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dreamertrilogys · 8 months
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turning off reblogs instead of just deleting the post is a coward’s move sorry. anyway
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ellenkushner · 22 days
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And he’s even 17! Hurry up & buy Swordspoint rights, someone, so he can do young Alec!!
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Character, book, and author names under the cut
Shen Qiao- 千秋/Qian Qiu/Thousand Autumn by Meng Xi Shi
Elliot Schafer- In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Alec Campion- Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Tennalhin (Tennal) Halkana- Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
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smalltownfae · 10 months
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I am not including classics in this one because there is already a poll for it. These polls are my biased opinions about books I have read (am reading in the case of one of them, but it is that good so far).
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sailormoonsub · 4 months
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please tell me that someone else has read Swordspoint and/or Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner. given the high proportion of sword lesbians and people who are so normal about messy relationships in my audience, it seems possible
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squeeneyart · 5 months
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[Image description: Several digital colored drawings of Alec and Richard from Swordspoint. Alec is a tall skinny man with long brown hair and green eyes in a black robe. Richard is a shorter, more muscular man with dark curly hair.
First image, Top left: Sketch of Richard helping Alec out of his shirt. Alec looks tired, but looks down at Richard with a smile. Text pointing to him says "High off his ass". Alec is saying something, but the speech bubble is empty.
Top right: Alec with short hair, looking shocked and blushing. He holds a small ring in his hand. Someone offscreen says "He still wants you".
Bottom right: A small drawing of Richard holding up a sword while Alec flips off whoever is looking at them from behind. Text points to him reading "Started the fight".
Second image: Richard kisses Alec while grabbing his shoulder and touching his cheek. Alec's eyes are open, and he has one hand on Richard's waist and the other on his upper back. They're saying something, though the speech bubbles are empty. End id]
/waves hands/ mad bad lads
anyway. made a 2 hour playlist. i live here now. gonna punt alec into the sun
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nothwell · 6 months
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Did you enjoy Jane Austen or Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell but wished for more murderhusbands?
Do you think any book could be improved with swords?
Do you prefer your characters queer until proven otherwise?
Some have called Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner a "cult classic," which is a fun way to say a book is criminally underappreciated. It's a perfect blend of fantasy, intrigue, romance, and edge-of-your-seat action. This forerunner of the mannerpunk (or fantasy-of-manners) subgenre is a marvelous balance of Austenesque social ritual with bloody consequences. A wealth of worldbuilding-through-implication is packed into this shockingly slender volume that leaves the reader ravenous for more.
While it contains far more grit and gore than your average romance, it is still at its core a romance, and a queer one at that - almost every twist of the ever-coiling plot is a direct result of romantic desire either thwarted or indulged. Our heroes, the low-born master swordsman Richard St. Vier and his mysterious academic lover Alec, form the core of this Gordian knot. Though I prefer a Happily-Ever-After over a Happy-For-Now, I concede that Swordspoint's conclusion puts the punk in mannerpunk and thus feels wholly appropriate for this one-of-a-kind story.
tl;dr - read Swordspoint and come scream with me, pls.
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vote YES if you have finished the entire book.
vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.
(faq · submit a book)
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Sword gays showdown, round 1 of bracket one
Propaganda:
For Richard:
Context : Swordspoint was published in 1987. Several characters are explicitely gay/bisexual, including... the main character (well, Ellen Kushner is part of the community. I met her once at a signing and I was so awkward and she and her wife (who cowrote the third volume of the series) were so nice. She's also on tumblr. What a wonderful world)
So, let's go back to Richard, who lived in the country with his mother and learnt his trade for a weird guy who eventually died. Richard is a sword prodigy (he also started quite young and trains constantly - natural talent is a thing, hard training is another)
He lives in the "poor" part of the city, where prostitutes, thieves, innkeepers and seamstresses prolifer
Richard does learn the blade and eventually goes into the city. Where he becomes a swordman for hire. Famous, respected and feared, Richard isn't exactly the chatty signing-autographs type. People with good sense leave him alone because the ones stupid enough to challenge him didn't live to tell the tale
But one day... Alec happens. Alec's a penniless ex scholar with a feud with the University, a sharp tongue and absolutely not the means to defend it in ill famed places, which is the ones he prefers since he's always looking for trouble dur to his self-destructive tendencies. The first time they met, Alec tries to get on Richaed's ndrves so the other man would kill him. However, Richard finds this man unafraid of him quite amusing. Word's eventually gegs around ghat the gwo are lovers and people din't get on Alec's bad side if they can prevent it (not easy, Alec has Issues. Capital I.) to avoid having todeal with Richard's protectiveness. I mean, I wouldn't want to anger a professional swordman either
Alec teaches Richard how to read because he never knew how to m. He's the perfect damsel in distress until he isn't because his help is needed [mod note: end of propaganda- part one . Didn't leave it as a wall of text since it'd be harder to read]
The archetypal gay (bi) swordsman: he was one of the few queer characters in fantasy fiction back in the 70s when the first book was published, yet he's in an explicitly romantic and sexual relationship with a man, and he is The terrifying swordsman, infamous, terrifying, and frequently hired for his skills. Also the plot of the book revolves around him using his sword skills to rescue his lover and getting rescued back. So. Y'know.
For Dominique:
This traumatized mess of a vampire is So. She's SO. She's bi and fights with a sword and has a dead twin and a fwb relationship with her childhood friend and a badass girlfriend and a "bonding over their mutual feelings for her childhood friend" thing going on with another guy. 
she's gay she's a vampire she has a sword and I love her 
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Do you know this queer character?
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Richard is MLM and uses He/Him pronouns!
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suchbluesky · 1 year
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Pg 1 and 2 of a comic version of the opening of Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner that I’ve been working on for fun
If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of reading Swordspoint I highly recommend it!
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victor-frankensimp · 11 months
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This is a PSA for everyone to read “Swordspoint” By Ellen Kushner
It’s so casually queer and everyone in it is a messy bitch.
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ellenkushner · 4 months
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Little Tomato Pies for Micah!
#tremontaine #swordspoint #paris
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Character, book, and author names under the cut
Frances Janvier- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Jude St. Francis- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Nick Nelson- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Richard St Vier- Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
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When the other polls will be out, they'll be in my 'fantasy polls' tag.
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fengtianshi · 6 months
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Fish for breakfast, yum...
Alec from "Swordspoint" by Ellen Kushner
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