#alderhill

[sleepvines]

the book is up! If It Makes You Happy, Keep It is a 100k+ words novel we wrote about things both ill-advised and sentimental. It's a work of love, elbow grease, and a healthy dose of indulgence, so we hope you like it!

It's available in pdf and epub, and there's a low-contrast version of the pdf with larger dyslexia-friendly font as well.

This story is intended for mature readers—content warnings below:

Sensitive content includes violence, grief, undue prejudice, blood, sustained injuries, coerced sexual assault, substance abuse, emotional and physical abuse, implied parental abuse and neglect, abduction, depression and dissociation.

[umberpath]

finally got outside to draw and take nice pictures of the sketchbook :-]

[sleepvines]

my, what could this be?

[sleepvines]

doodling again, I'm trying to unwind but something keeps dragging me back

[sleepvines]

What happens when a handful of average folk have had enough of missing persons cases, lost pets, and stolen goods, and decide it's time to form a secret club for fairy hunting?

Very bad things.

The Greyhound Circle was nothing more than a club of Alderhill's most staunchly anti-fairy residents at the time (the 60's). They genuinely believed that if they braved the wilderness to figure out how their enemy ticked, they could purge a good swath of fairies from the woods in the name of safety. They were wrong. So wrong in fact, that most of their members never escaped the Hill, and the few that made it out alive never set foot in the forest again.

The conflict they stirred went unbeknownst to the village, but the impact it had on the Hill and her people made history. Even with their small headcount they cleaved a brutal wound through the fairies' domain. And it cleaved through them in turn. On both sides things have undoubtedly changed, but only the Hill's people remember.

[sleepvines]

I think it's finally time to craft a guy who will annoy the shit out of marlow

[sleepvines]

an absolutely excellent lil' rendition of Cillian I commissioned from @donnyclaws! It's thrilling to see him in such a different style :]

[umberpath]

Sienna! I wanted to adjust some of her features, but mostly I just wanted to draw her