This is Melinda choosing murder violence after seeing her love get hurt and you can't convince me otherwise.

The clouds overhead are purple in their heart, but soaked in brilliant sunshine from the west. There will be a storm soon. I find myself idly looking forward to this: autumn thunderstorms have always been a delight.

Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman

“Bone Thief” (2015), A fox steals a bone from its former owner in a graveyard in order to perform its Kitsune magic and become human.

This piece was loosely inspired by the book “The Fox Woman” by Kij Johnson, one of my favorites to read and re-read regularly.

This piece was created in watercolor and colored pencil and recently sold.

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Kij Johnson’s ‘The Fox Woman’ is a gripping novel of magical realism and fairytale, set in the backdrop of Japan’s Heian period. It tells the story of Kaya no Yoshifuji – a lord who falls in love with a beautiful woman only to later discover that she was a fox in disguise.

Tales of foxes transforming into humans to trick unsuspecting people are common in Japan and East Asia. It is said that as the fox grows older, they gain more tails and greater abilities until they are at their most powerful, with nine tails. In Japan, these foxes are called Kitsune, in China, Huli Jing, and in Korea, Kumiho. These foxes may transform into humans for many reasons, to steal from them, to eat them, or, as in the case of ‘The Fox Woman,’ to seduce them.

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Title: Love/War/Death

Author: Kij Johnson

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2000

Genres: fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, romance, mythology

Blurb: Yoshifuji is a man fascinated by foxes, a man discontented and troubled by the meaning of life. A misstep at court forces him to retire to his long-deserted country estate to rethink his plans and contemplate the next move that might return him to favour and guarantee his family’s prosperity. Kitsune is a young fox who is fascinated by the large creatures that have suddenly invaded her world. She is drawn to them and to Yoshifuji; she comes to love him, and will do anything to become a human woman to be with him. Shikujo is Yoshifuji’s wife, ashamed of her husband, yet in love with him and uncertain of her role in his world. She is confused by his fascination with the creatures of the wood, and especially the foxes that she knows in her heart are harbingers of danger. She sees him slipping away, and is determined to win him back from the wild...for all that she has her own fox-related secret. Magic binds them all; and in the making (and breaking) of oaths and honours, the patterns of their lives will be changed forever.

People loooove complex characters until they’re women

DC Super-Heroes by Simone Di Meo.

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i love the way that they love

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Wait, wait, wait, wait!!! I think I got it!

Melinda is an Apocalypse Maiden, an incredibly powerful being whose powers have the potential to end all life as we know it!!

That's why Morgan wanted to take her magic away from her, to save her daughter from whatever terrible fate awaited her and humanity. I'm going to hazard a guess and say Merlin kept their daughter's powers a secret from her in order to prevent that, either because he wanted to study and learn about Melinda's magic with the intention of learning to control it for their daughter's sake...or because he wants to control it, control her, for his own nefarious plans. After all, he did say it was the most powerful magic in the universe.

(Let's not forget how Merlin appears in the enemy's section of the show's banner)

Morgan even treated Melinda's magic as its own entity, rather than an extension of her daughter. And the way the magic resisted Morgan's attack is more reminiscent of a demonic possession rather than Melinda knowingly doing the resisting.

And let's not forget how it literally possessed Morgan.

Judging by how the Evil lamented at the beginning of the episode how Melinda only grows stronger, I'd dare say her goal isn't so much destroying the heroes, as it is ensuring whatever is behind Melinda's magic doesn't have another chance to come back and be set free. Because if the same thing capable of vaporising a zombie elephant, flattening a whole square, summoning a kraken and then single-handedly tearing that same kraken to shreds ever got loose...

Then it would take far more than just a quartet of heroes to save humanity.

I say this and it is short and sharp, without elegance, like a bark; but I have no idea how else to start. I am only a fox: I have no elegances of language.

Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman

I’m sorry neurotypical people just don’t sit like this

If Buck gets yet another random-rescued-woman love interest arc™️ I might have to retire guys

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Me - Kira