the monster that kept me

I'm Gio! (she/her) I write songs about fiction and draw whatever is rotting my brain at this given moment. I reblog on viinaten. Check out my links: https://linktr.ee/giomaria

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Victoria Carbol wrote a sapphic wizard of oz retelling where Dorothy is a med student isekai'd into a tyrranical fantasy world and the tin (wo)man is cursed to have no heart. So, naturally, she's like, "I'm gonna love her so hard." Anyway, I drew them~

So uh: pre order this book!! It tells the publisher that we want more queer stories by queer authors! Also I read it and it fucking rips.

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hello! i’ve been listening to your music for a solid 7-ish years now i wanna say? and i have to thank you so profusely because it is beautiful and it’s gotten me through so much. all my love!

Can I thank YOU profusely for this?? This is so sweet. Thank you so much for telling me. It's an honor that my music has been a part of your life. Thank you for allowing it to be ❤️

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Why have you like never sing Spanish like ever?

Good question! haha. I actually have, I just don't post my Spanish singing. I wrote a song for my dad once where the bridge was in Spanish, but, again, never posted it. Maybe I should! Would anyone be interested?

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Sapphic isekai Wizard of Oz retelling where the tin man is a hot butch lesbian with a sword and Dorothy helps her find a heart? SAY LESS.

I got to read an early copy of Victoria Carbol's debut novel A GREAT AND POWERFUL TYRANNY and it became one of my favorite fantasy stories of all time. There is so much heart, wit, humor, and political intrigue.

All this to say: pre order this book!! It tells the publisher that we want more queer stories by queer authors!

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Here are all of them together! The spotify canvases I drew for @bookishsongs's Locked Tomb concept albun "ONE FLESH" which is now streaming EVERYWHERE. Each of them is reversible!

Tracklist: 1. LAST SIN (for Griddlehark) by Victoria Carbol & Gio Navas 2. LEFT ALIVE (for Harrow) by Lizzy Campbell 3. GO LOUD (for Camilla & Palamedes) by Gio Navas 4. EAT ME (for Ianthe & Coronabeth) by Tessa Barcelo & Kaya Hass 5. IF YOU ASKED (for Griddlehark) by Lizzy Campbell 6. THE RIVER (for Griddlehark) by Kaya Hass & Victoria Carbol

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ONE FLESH

Pre-save "ONE FLESH"

Reminder that tonight at midnight, the Bookish Songs Collective's Locked Tomb soundtrack "ONE FLESH" drops and if you click this pre-save link you'll get it the moment it's out.

(Also pre-saving helps it do well in the algorithm which, as indie artists, we appreciate beyond words)

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ALBUM ARTWORK REVEAL for our Locked Tomb fan soundtrack "ONE FLESH" We wrote 6 original songs about the books. Unofficial and not affiliated with Tamsyn or Tor. We're just huge fans.

And of course, we had to commission the legend herself @eerna for this.

"ONE FLESH" releases this Friday (March 13) and you can pre-save it here so that it's yours the moment it drops!

Tracklist: 1. LAST SIN (for Griddlehark) by Victoria Carbol & Gio Navas 2. LEFT ALIVE (for Harrow) by Lizzy Campbell 3. GO LOUD (for Camilla & Palamedes) by Gio Navas 4. EAT ME (for Ianthe & Coronabeth) by Tessa Barcelo & Kaya Hass 5. IF YOU ASKED (for Griddlehark) by Lizzy Campbell 6. THE RIVER (for Griddlehark) by Kaya Hass & Victoria Carbol

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Actually if not for @eerna there's a chance this EP doesn't get made because she's the one who got me into TLT and I ended up pitching and managing the project. So. This is truly full circle. One flesh one end, even.

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"Tell me how. Go loud."

Heyyyyyy I wrote a song about Cam and Pal and it's going to be on a Locked Tomb fan soundtrack put together by @bookishsongs that drops THIS FRIDAY so ya'll should pre-save it (because pre-saves help boost it and also you'll get it as soon as it's out!)

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remember when izuku was like "you're a kind person" and shouto's eyes dilated and he realized, "whoa i'm so in love and so down bad"

yeah

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"Our push and our pull. Desires untold. I’d live in your skull if it made you whole."

Canvas art by @viinas for "IF YOU ASKED" a Griddlehark song by Lizzy Campbell, from our upcoming Locked Tomb EP, "ONE FLESH" which you can pre-save here.

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"Your flesh, my end. All that I am I can't bear this sacrifice. I've stolen you down to your life."

Canvas art by @viinas for "GO LOUD" a Camilla and Palamedes song by Gio Navas, from our upcoming Locked Tomb EP, "ONE FLESH" which you can pre-save here.

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"For all the blood we’ve spilled, the lives we’ve lost, the ghosts we’ve killed. I won’t confess. I’ll be the end, you’ll be flesh."

Canvas art by @viinas for "THE RIVER" a Griddlehark song by Kaya Hass & Victoria Carbol, from our upcoming Locked Tomb EP, "ONE FLESH" which you can pre-save here.

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"Didn’t want to be the host to the bodies and souls forgotten."

Canvas art by @viinas for "LEFT ALIVE" a Harrowhark song by Lizzy Campbell, from our upcoming Locked Tomb EP, "ONE FLESH," which you can pre-save here.

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"I lose myself in the memories, where you still erase me from who you are, 'til we’re undone."

Canvas art by @viinas for "LAST SIN" a Griddlehark song by Victoria Carbol & Gio Navas, from our upcoming Locked Tomb EP, "ONE FLESH" which you can pre-save here.

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On today's episode of: things I won't shut up about....

This Ianthe and Coronabeth fansong has severely altered my brain chemistry. Just saying.

@eerna did the artwork for it and everything like goddamn. Pulling out ALL the stops.

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"Raven and dove. I do the labor, you get the love."

Spotify canvas by @viinas for our latest song "EAT ME" that we wrote about the third house twins.

EAT ME by Bookish Songs Collective is now streaming everywhere.

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Hi I drew this