene- bon iver // 6. slow dancing in a burning room - john mayer // 7. bones - ben howard // 8. work song - hozier // 9. sweetheart, what have you done to us? - keaton henson // 10. stay - lewis watson // 11. from afar - vance joy // 12. first day of my life - bright eyes // 13. we all die trying to get it right - vance joy // 14. latch (acoustic) - sam smith // 15. cough syrup - young the giant // 16. for emma - bon iver // 17. we found each other in the dark - city and colour // 18. make it to me (stripped) - sam smith // 19. skinny love (cover) - ed sheeran // 20. let it go - james bay // 21. tenerife sea - ed sheeran // 22. your body is a wonderland - john mayer // 23. hold back the river - james bay

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Bonus:

How to say »I love you« Arthur Pendragon with a slight of Bradley

merlins-earmuffs

actual canon lines in bbc merlin

“Tell me, Merlin, do you know how to walk on your knees?”

“(moaning) Arthur…Arthur, go faster…”

“I’ll have YOU for breakfast!”

“I have to pee. Sorry, unless you want to watch me.”

“Merlin can’t even find his own backside.”

“Three’s always better than one, eh, Merlin?”

“I’m always peeing, ask Arthur.”

“You’re not Merlin.”

monstercumhrt

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS

THERE ARE GAY CONCENTRATION CAMPS BEING SET UP CHECHNYA, RUSSIA

GAY PEOPLE ARE BEING TORTURED AND PUT INTO CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND IT’S NOT EVEN IN THE TOP TEN IN THE TRENDING SECTION ON TUMBLR

WHAT THE HELL CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT THIS

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THE LINK WHERE I WILL UPLOAD THE TRANSLATED CLIPS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE STARTING MONDAY

REBLOG TO SAVE LIVES

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REBLOG TO SAVE LIVES

So there's this new boy at school and he's like super big and tall and he goes to the gym and LOVES to read and he's very shy but also rlly cool and he's SO good at math and has a baby face. Omg I love him in super platonic way. I just adore my big soft babe so much

#boys