#genderfluid mermaids for the win

[kayakischaotic]

PJO/HOO/TOA HEADCANONSSSS 🎉🎉🎉

WHOS READY TO RUMBLEE

also I haven’t read the books in awhile + I have terrible memory so o7

clears my throat

PERCY JACKSON:

—>all my faves had a emo phase. including Peter Johnson

—>he owns a BUNCH of different earrings, nothing too big or extravagant, but like a little fish, maybe an arrow, etc

—>dyes part of his hair blue because he’s Percy

—>Sally TOTALLY knew he was bi when he was little

—>has a bi flag necklace (I’m jealous)

—>once dyed his hair blonde while he was at camp and after everyone called him a dumb blonde he decided to never dye it blonde again

—>he totally loves having his hair played with cause Sally used to always play with his hair when he was a kid

—>his eyes change from blue to green depending on the lighting

—>he’s been the little mermaid for Halloween at LEAST once

—>has an extensive collection of Hawaiian shirts

ANNABETH CHASE:

—>she sticks a bunch of little pins on her Yankees hat

—>doesn’t know how to drive (at least not very well)

—>if she could she’d have road rage so much

—>probably owns at least 5 different pairs of earbuds/headphones that she uses on her iPod and/or Daedalus’s laptop

—>building a campus place similar to New Rome at CHB

—>instead of a box of chocolates for Valentines day, she once gave Percy a bag of M&M’s. but only the blue ones

—>drinks at least 3 cups of coffee most days

—>bi-curious/questioning

—>also questioning her gender a bit

—>read Harry Potter and couldn’t tell if she wanted to BE Hermione or be WITH Hermione (still can’t tell)

GROVER UNDERWOOD:

—>pan, ace

—>will eat anything if he’s stressed

—>has little rings he can put around his horns for added style

—>tism

—>he/they KING!!

—>will just snack on a head of lettuce

—>has to wear reading glasses (what a nerd /pos)

—>has an extensive knowledge of which plants around CHB taste good, and which taste bad (has definitely been taken to the medics once or twice for eating poisonous plants)

JASON GRACE:

—>everyone makes fun of him because of The Brick™️.

—>THEATER KID

—>will ramble to you about wolves for as long as you will let him

—>frequently dyes small strips of his hair with hair chalk

—>him and Annabeth are like best friends. please.

—>questioning

PIPER MCLEAN:

—>she ate the rest of the non-blue M&M’s for Annabeth

—>genderfluid she/her lesbian.

—>helps Hazel, Annabeth, and the other girls do their hair (and sometimes Percy)

—>sees Jason and Leo as her brothers

—>wears suits to fancy events

—>usually uses her charmspeak to win at board games

—>girl in red’s biggest fan

—>EVERYONES WINGMAN

LEO VALDEZ:

—>makes everyone friendship bracelets

—>will totally light candles just to watch them burn

—>pretends he’s Festus’s vet whenever he has to fix him

—>calls the Argo II his child

—>doesn’t have a proper sleep schedule in the slightest…

—>gay, demiboy

—>totally introduced everyone else to neo/xeno pronouns

—>he/they/it mainly, but also uses a bunch of neos and xenos

—>has a dragon stuffed animal he calls Festus Jr. that he struggles to sleep without

—>he is the autism creature /j

—>will call anyone in sight bro or dude

—>scared of heights

—>keeps calling himself “the rizzler”

REYNA AVILA RAMIREZ-ARELLANO:

—>therapist friend

—they/she

—demiromantic asexual

—>astrology lover

—>straight A student without trying or studying

HAZEL LEVESQUE:

—>the only person on the Argo II that can keep a plant alive (somehow)

—>unlabeled

—>her and Nico help paint everyone’s nails

—>is always wearing either a skirt or overalls. (better yet: overalls skirt)

—>lactose intolerant

—>totally holds a dance at Camp Jupiter that is similar to a school dance at least once a year

FRANK ZHANG:

—>token straight friend

—>has a fairly large stuffed animal collection (only to be rivaled by Octavian’s)

—>if he ever visits CHB he purposely avoids being near the fire

—>makes the rest of the 7 watch superhero movies with him

—>owns lots of comics

—>him and Percy ramble about superheroes and comics together

NICO DI ANGELO:

—>certified DJ of the 7

—>his favorite restaurant isn’t even McDonald’s.. (it’s Olive Garden /j)

—>if demigods could use technology, he would totally be a tumblr user. (happy (late) Ides of March)

—>THEATER KID

—>he keeps saying “gaslight gatekeep girlboss” and everyone is kinda confused

—>loves listening to 70s/80s/90s rock

—>is (attempting) to learn the drums

—>survives off of energy drinks and coffee

—>has a nightlight in his cabin for when Will visits

—>also listens to Crywank

WILL SOLACE:

—>definitely has dressed up as a lamp for Halloween

—>HE/THEY!!!

—> trying to convince Nico to be in a band with him, playing guitar, Austin, playing sax, and Apollo, playing flute (Nico’s not having it)

—>favorite color is “all of them”

—>attempts to grow plants (fails)

—>he would totally be addicted to Tiktok if he had it

—>if anyone asks what time it is he will respond one of three ways: “it’s time for lunch” “its game time” or “it’s time for you to get a WATCH”

—>he’s really bad at reading clocks

—>totally cried during Frozen

APOLLO/LESTER PAPADOPOULOS:

—>he/they bi icon

—>motto is “fake it til you make it”

—>adhd, probably

—>always looses board games

—>chronically online…

—>will purposely sing the wrong words to popular songs so half of CHB thinks they’ve been singing these songs wrong the entire time

—>him and Nico bond over saying things like “gaslight gatekeep girlboss”

—>scared of the dark

—>quotes Mean Girls at least once a day

—>trying to make a theater class at CHB (Chiron agrees, Dionysus is… not quite there yet)

—>surprisingly good at lying (fake it til you make it!)

—>some Aphrodite kids told him their skincare secrets while he was mortal and gave them a few products

—>wears eyeliner on a daily basis

—>when he was a mortal the Aphrodite cabin and his cabin played dress-up on him and made him wear a bunch of weird outfits

THATS ALL FOR NOW!!!!!

I bet you totally can’t tell who my favorites are by how much they have put down…. /s

TELL ME SOME OF YOUR HEADCANONS SO I CAN ADD THEM TO MY HOARD

#pjo #hoo #toa #pjo hoo toa #riordanverse #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #jason grace #piper mclean #leo valdez #reyna avila ramirez arellano #hazel levesque #frank zhang #nico di angelo #will solace #apollo #lester papadopoulos

[girlbossminerva]

how's about the mermaid heel ladies??

hsjfhdhf don't worry, my hcs aren't exactly the same as xvi's

Kagura

Consider not only lesbian Kagura, BUT ALSO gnc Kagura. BUTCH Kagura, even, who looked up to butch!Erza since childhood and took her as a role model to be cavalier, and once they become friends after the 7 year skip, Erza fully takes her under her wing.

Millianna

I see her as a sapphic who sometimes likes men, but she definitely prefers women. I also think she's genderfucky, she mostly says she's enby because she does not feel like explaining exactly the nuance of how her gender can possibly be "cat".

Araña

Yes, she's a lesbian. Yes, she's also aromantic, with some interest in queerplatonic relationships. And yes, she's a trans woman (and dominicana but this is not about nationality hcs)

Beth

...Actually Xvi and I do have the same HC about her. Transbian Beth for the win.

Risley

Ok, I also agree with the idea of her being a genderfluid lesbian. She's also in a sort of QPR with Araña.

Thanks for the ask <3

Ask game

#fairy tail headcanon #araña webb #kagura mikazuchi #millianna ft #beth vanderwood #mermaid heel #straight outta the mailbox #jaci visits

[moderator-monnie]

Name: PhoneGrungi

Age: ???

Pronouns: Genderfluid 

PhoneGrungi is an au verion of PhoneGingi that i’d consider the “evil” verion 

why are they considered evil? well here we go!

Personality: PhoneGrungi is completely normal at least in personality to the extent of being scary

PhoneGrungi loves filing their taxes, eating salad, burgers, rice with nothing in them at all just plain, they epically enjoy their burgers medium rare they are also very patriotic and love supporting their government and even volunteer/donates at homeless shelters.

PhoneGrungi is supportive of the lgbt+ movement also happens to vote for Mingus every time she tries to get reflected and is happy with her winning every time.

bonus facts about their life!

they always tip 20% at restaurant's, 

eat with a fork and a knife for every single meal even ice cream for some reason,

they don’t believe in any cryptids ... which is confusing considering they technically are one. (Sorry Big Foot :( ), 

they take showers twice a day and honestly would adopt Little Billy if given the chance.

heres some intresting facts about PhoneGrungi's body

PhoneGrungi's head can change color if they eat alot of one food the reason why their head is blue is they eat like a pound of blueberries like every chance they get, 

they own a cough syrup factory and don’t sample their own product because thats wrong,

their blood is green,

and finally they have a mermaid tail that follow’s the rules of their head and changes color based on the diet 

they hide their tail really well because they are embarrassed by it.

#dialtown #dialtown au #dialtown joke au #joke au #phonegingi #phonegrungi #dialtown spoilers #i think? their are spoilers? i am not sure #tagging just incase

[venator-signum]

what's up friends, may i offer my first mermaid oc as an offering for mermay??

this is nephelai and they're a genderfluid icon (based off this post, and now a personal hc) her female form is bigger as found in a particular species of fish which I don't remember right now but I did have a proper source

as he can be found in coral reefs, he's got lots of melanin

(please click for better quality I'm crying over here)

#rosi's art #rosi's oc #mermay2021 #mermay #digital art #art #mermaid oc #genderfluid mermaids for the win #giant mermaid rights

[teddy06writes]

Masterlist/intro thingy

Hello, I am Teddy06, I write things

Mainly I’ll be covering mcyt, newsies, les mis, marvel, and anything else I feel like covering

I guess about me, I’ve been running this tumblr since November of 2020, I got huge in one category, left for a bit, and then came back!

I’ve sort of revamped everything, and I may not be super active, but I will when I can

I write what I want {nothing nsfw, other than that, nothing huge, but I have the right to refuse something}

master list under the cut

Teddy06′s (totally not scuffed) masterlist! 

Originals!!!!:

Curiosity Killed The Cat

Trial Run

Escapril 2022:

What’s Really Inside Me

A separation 

Faces Of The Past

Mr. Future Nobody

The Four Pillars

Cynic

Newsies: 

Davey x reader:

  Everyone needs a break sometimes

Race Higgins: 

Protect You

Spot Conlon: 

How Unreasonable 

Les Amis: 

Young!Jean ValJean:

Of Stolen Bread and Broken Glass  (mini part two)

Dead Poets Society: 

Charlie Dalton’s Annual Dead Poets Holiday Party: Halloween Edition

Diner Days

Everything Falls Apart

Study Session

Repercussions 

Dating the poets hcs

Neil Perry: 

Music Of The Night

Why’d I Guess The Ending?

Anywhere... Just Not Home

Happiness  

Here For You 

A Quiet Moment

Everyone But You

Todd Anderson: 

Favorite Poet

Surprise Cuddle Sessions

Friday Night Fun, Monday Meetings

Steven Meeks: 

Of Little Love Poems, Secret Admirers, and Anonymous Notes

Charlie Dalton:

Friends To Lovers hcs

The Outsiders: 

Being the fourth Curtis Brother hcs

Dallas Winston: 

Never Fall In Love Again

No Matter What

Ghost Stories

Late Nights By The Fire

Oh How The Turn Tables

People Watching

Sodapop Curis:

Golden 

Too old? Yeah Right!

Two-bit Mathews:

I’ll Try

Too Old? Yeah right!

Spookey-est place on earth

Darry Curtis:

Pumpkin Spice Everything

Hot Tea Heals the Soul

Johnny Cade: 

Protective

Cool Calm And Collected-- Until He Smiles

Steve Randle: 

1955 Chevy DelRay

Jally: 

Take Me Back To The Night We Met

DallyPop: 

I told You It Was A Dumbass Plan

Marvel: 

Stucky:

Perfect Performances

Bruce Banner: 

Rush E

MCYT: 

Greek Myth Series: 

Hades and Persephone 

Eros and Psyche part one

Eros And Psyche part two

General:

Saint Bernard

Wilbur Soot x reader:

Noisy Neighbors

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

friend of a friend

Do you Permit it?

Karl Jacobs x reader: 

Some unspoken Thing

protective  karl x transmale!reader

survivor debate

thrifting

winning a date

Karl x reader with separation anxiety hcs

Karl x reader who repeats phrases

Karl reacting to you playing with his hair

Sapnap x Reader: 

Rainy days

A bit sapnap x greek!reader

coming out  Sapnap x genderfluid!reader

Attached at the hip

Fight The World For You  sapnap x transmale!reader

Pirate/mermaid au

Eret x reader: 

Bad Day

Stuffed Animal Stand In

Why Would I be?

Quackity x reader:

introduction to the fans

Drawing

picnic date

Cocoa and Cuddles

Protective Q  quackity x reader with tics

Telepathy part one part two

You’re a dumbass, and thats why I love you

A Night In Las Vegas

You Didn’t Need Us Then, We Don’t Need You Now {Part one}

What Could Have Been Was Good, But What We Have Now Is Better {part two}

A Thousand Little Moments (That Helped me heal) {part three}

Quackity x reader who repeats phrases

Blackjack  platonic!quacity x teen!reader

Quackity reacting to you playing with his hair

Fundy x reader: 

Even on the Darkest Nights

Helping hand

There For You

Gonna Fix It

Touch Starved

Fundy x bunnyHybrid!reader hcs

Awesamdude x reader:

Late nights

nightmares

bad day

Locked Away (part one)

Free (part two)

Here For You sam x autistic!reader

Through Thick And Thin

Platonic! Ranboo x reader:

Family

BeeDuo and Reader Meet up hcs

BeeDuo and Mooshroomhybrid!reader

Dream:

To Talk to a crush

It was yours, why does it have to be mine? (part one)

It Didn’t change, but you did (part two)

get away with it

Flower Fields We Wished Could Last Forever

Of Lost Things, Iron Rings, And People With Wings (part one)

Of April Showers, May Flowers, and something else that ends in owers (part two)

Potentially very triggering fic

You’re Coming Down With Me

Who Knew Being A Youtuber Was Dangerous

Dream XD:

Hcs

Glitch

C!Technoblade: 

Techno x reader who repeats phrases

Platonic! Purpled:

Bother Figure 

Platonic!Minors gang:

A day in the life

Karlnap x reader:

Fully Functioning tricycle 

Doodles

KarlQuack x reader:

Meet up stream

Long days, Sometimes Longer Nights

Karlnapity x reader:

Seed of Doubt

Vidcon is Exhausting 

snow day!

Falling apart (part one)

Pulling together (part two)

Flea Market Fiasco 

Career day

getting together 

slip and fall

Come Back Home

coming out  The boys x  nonbinary!reader

pillow fort the boys x male!reader

Hurt

Karpnapity x little!reader

chaos family  the boys x fem!reader

meeting the fans  the boys x adhd!reader

jealousy 

Sensory overload  the boys x autistic!reader

Theme park days

spontaneous road trip

hold me?

afternoon meals the boys x adhd!reader

Karlnapity x ramhybrid!reader hcs

Karlnapity x ace!reader

bad day cuddles

three, actually

eventful beach trips

Period. 

Simple Comforts

In The Dead Of Night, He’s Still There

Dreamnotfound x reader:

Snapped

for his hand (part one)

Out of there grasp (updated) (part two) 

Together at Last

In The Dead Of Night He’s Still There

Poly dream team x reader: 

Midnight date night

A dangerous game (part one)

with ghastly consequences (part two) 

midnight shopping

Dreamnap x reader: 

late night fight

Jelousy; Turning Saints Into The Sea

You’re Perfect

Phantom Of The Opera AU

Dreamnotkarlnapity

Protective

Post Lore Movie Night

Bloody Noses

Take a break

Thalasaphobia

A Simple Sorry

Perfect

Dreambur

Hcs

#newsies x reader #les amis x reader #mcyt x reader #mcyt imagines #marvel x reader #the outsiders x reader #dead poets society x reader

[beaulesbian]

I decided to finally make a part two of this post, it took me half a year longer than I anticipated, but I rushed to finish it at least for June.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley – The best kind of subtle romance I have ever read. Includes mysterious pocket watch, solving bomb threats in Victorian London, a lady scientist, changing of future based on occurring events, an adorable clockwork octopus, and so much more! Did I mention the best, most beautiful romance I didn’t even expect to get?? Read it! (mlm main characters)

All out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages by multiple authors, edited by Saundra Mitchell – This book was so refreshing to read!!! Retellings of fairy tales but queer and poc and mostly happy. I enjoyed each of the short story so so much, I don’t have words to say how much I loved this book, just, can we please have more stories like that? Thank you.

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman – Ever wanted a book with a main character boy and girl who won’t end up together by the end of the book? Then this is a book for you. Frances and Aled do not only become best friends who won’t end up together, but there’s even more diverse characters than these two main ones. This book even has an ace (demi) sexual representation, which I was very excited about, and the main character is biracial bisexual girl. There is lot of fandom talk and a radio show drama (kind of similar to Welcome to Night Vale). But also talks about other important topics like deciding that college might not be for everyone despite them being a great student in high school.

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee – It’s a cute and sweet superhero themed futuristic story, first book of a trilogy I think. The main character is Vietnamese American bisexual girl, Jessika Tran, whose parents are both superheroes, but she doesn’t have any powers. She starts working for a company she later discovers belongs to town’s villains, but with time she learns that not everything about superheroes and villains is perfectly black and white. Also she’s working there with her crush, so that’s a bonus. It’s a really great book, there’s wlw romance and lot of diversity, action and silly scenes. The history behind the people’s superpowers and worldbuilding was really interesting too. The sequel is also already out, featuring a poc trans boy as the main character, who is part of Jessika‘s friend squad.

The Gentleman‘s guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee – A book everyone here should read!! A historical roadtrip with lot of angst, fluff and mutual pining of two of the main characters. It takes place in 18th century Europe. Monty is kind of an asshole, some moments you will hate him then you will love him, but as the journey progresses so does he. He travels with his sister, Felicity, and his best friend (and crush!) Percy, to visit few cities in Europe before he has to start work in his fathers company. This book addressed lot of issues, like white privilege and racism in that time period, sexism and ableism. But it’s also an adventurous book that’s funny and charming, and makes you feel really happy one moment and sad the next. There are also pirates!

Dreadnought by April Daniels – This is a first book of a duology about a lesbian trans girl Danny who receives superpowers after witnessing death of the superhero Dreadnought, which means she now has to become the new Dreadnought. But with the powers also becames real the ideal vision of her body, that she always wanted. She is very happy about it, but it also means she has to face her family and best friend and explain why she looks different. On top of that she has to help the other superheroes with stopping the new threat to the city, the villain who killed previous Dreadnought. Trigger warnings for transphobia, but it’s really worth to read.

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller – I’ve seen mixed reviews of this book but personally I loved it. It’s a fantasy YA with lgbt protagonist, that I don’t have enough of. Sal is a genderfluid, also bi? pan? thief who enters a competition to become one of Queen’s Assassins. Basically the last one standing (or rather living) takes the place. Sal knows how to fight and survive but also needs to learn other things to win this position. Like taking classes of writing/reading which teaches him a lady of court they previously stole something from, whom Sal quickly starts to like more than they should, with the competition at play. For me it was a really great book to read and I can’t wait to read the sequel!

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli – I had to read this one quickly before Leah on the offbeat came out, and it was a joy to read this one too! Again so much representation, I love Becky’s books and the Simon vs world. This story is about Molly who has had a lot of crushes but never actually dated anyone. She’s jewish, has anxiety, is fat, loves her family, is very creative, and has another crush on a guy who is her coworker. There’s so much cuteness in this book, I was smiling and crying the whole time reading it. More for representation: her sister is gay, she has two moms, a new Korean-American pansexual friend (who her sister totally likes) and more. I need to meantion trigger warnings for fatphobia, because of part there with her relative, it made me cry so much, it was very reletable and I hated it but there was very good closure for it in the end, which I’m happy about. Anyway read this book, overall it’s a cute and happy book with lots of fluff!

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli – I loved Leah from the Simon vs book, so I was really happy we got more focus on her. She’s fat and funny, unapologetic about who she is, in her words: “basically your resident fat Slytherin Rory Gilmore”. There was mentions she likes boys as well as girls. Because of a tour for her college she goes with Abby to see where she will live the next few years and stuff happens. And then there’s also their high school prom, which she thought she was ready for, but maybe she’s not ready for at all. I’m not even going to write more, it’s an amazing book, I cried so many times.

Timekeeper by Tara Sim – This story takes place in a Victorian era Britain where clock towers are needed for time to flow correctly. Therefore there is lot of mechanics who repair said clock towers, because if the clock stops, the town around it stops in time as well. The main character Danny is one of those mechanics in London, but his father is trapped in a town that Stopped and Danny needs to find a way to save him. But after someone tries to sabotage a clock tower in a small city, Danny is assigned in that town to fix it, and he eventually finds out that the myths he heard – that in clock towers could sometimes be seen beings, spirits of the towers – might actually be true. This book was so nice to read, there was the atmosphere of the Victorian era, mystery, cute mlm romance and awesome female characters.

I’ll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson – I cried a lot reading this book. At first it actually took me few months to read past first two chapters, because the writing style was so different from what I was used to, but after that I got absorbed in it very quickly. It’s a story about two siblings, Noah and Jude Sweetwine, who both go through some difficult times, with family, school and personal stuff, it’s about making mistakes and fixing mistakes. It’s about love, art, sibling struggles and growing up.

Other books that I read and loved and definitely recommend:

Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst (f/f fantasy romance)

We are the Ants –  Shaun David Hutchinson (m/m)

In Other Lands -  Sarah Rees Brennan (bi mc, m/m)

Release – Patrick Ness (m/m)

Our dark duet – V.E. Schwab (sequel of duology, agender character, not much romance at all in this duology, it‘s one of my favourites)

A Conjuring of Light – V.E. Schwab (a beautiful fantasy, last book of trilogy, happy ending for m/m pairing whose each story is important throughout the whole series. Again, one of my favourite series)

Magnus Chase and the Ship of Dead - Rick Riordan (I don‘t want to spoil here but it‘s good, genderfluid representation since book two, more in this final book)

Ice crypt - Tiana Warner (sequel of the Ice Massacre, wlw romance between mermaid and human girl, who knew each other since childhood, there is third final book, Ice Kingdom, already out, but I still haven‘t read it..)

Happy reading!

(tagging few people who i think might enjoy it ♥♥: @eradne, @poefinn, @twomillionfreckles, @eliotcoldwater, @queen-max, @tsukiyam-a)

#lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbt books #litedit #ya books #lgbt+ books #lgbt representation #books #book recs #books recommendations #mine #gif:other #gif:500 #gif:books #long post #sorry im not putting in under read more #i want more people to read all these book and cry about them with me #the watchmaker of filigree street #adsom #mcga #of fire and stars #we are the ants #love simon #leah on the offbeat #the upside of unrequited #tggtvav #radio silence #not your sidekick #all out #mask of shadows

[neverendingtbrlist90]

Fall 2017 Pride Readings

Fall is finally here and with it comes LGBT History Month in October. To celebrate, I’ve compiled a list of books with queer main characters. All books have been/will be published in the second half of 2017. Feel free to add more titles!

The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz- A young artist must take care of herself and her younger sister when her mother rushes off to Puerto Rico to take care of her grandmother who has fallen into a coma. She’s also falling in love with her best friend. While struggling with her art, a new neighbor introduces her to the Red Mangrove Estate, an artists’ colony. The catch? No art can leave the Estate.

Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert- Colbert’s sophomore novel is about a black, Jewish, bisexual girl named Suzette and her brother Lionel who fall in love with the same girl. Lionel struggles with bipolar disorder and adjusting to his medication. If you haven’t read Colbert’s first novel, Pointe, run to your nearest bookstore/ereader and buy it! It’s amazing!

Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens- This book holds a special place in my southern, living in the small town, queer heart. Billie is the daughter of a preacher in a small Kentucky town, and she loves her community and her group of friends called the Hexagon. The group bands together to save the community’s fall festival and Billie struggles to find the space she needs to understand and express her gender and sexuality. It’s easily one of my favorite books of this year!

They Both Die in the End by Adam Silvera- Title tells you everything. Silvera’s third novel has already hit the NYT bestseller list and I’ve heard it’s just as amazing as History is all you Left Me and More Happy Than Not. Features two Latino boys who become friends after they both receive a call that they’ll both be dead within 24 hours. I haven’t read it yet, but if it’s anything like Silvera’s other books, I’ll need a box of tissues close by.

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller- A genderfluid teen wants revenge after losing everyone and everything that’s ever mattered to them. Sal decides to audition for the Left Hand, the queen’s elite group of assassins, but to earn their place, Sal must compete in a fight to the death.

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust- Who wants to read a retelling of Snow White where she’s a lesbian? This book is a duel POV between Lynet (Snow White) and Mina(the stepmother) who are only alive because of Mina’s dangerous and powerful father, who gave her a heart of glass.

I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin- Two best friends part ways as they head off to college and communicate through texts and emails and share their new experiences. Ava struggles with anxiety and steps out of her shell for new experiences and maybe finding her first boyfriend while Gen explores her sexuality and falls for her TA.

Autoboyography by Christina Lauren- Tanner was an out and proud bi boy until his family moves to Utah. But then his best friend dares him to take a senior seminar class where he must write a book and falls in love with his teacher’s son.

Spinning by Tillie Walder- Walder’s graphic memoir is about her ten years of figure skating and now much she hated it.

Release by Patrick Ness- A guy who is from a strict, religious family examines his past relationship to determine why he why’s unable to reciprocate the love given to him by a sweet guy named Linus and thinks an attachment to a guy who broke is heart might be the problem.

Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell – Two girls, Neo and Tale, living in South Africa meet a bar and bond over the love of music. Possible trigger warning- addresses corrective rape.

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore (Oct 3)- You should read all of McLemore’s amazing books, but her newest is about three girl cousins who come from a family who tends to a magical garden. They find themselves falling for the same girl but fear a family curse where everyone they love disappears. Then a boy appears who has no idea who he is and Estrella, one of the cousins, tries to help him discover his identity.

Top Ten by Katie Cotugno (Oct 3)- Two best friends, Gabby and Ryan, are seniors whose platonic relationship becomes complicated as they begin to fall for each other and examine the top moments of their friendship over the past four years.

Not Your Villain by C.B. Lee (Oct 5) – Sequel to Not Your Sidekick. This book revolves are Bells, a trans guy with superpowers (he can shapeshift!) as he teams up with his friends who go on a mission to find the Resistance opposing a corrupt league of superheroes.

Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta (Oct 10) – a girl named Zara wins the role of Echo at the Aurelia theater, but her dream role becomes a nightmare with mysterious deaths, dangerous legends, and an intense director. She finds herself falling for a name named Eli who works in lighting! Theater romance! Everyone who received an ARC of this book has said amazing things about it!

Like Water by Rebecca Podos (Oct 17) - Savannah returns to her small town to care for her father who has Huntington’s disease. She keeps herself occupied with hookups and a job at a waterpark dressed as a mermaid, and finds herself falling for a girl named Leigh. This is Podos’ debute novel and I’m impatiently waiting to read it.

A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo (Oct 17) – I fell in love with Lo’s novels after reading her queer Cinderella retelling, Ash. She’s written fantasy (Ash and Huntress) and science fiction (Adaption and Inheritance) and now she’s tackling a contemporary thriller . So Jess is secretly in love with her best friend Angie, who is completely oblivious. Angie hooks up a with a girl named Margo, a girl from boarding school whose social circle pulls Jess into some trouble.

Changing Colors by Elyse Springer (Oct 23) – I’m actually going to plug all of Springer’s romance novels because they’re amazing and I’ve read all of them. Changing Colors is the fourth book in her series Seasons of Love. But while you’re at it, you should check out White Out, featuring a gay couple, Thaw, about an ace girl who falls for a model/actress ice queen, Heat Wave, two bisexual girls have a no strings attached relationship and of course one of them develops feelings. There’s also Heels Over Head, which is about an Olympic hopeful diver who falls for one of his teammates.

Girl in a Bad Place by Kaitlin Ward (Oct 31) – Author of Bleeding Earth returns with another creepy tale with queer girls! Okay, so here’s the breakdown of her sophomore novel: So this girl, Cara, finds this commune in the mountains called Haven, and spends a lot of time there. Her best friend,  Mailee, is pretty sure Haven is a cult but of course Cara won’t listen and decides to move in Haven permanently! Sounds like a horrible idea, right?

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