#misrule

[we-do-bones-bitches]

Date day to the museum with Mr Bones ( @lord-0f-misrule )

[vordenburg]

I still firmly stand by the belief that Alyce should’ve rebranded herself Maleficent instead of Nimara at the end of Malice and going into Misrule.

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 1D

Choose a book:

Malice duology (Malice, Misrule) by Heather Walter

Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Voting ended onMar 8, 2025

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

Malice duology (Malice, Misrule) by Heather Walter

Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss.

You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. The happily-ever-after.

Utter nonsense.

Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. I thought I didn’t care, either.

Until I met her.

Princess Aurora. The last heir to Briar’s throne. Kind. Gracious. The future queen her realm needs. One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. That she . . . cares for me. Even though it was a power like mine that was responsible for her curse.

But with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating—and she can’t stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. I want to help her. If my power began her curse, perhaps it’s what can lift it. Perhaps, together, we could forge a new world.

Nonsense again.

Because we all know how this story ends, don’t we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. And I—

I am the villain.

Fantasy, retelling, romance, fairytale, series, adult

Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

Endorsement from submitter: "Long running serial comic about lesbian life. Incredibly relatable, evolves with the times. A classic of the genre."

From the author of Fun Home—the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others

For twenty-five years Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers a “rich, funny, deep and impossible to put down” (Publishers Weekly) selection from all eleven Dykes volumes. Here too are sixty of the newest strips, never before published in book form.

Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it “half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel”) of the lives, loves, and politics of a cast of characters, most of them lesbian, living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis. Her brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends—academics, social workers, bookstore clerks—fall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents.

Bechdel fuses high and low culture—from foreign policy to domestic routine, hot sex to postmodern theory—in a serial graphic narrative “suitable for humanists of all persuasions.”

Graphic novel, humor, slice of life, politics, series, adult

[sapphic-book-tournament]

The Malice Duology VS The Locked Tomb Series

The Locked Tomb

Malice

Voting ended onJul 5, 2023

[layaart]

poison witch aesthetic 🌿 💀 🥀 malice inspired!

[obi-wan-catobi]

Do you ever miss a book you read at some point and were emotionally attached to after finishing it? Because same

[bookwyrminspiration]

i somehow have the audacity to be surprised when the sleeping beauty inspired story, a story where a major part is the 100 year sleep, has a 100 year time skip

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Malice Duology

Author: Heather Walter

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, fantasy, LGBT+, romance, retelling

Blurb: Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die - a curse that could only be broken by true love's kiss. You've heard this before, haven't you? The handsome prince, the happily-ever-after - utter nonsense. No one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses, not the way they care about their jewels, elaborate parties, and charm-granting elixirs. Alyce thought she didn't care, either...until she met her. Princess Aurora, the last heir to Briar's throne. Kind, gracious, the future queen her realm needs. One who isn't bothered that she is the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in her veins. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay her to bottle hexes and then brand her a monster. Aurora says Alyce should be proud of her gifts, that she cares for her, even though it was a power like Alyce's that was responsible for her curse...but with less than a year until that curse will kill the princess, any future Alyce might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating, and Aurora can't stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. Alyce wants to help her. If her power began her curse, perhaps it's what can lift it. Perhaps, together, they could forge a new world. Nonsense again, because we all know how this story ends, right? Aurora is the beautiful princess, and Alyce is the villain.