#Back To My Bookshelf

[clumsypuppy]

@heropartnerweek 2025 day 1 - home

[heavens-dooor]

how many times do you think majima hoped saejima would come get him and say that while he was in the hole

[flashhwing]

"if you want queer fantasy read legends and lattes!" you could not PAY me to read cozy fantasy i have given the genre a try and it is not for me

"if cozy fantasy doesn't do it for you try Gideon the ninth!" as much as I like irreverence I find this book TOO irreverent to the point of being annoying

"well fine what DO you even like?" I like epic fantasies that take themselves seriously and have multiple moving parts that all come together at the end to make you go holy shit!!!!!!

"so like The Stormlight Archive or A Song of Ice and Fire?" yes exactly! I mean I'm not reading asoif any time soon but kinda like that

"but aren't those all written by straight white men? I thought you were looking for queer fantasy" read Priory of the Orange Tree

[girlonedge]

Yes I drink coffee and read at midnight. What’s it to you.

[lokh]

square commissions (4/4 slots filled)

※will stop being offered at this price on january 10 (aedt), as i will be bringing back regular commissions

email at lokh.info@mail.com, standard TOS apply. make sure to check the original post for whether slots have been filled. payment in usd via paypal or kofi 👍

turnaround is up to a week at most. thanks!

[ashstfu]

[demonslayedher]

I very occasionally venture out from under my Tumblr rock and am then reminded why I stay under it. This is your periodic reminder that I am but one nerd on the internet who tries to stick to canon (but has been known to get it wrong), and who also likes making silly non-canonical fanwork not intended to be confused for canon.

But this is more so a reminder to go back to re-enjoy the source material from time to time! No bad takes or misinformation can take that experience away from you! Let that gator rot your brain!

[sysig]

Sims 2 has played Clinical Trial, it all went by the exact same beats

[crazylittlejester]

its feelin like a “i play hyrule warriors until i pass out from exhaustion” kinda night because today was so absolutely fuckin ass and i broke my toe and one of my comfort plushies has a hole in him and i fear only blorbo can save me now

[pyrriax]

worlds most unofficial post im just putting it out there that i wrote this :3

there's a second part planned i just had a deadline and the 4k first scene was NOT in the plan. i dont have time . once the second part is written im making an actual post for this fic since its written as a prompt fill for two bingo cards ^_^

[they-didnt-last]

anyone interested in talking about the iconic 2000's middle-grade-bordering-on-ya book series gallagher girls??

[wrishwrosh]

hey, i find your posts about historical fiction pretty interesting, do you have any recs?

anon this is the most beautiful and validating ask i have ever received. absolutely of COURSE I have recs. not gonna be a lot of deep cuts on this list but i love all of these books and occasionally books do receive awards and acclaim because they are good. in no particular order:

the cromwell trilogy by hilary mantel. of course i gotta start with the og. it’s 40 million pages on the tudor court and the english reformation and it will fundamentally change you as a person and a reader

(sub rec: the giant, o’brien by hilary mantel. in many ways a much shorter thematic companion to the cromwell trilogy imo. about stories and death and embodiment and the historical record and 18th century ireland. if you loved the trilogy, read this to experience hils playing with her own theories about historical fiction. if you are intimidated by the trilogy, read this first to get a taste of her prose style and her approach to the genre. either way please read all four novels ok thanks)

lincoln in the bardo by george saunders. the book that got me back into historical fiction as an adult. american history as narrated by a bunch of weird ghosts and abraham lincoln. chaotic and lovely and morbid.

the everlasting by katy simpson smith. rome through the ages as seen by a medici princess, a gay death-obsessed monk, and an early christian martyr. really historically grounded writing about religion and power, and also narrated with interjections from god’s ex boyfriend satan. smith is a trained historian and her prose slaps

(sub rec: free men by katy simpson smith. only a sub rec bc i read it a long time ago and my memory of it is imperfect but i loved it in 2017ish. about three men in the woods in the post revolutionary american south and by virtue of being about masculinity is actually about women. smith did her phd in antebellum southern femininity and motherhood iirc so this book is LOCKED IN to those perspectives)

a mercy by toni morrison. explores the dissolution of a household in 17th century new york. very different place and time than a lot of morrison’s bigger novels but just as mean and beautiful

(sub rec: beloved by toni morrison. a sub rec bc im pretty sure everyone has already read beloved but perhaps consider reading it again? histfic ghost story abt how the past is always here and will never go away and loves you and hates you and is trying to kill you)

an artist of the floating world by kazuo ishiguro. my bestie sir kazuo likes to explore the past through characters who, for one reason or another (amnesia, dementia, being a little baby robot who was just born yesterday, etc), are unable to fully comprehend their surroundings. this one is about post-wwii japan as understood by an elderly supporter of the imperial regime

(sub rec: remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro. same conceit as above except this time the elderly collaborator is incapable of reckoning with the slow collapse of the system that sheltered him due to britishness.)

the pull of the stars by emma donoghue. donoghue is a strong researcher and all of her novels are super grounded in their place and time without getting so caught up in it they turn into textbooks. i picked this one bc it is a wwi lesbian love story about childbirth that made me cry so hard i almost threw up on a plane but i recommend all her histfic published after 2010. before that she was still finding her stride.

days without end by sebastian barry. this one is hard to read and to rec bc it is about the us army’s policy of genocide against native americans in the 19th century west as told by an irish cavalry soldier. it is grim and violent and miserable and also so beautiful it makes me cry about every three pages. first time i read it i was genuinely inconsolable for two days afterwards.

this post is long as hell so HONORABLE MENTIONS: the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay by michael chabon, the western wind by samantha harvey, golden hill by frances spufford, barkskins by annie proulx, postcards by annie proulx, most things annie proulx has written but i feel like i talk about her too much, the view from castle rock by alice munro, the name of the rose by umberto eco, tracks by louise erdrich

[temeyes]

i may switch fandoms most of the time, but i'm a loyal bitch (OF EIGHT YEARS)

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Weird question time again, this time for my fellow peeps with brain fog (or other things that could cause word issues tbh I have no idea which of my health issues causes it): Do you ever find when your brain gets stuck trying to say a word because the word is just completely gone from your head* in your first language, you can kinda work around the missing words in a different language? Especially asking if this commonly happens to you in a language that A. you are not fluent in and B. no one you are talking to understands Like, knowing more Spanish vocab has helped me when I get stuck in English because sometimes I can say the thing in Spanish and it's like it unlocks the ability to say it in English, but sometimes I say it in Spanish and still can't come up with the words in English and then I have just said a sentence in not very good Spanish to my dad and brother, who speak almost no Spanish (this has happened enough my brother is picking up on Spanish)

*idk how to articulate the difference between the word issues I'm talking about and the "oh I forget the word it's on the tip of my tongue" type issues. Like, my dad, uncles, and cousin were/are firefighters. My dad was, at the time, watching a show about firefighters. One time I lost the word firefighter so completely that by the time I was able to string together other words to get the concept across, what I came up with was "firetruck people". I still occasionally have the "forgot the word" issues, but I never had the "word is completely gone" problems before I got sick and the two feel very different (they probably look not too dissimilar from the outside)

[anguilliforme]

it came!!!!!!! i’m so pleased to announce that @claypigeonpottery’s works are even more gorgeous in person! pictures just don’t do them justice (let alone mine;;)

[1am-s0-veryt1red]

decorating my house in sdv is the most stressful thing I can think of tbh