And went up. And came down in Tharsis:

main: @calnrio / any pronouns / probably older than you

[januarygale]

OKAY HI in anticipation of the mars house being published i thought i'd make a side blog for natasha pulley stuff!! and maybe general sci-fi but that pretty much already goes on my star trek blog (which is @agios-rio) my main is @calnrio :)

my fav pulley book is valery k -- with the kingdoms and bedlam stacks sharing the second place

i'm absolute shit at answering PMs but i'll answer asks and chit-chat in comments under a post so don't be afraid to say hi!

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

Rhapsody by hahafool

The Mars House, River Gale/January Stirling, 9k words

“I met up with an old friend! Annie, my best friend back at the Royal Ballet. We entered as Artists in the same year. After weekend performances, we’d hit up the pub and watch boxing. She and her wife moved to Tharsis just before I did. I could probably find old photos of us to show you if I dig far enough through my gallery.” “She sounds fun,” River said. “Any plans to meet up again? You rarely talk of old friends from Earth.”

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

Which story do you think would make a compelling video game adaptation?

Watchmaker/Pepperharrow

Bedlam

Kingdoms

Valery K

Mars House

Hymn to Dionysus

Voting ended onDec 30, 2025

And what kind of game would it be 🤔?

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

WE ARE BACK CHAT!!!! THIS TIME BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER!!!!!

Rules:

1) Each day has 5 prompts: a dialogue prompt + 4 general prompts, with the exception of the last day, where you have the option to do whatever you like! (This differs from last fanweek I held because I wanted to fit more prompts in). You can choose one to work with or you can combine several! Anything goes (SFW and NSFW), as long as the prompt can apply!

2) I want to recommend you post day of the prompt, or at the very least when the week is over if you didn't have enough time this month!

3) If posting a fic, you can post to my collection, "Pulleyverse Fanweek - January 2026" on Ao3!

4) On Tumblr, we can keep track of everything in the tag "pulleyversefanweek2026"

5) Have fun!! I don't want any of this to be stressful!! Any questions feel free to DM or send an ask. ❤️

[somefoolery]

I know Natasha Pulley's main guys sometimes struggle a bit (or a lot) with mental illness... but I'm reading The Hymn to Dionysus and goddamn, mental illness is really struggling with Phaidros.

[somefoolery]

Ok, so I just finished and this really was my guy Phaidros in almost every chapter:

I love him so much, he really did fail successfully

[ltwilliammowett]

Large lighthouse lamps with Fresnel lenses, 19th century

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Historical Fiction Book Bracket: Round 1A

Choose a book:

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny

Voting ended onJun 7, 2025

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you've ever loved. Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenth-century French colony of England. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a century-old postcard of a Scottish lighthouse that arrives in London the same month he does. Written in illegal English—instead of French—the postcard is signed only with the letter “M,” but Joe is certain whoever wrote it knows him far better than he currently knows himself, and he's determined to find the writer. The search for M, though, will drive Joe from French-ruled London to rebel-owned Scotland and finally onto the battle ships of a lost empire's Royal Navy. In the process, Joe will remake history, and himself.

Setting: 19th-century England

Historical fiction, alternative history, mystery, time travel, adult

One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny (14th Century Oxfordshire #1)

Endorsement from submitter: "One Night in Hartswood takes the premise of "what if we were queer and ran away together" but they actually DO run away together. And it all goes well and no one gets shot with anything. A big gay medieval romantic romp about yearning and being bad at talking about your feelings."

Oxford 1360

When his sister’s betrothed vanishes the night before her politically arranged marriage, Raff Barden must track and return the elusive groom to restore his family’s honour. William de Foucart ― known to his friends as Penn ― had no choice but to abandon his fiancé, and with it his own earldom, when he fled the night before his enforced marriage. But ill-equipped to survive on the run he must trust the kindness of a stranger, Raff, to help him escape. Unaware their fates are already entwined, their unexpected bond deepens into a far more precious relationship, one that will test all that they hold dear. And when secrets are finally revealed, both men must decide what they will risk for the one they love…

Setting: Medieval Oxfordshire, 1360s

Historical fiction, romance, medieval, 1360s, series, adult

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Historical Fiction Book Bracket: Round 1A

Choose a book:

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

Voting ended onJun 7, 2025

Book summaries below:

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

In 1859, ex–East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits him for an expedition to fetch quinine—essential for the treatment of malaria—from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea; nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is eager to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon.

There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairy tale, and gradually he realizes that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by generations of Tremayne explorers before him, one which will prove more valuable than quinine, and far more dangerous.

Setting: 1860s in Peru

Historical fiction, fantasy, adventure, mystery, magical realism, mid-Victorian, adult

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship, Jonathan may live as his true self―and true gender―and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and grief, guilt, and mistrust skulk among the explorers.

When disaster strikes in Antarctica’s frozen Weddell Sea, the men must take to the land and overwinter somewhere which immediately seems both eerie and wrong; a place not marked on any of their part-drawn maps of the vast white continent. Now completely isolated, Randall’s expedition has no ability to contact the outside world. And no one is coming to rescue them. In the freezing darkness of the Polar night, where the aurora creeps across the sky, something terrible has been waiting to lure them out into its deadly landscape…

Setting: Shortly after WWI/1920 alternate history horror expedition to Antarctica

Historical fiction, horror, paranormal, survival fiction, alternate history, 1920s, adult

[januarygale]

oh greek greek... marrying your brother-father and all...

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

who has the deepest voice?

thaniel

mori

merrick

raphael

joe

kite

valery

shenkov

january

gale

Voting ended onFeb 20, 2025

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

worst driver?

thaniel

mori

merrick

raphael

joe

kite

valery

shenkov

january

gale

Voting ended onFeb 5, 2025

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

Excerpts from The Hymn to Dionysus!!!

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

They released more.

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

who is the worse at sex (side character edition)

grace

matsumoto

kuroda

charles

clem

martel

agatha

resovskaya

aubrey

consul song

Voting ended onJan 18, 2025

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

Excerpts from The Hymn to Dionysus!!!

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

god works fast but i work faster for the bit

tierlist link

[januarygale]

[thenatashapulleyuniverse]

who is the worst at sex (main character edition)

thaniel

mori

merrick

raphael

joe

kite

valery

shenkov

january

gale

Voting ended onJan 6, 2025

[moonyplatt]

✨ January Stirling dancing ✨ Please give The Mars House a chance 🙏🏼 is an amazing book !!