#hell's library

[npdclaraoswald]

Noticed some similarities in books I like

And before you tell me gomens is also canonically queer, I'm talking about the book, not the show

[th3-ang3l-of-d3ath]

Now Reading: The Archive of the Forgotten by A. J. Hackwith

Finally, I have the chance to continue my favorite series!

[violet-prism-creatively]

I finally read the 3rd book in the Hell's Library series by AJ Hackwith and immediately went to scroll through the tumblr tag. It's tragic that this trilogy's fandom is like 3 people because it should be so popular! Heaven and Hell and other afterlife realms! Almost all the main characters are queer POC! Is it found family or a polycule? There's angst! humor! softness! trauma! It's literally about the importance of stories!!

Anyway go read The Library of the Unwritten (1st book) and scream with me.

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook2]

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[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - September 17th - Can't Wait to Start

I can't wait to start the Hell's Library trilogy by AJ Hackwith. isn't it always the way with series that you can borrow books 1 and 3 but book 2's gonna be on hold for a while 😅

[autisticburnham]

While I do moreso see how it would be cool with Michael than I did with Claire, I am glad Michael didn't devote her life to the Progenitors. Because I recently finished the Hell's Library series by AJ Hackwith (spoilers) and that ended with the main character giving up her personhood to become a god to save her friends. And that was framed as a happy ending, but it made me extraordinarily sad. Claire had struggled the whole series with allowing herself to be loved and to love herself instead of devoting her entire (after)life to her job, and she had finally gotten to a point where she was doing that. She was finding balance with her job and the people she loved and forming a little polycule and was so close to being happy, and she had to give that all up to not even really be a conscious being anymore and literally carry the weight of the world on her shoulders.

And, while I do otherwise like Hackwith's writing, I couldn't help but think that the fact that Hackwith is white and Claire was written as a black woman played a role in why they thought it was a happy ending for her to end her life to support other people.

And obviously Michael's situation would have been different, if for no other reason than that I don't think it would've been a permanent thing like Claire- and Sisko- ascending. But given how disappointed I was with that ending for Hell's Library, and given the fact that Sisko had a very similar ending, I'm so happy Michael got to live out a normal, happy life with the people she loves

[somestorythoughts]

Reading The God of Lost Words and Witches Abroad in the same week is funny because one's like "stories are alive and powerful and wonderful things" and the other's like "stories are alive and powerful and it's a fucking problem".

[todaysanother]

“ Stories want to change, and it is a librarian’s job to preserve them; that’s the natural order of things. The Unwritten Wing of the Library, for all its infinite magic and mystery, is in some ways a futile project. No story, written or unwritten, is static. Left abandoned too long and given the right stimulation, a book goes wrong in the head. It is a story’s natural ambition to wake up and start telling itself to the world. ”

[npdclaraoswald]

Okay, book. You can reference an urban fantasy with two brothers and a muscle car. You cannot have your older mentor figure say "idjit" when he is the ghost of a Viking

[monroeknoxwrites]

haha oh no

[th3-ang3l-of-d3ath]

Now Reading: The Library of the Unwritten by A. J. Hackwith

Demons? Hell? A library? Sounds interesting.

[anotherpapercut]

yesterday I went to a little meeting at my local queer community center and I was admiring their bookshelves and mentioned that I work at the public library and someone said "well I bet they don't have any [LGBTQ+ books] at our library" and I was like um. yes we do. we have tons of them. half of our employees are queer leftists so they said "oh well I bet they don't in [nearby rural county]" and I was like uh once again yes they absolutely do. gay people live and work there as well

so here's a quick reminder that if you don't think your local library has enough queer centered materials you should actually check before assuming, and if you're not satisfied with their collection you should submit a request for more such books. I don't know what the political landscape of libraries looks like outside the us rn, but within the us no matter where you are, I promise you there are employees at your library fighting for inclusion and intellectual freedom and they can't win without vocal public support

[dangeroustaintedflawed]

[somestorythoughts]

Hero: Why do you take me seriously? I'm annoying

Rami: you are definitely annoying but I like who you are when people take you seriously

Hero: ...what

[hellmandraws]

I accidentally got really into X-Men lately, and I'm not immune to... them. 🥺❤️

[benevolenterrancy]

so I've started reading Journey to the West, and I more or less knew what to expect from Sun Wukong going in, no surprises there. Tripitaka, on the other hand, completely knocked my feet out from under me... I am enchanted