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cityandthebeast · 2 months

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This is a super belated Birthday gift to @zlukaka, featuring Shaazgai - one of my favourite characters from her and @luffik 's novel City and the Beast. Saying I adore him is an understatement. Also he is a walking red flag. But then again red is my favourite colour.... Find out more under @cityandthebeast Also I might or might not have been obsessed with Barbie when I started - so I do have an excuse for all that pink.

#still speechless about how awesome this is #thank you so much #truly amazing #Shaazgai #he rocks even pink :D

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cityandthebeast · 2 months

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Happy Birthday @luffik <3 I am so grateful to have the honor of knowing you! Have a small silly comic to celebrate the occasion! (And the wild highways in Germany.) Ahriman would make the perfect chaotic defense lawyer! All the characters belong to @cityandthebeast - a interesting novel by @zlukaka and @luffik

#good news is Book 2 and Ahriman's and Ormazd's sidestories are all written #bad news is we're writing Book 3 so things will still take a while XDD #one day we will have a loooot of things to post #meanwhile we reblog this gorgeous fanart!#and if someone wants to read what we got before it's posted you can just message us #Shaazgai #Ahriman #Ormazd #thank you so much for this amazing art <333

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cityandthebeast · 2 months

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My Christmas gift to lovely @zlukaka and @luffik with the best wishes 🎁❤️

Father Ivers and Yen are characters from Zlukaka & Luffik's City and the Beast

#eyyy we haven't logged in here for a while but now that we did gotta reblog the beautiful art we were given <333 #thank you so much again #absolutely fantastic #Blaze #Father Ivers

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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Happy belated birthday to @luffik. I will always be so honored to have made your acquaintance. You are the best! This comic is about two characters that appear in @cityandthebeast, but by now have their own gay side-story nearly finished. Ahriman and Ormazd start out as something akin to enemies. Intertwined with mythology, both of them have their own agenda and pretty opposite characters. One of them is an annoying pest and the other has a stick up his arse (in the eyes of the other). So how did things get like this? I’m sure @zlukaka or @luffik would share some details. You could also check out the first book of their series City and the Beast, which is available for free (link on @cityandthebeast ).

#we can't get over this comic XD #it's so fantastic #and we would have never brought this joke to life probably #and now its out there in the best way possible XD #thank you!#And yep this year should bring a lot of updates to the website - Book 2 #and the side stories #including this one #Shaazgai would sure have a fit if he realized what his Master has been up to :P

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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My best wishes to @luffik and @zlukaka, you are both awesome artist and great friends! ❤ Here my little present for you both. the picture of Hector Junior Zack Viteri, the Saint ot Losers… or at least one named Ocher :D :D

Zack is part of Luffik & Zlukaka’s original story known as City and the Beast, that may be read for free here

#this is such a beautiful beautiful gift #thank you so much #he looks so cool #the idea is awesome #and the colors and art are just wow X333 #thank you so much!!!!#Zack #Hector Jr

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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Otterly adorable. Local gang of otters help evil deity meditate with a secret technique. Stone-massage - truly an otterworldly experience. Chaotic gods love it! You otter try it out if you wanna attain otternal life! So that is basically one of my favourite parts of a side-story of @cityandthebeast Thanks to @luffik and @zlukaka for already sharing it with me!

#you are such an otter delight of a reader :D #this is beyond amazing #thank you thank you thank you #and for other readers #this side story is about Ahriman (Shaazgai's boss)#and his opposition the persian god Ormazd #and will be available sometime next year when we finish it #otters are holy in Zoroastrianism #therefore they thwart Ahriman whenever he approaches :P #Mr A likes it though

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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Nakhti (Erro) and Shaazgai drawn for us by the amazing hyacinthoignis! <3

If you’re just seeing our posts for the first time ever, these characters are related to our City and the Beast that you can read for absolutely free at sharadrass.com or on AO3 (if you do, please please tell us :3)

Specifically this incarnation of Shaazgai is going to be featured in Book 2 that we’re currently writing, where you will also find out why this expression is ideal for Erro XD

If you think you’d like to start with something shorter, you can read High Priests of America on AO3>>, a story about an old tired god who meets a stabby servant of the competition from across the seas.

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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Two of my favourite characters from @cityandthebeast. I have no idea whether I already posted it or didn’t. It didn’t appear in my archive, so I guess I must have forgotten it. You can read the side-story of these two on the website where you can also read City and the Beast. And this is the Venice ending I would have loved to have. *sigh* The drawing was made to celebrate a very special day for @zlukaka and @luffik. May you two always be happy and creative ❤

#gorgeous fanart for High Priests of America X3 #thank you sooooo much #Blaze #Shaazgai

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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Beautiful Gangnam Style re-enactment with Shaazgai and Blaze by @crono8, posted with her permission so that everyone may enjoy this as much as we did! XD

#thank you so much once again #this is so hilarious XDDD #and amazing #and their expressions are perfect #Shaazgai #Blaze #Blaise Ivers

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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Birthday art I drew for @zlukaka

If you are like me and love problematic assholes in literature, Shaazgai is the piece of art you might be searching for. (Slight spoiler: This is actually just one of his many reincarnations. And since this was the first I got to know, this one will always have a special place in my heart). If you want to learn more, check out: @cityandthebeast. You can read the novel for free.

#absolutely gorgeous Shaazgai with the mongolian magpie - the bird that is the origin of his name #both paintings are absolutely amazing but he is the true piece of art in his art gallery yes #Shaazgai

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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Do I ever draw serious drawings of City and the Beast? Maybe. But I do love do overexaggerate certain character traits. And Yen just has the best potential. If he were to meet a certain angel… let’s say he would be annoying as hell. Sadly that never happened in the books yet. But perhaps one day… @zlukaka and @luffik are still writing the second novel of City and the Beast. But if you are curious as to what happened and love amusing and angsty character dynamics you can read more on @cityandthebeast.

#beautiful #phenomenal #Yen #and a character we won't tag because spoilers XD #thank you so much this is absolutely hilarious #we love their expressions and poses #also in case anyone's wondering this is based on #Will McPhail's caricature #thank you so much this is beautiful!

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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Now that we replied an ask, might as well post some doodles and a little update, hi everyone :P

Book 2 is some 80% written, so we might be able to finish this year like we wanted, keep your fingers crossed! X3 If that’s the case, chapters will start regularly appearing in early 2023.

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cityandthebeast · 1 year

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are there any wlw relationships in your work??

In Book 1 there are two lesbian couples, but they are not in the spotlight. Then Book 2 has a wlw couple among the main cast but the book is not yet published. Gonna be perfectly honest and say that we definitely favor mxm pairings. We believe in writing what we most enjoy and we happen to enjoy that much more, so if you're looking for wlw specifically, then it might not be your thing. Thanks for the ask! :3

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cityandthebeast · 2 years

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Hello! We’re still alive! Life didn’t allow us to write much this year unfortunately, but we’re finally getting back to it (we did poke a bit at various side stories, so some sort of progress was made). We still want Book 2 to be published this year and we very much think it will be, we hoped it would happen earlier but alas, we’re probably looking at a late autumn or even winter timeline now. Keep fingers crossed! Here’s some book doodles in the meantime. We’ll post such dump every now and then, since writing will still take a lot of time. Thanks for your patience folks! And if anyone read Book 1 in the meantime, we’d be thrilled to hear your thoughts :3 If you’re just seeing our posts for the first time ever, these characters are related to our City and the Beast series books. You can read Book 1 for absolutely free at sharadrass.com or on AO3 (if you do, please please tell us :3)

Or if you’d like to start with something shorter, you can read High Priests of America on AO3>>, a story about an old tired god who meets a stabby servant of the competition from across the seas.

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cityandthebeast · 2 years

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Here is Blaise from City and the Beast novel as my late Christmas and New Year’s gift for @zlukaka and @luffik with my the best wishes :) Anyone interested in the character and story, you can learn more at https://www.sharadrass.com/ or check out their Tumblr story blog @cityandthebeast

(Couldn’t decide which version is better, so I’m posting both, not really sorry about that :D)

#thank you again for this absolutely beautiful gift <3

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cityandthebeast · 2 years

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Hello everyone, just a little update - we’re still working on Book 2, though it will be a few months before we can start posting it (hopefully in June). We’re also currently writing a side story from Ahriman’s perspective that we always intended to be a part of Book 2 experience. So keep fingers crossed for us, and once in a while we’ll be popping in here like this with some art ;> If you’re just seeing our posts for the first time ever, these characters are related to our City and the Beast series books. You can read Book 1 for absolutely free at sharadrass.com or on AO3 (if you do, please please tell us :3)

Or if you’d like to start with something shorter, you can read High Priests of America on AO3>>, a story about an old tired god who meets a stabby servant of the competition from across the seas.

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cityandthebeast · 2 years

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Hello hello, here’s some mostly Beauty and the City (Book 2) doodles! We’re still alive, still writing Book 2 and already some 25 chapters in ;> The second book is available for early access in its WIP form to people who would agree to pay the blood price of leaving us some feedback in exchange - if interested, just message us. Other than that, if someone here read Book 1 in the meantime, we’d super love to hear from you X3 If you’re just seeing our posts for the first time ever, these characters are related to our City and the Beast (Book 1) that you can read for absolutely free at sharadrass.com or on AO3 (if you do, please please tell us :3)

Or if you’d like to start with something shorter, you can read High Priests of America on AO3>>, a story about an old tired god who meets a stabby servant of the competition from across the seas.

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