Y E S, I love it when it’s farther back on his head, it’s very dragonlike then! He has that otherworldly sort of grace and calm to him.

@anhaga said: WWX definitely phoenix! JGY is a sphinx.

Oooooo sphinx, I love it! Pretty, speaks in riddles, will definitely eat you if you fuck up...

@phaethondios said: LWJ as a dragon and WWX as a phoenix, maybe? To fit the folk tale (except it'd probably fit better if which one is yin and which one is yang were reversed sdfhjdkdlk)

And there is the japanese raiju, which is a creature that often has the form of a dog or a wolf, only its body is made of lighting, so it fits JC really well sdfhjdkdlklklsksl

NMJ is uh a gargoyle

JGY could be a kitsune? Idk

This is all I can think of at the moment sdfhjdkdlklklsksl

:O I’ve never heard of that folk tale but I love that it fits them!! 

HOLY SHIT YES A RAIJU FOR JC! I haven’t heard of them before but FUCK yes

Awww, I like NMJ as a gargoyle--used to frighten away evil! Very on brand with his Clan’s aesthetic

DW: Thank you so much! I’m so glad you loved it! It was a lot of fun to write, and I do have a soft spot for Min, that snarky asshole! 

#I ALSO WANNA LOOK LIKE THIS

Like normally I’m 100% into high femme fashion but men’s clothing of this era was SUPER AMAZING and I am INTO IT

I mean the real solution to this would be to find someone to make men’s clothing for so we could go as a matched couple

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Hahaha…..so this is long but…..Once Upon a Time….

I met my bff in high school,she turned me into anime trash, and Utena was our absolute favorite series. Our senior year the movie was announced AND Anime Central had Ikuhara and Saito as guests. WE WERE PUMPED. We made costumes, somehow convinced our parents to let us go, and toddled off to the con.

We weren’t big name fans but the bff was friends with a bunch of them…..which was fortuitous because one of them was working the panel with Ikuhara and Saito. She arranged for us to meet them after. We got dolled up in our costumes and went. During the panel Saito said something like she designed characters who had great legs or only people who had great legs looked good in her costumes. she turned to us and smiled while the translator did their thing. It was super flattering.

Later, like three years down the road, the bff emails Ikuhara …..I can’t remember why or how, but he responds and they chat. When she went to study in Japan they met up once or twice…..we both THINK they were dates but he’s a weird dude so who knows. I prefer to think they were because her description of them was kinda hilarious. Their email correspondence was great too.

DW: Well, I hope you enjoy it whoever wrote it! 

And yes, Anhaga is out on the 23rd. And it’s technically the 23rd here in Australia, but it’s still the 22nd in the US, so I have no idea at exactly what time it will be available everywhere! 

At the moment I’m working on the third Dark Space book to end that series. Shit just got really weird, NGL. So hopefully I’ll get that out sometime this year–it’s self-published, so the schedule is entirely dependant on whether or not I get my arse into gear and finish the damn thing! 

On my list after that will be the third Emergency Services book, which I keep stopping and starting and for some reason changing where it’s set. I really gotta pin that down, lol! 

And I’m doing this while fighting off an unexpected attack from some steampunk plot bunnies that keep screaming ideas for a trilogy at me. Those bastards! 

But the next official thing is out on July 23, of course, with this: 

Aramin Decourcey—Min to his few friends—might be the best thief in Amberwich, and he might have a secret that helps him survive the cutthroat world of aristocratic families and their powerful magic users, but he does have one weakness: his affection for his adopted nephew, Harry.

When the formidable Sabadine family curses Harry, Min must accept a suicide mission to save his life: retrieve Kazimir Stone, a low-level Sabadine hedgewitch who refuses to come home after completing his apprenticeship… and who is in Anhaga, a seaside village under the control of the terrifying Hidden Lord of the fae. If that wasn’t enough, Kaz is far from the simple hedgewitch he seems.

With the Sabadines on one side and the fae on the other, Min doesn’t have time to deal with a crisis of conscience—or the growing attraction between him and Kaz. He needs to get Kaz back to Amberwich and get Harry’s curse lifted before it kills him. Saving Harry means handing Kaz over to his ruthless family. Saving Kaz means letting Harry die. Min might pride himself on his cleverness, but he can’t see his way out of this one.

The Hidden Lord might see that he never gets the choice.