#bobitms

[hamrikaa]

Sabine and María 🥀

Currently about halfway through "bury our bones in the midnight soil" by V. E. Schwab , and really enjoying the amount of lesbianism so far 🙂‍↕️✨️

(Might not be super accurate, since I've been discovering new information here and there while drawing this lmao)

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab.

I support sapphic rights and sapphic wrongs!

[mhevarujta]

"I like to jokingly say that this book is three novellas in a trench coat because it is each of their stories. I structure my books before I write them; first, I structure the book narratively, which is the order in which the reader experiences it, then I shift it to chronological order in order to write it. That means I don’t actually write the book in the order that the reader experiences — I write the book in the order that the characters experience it. I built all three women in chronological order and then found the intersections in their timelines in order to maintain clarity of voice between them. I also like to create a headline for each of my characters; the way I broke it down for Sabine, Charlotte and Alice is that Alice lives in her head, Charlotte lives in her heart and Sabine lives in her hunger. Those become the driving forces for each character in terms of how they navigate the world. Charlotte was the most internal, the most romantic, the most emotional and emotive. Alice was the most neurotic, the most anxious, the most self-aware. Sabine was the hungry, insatiable, and really self-actualized character."  

V.E. Schwab for B&N Reads

[torpublishinggroup]

Poll inspired by V. E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 🥀💀🍒

Learn what your choice means below!

If you chose Freedom…

You’re Charlotte! You’d rather be at home with a book than at a party or a ball. You want to live life on your own terms, but unfortunately other people are always trying to trap you with social conventions. Will you ever have a life free from constraints? 

If you chose Power…

You’re Sabine! Fiery and passionate, you want to experience life to the fullest. Anyone who gets in the way of what you want is expendable. But will it ever be enough?

If you chose Love…

You’re Alice! Quiet and internal, you’ve spent life on the edge of things. You long to be who you are, love who you want to love, but you're weighed down by the darkness of your past and the fear of your future. Will you find the strength to take what you want as well as what you need?

Read Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab for more of these fascinating women!

All first edition copies of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil are signed by the author (while supplies last)!

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.

London, 1827.

Boston, 2019.

Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.

[clockworkbee]

Schwab really said, “It is my hunger and my queerness and my rage. It is my ambition and my insecurity and my want. It is the most "me" thing I have ever put to paper” about Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil and I NEED to read that book because damn, does Schwab have a brilliant fucking mind!

[eldritchhimejoshi]

I'm so distraught at how nascent the fandom for Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is that i might literally write a crossover fanfic of it with my own webnovel.

Like, yes, ofc I want to see Sabine as a cultivator wielding eldritch sorcery to terrorize a gathering of collectives. All while she seduces Charlotte, a participant at the gathering who'll likely be directed towards whatever Court the family she marries into wants of her. Sabine there, watching, and ready to lure Charlotte in with offers of helping her bond to whatever Court she wants. Then the two of them carve their way out into the broader world, embracing the possibilities of the apocalypse.

While in the present of the story, Alice has recently arrived at a major city for university, and despite all the assistance the institution offers for summoning needs she's stuck, unable to decide. Only to suffer when after a hazy hookup and summoning incident, she awakens with an incomprehensible Court and the sense that something has been taken from her. Now she has to deal with being the babydyke caught between two powerful cultivator exes gone mad due to the sacrifices made in their climb to power.

Hmmm, i'll workshop this.

[crazysublimenightmare]

I always finish/leave a book by V.E. Schwab changed. And I love her for it.

So here I am sobbing at 1 am in the middle of the night after finishing this masterpiece of a story. This book is the epitome of supporting women's wrongs, and I am here for it. Even if I would've liked for it not to hurt so much... apparently that is also why I keep coming back for more.

[magdabuena]

YESSSSSS MY FAVS ‼️

[jamiesshelves]

LOOK WHAT WAS HERE WHEN I GOT HOME FROM WORK!!!

[evenstarfalls]

I fear

[hamrikaa]

Sabine and María 🥀

Currently about halfway through "bury our bones in the midnight soil" by V. E. Schwab , and really enjoying the amount of lesbianism so far 🙂‍↕️✨️

(Might not be super accurate, since I've been discovering new information here and there while drawing this lmao)

[sapphireofmars]

v.e. schwab really said toxic lesbian vampires

[corvidcrowned]

WHO UP BURYING THEY BONES

[torpublishinggroup]

Poll inspired by V. E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 🥀💀🍒

If you chose Freedom…

You’re Charlotte! You’d rather be at home with a book than at a party or a ball. You want to live life on your own terms, but unfortunately other people are always trying to trap you with social conventions. Will you ever have a life free from constraints? 

If you chose Power…

You’re Sabine! Fiery and passionate, you want to experience life to the fullest. Anyone who gets in the way of what you want is expendable. But will it ever be enough?

If you chose Love…

You’re Alice! Quiet and internal, you’ve spent life on the edge of things. You long to be who you are, love who you want to love, but you're weighed down by the darkness of your past, and the fear of your future. Will you find the strength to take what you want as well as what you need?

Read Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab for more of these fascinating women!

All first edition copies of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil are signed by the author (while supplies last)!

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.

London, 1827.

Boston, 2019.

Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.

[cartoondogs]

bury our bones in the midnight soil has everything you could want: lesbians and vampires.

[eldritchhimejoshi]

Okay, but more bobitms thoughts! Cw: extremely vague bobitms spoilers, but spoilers there are.

I feel like, for as many people who react poorly to Alice's chapters and the repetition of her Catty memories, I end up finding a new thing about them that I love. Though, if i'm honest, I feel like Alice's chapters are perhaps the most challenging because they're so unsparing when it comes to her flaws and the fact that those flaws are incredibly relatable.

Alice is a young woman stuck at the cusp of her life, and has delayed that step beyond for far too long. Though what I think the Catty segments show even moreso is that Alice has always been on the cusp. She constrains herself to manage the feelings of others, trying to keep peace in a household that will never be peaceful (insofar as there is something of a feminist critique to be mined that speaks to an injustice, the very sort Catty is flipping out about), and has to silence her own wants and truth. However, what all this shows you, through each of these memories, is that the timid adult doesnt spawn ex nihilo. Each one of those moments swaddled her in layer after layer, and she's drowning within them, barely able to tread temporal water without being dislodged from her present.

Consequently, it strikes me that much of Alice's story (at least its beginning) is the presentation of a terrifying truth: if you don't make choices in your life someone will make them for you. In delaying her life, the development of herself, she becomes easy prey for Lottie. The perfect prey in fact, if we believe Lottie's reason for taking intrigue in Alice. Alice may have consented to sex, but she was very much hunted in a manner not that different from how Lottie was hunted by Sabine. Prey may choose to run, but the predator is guiding them toward the ambush.

And this is where Alice is so hard for so many to read about. They want to focus on cool vampire powers and hunts; the idea that, like Alice, they'd still be uncool, anxious, and timid despite all their newfound power is agonizing. To be told that you are only going to be more of yourself is awful when you lack a clear image of who you even are! Then there's the elements of shame at play that so many lesbians tend to have these days; while we have so much more language than our elders did (like Sabine and Lottie), there's a lot of invisible structures in play in our lives that leave us inept at even talking to girls. Made all the worse when our environment is so lacking in other queers, mentor or otherwise, who might show us how we can be. Yet, so many of us turn inward (in part due the lack of a social group usually) and self-flagellate via recognizing how our elders had it so much worse but that they can do all this stuff you're failing at, ignoring the fact that some of our elders had more mentorship and physical community than many of us possess. A strange lack which has meant a lot of us never received a low stakes space to be taught how we might exist in our world.

In this way, Alice embodies so many of the implicit struggles of the modern young lesbian. She might have no been fast tracked toward marriage, but the gravity-like presumption of naturalism that Patriarchy possesses is still in play, weakening our ability to exist. All of which is a hard pill to swallow, but a fundamentally necessary one. Being able to name your identity isnt enough. A single label will not save your life. Only through being able to live your life, make choices for yourself, and surround yourself with a supportive community will save you. To do otherwise is to be left at the mercy of any passing monster.

There's more I could say, but i'll stop for now.