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Queerplatonic book recs, that actually have QPRs, inspired by me seeing someone listing qpr books that were literally just queer people being friends 🤦‍♀️

These all have the main characters in queerplatonic relationships,  explicitly/unambiguously in a lot of cases - though actually I have added a few more that are more vague/word of god. but still more qpr-ish than anything else

The Thread That Binds

solarpunk-fantasy about queer bookbinding witches, 2/3 MCs are an aroace & an ace in a QPR

Baker Thief

superhero fantasy with a bigender aromantic superhero / demisexual woman QPR 

Not Even Bones

YA supernatural trilogy where the main characters initially seem to be developing a romantic relationship, but eventually realise in the final book neither actually feel that way, and settle into more or less a QPR (without labels, but it’s pretty clear). There’s a webtoon adaptation of this, and while it still doesn’t label them in the dialogue it does in the author’s note of the relevant episodes

Two Dark Moons

YA fantasy where an arospec girl & ace lizard kid accidentally get fantasy-married & develop a friendship/qpr

The Wolf Among The Wild Hunt

dark fantasy novella with an aroace wolfman & nonbinary knight qpr

Our Bloody Pearl

NA fantasy with a siren & ace pirate, originally marketed as a romance, but it is pretty much a qpr and that’s what the author intended!

The Reckless Kind

historical YA with an aspec girl becoming a family with her best friend and his boyfriend

Fire Becomes Her

YA, 1920s inspired fantasy world, demiro girl breaks free of her relationship and instead ends up in a QPR with a nonbinary transmasc ace.

If It Makes You Happy

YA contemporary about a girl navigating her queerplatonic relationship with her best friend, and a possible new romantic relationship.

Royal Rescue

high fantasy with an amatonormative royal marriage system, where the aroace MC has had enough, rescues himself, and starts to dismantle the system, finding a QPR on the way

The Heretic’s Guide To Homecoming (duology)

slow introspective high fantasy following two characters on a journey, doesn’t explicitly have them define their relationship in a QPR-like way, but undeniably focuses on complex platonic relationships and narratives & I think it’s satisfying if you’re looking for that

Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty

NA dark fantasy/heist-ish story, Aro bi & allo MCs who become a QPR

Until The Last Petal Falls

fantasy novella, Nigerian beauty & the beast retelling with two aroace MCs who form a QPR

Lays of the Hearth-Fire (Hands of the Emperor, At The Feet of the Sun)

slow character-focused high fantasy duology (so far) about a . in book two their relationship develops into something akin to a QPR - there’s an in-universe name for it. it’s discussed and defined a lot.

Lord of the Empty Isles

scifi/fantasy adventure centering platonic relationships with no romance - the central relationship is marketed as a QPR though to me personally it reads as a platonic relationship with nothing specifically or explicitly QPR about it. but maybe others feel differently

Compound Fracture

YA thriller/horror, the MC has a light subplot of figuring out he’s aromanticism, and in the epilogue it’s mentioned that he might potentially be interested in a QPR with another character he became closer to in the book (so, adjacent)

The Spider and her Demons

YA paranormal. another one that’s not explicit, but the MC is pretty heavily aroacespec coded, and the main relationship develops in a very is-this-platonic-is-it-romantic-sapphic-aspec way. the author is aroace and says they consider it a QPR

D.I.Y

short story, the author labels them as a QPR though it’s not explicitly discussed

By Your Side

short story about a bi girl discussing and entering a QPR with her aromantic friend.

In The Jaws of an Oak

horror/erotica novella - I haven’t seen this called a QPR but I kinda interpret it as such? it’s romantic on one side, but one MC is aromantic and it’s made clear she doesn’t feel romantic feelings, just sex+companionship.

Archivist Wasp / Firebreak

honorable mention because i love them - all of the nicole kornher-stace’s works focus on platonic m/f relationships in a very aspec way, and have absolutely no romance anywhere. one of the central relationships is very much platonic soulmates/ qpr vibes (postapoc ghosty sci-fi/fantasy YA & dystopian anticapitalism)

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Based on Niao’s big tiddied Chel!Ed

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When your vision is blurry and you can't use your iPad that burns your newly fixed eyes so you turn to ancient arts to express how you're feeling about the healing process

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Last pp (and pussy) before my eye surgery! If you don’t like “edspond” (that’s their “ship” name now) then idk what to tell you, starve?

Uncensored

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Brothers watching Brothers 😌 (are you picking up a theme to my fandoms now?)

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Well guess what I'm a shonen guy now. Just started Fullmetal Alchemist and I'm REALLY enjoying it so far! I feel like it might turn into an obsession in the future... But we'll see:) Now have this illustration of Edward that I'm kinda proud of. Tried some new things in the rendering style and I think it turned out pretty good. Gonna do Alphonse later when I figure out how to draw that goddamn armor

Also if you've been there for my Treasure Planet era you know that I have a thing for metal prosthetics

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did he. poke a hole in his little headscarf ? for Antenna Purposes™ ??

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hi! *hands u a compilation of all the Baby Ed °^° Faces from the bonus story at the end of volume 14*

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A slightly old Fullmetal Alchemist fanart :)

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No one will like your pictures.

Sure? that wont matter to me as long as i enjoy the process of making art itself.

This was a blast to draw honestly, i bet you could never create something so beautiful in the time i do. i take pride in my work, you silly goobert

ASS SLAY!! #lesbian

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I'll never be over Fma:b. It's still just so good

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BrotherHugs

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Fanfic

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It’s funny because without context y’all will just think Roy is blushing because he has a hot date. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

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Catharsis

Episode 1: Rat’s nest

Warning: Trichotillomania

Trichotillomania = a mental disorder characterized by a long-term urge that results in the pulling out of one's own hair. Pulling out hair may be a way of dealing with negative or uncomfortable feelings, such as stress, anxiety, tension, boredom, loneliness, extreme tiredness or frustration.