Aeryn

Cinder House by Freya Marske

PSA: Despite being marketed as sapphic fantasy, Cinder House centers on an F/M relationship and has no hints of F/F except for one nasty scene. I found out yesterday by reading the Goodreads reviews of people understandably pissed about the misleading blurb and marketing. This shit is so gross.

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Drawing of the DHS logo bird shot through with arrows and xes on its eyes, words say FUCK ICE

i made this in 2018, people who saw it didnt care for it much at the time

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One of the concepts for my Carmilla sequel comic that you can read even if you're not familiar with the book, as long as you like lesbians and vampires and haunted women.

Only two weeks left to get it, only at the shortbox comics fair!
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Don’t mind me, I just finally have the spoons to catch up on all of plotober 😅

There’s also a level nihilism and selfishness he could fall into. He’s helping a new god find herself, will be marked as hers when she ascends, and presumably dying at that time, so why should he care about the mess that’s going on on earth? That’s not going to be his business for much longer.

Levi needs to learn to open up, let people in, admit when he’s in over his head and ask for help, even from folks he might not necessarily like. At the same time he can’t die, Death herself is making sure of that, so why not just throw himself at a wall until he sticks?

Levi’s husband is, in his minor defense, very confused about how and why Fate would let him make such an error. The oldest gods are supposed to help solve conflicts, not cause them.

It’s a bride (and a human one at that) because of a little spat with his inverse deity. Let’s just say they don’t always get along, so he marks a human woman, and she marks a mer-man. Elves are too gender fluid, and dwarves tend to break gender norms too much.

(Bonus world building!)
The God of Paternity and Masculinity takes a bride so as to show what a husband should be, for it would be hypocritical for him to dictate how mortals behave to their own spouses should he be unwed.

At the same time, it wasn’t a life that he chose for himself, and he’s rejected it in many ways. His feelings towards the god are complicated. He is a man, and does live by several of the tenets his god calls for, but within the temple he will always be pushed away from them, made to be a woman.

There are benefits to this, privilege that comes with a position where you are to be adored. As the mortal bride to a god he is said gods mouth piece, higher then the priests, with a direct line to him. His up bringing left him well educated, fluent in all the races languages, and skilled at magic.

As mentioned, Levi is trans, afab, and was marked at birth to be the bride to a god of paternity and masculinity. He *must* be a woman, so far as the temples doctrine demands, and there’s no getting out of the fate he was born to. (And she better know he has words for her if/when they meet!)

Being a courier doesn’t make for gentle hands, and you can’t bludgeon your way out of every conflict. A lot of situations require a more gentle touch than he’s willing to give, and to truly succeed he’s going to need to open up, especially since guiding a god is now on his list of responsibilities.

He does care though, about people from all walks of life. He looks out for folks less fortunate, and will step up if he sees something happening that he knows isn’t right. He just doesn’t always show it the best, and doesn’t have many people who know him beyond the persona he shows.

Levi is stubborn, and that’s a double edged sword. He’s also closed off from others, never letting people know more about him than he needs to. He’s smart, well educated and trained in magic, but he’s not one for long conversations and careful persuasion.

Mix that in with a mess of industrial level scheming and Levi’s got a hell of a lot of road blocks between him and his retirement in the sky. Finding the new god is just step one to her ascension. She still needs to finish forming, and ascend to her divine rights.

Less lucky that by then the new God is god knows where and he now needs to track her down. Equally complicated are a whole mess of religious and inter-racial politics. The elves know something, but he already sent most who knew what was going on to their next life.

Levi’s biggest road block is remembering the offer, and the deal he took. Turns out dying and being resurrected scrambles your brains, and it takes a while (and a few more deaths) for the deal to stick in his head. Lucky for him that Death is a patient woman.

With the new god, she can “steal” him. Let his afterlife be authentic to him, but it’s impossible to tell what kind of god she will be. She could be cruel, distant, demanding, but at least serving her in his afterlife he will be remembered as the person he formed himself to be.

As for Death’s deal: as someone marked by the gods his soul belongs to the God of Husbands and Paternity. He was born to be the gods bride, adored and cared for and beloved. When he dies he will be that gods wife, forever branded to the female roles and the name the temple gave him.

Levi’s initial goal of revenge is short sited and foolish. Smart thing to do would be to get to civilization and thank his lucky stars Death didn’t collect him. Alas, he’s a bit spiteful and figures her missing him was an accident. His time is limited so he might as well track his killers down.

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& ALWAYS WILL BE
#art ✧ #wrathmonth ✧ #trans ✧ #queer

img that says “got a really crazy art coming up in the next 7-8 years. Stay tuned.”

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CMYK(itties) 🖨🩵💖💛🖤

Sadly there is a recall for listeria for certain salad kits 😖 I’d check which batches it pertains to…

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Congrats!!!

Wild West fantasy! But sub out horses and cows for drakes and most ranchers are more worried about a wild dragon than a stray wolf! (Unless they’re raising sheep and goats, in which case they’re having an all around bad time)

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.