avatarPagebound Royalty Badge

seema

head in the clouds, nose in a book ✨🌈 she/her

68284 points

0% overlap
Top ContributorEarly UserReadalong Completionist 2025
Pride 2025
Cozy Fantasy
Dark Academia
My Taste
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Don't Let the Forest In
Palimpsest
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Reading...
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)
35%
A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry
0%
The Once and Future Witches
45%

seema commented on a post

9h
  • The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
    Thoughts from 17% (page 30, mid Ch 1) - grief & meaningful tasks
    spoilers

    View spoiler

    19
    comments 5
    Reply
  • seema commented on a post

    10h
  • Goddess of the River
    seema
    Edited
    Thoughts from 74% (page 298, mid Ch 24) - Shakuni
    spoilers

    View spoiler

    17
    comments 5
    Reply
  • seema commented on a post

    12h
  • Goddess of the River
    Thoughts from 55% (page 218, mid Ch17) - crash out + theory
    spoilers

    View spoiler

    24
    comments 19
    Reply
  • seema commented on seema's update

    seema commented on a post

    16h
  • Found family🩷

    I love this quest! Found family is one of my favorite tropes. It has made me realize how important some side characters are; the impact they have, the feelings they evoke, to the point that I’ve found myself loving them far more than some main characters.

    42
    comments 10
    Reply
  • seema commented on a post

    16h
  • Why do you read cozy fantasy?

    Hi sweet friends, I wanted to come in here and chat a little bit about what actually draws us to cozy fantasy. Not as a debate on definition (because we've sure had plenty of those), but more to understand what pulled us into this little group here and has kept us here since. Maybe we can even get to know each other a bit and build a better sense of community while we are at it 🩷

    So, to share a bit personally here, recently I've been having something like a crisis of faith about this genre, which I once loved so much (enough to make a quest!) but in the past few months just wasn't doing it at all for me. When I think back, I found cozy fantasy at a time in my life where I was very overwhelmed, when the world felt large and scary and unpredictable, and when these books offered me some hope and some calm. I read them for escapism and comfort. Thankfully, I was able to find much more steadiness and groundedness in my life, but that means the books snagging my interest have been offering a balance in the other direction: more problems, more adrenaline, more grey areas. In the spirit of transparency, I also got a bit down with seeing how much criticism several cozy fantasy books that have made their way to more of the mainstream got for being boring, shallow, sad, or on the flip side not cozy "enough." I admittedly started wondering if maybe these books only really hit in times of crisis? But I just finished reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built, and I feel like that book really reminded me that actually, these stories can be more than just a hug only when you need one. They can also be inspiring, and change your perspective, and just be really dang lovely to read for fun when you're already doing just fine. Maybe that's obvious, but I figured if as the quest owner I've had doubts and gone through different seasons with these books, surely some of y'all must have too? And maybe we can talk about that.

    So, all that said, I'd love to hear: what prompts you to pick up a cozy fantasy book? What are you hoping to find within the pages? Do you need to be in a particular mood? Have you also gone through on and off seasons with it? Is there anything else you want to share that feels related?

    51
    comments 52
    Reply
  • seema commented on seema's update

    seema made progress on...

    18h
    The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)

    The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)

    P. Djèlí Clark

    35%
    27
    4
    Reply

    seema made progress on...

    18h
    The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)

    The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)

    P. Djèlí Clark

    35%
    27
    4
    Reply

    seema commented on LaurasLibraryCard's update

    LaurasLibraryCard earned a badge

    1d
    Level 11

    Level 11

    22000 points

    179
    59
    Reply

    seema commented on Lizzyfoureyes's update

    seema commented on helli's update

    helli earned a badge

    1d
    Level 16

    Level 16

    47000 points

    222
    53
    Reply

    seema commented on robyn00's update

    robyn00 earned a badge

    1d
    Level 15

    Level 15

    42000 points

    214
    45
    Reply

    seema commented on pykora's update

    pykora earned a badge

    2d
    Level 16

    Level 16

    47000 points

    271
    123
    Reply