"Everytime you are succeeding,

There's an old man somewhere seething,

And spite's as good a reason to take his power." – Paris Paloma

aka the Isadora anthem because this gay vampire is filled with icy female rage ❤️

the gentleman witch  🐈‍⬛

His monstrous queen. His gentle ruler.

apparently i do so love to draw Inej saving Kaz from drowning

when you hate her and she doesn't hate you back but you're both high-key obsessed with each other 🧛‍♀️

“Are you scared?” Seph asked, putting a hand on Leto’s glove. She hadn’t realised her fingers had started to tremble.

“Aren’t you?”

She shook her head. In a slow and careful movement, akin to the taming of a frightened animal, Seph raised her hand.

Leto’s heart beat furiously, a lifetime’s worth of hard-learnt reflexes urging her to recoil, to run, but it was as though her body was tethered to the ground. She held her breath. Seph brushed her cheek.

The difference in temperature was like a sunburn engulfing her, though the heat of Seph’s skin was nothing to the warmth of her hesitant tenderness. Leto’s lashes fluttered. As inescapable as the pull between the earth and the moon, she leaned into the touch, pressing her cheek against the smooth palm.

She heard Seph’s breath shudder. There were no visions, this time, only a taste of honeyed sweets on her lips, vivid like a perfectly kept memory.

Overwhelmed, Leto drew away.

— The Quiet Death of Wild Flowers

ok but looook at the bookshelf my gf and I bought second hand I'm so happy with itttt

3. Sun and Moon

2. Star-Crossed

1. Ride or Die

"No one was in the old house except for Alex, and the demon that had once been Darlington was staring at her from the center of the circle with bright golden eyes. He was still sitting cross-legged, hands on his knees, palms down. But now his eyes were open, and they glowed with the same golden light as the marking on his skin. 'Stern.' The shock of his voice was enough to loosen her grip on the door." — Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo

some art commissions i had lots of fun doing 😊

in order: an anti-social exorcist, a cute college girl possessed by a demon, said girl's very confident brother, and a guy described as "maliciously carefree"

Hey, I was just wondering if you have any idea when you might update your Kanej vampire au fic?

It's on hiatus at the minute — i've been working on personal writing and my PhD, so I haven't had time for fanfics, sorry! I have an outline for it, but it's fairly long, so I'll need to feel renewed inspiration and have the free time to act on it.

So, to be completely honest, I'm not sure when or if I'll get back to it, but I did love that universe. I wish I had 48h in the day, hahaha.

hi! your alex stern is so pretty and i saw your art before i read the book, so her face is what imagined when reading hellbent and ninth house! did you use a specific person/model as a reference or was it a random headshot found on google/pinterest/etc?

Hi! Thank you so much 😊 I don't have a specific face claim for her, I was mainly inspired by official art and phantom-rin's Alex. That, and my own image when reading the book :) I looked at a few photographic references when drawing her portrait with the Greys, but it was about the angle of her face and the lighting, not what she actually looked like. Sorry though, I didn't save them!

the boys from the same "supernatural queer club in 1900s Paris" story as [them]!

back at it with my sapphic shenanigans

while TQDOWF is being read by betas, i'm letting it rest and brainstorming my next story: a supernatural queer bar in 1900s Paris! It features a murder mystery, and some messy gay lovers to enemies to lovers again romance.

Sasha (any pronouns) is a genderfluid shape-shifter, who is the Mom™ of the queer club. She's very protective, and also very stubborn (living for hundreds of years will do that to you). Isadora (she/her) is a powerful vampire who was turned in the Florentine renaissance, back when she was a young girl ready to do anything to become a scientist.

The two of them used to be lovers centuries ago, now they hate each other fiercely... or at least, one of them hates the other.

BETA READER SEARCH — The Quiet Death of Wild Flowers

My first draft is complete, and (almost) revised, so I’m looking for beta readers to give me feedback and help me turn this story into the best version it can be! 🖤

The book is approximately 100k words long, and you’d have about two months to read it (though that’s not a hard deadline or anything). The book is divided in three parts, and you’d have to answer some feedback questions after reading each of them.

In this book, you’ll find…

- A fantasy world inspired by the aftermath of the French revolution (1800s) - Magic arts and older mythical forces - A sapphic ‘opposites attract’ romance  - The yearning for connection of two lonely, touch-starved characters - Memories of past lives resurfacing  - Ideological debates - A strange plague  - A found family of anarchist revolutionaries - A genderfluid protagonist - One very stupid bird

THE STORY:

Leto was born cursed; whatever she touches, dies. As a child, the Empress of Riparia tried to groom her into a perfect weapon, but Leto abhorred the crimes she was forced to commit. She ran, and has been hiding as a masked priestess of the Order of Death ever since. To keep her freedom, she must stay hidden, unnoticed, and never make any waves. Her world is turned upside down when she meets Seph, an anarchist revolutionary with fearless eyes, who touches her — and does not die. Instead, the two of them are struck with a strange vision, one that almost looks like a memory. Dazed and confused, Leto runs away, but in an uncharacteristic moment of impulsiveness, chooses to free Seph from the prison where she met her. The consequences of that action are quick to follow, with Imperial soldiers coming at Leto’s door, and the Empress’s new favourite underling uncovering her identity. Leto has nowhere to go but with Seph and the revolution. There, she must question the certitudes of her safely contained life, and ask herself whether there is any point in fighting for something more in a hopeless world. And as the attraction between the two deepens and becomes more complicated, Seph will have to reckon with emotions she thought she was no longer capable of feeling, and an unwanted yearning for the kind of life she renounced long ago.

Interested? The link for signing up is [HERE] ! 😊 And if you’re not or you simply don’t have the time, reblogging this post would be super helpful ❤️

Have a great day!