#bitterthorn

"But they are all so wholesome and I need something complicated-"

Nevermore on Webtoon, A Dark & Drowning tide (Book, haven't read it but Gothic), Bitterthorn (Book), Ruthless on Webtoon, Sunset Phoenix on Webtoon, Clear and muddy loss of love seems complicated (on my TBR), This monster wants to eat me (Manga & Series), oh, you don't like books/comics? I care a lot (taking out the last scene, it's good (the relationship isn't toxic but the main character sure is)), Carmilla has several adaptations (it's also a book if you didn't know that yet), Mädchen in Uniformen (if you're into that), Yellowjackets (not main center ig), Carol & A portrait of a Lady on Fire, The World to come (movie), AND JAGGED MIND, PLS EVERYBODY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WATCH JAGGED MIND!!!!!!!

"But they never get a happy ending-"

Some of the ones mentioned above, also ; But I'm a cheerleader(movie), didn't watch bottoms but it doesn't seem to end in Mord & Totschlag (Murder and...murder, it's a German saying), Elisa y Marcela(Movie), She-ra & the princesses of Power(series), don't remember the ending of "The Half of it"(Movie) but I think it was happy, didn't watch "Imagine Me & You"(Movie) but ya know? STRAWBERRY PANIC(anime), The Handmaiden (Movie, didn't watch this one yet either) YOU WANT BOOKS/COMICS AND MANGA? The Boy she was interested in that wasn't a boy at all (Manga), Ayaka is in love with Hirako (Series & Manga), My Teachers are in love with eachother (Manga), LEGIT SAILOR MOON!!!, Soulmate (Manga), Mage & Demon Queen (Webtoon), Not for the Faint of the heart (Book), Blood on her toung (Gothic, side character but that side character is VERY important, Book), One last Stop, The seven Husband's of Evelyn Hugo (Pirate this one/second-hand it, Author's a Zionist), I've heard "The Color Purple" (read it too but that was like six or seven years ago), Her Tale of Chim Chong (Webtoon & Published), Dom & Mor (Webtoon) AND SO MANY MORE

"I want smut-"

Look up Eden Emory for Books + all her other Aliases & you're good.

"I want POC."

Understandable, but I'm too tired to type so you'll be getting screenshots from now on + previously mentioned

There are more and do you want to know how I know?

BECAUSE I HAVE GOOGLE/ECOSIA, SO DON'T GIVE ME THE "But there isn't-" THERE IS IF YOU SO MUCH AS SCRATCH THE SURFACE

AND IF THERE ISN'T THEN YOU GO PICK UP A PENCIL AND DO IT YOUR OWN FUCKING SELVE, JESUS GOSH DARN CHRIST

Also here's my Webtoon list (reds not gay, migthve forgotten sum)

Books dealing with love, loss, longing and abandonment

This is How You Lose The Time War is a short but beautifully written epistolary novel between two agents on opposite sides of a time war as they slowly fall in love.

Our Wives Under the Sea is one of the most beautifully written debuts I've ever read about a woman whose wife comes home wrong after they thought she'd died at sea and how it feels to grieve the loss of someone who's still in your home.

Lucky Red is a western novel about a young girl working in a brothel who meets her first female gunslinger and falls head over heels for her, and the consequences that come with loving dangerous people.

Body horror galore

Camp Damascus is about a young woman living in a super conservative christian town built around the worlds most successful conversion camp and the horrors that are uncovered there when praying the gay away fails.

To Be Devoured is about a woman whose fascination with the local vultures turns into obsession and the urge to know what carrion tastes like overtakes her life and leads her down stranger and stranger paths.

Chlorine is about a girl whose entire life revolves around being a competitive swimmer, and how abuse, neglect, and obsession with being the best takes its toll on the young women caught up in these destructive cycles.

Flawed character studies

Big Swiss is about a woman who has a kitchen floor reset in her 40s, moves away and starts a new life as a transcriber for a sex therapist and becomes obsessed with one of his clients before inserting herself into this poor woman's life.

The Seep is a speculative sci-fi set in a future where there's been a quiet alien invasion that has given people the ability to make almost any changes to their own bodies and what that world feels like to someone who doesn't want to partake.

Milk Fed is about a woman in therapy who feels cut off from almost everything until she meets another woman who triggers in her a melding of sex, hunger, and religion and where that takes her. Huge trigger warnings for ED content. It gets tough, y'all.

Fantastical wlw books

Bitterthorn is an amalgamation of fairytales retold as a slow burn sapphic love story between a sad young girl from a cursed land and the evil witch who takes her as a companion in the latest of the generational sacrifices made to appease her.

All the Bad Apples may be set in contemporary Ireland but it is a fairytale following a young girl as she travels across the country looking for a sister she refuses to believe is dead and the people she meets along the way.

Gideon the Ninth needs no introduction on this site but for the sake of formatting - lesbian necromancers in space who find themselves in an isolated murder mystery plot. It's not a romance but it is a love story and this series will change your life if you let it.

Translated novels

Boulder is a short character study following a free spirited woman when she accidentally settles down with the woman she loves and how love and resentment can take up the same space in your chest when life doesn't turn out the way you hoped it would.

Notes of a Crocodile is a cult classic coming of age story about queer teens in Taipei in the 1980s. It was written in the 90s so please keep that in mind if you choose to read it.

21.02.25

It's June, and I've found my favourite book of 2024. This is such a beautiful, hopeful story filled with so much sapphic angst, about two women who end up living alone together in the same castle. The romance is beautifully written, watching them navigate their own hurt and loneliness to finally find each other was so emotionally raw.

This sets such a high bar for romance for me, and the way Mina decides to simply turn up and annoy the Witch with her presence every just to get her attention is quite frankly, so me. They both start bonding over their interest in each other's experiences, sharing quiet breakfasts together, and parallel play even makes an appearance, something I really connected to.