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I recently made an executive decision and, after far too long dithering over it, am declaring the ebook of AITNISTS complete. I'm allowing a few days for Patrons to let me know if there's a specific way they'd like to be thanked in the book, but then the ebook will be going up on Patreon for the subscribers who paid for early access to it. A week after that, it will be available to purchase both on Patreon and on a personal website.

(other platforms, including those involving the hard copy, will admittedly require more time and red tape)

In addition to that, I have written a new AITNISTS story as a thank you to those who have supported me for all this time. Unlike the other shorts, it will be available on Patreon to all paid tiers.

Poseidon drove Pasiphae mad and forced her to have sex with a bull, but it was 100% Minos's fault -- he's the one that was supposed to sacrifice that bull to Poseidon, and he's the one that decided not to do it. Pasiphae was cursed in order to hurt Minos, and in this play she is spitting mad that he intends to have her put to death for her actions when the whole damn thing was his doing.

I particularly love these sections here:

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(translation by P.T. Rourke)

Like of all of the lost Euripides plays we know of, this is the one that I'd love to have a full version of the most! We don't know whether Pasiphae managed to get away or not! We don't know if she lived or died! We don't know if she got to yell at Minos some more about being a giant dipshit!

Anyway, I really had these fragments in mind when I was writing AITNISTS. I only got to actually depict Pasiphae in one flashback from Asterion's POV, but I tried to remember her as the daughter of a god and a powerful sorceress in her own right.

New pinned post, and it's so I can point everyone toward my current writing project!

I am currently serializing And In The Night, I See The Stars, a m/m retelling of the minotaur, over on AO3.

The story is about 100k words long and is fully written. New chapters are posted every Wednesday.

(ETA: the story is now fully serialized on AO3)

There is a (somewhat academic) foreword that can be read on tumblr here. It is called "We Must Imagine The Minotaur Loved" and it talks briefly about Crete, Athens, the myth of the minotaur, the nature of mythologized history, and why Theseus will not be appearing in my version of the story.

That foreword is also available to all tiers (including free) via Patreon.

If you'd like to access chapters early, get writer commentary and background information on the history/mythology/art that inspired this story, and read additional stories that support the main fic on AO3, you can check out my Patreon.

I have also created a tumblr specifically dedicated to my original stories over here at @tellmeomuse. I will be crossposting most of those posts here, but if you'd simply like to follow the story and not my personal tumblr, you should follow that blog instead. That's where I will post updates, replies to asks, etc.

Finally, I always post using the tag #aitnists, so if you'd prefer to see fewer posts on this subject, please block that tag.

Thank you!

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So there's some fun news for AITNISTS. :)

I've been in talks with a friend of mine to discuss an illustrated version of AITNISTS. It won't be out for some time yet (an image-free version of both the ebook and print book will be released in the meantime) but... 👀 👀 👀 The art I've seen so far has been beautiful!

readers so far: