It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an error, thanks tumblr)
Happy Trans Day of Invisibility from your tumblr mods!
Only found out because I tried to reblog with an update from your local trans unicorn siblings!
I cannot even LINK to my old comic without every new post getting deleted.
And yet, we will CONTINUE to exist, and grow, and find each other. We will be visible up to and beyond our own deaths. Because we stand for love. We love ourselves and each other and that just makes us stronger.
Happy fuckin pride month. I'm tired of seeing others aces mindlessly regurgitating conservative rhetoric and siding with censors. Feel free to use with credit.
Shepherds of Haven - A Dark Fantasy Interactive Fiction Game
You are a Mage living in a world where magic is outlawed and your people—those possessing supernatural powers—are oppressed and reviled. The world is ruled by humans who believe in science, technology, and industry: at best, you and your kind are nothing more than a fairytale, and at worst, you are the state’s greatest threat.
Thus, using magic has been illegal for centuries…
But then the demons return.
After years of persecution, you are suddenly offered an opportunity to use your powers for good: demons are once again troubling the realm after centuries of absence, and the world needs fighters like you to protect the population from their invasion. Guns and bullets do no good against monsters pulled from primeval nightmares; only your people and your mystical gifts have the ability to fight fire with fire.
So you join the Shepherds: a new order of elite heroes and fighters that, until very recently, the world feared more than the demons themselves. As a Shepherd, you’ll solve magical crimes, slay demons to protect the citizens of Haven, and build your reputation throughout the capital. Explore the world of Blest, recruit allies and factions to join the Shepherds’ cause, find romance and companionship, investigate mysteries, lead rebellions and exorcisms, and uncover answers to the crises plaguing the world. Where are the demons coming from? Where have the gods or God gone, if they ever existed? Who are you, really?
And will you be the world’s true savior… or will you be its ultimate downfall?
✦ Over 1 million words of choice-based, story-rich interactive fiction!
✦ Fully customizable protagonist! Choose names and nicknames, gender, sexuality, appearance, weapon, magic specialization, educational background, racial heritage, and much more.
Includes options to play as male, female, nonbinary; straight, gay, bisexual, or pansexual; and aromantic, asexual, aroace, or allo.
✦ Thousands of choices and role-playing variations! Build your character’s personality and worldview from the ground up, test your loyalties and morals in every chapter, and make meaningful decisions that will change the story and world of the game in large and small ways.
✦ 15 companions to recruit and befriend, each with their own unique story.
Fulfilling friendship and romance routes, culminating in dozens of different possible endings for each major character, as well as diverse endings for the protagonist, their relationships, and the state of the world
✦ A hubworld-style exploration system between chapters! Interact with the city and explore the world on your days off; take quests or side jobs; train; shop; gamble; pray; read; and spend time with or date companions between story missions.
✦ Dynamic gameplay features! Explore an ever-changing codex, character guide, journal, inventory, and stats page that grows and adjusts as you play.
✦ Dozens of mechanical secrets to reward your playthrough, including achievements, a new game+ system, a save system, unlockable art, collectible trading cards, room decorations and souvenirs, a planned “stupid mode,” and planned DLC.
✦ Much more!
✨ Play Here ✨
Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, first half of Chapter 4
In my mind, it made sense to draw Jesus comforting Lucifer, to slice a piece off his own cloak to stop the bleeding. Two divine beings made to roam the earth. It can’t be blasphemy to draw him kind…
information about the physical + digital release of the monster AU below the cut!!
(Bear with me, I'm about to be very sappy. If you're not interested in reading all this, skip to the bottom - relevant information about the physical and digital release, as well as schedule plans going forward will be in big text and blue. )
I discovered COD (more specifically GhostSoap as a ship) in the tail end of 2022, like a lot of people when the "Alone" mission and its insane, sexually-charged banter went viral on Tiktok. I indulged the interest, thinking it was a passing fixation that I'd be done with within a week or two. And now 3 years later, I've finished the biggest fan-project I've ever undertaken for this fandom that has given me so much.
While the first comic of the Monster AU went up in August of 2023, the first character profiles were posted even earlier than that in March. Besides the Soapbox Saga, which consumed the first few months of my fixation, the Monster AU has been going on for almost my entire time in the COD fandom. While starting out as a fun, gimmicky sandbox for me and others to play around in, it quickly took on a life of its own and spiralled into a behemoth of a story (even without the Korangi section that I quickly realised I didn't have the scope for). Being able to serve up new comics for this project on a (semi) regular basis has genuinely been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I'm not exaggerating at all when I say that the audience here and on all my other social media, the comments and the likes and the notes left in QRTs and reblogs kept me going long after I thought I'd be burnt out. Whether you've just joined this space, or you've been here the entire journey, I honestly can't thank you enough.
In a time where AI threatens to cheapen the industry and craft I've dedicated my life to, I am so so privileged to have been given the resources, patience and engagement that you all have allowed me. It means a lot to me to have this project under my belt; as someone who has issues with staying committed to one idea for long, the idea of being dedicated to one idea for multiple years to see it to fruition has been a pipe dream. It means something so important to me that I was able to do this, and the sheer fact of the matter is that it would've been impossible without your support.
I owe so much to this fandom and to this project that has accompanied me through the past few years as a comforting ever-present project to gradually chip away at. There have been some genuinely difficult moments that I was able to get through by holding onto this project and my posting schedule as something to keep me afloat. I truly hope from the bottom of my heart that it managed to reach expectations. And if not, I deeply apologise, and I'm still grateful for the opportunity to have given it my best shot.
While the main story of the Monster AU is finished, there's unfortunately still a lot of work that has to be done before it'll be ready for purchase. Book covers, extra illustrations, internal formatting, an actual coherent write-up of all the lore, actual diagrams for how these damn monsters put on their clothes around their wings and tails...maybe even an extra exclusive comic? All that before it's even compiled!
Because of that, the physical copy of the Monster AU will likely only be available for pre-order in mid-late January of 2026 (you'll be able to purchase the digital copy in the same store-opening).
If nothing goes wrong with my chosen manufacturer, the physical copy of the Monster AU set (it'll be split into 2 volumes but sold together as one package) will be $110 AUD which translates into $72 USD. The digital copy of the Monster AU will be a pdf priced at $50 AUD, which is $33 USD.
Once again, thank you all for your patience with me. I'm truly so grateful, and I'm really looking forward to making this Monster AU into the best product it can be <3
✨ The collection of my Mari Lwyd art through the years ✨
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First art is called: “Dude… give me the bottle” (or when you lost a rhyming contest against the supernatural skeletal horse)
Second art is a meme reference x)
Third art is featuring Mari on her day off (hence no rhyming, but she wouldn’t say no to a treat)
Plus other stuff, silly sketches and artworks, like Mari Lwyd in modern times being disappointed that nobody wants to rhyme with her anymore, so she has to buy everything herself (featuring a distant relative of the guy from the first piece, plus a Waterboy mashup).
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P.S. - don’t forget about the frogs in some of the arts
Mandatory winter reblog of my Mari Lwyd post, now updated with new artwork 💅
December is my birthday month (in the end of it), so I’m very happy to have such a wonderful cryptid on my side
