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twenty five : they/them

[sydverse]

inaugural local Aspec book club today and these beauties came with me to talk about fav representation in books ^^ @nicosraf

[sydverse]

it’s so pretty 🥹 @nicosraf

[nicosraf]

Hello everyone !! Im donating half of all sales of Angels Before Man to the Trans Asylum Seeker Support Network from March 17th to 31st!(Though if those sales are less than my goal, then it'll be half of all my book sales)

If you already own the book or are just not interested in getting it, please consider donating to the organization directly! Trans people in ICE detention are extremely vulnerable and need our support.

[r-fox]

I had to bust out my watercolors to celebrate the release of Angels After Man by @nicosraf

Rafa might be free from angels, but I'm sure not <3 The ABM tarot deck will be complete soon, and the ABM Graphic Novel is well underway. I look forward to sharing it all with you and couldn't ask for a better team to create with. Thank you!

[nicosraf]

Hello! Angels After Man is officially out! It's the end to my trilogy about angels. You can read all about the series here.

As for the book, you can find it only on Amazon for now as a paperback (but it'll become more widely available in coming weeks) and in ebook at a lot of retailers.

It may not be the end of Angels forever, but its definitely the end of the main trilogy. I hope you all enjoy this finale and that you find it satisfying, or that you take something out of it, whatever it may be.

Hardcover will take a few more weeks because of printer company issues, which I apologize about. Speaking of covers, here is a reminder that my paperback covers are done by the incredible @iliothermia !

And thank you all for the support and love you've shown this series. I'll save being sappy for my newsletter and Patreon, I think, (and you should follow me there if you want details on "What's next"!!!) but I genuinely hope you all realize how much my life is forever changed because of you all. Thank you. Thank you!

[saintlanna]

Rosier portrait commission for @bookishsystem!!! Thank you SO much for comming me RAHHHHHH, he was so fun to draw 🧡💛🍊

Link to my commission info <3

[r-fox]

TEMPERANCE

I loved drawing the angel Dina so much. I sketched this card last year, well before I knew Dina would be such a huge part of AAM. I still think he fits the temperance card well, as it means we should learn patience, moderation, balance, and the middle road. Maybe if Dina learned that, the world wouldn’t end? Time will tell :) I can’t wait to see how his character evolves over the last book!

[wng0re]

graphic illustration commission for @nicosraf of Dina from the Angels Trilogy (pookie bear of all time. surely he’d do nothing bad)

⭐️commission me on kofi⭐️

[grimmbunnies]

💙Azazel 🩷Dina 💛Armoni

[grimmbunnies]

Welcome to the Angels trilogy books. We have:

Baalbecue

Uwucifer

Refrigerator mike

Germany

Urinal

Dinamarca

Gay-briel

El jamón mamon

Azamaroll

Ra-feral

coke-abiel/cockabiel

Barack obama/baraback/baracuda (I couldn't pick)

Rasin

Asmodickus

Salmonella

Danzel Washington

Alimony

Ara Ara (read in the hot anime mommy voice)

Poloch

Candycain

Kimchi/kimbap/Kimboobbayah

Farter

Sears department store

Fishstar

Cheatith

Eater

Nahmalama ding dong

Enocchi

And finally...

Phenis

(all of these via the lovely people in the beloved damnation server)

[paintedpatroclus]

gabriel braiding raphael’s hair !!

[nicosraf]

hello! the final book in the Angels trilogy is Angels After Man // a queer retelling of God's Apocalypse

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The angel Dina is both young and ancient, every human epoch breezing past his home in Heaven as he waits for the end times. When the archangel Uriel reveals the truth about God's first creations, however Dina ventures out to find a beautiful, seductive star who urges him to bring about the apocalypse for the sake of destroying evil once and for all. Lovesick, Dina agrees.

Bordering a nation like Babylon, the human Tadeo has suffered and died to uniquely human horrors. But resurrection bestows newfound powers onto him that he's convinced derive from God. While on a saintly path to free his town from war, Tadeo meets the angel Dina, who appears with a dark omen.

The end of the world will come soon - but who really is it that wants the apocalypse ?

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Cover(s) to be revealed and estimated release is on Christmas but that depends on revisions!

Thank you all for being here! This book is really weird! I'm really nervous about it, but oh well. It's the book of my heart. You're all free ask questions but my answers will be non-spoiler-y, so they may not be very interesting!

Regardless, thank you again everyone for the support these last 2 years! I hope you look forward to the end (times) of the series :)

[nicosraf]

Baal and Lucifer and a certain baby from Angels & Man by @creamboyo :)) tqm boyo

[nicosraf]

Asmodeus and Rosier by @creamboyo :) thank you boyo

[harvocel]

leave us to rest

[ms-demeanor]

Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

[ms-demeanor]

Do you know how bugfuck insane the words "Unionized Starbucks" would have sounded to someone in 2005? Baristas getting union-mandated breaks could have been a throwaway joke in part of the Scary Movie franchise as something ridiculous.

RALPH NADER WAS AGITATING FOR A FIFTEEN DOLLAR MINIMUM WAGE IN 2004 AND SHIT IS MOVING SLOWLY BUT MY STATE HAS A TWENTY DOLLAR MINIMUM WAGE FOR FAST FOOD WORKERS. WHEN I STARTED HIGH SCHOOL THE ONLY OPTION FOR AN ABORTION AFTER 7 WEEKS WAS SURGICAL AND NOW THERE'S A PILL.

[ms-demeanor]

FUCKING. ELECTRIC CARS. SO GODDAMNED MANY PEOPLE HAVE SOLAR PANELS ON THEIR HOUSES OR IN THEIR PARKING LOTS.

WE DON'T HAVE SMOG DAYS IN LOS ANGELES ANYMORE UNLESS THERE'S A FIRE AND IT'S BECAUSE OF CARB STANDARDS.

LITERALLY MILLIONS OF FUCKING PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO PROTEST POLICE BRUTALITY IN 2020 AND YOU CAN SAY "NOTHING HAPPENED" ALL YOU WANT BUT THE WAY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT NOW IS FUCKING DIFFERENT THAN THEY DID AFTER RODNEY KING AND NOW PEOPLE WILL STOP AND WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF GOING 'NOT MY BUSINESS'

THERE IS A MALARIA VACCINE THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO OVER A MILLION CHILDREN IN JUST THE LAST FIVE YEARS SINCE IT WAS APPROVED FOR USE OUTSIDE OF TRIALS

[willowcrowned]

if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted

life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters