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@chordialy
Hi, I'm Aly!
I post:
BG3, esp Gale of Waterdeep and occasionally Halsin, too
A little bit of Writing
Crafts!
Magick
Books, Libraries, Jane Austen, and Bridgerton
divider from @ plum98 blog header from @ spidaerman
why dont you make like a tree and feel the breeze and the sun and the changing of the seasons. and Grow
30 Days of kisses
Let's spread kisses for June :) Pucker those lips, I want to see my timeline filled with nothing but kisses all June long.
Come out and join us for the month of June for 30 days of kisses :) Also available on Bluesky! Ao3 Collection Link @voyeuristicbeast's Wyll Kissing Booth Random Wheel of NPCs if you want to let fate decide :)
*whispers* holy shit people are amazing.
"...no one so proper, so capable as Anne."
--Ch.12, Persuasion
gale dekarios + text posts [7/?]
part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4 // part 5 // part 6
I just finished reading persuasion and Captain Wentwhort's declaration of love left me crazy
If you thought that Mr. Darcy's declaration of love was good, this one will seem wonderful to you
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR — “Dance in the Country” (1883)
“The painting depicts a couple dancing under a chestnut tree…the woman is Aline Charigot, who later became the wife of the painter.” “The elegant restraint of the city dancers and the cool ballroom around them contrasts with the gaiety of the country dance in the open air.” “I desire to dance with my betrothed…You are rather skilled, even with no music.” “It is all the more remarkable if you knew who my first dance tutor was. I had so much to overcome.”
you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.
hey, friends, I'm opening some (3!) commission slots! ✨
if you have questions or want to commission, pls feel free to dm me! 🌿
Hey you should ask Vetochka for some art!! She is amazing to work with and sooooooo talented! We've done 2 commissions from her and they are framed with honor on the wall!
not now, mommy's romancing Gale from Waterdeep
you're doomed regardless. might as well save someone else
do it again. keep going. use everything you have left. burn brightly
do it again. keep
going. use everything you
have left. burn brightly
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
"The Poet" by Reynier Llanes
"The Poem" by me
Walk me out into the long grass, where midday hums against my skin.
I am already fading. You can see it in the way my weary shoulders borrow green. In the healing bruise-blooms of lilac against my broken back.
Each step presses me further into the thick, sweet breath of things.
My body is re-learning the patience of fields, the slow language of spring.
I will be back later, when the light has finished filling me and I am once again more than a soft disturbance of colour.
I will be the poet, tomorrow. Today, I am the poem.
listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults
maybe I’ll start a big google doc or something one day but for now *deep breath*
The Beautiful Ones (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) - absolutely BUCKWILD romance with a dash of telekinesis; nonstop high society drama and misunderstanding from start to finish, happy ending guaranteed. STRONGLY recommend if you, like me, are a basic bitch who enjoys a bit of Pride and Prejudice.
Binti (Nnedi Okorafor) - a math prodigy runs away from Earth to become the first of her people to attend a prestigious university in space, but shit gets real when a crew of hostile jellyfish aliens attack her ship.
Chilling Effect (Valerie Valdes) - a spaceship captain and her crew take on a series of convoluted missions in order to rescue the captain’s sister, who’s been frozen and held for ransom.
The City of Brass (S.A. Chakraborty) - an 18th century conwoman and a mysterious djinn team up to go looking for a legendary hidden city.
The City We Became (N.K. Jemisin) - a scrappy bunch of Chosen Ones have to band together to defend New York City (which is very much alive) from a huge ass monster.
The Empress of Forever (Max Gladstone) - a lady supervillain gets blasted into space and meets an even bigger, planet-destroying evil space empress. literally WHAT is not to like?
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (Nghi Vo) - high fantasy royal drama about a woman making her way to power in the wake of a political marriage that left without friends or allies.
Escaping Exodus (Nicky Drayden) - a space-faring clan are creating their latest spaceship from the insides of a giant monster when absolutely everything goes to shit (as things are wont to do in science fiction stories).
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (Kai Cheng Thom) - a trans girl runs away to the big city, where she uses her martial arts skills to team up with other trans woman and form a vigilante gang to defend their own when police look the other way. a fascinating blend of poetry and prose and magical realism.
Finna (Nino Cipri) - two exes working at an IKEA have to team up to save a customer who disappeared through one of those interdimensional portals that all IKEAs have laying around. you know how it is.
Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) - come on, you’ve heard about this one. it’s the one with the lesbian space necromancers? yeah, that’s the one. you got it.
In the Vanishers’ Palace (Aliette de Bodard) - a Beauty and the Beast retelling based in science fiction and Vietnamese fantasy, featuring a young woman falling in love with a “beast” who’s actually a motherly dragon after becoming a tutor to the dragon’s two powerful children.
Jade City (Fonda Lee) - urban fantasy gang wars, pitting one magically enhanced family against rivals and a new drug that lets anyone mimic their abilities.
The Library of the Unwritten (A.J. Hackwith) - hell’s librarian gets sent on a quest to find a runaway soul.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Becky Chambers) - aka one of my favorite books ever, essentially slice of life science fiction following an interspecies crew of deep space truckers making the longest and most complicated delivery of their lives. very warm and fuzzy.
Mort (Terry Pratchett) - one of many MANY Discworld books, but a very good one to start with, following the adventures of a boy named Mort after he’s taken on as Death’s apprentice. you know, like the Grim Reaper? that Death.
River of Teeth (Sarah Gailey) - historical AU in which the United States imported and domesticated hippos in the Mississippi River; follows a crew of hippo-riding crooks and hooligans as they plan one heck of a caper.
Space Opera (Catherynne Valente) - a washed up rock star and his old bandmate get roped into performing in an intergalactic singing competition that will determine the fate of the entire planet Earth. full of aliens, attempted assassination, art, and emotional turmoil.
This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone) - time-travelling assassins from rival factions fall in love in a poetic and breathless story that spans centuries and reality.
Under the Pendulum Sun (Jeannette Ng) - fairyland is real, and Victorian England is sending missionaries. a woman and her brother attempt to bring the good word to the fair folk, but start to suspect the queen might just be screwing with their heads. PEAK gothic horror with a creepy fairy twist.
Witchmark (C.L. Polk) - a doctor and former soldier with magical powers of healing is trying to live a quiet life and avoid his controlling, aristocratic family’s plans for him, only to get tangled up in a massive political conspiracy when one of his patients mysterious dies. accompanying him in his investigation is a mysterious and gorgeous faerie man. romance ensues.
The First Sister by Linden A Lewis. Three protagonists and all of them queer, a fun space opera. It’s not out yet, but I can tell you it’s really, really good. I highly recommend
Gods of Jade and Shadow another Silvia Moreno-Garcia book. It takes place in 1920s Mexico and has Mayan gods. A fun breezy book.
Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep. If you like YA fantasy but want a little more swearing, violence and sex then this novel is for you.
The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle Jensen. This one I really enjoyed. If you like the winner’s curse then you’ll like this book.
Books I haven’t read but I’ve heard good things about
Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson. This one isn’t out it but I believe it’s got a black protagonist.
Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri. An Indian inspired fantasy novel. I haven’t read this one but I’ve heard good things about it.
Rage of Dragons by Evan Winters. A black fantasy novel.
The Unspoken Name by AK Larkwood. I haven’t read it but I know it’s got a lesbian protagonist.
Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope. Just started this book but I believe it’s for adults.
Tiger’s Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera. Lesbian protagonists and it’s still on my tbr.
A great way to get back into the habit of reading and discover new authors is to pick up an anthology of shorter works. You can find them in any genre, on all kinds of specific themes, by diverse authors, and if one story isn’t your jam you can move on. A couple of my favorites are:
Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures;
Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
A People’s Future of the United States
Sisters of the Revolution: A feminist speculative fiction anthology
plus a few more full length books i like:
Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman - space college punk with a harmonica what time travel crimes will she commit, queerplatonic human/alien relationships, very fun all around
Becky Chambers has several excellent books in the same setting as Long Way to a Small Angry Planet!
Nnedi Okorafor also has a bunch of great ones including sequels to Binti and other scifi/Afrofuturist works do NOT sleep on her
The Last Girl Scout by Natalie Ironside - if u like trans lesbians fighting zombies and nazis and vampires in the Appalachian nuclear wasteland I CANNOT recommend it enough.