#that pastel shibari dreams existed

[not-poignant]

Hello Pia! You’ve probably been asked this before, but since I’m late to this specific party and don’t know how to find the answer I’m just going to go ahead and ask again: Are the books Arden recommends to Efnisien made up or do they exist? I want the book on queer nature but could only find a poetry book with that title. 😅

It's really just a mix, anon!

The book on jellyfish with the hot pink and royal blue cover? That exists. I can't remember the title, but there's not that many books on jellyfish and you should be able to find it. Okay no I'll stand up and go look at my bookshelf because I own that one, hang on... it's Spineless by Juli Berwald. The book on Game Theory and Animal Behaviour was real, which made me laugh.

The book on queer nature doesn't exist from memory, I wanted to invent a book that had a spine of the colour I wanted so I did. The book Pastel Shibari Dreams doesn't exist (which I say in the author's note), but the book on Leading and Supporting Love is real (which I say in the author's note).

Unfortunately I can't tell you which of the others are real or not because I write the word book nearly 800 times in that story and a ctrl+F is going to hurt my clicker finger going through all of those, lol, and I didn't keep a list of the titles that were real and the ones that weren't. Needless to say it's just a mix. (The tl;dr is I'm too lazy to click 800 times to check how many other books I mention - I think the planet one about the moons of wherever I also invented so I could make my Ganymede joke).

There are books on queerness in nature though, but I can't remember any off the top of my head. There were just none that were doing exactly what I wanted. The story really is a mix of 'I'm making this one up' and 'I own this one' and 'I need a very specific book spine cover and most photos of books don't show the colour of the spine so I have to invent a book' slakjfsa :D