#happy pride month all angels are nb

[malcolmschmitz]

PRIDE MONTH UN-BIRTHDAY UN-SALE

Hey, people of Tumblr! It's Pride month and my birthday month, and you know what that means- time for me to tell you I've got Queer Fiction for sale. This is the point where I'd normally tell you I've got things ON SALE, but here's the problem:

all of my short stories are Pay What You Want on Smashwords. All of them. I can't put them on sale, because you can pay whatever you want for them- and if that's $0, that's okay. Just leave a nice review, please?

CHRYSALIS is a love story to the internet and the ways it helps queer people survive.

On the internet, no one knows you're a bug… unless you tell them. But when Gregor undergoes a painful transformation, he needs his friends' help to keep his sanity. Can he deal with his new form without tearing his family apart?

buy: amazon || smashwords

THE CAPTAIN'S SPHERE is a literary fantasy story about a transfemme scientist who hunts angels in a steampunk skyship.

Lady Ava Loftus is an unusual woman, even by the standards of sky-sailors. As she pursues her passion- the study and dissection of mysterious creatures called angels- she must move between different social spheres and contend with others' ideas of who and what she should be. Can she adhere to the expectations set for a lady of quality without betraying her true self?

buy: amazon || smashwords

THE UNICORN'S BEARD is a fantasy veterinary mystery. An NB plague doctor must cure an evil queen's sick unicorn- or it's off with their head!

Sawbones, a wandering veterinarian, must use their knowledge of goat diseases to cure the queen's sick unicorn- or it's off with their head. Can they save the Queen's pet from Her Majesty? The Unicorn's Beard is a humourous fantasy mystery featuring an autistic, nonbinary protagonist who is not getting paid enough for this nonsense.

buy: amazon || smashwords

Like I said, it's my birthday month, and normally I'd offer a sale- but because you get to choose the price, I can't actually put things FOR SALE. There's no special offer here, no gimmicks, nothing time-limited- just some good old-fashioned queer lit with a wry sense of humour.

if you really want to help me out, you could also check out my Patreon- it's rarely updated, but you can get all my ebooks for free with a month's subscription, and access to a huge backlog of subscriber posts.

Thanks for reading, and happy Pride!

#queer fiction #queer lit #bookblr #free books #ownvoices #writers on tumblr #writeblr #shameless self-promotion #writing community

[autisticempathydaemon]

in a sky full of stars (I think I see you)

Chapter One: Le hors-d'œuvre

tags: Lasko/OC, nb!empathy daemon OC who uses they/them pronouns, background Freelancer/Gavin, mentions of disordered eating and unhealthy relationship dynamics in later chapters

It's the classic story of boy meets girl... except "girl" is more of a genderless being of pure empathy magic and "boy" is the sweet air elemental professor who literally doesn't know they exist.

There is a curated playlist for this fic for your listening pleasure!

Also available to read on AO3 Next chapter ->

For the longest time, Bee’s absolute favorite thing on Elegy was its food.

Sure, as an empathy daemon, Bee loves and depends on the people, the things they feel. Happiness and light and positivity are Bee’s bread and butter, so to speak; they don’t need human food to live.

Joy just doesn’t linger on the tongue like the savory saltiness of aged cheese. Giddiness doesn’t pucker the mouth in sour glee like a Meyer lemon. Even contentment doesn’t warm the body quite like fresh hot chocolate. If Bee is sustained by meals of optimism and pride and kindness, they live for the gorgeous things mortals make as dessert.

Excitement followed by freshly-picked strawberries. Happiness and then lavender tea. Wonder with a chaser of vanilla milkshakes. It’s a pleasant way to spend an immortal life.

One remarkable day in an unremarkable eternity, this day, Bee learns there’s more to life than “pleasant.” 

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‘Iced, Lizzie- that drink is supposed to be iced,’ Bee says in a subliminal whisper. The redheaded barista stops and looks down at her hands. ‘Cold. You grabbed the wrong cup.’ With a blink and a little shake of the head, Lizzie puts down the ceramic mug and reaches for a glass.  

‘Right, right, cold. Get your head in the game, she thinks violently, glaring down at the espresso machine as if it was at fault for her mistake. Hovering in the air next to her, Bee can sense that isn’t true, can taste her bitter, acrid headache like coffee beans roasted in a volcano. With faith, trust, pixie dust, and a smidgen of healing magic, Bee takes away her pain and savors the honeyed, mellow relief she radiates instead. 

“One double shot Americano for Lasko!” she calls out, stepping aside to the pick up counter. “Sorry, that was supposed to be over ice, right?” Distracted by a service dog and its flavorless delight, Bee is all the more struck breathless when they get a taste of ambrosial, cotton candy contentment.

“Th- that’s right, thank you!” The raven-haired boy- man? Angel? Gift from Min’Ara?- says with a stutter and a smile that spreads across rosy, freckled cheeks. When he takes a sip of his drink, humming happily, his bliss drowns their senses in a flood of delicious, indescribable sensation. Bee thinks they taste cloying honey, fragrant pandan, rich chocolate, and heady liquor whipped together into a singular dish. It’s an overstimulating, overwhelming rush that has the empathy daemon figuratively and literally spinning. 

Lasko’s emotions sated them like a god’s banquet, could keep them fed for a fortnight, and he hasn’t even moved. When the man heads back toward his table, that jolt of joy settled into muted comfort, Bee can’t help but follow, drifting towards him like he is the sun and they are the earth, like he’s the moon and they’re the obedient tides. 

Sat down behind a laptop and a bevy of papers, dressed in scholarly browns and whites, Lasko Moore is unassuming, nondescript, and somehow wondrously, enchantingly beautiful. He’s a wallflower, and Bee has never felt more like their namesake- bewitched, blushing, bumbling- as they take their place in the seat across from him.

Author's Note: Please enjoy my first foray into a longer form, chaptered fic for RedactedAudio! Bee has been in the works for months (hence the url), and I just really wanted to give Lasko a partner goshdangit

Loving mention for @romirola who was lovely and sweet and darling enough to give Bee a cameo in her masterpiece, Packed with Love, which you should check out if you would like to see more of them or would like to read something magnificent~

#redactedasmr #redacted asmr #redactedaudio #redacted audio #redactedverse #redacted #redacted fanfiction #redacted lasko #redacted oc #nb!OC #busybee writes

[aleocalledaries]

#religion #religion tw #angels #gender #memes #gender memes #lgbtq #pride #happy pride month all angels are nb #pride month #bible

[hotdemonsummer]

im sure this month ill talk about this repeatedly and annoyingly so but i really dont see any of the nonhuman characters as nonbinary, because the language of nonbinary identity is set as a dependent counter to a colonial binary system that is inherently human created. they wouldnt exist in a binary system of gender to begin with! theyre all-powerful angels and demons! they probably play with gender the way children play with clay. even in something as silly as this fiction, we shouldnt limit ourselves to thinking within the binary system nor should we argue its inherent and omnipresent nature and apply it to a higher level of being, even if only to break it.

to all my trans and nonbinary siblings, happy pride month to us all <3 of course we as people are free to seek comfort and representation in characters being like us, but its also important to think about how we can better our understanding and language about gender and the gender binary in order to make the future better for the next generation of trans and nb youth, even in very small and silly ways

and to be clear: these are just my feelings on the subject and my personal discomfort with calling the characters nonbinary (as a nonbinary person!) feel free to call them nonbinary if you want (because what they definitely ARENT are cis binary men. cis as a concept wouldnt even register to them), but take a quick second to think about how we talk about gender identity before you do! these arent bandaid labels, but real critical approaches to reassessing the weight of the binary and individual expression

#sorry i um. read a lot of gender studies and philosophy so this is the lense i think thru #and also yes i did use the nonbinary flag for my ship charts but hey i just like the yellow and purble #i can reccomend some really great papers on postgenderist philosophy and transgender semantics if anyones actually interested

[a-wlw-reads]

Theme: All in the Family

Since it’s pride month and I’m sure you’re all tired of hearing/reading about cishet people, here are a group of books with absolutely nothing in common except for the fact that all (and I do mean all) major and many side characters are LGB and/or T. 

The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde : Emmy King is the drummer for the newest teen sensation: the band The Brightsiders. Being suddenly shot to fame is difficult for most, and especially so for Emmy, who has emotionally manipulative parents, a toxic girlfriend, and substance abuse issues that gossip magazines are happy to spread around to the entire world. While she’s dealing with the fallout from a particularly bad night she’s also falling in love with one of her bandmates and is preparing to tell the world that she’s bisexual. Basically this whole band is LGBT and so many of their songs are about being out and proud and loving yourself while inspiring others. Read it for a story about the freedom of living openly and leaving behind the toxic people in your life. (bisexual girl main, NB love interest, prominent gay side characters)

Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block : When an earthquake and tidal waves destroy Pen’s home in Los Angeles and turn much of the west coast into a wasteland, she sets off on a cross country quest to find what’s left of her family. She’s guided by nothing but her copy of the Odyssey and her own visions, and she soon picks up a motley group of LGBT youth just hoping to not be alone. Total destruction of the world’s climate and the arrival of murderous cyclopes (yes that is the plural of cyclops, and yes I had to look it up) doesn’t seem like the best time to fall in love, but that’s not always something we can choose. (bisexual girl main, trans boy love interest, prominent gay side characters)

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver : Welcome to the city of Parole, home to the gifted and/or cursed (depending on who you believe). When the miracle drug Chryesdrine was found to cure all ailments, thousands of people took it. And then thousands of them started dying. Those who didn’t ended up addicted and... different. Everyone with a Chryesdrine ability is shunted off to Parole, a little city slowly falling into the fires raging underneath it. Enter Regan, a man with lizard skin and the ability to turn invisible, who remembers absolutely nothing about his life or how he got to Parole. Luckily he has Evelyn Calliope, resident singer/superhero, and her two wives to help him pull together the pieces. Meanwhile, they’re running from the paramilitary group Eye in the Sky that keeps Parole citizens afraid that they’ll be the next to disappear and trying to uncover exactly what is going on in the Turret House on the hill. (f/f/f main couple including one trans women, asexual man lead, NB lead) 

Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman : Set in New York City in the 1990s, this novel centers around a friend group who’ve all faced rejection from their family and friends for coming out as gay now forming their own community and relationships with one another. These characters all have their own struggles apart from their relationships, David is HIV positive before some of the major breakthroughs in AIDS research and they all grapple with financial difficulties in an increasingly gentrifying area of NYC. Compared to the others on this list this is definitely not as happy a read, but one that shows the incredible solidarity between gay men and lesbians who’ve had to make their own families and support circles, especially at the peak of the AIDS crisis. (alternating POV between one gay man and two lesbians)

#pride #happy pride 🌈

[a-world-enchanted]

LGBTQ+ web series masterpost

in honor of pride month, check out these lovely web series with LGBTQ+ characters!

currently airing:

middlemarch: the series |  cute lgbtq+ college kids | wlw + mlm mcs, ace + nb rep

twincidents | gender-bent comedy of errors | wlw + ace mcs

fan favorites:

carmilla | lesbian vampires | wlw mcs, nonbinary side character

nothing much to do/lovely little losers | gay shakespeare | mlm + wlw rep

all for one | no one’s straight and there’s sword-fighting | wlw mcs, trans rep (season 2)

call me katie | 10 things I hate about you but vlogs  | mlm + nonbinary side characters

non-vlog:

her story | beautiful emmy-nominated trans representation | trans + wlw mcs

brown girls | two young woc trying to get their lives together | wlw + mlm mcs

couple-ish | fake dating au comes to life | nonbinary + wlw mcs

happy playland | angst: the musical | wlw mcs

sidetrack | lgbtq+ group of friends in nyc | wlw mcs

bright summer night | midsummer night but teenagers at a party | trans rep

squaresville | suburban teenagers feeling things | wlw mc

dog people | rom com ft. cute dogs | wlw mcs

high’rd help | fun with guardian angels | wlw mcs, ace rep

wave jacked | radio show shenanigans | wlw mcs

more web series with central LGBTQ+ characters:

merry maidens | robin hood but lesbians | wlw mcs, asexual rep

twelfth grade (or whatever) | twelfth night and everyone’s bi | wlw + mlm + trans rep

words from wilde | the splendid life of oscar wilde & friends | mlm + wlw mcs

the emma agenda | emma but gay | wlw + mlm mcs

the march family letters | little women but less straight | wlw + ace rep

haunted or hoax | original supernatural series | wlw rep

away from it all | beautiful outdoor scenes + lots of angst | ace + wlw + mlm rep

the better strangers | as you like it but gayer | wlw + mlm rep

the late nell avery | haunting but in a cute way | wlw + ace rep

the uncanny upshurs | supernatural shenanigans | wlw + mlm + trans + aroace rep

the adventures of serena berg | cyrano de bergerac ft. trans wlw | trans + wlw + ace rep

the adventures of jamie watson and sherlock holmes | wlw + ace + trans rep

school spirit | lgbtq+ rep and ghosts! | wlw + trans mcs, ace rep

the glad game | lgbtq+ pollyanna | wlw + ace rep

rome & juliet | gay shakespeare tragedy | wlw mcs

the roedell project | lgbtq+ club in college | wlw + mlm + trans + aroace rep

the blair goddess project | series about a literal goddess | trans + aroace + wlw rep

the grey tarmac road | vlog-style wizard of oz | wlw + mlm + aro/ace + trans rep

suggestions or corrections? send an ask and the list will be updated!

#lgbtqia #pride month #lgbt representation #lgbt webseries #liw #lgbt rep series #web series masterpost