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flameswallower · 1 year

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SELF PROMO POST #1

Human beings stand proud and alone upon the surface of this angel-haunted world, in this cosmos of wild experiment.

Ash and River are holy beings waiting for the end of the world— or maybe they’re trans runaways squatting in an abandoned house. Linden is a college student, restless and unsatisfied in their relationship with independent Nora. When a chance meeting leads to a turbulent romance between Linden and Ash, calamity follows.

Southern Gothic meets surrealism, Corrupted Vessels is a story about terrifying angels, messy realities, and queer life on the margins.

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Hey! It's my first long-form work, originally published online in 2020, and re-published with swallow::tale press in 2021. Do you like gross, fucked up queer stories? Do you wish there were more gross, fucked up queer stories specifically about trans and nonbinary people? Do you enjoy your literary fiction with a touch of magical realism and an industrial ladle-sized amount of macabre horror? Do you like really short books you can easily read in a few hours?

Corrupted Vessels may be for you! Check it out at the swallow::tale press website (print) (ebook).

General content warnings for Corrupted Vessels for those who may prefer them, and credits for the stock photos I used here, are under the cut. I cannot promise the content warnings are comprehensive because I cannot predict everything that could disturb or offend someone. I do try to get "the basics" (eg I will put if there's sexual violence, if there's suicide, etc).

Stock photos taken from Unsplash, edited by myself. The photographers were Pavel Untilov (abandoned house), Annie Spratt (foxglove), and Stormseeker (dirty hands).

Content warnings for Corrupted Vessels: Cult, murder, emotional abuse and codependency, suicidal ideation and attempted suicide, graphic sexual content (consensual + masturbation). Drug and alcohol use including a character being drugged without their knowledge. General unpleasantness related to poverty, housing precarity, past abuse, unmanaged mental health problems, etc.

#self promo #queer literature #nonbinary books #trans books #queer books #horror literature #cult literature #(lol do you see what i did there)#novella

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strykerlancer · 15 days

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— Olivia Gatwood, from “The Lover As A Cult.”

#The Lover As A Cult #olivia gatwood #words #poetry #literature #quotes #out of my collection #lit #abyss of words #quote #letters #on hands #what do i do with my hands when they are just hands

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eye-of-the-tigerseye · 1 month

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Lisa Frankenstien is to me what Jennifer's Body was to millennials what Heathers was to Gen X and I think there's something sacred about that.

#something something female rage but the rage is just murdering people #also just the nuance that whitecishet men ignore #Lisa isnt a tribut to Dr. Frankenstein shes a tribute to Mary Shelley #i have a lot of thoughts and feelings on the mental health vs literature vs romanticization of mental illness in artists #that i wont go into bc this is tumblr #and no one wants to hear how the new cult romcom relates to thesis #but i LOVE her okay?#lisa frankenstein #lisa frankenstein 2024

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marry-me-mello · 29 days

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IT MAKES ME WANT TO COMMIT A CRIME WHENEVER I DRAW HIS HAIR BC IT TAKES FOREVER

ESPECIALLY DIGITALLY I JUST-*throws drawing tablet across room and burns sketchbook*

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hardcore-gaming-101 · 19 days

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HG101 Presents: Arcade Cult Classics

Ever play an arcade game from decades ago that you saw once and never saw again? Ever wondered about arcade games that were never released in your home land? This book digs into the depths of 1980s and 1990s arcade history, unearthing hidden gems from developers like Irem, ADK, Jaleco, NMK, Westone, UPL, Technos, Toaplan, Gaelco, and TAD. In addition to highlighting forgotten classics when digging through the MAME library, it also catalogues many undersung titles that can be found as part of retro re-releases, like on Hamster’s Arcade Archives series or on the Evercade console. Now available!

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orange-coloredsky · 4 months

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the "3000 year old child" trope has the possibility to be genuinely intriguing and could explore the way children are treated across time no matter their apparent level of intelligence. it could be funny it could be heartbreaking it could be horrific to think about. too bad 90% of it is just an excuse to be a creep. sad!

#media #txt #er #kinda #i know some people dont like miquella being That Way mostly in relation to everything with mohg #but i think miquella is one of the only examples ive seen where this is taken seriously and like. actually thought about outside of #haha what if this grown woman was in a childs body so she was helpless but also sexualized isnt this groundbreaking #his whole thing is being hypercompetent to make up for being stuck as booster seat size for millenia #i think that its cool that his mind manilpulation powers are likely based partially on a survival instinct people have around kids. he just #uses it to his advantage to start a cult of suicide bombers sometimes because we get a little silly #also the funny factor of seeing this kid and being like 'oh how sweet hes reading his literature :-)' and then you look into his eyes and g #oh.. you have seen the endless yawning void havent you... well.. thats too bad

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francisabernathysgf · 11 months

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anyways i wanna start a reading cult...like read old books, get drunk, summon the ghost of Wilde and Byron then have an orgy...idk...maybe write some poems

#i am mentally insane is it visible #just casual cult things #reading cult #ghost summoning #books and literature #dark academia books #just cult stuff #drinking game (alcoholism)#dark academia #reading #i love books and dark academic things

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plushysposts · 3 months

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Hey @kaifanjc-the-one-and-only , Look what I made. I kinda wanna see it when it gets crazy and creepy.

#cult of the lamb #heket #the white crown #cult of the lamb fanart #cotl heket #cotl shamura #cotl bishops #cotl #cotl kallamar #cotl narinder #cult of the lamb narinder #doki doki literature club #cult of the lamb au

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flowersforfrancis · 11 months

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Richard Papen: If I had stayed in California I would've joined a cult. Also, Richard Papen: Goes to Hampden and joins a highly exclusive greek class, with a teacher who discourages him from taking any other classes. Then proceeds to follow the plan of a guy who's never heard of the moon landing, and help him to murder his best friend.

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platypusinplaid · 7 months

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Who else got their mind consumed by god-killing homosexual war criminals this year?

#the spear cuts through water #literature #books #simon jimenez #fantasy #sci fi #posting this here so i can use it in my goodreads review #but im genuinely surprised there is not a huge tumblr cult for this book #this has been an audrey post

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chai-n-ivy · 6 months

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of course I’m not immune to cults. I read The Secret History and watched Midsommar without blinking.

#original #mine #dark academia #literature #aesthetic #academia #books #light academia #english literature #the secret history #henry winter #camilla macaulay #midsommar #cults

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the-one-who-lambs · 5 months

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Since I mentioned them in my almost went to the ER in lamb cosplay story, here are the 3-fold brochures I made last year to accompany my lamb cosplay. Feel free to use them as you want or just enjoy for your amusement.

#hannah's rambles #cult of the lamb #cotl #bringing this back lmao #also yeah “literature”#is... just a link to my ao3 #im not worried abt people seeing my works unless they want to look at the ones that AREN'T on my main onethirdofimpossible pseud #lol.

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p4r4sit3-10v3 · 1 month

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What is it abt poems that are so comforting? Idk but I love reading poems which is basically why I downloaded this app to begin with.

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hjellacott · 9 months

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To those agreeing with what I say but saying I'm mean and "Let's just be nice" when we're discussing TRA things or feminism or J. K. Rowling... I am DONE being nice.

I was nice the first 100.000 times. Now I've been bombarded with private messages and Tumblr "post" (the envelope thingy) and general comments, plus seeing dozens of posts that I just can't be nice and patient about. Because these MORONS and some of them, actual TERRORISTS, are literary burning books, twisting the Harry Potter stories to justify their unjustifiable extremism, harassing children for being Potterheads, mocking adults for finding solace in Harry Potter, attacking and sending death threats and death wishes to everyone that disagrees with them, manipulating children, autistic, and also all kinds of mentally disabled people to absorb their agenda and mutilate their bodies, targeting the lives of people who disagree with them and attacking them and their loved ones, cyberbullying left and right hiding beneath anonymous names and pink and blue flags, burning and thrashing businesses where feminists go, turning Pride into an event where rapists are being allowed to take the mic and say to kill women (literally) and being applauded, saying homosexuality is transphobic and raping lesbians and gays, applauding men changing in locker rooms in front of little girls, applauding men taking over women's sports and spaces, applauding sending rapists to women's prisons, applauding children being brainwashed into life changing treatments, terrorising the world, imposing their own agenda with violence and threats, silencing and attacking the detrans community, manipulating the media, fucking it all up for all the normal trans people who are now thanks to the TRAS being seen as terrorists, and justifying their hatred and their violence on them having basically no reading comprehension, twisting people's words to have a pity party, and creating a self-imposed narrative to try and convince us that everyone wants them to die so it's all right for them to attack everyone else and be given free reign and justification to do so. Police can't even report that a criminal is trans any more and people are losing their jobs for reporting crimes by trans people, for fuck's sakes.

Do you know how often I've dealt with the same lazy justification to "explain" to me, a mixed race Jewish descent woman, why JK Rowling is anti semitic or racist? Or why she's transphobic? And every time one tries to nicely point out that they're twisting things and decontextualising them and inserting their own racist views, they just tell you to kill yourself. They've taken over press, media, social media, pride, women's spaces, they're going after children, attacking local pubs and restaurants... I'm not going to allow it. I'm done being nice.

I see them bullying the detrans community and shutting them up. I see how they harass and threaten the trans community that doesn't want to occupy women's spaces or that doesn't condone violence and threats and wants children to be left alone. I see how they attack women, lesbians and gays. I have a collection of articles of their rapes and other attacks, mainly to women. And they won't brainwash me.

I'm not afraid. These are a violent, terrorist mob that is taking over the left and making themselves the victims when we haven't faced a more aggressive and dangerous mob since the Nazis. Have you seen the videos of the teens and young adults crying in the US Congress, talking about how afraid they are when they see men changing in their lockers, or talking about how their breasts were chopped off and begging us, adults, to stop this nonsense? I have and I'm listening.

Like Joanne Rowling, like all the women who won't wheesht, I'm going to fight for those kids, for the normal people in the trans community, for detransitioners, gays, lesbians, mentally disabled... I'm not afraid and I'm not nice. Not any more. You want a fight? I'm full of weapons.

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marry-me-mello · 29 days

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well it seemed like you all liked my previous jekyll and hyde headcanons so here's some more!

Utterson has been spotted lurking around town randomly. The actual reason he's doing this is because he's looking for ducks to feed. Everyone else thinks he's some noble guy but NOPE HE JUST WANTS TO FEED DUCKS-

Actually, I headcanon him as autistic for the same reason I do L Lawliet (death note frog guy if you don't know), the reason being that they both hyperfixate on their work, talk a lot abt their special interests, etc. Maybe I'll elaborate later?

Hyde has on many occasions climbed trees and gotten stuck in them

Lanyon usually gets him out

Jekyll had a pet cat as a kid named Henry 2.

Hyde beat a hamster with a ruler once. He was shocked when it survived and adopted it. It's name is Whiskers.

Jekyll has attempted to flush Whiskers down the toilet before.

Lanyon really likes ice cream

Enfield also likes ice cream. Him and Lanyon go out for ice cream together sometimes.

I'm going to get into specific characters, so message me for headcanons, maybe fanfics, etc! Just ask and I'll write or draw it.