The King in Yellow is a fear god, but not in the sense that he is the custodian of fear, but rather that he embodies it. He is the fear of the inexplicable, of monsters and secret things, and the kind of choking fear that, instead of paralysing us into inaction, corrupts us into weird action, changing who we are and what we want from the world. The King in Yellow lives in Carcosa, a liminal world through which all travellers must pass if they want to get anywhere, and it is very difficult not to track his spores around with you. He inspires a lot of cult worship.
Lucite is a cultist of the King in Yellow, and is determined to bring about a more intimate merging of Carcosa with the world he lives in. He is a terrorist in a very literal sense: visiting human-dominated countries and scattering Carcosian spores about, enabling the collapse of various knots of people (it’s easier to exert influence over insular communities, such as rural villages, religious groups or rich suburbs). There are laws against the sort of thing Lucite does, but it’s difficult to find and arrest travelling monsters.
part of my 2017 series An Ode to Divine and Dirt. See the rest here. SHOP / KO-FI / INSTAGRAM
I’m having an absolutely phenomenal shocker of a day, getting hassled by transphobes as I try to do my job, and the main thing getting me through is that the crowdfunding for this book is nearly over (one day left!), and nearly 200% funded.
This is the most personal work I have ever shared, and my first ever fully original book, and the fact that it has been so successful and so loved means a great deal to me.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for supporting this project either through the crowdfunder or simply through reblogging and engaging with it. It all means so much and I am incredibly humbled and grateful for your generosity and kindness.
This is one of my favourite pairs of illustrations in the book.
fgs please let straight people have opposite sex friendships it’s really important that they have platonic opposite sex friendships without it being A Thing
No I’m serious
I think it’s instrumental in the damage patriarchy does to people of binary genders that all friendships between anyone who could conceivably be sexually attracted to each other are portrayed as inevitably romantic/sexual. Please write/read/headcanon bisexual & heterosexual people of differing genders as friends without explanation. Without excuse. Let “they’re friends” be enough. Let them have sexual relationships with people they’re attracted to without it being A Thing. Stop teaching straight people especially that every form of non familial relationship with other genders to themselves must automatically have a sexual undertone. It’s not fucking healthy for people to feel obligated to look for that or to always be excusing its absence.
Writers love the stories they’ve written sort of like children. They were created with love and each one has a special place in their heart. They’d very likely love to talk to you about their story or their writing in general whenever you happen to see it.
There’s really no time limit on giving your encouragement and support to your favorite writers.
–Mod M
Writers are sluts for their own stories. If we could sneak them into every conversation, we would. What happens behind the scenes of a written story is often just as crazy as the actual story, and yes, we all want to talk about it constantly. Readers reaching out is how I’ve met all of my fandom friends, so I say PM authors. Never hurts.
Dude, we leave the tumblr urls in our end notes precisely because we want you to come into our messages and squeal at us. No matter how long it’s been. No. Really. REALLY really. Really.
Really.
I have met some of my very greatest online friends (and some have become RL ones!) through fic comments. Please do this.
Oh HEY RL friend I met through fic comments. How you doin’?
Anon, I recently received Tumblr messages about the first fanfic I ever wrote, from like years and years ago, in a fandom I’m not super active in any more, and let me tell you I WAS THRILLED. It literally made my week.
Authors ALWAYS want to hear from you, I guarantee it. Even if we arent active in a fandom anymore, if we’ve left the fic up it means we still hope people will read and enjoy it. And most of the time, we are more than ready to jump back into fanning about said fandom with a new person even if we havent touched it in a while.
I promise.
^^^ This.
I guarantee you that the void which is my self esteem literally always wants to know that you enjoyed something i made, because “elicited an emotional response in another human being” is about the only metric of “do i actually exist” my bpd brain will accept, and iirc most people who make stuff have some degree of that. If i didn’t want people to comment i wouldn’t make shit available to them.
screaming into the void since '89 