i feel happy, i feel healthy, im a meat worm

know the difference, it could save you life. from me. no genuinely guys im sick of it i will skin the next person to tag them incorrectly

hello! this is my intro post! i am the baleful meat worm! i will also respond to worm, porridge and sludge, as well as my human names marten and sorrel :) which i also like to be called!! there is another but it's secret!!!

any pronouns are fine really but i prefer it/its!!

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lakesludge on art fight

kippersnackie on ao3

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things i'm working on!

verdigris compendium - a weird-fiction work about a city meeting its god, in the form of a primordial and parasitic microorganism that finds us just as alien as we find it. a lot of body horror, existential philosophy, water-based metaphors, speculative biology, and one very poorly detective named kip

dog dog heron - or the misadventures of such. in a small and wet country town, three teenage girls (an ecology nerd, an amateur ghost hunter, and a ghost inhabiting her own decayed body) solve a murder and then seek vengeance on the man responsible. there is also a weird house, a lot of dogs, and lot of worms, meat in the walls, hair in the sink, and someone coughing up teeth

lambstooth - the love story between a varmint and her hunter. dog-girl and girl-dog. feral and hound. contains werewolves, dubious apothecaries, the nature of sickness, and a lot of blood. oh! and a miserable prematurely greying man who is the worst

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some facts about me?

i am a repulsed asexual, so no freaky talk around me please! i do not like it at all.

i am an avid enjoyer of speculative biology/astrobiology, vulture culture, body horror, and trinket collection. i am attempting to learn banjo and also ceramics :) oh and i draw. and write!

i am scared all the time. no, really. i am

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media i like? the magnus archives, southern reach, look outside, wellington paranormal, i am in eskew (still listening to this one!)

musical artists/groups i like? fiona apple, bats, garbage, kiltro, poe, bendigo fletcher, marika hackman, aliceband, yaelokre, the mechanisms now too i suppose (curse you all)

favourite tea? rosemary and ginger, with a bit of honey

top 3 things that scare me? leeches, the smell of chamomile, tight spaces

number of teeth? ever-changing

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"meat worm! i found someone reposted your art!" did they credit me? if so, i don't mind. if not, be upon them like a swarm of flies

"do you do commissions?" not at the moment

"why haven't you answered my ask [yet] :(?" i get a lot of asks and do not have the mental strength to respond to them all - i do read them though and appreciate them a lot!!! i really like receiving asks (especially ones that are really specific) and i will do my best :]

"can you tell me more about yourself?" no :)

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any posts about my very unserious magnus archives au, by the way, in case anyone's interested:

("something weird" might be the neighbors, but yknow-)

Idk what to do with this thought, so its yours now /lh

depends what you mean

i'm certainly not comfortable with anything directly derivative of existing religious works, or with representations of my characters as existing religious figures. aside form the obvious reasons, this is also due to my reservations about the treatment of gender and biology by many belief systems and the fact that my stories (VC and lambstooth especially) are utterly rooted in gender theory and tackle culture's treatment of non-male physiology.

so! it would fiercely depend on the religion that one was taking artistic inspiration from and i dont really want to take chances by being unclear. of course, "religion" as a concept does exist to a point within my stories and so i am okay with incredibly vague or general inspiration being taken from real-world styles used in religious art (ie. manuscript illustrations, mosaic, etc).

so short answer:

current real-world religions: no