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Olllld sketches of costumes worn for an annual performance of "The Skinning of Lupine". Which takes place on the new moon closest to the anniversary of when the lupmish first came to Riverbed (and is very much colored by that context). Lupine is the pseudo-historical first Lupmish (werewolf). "The Skinning" is a dramatization of how they (and by extension all lupmish) came to be. It's just the first --and most intense-- of many more stories involving them.

Historically, Auntie plays the part of Lupine, but she's getting ready to retire the role.

Summary of the story is below the cut:

Thousands of years ago, a baby was born with the fur and face of a wolf, and out of shame it was left in the wilderness to die. The midwife tasked with sending the baby to its death took pity on the poor thing and prayed for its safety*. The moon goddess took notice and raised the kid as its own. It taught it to live and hunt like a beast and named it Lupine. They lived happily this way for many years. Eventually, the village that kicked them out began to encroach on their hunting grounds, leaving them with nothing to eat for winter. Lupine goes into the village out of desperation to beg for scraps, but is met with empty streets. Suddenly, they're surrounded by hunters. With a single strike from the lead hunter's axe, they are skinned alive. Lupine screams**. Lupine, bloody, runs away with pelt in hand and cries to the moon goddess about what happened. The moon is enraged at what the hunters have done to their child. It comforts them, sews their pelt back on, and promises that when the moon's face is full, Lupine can be a beast again. The moon then breaks its sewing needle in half and gives the pieces to Lupine to be their fangs, ordering them to seek revenge. Lupine runs off to do just that***. And that's how the lupmish came to be! *The midwife was entirely omitted in earlier versions of the modern dramatization of the story, though the character predates it significantly. Since their reintroduction it's been traditional for them to be played by a child in adorable old person makeup, much to the joy of all. **As previously mentioned, Auntie is usually the one playing Lupine. She's such a laid-back and jovial person normally it's always disturbing for the audience to hear such an anguished, blood-curdling scream come out of her. ***It varies year-to-year but usually the performance ends right here, and wraps up with a speech by the player of the moon that usually touches on the morals of the story like "don't be greedy" and "don't fuck with the gods" and hammering home the cultural importance and responsibility of being lupmish.

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and then they didn't post for a year... oops. Anyway enjoy this auntie shitpost from last year

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Ride Never Taken

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fyi for people following me here from twitter! this is a sideblog so i’ll be following people back from my main

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been drawin but not much to post atm. have some gals

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Illustration I did for BOUND IN FLESH: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror at Ghoulish Books a little while ago. My first ever book cover and a very cool learning experience :^) Preorder the book here

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BOUND IN FLESH: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror

I’m super excited to announce my story, Mama is a Butcher, will be included in BOUND IN FLESH: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror from Ghoulish Books, edited by Lor Gislason!

Cover art by the talented @bluehatted !

This anthology features thirteen body horror stories all by trans and nonbinary writers. I’m super honored to be included and I can’t wait to see what amazing stories everyone else has written!

Here’s the cover and TOC reveal from The Lineup with more details on the anthology.

Preorder the book here!

Happy trans awareness week!🏳️‍⚧️💕

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rabbets

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Even more Monster Bust commissions from twitter! for @/GiveMeYourTeeth, @/cyamallo, and @/shnell respectively

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late night doodle

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Monster Bust commissions from twitter!

for slimyswampghost, evilantlers JeiEztli and DTFinnegan, respectively.

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character portraits i sketched out for a discord convo

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Amelia Hughes my beloved....

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Treated myself the other day to better nailing down an old character. If you've followed me long enough, you've probably seen him before! Claude's been through a lot, both in design and story.

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a whole lotta Auntie

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Wow, someone should make a movie about this!

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ra ra raz pootie