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struggle pretty -> by thesehands
Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander | E | 19k
Ilya locked his arm around Shane’s throat and drew him up onto his knees. The hold was snug, a real headlock, the kind that would make most men tap out. Shane didn’t tap out, but he stayed very still. His pulse galloped against the juncture of Ilya’s elbow, powerfully enough that Ilya could feel its insistent throbbing. Everything in the room had been pulled taut—the cord of Ilya’s shoulders, the line of Shane’s back, even the air between them had a rigidity to it. Ilya was breathing heavily, panting open-mouthed against Shane’s sweat-damp temple.
“I could fuck you like this,” Ilya said. “I could fuck you right now, like this, not let you breathe, not let you come.”
Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate.
All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.
2025 books - vicious (villains #1) by ve schwab
But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them.
“She squeezed his hand. "Never ask me to leave you," she said, voice cracking. "Use my power well. Protect me. It has always been this; it has always been us. Let it be us until the wars end or we find our deaths—whatever comes first.”
QOTD: What’s your favourite book with a trans MC or by a trans author?
Transgender Day of Remembrance marks the end of Trans Awareness Week so today I’ve got another rec list.
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Contemporary Romance:
- Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao
- Under the Mistletoe With You by Lizzie Huxley Jones
- Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander
- Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
- Single Player by Tara Tai
- The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
- Pit Stop by Ellis Mae
- Graceless by Ruby Landers
- The Prospects by KT Hoffman
- Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly
Paranormal Romance:
- The Full Moon Problem by Kay Claire
- The (Most Unusual) Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish
- Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Historical Romance:
- A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander
- Something Spectacular by Alexis Hall
- A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
Fantasy:
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
- Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
- These Vengeful Gods by Gabe Cole Novoa
- The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy
- Dragonfall by LR Lam
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Sci-fi:
- Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- Unexploded Remnants by Elaine Gallagher
Horror/Mystery:
- What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher
- The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall
Graphic Novels:
- Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe
- Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries
- Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
- Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang
- Evil-ish by Kennedy Tarrell
- I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
- The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
- Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton
- Paper Planes by Jennie Wood
- Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowow
- The Tea Dragon Festival by K O’Neill
- A Song for You and I by K O’Neill
YA Romance:
- Leaving the Station by Jake Maia Arlow
- The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimmons
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
- Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- Okay, Cupid by Mason Deaver
- Out of the Blue by Jason June
YA Fantasy:
- Witchlore by Emma Hinds
- Devil’s Like Us by Lin Thompson
- A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth
- This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska
- The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
- The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa
- The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda Hall
- Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong
YA Horror:
- The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
- Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
- Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
- The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
YA Contemporary:
- Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
- The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor
- Out of Blue Cones Green by ME Corey
- Honeybee by Craig Silvey
- The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will by Maya MacGregor
2025 books - babel by r.f. kuang
So, you see, translators do not so much deliver a message as the rewrite the original. And herein lies the difficulty - rewriting is still writing, and writing always reflects the authors ideology and biases.
some books i read recently → people we meet on vacation by emily henry
“You asked me who I was, and—it was like the answer came out of nowhere. Sometimes it feels like I didn’t even exist before that. Like you invented me.”
+ how i obviously pictured it: emily bader as poppy wright and tom blyth as alex nilsen
I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world
- THE SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller
read in 2025: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia
You like a hint of danger, but back home they wrap you in gauze, to keep you from breaking. But you’d like to break, wouldn’t you? You play with people and you wish someone would have the guts to play with you.
Highgarden is a castle which serves as the seat of House Tyrell, the regional capital of the Reach, and the heart of chivalry in the Seven Kingdoms. It lies on the Mander where the ocean road meets the roseroad, making it an important crossroads.
2025 books - the raven boys (the raven cycle, #1) by maggie stiefvater
Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.
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