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transbookoftheday · 7 months

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🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ Trans Books To Read If You Love "Our Flag Means Death" 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Can't get enough of Our Flag Means Death? Read some trans pirate books!

On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice. But their magic isn't enough to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father, and now el Diablo has come to collect his payment: the soul of Mar's father and the entire crew of their ship. When Mar is miraculously rescued by the sole remaining pirate crew in the Caribbean, el Diablo returns to give them a choice: give up their soul to save their father by the harvest moon, or never see him again. The task is impossible - Mar refuses to make a bargain, and there's no way their magic is a match for el Diablo. Then Mar finds the most unlikely allies: Bas, an infuriatingly arrogant and handsome pirate - and the captain's son; and Dami, a gender-fluid demonio whose motives are never quite clear. For the first time in their life, Mar may have the courage to use their magic. It could be their only redemption - or it could mean certain death.

(The audiobook for "The Wicked Bargain" is narrated by Vico Ortiz!)

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas. Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don’t trust, don’t stick out, and don’t feel. But on this voyage, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is headed to an arranged marriage she dreads. Flora doesn’t expect to be taken under Evelyn’s wing, and Evelyn doesn’t expect to find such a deep bond with the pirate Florian. Neither expects to fall in love. Soon the unlikely pair set in motion a wild escape that will free a captured mermaid (coveted for her blood) and involve the mysterious Pirate Supreme, an opportunistic witch, double agents, and the all-encompassing Sea herself. Deftly entwining swashbuckling action and quiet magic, Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s inventive debut novel conjures a diverse cast of characters seeking mastery over their fates while searching for answers to big questions about identity, power, and love.

The Lost Boys say that Peter Pan went back to England because of Wendy Darling, but Wendy is just an old life he left behind. Neverland is his real home. So when Peter returns to it after ten years in the real world, he's surprised to find a Neverland that no longer seems to need him. The only person who truly missed Peter is Captain James Hook, who is delighted to have his old rival back. But when a new war ignites between the Lost Boys and Hook's pirates, the ensuing bloodshed becomes all too real - and Peter's rivalry with Hook starts to blur into something far more complicated, sensual, and deadly.

In the Christian Republic, homosexual people are given two choices—a camp to "fix" them, or exile to the distant islands populated by lesbians and gay men. Sixteen-year-old Jason chooses exile and expects a hardscrabble life but instead finds a thriving, supportive community. While exploring his identity as a transgender boy he also discovers adventure: kraken attacks, naval battles, a flying island built by asexual people, and a daring escape involving glow-in-the-dark paint. He also has a desperate crush on Sky, a spirited buccaneer girl, but fear keeps him from expressing his feelings. When Jason and his companions discover the Republicans are planning a war of extermination, they rally the people of the Rainbow Islands to fight back. Shy, bookish Jason will have to find his inner courage or everything and everyone he loves will be lost forever.

Book titles:

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

Rainbow Islands by Devin Harnois

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noahhawthorneauthor · 7 months

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September was a good month for reading ! I've already started on my first October book, Black Leopard Red Wolf. I can tell you right now it's unlike anything I've read before, is dark as heck, and I'm loving it.

I've got three books under my belt for the 23for23 challenge so far, here's to twenty more. 📚🏳️‍🌈👏

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 6 months

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JOMP BPC - October 20th - Close Up

I love the detail on the cover of The Siren, the Song and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall 💚

#the siren the song and the spy #the mermaid the witch and the sea #maggie tokuda hall #jompbpc #justonemorepage #trcc original #booklr #lgbt books #bookblr #authors of colour #portraits

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bigdreamsandwildthings · 1 year

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singing-not-sleeping-beauty · 9 months

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I want to start a book club, but instead of it being one of those white women book clubs where it's just a bunch of moms drinking wine without having read the book it's a group of friends who meet up at a cabin once or twice a year and we read, and make food & crafts based off our favorite books, and watch movie/tv show adaptations of those books

y'know?

#imagine spending a weekend in a cabin with a bunch of percy jackson fans #we make cabin banners & watch the disney+ show when it comes out #bookworm #reading #bookblr #via rambles #percy jackson #the night circus #the starless sea #caraval #once upon a broken heart #stephanie garber #erin morgenstern #the mermaid the witch and the sea #the montague siblings

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nogenderblender9358 · 7 months

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My Roman Empire

Florian and Evelyn from the mermaid the witch and the sea

#the mermaid the witch and the sea #lesbian #flora #florian #Evelyn #lgbt #wlw #i adore them #they are so cute

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a-ramblinrose · 4 months

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || December 14 || Wanted To Love But Didn’t: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

#the mermaid the witch and the sea #maggie tokuda-hall #justonemorepage #jompbpc #book photo challenge #book photography #books #Not Out of Void But Out of Chaos #bpc catch up

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aroaessidhe · 7 months

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2023 reads

The Siren The Song and the Spy

sequel to The Mermaid The Witch and The Sea following many new & background characters

allies from across the seas are coming together to fight against the empire once and for all

two siblings from a community who’ve held back colonisation until now, and the rich girl who washes up on their shore after a shipwreck, a pirate spy in the capital, and various others

and the Sea and her daughters, the mermaids, and creatures who want to fight back

#The Siren The Song and the Spy #the mermaid the witch and the sea #maggie tokuda-hall #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i enjoyed this a lot!! more than book 1 tbh #i enjoyed book 1 but wasn't obsessed w it for whatever reason. also my memory of it is pretty hazy #but ahh!!! good characters #TWO aroace MCs :)#aroace books #florian & evelyn only have a couple short chapters between them; so maybe not great for fans of them #(but also honestly i'd prefer that to like. they're mcs but bad things happen to them)#it maybe… simplifies revolution and overturning the empire a bit?#but I guess most of the characters are just joining right when it’s about to pop off.#and also it does have the fairytale vibes that makes that work (I saw a review that said ‘deau ex oceania’ haha)

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exmakina · 11 months

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Day 18 - Evelyn Hasegawa from The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Thanks to @cellamare for the suggestion!

#evelyn hasegawa #maggie tokuda-hall #the mermaid the witch and the sea #2023 AAPI Heritage Month #AAPIHM #m'art #digital

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qbdatabase · 1 year

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Ahoy, mates and mutineers!

This month’s list features some of my top picks for women who rule the high seas–and the occasional space ship. Or really fucked up ghost ship. Plus a couple extra disaster male pirates 😘

Book descriptions and rep for lesbian, bisexual, butch, disabled, autistic, and women of color below the cut!

*Barbary Station / R. E. Stearns: Sci-Fi; grad students turn to space-piracy to pay off their debts but find they’re trapped on-station by an evil AI, feat. autistic lesbian x bi girlfriend

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea / Maggie Tokuda-Hall: YA Fantasy; a genderfluid pirate accidentally bonds with their noble Lady passenger, set on a wild escape, and free a captured mermaid

Ship of Smoke and Steel / Django Wexler: YA Fantasy, Action; Asian bisexual crime boss fights a ghost pirate ship (yes, the ship itself) with her lesbian healer girlfriend

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy / Mackenzi Lee: YA Historical; an aro-ace lady schemes to become a doctor, but she’ll settle for being a pirate!

The Fifth Season / N. K. Jemisin: Fantasy, Dystopia; a poly bisexual woman sets out on a vengeance quest to rescue her kidnapped daughter the day the world ends

Compass Rose / Anna Burke: Fantasy / Sci-Fi; a black lesbian goes undercover as a pirate in the 26th century

Windfall / Shawna Barnett: Fantasy; a secret-princess pirate Captain is blackmailed into protecting a runaway real princess in bisexual love square

A Song of Silver and Gold / Melissa Karibian: Fantasy; retelling of The Little Mermaid with enemies-to-lovers, butch lesbian pirate Captain x siren warrior who must cut out her heart

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach: Sci-Fi; bisexual dead cop comes back wrong and works w/pirates to stop a plague

*Captain Raven and the All Girl Pirate Crew: YA graphic novel; Raven needs revenge against her brothers, so she hires a female crew, feat. Deaf, lesbian, and women of color

(extra) The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue: YA Historical; alcoholic bi male x epileptic biracial gay male; the first in the series by Makenzie Lee

*(extra) Kidnapped by the Pirate / Keira Andrews: Romance; a young gay man offers himself as hostage to an older pirate Captain to save his sister

*titles with an asterisk next to them have been featured on QBdatabase.com as a daily book; this lists the book's full jacket summary, detailed notes on representation, and a link to its goodreads page!

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ninsiana0 · 14 days

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transbookoftheday · 1 year

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The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.

Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don’t trust, don’t stick out, and don’t feel. But on this voyage, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is headed to an arranged marriage she dreads. Flora doesn’t expect to be taken under Evelyn’s wing, and Evelyn doesn’t expect to find such a deep bond with the pirate Florian. Neither expects to fall in love.

Soon the unlikely pair set in motion a wild escape that will free a captured mermaid (coveted for her blood) and involve the mysterious Pirate Supreme, an opportunistic witch, double agents, and the all-encompassing Sea herself.

Deftly entwining swashbuckling action and quiet magic, Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s inventive debut novel conjures a diverse cast of characters seeking mastery over their fates while searching for answers to big questions about identity, power, and love.

#the mermaid the witch and the sea #maggie tokuda-hall #nonbinary #bigender #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

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noahhawthorneauthor · 8 months

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Was outside taking book pictures when my kid asked to take over. Gotta say, I think she knows what's she doing.

What do you think @neil-gaiman ?

#good omens #phantom and rook #swords and seers #atlas six #the mermaid the witch and the sea #book stack #queer books #indie books #my books #she's a natural

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 1 month

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If you liked The Mermaid The Witch and the Sea, try Venom and Vow

They both include:

bigender MCs

cases of mistaken identity

YA fantasy with rich, unique cultures

#the mermaid the witch and the sea #maggie tokuda hall #venom and vow #anna marie mclemore #elliott mclemore #booklr #bookblr #lgbt books #transbooks365 #trans books #bigender #book recs #book recommendations

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safirefire · 22 days

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The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea has a she/he gnc lesbian pirate falling for a lesbian noblewoman she’s supposed to be double crossing and an anti imperialist message btw

#the second book just came off hold I’m so excited #the mermaid the witch and the sea #maggie tokuda hall #bookblr #booklr #ya fantasy #pirates #lesbian #lgbtq books #they’re both people of color #sapphic books #it doesn’t go deep at all with the anti imperialism but I’ve only read the first one and it’s ya

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nogenderblender9358 · 22 days

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hi yall

so I had an amazing idea for a taissa fic because I was lacking taissa requests. So I want to do a multi chapter au where it’s based off the book The mermaid The witch and The sea. It’s a sapphic pirate book and the main girl flora looks like Taissa when she cut all her hair off and also taissa as a pirate is everything to me. So it’s going to be x reader and the reader is obviously going to be Evelyn and tai is flora. I’m thinking it’s gonna be a few chapter. I just want to know if there is interest in it? I mean 😅 I’m gonna write it regardless but I just wanna know.

I also did this sketch of taissa dressed like a pirate so I’m well into this idea.

#yellowjackets x reader #taissa turner #taissa turner x reader #pirate!taissa #The mermaid the witch and the sea #florian

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