*helicopter whirring*

AAAAAA SO!!!! I might have accidentally ended up rereading Tenfold which led me to lose my mind for like a week If you've read my fic rec post you'll know Tenfold by @dgalerab is probably my favorite bsd fic so far. I never got around drawing for it because the themes and tone are pretty dark and heavy and I wasn't really sure how to tackle it without forcing it. But reading it again.... maybe it's because now I already knew what to expect, but I felt super inspired this time around. I love drawing for fics I like and I'm so so happy it finally happened for Tenfold. I have two additional scenes: - one here (explicit, so bsky it is) - another one that will be under a cut just to be sure. not an actual scene from the fic, just a visual I had been thinking about for a while. warning for blood and generally darker tone:

when i go, i hope to go just as beautifully

retribution for the dead

chapter seven

Atsushi tries to shake off his unnerving night through a haze of adrenaline and racing. It goes worse than he anticipated. Everything goes worse than he's anticipating.

on the planet Gethen, everyone is both biologically and socially androgynous for 21-22 days out of a 26 day cycle. on those other days, you go into kemmer. If you go into kemmer by yourself, nothing really happens except you go horny-nuts. however! if you're with someone else who is in kemmer, one of you will become male and one of your will become female, and you spend the rest of the time fucking respectfully, because this is an Ursula K. LeGuin book. There is no real rhyme or reason to which gender you become--it can vary from kemmer to kemmer. If you get pregnant, you stay female through the pregnancy and nursing; otherwise you go back to being gender-neutral for the rest of the month. You can get married (vow kemmer) and always do this with the same person, but there are canonically also fuck hotels where you go have orgies with whoever else is hot to go, if that's what you're into. lineage is traced down through babies that came out of your own body.