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A Rainbow of Queer Books for 2025: Orange
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HAPPY PRIDE 2025! For Pride this year, we’re changing up our usual rec lists. Instead of doing books with specific identities or themes, we’re focused this time on cover color! Throughout the month of June, we’ll be doing 8 rec lists, each with covers inspired by one of the colors of the original Gilbert Baker Pride Flag. We drew a little additional inspiration from the meaning behind the color and why it was included in the original LGBTQIA+ flag (in this case, orange = healing), but we prioritized color over meaning. The contributors to this list are: Sanne, Tris Lawrence, Nina Waters, polls, Shannon, Linnea Peterson and Owl Outerbridge.
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
- Hockey Bois by A.L. Heard
- Meal by Soleil Ho & Blue Delliquanti
- Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
- Nothing Burns As Bright As You by Ashley Woodfolk
- The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce
- Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence
- Firebird by Sunmi
- Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
- The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O’Neill
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
- A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy
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Make an ass out of u and me - Star Wars story on the theme of "Obi-Wan: Virgin and/or Whore"
Jun. 11th, 2025 09:32 pmpetraChapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Depa Billaba/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Shaak Ti/Quinlan Vos, Aayla Secura & Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Aayla Secura, Quinlan Vos, Shaak Ti, Depa Billaba
Additional Tags: A+ Jedi Pedagogy, Polyamory, POV Outsider
Summary:
Anakin has the most boringly perfect master in the entire Jedi Order. Some masters go on interesting missions; Obi-Wan does diplomatic missions where he sits at a table and says, "Hm, well…" a lot till he gets his way. Some masters have showy, dangerous lightsaber styles; Obi-Wan does Soresu, which is as purely defensive as anything anyone has ever devised. Some masters are fully-rounded people who drink and laugh and dance; Obi-Wan stays in with his three best friends and talks about philosophy all night, because he is a perfect Jedi, and so are they.
Coming Soon: Pride Dragon Merchandise Kickstarter Campaign!
Jun. 11th, 2025 02:37 pmduckprintspress
Announcing our next merchandise campaign: ten playful, joyous dragons by Florilège, each in the colors of a different pride flag! Whether you’re bi or pan, genderqueer or queer, we’ve got a dragon for that. We chose ten designs to reflect a range of identities, each whimsical and completely unique.
The ten Pride flags we’ve chosen to feature this project are… Top row, left to right: the polyamproud Polyamorous Pride Flag; the Genderfluid Pride Flag; the Bisexual Pride Flag; the original Pride flag created by Gilbert Baker; and the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag. Bottom row, left to right: the Non-Binary Pride Flag; the Aroace Pride Flag; the Genderqueer Pride Flag; and the Pansexual Pride Flag. These flags were picked based on the results of a general interest survey we did last year, and with an eye toward featuring some flags we haven’t made merch for before and those we don’t see as merchandise often!
We’ll be offering each design as a sticker, magnet, key chain, and pair of earrings. We’ll also be doing sticker sheets, washi tape, and a lanyard featuring all 10 Pride dragon designs.
This Kickstarter launches June 18th 2025. Make sure you don’t miss the news – follow our pre-launch page today!
WWW Wednesday
Jun. 11th, 2025 09:34 amduckprintspress1. What are you currently reading?
About the same as last week tbh (no progress on TGCF Chinese manhua or on A Memory of Empire, didn't start anything else instead of those). This week has been pretty chaotic and I haven't had much bandwidth for anything requiring focus. Thus, manga...
2. What have you recently finished reading?
- The Troublesome Guest of Sotomura Detective Agency by Sakae Kusama: this was fine when all was said and done, I just prefer my couples a little softer for each other.
- Witch Hat Aterlier vol. 4 - 8 by Kamome Shirahama: definitely an interesting series. Unsurprisingly I'm more interested in what the adult characters are doing (Qifrey and Olruggio) than the kids, and so it doesn't quite hit for me a lot of the time. It's very interesting to see how it's coming together as a story fundamentally about disability and privilege
- Spy x Family vol. 13 by Tatsuya Endo: I'm now caught up on what's available on Libby, so the waiting starts.
- Acid Town vol. 4 by Kyuugou: I'd probably like this better if I wasn't showing up at the Very Dark Angsty series like "so when do things get better and happy?" Def my brain going into a bar like "why's everyone here drinking?"
- This is but a Hell of a Dream by Senco Yoshimoto: the thinnest trappings of an incubus story to explain why it's pretty much cover to cover sex lmao.
- Fire Force vol. 4 by Atsushi Ohkubo
- The Way of the Househusband vol. 7 by Kousuke Oono
- Yona of the Dawn vol. 13 by Mizuho Kusanagi
3. What will you read next?
I'm just trying to get through each day rn tbh. idk. probably some more manga. I'm probably the only parent on the planet counting days waiting excitedly for my kids to be done with school. My life will be so much simpler once I'm not juggling this intense a schedule for them plus all my own crap. One week left...
SWITCH EVENT DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jun. 8th, 2025 11:06 pmsetsuntamew
BUT I BROUGHT HOME THREE COPIES OF NATSUME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I should have planned this better because uhhh I ground out the second and third copies in like. 30 hours? But I didn't sleep in those 30 hours....I pulled two consecutive all-nighters for his bitch ass, but honestly? Worth it.
Now if the next JP event is also one of my faves I'll just die XD
Anyway. I gotta go wrap up Shinobu's birthday in JP + CN. I napped for a few hours but I still feel pretty crummy, but...Shinobu.......
Oh I also got a fourth copy of Tetora from the CN merge game but forgot to take a screencap I was so tired...sobs...I even took a nap this afternoon but like. I need to stop doing dumb shit like this, I feel like I'm dyin.
Neurodivergent reward cycle
Jun. 8th, 2025 07:33 pmpetraCase in point: I performed recently after preparing for 5 months.
My mother said, "It went well! That must feel good."
Me: "..."
It didn't. It never really does, not unless someone else gives me external validation.
Whenever I do something hard, my brain's response is, "Well, I did it, so how hard could it have been?"
This applies to excelling academically (which I have done frequently), excelling at my job (which I have done on occasion), every type of performance I've ever undertaken (and there have been a lot), every form of art/craft I've ever done (writing, knitting, crocheting, etc.), and helping friends.
Mostly I just feel relief that it's over, and my brain isn't going to give me the constant round of "You should work on [thing]!" anymore. Nah, the shoulds will switch to something else, but at least it'll be new at first.
A Rainbow of Queer Books for Pride 2025: Red
Jun. 8th, 2025 09:04 amduckprintspress
HAPPY PRIDE 2025! For Pride this year, we’re changing up our usual rec lists. Instead of doing books with specific identities or themes, we’re focused this time on cover color! Throughout the month of June, we’ll be doing 8 rec lists, each with covers inspired by one of the colors of the original Gilbert Baker Pride Flag. We drew a little additional inspiration from the meaning behind the color and why it was included in the original LGBTQIA+ flag (in this case, red = life), but we prioritized color over meaning. The contributors to this list are: Sanne, Neo Scarlett, boneturtle, Nina Waters, Shannon, Shadaras, Tris Lawrence, Linnea Peterson, Owl Outerbridge, Shea Sullivan and 2 anonymous contributors.
- The Devil’s Luck by L.S. Baird
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
- Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” ed. by Nina Waters
- Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
- Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
- Fat Ham by James Ijames
- Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
- Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer
- Husband Material by Alexis Hall
- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
- For Real by Alexis Hall
- Jay Moriarty Violates the Official Secrets Act by Kit Walker
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
- The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado & DaNi
- Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland
- Devilman by Go Nagai
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