#loved this queer gender bent retelling of arthruian legend so if youre into that i rec you pick this up

[jennamacaroni]

So while their clothes are different from ours, and their weapons and food, their hearts are the same. They fall in love. They worry about the weather and their crops. They try to make their homes beautiful. And some of them are, though it's a beauty of living things: wood and wool. Their weaving is very fine–they make a red you would love. But Artos doesn't care for their carvings or their hangings; he cares only that they don't speak his tongue, in word or belief. And he believes so strongly in his rule of law that he will do almost anything to make it happen. He will fight endlessly–but in the end he is only mortal.

Nicola Griffith, "Spear"