#slippery creatures

[dancy-nrew]

yap yap yap

[hypodermicflies]

child remastered

[noahhawthorneauthor]

My birthday was last month, so of course I treated myself to relistens of most of my favorites. I also read Sir Cameron, which I've had my eye on for awhile, and Thomas!

Vampires and knights and dragons, oh my! Not to mention werewolves, murder mysteries, and codependent heros with accidental child acquisition syndrome.

[diangelodork]

was telling my mom about the book i started completely omitting the gay romance and she just looks at me and goes “and which one is gay?”

clocked my ass 💔💔

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Historical Fiction Book Bracket: Round 1A

Choose a book:

The Will Darling Adventures by KJ Charles

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, 楊双子

Voting ended onJun 7, 2025

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Will Darling Adventures (Slippery Creatures, The Sugared Game, Subtle Blood) by KJ Charles

Will Darling came back from the Great War with a few scars, a lot of medals, and no idea what to do next. Inheriting his uncle’s chaotic second-hand bookshop is a blessing…until strange visitors start making threats. First a criminal gang, then the War Office, both telling Will to give them the information they want, or else.

Will has no idea what that information is, and nobody to turn to, until Kim Secretan—charming, cultured, oddly attractive—steps in to offer help. As Kim and Will try to find answers and outrun trouble, mutual desire grows along with the danger.

And then Will discovers the truth about Kim. His identity, his past, his real intentions. Enraged and betrayed, Will never wants to see him again.

But Will possesses knowledge that could cost thousands of lives. Enemies are closing in on him from all sides—and Kim is the only man who can help.

Setting: 1920s London

Historical fiction, romance, pulp adventure, mystery, 1920s, series, adult

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, 楊双子

Endorsement from submitter: "Incredible writing style, incredible critique of imperialism (as in Japanese imperialism of Taiwan, in this case), and most importantly an incredibly complicated and bittersweet f/f relationship at its center. The yearning, the pining, the intimacy and the lack thereof. The way these two vibe with each other and don't understand each other at the same time. Truly a book that gently and thoroughly destroys you."

A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power

May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear.

Soon a Taiwanese woman―who is younger even than she is, and who shares the characters of her name―is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko’s travels all over the Land of the South and also proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It’s only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the “something” is.

Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.

Setting: Taiwan, 1938

Historical fiction, metafiction, literary fiction, colonialism, 1930s, adult

[sigmastolen]

The Book of British Birds (Snookums and Booby) - Slippery Creatures - K. J. Charles

+ bonus

he means Phoebe, surely XD

[werewolfjism]

One of my fav "extended banter" scenes in The Will Darling seriess by KJ Charles

“Why the blazes you’re called Kim when your name is Arthur.”

“My name, since you raise the topic, is Arthur Aloysius Kimberley de Brabazon Secretan. What would you do in my place?”

“Leave the country,” Will said wholeheartedly. “You poor bastard, you never stood a chance.” 

.....A few eventful happenings and a lot of gay later....

“I want you to fuck me till I forget my own name.”

“What, all of it?”

“Take that as a hint.”

[brigid-faye]

Mini Playlist that describes your favorite ship tag game! ✨

For this, pick 5 songs you feel fit the story/vibe of your favorite ship. Could be canon/head-canon/fanfiction version or OG characters as well!

Thaaaank you for the tag @kaaaaaaarf this is way better than work on a monday

I'll do two playlists as well - one for the OTP (wolfstar obvs) and one for criminally under appreciated Will & Kim of KJ Charles' Slippery Creatures

Wolfstar

These are all off my Better in the Morning fic playlist, I feel like they're my most canon wolfstar

Better in the Morning, Birdtalker

Dear, Gerry

j's lullaby (darlin' i'd wait for you), Delaney Bailey

Only Time, Aaron Espe

Can't Start a Fire, Lucy Dacus cover

Will & Kim

(like look at them??? @elkleggs has my endearing gratitude for basically the only existing fanart)

Gun in my Hand, Dorothy

Feel the Way I Want, Caroline Rose

Call me Baby, St. Paul & the Broken Bones

Don't You Lie to Me, Fratellis

Head on Fire, Griff, Sigrid

someone read these books pleaaaase like lookit how messy that playlist is i love them sm

no pressure tags @lynxindisguise @emjayeingray @brandileigh2003 and anyone who wants to play