Glory in the Thunder

Yeah so I did kind of fall way behind in my creative work because of something catastrophic that happened in my family utterly derailing me for a year or two. That said:

I've been converting the story into a visual novel type experience with pixel graphics. This is something I've experimented before but I wasn't happy with the results; this time I'm much happier.

The complete epub/pdfs of everything I ever previously finished (or finished-ish, as I think book 3 still needs more editing) is in this google folder and nowhere else. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JyW4XF1tQMyrhWRc7obfq7U3SMPp6AFx?usp=sharing

closing out Pride by reposting this art of twelve canonically, explicitly and unambiguously queer characters from Glory in the Thunder, plus however you want to categorize a sexless artificial murder-construct (aroace fempunk?)

it turns out... tumblr still exists??? 

yeah so after letting volume 3 sit around for a year while I generally went about my life being An Adult With A Job In A New Country after several years of Not That, I’m posting all of Glory in the Thunder as a web serial on wattpad with a bunch of bonus sketches, author comments, JRPG PIXEL ART CUTSCENES and chiptunes

So I knocked out a short novel (under 100 pages) set in approximately the real world. It deals with themes of queerness, religious fundamentalism, the cost of internet celebrity, and how the Devil is just like, really hot.

It stars Bethlehem and Sammers, who you may be familiar with from MGLIAD, and a new little friend named Sanguine. How does this story interact with the lore of MGLIAD?: uhh, super do not think too hard about that. It’s written in a much more casual style than my fantasy novels, closer to how I tweet.

This story contains violence, sexual themes, and basically everything else you might want a content warning for. It is not fluffy.

Read in Google Docs (no download needed) here Download PDF here

After LITERALLY YEARS of very slow progress due to my health problems, Aspects of the Divinity, Book One: Glory in the Thunder revised edition and Aspects of the Divinity, Book Two: Resplendent in the Sky are finished, done, and OUT. Right now they are only available as direct download from my cloud storage, because if I wait until I have the energy to upload to other distribution services then it will just never happen. Yes, they’re free! More on why they’re free down below.

Download - Google Drive Download - Dropbox

(The PDF is formatted as a printed book. .mobi format is for Kindle. .epub format is for iBooks and most other readers that aren’t Kindle.)

Aspects of the Divinity is my life project, a story about queerness and mental illness set in a fantasy version of the Silk Road. The road’s cultures worship a handful of people who are bound to powers cleaved from the Will of the World. The combined length of the first two books is well over a thousand pages, and I still have more books to write.

As you might guess, I myself am both queer and mentally ill. I finished the first edition of Glory in the Thunder in 2013 when I was still barely healthy enough to hold down a job, but since 2015 I have been on disability. Disability payments have kept me alive and I have worked on my writing when I am able; I often go weeks or months at a time unable to write a single word. I’m in no shape to hold down an aggressive schedule and I don’t know how long the third book will take, but if I got through this then I can get through the next book. This is all to say that the books are free because they’re something I’ve done for myself at my own pace while I am healing. 

Anyway, if you like the idea of a gay princess and her lady knight, or a sweet rural boy being entangled in the affairs of a beautiful but distrusting nobleman, or old people that are really explicitly canonically queer, or angry women in general, have I got the story for you!

Content warnings: The age rating is teen. There are no sex scenes. There are violent scenes. The narrative occasionally touches on the subject of suicide, especially in the second book. The font used in the PDF is IM Fell Great Primer. I think that’s everything.

Download - Google Drive Download - Dropbox

Oh yeah, the rest of the pages on this tumblr site need to be updated, but it can wait. Only use links in this post for now.

So I might actually release that book I theoretically finished last March pretty soon, I guess!

I’m trying to guess if this is an anonymous confession of someone from twitter or like, some sort of positivity bot that crawls tumblr (which would be *extremely* tumblr)

I did it. I did it!

I finally remembered to post this comic I drew like a month ago, which is a sneeeeaaaak preview of Rashk’s ultimate origin story. I hope Keromeir will be okay D: (If you are viewing this on-site rather than on-dashboard, click on the first page to open the gallery)

New reader? Get your magical teens who are frequently gay here I guess

Fan art of Tsovinar and Keromeir by @lizcoshow!!! Wow!!!  !!!!!