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hi, i am running a reading challenge for 2020, focused on reading works by and about marginalized communities. would you be willing to signal boost? thanks! diversereadingchallenge(.)tumblr(.)com

sure!

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FYI: Sorry I’ve real life’s been kicking my ass this last month, but I do hope to have a few more new reclists for the end of the year coming up. Thank you all for your support!

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gonna reread the dark wife, so appropriately redid an older piece

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I got a commission of Grant and Amanda from my book. Hit up @noszle if you like this or my new av.

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I did character drawings for the book Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody! I’ll be sharing them one by one, and here is the first one: the protagonist Sorina Gomorrah. I had a blast drawing these characters because they all have unique features to them that I got to design. The book is already out so check it out :)

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Jane and Katherine from Dread Nation!

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guess what book im obsessed with

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MERCY ME.

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Drew the crew from the first Wayfarers book “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” tonight!

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When you want to be a surgeon, but society’s a jerk and won’t let women into higher education, so you have to practice on your bro and his boyfriend when the opportunity strikes.

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‘Looks like it’s your lucky day’ 🥂

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All of these books are queer, but they all have back blurbs that don’t say they’re queer. While this can be a pain if I’m scouting for queer SFF, it can come in handy for people in a situation where they don’t want to be reading queer books openly. 

Please do note that I don’t have hard copies of the books on hand so it’s possible that an author quote or something mentions one being queer (I feel like this isn’t super likely, but I don’t want to rule it out). Some might also have author biographies mentioning that the author is queer. Also, some may be shelved as LGBT on Goodreads or categorized as queer on Amazon. So if you’re planning on asking for any of these as holiday gifts, I would suggest going to the Amazon page or where ever your relative is likely to buy it from and double check that it’s something you’d be comfortable with sharing openly. 

I wish I had more pansexual books, but the ones I know of tend to mention queerness in the back description. 

With the exception of The Spy with the Red Balloon, these are all books I have read or are currently reading. If you want to recommend others, feel free to do so in the replies!

You can find my other queer book recommendations here.

Links to the queer books database (or Goodreads if the book hasn’t been added yet) are available below the cut. You can find information on content warnings there.

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so the other day my girlfriend and i were at a thrift store looking at the books, and we found a copy of the princess by tennyson from around 1900 for like 2 dollars 

nice, right? 

here is the inscription on the front 

so “unknown yet known” is a misquote of a bible verse (2 corinthians 6:9) which goes like “known yet regarded as unknown” and that whole bit is about like, keeping love in your heart despite hardship, which. ok. (also i’m not saying but i’m just saying do you like know her KNOW her in the biblical sense or does helen WANT TO but they haven’t yet??? ok i’m totally saying that’s what it means.) 

now i don’t want to just yell GAY out of nowhere, but like, your unknown yet known friend? ladies? giving each other books with ambiguously gay dedications about love in the face of trials and suffering in the front? 

so what’s this princess thing even about? wikipedia says: 

The poem tells the story of an heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women’s university where men are forbidden to enter.

dang. 

okay, so let’s look at what passages in this book are underlined. (and we can’t tell who did the underlining, helen or emma. the inscription on the front is in pen, but the underlinings are in pencil, so who the fuck knows) 

Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss

um

O hard, when love and duty clash!

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‘Alone,’ I said, ‘from earlier than I know, Immersed in rich foreshadowings of the world, I loved the woman: he, that doth not, lives A drowning life, besotted in sweet self, Or pines in sad experience worse than death, Or keeps his winged affections clipt with crime: Yet was there one through whom I loved her, one Not learnèd, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise, Interpreter between the Gods and men, Who looked all native to her place, and yet On tiptoe seemed to touch upon a sphere Too gross to tread, and all male minds perforce Swayed to her from their orbits as they moved, And girdled her with music. Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay.’

UM!!

Indeed I love: the new day comes, the light Dearer for night, as dearer thou for faults Lived over: lift thine eyes; my doubts are dead. 

UMMMMM!!!!

wow so in conclusion kate and i found a gay ladies book from the past and i’m really overwhelmed with emotions about it????

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 The Strenght of the Woman - The Elegance of the Man

I’ve become infatuated with the prince and the dressmaker by Jen Wang. As a NB person it got me to my core. Sebastian/Lady Cristallia is MY JAM. 

Daffodils. - Springtime and rebirth.

Bittersweet. - Truth and honesty. 

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Y’all need to read “The Binding” by Bridget Collins

This book will deffinately be one of my fav this year

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