Kyle Wakefield

We have nothing to fear but big scary monsters Aaaaahh 🐙 THE CHURCH OF THE MOUNTAIN OF FLESH 🐙 🩻 CONJOINED ANGELS 🩻

[kyleskeleton]

An intro, and such

Hello hello! I'm Kyle, and I'm a British author of cosmic and body horror. I wrote The Church of the Mountain of Flesh, a medieval story about a Faustian pact for a gender transition featuring a romance between a man who becomes a prophet and a man who becomes his God, which was nominated for three Indie Ink awards. Fans of Angels Before Man, Hell Followed With Us, Devilman Crybaby and Midnight Mass often enjoy it. Check it out on Itchio, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Goodreads and Storygraph if you'd like.

My work in progress is Conjoined Angels, a body horror romance set in 1930s Oklahoma about a physician and a veterinary radiologist falling in love as they vivisect a monster which fell out of a supercell. It's currently approaching its final edit as my beta readers finish up. Add it on Goodreads and Storygraph right now if you'd like.

I'm also an artist in coloured pencil and fineliner - all the artwork I post is mine unless otherwise credited. My ebooks and paperbacks are full of black-and-grey illustrations and I'm working on a shop for prints of the full-colour ones.

Anyway, I saw a few people saying they learned about COTMOF from tumblr and thought I'd come and join in.

[wumbsie]

saviour of erid

[wumbsie]

saviour of erid doodle i may clean up one day

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hard launching my love for grocky

[kyleskeleton]

Despite Amon's role in the story (introducing revolutionary technology to a backwards and suspicious society) I have this unshakeable conviction that if he was alive in the modern day he'd be constantly falling for internet scams. Jamie would borrow his phone to email himself a photo and find a forty-message thread of him sending his student loan to a guy claiming to be a fake horse rescue charity. I just know it

[kyleskeleton]

Amon's Harbinger Of Strange Tools role not translating is made way funnier by the fact Malacresta's does. I can absolutely picture Malacresta as a ranked Halo player slash DJ with a rainbow flashing PC build. I can't picture Amon knowing how to bcc an email

[kyleskeleton]

Despite Amon's role in the story (introducing revolutionary technology to a backwards and suspicious society) I have this unshakeable conviction that if he was alive in the modern day he'd be constantly falling for internet scams. Jamie would borrow his phone to email himself a photo and find a forty-message thread of him sending his student loan to a guy claiming to be a fake horse rescue charity. I just know it

[wumbsie]

meeting the kids 🎵

[silvaurum]

basketball dracula isn't real dude he can't-- *sudden squeaking noises from the shadows*

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[kyleskeleton]

I hope all the people who've told me they wished I wrote poetry as well as (or instead of) prose enjoy this poem I've been working on called "the last two thousand words of Conjoined Angels"

[l3monking]

Giving my miis some good literature, the church of the mountain of flesh by @kyleskeleton ( couldn’t fit the entire title in the character limit my bad)

[kyleskeleton]

I'm fond of this one because I made it back when I was still colouring skin the colour of skin. The random teal and orange patches are there but they haven't yet trapped the pinks and browns in a fractal labyrinth which allows them to glimmer into half-life every second Sunday

[kyleskeleton]

Like, some things improved! My grip on reality was not one of them

[kyleskeleton]

I'm fond of this one because I made it back when I was still colouring skin the colour of skin. The random teal and orange patches are there but they haven't yet trapped the pinks and browns in a fractal labyrinth which allows them to glimmer into half-life every second Sunday

[kyleskeleton]

Conjoined Angels art from January. I'm scared of yellow so I made it yellow

[kyleskeleton]

I'm reading Conjoined Angels to prepare for the final edit and I just made a note in my little notebook that the dry-humping scene needed more vomiting and screaming in pain in it

[kyleskeleton]

I did it! #ididit

[juunipupu]

Knights in Love