There are no stars at all for some of us

[sovay]

Hey! Internet! I've just been talking about how much it sucks when a novel kills off its queer characters. Especially when there's, like, one of them and they're the one who doesn't make it. Can someone point me toward a list of books where that doesn't happen? Spoilers, whatever.

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[sovay]

I have read none of these! Thank you.

(lousy things happen to the gay characters, but hey, lousy things happen to almost everyone in that book)

(That's fair. See above to desperance about A Verse from Babylon.)

Don't know whether you want manga, but here

Will totally read manga. I should hit up my cousins for recommendations in that department, too.

[weirdquark]

Fumi Yoshinaga, the author of Antique Bakery in general has very good stuff. There's a lot of explicit sexual material (she's written a lot of yaoi) in her work but she's one of the best of the yaoi manga-ka's at creating characters that act like people instead of yaoi archetypes.

She also wrote Ooku, which has interesting gender things going on.

[sovay]

There's a lot of explicit sexual material (she's written a lot of yaoi) in her work but she's one of the best of the yaoi manga-ka's at creating characters that act like people instead of yaoi archetypes.

Explicit sexual anything is not a problem. Characters that didn't act like people would be, but I'm glad to hear the reverse is true. Cool.

She also wrote Ooku, which has interesting gender things going on.

That won the Tiptree in the same year as nineweaving. I should really give it a try.

[genarti]

I've read the first volume of Ooku, a couple of years back, and keep meaning to read more. The first was fascinating, and I've heard good things.

However, warning that the series needs almost every trigger warning I can think of based on what I read in the FIRST VOLUME. It's not sensationalist, but lots of variously terrible things happen to lots of people (and animals).