All The Songs Make Sense

I started the first Toby book when I was eighteen.  It was a different world, to put it kindly.  Even as recently as 2008, when I actually sold that first book, it was a different world; I doubt I could have sold the series had Toby been a lesbian, for example (which is part of why it took so long for visible queer rep to appear on-page, despite me having been the writer from day one).

And eighteen-year-old me thought the folklore kitchen sink approach was fine and dandy!  Which is why there are some yokai-derived fae that show up as far back as book one.  I’ve had to do a lot of after-the-fact tapdancing and scrambling around to not have that become a piece of proof that I’m an asshole.  I’m just lucky that while I had a few friends who were obsessive enough about Japanese mythology that I had been exposed to it enough to incorporate it back then, I didn’t have anyone accidentally showing me the way to the Primrose Path of Showing Everyone Your Ass.  If I were starting the series now, I wouldn’t make the “everyone is descended from the Three” decision quite so absolute, not because I want to cherry-pick other cultures for their Hidden People, but because I accidentally created an inherently white world.  I didn’t mean to.  By the time I understood the consequences of my choices well enough to want to choose differently, it was too late, and attempts to change things would be clearly pasted on.

And seemingly the daughter of Talrand as well, how cool!

I am not allowed to talk about most things relating to the book (yet), but I can confirm that I was the one who selected Alandra! @vorthosjay and I brainstormed for legacy characters of roughly the right age who might get recruited after the Omenpaths opened, and she was my first pick.

One of the things from the books I thought about a lot was the fairy ointment that helps changelings see fairy magic ((seeing through disguises, being able to see the entrance to a knowe, etc))

Lately, I've been wearing glitter around my eyes every day and calling it my "fairy ointment" so I can see the magic in my day a little easier. (I wear glitter regularly, it's just been genuinely daily now)

Lo, and behold - I can see my beautiful Wy'East mountain every day on either direction, the prismatic colors in the sunrise, the magic in the mist driving through the fog into the West hills.

It's pretty great ✨

#every bisexual woman in a relationship with a man ever

anyway. idk when i'll be able to get the rest of the series but. i'm hooked now. good job 👍🏼 keep it up

A Crown of Candy - "Blood & Bread"

MORE RUEHOB, I SAY.

(@dimension20official , @dropoutdottv , of "A Court of Fey & Flowers," of course.)

Knocked this out for stress relief in between other very important tasks for a very important project. Still not over them (THEY GET TO HUG WHENEVER THEY WANT NOW. THEY GET TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT NOW!!).

Also, feel like this is probably at least a decade into their marriage. Babes 🥰

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I wrote a thing!!!

"The First Days, After" (A RueHob continuation, from “Dimension 20: A Court of Fey & Flowers.” Part one of “Real Wonder, True Rumpus.”)

Recently united in truth, love, and betrothal, courtless Archfey KP Hob and Delloso de la Rue run away together into the greater Feyrie realm, settling into a new rhythm as lovers and facing certain looming loose ends...