#the scorpio races

[asmalldarkmannamedfurrisky]

The sea attempts to claim its own.

Fiáin inniú / wild today

[skarmouth]

i’ve no idea if this has been touched on by someone somewhere, but maggie stiefvater writes in an author’s note that “there was also an eerie shape-shifting element to the myth” of the scorpio races— water horses turning into men on land in order to sure maidens to their death behooved sirens, i guess.

this was obviously scrapped, but i think you see the original shape of the plot nonetheless. particularly with sean and his uncanny understanding of capall uisce magic, his eerie draw to the see. you see it in puck, too; they’re both wild, old things in young bodies. that part of the myth lives on.

so like. sean was definitely going to be a horse, right?

[wonkyreads]

January Reads

[firelightletters]

"I draw myself up next to her and look at her profile, making no effort to disguise my attention, here, where there is only Puck to see me. The evening sun loves her throat and her cheekbones. Her hair the color of cliff grass rises and falls over her face in the breeze. Her expression is less ferocious than usual, less guarded."

— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races, 2011

[llstarcasterll]

i forgot to post this in November, but here's november's patreon postcard!!! Scorpio Races themed 🐎

[flagversion]

you guys don’t even understand the grip the scorpio races will have on your brain once you read it. you need to take this pill

[camelidae]

I did a short literary equine series a while ago, but I don’t think I ever posted this little lady. This is Skata from The Scorpio Races. She likes to drag people to their watery doom when they try and tame her, and you know what? Same.

[wolfsstorybook]

Starting off with Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races. Not particularly proud of these drawings, but they were the oldest, I drew them over the course of December 2025.

I had my ambitions about it, predictably failed, bit it's something.

(The book? Screw romance, it has CARNIVOROUS MYTHOLOGICAL HORSES, how cool is that?)