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BOOK RECS

For anyone who needs happy and positive LGBTQ+ books …

I haven’t even read Wayward Son yet, but I just wanted to rec some things after reading some of the reactions on here. I feel like there are so many great authors out there, whose books don’t get talked about at all or at least not enough and this is in no way a complete list, there are so many more!

Also, an amazing resource for finding more diverse books is lgbtqreads.com, anything in the romance category has a happy end!

YA

Hearstopper by Alice Oseman (so much great rep and really cute webcomic, plus all of her books are amazing, very diverse and even though they deal with some heavier topics they are always hopeful)

Alex in Wonderland and Noah Can’t Even by Simon James Green (so adorable, especially Alex in Wonderland is the perfect feel-good summer read)

Social Intercourse by Greg Howard (this book made me smile so much)

Whatever. and How (not) ask a boy to prom by S.J. Goslee (Really cute, feel-good romance books)

Running With Lions and How to be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters (Very heartwarming and positive)

Openly Straight, Honestly Ben and The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg (his books deal with very interesting and sometimes heavy topics, but they have happy endings)

One Man Guy by Michael Barakva (so sweet, though the sequel sounds a bit :/ so I haven’t read it yet)

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart and A&B by J.C. Lillis (some heavy moments but happy endings)

Simon Vs. the Homosapiens Agenda and Leah On The Off-Beat by Becky Albertelli (popular for a reason)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (a must-read, beautiful writing)

Older Characters

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston (definitely a new fave, so romantic and the alternate universe I want to live in, has nsfw scenes)

Know Not Why by Hannah Johnson (such a comfort read, it’s so adorable and I love all of the characters)

Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu (such a heart-warming webcomic)

Other authors to check out: Mackenzi Lee, L. Philips, Kacen Callender, Caleb Roehrig, Pene Hanson, Jen Wilde

So very excited to listen to maleevollent (how I pronounce malevolent in my head)

“neil was much better at instigating fights than winning them” lmao no shit, boy went to the monsters’ room, yelled ‘fuck you cripple’ at kevin and then zoomed tf out of the room the moment kevin got out of his chair

This killed me

This is several days late but I caught feelings and ended up writing a little scene for what if Jonmartin encountered TWO beds at the safehouse, inspired by this wonderful post by @dickwheelie ! 

Jon runs through his list of reasons again and again and again, the same way he wishes he could run his fingers through Martin’s hair. Excuses excuses excuses. Ways to talk around it, around himself, around the truth that’s opened up beneath the two of them like The Sunken Sky ever since they escaped Lukas’s Lonely. Ways to give Martin the emotional space he surely needs after months of Loneliness, or maybe ways to keep himself from having to be brave.

Jon isn’t about to walk in with a love declaration anymore than he already has, anyways - he’s nowhere near brave enough for that, not to mention Martin almost certainly doesn’t need to hear it right now - yet somehow asking to share a bed with Martin feels like doing just that. Jon doesn’t want to do that to him, not now, but, selfishly, he isn’t sure he can take being separated from Martin for even one night after everything. He Knows that vestiges of the Lonely still cling to Martin’s breath, sees it in the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it translucence of his fingertips, hears it in the clumsy way his small laughs stumble out of his unused chest and seem to startle him. The idea of leaving Martin alone frightens Jon to his core.

He doesn’t want Martin to be alone ever again, and now that they’re so close, with memories of the Lonely fresh in his mind - Martin’s face in his hands, warm brown returning to his cheeks as he gasps and Sees, his smile, oh, his smile - it feels like extracting another rib to think of being apart from him. Jon had been so close to losing him. A part of him is worried that he still might.

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why does no one ever talk about this it’s literally the sweetest most precious thing i love them so much

The ghost of a gay cat haunted/followed you?

That answer might be better than the actual story 😂

There’s this cat that comes up to my back porch all the time to see my cat, and I started joking around with my family that the cat had a gf that kept coming to visit. Well last night (still can’t believe this happened) I was outside and saw her standing by my screen door. Now this door can be opened by just something being pressed against it, awful security I know, but that’s not the point. I, being obsessed with cats, spend the next forty minutes creeping slowly closer (she’s shy and runs off easily). It was the one of the weirdest things I ever saw, I always joked about her being my cats gf but she genuinely reminded me of someone waiting for their date to show up. She didn’t go inside and just sat out on the porch looking inside at first with great posture and fixing herself every five minutes, but then slowly starting to get visibly upset the more time went on. She was out there for forty minutes. And then she stretched and realized she could go inside, stuck her head in real quick to look side to side, and then just went back to her spot to sit 😂 ten minutes later she gets up and goes into the house finally, after nearly an hour of my cat watching her. I’m of course over joyed to have another cat in the house, but I realized that this might create a series of problems, so I went in and called my sister over telling her about the mysterious cat gf. We checked the entire house but couldn’t find her, and my house is really small with not many places to hide even for extremely moldable cats. There were no entrances to escape from, and my sister started saying I made it up, except I took a little video of it to show my great friend @francisballoonpants my only option to believe is that this cat was at least partially a ghost.

So that’s the story of the ghost lesbian cat, tonight has been wild

What Your Favourite Magnus Archive Ship Says About You

Jon/Martin- You are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of pining from afar. 

Jon/Tim- You are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of deep seated mistrust.

Martin/Tim- You regularly call for ‘missing Tim hours’.

Sasha/Tim- You wanted good things for Sasha, and really, who wouldn’t?

Jon/Georgie- You have very strong opinions about Jon being alt in college.

Daisy/Basira- You want a girlfriend who can and will fight you

Melanie/Georgie- You hypothetically want a girlfriend who can fight you, but really you want a girlfriend who’ll hold you

Sasha/Melanie- You have written at least one fic about Archivist Sasha

Sasha/Jon/Tim/Martin- You think the only way the found family trope can be improved is if they all smooched.

Sasha/Jon- You are heterosexual

Elias/Peter Lukas- You realised far too late that shipping something ironically will inevitably lead you to shipping it sincerely

Elias/Jon- You just want Elias to step on you.

Michael/Gerry- You think that there is no better trope than opposites attract. You also probably have very strong opinions on Gertrude Robinson.

Michael/Jon- You are a monsterfucker. 

Michael/Sasha- You think season 1 was the best season.

Helen/Melanie- You think season 4 was the best season.

Jon/Gerry- Your addiction to sad boys, doomed by outside forces has grown so big that one day you were like ‘hey, what’s better than one sad boy? Two sad boys’

Jon/Oliver/Gerry- This is the same joke as Jon/Gerry but even more so and you have a thing for goths.

Gertrude/Agnes- When the phrase ‘tied together’ was said, you heard ‘soulmates’.

Jonah Magnus/Barnabas Bennette- You love things that are so sad, can we get Fs in chat?