#earthbound hearts

[aroaessidhe]

ace books: f/f YA

the romance is a subplot in most of these!

Arden Grey - contemporary, ace lebsian MC

You Don't Have A Shot - contemporary, queer ace MC

Forward March - contemporary, ace lesbian MC

The Summer Love Strategy - contemporary, demi-aroace LI

Earthbound Hearts - contemporary + a little sff, ace lesbian MC

The Facts and Legends of Callie Catwell - contemporary + a little sff, sapphic ace MC

The Art of Saving The World - sci-fi, ace lesbian MC

Belle Révolte - high fantasy - 1/2 MCs is bi ace

Queen of Coin and Whispers - 1/2 MCs is a demi-coded lesbian

Six Angry Girls - contemporary, 1/2 MCs is sapphic ace

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

[astralbooks]

Earthbound Hearts - Alex Nonymous

Read: 23/12/2022

Rating: 5/5

Rep: asexual lesbian main character, autistic sapphic main character, f/f relationship, trans girl side character CW: negative self talk, implied autistic meltdown from pov of autistic character, accidental outing (not of a main character and only to one other person)

Review:

This book follows two girls, Skye and Sadie, childhood pen pals who despite falling for each other have solely communicated through email their entire lives. Now in their last year of high school, Skye manages to convince Sadie to come outside and meet her face to face for the first time, upon which Skye finds out that there was a very good reason why Sadie had until then spent most of her life indoors.

This book can be described as a love letter to stimming and other ways that autistic people authentically express themselves. Sadie is autistic. It isn't her autism that leads her to stay hidden away from the world, it's what comes of her being made to feel like she absolutely has to mask and keep all her autistic traits hidden. Throughout the book she grows in confidence and comfort in being herself, and the final line of the book had me smiling really really hard. Also there's a certain line that Sadie says near the end that upon reading it I had to stop and stare at my ceiling for a bit because I felt it so hard. Skye was also a really great character! She's driven, curious, academically successful due largely to the hard work she puts in towards achieving her goals, and she's rather unpopular with her teachers due to her unwillingness to be talked down to or treated like she's inferior. I had a lot of fun reading from her perspective! One of the most significant side characters is Skye's best friend Isaac. Isaac is a trans girl and the only person she's come out to at all is Skye. Nobody else knows that Isaac is trans, and she evidently hasn't chosen a new name yet and is at the point of the book is uncertain as to whether or not she's even going to. This is my first time seeing a character like Isaac and I really hope it's not the last. Trans people are under no obligation to tell everyone immediately, or change our names, or do anything if we don't want to or aren't ready to. At any given moment there are loads of real trans people out there who are in the same kind of in-between stage that Isaac is in, and they deserve to be acknowledged as well as the trans people who have everything figured out including a new publicly usable gender-matching name. There's room for all of us. Aside from her gender, Isaac is just a great character. She's the go-to leader of her and Skye's friendship group for very good reason. Also, Isaac being in this in-between stage in her transition is thematically resonant with the rest of the book. The group are in their last year of high school, they're about to start applying to universities, their friendship group may or may not survive graduation, and the relationship between Skye and Sadie is developing and changing rapidly. The whole book feels like a snapshot in the lives of the characters as they're just starting to become the people they're going to be, and I really loved that! I would highly recommend this book for anyone looking for queer contemporary with fantasy elements or who are looking for more autistic rep in the books they pick up

I received an early copy of this book prior to its publication in return for some feedback. Details may be different in the published version.

[jimmawww]

Fave Save Points

Resident Evil

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle

Ico

Shadow of the Colossus

Silent Hill 3

Signalis

No More Heroes

Metroid Prime

Ape Escape

Nier: Automata

Dark Souls

Metal Gear Solid

Tunic

Kingdom Hearts 2

Cave Story

Tales of Symphonia

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Little Witch Nobeta

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

GTA: San Andreas

Undertale

OneShot

Hollow Knight

Need For Speed: Rivals

Onirism

F.I.S.T.

Dust

Earthbound (worst)

[quobalt]

Imagine a Kingdom Hearts style Nintendo game where this is the rouges gallery that the anime JRPG protagonist has to face off against while the real threat looms in the shadows.

(Inspired by @bromojumbo!)

[commandernachos]

More Nessporky doodles

[lolmeowaj]

This painting caused me to die, I think.

I did this peice for an introductory painting class I'm taking. Essentially to get used to painting acrylics they had do a color wheel of things related to ourselfs, so I painted a bunch of things I like. In fact I had to do a similar assignment a year ago when I had a drawing class with the same teacher. The differences was that it was all omori themed and in colored pencil.

Anyways, this painting is basically complete ass. I paint clay figures from time to time but actually painting on paper, I'm like, so bad at it, it's not even funny.

As you can see the sketch was significantly better with a lot more details and having a more like subtle tone everything??? Not exsactly sure how to exsplain that aspect but I'm sure you can see it. Anyways. I'm gonna see if I can get better at painting, maybe. Mainly I wanna learn water colors (as I've said, I think).

[nickpeppermint]

Happy Valentine's Day from Winters 💕

[the-starry-lycan]

▸ I. . F E E L. . . G. . O. . O. . D . . .

[stardrawsrmblogs]

My favorite characters (my opinions don't comment "Where's this character or "You forgot that character" if so, you'll get blocked. ) 🎀💝💕💘🌸💖

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads / storygraph

Earthbound Hearts

YA contemporary + a little magic

Skye becomes penpals with Sadie, the mysterious girl in her neighbourhood who never leaves her house, after being obsessed with the mystery of her when she was 8

after emailing for years and falling for each other (not that they know that yet), it’s the final year of high school, and Sadie starts to reach out in ways other than email, maybe even meeting in person - and Skye finds out that the fantastical theories she had as a kid about why Sadie stayed inside are close to the truth after all

Ace lesbian MC, autistic sapphic MC, closeted trans girl side character

[sincerely--me]

This desert is so hot. Why didn't I go with Arly and Carbunny?

[Rulue starts fawning over him which makes that situation worse]

(I can't shake the feeling of being watched...like someone is waiting to attack...then again, maybe it's just me?)

[Poo]

(... Something's here.)

[chase-omega]

Indie successors are better than the games they "copy", and I'm not kidding.

Undertale's better than Earthbound, Freedom Planet's better than a lot of 2D Sonic games, Palworld's better than Pokémon, Tunic and Oceanhorn pretty much NEED to exist since traditional 2D Zelda just doesn't exist anymore (Echoes of Wisdom isn't "traditional"), Duskfade and Genokids need to exist since Kingdom Hearts 4 won't be out for a long long time, Bug Fables forced Nintendo to realize people actually like Thousand Year Door, Shovelknight is more relevant than Ducktales ever will be, Spark the Electric Jester is the Sonic Adventure 3 we've been begging and begging for, AdventureQuest Worlds and AdventureQuest 3D were there for me when I couldn't afford WOW (and they didn't fall off like WOW did either), etc.

We need more games made by actual gamers who know what gamers want. Not out of touch old boomers who bow down and worship their executives and shareholders.

[demonpopstar]

Oh gosh, I woke up to a handful of notifs on my chimera fuel post!! I’m so glad people like it aaaah!!

Fuel is one of my favorites, I’m happy a few people like the au/art I did!! I was so proud of that piece. ^^ here’s a random doodle I did of our dragon boy a few days ago for you all

[justcommander]

So, I love these three.

A Kaiju, a priest and an Esper child. What do they have in common? They all got a red UNHOLY ABOMINATION that does not love them and some divine intervention on their side.

And some pixels of course of course.

Bonus: Acacius POV. When you're a Kaiju and you pick up a sassy child and a silly looking priest. But the child's totally chill and the priest is just slightly concerned.

[zharizard666]

Another doodle I never posted based on an inside joke.

[yukarinuniversaltraveler]

Yeah I love this character archetype of “kid who’s very chill until you mess with his temper”. I don’t care if it’s generic and/or bad I just love these type o’ characters.