#otherbound

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 2, Poll 11

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Amara-Otherbound

Qualifications:

Amara is canonically bisexual and mute (due to mutilation)

Propaganda:

She's a bi character, written by a bi woman, who's shown to have relationships with a man and a woman, also she has healing magic but it doesn't really work right. She uses signing, and is learning to read and write despite it being super against the rules.

Anything Else?:

tbh i don't expect her to get very far at all even on the off chance she gets in bc like nobody knows about this book, but i love it, so a few hundred people even seeing that it exists would be awesome

Submitted by @smilesandexits

Takashi ‘Shiro’ Shirogane-Voltron: Legendary Defender

Qualifications:

Lost an arm and ptsd and marries a guy

Propaganda:

Listen it’s Voltron but it’s also true

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - Feb 10 - #OwnVoices

Corinne Duyvis is the YA author who coined the #OwnVoices hashtag 🥰

[starrlikesbooks]

Do you have any recs for books that are along the same lines as Merlin or Prince/King x Bodyguard/Wizard adventuring? Bonus if LGBTQ+ and they smooch. <3 I love your blog!

Oddly all the books that come to mind in terms of "queer bodyguard romance" are sapphic!

Otherbound by Corrine Duyvis

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn

Some non-queer bodyguard romances you may like are Blade of Secrets, The Bodyguard, and maybe even The Merciful Crow.

[deathcuteroz]

Thinking about starting to use the term otherbonded instead of otherkin or therian because I like the ambiguity that comes with it. Otherhearted is similar, but otherbonded is like on a completely different playing field.

Like, “I’m omnibound/omnibonded.” instead of “I’m omnikin/omnihearted.”

[zakzaikin]

An 'OtherBound' announcement is 'SaturdayBound'.

[the-bi-library]

Bisexual BIPOC books

Here is the part one of my bisexual BIPOC books posts where I post books with MCs that are both bi and BIPOC

If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar Son of Sin by Omar Sakr The Disasters by M.K. England Lulu Sinagtala and the City of Noble Warriors by Gail D. Villanueva Last Chance Dance by Lakita Wilson Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Notna by J.D. Cunegan To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose She is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran When the Stars Alight (The Essence of the Equinox, #1) by Camilla Andrew The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz Fall Into You by Georgina Kiersten A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar When It All Syncs Up by Maya Ameyaw Bidding for the Bachelor by Jackie Lau Bearly A Lady by Cassandra Khaw Between Bookshelves by Olívia Pilar Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar by Anahita Karthik I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis Cupid Calling by Viano Oniomoh The Nightmare-Verse series: A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney A Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinney

[educated-dumbass]

Physical Disability/ Chronic Illness Book Masterlist

Quick Key:

🌻= found on Readanybook for free

🍄= I’ve read and recommend

🥀= on my tbr list

🌈= Send me an ask or direct message with this emoji and the book you want and I can likely find it in digital format for free. Be aware it is less secure than the Readanybook site. Please clarify if you’re using a phone or a laptop/computer. (Not including graphic novels)

Fantasy:

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Hemophilia) (Loss of certain mental faculties due to injury) 🌻

One for All by Lillie Lainoff (POTS) 🍄

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Reading disability) (Character that uses a cane) 🍄🌻

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (Reading disability) (Character that uses a cane) 🍄🌻

The Moth Girl by Heather Kamins (Fantasy chronic illness) 🥀

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (Cerebral Palsy)

Graphic Novels:

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker (hard of hearing mc) 🥀

The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann (Clubfoot)(Down Syndrome) 🥀

Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata (Epilepsy) 🥀

Historical Fiction:

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Clubfoot) 🌻🥀

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath (deafness)

Literary Fiction:

Unbroken: 13 stories starring disabled teens written by an assortment of disabled creators edited by Marieke Nijkamp (Wheelchair User)(Unspecified Mental Illness) (Blind MC) (Anxiety) (Chronic Pain) (Schizophrenia) (MC with a Cane) (Bipolar II) (IBS) (Cerebral Palsy) (Autistic MC) 🍄

Turning by Joy L. Smith (Wheel Chair user) (Spinal injury) (Stutter) (Brain Injury) 🥀

Electricity by Ray Robinson (Epilepsy)

Horror:

The Call by Peadar O'guilin (disability as a result of complications from having polio as a child) 🥀

Mystery:

Silent Fear by Lance Morcan (Deaf MC’s) 🥀

Russian Dolls by Cristelle Comby (Blind MC)

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (amputee)🌻🥀

Poetry:

A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman (below the knee amputation as a result of a car accident) 🍄🌻

Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca (Mother with Leukemia)

Romance:

The War Within (character in wheelchair) 🍄🌻

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas (cerebral palsy)

Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans (MC with prosthetic limb)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Chronic Pain)

Science Fiction:

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi (character with chronic immune deficiency) (character with prosthetics)

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (uses a cane and a wheelchair due to foot binding) 🍄

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (epilepsy? Kinda) (Amputee MC) 🌻🥀

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

Hello! First of all: love this blog! Second: I read a lot of queer books and as it turns out a lot of them weren’t already on your spreadsheet so uh. Sorry in advance for what I’m about to do to your inbox/queue 😅

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

The Time Slip Girl by Elizabeth Andre

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Queen of Cups by Ren Basel

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

Werecockroach by Polenth Blake

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

Wain: LGBT Reimaginings of Scottish Folktales by Helene Boppert and Rachel Plummer

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Tremontaine: The Complete Season One by Patty Bryant, Malinda Lo, Racheline Maltese, Joel Derfner, Ellen Kushner, Paul Witcover, and Alaya Dawn Johnson

This Other World by AC Buchanan

In Memoriam by Nathan Burgoine

The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé

Felix Ever After by Karen Callender

Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

Once & Future by AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy

The Brilliant Death by AR Capetta

XX by Angela Chadwick

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

The Vela by Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, Yoon Ha Lee, and SL Huang

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

The True Queen by Zen Cho

The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho

The Water that Falls on You From Nowhere by John Chu

The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Dreadnought by April Daniels

Sovereign by April Daniels

Thornfruit by Felicia Davin

Nightvine by Felicia Davin

Shadebloom by Felicia Davin

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Stay Another Day by Juno Dawson

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

We Go Around in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire by Jules Grant

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

Keeper of the Dawn by Dianna Gunn

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

The Outside by Ada Hoffman

The Fallen by Ada Hoffman

The Infinite by Ada Hoffman

Mindtouch by MCA Hogarth

Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson

The City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itäranta

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

The Beast of Callaire by Saruuh Kelsey

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy

An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

The Faerie Godmother’s Apprentice Wore Green by Nicky Kyle

Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee

Not Your Villain by CB Lee

Not Your Backup by CB Lee

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales by Yoon Ha Lee

Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Adaptation by Malinda Lo

Inheritance by Malinda Lo

Natural Selection by Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

The Hand, the Eye, and the Heart by Zoë Marriott

Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald

Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Forbid the Sea by Seanan McGuire

In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire

The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara

An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows

A Tyranny of Queens by Foz Meadows

All Out: The No-Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages ed. Saundra Mitchell

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

Princess Princess Ever After by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Society by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O’Neill

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Stormsong by CL Polk

Soulstar by CL Polk

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Tiger’s Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera

The Phoenix Empress by K Arsenault Rivera

The Warrior Moon by K Arsenault Rivera

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Birthday by Meredith Russo

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Dying for a Living by Kory M. Shrum

Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

The Traitor’s Tunnel by CM Spivey

Nimona by ND Stevenson

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver

Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by KM Szpara

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Crier’s War by Nina Varela

Iron Heart by Nina Varela

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

System Collapse by Martha Wells

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune by Neon Yang

The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang

The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang

Waiting on a Bright Moon by Neon Yang

Taproot by Keezy Young

Phew! Finally got all of these queued! Thank you so much for the list, and for arranging them so neatly, which definitely made it easier to transfer over to a spreadsheet!

[jeansyvesmoreau]

(It’s time for bookish Questions with Julie!) What is your favorite classic book? What is your favorite modern book? What makes a book a classic? What was the first book that made you fall in love with reading? Are you currently reading anything?

Rebecca by daphne du maurier or the wind in the willows I think

Sixofcrowssixofcrowssixofcrows-

it has to be good and have had significant cultural impact and be at least 50 years old

idk 😭 I’ve been reading books for as long as I remember

otherbound by corinna duyvis, I got it from the library because our bookshelf is near empty since we’re moving

[walpywalpy]

It’s weird looking back and realizing that a lot of the books I read in middle school where I had internalized homophobia had queer subtext. For example, I read a book called Otherbound and it had bisexual representation. I didn’t even know that’s the reason why it resonated with me. Even those that didn’t have queer representation at the time eventually will have queer representation. An example of that is Percy Jackson.

[stunningly-lesbian]

hi this is out of nowhere I'm sorry lol. There was a post you reblogged last May talking about how kids books are important bc they don't have the same restrictive content standards as other media (like kids movies or TV). And you tagged it saying they're also important bc books can't be retroactively censored, and that kids will always be able to read a book where "the love interest's brain got eaten by their own medical experiments." And I *must* know what book this is referring to, google did not help me. (I found your blog via that tag.) cheers!

First of all my memory is awful and I have zero memory of that post, the book I was talking about, or who I was as a person back then.

That being said, if it was a kids/preteen book it's most likely the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld? There's definitely a love interest whose brain gets eaten, if that's what you're looking for. The only other thing I can think of would be Animorphs, maybe? It sounds like something they'd do, but I never finished them/last read them over a decade ago, so I doubt I'd reference them here.

More YA books, like Proxy, Unwind and Otherbound also have that medical experiment/causing pain to the ones you love vibe, but sadly no brain eating iirc :(

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 2 Matchups

Floofty Fizzlebean (Bugsnax) vs Heart (Moonlight Chicken)

Nathaniel Thorn (Sorcery of Thorns) vs Wei Wuxain (The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi)

Fu Shen (Golden Terrace / Huang Jin Tai) vs Elphaba Thropp (Wicked)

Ben Scott (Yellowjackets) vs Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows)

Riku (Kingdom Hearts) vs Darth Maul (Star Wars)

James ‘Bucky’ Barnes (Marvel) vs Eichi Tenshouin (Ensemble Stars!!)

Anna Tromedlov (Hench) vs Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

Shallan Davar (The Stormlight Archive) vs Hiccup Haddock (How To Train Your Dragon)

Scavenger (Arknights) vs Norma Kahn (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

Arthur Lester (Malevolent) vs Li Shimin (Iron Widow)

Amara (Otherbound) vs Takashi “Shiro” Shirogane (Voltron: Legendary Defender)

Korra (Avatar: The Legend of Korra) vs Will Kenrith (Magic: The Gathering)

Song Lan (The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi) vs Link (Legend of Zelda)

Ambrosius Goldenloin (Nimona) vs Lenore Vandernacht (Nevermore)

Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier) vs Even Bech Næsheim (SKAM)

Wayne Terrisborn (Mistborn) vs Amaya (The Dragon Prince)

Check out the other waves here.

[sapphicbookoftheday]

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

Today's sapphic book of the day is Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis!

Summary: "Amara is never alone. Not when she's protecting the cursed princess she unwillingly serves. Not when they're fleeing across dunes and islands and seas to stay alive. Not when she's punished, ordered around, or neglected.

She can't be alone, because a boy from another world experiences all that alongside her, looking through her eyes.

Nolan longs for a life uninterrupted. Every time he blinks, he's yanked from his Arizona town into Amara's mind, a world away, which makes even simple things like hobbies and homework impossible. He's spent years as a powerless observer of Amara's life. Amara has no idea . . . until he learns to control her, and they communicate for the first time. Amara is terrified. Then, she's furious.

All Amara and Nolan want is to be free of each other. But Nolan's breakthrough has dangerous consequences. Now, they'll have to work together to survive--and discover the truth about their connection."

[ashes3241]

Pride Month TBR List

Photo by rikka ameboshi on Pexels.com Far From You by Tess Sharpe The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis  They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Ascension (Tangled Axon #1) by Jacqueline Koyanagi Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens by Marieke Nijkamp, etc. ✔️ Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans The Second Mango…

[nerds-in-wonderland]

🌈👑SURPRISE LGBT+ YA FANTASY TITLES👑🌈

OTHERBOUND

BY CORINNE DUYVIS

"Amara is a protector to a cursed princess, and secretly plagued by the boy who lives in her head. Nolan lives in Arizona, where his otherwise normal life is interrupted every time he blinks by visions of Amara’s life. One day, he discovers a way to communicate to Amara—much to her fury—but this escalation of their connection will have dangerous consequences for them both."

~Alice 🌌