I’m aiming to post a piece of Laoft every Saturday or every other Saturday. You can put on notifications to make sure you get to listen to all the story as it comes out!
And of course, if you haven’t read @tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors ‘s Amazing series, I would 100% recommend reading and leaving kudos and comments!
[image description: three digital drawings of sibling pairs from Love and Other Fairy Tales. 1: the Sanders twins, sitting in a grassy field with berries and an insect flying by. They have their arms around each other and are both smiling. 2: Greta has one hand on her hip and is holding a basket with another, and smiling wryly up at Virgil, who is perched in a tree with an arm wrapped around a branch. Both his clothes and the tree are covered in spiderwebs. 3: Virgil and Elliot are hugging in another grassy field at dusk. Virgil is wearing a more casual hoodie and Elliot has a jumper on. There are spiders crawling all over both of them. End ID.]
I've had @tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors's Love and Other Fairytales on the brain for the last week, and haven't been able to stop thinking about all of the siblings. The siblings are very, very important to me. Thank you Vi for giving us these siblings.
“Let me make this quick,” said May, “You’re gonna leave. You’re gonna let my babies have their picnic. You’re gonna never speak to any of ‘em, ever again. And if you don’t, I am gonna kill you, Laz, and I ain’t even gonna feel bad about it.”
“You threatening me, Gage?”
“I damn well am,” said May, “On my life, on God, on Eve and all her daughters, if you raise a single hand to my kids for the rest of your life, I will put you in the fuckin’ ground, Lazarus Sanders.”
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this scene from Proud by SoDoRoses on Ao3. (@tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors on here) So I drew it.
this and the last one can be combined as “Roman Gage and the very bad no good oh about 72 hours” where he just gets in arguments with everyone and then it gets worse.
(edit: switched to a version with better line clarity)
Still referring back to i looked just the same as everyone else
the writer x killer ship is just laoft!prinxiety <3 imagine roman's stuck on a scene and is like "but idk if this would work :(" and virgil remembers that he still hasnt gotten around to dealing with someone who was talking shit abt roman and hes like "i'll be right back beloved"
is witchcraft an ADHD allegory in LAOFT the same way that fae-ness is an autism allegory? or do Prez and Roman just both have it by coincidence
it is now but it wasnt quite the same as the fae=autism allegory because i didnt do it on purpose at first, i just realized one day i'd given literally every in-universe witch ADHD subconsciously and then i started fleshing it out as a more concrete metaphor.
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Idk if you watch the livestreams but Virgil was in the last one saying hello to a fan and I just paused and thought 'Oh the irony' lol
Hi, I love your podcasts! Just wanted to let you know that it looks like you accidently skipped Confuse My Tongue with Your Gravestone when recording the laoft podcasts. Probably because you put up three videos for What You Choose to Put in the Ground and lost count maybe?
Can't wait to list to the rest of you recording for laoft, I'm going to recomend it to a friend who doesn't have to to sit down and read it themself!
You’re very correct I missed it 😅
Someone on YouTube also caught that it was missing and it will be the next video I upload.
I’m so glad you enjoy it! And I hope your friend does too!
does virgil even really know what being trans is or does he just assume remy and kai have vulvas like as a coincedence?
he has some understanding of trans as "someone who transitioned from one gender to another" and that gender has... something (?) to do with genitals also (tho "genitals determine gender" would be such an uterrly foreign concept that he most definitely thinks the gender one is assigned at birth causes the genitals, not the other way around). mostly because he's picked up on the fact that humans require some sort of Tab A Slot B set up to reproduce via context clues, and that most of the Tab As are male and most of the slot Bs (ie pregnant people he's seen) are female
however. fae can just... do that. like they dont call it "trans" because theirs no cultural baggage associated with doing it, but if a fae reaches puberty and is like "eugh" about however their body is starting to grow their body will just. stop doing that. and start growing in the correct/comfortable direction. they dont need transition care because their body just does it on its own
which is to say he's gonna see Kai and Remy's junk and be kinda like "wow it takes humans a really long time to grow a new dick :( no wonder its so dysphoria-causing :( theyve both been trans so long and they only look halfway done :( i need to make them more prosthetics [undertale determination sound]"
Drawing based on @tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors group chat fic, one of the many beautiful extra works of the Love and Other Fairytales series (main story) (extras)