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davemilly · 28 days

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Dm let's have some naughty chat☺️☺️☺️😍😊😋

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numnum-num · 4 months

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#gay literature #lgbtq literature #pride #gay pride #gay #gay men #gay books #integrity #police #man in uniform #uniform #police uniform #cop #literature #book cover

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artsyunderstudy · 1 year

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“Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.”

― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

#the darkness outside us #ambrose cusk #kodiak celius #eliot schrefer #TDOU #artsyart #lgbtq literature #queer art

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drspleenmeister · 2 months

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Meh. The muse is musing but the pencil is being a little fucking bitch.

#firstprince #firstprince fanart #red white and royal blue #rwrb fanart #rwrb #rwrb book #rwrb movie #alex claremont diaz #henry george edward james fox mountchristen windsor #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #nick galitzine #my fucking pencil hates my fucking hand #alex and henry #henry x alex #love #lgbtq love #lgbtq literature #lgbtq

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gennsoup · 6 months

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I am writing this because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence--I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

#Ocean Vuong #because #freedom #Vietnamese literature #Asian American literature #LGBTQ author #LGBTQ literature #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

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themarbleeyelids · 4 months

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HENRY— snippet The first book under themarbleeyelids on Archive of Our Own (AO3) is finally being drafted, and I’m so excited to share it with you all soon. This story has been in the works since I first discovered Casey McQuiston’s beloved novel, Red, White, and Royal Blue May of 2022. Her novel gave me so much hope and happiness as a reader that I returned to my own words as a writer. ••••••• As per the title, Henry will follow Prince Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor’s (Henry Fox, for short) life one year following the events of RWRB. Alex has since graduated from Georgetown and is now studying Law at NYU. While Henry is supporting Percy as a grant writer for his new LGBTQIA+ non-profit in Brooklyn. From the outside, both Alex and Henry are doing great, despite the media’s never ending obsession with the Waterloo letters and despite Henry’s grandmother managing to breathe down their neck an ocean away. Nonetheless, as Henry’s brother becomes sick with an unknown illness and Henry temporarily steps in to fill his brother’s duties, the weight of the crown begins to take its toll on Henry’s shoulders. As Henry begins to crack under the pressure, secrets about Henry’s mental health slip through causing a revolution that very well may change the nature of Alex and Henry’s relationship and the delicate balance of both U.K. and U.S. politics, alike. "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."

#fanfictionauthor #nanowrimo #red white and royal blue #henry fox mountchristen windsor #rwrb #prince henry rwrb #rwrb movie #alex claremont diaz #casey mcquiston #indieauthor #archive of our own #ao3 writer #lgbtq community #lgbtq literature #ableism #mental health #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez

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macaronis-telegraph · 2 years

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Queer WWI Literature

This is a very niche and limited category, so I’ve been trying to throw together a list of what I can find out there for anyone else who might also be interested. What follows are all books that contain LGBTQ+ rep of any kind, that also involve the First World War as a central theme.

Titles with an asterisk* are the ones I have personally read, and would be more than happy to talk about/answer any questions about their content/rep!

Written in the 20th Century

Alf, by Bruno Vogel (1929)

Despised and Rejected, by Rose Allatini (pseud. A.T. Fitzroy) (1918)*

Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches, edited by Martin Taylor (1989)

The Memorial, by Christopher Isherwood (1932)

My Father and Myself, by J.R. Ackerley (1968)

The Prisoners of War: A Play in Three Acts, by J.R. Ackerley (1925)*

The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road), by Pat Barker (1991, 1993, 1995)*

A Scarlet Pansy, by Robert Scully (1932)*

Strange Meeting, by Susan Hill (1976)

Written in the 21st Century

The Absolutist, by John Boyne (2011)

Across Your Dreams, by Jay Lewis Taylor (2016)

Alec, by William di Canzio (2021)

Ashthorne, by April Yates (2022)

Awfully Glad, by Charlie Cochrane (2014)

Bonds of Earth, by G.N. Chevalier (2012)*

The Boy I Love, by Marion Husband (2005)*

The Daughters of Mars, Thomas Keneally (2012)

Eleventh Hour, by Elin Gregory (2016)

The Fallen Snow, by John J. Kelley (2012)

Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars, by Stephen Bourne (2017) – (I know I said fiction, but I’m going to leave this one here anyhow)

Flower of Iowa, by Lance Ringel (2014)*

The Great Swindle, by Pierre Lemaitre (2013)*

The Indian Clerk, by David Leavitt (2007)

The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing, by Mary Paulson-Ellis (2019) *

In Memoriam, by Alice Winn (2023)

The Lie, by Helen Dunmore (2014)

The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters (2014)

A Pride of Poppies, short story collection published by Manifold Press (2015)

Promises Made Under Fire, by Charlie Cochrane (2013)

The Shell House, by Linda Newbery (2002)*

Spectred Isle, by K.J. Charles (2017)

The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst (2011)

The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden (2024)

Whistling in the Dark, by Tamara Allen (2008)*

Wild with All Regrets, by Emma Deards (2023)

The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon (2023)

This is a dynamic list, which I will continue to update whenever I find something new. If you know of anything that isn’t on this list and needs to be, please let me know!

#wwi #queer fiction #lgbtq books #queer lit #queer literature #lgbtq literature #historical fiction #booklr #book recs #queer wwi fiction #world war one #world war 1 #the great war #lgbtq

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good-night-my-sweet-prince · 6 months

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hear me out

william shakespeare invented political lesbianism with "sigh no more" from much ado about nothing

yes i CAN elaborate

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #willy shakes #much ado about nothing #much ado #sigh no more #political lesbianism #queer #queer literature #lgbtqia #literature #queer lit #lgbtq literature

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terrible-eel · 9 months

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Hey so I am going to be in an anthology! I'm really excited for this book to come out and it would mean the world to me if you sign up to receive an email letting you know when the release date is! Or even just reblogging and sharing this on other platforms would be helpful! This is essentially a Kickstarter and we need to give this as much traction as possible because it may be able to be published in stores if it gets popular enough!

The editor on this project has been wonderful to work with and extremely supportive of my decision to have a trans main character for my contribution which is called "The Witch". The artist working on my story has also been so wonderful but I'm not sure if I can release their name yet.

Just again, please support this work. It's very powerful and pushing for a lot of good things.

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soircieres · 1 year

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‘Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered.’

Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt (1952) // Carol (2015), dir. Todd Haynes

#the price of salt #patricia highsmith #carol 2015 #caroledit #cate blanchett #Rooney Mara #belivaird #lesbian literature #lgbtq literature #1950s #carol aesthetic #fragments #exceprts

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birthdaysentiment · 1 year

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tomasz jedrowski | « swimming in the dark »

#swimming in the dark #tomasz jedrowski #literature quotes #romance quotes #book quotes #lgbtq literature #lgbt books #historical fiction #reading #books #literature #quotes #dark academia #light academia #romantic academia #chaotic academia #books and reading #cille's random book thoughts

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perfectlyripeclementine · 13 days

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so, i’ve been looking for a term to use to describe the fiction i’m writing. the label i first wanted to use is magical realism, but i’ve since then learned that that term is specifically reserved for latin american writers bc of its connection to colonial politics and resistance. i’ve read a lot of magical realism and it has definitely informed my writing, particularly in how it uses magic to express political messages.

a lot of white/non-Latine queer folks have been taking up the term of magical realism, and i understand why: our communities also exist in a legacy of magic, resistance, and censorship evasion. but, i’d like us to have a term that honors this literary legacy without appropriating it.

the genre i’m describing is a subgenre of speculative fiction. my work is set in the future and deals with themes of ecology, queerness, displacement/diaspora, and authoritarianism (among others).

if you know of any other existing genre names i should look into lmk in tags!! also, i’m aware of the like hope punk / solar punk genres, they’re dope and i think those terms can apply to the genre i’m describing, but i also think they’re closer to sci fi than the genre i’m trying to describe, which is more rooted in spirituality.

#queer fiction #queer writers #queer literature #magical realism #lgbtq writers #LGBTQ literature #qlit

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slippy-socks · 9 months

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