They Also Call Me Spiders

Blacklist and Personal Tags:

#important - catch-all politics & current events tag.

#this is cassandra - talks tag. From the song by Talis Kimberley.

#sadismposting, #the intersection where the bodies meet - horny violence babyyyy! Largely defunct as I work through some stuff.

#something rotten in the house - incest, haunted houses, and greek tragedy.

#torture - Torture, trauma theory, and solitary confinement.

#echo's book club - books I've been reading!

#echoes of the past - don't worry about this one.

I can be rather inconsistent when tagging!

Interests:

Opera - #opera tag

Fashion and textile arts, focused historical techniques & materials. I’ve knitted hand warmers from yarn I cleaned, carded, and spun myself! - #textile, #move the sheep and the fences around, #clothing

Sub-Saharan African mythology & cultures, for nostalgia reasons. May rarely post in Kiswahili. - #africa

Farming, homesteading, animal husbandry, etc. No tag. Lots of chickens.

Feminism and transfeminism! No tag. Heads up: TME/TMA is not useful for the kinds of discussions I'm interested in, and I find the terminology personally upsetting; no disdain if you use them, but I will not. I use transfem/not-transfem.

Spiders - #spiders

World mythology, media analysis, meta narrative. Enemies to lovers, too; if the Epic of Gilgamesh did it, I can put it here. #can’t argue with a monomyth, #enemies with benefits, #stories

Character tags: #gawainposting, #gearposting, #ishtarposting, #xipe totec posting, #zoraposting

Misc: #heave ho bitches, #knightposting, #labyrinth, #the mask, #the body, #unified tag for posts like this, #unicorn

Fandoms & medias & sideblogs & such

No Evil (@f-yeah-no-evil)

Abzu, Journey, Sky cotl (@starsfallhome)

Hollow Knight (@bobbinbugs)

Kiwi Blitz (@normalkiwiblitz)

Project Hail Mary (@shitty-eridians)

Books: House of Leaves, The Left Hand Of Darkness, Piranesi, [quite literally everything by Borges], The Last Unicorn

Animations & Animes: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Dungeon Meshi, Blue Eye Samurai, Arcane (loved s1, s2 critical), Epithet Erased, Witch Hat Atelier, Princess Tutu + princess tutu abridged (what I initially started this blog for!), Lego Monkie Kid

Video Games: Death Palette, Outer Wilds, Portal 1 & 2, Ultrakill, Hatoful Boyfriend, Hades, Blue Prince

Podcasts: Mabel, The Silt Verses

Paul Shapera (no longer following but soft spot for older works)

Medieval literature

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Inanna's Descent Into the Underworld, various mesopotamian stone tablets (Agushaya Hymn my beloved)

Original Stories and Characters

Desiree: Horror. A woman escapes to an abandoned lighthouse after killing and eating the woman she lusts after, to her considerable psychological detriment. There are no rats on Bishop's Point, but the ghost is very real. Short story, final draft

Taffeta/The Perfect Machine: Mecha, adventure. Hobbyist mecha battler breaks into a private military org, trying to steal back a peer's design... and gets more than she bargained for when she runs into Taffeta, the nation's only biomecha unit. Planned as 50-page comic/may have a novelization, first draft

Starving Season/Crow & Kipepeo: Urban fantasy. During an unusually brutal dry season, a shapeshifting crow-woman 'seduces' a young man into transitioning. Now a young woman, Namirembe must navigate a new identity, sexual & magical awakenings, and her own self-loathing in a country that's Actively Trying To Kill Her. Nagawonyi, goddess of hunger, is also there. Illustrated novella, concept stage

Narcissus and No One: Mystery. A man escapes to a lovely chateau the countryside, but starts hearing a voice that repeats the last word or syllable he spoke. To get to the bottom of this, he must face three reflections (entry room, bathroom, bedroom/id, ego, superego). Video game, concept stage

Outsides-In: Horror. After failing in her performance as a 'living statue,' a girl who gave up her name, memory, and literal heart crawls through the tunnels of the underground, trying to find her way back to herself. Features autocannibalism. Originally a "human-in-Hallownest but played for horror" concept, hence the name. Needs reworking, concept stage

Eremai: Girl with a generational curse, passed down from mother to daughter, is destined to burn down everything she loves at random intervals. She is a constant runaway who tries on new personalities like hats. Originally an Aurora (Webcomic) OC, but I've cut ties with the fandom. No rework planned, but I tag for her sometimes.