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@quixiiify
seen a lot of these with your favorites, but reblog with the CURRENT book you are reading, show you are streaming, the last movie you watched, and any game/puzzle/crafts you’re working on
Book: Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4)
Show: The Orville
Move: Barbie
Crafts: an embroidered alphabet book (currently on G page)
hey friends I’m looking for some reading recommendations!
I’ve just been rereading old favorites, which is a joy, but I’m hankering for something new to surprise me and capture me. I’m open to anything but have particular soft spots for:
- narrators or POV characters with distinctive, atypical voices, perspectives, or assumptions who make an ordinary or extraordinary world more interesting by being seen through their lens (ex. Martha Wells’ Murderbot, owlet’s This, You Protect)
- clever, precise plotting and storytelling such that final conclusions or reveals click together like delightful, unexpected but perfectly predictable clockwork— the sort that you can see obviously in the first chapter but only after you’ve read the last page; stories where the authors trust the reader to pay attention and figure stuff out (ex. Megan Whalen Turner’s The Queen’s Thief series, The Westing Game, Pamela Dean’s The Secret Country)
- worldbuilding with depth and texture — it feels explorable, immersive, like you could study it, like you could get lost, like other stories are going on just off the page (The Secret Countey gets a second honorary mention here, great book, I highly recommend)
- characters you can root for, especially ones that are slowly, quietly, unregretfully tearing themselves apart for something they care about (Kip Mdang from Hands of the Emperor, Newt from Designations Congruent with Things, Nico D’Angelo from the Percy Jackson books, Arthur in rageprufrock’s Presque Vu)
I like stories with momentum, stories that swallow you. I like beautiful things. I like stories that surprise me and make me think. Help a gal out? What stories have captured you?
Thanks all for sharing your joys and recommendations! I'm collating the list (so far) here for myself/y'all:
Books that were recommended that I already read & loved & recommend myself :)
The Witch King by Martha Wells - after a betrayal, a tired demon helps his angry lesbian witch best friend go on a quest to rescue the witch's stoic paladin wife
Gideon the Ninth / the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir - engaging puzzlebox story set in a spacefaring necromantic cult, multilayered & twisty worldbuilding, intense moral complexity
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone - lyrical sapphic love letters between two agents on either side of a violent war across time and space
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison - A young man unexpectedly becomes emperor and befuddles the court with his kindness
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud (though I hear there's a fourth book now!) - GREAT! Engaging, and I wouldn't describe it as "feel good." Sort of like Howl's Moving Castle if it was told from Calcifer's POV and also Howl was an adolescent British wizard who was trying to grow up to be evil in a British empire running on wizardry
Sunshine by Robin McKinley - a baker who specializes in cinnamon rolls escapes a vampire abduction--unheard of--and returns to baking cinnamon rolls. AMAZING first person rambling POV & also always makes me want to run off and start an imaginary bakery
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
The Queen’s Thief by Megan Whalen Turner - stunning, engaging, delightful, twisty, read these sixteen million times and find some new double meaning every time. A young thief brags he can steal anything; and he's right.
Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane - iconic worldbuilding, lengthy ongoing series by a delightful author
The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xu
The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin
Diana Wynne Jones in general
Beartown by Fredrik Backman - heavy subject matter, lyrical prose
Unread recommendations!
Piranesi
Diaspora by Greg Egan
Spinning Silver, Uprooted, or the Scolomance trilogy by Naomi Novik
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Little Thieves
Thistlefoot
Honor Harrington series by David Weber
Arrows of the Queen (trilogy) by Mercedes Lackey
The Raven Tower
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, or the Monk and the Robot series by Becky Chambers
The Orphan Tales by Catherynne Valente
Provenance by Ann Leckie
Master of One by Jaida Jones and Dani Bennet
Dragerea series by Steven Brust
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey Mcquiston
The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Time to Orbit Unknown (ongoing publication)
The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Amberlough
Alexandria Quartet
Ghost in the Shell by SoloMoon
Cirque du Triomphe series by Kieron ODuibhir
FOXTROT WALKER BLUE by antistar_e/kaikamahine
4311 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90016 by avocadomoon
Your body as a tourist by disco_vendetta/brinn
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
Imperial Radch Trilogy by Ann Leckie
Alchemy Wars by Ian Tregillis
Forgotten Gods by Marie Rutkoski
Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliot
Carmilla by Le Fanu
Ash and Huntress by Malinda Lo
The Dark Days Club by Allison Goodman
The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
Roses and Thorns by Chris Anne Wolfe
Strange the Dreamer
The Daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
Tuesday Mooney books by Kate Racculia
The Spell Book of Listen Taylor by Jacklyn Moriarty
Enter Title Here by Rahul Kanakia
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Eleutherophobia (Animorphs fic)
The Lilith’s Brood series by Octavia Butler
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Steerswoman books by Rosemary Kirstein
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
Meddling Kid by Edgar Cantero
Stand Still Stay Silent (webcomic)
A CIty Dreaming by Daniel Polansky
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Ninefox Gambit
Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
Some by Virtue Fall, or the Chant books by Alexandra Rowland
Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk
The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae (audiobook recommended)
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Peter Darling by Austin Chant
The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn
Emily St. John Mandel
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Nghi Vo
Aliette de Bodard
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Zen Cho
The Assassins of Tamarin by SD Tower
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Britt Marie was Here!
Trader by Charles DeLint
Stone Moon trilogy by MCA Hogarth
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Kindred by Octavia E Butler
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
DEJ supplemental, where I'm drawing the queer D&D characters I wasn't able to get around to during Draw Everything June 2023.
This is Lenaria. She is @quixiiify's queer eladrin paladin.
"Keeping her devotion to her family in mind, there is nothing she couldn't or wouldn't do."
Reference from @adorkastock, here.
My poor wife-devoted paladin stuck in Barovia!
Thank you, @pomrania!
I JUST FOUND A LATE ANTIQUE VERSION OF ‘LIVE LOVE LAUGH’ AND I WISH I WERE KIDDING
‘health, life, joy, peace, good cheer, hope’.
mosaic, 4th century, Roman Anatolia. British Museum.
@todoeralindo oh no
Lou Wilson, as Lord Squawk: I walk into the party and immediately polymorph one of the attendants into a fish, saying, "The Lords of the Wing are here!“ "Which fish?" "Just some mudskipper or something."
I’ve been thinking about this episode a normal amount
PRINCE ANDHERA and BINX CHOPPLEY in D20’S “A COURT OF FEY AND FLOWERS”: CHAPTER 7 — “THE MASQUERADE BALL”
bonus brennan:
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A Coward in Love
Kitty Smaugust day 30: wings
I want to draw your cats as dragons, using the Smaugust prompts by @pencilcat as inspiration, and I’m making a different post for each day and its prompt. If it’s 30 August 2022 anywhere in the world, you can make a request on this post. (If it’s no longer that date, but it’s still August 2022, check here for my list of prompts and their posts.) Reblog this post, and add in a photo of your cat and the cat’s name, and I will draw that cat as a dragon, using the current day’s prompt (shown in the title; so for today, “wings”) as inspiration.
Similar rules apply as my previous art events:
Once you’ve made a request here, wait until I’ve drawn and posted it before making another request; this ensures that everyone has a chance, while not putting arbitrary limits on stuff if it’s a slow day. However, you can make a request on a new day’s post even if I haven’t yet drawn your request from the previous day’s post.
It is allowed, and encouraged, to make requests on multiple days, and to make multiple different requests of the same cat, so we can see different ways that the cat can be a dragon. I would prefer that different photos be used, but I understand if you don’t have many good photos.
Only one photo and only one cat per request. I won’t choose between multiple photos you provide, and I won’t draw multiple critters in one request. If the photo has multiple cats in it, be specific about which cat you want me to draw; if you want all of them drawn, then you’ll have to make separate requests for each one, as described in the first point.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be your current cat; it can be a past or present pet, or the cat of a friend or relative, but it needs to be a cat you have some kind of connection to, not just a random picture you found online.
I’m willing to dragonify non-cat animals, so long as you can claim with a straight face that they’re really just weird-looking cats.
This is Noni and I love her.
Kitty Smaugust day 19: fungus
I want to draw your cats as dragons, using the Smaugust prompts by @pencilcat as inspiration, and I’m making a different post for each day and its prompt. If it’s 19 August 2022 anywhere in the world, you can make a request on this post. (If it’s no longer that date, but it’s still August 2022, check here for my list of prompts and their posts.) Reblog this post, and add in a photo of your cat and the cat’s name, and I will draw that cat as a dragon, using the current day’s prompt (shown in the title; so for today, “fungus”) as inspiration.
(I realize that stuff associated with this prompt can be a common squick, so unless explicitly told otherwise, I’ll go extremely tame on the “fungus” aspect of the design, like on the level of “dragon tending a mushroom garden or eating mushroom pizza”, or possibly “wearing a hat that looks like a mushroom cap”, but no further.)
Similar rules apply as my previous art events:
Once you’ve made a request here, wait until I’ve drawn and posted it before making another request; this ensures that everyone has a chance, while not putting arbitrary limits on stuff if it’s a slow day. However, you can make a request on a new day’s post even if I haven’t yet drawn your request from the previous day’s post.
It is allowed, and encouraged, to make requests on multiple days, and to make multiple different requests of the same cat, so we can see different ways that the cat can be a dragon. I would prefer that different photos be used, but I understand if you don’t have many good photos.
Only one photo and only one cat per request. I won’t choose between multiple photos you provide, and I won’t draw multiple critters in one request. If the photo has multiple cats in it, be specific about which cat you want me to draw; if you want all of them drawn, then you’ll have to make separate requests for each one, as described in the first point.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be your current cat; it can be a past or present pet, or the cat of a friend or relative, but it needs to be a cat you have some kind of connection to, not just a random picture you found online.
I’m willing to dragonify non-cat animals, so long as you can claim with a straight face that they’re really just weird-looking cats.
This is my cat Noni.
(P.S. I’m okay with pretty much any variation of mushroom imagery, including mushroom growth and whatnot. Less okay with other fungi.)
Kitty Smaugust day 18: celestial
I want to draw your cats as dragons, using the Smaugust prompts by @pencilcat as inspiration, and I’m making a different post for each day and its prompt. If it’s 18 August 2022 anywhere in the world, you can make a request on this post. (If it’s no longer that date, but it’s still August 2022, check here for my list of prompts and their posts.) Reblog this post, and add in a photo of your cat and the cat’s name, and I will draw that cat as a dragon, using the current day’s prompt (shown in the title; so for today, “celestial”) as inspiration.
Similar rules apply as my previous art events:
Once you’ve made a request here, wait until I’ve drawn and posted it before making another request; this ensures that everyone has a chance, while not putting arbitrary limits on stuff if it’s a slow day. However, you can make a request on a new day’s post even if I haven’t yet drawn your request from the previous day’s post.
It is allowed, and encouraged, to make requests on multiple days, and to make multiple different requests of the same cat, so we can see different ways that the cat can be a dragon. I would prefer that different photos be used, but I understand if you don’t have many good photos.
Only one photo and only one cat per request. I won’t choose between multiple photos you provide, and I won’t draw multiple critters in one request. If the photo has multiple cats in it, be specific about which cat you want me to draw; if you want all of them drawn, then you’ll have to make separate requests for each one, as described in the first point.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be your current cat; it can be a past or present pet, or the cat of a friend or relative, but it needs to be a cat you have some kind of connection to, not just a random picture you found online.
I’m willing to dragonify non-cat animals, so long as you can claim with a straight face that they’re really just weird-looking cats.
This is my cat Katla. :) (Fun fact: Katla’s named after a Swedish black dragon!)
Kitty Smaugust day 16: bones
I want to draw your cats as dragons, using the Smaugust prompts by @pencilcat as inspiration, and I’m making a different post for each day and its prompt. If it’s 16 August 2022 anywhere in the world, you can make a request on this post. (If it’s no longer that date, but it’s still August 2022, check here for my list of prompts and their posts.) Reblog this post, and add in a photo of your cat and the cat’s name, and I will draw that cat as a dragon, using the current day’s prompt (shown in the title; so for today, “bones”) as inspiration.
Similar rules apply as my previous art events:
Once you’ve made a request here, wait until I’ve drawn and posted it before making another request; this ensures that everyone has a chance, while not putting arbitrary limits on stuff if it’s a slow day. However, you can make a request on a new day’s post even if I haven’t yet drawn your request from the previous day’s post.
It is allowed, and encouraged, to make requests on multiple days, and to make multiple different requests of the same cat, so we can see different ways that the cat can be a dragon. I would prefer that different photos be used, but I understand if you don’t have many good photos.
Only one photo and only one cat per request. I won’t choose between multiple photos you provide, and I won’t draw multiple critters in one request. If the photo has multiple cats in it, be specific about which cat you want me to draw; if you want all of them drawn, then you’ll have to make separate requests for each one, as described in the first point.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be your current cat; it can be a past or present pet, or the cat of a friend or relative, but it needs to be a cat you have some kind of connection to, not just a random picture you found online.
I’m willing to dragonify non-cat animals, so long as you can claim with a straight face that they’re really just weird-looking cats.
This is my extra large cat named Kelpie. She likes bones. :)
Stranger Things x Sappho
I’ve never drawn an animation before, but I needed to make it happen for this moment in A Starstruck Odyssey.
I've been wanting to draw The Blue Crew since they discussed being in cozy knit sweaters in session 0. Finally did!
