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may12324 · 8 months

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Constanta - vengeful bride of dracula -- from A Dowry of Blood

#dowry of blood #constanta #st gibson #a dowry of blood #vampire #my art #what a missed opportunity that i didnt make the bg int he first image like a skull #like i coulda incorporated one in there somehow #surely #oh well

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kazz-brekker · 7 months

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back at it again with my book-recommending ways

#listen i read SO many books what else am i supposed to do with this knowledge if not make powerpoints about them?#pie says stuff #pie reads #castlevania nocturne #castlevania #books #silver under nightfall #certain dark things #mademoiselle revolution #vespertine #house of hunger #a dowry of blood #the house of shattered wings #boy that was a lot of books #i stand by all these recs though! they're all good!

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angelaanimates · 1 month

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Fanart of Dracula’s brides from @stgibsonofficial ’s A Dowry of Blood

#artists on tumblr #illustration #artstagram #bookish #character art #illustration art #a dowry of blood #vampire

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autumnsaesthetics · 9 months

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🍁 Books for Autumn & Halloween 🎃

Part One!

(Row One) 🍁

Mooncakes by Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker

The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldtree

(Row Two) 🎃

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

A Dowry Of Blood by S.T Gibson

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

(Row Three) 🍁

The Taking Of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Diviners by Libba Bray

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saintmachina · 11 months

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AN EDUCATION IN MALICE, my queer dark academia Carmilla retelling, has a cover! Preorder your copy for:

toxic poetry cohorts

horny religious imagery

plus size heroine

subby bisexual girl X domme lesbian

professors behaving badly

vampire house party exhibitionism

romantic necromancy

BARNES AND NOBLE AMAZON WATERSTONES

#carmilla #an education in malice #a dowry of blood #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia books #da #tsh #dark academia romance #fantasy romance #spicy romance #dark romance #stgibson

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a-true-janian-reply · 1 month

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What is more lovely, after all, than a monster undone by wanting?

- A Dowry of Blood, S.T. Gibson

#a dowry of blood #book quotes #I’m not saying this is Kanej #but it’s not not Kanej #Kanej #six of crows #not comparing Kaz to Dracula!#just the quote itself

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fang-venkas · 10 months

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#vampires #vampire media #the vampyre #carmilla #dracula #salem’s lot #twilight #the vampire diaries #tvd #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #a dowry of blood

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ianthe-is-a-bitch-and-i-love-her · 26 days

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In one of life's great ironies, S.T. Gibson has managed to write one of my favorite sapphic vampire novels as well as one of the ones that I found most disappointing. I stand by A Dowry of Blood as a masterful character study and deep exploration of vampirism as abuse; however, as much as An Education in Malice wants to be about cycles of hurt and obsession and loves turned bitter viewed through a lens of poetry, it doesn't do anything that In the Roses of Pieria doesn't do better.

#the wlw review #a dowry of blood #an education in malice #an education in malice critical

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words-writ-in-starlight · 6 months

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Hello, I came across your Kencyrath rec post and I am tentatively intruiged. That said I wanted to ask about a trigger before I dive in. Suicide is pretty strong trigger for me. I can handle it if it's mentioned, but detailed descriptions of the act or a lot of time spent in a suicidal character's head/thoughts dealing with suicidal ideation would not be. Is this an issue in the Chronicles of Kencyrath, and if it is, do you have a different recommendation?

Okay SO.

The Kencyrath exist in a honor/shame society, in which going against the code of honor (lying, breaking your word, etc) is considered a sin that can only be forgiven through an honorable death. Sometimes this takes the form of going into battle without the intention to come back, generally without armor, but it also takes the form of ritualized suicide with a specific kind of knife. I would call it a very specific kind of suicidal ideation, in which it doesn’t come so much from a depressive headspace as it does from a kind of rigidly religious one. There isn’t a ton of time spent in the heads of characters actively pursuing ritual suicide, nor what I would call traditional depressive suicidality, but it IS a very present element of the society, including people freely making choices with the understanding that they will be expected to take their own life afterward, or people being forced to take their own life as an alternative to being dishonored. Think samurai rules or Imperial Chinese rules and you’ll be in the right ballpark. Ultimately I can’t know the inside of your brain, but if onscreen suicide discussion or aftermath is a concern, I might table this series until you feel more ready for it.

In terms of alternative recommendations, buckle up, I have a list based on what part of the Kencyrath pitch you were into. These recommendations are made with the assumption that all the OTHER content warnings for the Kencyrath are not a problem, but I’ll note any really major ones and include a broad rating according to AO3 rules. Anything with an asterisk by it heavily features the big Chivalric Devotion vibes of the main Kencyrath dynamics. I read a lot of that.

Sprawling politics:

The Unbroken* (drafted soldier impresses daughter of the empress, they try to stop a war, full of double-crossing schemes and gallant ladies, cw colonialism, M for violence, sex, and extremely real colonialism)

The Captive Prince* (dethroned prince is sold into slavery under his mortal enemy, definitional enemies-to-lovers content, cw sexual assault, E for a very sexually relaxed culture in a bad way)

A Taste of Gold and Iron* (unambitious prince gets tangled up in a currency fraud scheme and gets a shiny new bodyguard, E for a very sexually relaxed culture in a good way)

October Daye series (starts out classic urban fantasy, rapidly becomes Blood Magic and Politics The Series, for those committed to a long series, T for violence)

Pulp fantasy adventure vibes:

Hero and the Crown/The Blue Sword* (classic sword and sorcery fantasy, for DnD lovers and people who read Horse Girl Books as kids, General Audiences)

Silver Under Nightfall* (vampire couple teams up with vampire hunter to cure a magical plague, the polyamorous murder romance you need in your life, cw coercive assault and body horror, E for gore and numerous threesomes)

Heaven Official’s Blessing***** (translated Chinese novel, very old fallen god returns to Heaven and Does His Best, for those committed to a LONG book, currently on volume 8, T for violence)

Witch King (body hopping demon tries to solve his own murder with his found family in tow, perfect standalone book, T for violence)

Spicy magic systems:

The City We Became/The World We Made (sentient cities and extra dimensional invaders, for everyone who read a lot of Avengers In NYC fic back in 2012, cw racism and survival sex work, M for sex)

Gideon the Ninth/The Locked Tomb series***** (everyone knows about this series, it’s the one with the lesbian space necromancers, cw for just the craziest flavors of abuse, M for violence and cannibalism I guess, also fits the below category)

The Gilded Ones* (what if all the misogynists who said women were demons were absolutely correct, and it was fucking rad, cw for SO much sexism and also religious indoctrination, T for violence)

A Soul to Keep* et al (okay oKAY LOOK THIS IS MONSTERFUCKER CONTENT BUT I RECOMMEND IT, local cursed woman gets forced to marry a demon, they argue a lot and the sex scenes are REAL bizarre, cw kidnapping and the second book deals with a character coming out of a severe depression, HARD E for monsterfucking, obviously)

Interpersonal relationships that are just SO fucked up:

A Dowry of Blood (a letter from Dracula’s first wife to the man himself, cw domestic abuse, M for adult themes and sex)

Remnants of Filth/Yuwu* (translated Chinese novel, loyal general becomes the jailer for his traitorous ex-lover, cw slavery and discussion of sexual assault, E for sex)

The Salt Grows Heavy (homicidal Little Mermaid and plague doctor wander through an apocalypse together, actually read everything Cassandra Khaw has ever touched, the absolute pinnacle of horror, cw all her stuff for really creative violence and body horror, M for violence and gore)

Anyway if you have any other book recommendation questions and/or you read any of these and enjoy them, hit me up, recommending books to people is genuinely one of my great joys in life.

#Kencyrath #book rec #chronicles of the Kencyrath #hooooo boy howdy let’s get into these tags huh #the unbroken #the captive prince #a taste of gold and iron #October daye #the blue sword #silver under nightfall #heaven official’s blessing #tgcf #witch king #the city we became #the locked tomb #Gideon the ninth #the gilded ones #a soul to keep #a dowry of blood #remnants of filth #Yuwu #the salt grows heavy #cassandra khaw #listen i fucking L O V E recommending books #i AM the person who will ask what you like about your favorite books and recommend five things off the top of my head #i flatter myself I’m quite good at it #oh the other cassandra khaw book i recommend is hammers on bone #which is about an elder god working a day job as a private investigator #and has the vibe of a magnus archives Meat Episode(TM)#but that one doesn’t really fit the kencyrath tone except a couple niche scenes in the master’s house and jame’s nightmares

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kwc-reads · 8 months

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Scents + Stories: Part 1

(pairing books with fragrances that match their vibes)

I’ve been doing this series on my bookstagram where I pair the book I’ve just read with a fragrance from my collection (usually from alkemia perfumes) that best matches it’s atmosphere, themes, and overall vibes.

I also take requests if there’s a specific book you’d like me to find a matching scent for! I find it super fun to do 💕

#bookblr #booklr #bookish #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #scents and stories #perfume #fragrance #alkemia #alkemia perfumes #if we were villains #iwwv #what moves the dead #a dowry of blood #a lesson in vengeance #emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries #the grimoire of grave fates #in my dreams i hold a knife #together we rot

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skwadiya · 1 month

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संत रामपाल जी महाराज की दी गई शिक्षा से हो रहा है दहेज का खात्मा।

संत रामपाल जी महाराज का ज्ञान करेगा दहेज मुक्त भारत का निर्माण।

निर्धनता तथा समाज में फैली कुरीतियाँ जैसे दहेज प्रथा, विवाह पर अनाप-सनाप खर्च करना, मृत्यु भोज, बड़ी बारात आदि-आदि तथा अन्य बुराईयाँ जैसे नशा आदि-आदि के कारण निर्धन व्यक्ति कर्ज तथा गंभीर बीमारी से परेशान होकर तथा अपनी कन्याओं के विवाह व मँहगी पढ़ाई के कारण आत्महत्या तक परिस्थिति उत्पन्न हो जाती है।

इन सब परेशानियों का खात्मा संत रामपाल जी महाराज जी के सत्संग वचनों व सतभक्ति से ही हो सकता है। संत रामपाल जी महाराज जी ही दहेज मुक्त भारत का निर्माण कर रहे हैं।

#trueguru #santrampalji #santrampalji is trueguru #kabirisalmightygod #kabirissupremegod #allah is kabir #kabirisgod #spiritual quotes #satsang #dowryfreeindia #dowryfreemarriages #a dowry of blood #dowryfreeworld by saintrampalji #dowryfreesociety #marriage #love quotes #girls who like girls #beautiful women #women

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bones-clouds · 15 days

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best books i read in 2024:

"a dowry of blood" s. t. gibson

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

genre: gothic, vampire, horror, lgbt

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A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula’s brides, A DOWRY OF BLOOD is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation.

Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband’s dark secrets.

With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death.

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the-final-sentence · 8 months

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There will only be sweetness and kindheartedness, and a hundred years of bliss.

S.T. Gibson, from A Dowry of Blood

#A Dowry of Blood #S.T. Gibson

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sunswallowedsky · 2 months

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the prose in a dowry of blood is so brutally and hauntingly gothic, I’ve barely started reading but I’m already feeling so unhinged about it

#dani.txt #2024 reads #a dowry of blood

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saintmachina · 1 month

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I don't talk about Constanta's (A DOWRY OF BLOOD) faith much but it's a cornerstone of the text and I will never regret making an unapologetic vampire an unrepentant Catholic. She lives balanced on the knife's edge between good and evil, day and night, darkness and light, and she never once considers herself a contradiction.

Because no matter what state my belief is in, no matter if there are times when I cannot hold space for my own faith much less the faith of others, she can keep that candle burning. She believes even on days when I find it hard to.

#INCREDIBLY intimate and vulnerable post I can practically hear my industry friends furiously texting me to log off #but I mean this #a dowry of blood #obligatory disclaimer that I am not catholic and not trying to co-opt that for myself but Constanta is #I am an Episcopalian at present #theology #thoughts

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voicesfoundmysoul · 9 months

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#st gibson #book aesthetic #booktok #bookblr #fantasy #books #fantasy books #count dracula #draculas brides #a dowry of blood #vampire #stgibson

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