#taste of marrow

[godzilla-reads]

Have you ever wondered what an alternate America would be like if Hippos ruled the Mississippi River?

Well, I’m about to find out.

📖 American Hippo by Sarah Gailey

#godzilla reads #american hippo #Sarah gailey #river of teeth #taste of marrow #book blog #reading #bookish #bookworm #booklr

[contracat25]

Alright as it is Trans Day of Visibility (Hi still not cis, still here etc.) and the final day of the extended Trans Rights Readathon I thought I would post about a few more of my favorite books by trans authors because hopefully everyone will be reading books by trans authors and about trans characters/topics all year round. Because to me this day is about supporting others in the community as much as anything else. The world is pretty on fire right now so if you can support a trans creator, artist, organization or friend today (and beyond) then do it!

So here are a bunch of shorter reads: books, graphic novels, novellas etc. I didn't really notice how many novellas I had been reading recently till making this list, but there is something about a wel- written short book that just really works for me. Also a lot of these just have really creative or lovely concepts and I am a sucker for those. Plus the characters in these are soooo good! Also a lot of these have lovely audiobooks or e-books, hence me not having a physical copy (yet). Many of these have trans characters as well, but not all of them. Though most have some form of queer rep because I don't read much that doesn't. I included muliple by some of the authors, including sequels because... I just really like them and couldn't pick just one. Most of these authors have other books that are also wonderful. And these are just a handful of examples, there are so many fabuluous books by and about people who are trans.

Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

The Companion by EE Ottoman

The Barrow Will Send What It May by Margaret Killjoy

Taste of Marrow and River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Nimona by Nate Stevenson

Gender Queer by Mia Kobabe

The Seep by Chana Porter

Future Feelings by Joss Lake

Pet by Akwaeke Amezi

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

The Black Tides of Heaven; The Red Threads of Fortune; The Descent of Monsters; The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang

Finna and Defekt by Nino Cipri Coffee Boy and Caroline's Heart by Austin Chant

ID: Slide one has a stack of 10 books on a teal background. Slides two through four have a white background and four book covers and a boarder of books in the trans flag colors.

#transrightsreadathon #trans books #queer books #book recs #booklr #trans day of visibility #Six Months Three Days Five Others #trans authors #charlie jane anders #peter darling #austin chant #s.a. chant #the barrow will send what it may #Margert Killjoy #taste of marrow #river of teeth #sarah gailey #Even though I knew the end #c l polk #Upwright Women Wanted #nimona #gender queer #Mia Kobabe #the seep #chana porter #Future feelings #Joss lake #Pet #akwaeke amezi #nate stevenson

[queerfandomtrifecta]

Why does the American Hippo duology (River of Teeth & Taste of Marrow) not have a massive, active fandom?? It’s hands down my favorite read this year. It’s an alternate history story and because of the feral hippos reads like a Quentin Tarantino movie with Oceans 11 heist vibes but make it western.

It’s the queerest, most violent, and most insanely fun thing I’ve read this’d year, and maybe ever.

It’s quirky as hell, the characters are amazing. A casually bisexual out for revenge, a fat French con artist who is the best at what she does, an explosives/poison expert badass enby/ the world’s greatest assassin who’s been MIA for a while with a big surprise when she shows back up for the heist (just don’t call it a caper! Lol)

It’s just so freaking FUN. I need there to be a fandom y’all. I need the art and the fics and the meta and people to hyperfixate about it with me. So. Go read River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow (or get both together, titled American Hippo) by Sarah Gailey.

Then talk to me about it!!

#fandom #American hippo #taste of marrow #river of teeth #aftg #book recommendations #book recs 2023 #Sarah Gailey #ofmd #queer media #queer books

[lowhorrors]

American Hippo

American Hippo contains the novellas River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow by Sarah Gailey.

I am always recommending these books and so grateful that they were recommended to me. This story was so much fun and the characters are fantastic. Set in a version of 1890's America where hippos were imported to the Mississippi. Think western but with hippos instead of horses/cattle.

#am reading #book recommendations #american hippo #sarah gailey #river of teeth #taste of marrow #western but with hippos instead of horses and i'm wild about it #books

[kammartinez]

For a fictional take on what the US could've been like if this bill pushed through, I highly recommend Sarah Gailey's American Hippo, which collects the novellas River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow in one volume.

Buy it here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-hippo-river-of-teeth-taste-of-marrow-and-new-stories-sarah-gailey/9848401

#history #food #sarah gailey #river of teeth #taste of marrow #american hippo #historical #books

[kamreadsandrecs]

If you're interested in this idea, I definitely recommend reading Sarah Gailey's American Hippo, which collects the novellas River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow.

You can get it here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-hippo-river-of-teeth-taste-of-marrow-and-new-stories-sarah-gailey/9848401

#history #food #sarah gailey #books #american hippo #river of teeth #taste of marrow #historical #book recs

[very-grownup]

Book 8, 2023

After I finished Sarah Gailey's "Taste of Marrow", I read the two short stories included in the "American Hippo" collection. I'm not sure if it reflects on Gailey as a writer or me as a reader that I found "Taste of Marrow" and "River of Teeth" both perfectly enjoyable heist-adjacent stories, but one of the short stories is about a hippo dentist and it may be the most delightful thing in the collection. Perhaps Gailey's strength lies in short stories, or this kind of alternate history lends itself more readily to shorter fiction. Maybe Gailey was trying to put too much into not enough space with the novellas.

Maybe with 'cowboys but they ride hippos' Gailey's hit on the first thing where my response is MORE WORLDBUILDING PLEASE.

Hippos.

#books #taste of marrow #sarah gailey #hippos

[sommerregenjuniluft]

Suck the marrow out my bones and all you’ll taste is yourself

1616 words | rated T | No Archive Warnings Apply

Their bed is toasty warm and loaded with feathery pillows to support Remus’ stiff and creaky body as good as possible but his husband is a restless little ball of ideas and insane genius and he’s also an insatiable little brat so that’s why- “Moons,” whispered on a breathy little snicker, much too boyish for a man in his mid fifties and the mattress dips beneath his weight.

fixed this bad boy up a bit, gave him a long ass, poetic title and un-disowned myself by adding the hairy wolftstar agenda because i cannot believe i wrote the old dogs without mentioning chest hair!! EMJOY

#wolfstar fic #hairy wolfstar agenda #wolfstar #old wolfstar #older wolfstar #old dogs #remus lupin #sirius black #lune writes #i might make them a series when insp strikes? #(< person that wants to write hairy old man having elderly sex) #fic: suck the marrow out of my bones and all you’ll taste is yourself

[crimeronan]

the audacity of someone just openly saying they couldn't possibly find any interest or relatability to any modern woman protag is just... what the fuck 😭

can you only read books with characters that are carbon copies of yourself? do you need unchallenging simple narratives devoid of any feminism or radical ideas spoon fed to you also?

diagnosed with terminal "I am uncomfortable when we are not about me" disease

THE STRANGEST PART IS BASED ON THE URL I THINK THEYRE A WOMAN?? NO PRONOUNS OR GENDER IN BIO SO CANNOT BE SURE BUT I JST. that almost makes it Worse to me. earnestly believing that media with women as protags is automatically lesser bc women can't possibly be written three-dimensionally.... by anyone including women.... when you are a woman yourself.... SPARE ME???? that is not a preference??? that is misogyny????

#(the url had 'mama' in it which is where the gender assumption comes from.) #i honest to god didnt think people still said 'i only read about men bc men are written complexly and women arent' in 2024 #in like 2012 when youre only consuming superhero media then you get a pass i guess #BUT IN 2024??? WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH MAINSTREAM HORROR DRAMA AND COMEDY THAT'S ABOUT WOMEN?? ARE YOU SERIOUSSSSSSS #replies #the fucking AUDACITY to say 'i trust media recs except when the protags are women and then i dont trust your taste in media at all bc women #are bad 💕💕💕' I AM EATING YOUR BONE MARROW

[solipseismic]

jf ffucking christ sometimes when you are chopping ingredients up for a soup and your mind goes "this may be too many carrots" and your hand keeps emptying the carrot bag you maybe should listen to. your mind

#croidhe #this was going to be beef stew but it's veggie stew with some beef now #the fucking broth tastes like carrots. i didn't even know u could do that. #3 beef cubes a whole can of tomato paste entire heaps of seasoning and a korean BEEF MARROW CONCENTRATE SOUP STOCK CUBE #AND STILL? CARROT!

[blindmagdalena]

god ur cannibalism fic was SO FUCKING GOOD🥰🥰😋😋i got a wip of him fucking a wound in readers stomach i gotta finish!!

HELLOOOOOO???? thank you and YES PLEASE!

tag me 🖤

#bless you and bless the fictional sexualization/romance of horror #of needing someone down to the marrow of their bones #wanting to taste the individual components of them #their iron their salt their very dna #singing 'let me make you mine' with a touch to the muscles and arteries nestled snugly beneath warm welcoming flesh #thinkin about cannibalism again oops #darling anon #ask and you shall receive #gore cw #cannibalism cw

[yuoic]

#the corrs is one of the few bands whose music can be felt in the bone marrow #jesus fucking christ #music taste #The corrs #Spotify

[scorndotexe]

YOUR SWEATING SKIN PRESSED ON ME AND WE WERE DROWNING AND I DON'T WANNA HURT YOU ANYMORE

#do you guys know about in the cane fields. do you know about in the cane fields #please tell me you know about in the cane fields. #i tasted the wet sugar on your lips and it brought me alive #i'm obsessed with this song i need to replace my bone marrow with it #persimmon's rambles

[trollbreak]

Help I’m being soft about the murderers offering to make food for the folks they care about

#this post is specifically about bladed and marrow. guys who miss being able to taste the food they make but damn if they don’t still do #their best bc they enjoy it and someone else can appreciate it where they can’t #dex or peipre coming up and giving marrow a hug while he cooks and he hums and leans back into them….. #bladed passively chewing on some raw ingredient while he cooks so he can have something to do while he does stuff….. #augh

[hatshepsut9]

Welcome back to Cow Facts with John Gaius! Today we have a special guest: Kiryuu Nanami! Nanami, I can’t wait to hear all your uniquely verified cow facts, but first I’ve got to tell the fans about today’s sponsor Hello Fresh

#tlt #rgu #the hello fresh is either body swapping curry or marrow soup that tastes like nothing until you add salt and then it tastes like salt

[titsthedamnseason]

okay bestie since u answered the technology question and the result was kbr come up w absolutely batshit solutions, i have to know.... are the like us characters currently living thru a pandemic in the 2040s??? do they zoom???

no! kbr said they would never write this which is funny because i feel like this is the one series i actually wouldn’t mind reading it in 😭 like it would actually add some much needed excitement to the repetitive ass plots

however i would also LOVE to read this for the addicted characters….besides the fact that this basically was their lives when they all lived together i just know the entertainment would be through the roof

#the HOURS i have spent thinking about a core six quarantine situation #asks #alex #kbr asks #anyway. i would want them to put the like us series in quarantine but ONLY if the kids would move back home for it #like we got a taste of this when marrow had to move back to the hale house after the fire but the DRAMA that would ensue if some of these ne #*new couples had to be back at home….oh my god #like the kitsulletti books would have been a million times more enjoyable if they were forced to live with ryke 😭😭😭😭 #and oh my god….luna and donnelly…..IM LAUGHING IM LITERALLY LAUGHING #kbr please take notes and have the pandemic break out in lunnelly book 2 so we can see this #i’d even be willing to wait longer for it