i fully agree that Day of Fallen Night is better than Priory, whoops! I've got some more recs! cozy fantasy: The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Fields. vampire sapphics: In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke (also... ANYTHING by Anna Burke, esp her Robin Hood retelling and her scifi/climate change duology), sapphic werewolves: the Five Moons Rising series (currently at 4, covers two relationships, one v spicy, one with great ace rep) by Lise MacTague, contemporaty romance: ANYTHING by Haley Cass, but esp Those Who Wait, and One the Same Page, most of Rachel Lacy's sapphic romance are also great, historical sapphics with potentially a lil dash of fantasy: A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland for SELKIES! and Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow for sisters and witches, Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk for urban fantasy historical novella that will break you. for horror sapphics: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant for DEADLY MERMAIDS, and The Luminous Deep for space horror, The Space Between Us and it's sqeuel Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson for parallel universes and capitalism & colonilalism is the bad guy scifi. for regency/historical: Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban, and finally (tho i could be here all day, i will stop now) for the crime thriller/ocean's 8 heist vibe girlies: The Long Con trilogy (The Debt, The Push, The Rememberance for the individual titles) by TC Parker/Natalie Edwards.
Not being the OP, who surely has examples in proper book form… all I have for you is web serials, the first one being a strong suggestion, the rest much lesser: Let’s not [Obliterate], by LittleHelp MC is definitely asexual, and whether or not they’re actually ‘sapphic’ matters not in the least to me: they are very romantic to a girl that is both sapphic and very understanding toward them. Caution: there are many tears to be shed. Heart of Dorkness, by RavensDagger. MC, if they have any sexual drive at all, has a very very very very mild one. I enjoyed the work overall, it can be very cute, but I really think it ends too early to say whether the MC ever develops from romantic to sexual. Getting Warhammered (fanfic by p3t1) and The Red Hand (by Panthers426) would seemingly on the surface level apply. The main character in GW is an eldritch horror posing as a woman that is romantically invested in a mortal woman, and the same is true of Akagi from TRH. To my knowledge, if any sex happens in either work invoking their main characters, it is off screen and thought very little of. That may not always be the case (web serial), but I can confidently say that neither character is expressly motivated by sex at any point, and that both are exclusively romantic to a woman while going on grand adventures. So… I would say they stand a good chance of applying. Otherwise, yuri manga sorted by western audiences as shojo ai (specifically, nonspicy, or that is the theory) is the way to go. The problem you might find is that shojo ai will probably not have enough romance, the yuri will probably have too much sex, and any character who is coming to my mind as simultaneously ace and Sappho-romantic is a side character. I will consider it in the back of my mind for a sleep, and if I have something that genuinely works other than Let’s not Obliterate: I’ll get back to this to add a comment below. If not, oh well, it truly is a rare thing to find representation of, let alone good.
Okay, so I have found some that is pretty well done (even once in an explicit manner) in manga I have read. The obvious choice is Bloom Into You. If you have not read it, it is a good place to start, and end. Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon is a lot more self-derisive than is probably healthy, but applies also.
Love the video, and I definetly need to hurry up and start priory. One tiny thing I wanted to just let you know, incase it's helpful to anyone in future, Roisin is pronounced Ro-sheen.
Don't forget the addiction representation in the Ending Fire Trilogy! Honestly there's so much going in those books we'd be here all day listing all of it. Would love to see a video specifically for top faves/recommended bisexual representation! Bonus points for a good bisexual throuple or love triange
Brand new year, so you may very well have read them, but some recent personal favorites: * Red Scholar's Wake, A Fire Born in Exile, and Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard (not a series, just three stories). SFF, Very Solidly Sapphic™. FIre Born in Exile in particular is a sapphic retelling of the Count of Monte Cristo. * Otherside Picnic is a yuri light novel series that develops wonderfully as it progresses.
Otherside picnic is also full of some truly horrifying artwork (at least, in the manga). I genuinely struggled to read it purely to how crazy scary some of those monsters/beings were. It’s like the Face Vortexes(tm) from ‘Do You Think Someone Like You Could Defeat The Demon Lord?’. So good… but oh my actual god are they horrifying.
The guilded abyss by the same author as can't spell treason without tea! So good, sapphic, and a little zombie apocalypse on a cruise ship esque submarine?? Yeah, it's goooodddddd
it honestly doesn't matter?? but you MIGHT get more out of it if you do it how they were published, Priory then Day but you really can go either way. I personally like Day better, and think the introduction got me into it much easier than Priory, but they can go either way.
I love The Roots of Chaos books (yes, I also like A Day of Fallen Night way more than Priory🤭), The Locked Tomb series, and The Final Strife! I just got Battle Drum, so I need to reread Final Strife. Buuuut I have the Final Strife paperback with Sylah on the cover and my Battle Drum paperback doesn't have Anoor😂. I also just started the Burning Kingdom Series, I just need to get the 2nd and 3rd books. Also, for comic books, Old Guard and Monstress. And I also follow webcomics.
🖤🖤🖤🫶🏼ive been watching a heck of a lot of your videos since i found your channel, at this point a little over a month ago… whats time anyway… anywho, thank you for introducing me to a handful of great books, one/some of which are the Samantha Shannon books! Would you recommend a reading order of Priory / A Day of Fallen Night and the Bone Season books? On that note, would you recommend a reading order for the shadowhunters saga? I heard there are like two or three ways to read Clare’s series and i am very curious what order you’d recommend!!! I love and appreciate your insight, thank you for your content🖤🤗
The Hunter’s Gambit reminds me of The Fea Queen’s Captive but only because of the three days thing lol I’m going to add it to my tbr just because of that
@@AModelWhosRead yessss! I want to see the library in the castle. What if you went in and thought of a genre, would there be leaves lighting up and leading you to that section of the library? Then the castle is always changing, which is why you need the leaf gps. I think I’d spend years just exploring every single room and I’d be happy as can be. The leaves would hate me because while they point to one area I’d see a door I’ve never seen so I need to explore. Then there are all the other courts… I would so be down to adventure with the Queen’s brother 😂
I adore Day of Fallen Night! Priory did make me preorder it but DoFN is better. My all time fav sappphic -The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave 5☆+5♡ and made me come up with the phrase "getting punched in the face by your own heart" Best of 2024 -The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec (unfortunatly most of the gay is in the second half) Best of Sapphic september -Her Spell that Binds Me by Luna Oblansky Special smut award -Taken by the Witch Queen by Luna Fury Currently reading -The Princess and the Fox Girl by Julie Law which has a different kind of princess with a big sword😊!
“Do I play favourites? Yes. And that’s why I’d make a bad parent.” 🤣🤣🤣
i fully agree that Day of Fallen Night is better than Priory, whoops! I've got some more recs! cozy fantasy: The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Fields. vampire sapphics: In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke (also... ANYTHING by Anna Burke, esp her Robin Hood retelling and her scifi/climate change duology), sapphic werewolves: the Five Moons Rising series (currently at 4, covers two relationships, one v spicy, one with great ace rep) by Lise MacTague, contemporaty romance: ANYTHING by Haley Cass, but esp Those Who Wait, and One the Same Page, most of Rachel Lacy's sapphic romance are also great, historical sapphics with potentially a lil dash of fantasy: A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland for SELKIES! and Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow for sisters and witches, Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk for urban fantasy historical novella that will break you. for horror sapphics: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant for DEADLY MERMAIDS, and The Luminous Deep for space horror, The Space Between Us and it's sqeuel Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson for parallel universes and capitalism & colonilalism is the bad guy scifi. for regency/historical: Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban, and finally (tho i could be here all day, i will stop now) for the crime thriller/ocean's 8 heist vibe girlies: The Long Con trilogy (The Debt, The Push, The Rememberance for the individual titles) by TC Parker/Natalie Edwards.
Omg you need to start a sapphic-reads channel!
THE SILVER BIRDS for lovers of gothic woods, sapphic witches, monster birds and spooky vibes x good banter
oooh that sounds amazing!
OKAY BUT WHY AND HOW THE HELL HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS CHANNEL BEFORE??? I have been LOOKING for a sapphic book recs channel!!!
I kept waiting for Gideon so the end was so satisfying lol
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston is WAY up there for me!
This Is How You Lose the Time War is so good 😭😭
A Light From Uncommon Stars has had me in a chokehold since I read it. This year, my favorite sapphic is probably My Darling Dreadful Thing.
My Darling Dreadful Thing was so fuuuun, well, kinda, lol
do you have any recommendations for asexual sapphics?? i just want a cozy ace lesbian adventure.
Not being the OP, who surely has examples in proper book form… all I have for you is web serials, the first one being a strong suggestion, the rest much lesser:
Let’s not [Obliterate], by LittleHelp
MC is definitely asexual, and whether or not they’re actually ‘sapphic’ matters not in the least to me: they are very romantic to a girl that is both sapphic and very understanding toward them. Caution: there are many tears to be shed.
Heart of Dorkness, by RavensDagger.
MC, if they have any sexual drive at all, has a very very very very mild one. I enjoyed the work overall, it can be very cute, but I really think it ends too early to say whether the MC ever develops from romantic to sexual.
Getting Warhammered (fanfic by p3t1) and The Red Hand (by Panthers426) would seemingly on the surface level apply. The main character in GW is an eldritch horror posing as a woman that is romantically invested in a mortal woman, and the same is true of Akagi from TRH. To my knowledge, if any sex happens in either work invoking their main characters, it is off screen and thought very little of. That may not always be the case (web serial), but I can confidently say that neither character is expressly motivated by sex at any point, and that both are exclusively romantic to a woman while going on grand adventures. So… I would say they stand a good chance of applying.
Otherwise, yuri manga sorted by western audiences as shojo ai (specifically, nonspicy, or that is the theory) is the way to go.
The problem you might find is that shojo ai will probably not have enough romance, the yuri will probably have too much sex, and any character who is coming to my mind as simultaneously ace and Sappho-romantic is a side character.
I will consider it in the back of my mind for a sleep, and if I have something that genuinely works other than Let’s not Obliterate: I’ll get back to this to add a comment below. If not, oh well, it truly is a rare thing to find representation of, let alone good.
Okay, so I have found some that is pretty well done (even once in an explicit manner) in manga I have read.
The obvious choice is Bloom Into You.
If you have not read it, it is a good place to start, and end.
Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon is a lot more self-derisive than is probably healthy, but applies also.
Love the video, and I definetly need to hurry up and start priory.
One tiny thing I wanted to just let you know, incase it's helpful to anyone in future, Roisin is pronounced Ro-sheen.
Don't forget the addiction representation in the Ending Fire Trilogy! Honestly there's so much going in those books we'd be here all day listing all of it. Would love to see a video specifically for top faves/recommended bisexual representation! Bonus points for a good bisexual throuple or love triange
Brand new year, so you may very well have read them, but some recent personal favorites:
* Red Scholar's Wake, A Fire Born in Exile, and Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard (not a series, just three stories). SFF, Very Solidly Sapphic™. FIre Born in Exile in particular is a sapphic retelling of the Count of Monte Cristo.
* Otherside Picnic is a yuri light novel series that develops wonderfully as it progresses.
I have Red Scholar's Wake and have heard good things!
Otherside picnic is also full of some truly horrifying artwork (at least, in the manga).
I genuinely struggled to read it purely to how crazy scary some of those monsters/beings were. It’s like the Face Vortexes(tm) from ‘Do You Think Someone Like You Could Defeat The Demon Lord?’.
So good… but oh my actual god are they horrifying.
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The guilded abyss by the same author as can't spell treason without tea! So good, sapphic, and a little zombie apocalypse on a cruise ship esque submarine?? Yeah, it's goooodddddd
INTERESTING 😮
dumb question..should i start with day of fallen night or priory first? i have both of them.
it honestly doesn't matter?? but you MIGHT get more out of it if you do it how they were published, Priory then Day but you really can go either way. I personally like Day better, and think the introduction got me into it much easier than Priory, but they can go either way.
@@banrions cool. thank you so much.
I love The Roots of Chaos books (yes, I also like A Day of Fallen Night way more than Priory🤭), The Locked Tomb series, and The Final Strife! I just got Battle Drum, so I need to reread Final Strife. Buuuut I have the Final Strife paperback with Sylah on the cover and my Battle Drum paperback doesn't have Anoor😂. I also just started the Burning Kingdom Series, I just need to get the 2nd and 3rd books.
Also, for comic books, Old Guard and Monstress. And I also follow webcomics.
🖤🖤🖤🫶🏼ive been watching a heck of a lot of your videos since i found your channel, at this point a little over a month ago… whats time anyway… anywho, thank you for introducing me to a handful of great books, one/some of which are the Samantha Shannon books! Would you recommend a reading order of Priory / A Day of Fallen Night and the Bone Season books?
On that note, would you recommend a reading order for the shadowhunters saga? I heard there are like two or three ways to read Clare’s series and i am very curious what order you’d recommend!!!
I love and appreciate your insight, thank you for your content🖤🤗
Welcome and thank you!
Good evening, and thanks for sharing another wonderful video
The Hunter’s Gambit reminds me of The Fea Queen’s Captive but only because of the three days thing lol I’m going to add it to my tbr just because of that
I wish Sierra Simone would write a longer version of FQC, that world was incredible!
@@AModelWhosRead yessss! I want to see the library in the castle. What if you went in and thought of a genre, would there be leaves lighting up and leading you to that section of the library? Then the castle is always changing, which is why you need the leaf gps. I think I’d spend years just exploring every single room and I’d be happy as can be. The leaves would hate me because while they point to one area I’d see a door I’ve never seen so I need to explore. Then there are all the other courts… I would so be down to adventure with the Queen’s brother 😂
Currently listening to Can't spell treason without tea and OMG if my wife and I don't end up like that in our old age I'll be VERY disappointed u.u
I adore Day of Fallen Night! Priory did make me preorder it but DoFN is better.
My all time fav sappphic
-The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave 5☆+5♡ and made me come up with the phrase "getting punched in the face by your own heart"
Best of 2024
-The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec (unfortunatly most of the gay is in the second half)
Best of Sapphic september
-Her Spell that Binds Me by Luna Oblansky
Special smut award
-Taken by the Witch Queen by Luna Fury
Currently reading
-The Princess and the Fox Girl by Julie Law which has a different kind of princess with a big sword😊!
I have The Mercies on my shelf! I didn’t know it was sapphic!!!!
neon green.... nct 127.. neo got my back..
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