#it a dark sapphic romance ...

[ledalife]

[noriretherford]

Jim Henson Presents issue #3 is dropping in comic stores now!

I hear it's got a pretty awesome Heretic & Wanderer short, and it ALSO has a TAVRA/ONICA one I worked on with J. M. Lee! SOOO EXCITED to finally reveal this.

It's been a dream project for ages. I put everything I could into these drawings, trying to do justice to Joe's lovely script. And Ángel brought all the scenes to life with gorgeous color.

"At the End of All Things"

Written by: J. M. Lee

Art by: @noriretherford

Colors by: @plutomaris

Many of the pages were released in the official online preview, so I'm just going to include a few of my favorites here. 🫣

[whereserpentswalk]

Your girlfriend came back from the dead "wrong", or at least that's what everyone says. She died quickly and slowly, far too young, and for a reason that would not have happened if the world was a better place. You were both going to the same college, she was majoring in film studies while you were majoring in necromancy, you lived in the same apartment together for so long. When you chose to bring her back you had to deal with faeries, and gods few people dare to pray to, but you got her back. Not because you deserved to have her but because she deserved to live.

She isn't what she used to be. Her face looks plasticish and embalmed, and because you didn't have that much skin to work with she's permanently sown into her clothing, that fancy outfit that was always her favorite. You didn't know it at the time but the spell gave her sharp teeth, and black eyes, and a desire for raw meat. It's not the body you would have given her if you had better ways of working. But your happy she's here. Your happy she's alive.

She's considered to have been revived wrong. You don't see it that way, the spells worked as well as they did. She's considered low functioning undead, creatures that are almost always thought of as entirely inhuman. She's considered a failure because she's not able to function like a human would, she doesn't move like a human, can't go out during daylight, acts erratically, is afraid a lot of the time. She's considered a failure because she can't work or go to school like she used to, even though she's alive that's not enough for most people. People are afraid she'll start going out at night and start attacking people on your block, she won't, even she's afraid of that but she doesn't need you to control her, she just has some very scary thoughts and abilities.

People sometimes say she's your experiment, or your pet, or like your daughter. She's not, she's still your girlfriend, you still love her and want to be with her. You comfort her when she's scared. You sing to her, and tell her about your day when you get home, and sit on the couch watching movies with her. You hold her to keep her warm because of how much having a cold body seems to upset her, and she'll push her face into your breasts, and touch you in ways someone touches their girlfriend.

Her parents act like she's fully gone. Calling her a mockery of her old self. Some higher functioning undead that you know have even called her an insult. And even a lot of people you know are so focused on the idea of her getting better. But you don't love her so that she can get better, you love her because it is a gift to love her, whatever form she may take.

[honeybees74]

[sleeplessv0id]

pomegranates are seen as beautiful and well worth the mess, so maybe I'm beautiful and worth the mess, too.

[calchexxis]

The first two books of my original series are now up on Amazon for anyone who wants to pick them up. If you want sapphic fiction that doesn't shy back from things like trauma and being a survivor of abuse, all against the backdrop of modern magic, take a look!

Seriously, though. this story means so much to me, and not just because I want to make my living as a writer one day. This is a story that I think pretty much every queer person will see a part of themselves in somewhere, but especially queer women of all kinds. I hope all of you love my girls as much as I do.

[polaesims]

“you’re hurting her.”

“no. i’m loving her the only way i know how.”

A little vampiric-sapphic photoshoot because I wanted something that looked like it came from a forgotten gothic romance novel that never made it past the first draft. She’s elegance. She’s danger. She’s got blood on her lips and her hands around the throat of the only girl she’s ever loved.

Here are the girls…still thinking of how to name them…

[apolline-lucy]

THE HOLLOWS moodboard : sapphic witches, ghost cats, & necromancy

[woundedwizard]

This was an edition of Carmilla that I found in my bookstore.

[druidflowers666]

No rizz, I’ll just stare at you longingly and think about you when I read poetry and fantasize about you while Hozier plays, and pray you get my telepathic messages.

[limefreakmama]

Jemily moodboard °•~♡~•°

[judeologist]

Our small talks aren't that small.

I think of them religiously.

jude.

[thewarmthofequallyreturnedlove]

“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[minimalist-quotes]

I loathed being a burden, even if I longed for your attention.

[1ck-bby]

need someone so unhealthily obsessed with me that they stalk my every move, surprise me with lil gifts without ever letting me see them, then drugging + r@ping me in the middle of the night <3

[sleeplessv0id]

*wipes tears* sorry, guys! that wasn't very evil and mysterious of me.