in spite of my venom

Wilt | 29 | M | Artist | Aries | ao3 | all of my art is posted to a sideblog (wiltkingart), not here.

[wiltking]

it's out!!! // storygraph // goodreads

[chalkrub]

going through old art and realised i never posted this from last year. i love it when women

[talyris]

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[touteytout]

[epsee]

life of adventure

[wiltking]

do you have deeply transgender recommendations??? i wanna read some too but im not very good at finding them at all. i also trust your taste

brainwyrms by allison rumfitt, you weren't meant to be human by andrew joseph white, the scales of seduction by rien gray, spring with the unicorns by taylor titmouse, eyetooth by mars adler. also the works of vermin by hiron ennes - though not as focused on transness alone, it features an awesome transmasc character at its heart and is very good all around and queer in other ways, if you want a longer read.

as for finding more i'd recommend following trans indie authors on social media as they sometimes promote the works of others in addition to their own stuff (there's a few i follow on bsky). good luck and happy reading 😁

[wiltking]

amazing that i can go 'i need to read something deeply transgender right now' and instantly have access to a growing pool of transgender fiction available at my fingertips

[maetersart]

Teuthida Abyssalis

oc / Dimitar

[bangtanghan]

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[wiltking]

finished black sun rising by c.s. friedman - notqueer 90s scifi fantasy (heavy on the fantasy) about a planet brimming with 'fae' magic and the descendants of humans who travelled through the stars to colonize it centuries ago. and the sorcerers who must now figure out the source of an emergent evil feeding on people's memories.

first a disclaimer that there are no fairies or elves in this book and that 'fae' only serves as a word subsitute for 'magic' in this world. that made me a little sad, so im mentioning it. but there are other creatures like demons and vampires and more, and the world here was one of my favorite things about the book. the mysteries of its night and the creatures that thrive in its deepest darkness. the Hunter, as a character, and everything about him. his relationship to Damien, rife with potential for a queer reading, with all the shame and hatred to make it interesting. all of this was good.

but i think what held it back from me 'loving' it was its writing - which felt just a little lackluster for a story so heavily woven around magic and its workings. i dont think its poorly written, exactly. whenever i would actually pick it up the story itself would suck me in and there were definitely some standout scenes. but i didnt always feel the desire to pick it up. and there are some scenes i wish had played out on the page real-time rather than explained after the fact. and i wasn't ever as captivated by damien as i like to be with any main character.

but the concepts were good, and i did like it overall. not everything can be a banger, and im still curious to see where the story goes in the next book, and if damien will more successfully endear himself to me.

[killin-kel]

Fragment of a memory Close ups under the break

[halzune]

love how the word brother meant nothing at the end. that it had its meaning completely evaporated by niall and ruben clinging to it. 'brother' when they both admitted they hate each other's mothers. 'brother' because it was the first real thing they were to each other (but not really, no, not to niall, who used to be terrified of ruben as a bully before ruben came back from juvie. the point was that ruben was never niall's brother.) 'brother' as a stand-in for tormentor, abuser, lover, haven, best friend, husband, betrayer, partner, soulmate, man. 'brother' before every love confession as if they had to test out what it meant to say i love you to each other. 'brother' dropped at the end, because ruben loved niall never like a brother did, and niall couldn't even breathe enough to say it again. 'brother' was true but also superfluous, a lie that grew legs and arms and shoulders and a face, and terrible terrible hands. the love declarations after? they counted, and they couldn't be enough. because ruben found something more punishing and possessive than that one word to give to niall. something only he could give. romeo and juliet they were before they lived under one roof, and that's what they returned to in the end.

[wiltking]

hm. while the concept of niall bottoming for ruben (saving himself for it) appeals to me very much i cant forget their volatile need to be on the same level as each other always, they cant stand it if the other is above him in any way and i think they would absolutely have fucked up ideas about the power dynamics of topping/bottoming. therefore they would switchfuck relentlessly.

[eysnirn]

Photo study from past two weeks.

[shrimpquoter]

ough

[fleebites]

junicorn

day 01

‘the hunt’

[kasha-malasha]

longing.