Daily excerpt from chapter 84 of Underline the Black:
When they got closer to the road, Gary’s phone started buzzing relentlessly. He pulled his phone out of his pocket, alarmed, and saw he had several missed calls from Faber, and a stack of text messages. The most recent one that came up on his phone simply said:
~Now’s not the time to have your phone on silent, Gary!
That was from Temsen.
Gary grasped Efnisien by the arm. ‘Something’s happened.’
‘What?’
Gary wanted to open his phone and read everything, but after what they’d just been talking about, he had a horrible image of someone injured. They’d lost an omega in a cave which had nearly ended terribly, they’d had injuries on site before. They ran across the road and got through the gate, and as Gary jogged towards the head office – having to slow down so Efnisien could keep up – he almost stumbled over nothing at all when he saw the red car pulled up in front of his cottage.
His blood chilled, his pheromones spiked so fast he could smell them himself. Efnisien twisted violently away, gagging and retching immediately.
This is fanart of ,,Underline the black’‘ by @not-poignant
I was kind of planning to keep Dr gary faceless in my art, but i couldn’t help it. It was kind of fun to mess around with the design. I might keep him faceless if i do any other art after this. Efnisien will likely be the one to fall victim to my color studies more often because his curly hair is way too fun to play with :)
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Daily excerpt from today's writing, chapter 5 of Constellations (the first chapter launches on AO3 tomorrow!!! - Sunday that is):
Kadek hosted play parties for kink about twice a month these days. He wasn’t slowing down at all now that he was fifty. If anything, he was becoming more immersed, taking it more seriously, and he had something like regular relationships with about five different people now. When Efnisien had brought the word “queerplatonic” almost eight years ago to Kadek to ask him what he thought about it, Kadek had rejected it, and then only twenty-four hours later semi-joked he was in some kind of queerplatonic thruople with Efnisien and Arden and that maybe he wanted to talk to them about it.
‘It’s just a dumb fucking word,’ Kadek exclaimed the next night. ‘What does it even mean?’
‘Platonic but more-than-platonic,’ Arden said, and Efnisien nodded.
‘Not helpful, babes,’ Kadek said.
‘Nah, you know it is though,’ Arden said. ‘Come on. The thing we all have, you know it’s something.’
‘I mean…’ Kadek’s expression creased. That had been during a time when Kadek was still firmly off the idea of any relationships at all. And Efnisien had stepped in, not liking the distress he was seeing.
‘It doesn’t change anything,’ Efnisien said, ‘and you don’t have to accept it, and if you don’t, I’ll never bring it up again. I think it’s a good word for describing what we are now to each other – not romantic, really queer, and more than just friends – but I know you don’t love labels, so…you don’t need to have one. It can just be this.’
Kadek looked between them, and his hands did something where they rested on his knees.
‘Yo,’ Kadek said to Arden. ‘What do you think?’
‘I think it’s a pretty good term for the level of chosen-family-with-kink we’ve got going. I mean come in, Kadek, I know you tie up a lot of your friends, but you’re not having them over for dinner as often as we come over.’
‘Yeah, but you’re like my brother,’ Kadek said. But then he looked at Efnisien and leaned back heavily in the chair. ‘But you sure are something.’
There he is. Little Efnisien in front of his 48 books. I adore him so much. He is from "Falling Falling Stars" which is the greatest thing I have read in a while.
@not-poignant is the absolute fantastic author. And their whole portfolio is breathtakingly good.
Under the cut are some more pictures of my little figurine.
For size comparison. He is my smallest one yet, with only 4 cm in heights. Made from clay (and part off a toothpick for stability in his neck).
It's hard to see but his little jumper has an engraved knitting pattern.
The books all have pages and some have covers. I actually made the books first thats why they are way to big.
He threw a little tantrum during the fotoshoot and made a mess with his books. His second body is simple nude. The head is moveable and alows for easy switching. Usally I'm giving them a second outfit but I sort of didn't want to put him in baggy lumps...
So Nackidei Efnisien it is!
Sorry Efnisien. No grace or dignity for you. Only books and a shabby cinderblock bookshelf.