foxglovefiction
Foxglove Fiction
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Queer Romance & Fantasy Author writing as Candace Harper and Ceillie Simkiss.
Also runs HEA for Trans Kids
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I had the honor of drawing @ta_teufel character Luna! Thank you so much for commissioning me, and for your patience! It was an absolute pleasure; she’s so stunning Truly a beautiful moon goddess!
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WIP Intro: Names in Their Blood
Title: Names in Their Blood
Format: Novel
Series: Second Sentinels. This is book 2 in the series. Book 1 is currently free as an ebook, or for actual money in paper or audiobook.
Genre: Near future scifi/ low neon cyberpunk/ superheroes/ small town mystery/ little bit Midwest gothic?/ YA into NA. Trust me it all works together I swear.
Status: Editing round 4! Almost ready for beta readers!
Themes: Disability, bodily autonomy, identity, queerness, ethics
Tropes: Missing people, secret identities, found family, meetcute, meetugly, the monster within, dodgy government body, reunions
Synopsis Four queer teens on the fringes of the superheroing world head to a small town in Minnesota for what’s supposed to be a month off. Officially, they’re there for some stressful family reunions and to use the only full hospital for genetically altered people in the US. But, when they realize that the government beuro that gives the Sentinels their missions has been hiding the disappearances of missing alterds for years, it sets them in the path of a mission that has them questioning who they can trust.
Meet the characters under the cut!
Characters
(Age 18)
Opal hadn’t realized when she came to Chicago to join the Sentinels that she’d be joining an extremely complicated family. She certainty didn’t plan to start dating the former team leader’s fierce but fragile daughter. But how can she feel like she belongs here when she can’t pick a superhero name, every effort she makes to reform the corruption in superheroing blows up in her face, her superiors are mad at her, and her girlfreind is holding resentments Opal doesn’t understand? At least she finally gets to stay in a fancy, romantic Victorian manor house.
(Age 18)
As the non-superpowered oldest child of legendary hero LodeStar and medical technologies magnate Dr Melissa Tillman, Issac’s born the brunt of much of the worst of growing up embroiled in the world of superheroes. That’s included kidnapping, threats of torture, and losses he doesn’t know how to cope with. Now, he’s trying to set aside his resentment and focus on being a good adoptive dad to the world’s first feeling, sentient AI. But it’s hard to prove you deserve custody of such a powerful kid when you’re struggling to cope with a new disability and you technically have a felony hanging over your head for developing illegal brain-altering nanites.
(Age 17)
The middle child in Sentinel Plaza, xe may call a different superhero xyr father, but has always considered Issac and Jamie xyr siblings. Now that xe knows that some survivors of the genetic-engineering cultist that built xyr father’s first family are still alive, xe has to contend with the fears, connections, and obligations xe’s inherited. The worst injury of xyr life so far, and a growing fear that xe's a danger to the people around xyr isn’t making competing loyalties any easier to deal with.
(Age 17)
After years of very temporary fostercare placements it’s almost a relief to live full time in Coldwater Clinic Hospital, where nobody is paying that much attention to her anymore. When she met a retired superhero, and they saved each other, she counted herself lucky. But now that heroes old family are in town, with very mixed feelings about the new teenager in their lost family members life. Between the 7ft superhero trainee giving her palpitations and the potentially evil scientist suddenly hanging around her defacto home, her secrets- and her heart- might be in danger.
(Age 17)
Now that she’s no longer the youngest in the family thanks to her AI nibbling, Jamie wants to let go of her bitterness for all the ways she’s been left behind, and think about her future. It’s nobodies fault that she didn’t inherit her dad’s superpowers, even if she did get his temperament, and she knows that while Opal may appreciate her acerbic sense of humor, bitternes isn’t going to help her keep the girlfriend she doesn’t really think she deserves. When she gets an offer that would put dreams she gave up long ago within her reach, she has to choose. Will she follow other in other Sentinels footsteps- all the way to her own self-destruction?
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i think more characters should have canes actually. theyre cool. theyre sexy. they can have swords in them. they come in any color u want.
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The boys have been Helping with the move in a variety of ways, none of which are actually helpful. But they are cute! https://www.instagram.com/p/CpTrqvlrR3H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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i love early game patroclus he is just so done with zag
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Psychopomps on break 🪶
This was a colored sketch commission!
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I do find it fascinating how transphobia is like, the canary in the coal mine for absolutely rancid political opinions, like no one is ever normal about everything EXCEPT trans people, it's always like indicative of some utterly wretched comorbidities
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happy aro week y’all
ft. your friendly neighborhood arrow ace
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Can I just say that as someone who was raised in a firmly working class household by a blue collar parental team… so many people on this website who try to translate blue collar reality into their fantasy worldbuilding are literally insane
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From a queer elder…
Being queer isn’t supposed to be palatable to non-queers.
We don’t tick little squares on a checklist of “queer enough”, we obliterate the checklist.
We defy societal norms that say our bodies, families or relationships have to look a certain way.
Queer is the insult we took away from oppressors. We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
The people who hate us will hate us regardless of how palatable we make ourselves.
Stop licking fascist boots by policing queers who are queer in different ways than you.
Oh, someone is bi/pan trans lesbian with he/him pronouns? So what! They’re welcome on the rainbow. Their identity doesn’t have to make sense to you, it has to make sense to them.
Our identities don’t make sense to non-queers. They see us as unnatural and disgusting, so why are you turning around and crapping that same garbage out at your own community??
Once you drive the visible queers underground, the same people who hate us all will target you next. Nobody will defend you because you drove away everybody who would have.
Enough already!
— sincerely, an old queer.
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BLEH BLEH BLEH. Before we wound up in the ER last weekend, Chris and I were taking a weekend to the Olympic Peninsula. We were so close to Forks that I couldn’t resist the chance to go visit somewhere I spent so much fictional time as a teen. I’m not a twilight fan anymore, but I had to get this picture. And a truly terrible lunch 😂 #twilightsaga #stephaniemeyer #forkswa #books #bookstagram #romancebooks #romancebookstagram #tbt #throwbackthursday (at Forks, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpBfIKJPoEV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#twilightsaga#stephaniemeyer#forkswa#books#bookstagram#romancebooks#romancebookstagram#tbt#throwbackthursday
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This week has been one of finishing projects, and I am a Huge Fan of this, tbh. I started this when Chris and I went on vacation last weekend before his gallbladder attacked, and I finished it with the buttons from Kabooco on Etsy this morning! It was the perfect project for a hellish week. Pictured is the Venetian Carnival Cowl designed by @mydailyfiber in Malabrigo Mechita in desert and gothic! #crochet #slowfashion #cowl #mydailyfiber https://www.instagram.com/p/Co8BqDiS8R8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Paprika says that mother may never leave him again. It is Illegal. https://www.instagram.com/p/CosWDysvqUv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Isabel needs a refund on this sucky year. No health insurance for her insomnia meds, just barely paying her bills, an outing threat by her ex...
But then she meets Derek. Gentle. Caring. Out & okay.
Kindle & KU: books2read.com/tell-me-anything
And here's the complete blurb in case you find it intriguing:
Isabel meets Derek at exactly the wrong time… or is it exactly right?
Freelance editor Isabel needs a refund on this sucky year. Her blackmailing ex-boyfriend is threatening to tell her bigoted family she’s bisexual, and she’s running on fumes trying to meet his demands. Sadly, she hasn’t invented time travel to un-make the mistake of trusting her ex that created this mess.
Derek is an out bisexual man with his own history of family rejection. These days he has a successful business and a caring queer found family, but his personal life stalled after a breakup from his long-time boyfriend. Living alone is getting stale, but will dating just prove he’s too dull to interest anyone? Maybe he should get a dog instead.
When they connect by sheer chance, Isabel discovers that Derek’s so-called boring life is the calm harbor she needs, complete with moral support and pancakes. For Derek, Isabel’s growing affection and genuine interest in his hobbies help him see himself in a new light. As mutual tenderness turns into attraction, Isabel can’t believe this gorgeous, gentle man could want to be part of the disaster she’s made of her life. Even if he did, she can’t trust anyone with her secrets.
But as their connection deepens, Isabel will have to choose: risk it all by taking the helping hand Derek’s offering and also confessing her feelings, or give in to her ex’s extortion and keep her family’s love.
A high heat contemporary queer M/F romance novel with a guaranteed HEA.
Tropes: found family, age gap / May-December romance, kind and protective hero, cinnamon roll hero, angst but soft, hurt-comfort, slow burn.
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