📜 Why We Share This Story 📜
When it began, The Burdens of Heirs was a gift—something written for one another. A quiet offering. A piece of our love and devotion, turned ink. We started writing at the very beginning of our relationship, and this story became our testament.
But now, it is much more than that.
This story is a cultural shift.
It strips away the Christianized lens through which so many view paganism, and restores vitality, honor, and humanity to those who were rewritten.
We are retiring the tired image of pagans as only “Vikings”—because that was never the whole truth.
What most know of Norse culture was recorded by Christian men, centuries after the fact. Our society clung to those records and twisted them into a spectacle of blood and violence.
This story is an expression of love in its fullness—free from boundaries, expectations, and labels. A chance to return honor to the stories of sapphic and achillean love—not as side plots, not as shameful secrets, but as epics in their own right.
We are retiring the need to simplify people into boxes just to make them more comfortable for others to consume.
⸸ Queer romantics who loved The Last Kingdom and cried alone
⸸ Poets and literary readers who underlined Madeline Miller and want more
⸸ Sapphic witches who’ve never seen themselves in a dynasty
⸸ Trauma survivors who hide grief in elegance
⸸ Lovers of tragedy—not happy endings
⸸ Queer kids of color who saw nothing of themselves in media
⸸ Those who were told family is blood, but bled and got nothing back
⸸ The ones with mothers who gave them duty, not love and fathers who gave them legacy, not safety. And lovers who could never love them in daylight
And if you see yourself in any of these words, then perhaps, it’s for you too.
Anais & Alexis - The Burdens of Heirs
