hey so @canyouhearmyfear drew this incredibly tragic fanart and i got sad and inspired simultaneously to write some sad prongsfoot shit about it. so like, enjoy, if u wish. at ur own discretion:
You died last week. I killed you. I'm sorry.
They say you’ve finally gone somewhere I can’t follow, but my soul is not hindered by the confines of the world like my body. Intertwined with yours, death could not detangle me from you. It followed you to rest, six feet under my tired feet, and waits like you do for the rest of me to join. I will walk the earth as a ghost and wish I wasn’t scared of dying even when it seems like death can only be a comfort if I'll be met with your embrace. Will you embrace me, in the end? It’s my fault, after all, that you’re a memory now. Sometimes I think it’s impossible that no one has ever been pronounced dead by guilt. They say people die of heartbreak all the time, but never guilt. Guilt is self-made heartbreak. It sits on your lungs and hinders your breaths, it wants you to sink into its black lake, sink right to the bottom and never resurface. I don’t want to resurface, and I don’t deserve to. If that upsets you, no it doesn’t, because you are no longer capable of being upset and I only have myself to blame. I almost climbed into your coffin on the day of your funeral, can you believe that? They had to hold me back from clutching your corpse. You would have been cold under my hands, and I would have shuddered, and I think about that everyday, how terrible it would have been to shudder at your touch. I just want to feel you again. In my arms. By my side. In my heart. Anywhere. Everywhere. Why did you go, Jamie? I can’t be without you. I never learned how.
Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Bandits of Liangshan proclaim a belief in justice—for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats. Together, they could bring down an empire.
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
The long-awaited sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it. Welcome back to Marsyas Island—home to six magical and purportedly dangerous children. This is Arthur’s story.
The West Passage by @jpechacek
When the Guardian of the West Passage dies in her bed, the women of Grey Tower feed her to the crows and go back to their chores. No successor is named, and no hand takes up the fallen blade, so the West Passage—the ancient byways of the beast—goes unguarded. This is a weird and delightful journey across a deliriously medieval landscape where decay thrives in abundance and giant Ladies rule a palace the size of a city.
Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker
On the thirtieth anniversary of the largest magical massacre in New Orleans history, Clement and Cristina Trudeau mourn their father and care for their sick mother. But their mother isn’t sick, they learn: She’s cursed. Cursed by a member of the same magic council over which she used to preside. Cursed by someone who will come for Clement and Cristina next.
Now available in paperback!
Bury Your Gays by @drchucktingle
After so many years, Misha’s big Oscar moment is here. All he has to do? Kill off the gay characters in his long-running streaming series, “for the algorithm.” Misha refuses, but that’s hardly the end, because monsters from his old horror movie days have begun to step out from the silver screen and stalk him.
The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
The Cleric Chih accompanies a young bride to her wedding to Lord Guo, the aging ruler of a crumbling estate, but amid the elaborate courtesies and extravagant banquets, they realize something haunts the shadowed halls. As the big night nears close, Chih will learn that not all monsters dwell in shadows; some hide in plain sight.
Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr
1) An unassuming librarian falls in love with a powerful witch.
2) Previous librarian discovers she too is a witch…
3) …and that she must attend magical community college to learn how to save her new world from annihilation.
Swordcrossed by @fahye
Part-time con artist / full-time charming menace Luca Piere didn’t expect to get blackmailed into teaching a chronically responsible merchant Matti how to wield a sword. He also didn’t expect to find his charge so inconveniently handsome, or to get so entangled in his tale of intrigue, sabotage, and matrimony.
It’s important to read Swordcrossed because while you’re reading gay fiction, you can also study the blade.
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Ignore how offbeat and bad the text looks💀 I haven’t done a text edit in so long and for some reason it was offbeat when I added it as an overlay in Capcut, and I had to fix two layers of text to be somewhat on beat. So yeah that took about 10 minutes just trying to do that so ignore how weird it looks😭