Pink Haired Woman Supremacy.

Not Pictured: Acid Jail.

More TLT Doodles! Done with @carnivalien! Featuring Nona and Pal (+ Cam in the Soul Bubble) and Mercymorn doing some really deep introspection.

1. The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time. 5k. It's short, it's the very first thing she published, it's sweet, you can think CamPal thoughts while you read it.

2. The Magician's Apprentice. 4.8k. Let's get into it. Simply one of the best things she's written, has all sorts of echoes for the Locked Tomb and altogether a barn burner. (tw: grooming)

3. Chew. 3.7k. Zombie fiction set in WWII. (tw: sexual assault)

4. Union. 5.5k. I love Union and think it doesn't get enough hype. Deeply, deeply Kiwi and also quite unsettling. A great follow-up to Nona.

5. Princess Floralinda and The Forty Flight Tower. 216 pages. A novella, get it from your library or as an ebook, alternatively, Moira Quirk does a great job with the audiobook. This is a fairy tale satire, as pointed and black-hearted as you can imagine. A main course & a must-read.

6. The Woman in the Hill. 3.9k. I'll be honest, I think this one is skippable, but then you can say you've read them all. Lovecraftian horror, told in an epistolary format between settlers in the New Zealand bush.

7. Undercover. 59 pages. Plop your money down (or find a pirated version), it's worth every penny. A undercover cop risks her life to investigate rumors of a ghoul in a gangster's speakeasy. Blood, devotion, deceit--everything you could want in a TMuir story.

8. The Deepwater Bride (links) Dessert. Available through hoopla, your local library or several ebook anthologies. Teen Hester Blake, from a family of seers, determines that blonde, Converse-clad Rainbow Kipley is destined to be the bride of an uncanny god. 22 pages and it'll change your life.

One flesh, One end

“You're leaving and my dreams go with you

You'll forget me, you'll forget me

I know I'm going to lose a great lover and a good friend

Tell me then, how will I be

Without you?

Without you”

- Eu Sem Você (Por Que Te Vas) by Lilian (English translation)

He taught her to cook. She fawned over him and played teacher's pet and whatever else to endear herself and it absolutely was the typical Third social maneuvering to gain a stronger ally but she also genuinely found his stories fascinating, and tells Harrow that part when he's not around too. They just have a similar blend of fancy bullshit and mean blasé humor. She's the first to jump in behind him critiquing Mercy's art. She takes up smoking because she think he looks so cool.

He still wants to involve her in the fight but let her stay back safer away from the stoma at the end and Mercy accuses him of swaddling her like a squalling baby.

His brother was his other half and from the sound of it might have been a lot like Corona. (The peacemaker, the diplomat urging everyone at Canaan to stay united, useless but a darling (and actually very useful), a great big bimbo (smarter than she lets on), the banker, the woman accused of selling her birthright for economics. Guy who killed himself to force Lyctorhood, girl who apparently threatened suicide to coerce Ianthe their whole lives.) Augustine is what her Bad Ending looks like.

How many traded stories were just about their siblings? "You should see my sister." "You always say that."

She kicks him into the stoma and saves John but if she hadn't it might have killed her twin too and I really have to imagine he'd be disappointed but Get It. And then she still speaks highly of him. She emphasizes his power to Pal in TUG. She quotes "poor old Augustine" unprompted in NtN.

2023 alectopause: you know it's ok we can wait. i got some fics to write

2024 alectopause: here is 30,000 words on how john's characterization as emperor and lyctorhood interplays with colonialism, imperialism, sexual assault, and misogyny, featuring a full bibliography, a reading list, and peer reviewed by three mutuals

2025 alectopause: gideon would not fucking say that

this project is definitely taking a toll on me, I’m not even sure if I like it anymore lol. But well, this turned out pretty good I think

Also can you spot the text on the water

also I’m turning 20 today that’s wild