hungry ghosts

purveyor of fine chills and spooks | writes books as Caitlin Starling: LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, others | she/her

[see-starling]

THE STARVING SAINTS is out! Castle under siege! Imminent cannibalism! Strange visitors who will trade loyalty for salvation! A really toxic lesbian throuple!

“It’s eat or be eaten, but I promise I’ll make it good.”

[saintpyxis]

Transformation

So I read The Starving Saints (by @see-starling) and to no ones surprise I adore Ser Voyne

[moonasteries]

the starving saints 🐝 by @see-starling (caitlin starling)

[mimi-maru]

Ser Voyne (The Starving Saints by @see-starling)

[see-starling]

about to make this art my entire personality tbqh

[mimi-maru]

The Starving Saints by @see-starling

[see-starling]

wild screaming!!!

[dayyash]

I know it's not the silly stuff I usually post, but please hear me out, as it's important to me.

It all started with the Russian government making it illigal to talk about queerness amongst children, which was greatly celebrated by the homophobic majority back in the day. Later, they made it punishable for queer adults to publicly share their stories amongst other adults too, which was also celebrated.

On 30th November of 2023, the "lgbtq+ organization" was titled as "extremist", along with all the pro-Ukranian and anti-war organizations, which led to radical, aggressive censorship of all media in Russia. Then, big western social media were banned, along with monetization on them, which made activism for queer/pro-Ukrainian Russians even more difficult than it used to be, as it's required to dox yourself to the government by putting your "content creator" number (obtained from the official public services app "Госуслуги" by giving your sensitive information) in your BIO to get monetized legally. That has affected the right to privacy of not only Russian activists, but also of every Russian content creator.

12 days ago, on September 1st, 2025, they published a new law that punishes those who GOOGLE SEARCH unfavorable information about the government, "extremist" media, or anything that might suggest opposition to the Russian government and its actions. It's not just illegal to "seem" anti-war, or pro-gay, or pro-trans anymore — It's the MINDSET that's being criminalized right now. It's illegal to QUESTION, it's illegal to RESEARCH, it's illegal to INFO CHECK, it's illegal to EDUCATE YOURSELF, it's illegal to even TRY to FIND OUT THE TRUTH, even if you're doing it ON YOUR OWN.

So when I tell you,

It's NEVER about your safety and it's NEVER about "the kids",

you better fucking believe me.

[mspencerdraws]

A quick little illustration I painted after reading Caitlin Starling's The Starving Saints. (10/10 highly recommend btw.) [See my process for this piece and more at my Patreon.]

[see-starling]

so anyway get your discount cannibalism wherever you like, it’s gay and full of bees

[layaart]

the girls from the starving saints, based on that twelfth night pic

[layaart]

a few starving saints sketches

[layaart]

phosyne, ser voyne, & treila from the starving saints by @see-starling

[high-quality-tiktoks]

You can also have my cloak if you get cold.

[theriu]

This is somehow the most wholesome, hilarious, and relatable request ever and also WOW her armor is on POINT

[krystal-prisms]

[chpearcewrites]

Fanart of Em and Gyre from THE LUMINOUS DEAD by @see-starling (had to draw chapter 36 specifically!). 🖤 🍄 💀 Mixed media, 2021. Brilliant book, and Em and Gyre are such great characters.

[homunculus-argument]

Hey you all know about that fungus that possesses ants to make them climb on the tip of grass blades in hopes of getting eaten by a cow, so that the fungus can continue its life cycle in the cow's guts? Because I think that's the kind of thing that's wrong with cave divers.

We don't know what's down there. We don't know what's gotten into their heads that makes them so determined to physically, personally go down there to find out. But I wouldn't entirely dismiss the possibility that whatever has gotten into them is very invested in getting eaten by whatever is down there.

[mikkeneko]

cave Mouth perfec t size for climb in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort human sleep soundly put human in Cave Mouth. Put Human In Cave Mouth. no problems ever in ccave mouth because good Deep and Coolness for overhot ectotherm mammel. Cvae Mouth yes a place for put human in cave mouth can trust cave for giveing good shelter to human. friend cave

[see-starling]

The Luminous Dead vibes

[minkytaro]

happy neil banging out the tunes day!

[jortsemporium]

[apolloendymion]

thinking again about vampirism as disability

[apolloendymion]

what if you slept all day and woke at night, lonely and frustrated. what if you couldn't go to social events, or even mundane public spaces like stores. what if you couldn't see the sun. what if you couldn't go to the pool, or the beach, or the creek. what if you couldn't eat what everyone else is eating. what if you couldn't eat at all. what if your basic needs came at the cost of your loved ones' quality of life. what if you became agitated, confused, maybe even violent if your needs weren't met. what if people blamed your behavior on demons, or worse, your own inherent evil. what if people saw you as a threat to your own community. what if the default response to your suffering was either indifference or violence. what if people thought you were better off dead, that you no longer count as human, that they're doing you a favor by letting you disappear. what if people assumed you must somehow deserve all of this. what about that.