#august jones

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Queer Books!

The last couple years, I've posted about queer books I've read and authors who write queer stories, and this year, I'm at it again!

Here are the books I posted about in 2023, and here's all the books I posted about last year!

Jay Hogan

Parker St. John

Riley Hart

Sidney Bell

Jesse H Reign

Onley James

Iris Foxglove

Morgan Brice

Eliot Grayson

Charlie Adhara

Anna Zabo

August Jones

Riley Nash

Roan Parrish

Cat Sebastian

Tal Bauer

Cait Nary

Eden Finely and Saxon James

EM Lindsey

LA Witt

Sarina Bowen

Kit Oliver

Ari Baran

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he is the size of a jelly bean

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Draft of a poster I'm doing for a comic I'm planning 😋

I don't know my Tumblr is deciding to nuke the quality dear god

The logo is still a WIP

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Queer Reads: August Jones

Well, we made it 11 days before I missed a day. In my defense, I’m on a family vacation, so yesterday was spent mostly traveling. ANYWAY… 

For day 12 of “queer books!” we have August Jones. 

The 4 books in the graphic are the four books in the Manhandled series, and they are so fucking good. We start with The Handler, with features Jax, a retired cop turned bodyguard turned babysitter hired to keep Gideon York, most famous of famous pop stars, out of trouble until the news media forgets about his last scandal. And then they fall in love. Well, there’s a lot of angst and kinky sex, and then! 

Jones is a fantastic writer. Her characters are funny, real, and complex. You’ll laugh out loud, and also cry a bit. I would not describe any of her writing light-hearted, but I would say her books are all extra spicy hot. Also, there’s lots of piercings. 

Not featured in the graphic is The Hier’s Disgrace, which is the first book in a series about doormen in New York City. It has all the things I loved about the Manhandled series, but set on the east coast instead of mostly in LA. The characters are complex, their issues are real and are handled in realistic ways, and Jones continues to mix angst, spice, and humor in a way that really does it for me. I look forward to her future books. 

Remember folks, read queer books. They’re good for you.

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made playlists for my ocs ^__^

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I really, really love it here.

I mean, what's not to love? Little out of the way town, cute shops and restaurants, not to mention the way the sun sets over the hills. I love the view from my apartment window, you can see the light frame the trees.

I'm only here for the summer, then I go back to Rhode Island for college. I've spent the last couple summers staying with my mom over in Arkansas, but it takes so long to get there and I'm honestly a little bit sick if my mom.

Don't get me wrong, I love her with ever bone in my body, but I need some space to just... be. No school, no family, just me.

My mom and my ma used to take me out here some summers, when I was a little kid, for the holidays. I loved it then, and I loved it now.

I remember I would press my face against the glass of the bus, and my ma would smile and wipe the hair away from my eyes, back when her hands were gentle. She'd say, smiling, "Come on, August, there's germs on the glass. You don't want to catch a cold", but she never tried to move me. I just loved the view, the way the warm light fell over everything.

Maybe I can try be someone different here. Live a life that was never mine, just for a little while.

Silly, isn't it?