when the wave falls, will you be ready?

no hay manera mejor de amar que aniquilarse

Notes on Qualifications

Original Songs Only, no covers (sampling ok).

Only one song per artist, movie or movie franchise.

The song must have been released as a single during the years 2010-2019.

"Song" here means vocals and lyrics, no instrumental tracks.

Submissions will be open through next Sunday, August 16th at 11:59 PM ET.

You can submit as many times as you want. Books that were entered into the previous Queer Fantasy bracket may be submitted again. Only previous Queer Fantasy winners will not compete again: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett.

Submission guidelines:

Must be queer

Must be fiction in the fantasy genre

Accepting all types of fantasy: secondary world, primary world, urban fantasy, romantasy, historical fantasy, etc etc

Accepting all age categories: adult, YA, middle-grade, etc

Can be a standalone work, a series, or a novella

For series: usually it'll make the most sense to submit either the series as a whole or the first book, not each book individually. There's exceptions of course where it makes more sense to submit individually (e.g., books that are marketed as a "series" but are primarily self-contained and don't have plot/character overlap, as with many romance series)

The google form will not collect any personal information such as email address

What “counts” as a queer book?

I’m not going to get overly prescriptive, but: For modern books, something that features queer characters/perspectives/themes in a significant or substantive way.

My guiding principle is: if someone is looking for queer books in a particular genre, would they be satisfied with this book as actually fulfilling that promise?

the fans: but what if there was no sexual abuse

- 1-5

- 6-12

- 13-19

- 20-30

- 31+

- no cousins here

You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.

Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:

He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.

Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:

And this: