category: books with romances where they want to crawl into each other's skin
disclaimer: there will be quotes to showcase the writing/relationships and their insanity
hazelthorn by cg drews
literally just finished this, inspired this list. botanical horror with a little enemies to lovers (kinda)
quotes:
"God was stronger than me when he made Adam and didn’t fall in love with him.”
“He would core him like a pear and throw away the soft, rotted skin until he saw him as he really is: horrible and beautiful and real.”
“He is Icarus with wings of swan feathers, who chose to fly into the sun because it looked like a pretty boy.”
“There is nothing else to me but the hollow spaces I've carved out for you. I knew I'd cut myself to pieces on you if we ever had the chance to touch, but I wanted to. Let me ruin myself on you.”
icarus by k ancrum
absolutely love this one, about a teenager secretly visiting his neighbor and art thievery, not as intense as some of the others
quotes:
“I was yours before we even met and I’ll be yours until we die.”
“I was made for you; I was born for you, and you’re still standing before me acting like you’re not worthy.”
“Meeting him feels like learning about a part of myself that I haven’t been allowed to understand until now.”
“He wondered at the picture they made. Icarus dark and small, in the water, head tilted back in devout wonder. Helios, red like the sun, gold in the light, standing above him.”
these violent delights by Micah nemerever
oh my God. THE queer dark academia novel. super unhealthy and toxic but so good
quotes:
“He couldn’t stand to look at the truth, even now. All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.”
“He remembered the way love had burned through him like a flame under glass, grasping outward, devouring what air it had left before it choked.”
“They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound.”
a series of rooms by aj barlowe
not as intense, rlly sad and check tw
quote:
“For weeks, they had been climbing higher and higher, every accidental brush of skin, every smile, every laugh, every secret bolstering the wind beneath their wax wings until they had flown too close to the sun. The view from the ground was unforgiving.”
don't let the forest in by cg drews
body horror with oblivious artist and pining writer, best friends to lovers
quotes:
“You could cut me open and devour everything that I am. I would let you, I'd ask you to. But I have no idea what it means to you. What I mean to you.”
"They'd be forever together, rib against rib, fused in gore and bone and adoration.”
“He needed Thomas, needed their lungs sewn inside each other so he could remember how to breathe. He needed to take words from Thomas's mouth and put them in his own so he had something to say.”
I don't mean sexualizing us or watching trans porn.
I don't mean treating trans mascs like "uwu soft baby boy" and trans femmes as "yass queen girl boss".
I don't mean expecting praise for using the right pronouns and using incorrect ones when "they're a bad trans person".
I mean ACTUAL SUPPORT.
Donate to trans shelters or organizations. DON'T out us to people we aren't out to. Go to protests if you're able, FIGHT ALONGSIDE US. Don't bring us around people you know are transphobic or dangerous, the list goes on. The LGBTQ community is ALL of us not just some of us.
Trans people who are documented as trans on government documents are currently not able to get passports - whether or not they accept their passport being issued as their birth sex, any indication that you're trans on a document that can be accessed by the government is being used as reason to deny a passport.
This is incredibly alarming. Even agreeing to be labeled as your birth sex is not sufficient. They want to deny trans people the ability to leave the country. Any possible reason for this is horrifying.
We need to rally now. Protect the entire community, do not allow them to throw any of us under the bus. None of us will be spared, they're just coming for the most vulnerable people first, and soon enough the most vulnerable people will be YOU.
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forget-me-not - rxgulus
my summary: James gets hit with an amnesia spell, and basically only remembers his boyfriend regulus. regulus is not in fact his boyfriend.
wordcount: 13,325
james is WHIPPED, basically all fluff, very cutesy
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a bee for the honey - rxgulus
my summary: James finds out regulus is a honey badger animagus and brings him little gifts of honey and sweets
wordcount: 20,670
my summary is hesitant bc I haven't read in a while, planning on doing so soon so I'll be back to change it if anything is different. I know I thought it was rlly cute tho. James is a simp
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The Barista, the Burglar, and the Sofa - orphan_account
my summary: struggling barista Remus comes home to find sirius (a stranger) in his flat, who continues to break in to furnish his home
wordcount: 21,344
sirius basically sugar daddies his way into remus' life
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nothing happens (series) - jaywalkers
my summary: childhood friends James ang reg form a very codependent and minorly toxic friendship that will begin to cross boundaries
wordcount (so far): 43,795
i'm actually obsessed with these characterizations, James is kind of a douche sometimes but their devotion to each other! anticipating the next installment
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the coffee shop au - third_crow
my summary: sirius w Harry come into remus' coffee house and they both continue to pine endlessly
wordcount: 54,626
haven't read in like a year but I remember absolutely adoring it
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Operation Walburga's Arbitrary No Kissing Ever Rule - courfee
my summary: 10 things I hate about you inspired, sirius asks James to "fake" date regulus so Sirius and remus can get around a curse walburga placed on them. reg was unaware any of it was fake
wordcount: 91,325
literally just reread, quite frankly think that the angst could've been drawn out more, James frustrated me a lot but he's trying
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whatever our souls are made of - damagecontrol, solmussa
my summary: hanahaki disease, a no Voldemort au, reg comes VERY close to death
wordcount: 157,821
THIS ONE IF YOU ARE GOING TO READ ANY OF THESE LET IT BE THIS ONE. I absolutely adore this, and its probably my favorite hanahaki fic of all time. its literally the reason I'm making this post, people need to talk about it more
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The Long Game - lackadaisical_lizard
my summary: in high school, jock James and artsy regulus work on a project together and bond
wordcount: 250,008
literally THE muggle high school au, James becomes regulus' muse its adorable
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Kill Your Darlings - MesserMoon
my summary: regulus follows sirius to play hockey and they heal (yes it's jegulus), features deaf remus
wordcount: 303,706
this was my first true introduction to rosekiller, and its what made me fall in love with them. the wolfstar was so sweet, but honestly I remember rosekiller the most from it
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Sweater Weather (+ sequel) - lumosinlove
my summary: PT Remus and NHL captain Sirius fall in love, has a whole cast of OC's that are super cute
wordcount: 423,079
one of the first non-magical wolfstars I ever read, the ensemble really add so much to it
i've been trying to decide whether I should read the secret history or if we were villains first.
i am aware that the secret history is the book that inspired a lot of what is modernly referred to as dark academia, and that if we were villains takes a lot of heavy influences from the novel.
i've heard that people think iwwv is tsh but watered down and not as good, so should I read the original and risk being disappointed, or read the modern one and miss references and parallels?
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