For my wonderful following who began their journey with me by reading my first fic "you kissed the clown"; the most of you know I was inspired by my favourite childhood movie: The Court Jester.
Plot: A former carnival performer, Hubert Hawkins (Danny Kaye) and maid-captain Jean (Glynis Johns), are assigned to protect the infant royal heir from tyrannical King Roderick I (Cecil Parker).
While Jean takes the baby to an abbey, Hawkins gains access to the court by impersonating the king's jester, unaware that the jester is really an assassin hired by scheming Sir Ravenhurst (Basil Rathbone). When Princess Gwendolyn (Angela Lansbury), falls for Hawkins, a witch secretly aids him in becoming a knight.
Tropes: friends to lovers, failing forward, clueless blumbering idiot man x strong forward-thinking woman, hopeless romantic, witchcraft, humour, sword fighting.
Mid-writing, I expressed that I had the intention of getting a tattoo to express my love for the movie, and my love the pitiful black-fox jester played by Danny Kaye.
This was the clip I showed my beautiful artist (who is a one-piece fan), and he interpreted it so wonderfully.
It's still very raw and it'll soften a touch over time, but I adore it 馃ス. It looks like a d&d module, and I love it.
He also tattooed me beneath an emotional support Luffy, so that was beautiful.
Happy New Year 馃枻
@writingmysanity @sordidmusings @feral-artistry @since-im-already-here @gingernut1314 @empressofmankind @tiredemomama @i-am-vita @hazzyking here it is!
A big experimental and ambitious piece from Furnal Equinox this year, my very first try at a kitsune, and honestly, I'm very happy with how this turned out! I went with seven tails, but I feel like I could pull off nine now, if I gave it a go!
Quick research taught me black kitsunes were good little friends, and seven tails is a common depiction. Since seven is my lucky number, I opted for that, and added some glowing foxfire for fun. Foxfire seems like it was more of a mischievous trait, but let's say this one used it to help and guide. :)
This helpful friend found a home, but if you'd like a beast, please check out Bittythings and Beasts.
The poor mother moaned and stammered mindlessly. Ever since staring into the stranger鈥檚 pendant and watching it swing back and forth, she found it so hard to think. She had been unable to say anything as he walked into her shop and began swinging the pendant before her. She was powerless to resist as he stripped her and wrapped her in the soft thick black fox coat. It had become so hard to think of anything: her job, her life, even her children. No, all that mattered now was the rich, soothing voice of her new master, as he instructed her to forget, to sink, to submit, to sleep. A soft whimper escaped her lips and her eyes drifted shut as she sank into the soft black fox wrapped about her.
This is like the rolequeer version of that "I'm the priest's favorite sacrificial lamb" post.
Somebody once commented that part of the intended horror of A Shadow Over Innsmouth was precisely that the freaky human/fish-person sex was mutually consensual (I'd say they were probably right concerning author's intent; I can see this tendency in Lovecraft very clearly in Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family). This reminds me of that in an interesting way. The black fox suggests replacing a unilaterally imposed non-consensual and often lethal relationship with a mutually consensual relationship in which something that the hunter can't truly kill or seriously hurt absorbs the hunter's violence, and we're supposed to find that scary. Taken at face value, this Devil is a surprisingly altruistic and weirdly Christ-like figure, basically offering to suffer and be killed over and over for the benefit of another.
I mean, it's the Devil, so plausibly there's fine print they're not telling us about, but that's kind of the point, isn't it? Contractualism is a kind of social code; to accept a contract is to acknowledge another being as something like a social person, and a social person can have social rights, including a right to reciprocity. To make an implicit contract with the Devil-fox is potentially to accept an implicit debt to it. Much safer to just kill a dumb normal fox.
Interesting guy from Foxcraft book three! I know he's described as pure black (possibly with a white tail tip?) but I like the idea of him having some more white and darker paws.