City and the Beast

    Welcome to the place for all the CatB novel related shenanigans like official art by the authors, fanart, silly character memes, playlists, character aesthetic and so on! Want to ask us something about the story or characters? Or maybe you'd like to ask something *to* the characters themselves? Just shoot an ask over. There's a chance we'll reply with some doodles! c; You can read City and the Beast at our website:  https://www.sharadrass.com This blog is managed by the authors, that is, @luffik and @zlukaka.

[cityandthebeast]

City and the Beast is a story about a thief trying to find the key to getting his life back on track, about a homeless man who wants to stop stealing lives, and about a wayward biker delivering packages for a shady priest. In the streets and docks of New Coalport the business is booming, shadowy figures are lurking, and you get to experience their double-dealings from at least three different perspectives. Who is the beast and who is the man in this city, and do falling stars really bring luck? Do people need ears to hear, and how can a lawyer cause a basement crack? Read and find out! 

City and the Beast features a lot of mythology, LGBTQ+ characters, fallen stars, eldritch abominations and their timeless guardians, grumpy priests, fancy lawyers, motorbikers, criminals... why pick and choose when you can have it all! :D If you like humour and romance, interwoven with dark themes, epic scale events and black comedy of misunderstandings, this is a book for you <3!

You can read the story for free at our website:🌈 www.sharadrass.com 🌈

Or read it on AO3 if you prefer >>

If you enjoy it - please leave us a comment and tell your friends about it!

Reblogs are extremely appreciated - please help us spread the word!

You can follow the story shenanigans on the story blog right here at: @cityandthebeast​ <3 Asks of all sorts can be sent here too (we’ll try to respond with art! :3)!

Thank you so much for your interest and we hope to hear from you :3!

[lysidas]

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.

[lysidas]

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

[cienie-isengardu]

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

[zlukaka]

Oooh, thank you dear! This brings us both so much joy!

And coincidentally Merry Christmas everyone!

[luffik]

Ahhhh thank you so much, sorry we missed you posting it here! This already has its own shrine here haha :P

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to everyone! :3

[lysidas]

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 ).

[zlukaka]

This is such an amazing comic! We are so happy to have you as a friend and reader! *big hug*

Sometime this year we will start uploading the sequel of City and the Beast and a number of side stories online, it will all make sense then. :D

[cienie-isengardu]

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

[lysidas]

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!

[cityandthebeast]

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.

[lysidas]

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 ❤

[cityandthebeast]

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 

[lysidas]

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.

[lysidas]

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.

[cityandthebeast]

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.

[cityandthebeast]

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

[cityandthebeast]

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.

[cienie-isengardu]

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)

[cityandthebeast]

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.