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Hey, I love your art and the bits of writing I have seen! Is there a place where I can access your writing or is that something you are still working on?

thank you!!! and currently I haven't uploaded anything anywhere just yet because. ough. the economy. I'm so busy and so broke it really cuts into my time to do anything, BUT I am hoping 👀 to have the first part of something posted sometime tonight or tomorrow 👀👀

#i FINALLY got done editing the first bit of something and i have a couple shorter things mostly written too #but they need to get edited bc. oof. i have a tendency to ramble.#SHSHSHGHG I'm excited to post it i had a lot of fun writing it 😅

bringing in the changing of the seasons with harvester and john

usually the harvester is this barely understandable figure that only john can see properly, all the seasons at once pressed down into a form, the roots from the earth curling and twisting like bone and muscle and sinew, but sometimes

he sticks around in a form more recognizable as a man, gets down in the dirt on his knees, and helps deliver the upcoming harvest with his own hands

#mpreg #due date delivery #the harvester as something shaped like a man wears jeans and cowboy boots #john likes to watch him work in the fields during the fall. its like a private kind of show since he's the only one who can see #the harvester like this. sleeves rolled up. lean muscle working in the sun. sweat down his neck.

Please any more content with the harvester??

coming right up!

#also;;;;; in the future please don't refer to my art as content :') it kind of bums me out

i am absolutely obsessed with your art and the bits of your writing i've seen. seconding the anon who complimented your plotting because YEAH. would love to see your writing if you ever decide to post it but regardless i'm a fan. sending good art & writing vibes

thank you!!! and I do have plans to post something in full, it's currently getting edited 💕 (it clocked in at around 20k words, so it's. oof. it's going to be a minute.)

#also there are several very nice messages in my inbox right now: i have seen them and i will reply! im just very busy right now 😔#i promise to reply to everything soon!

oh wow my style on here has not been consistent at all

#this is a passing observation i do not care that much about maintaining a style but its extremely funny #to me that i went from candy colors to black and white scribble line art #and soon! once i finish these three different stories (they are in edits now) i will be pivoting over to writing for awhile #consistency? don't know her!#(admittedly the recent jump into line art without color is bc ive been doing art with a friend and his style #has been rubbing off on me a bit. its fun to try new stuff out!)

Adam (glasses) and Kendall (the one with the box)

they're married and work for a university, specifically cataloguing (or attempting to catalogue) weird stuff in the university museum archives. is it cursed? its it haunted? is it just weird? who knows! the archive rooms are cursed for sure. no one knows how far back the rooms go and it's sort of like a maze. a room will never be in the same place twice.

Adam likes puzzles, tho, and this is the ultimate puzzle. Kendall liked figuring out fucked up ghost shit until they decided to start a family, and now he's just a little stressed out all the time about accidentally bringing a demon back home.

sometimes Adam gives lectures on ancient history at the university, but cataloguing stuff is his main focus. Kendall, in a surprise turn of events, is an art teacher! He also doesn't know how he was qualified to do archivist work.

#he mentions the demon thing to adam one time and adam is like: man we have all these fucking boxes. put the demon in a box and shove it in #the museum. problem solved.#there's something weird about adam tho he's the only one who can just. put things like demons into containers #mpreg #theres a version of these two where it's just recurrent pregnancies as exorcisms but i might make separate ocs for that instead of an AU

I am about,,,,,a third of the way done writing this story,,,,

#i hope you like bullshit medieval politics and ex lovers to enemies to friends #(also mpreg ofc)#(it starts with an assassination attempt! and a lot of other stuff that is in there bc I Personally Think It's Neat)#(THERES ALSO A SEQUEL I HAVE IN MIND because the planned timeline takes place over several years #and I want to talk about. oh boy. i want to talk about siege tactics)#(also helloooo the drama of realizing your pregnant during a long term siege? oof)

I just want you to know!!!

I keep seeing you say "The plot's so convoluted I'm worried people will get lost"

IT IS GREAT. YOUR WRITING IS AWESOME. THE PLOT IS FANTASTIC.

I'm also the kind of writer who likes putting in a lot of plot, but getting to read that much plot?? It's so much fun !!!!!!!

When I saw you were back, I was like, "Yes!!! This one!!! I've missed this one!!!"

Anyway, please write more. I love it so much <3 <3 <3

oh this is so 🥺🥺 I legit got emotional reading this, thank you!!! it's really reassuring to hear that all of the extra worldbuilding that goes on in my head is fun for someone else to read 🥺🥰

#thank you again!!!!#i am. unfortunately. extremely self conscious after an ex boyfriend told me my work was boring so it's like #i am very much having fun typing out my little stories but every now and then im like. oh no.#anyway thank you anon!!!! i hope you are having a nice day!!!!!!

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Do you ever devise plots around the children your characters have? What their family life is like? How they raise these kids?

I'm just curious to know as I love your plots and they are so fun and intriguing.

it depends! for stuff like john and the harvester, there are no children involved, so there's nothing there to explore, but for things like the knock off ancient world narratives: absolutely! there's nothing messier than high stakes inheritance claims, and for stuff like that, you need to world build the family life otherwise it's. boring.

I have this one ancient-rome-but-I-filed-the-serial-numbers-off-it story where this one guy hooks up with general of his father (the emperor) (everyone's above 20 here btw), and a week later the emperor is assassinated, and the guy realizes he's pregnant. the general is making a play at assuming power, even though the main character is technically listed in the will as successor, and he hates the idea of the general taking advantage of the pregnancy to legitimize his take over for power, so his best friend comes up with an idea to get married and pass the baby off as his, and there's like. another 20 years of story I've built up in my head after that. there's parricide and everything!

also tysm!! 💞💗💖

#the main character's best friend is a soldier and after some political upheaval the main character does get to assume power #there's like. one military campaign in there somewhere where the main character and their first kid #accompany the best friend/husband to the borders and ends up getting pregnant and giving birth in the military camp #so that's like. a thing that happens.#the main character gets pregnant again later with twins and its pretty harrowing so they call it quits with kids after that #theres some vague organized crime story ive been turning in my head like a plate in a microwave too #that one. huh. that also involves parricide.#im trying to think if i have anything Less Murdery and high stakes and maybe the one about the Knight and the Monk 🤔#that one's pretty straightforward as far as i can make anything straightforward #3 kids. mostly an exploration of medieval-ish life tbh. the knight turns out to be a pretty good father which makes him happy #given the (gestures in the direction of war) and how tired he was of seeing death all the time #two of their kids grow up to be traders and merchants and the third kid becomes a scholar

john and the harvester again! this time it's the off season, tho, so the harvester is like. in the Other World. conveniently, mirrors are doors and windows into Other Places!

#due date delivery #mpreg #usually this is like. low key kind of romantic to john but this time he's annoyed because its the middle of winter and #the electricity in his house went out. and it's one thing to chop wood and start a fire when you're Not Pregnant #its another thing entirely when you're in the very early stages of labor and its snowing #he's fine but DEFINITELY irritated

local emperor gets knocked up by the head of his guard. he's not annoyed about it tho bc its speed running a solution to the problem of succession, but oh boy does everyone get on his nerves

#there is. a historical r0man emperor i was thinking about when i did this.#anyway! his personality is Annoyed By Everyone #mpreg #the future problem is that it's twins and that WILL cause a succession problem

any chance you'd tell us more about John and the Harvester? 👀

even as someone who doesn't have strong opinions on mpreg, i find what little we know utterly FASCINATING

oh boy, okay, so it's like

to explain the whole harvest ritual thing that's going on, it's spinning together a couple of concepts, namely that the symbolic appearance of something in ritual is important for the intended effect. kind of like how in ye olde days (like, medieval/renaissance) for nobility, it wasn't that someone had to BE a virgin, but had to maintain an APPEARANCE of one in a high stakes political marriage (see lucrez/a borg/a) (so for it to work, john has to go through something like a pregnancy, but without doing the whole nine months and a baby part because its the symbolic appearance of it that matters for this)

the ritual itself is about how food harvests are necessary for a continuation of life, so a new harvest would require new life (or something representing new life) to continue. and harvests themselves are hard work, but so is living, so its analogous, ritually, to labor and birth. bringing forth new harvest (birth) to ensure a bountiful harvest (food) for the community (life).

the harvester is an old old old god who has always been where he is and this town was sort of came to life around him. you go where the land is fertile and the food is good, right? where else would that be than where an old god of a harvest is. the problem with old gods is that after awhile, people forget the names, which is where john comes in.

john is probably the first person in about five centuries who can actually see the harvester as he looks, and not just a person who's features you forget soon after or something that looks increasingly more wrong the longer you stare. john grew up around spooky stories and folklore traditions. he knows that you don't love a god like a person, you love a god by giving them something, with offerings and devotions, so: his body for ritual, which in turn let's the harvester act like the god of the land he is (the fuckin. pumpkin/whatever idol effigies that john gives birth to, they aren't a living thing, they're like the first crops of the season, so the harvester cracks them open and spreads the seeds to the fields)

(when he's not doing ritual devotions for an old harvest god, he works at a museum and writes for the local paper. he also gets coffee with the harvester on a semi regular basis and asks him questions about forgotten centuries of history)

(for context this is all set in some middle of fucking nowhere farm land town in new england. fields for miles, baby)

uhhhh. that's the general gist of it!! there's not a lot to it, the minor details change from ritual to ritual, I just really really wanted to create a setting where I could have a character get knocked up on the regular with enough flexibility to make it weirdly poetic or spooky scary depending on my mood hsshdhfhgh

#john does these rituals 2x a year: spring (depends on when the rainy season hits) and fall (always october)#there was one year when there was a really bad drought and they did a ritual in the summer because people prayed for a miracle #and what's a god if he doesn't answer prayers made even if they don't know the name of what they're praying to?#the harvester might also be a kind of demon btw. like he's a god but he's old and the lines get blurry when u go that far back

speaking of the harvester and john, this was supposed to be for halloween, but I forgot entirely about how time works

#for a month long pregnancy it takes like. 14 hours of labor to give birth to whatever it is that he got knocked up with #like. weird pumpkin effigies? they're not living things bc its an old harvest fertility ritual they're enacting but they move like a living #thing in the womb if that makes sense #anyway for ritual reasons john gives birth to them in a pumpkin patch #due date delivery #mpreg

Does the harvester have an elder witch form 👉👈

sort of! he's mostly just Big and sometimes looks more like bones than person, but he's mostly person shaped, just a little to the left of ' Wait, That's Not Right.'

he DOES have a regular person shape he shows up as when he walks around the town, but even then people don't ever remember what his face looks like

#john is the exception to this rule and that's because john is a halloween goth who'd fuck a ghost #and that makes him ideal for the harvester to take on as a lover to recreate old fertility/harvest rituals

UR BACK YAY! I thought you died...

I'M BACK! this was actually from the last time I logged in, but I Am Back Again!

Hello! I think I have the *exact* same kink as you snap! 😅 You mentioned in the tags that you write out the stories/scenes to accompany your drawings - do you post these too (e.g., are you on Ao3?) 🙂

I do not have an Ao3, and I didn't post anything I had written before because I was a little shy about it, but I'm hoping to start posting more now because. I need dense and heavy plots. I crave political intrigue 😩

(the tag I'll be using for writing will be #vale writes stuff)

#i am so self conscious about my writing style and im not sure if like. ten thousand words about the politics of grain shipments is #actually interesting in a story that's also about preg stuff but oughhh. the potentially high stakes politics of grain shipments in the #ancient world.................

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