#great cities

[krumpkin]

Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

[ms-mary-mac]

Character sketches from N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became

Truly the book of all time

[negamoonreactorcore]

[forever-a-lake-effect-kid]

its soooo hard to talk about this without doxxing myself but like. okay so. like many new england towns my hometown is named after a city in the british isles. the city its named after is a lot bigger and more well known then my city but my city is the biggest city of its name in the us. and the people of my city really like the city we're named after, take a lot of pride in the heritage it implies, etc. and the feeling, to some extent, goes both ways— a couple from my town's namesake came all the way here for my town's 250th anniversary!! and anyway. i just feel like. not in all cases necessarily, but certainly in cases like these, cities might think of the cities/towns named after them as their kids in a sense. and when that couple came to visit, it was like my town's mom sending a birthday card 🥺

[fireml]

Grow your food. Grow your future

[krumpkin]

I Love Venice 😁

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Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 3

Choose a book:

The Great Cities duology (The City We Became, The World We Make) by N.K. Jemisin

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Voting ended onApr 5, 2025

Book summaries below:

The Great Cities duology (The City We Became, The World We Make) by N.K. Jemisin

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city.

Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five.

But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

Speculative fiction, urban fantasy, series, adult

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.”

Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.

The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing. They'll bring the fight to you.

In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.

Dystopia, Western, near future, novella, adult