being haunting, romantic, whimsical, spooky and mysterious all at once is tough but someone has do it. 🤷🏾♀️ skin perfumed with strawberries, chocolate, pomegranate, and something dark from within the woods. confessing my love to her by cutting my chest open and giving her my beating heart blood and all.
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Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah is not the same. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has brought part of it back with her, onto dry land and into their home.
Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp.
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Themes and Tropes: Friends to lovers, personal growth, dumb lesbians, gay and bisexual main characters. An old cat as a major supporting character. Ghost hunters. Jock MC. Halloween/Autumn vibes.
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Kaz Pine has spent three years as a groundskeeper in a historical graveyard, and she's never once seen a ghost. Still hurting from her recent breakup, she impulsively decides to sabotage an investigation led by famous ghost hunters, where she meets the enigmatic Lucy, who's just as excited to get in on the trouble. Their fun is cut short when Kaz's cat Renfield escapes, upending the hunters' ouija board and ruining their night -- as well as her standing at work.
Over the next few weeks, she does her best to keep her head down while spending her nights with Lucy. But as time passes, Renfield's behavior changes for the worse, and she can't keep excusing Lucy's odd behavior forever. Try as she might to pass off everything with rational explanations and leaps in logic, Kaz won't be able to cling to her skepticism for much longer -- both for her own sake, and for the people she loves.
I thought the earth
remembered me, she
took me back so tenderly, arranging
her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds. I slept
as never before, a stone
on the riverbed, nothing
between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated
light as moths among the branches
of the perfect trees. All night
I heard the small kingdoms breathing
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling
with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
a little bloody mary comic idea I had last halloween
[image ID: a four page digital comic.
panel 1: a thin woman with long dark hair and light skin is seen from behind sitting in front of a vanity mirror in a room full of mirrors. text placed on the back of her head reads, "lots of people know my name."
panel 2: a group of school girls gather around a mirror in a dark school bathroom lit with candles as one of them writes "bloody mary" on the mirror. text on one of the girls' backs reads, "I get calls all the time."
panel 3: the girls run out of the bathroom screaming. text: "but no one is ever happy to see me."
panel 4: a curvy person with light skin and a partially shaved head half-laid out on the floor of a bedroom looks startled as bloody mary emerges from a full-length mirror in front of them. text: "when they don't run away[...]"
panel 5: the person is shown from behind as they hold up a polaroid to bloody mary. text: "they ask me, hunched and trembling, to perform curses and hexes for them."
panel 6: bloody mary shown halfway through a mirror. text: "I never quite know how to respond."
panel 7: bloody mary has her head down on her vanity desk. text: "no one ever calls just to see me."
panel 8: a darker-skinned hand with long black nails writes bloody mary's name on a mirror with red lipstick in a candlelit room. text: "no one[...]"
panel 9: bloody mary emerges from the mirror in front of a darker-skinned woman with two buns and red lipstick, who is smiling. no text.
panel 10: bloody mary is shown up close as the woman tucks mary's hair behind he ear, showing more of her ghostly face, and a bright red lipstick kiss mark on her cheek. text: "except her."
panel 11: bloody mary sits in her mirror room admiring the kiss mark on her cheek with a hand mirror. no text. end ID.]
me, a romantic: love letters, candlelit dinners, swordfighting, bloody noses, cold hands, smudged lipstick, sitting on their lap while doing the crow makeup on them, reverse cowgirl so we can both watch freddy vs jason
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When the final four women in competition for an aloof, if somewhat sleazy, bachelor's heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they mentally prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and of course, the salacious drama that viewers nationwide tune in to eagerly devour. Each woman came on 'The Catch' for her own reasons—brand sponsorships, followers, and yes, even love—and they've all got their eyes steadfastly trained on their respective prizes.
Enter Patricia, a temperamental, but woefully misunderstood local, living alone in the dark, verdant woods and desperate to forge a connection of her own. As the contestants perform for the cameras that surround them, Patricia watches from her place in the shadows, a queer specter haunting the bombastic display of heterosexuality before her. But when the cast and crew at last make her acquaintance atop the island's tallest and most desolate peak, they soon realize that if they're to have any hope of making it to the next Elimination Event, they'll first have to survive the night.
Happy Monday! After an unintentional hiatus, we're back and better than ever with the next chapter. Are you missing those Halloween vibes? Do you like lesbians? Do you like ghosts? Do you like ghost lesbians who love cats? Read on!
Kaz Pine is a skeptic. She's spent the last three years working in a historical graveyard, and never saw a single ghost. Still hurting from her recent breakup with a believer, Kaz decides to sabotage a high-profile ghost hunt, where she meets and recruits the enigmatic Lucy to join in on the prank. But when Kaz's co-worker (her cat. His name is Renfield. She'll show you pictures later.) disrupts a seance, things around town start getting a little…spooky.
Chapter 8: Despite her best efforts, Kaz's second night in the graveyard proves just as eventful as the first.
Themes and Tropes: Friends to lovers, personal growth, dumb lesbians, gay and bisexual main characters. An old cat as a major supporting character. Ghost hunters. Jock MC. Halloween/autumn vibes.
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