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"I'll show you a Trinity," It warned, before ushering her into the bedroom.

Three hours later--one for each--she was left utterly spent, unaware of how the Goddess doted on her while she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.

(Art by aloeti)

*(4 Further Eldritch Yuri :) Anything Goes (AO3)

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New eldritch yuri oneshot soon 👀 this one's Halloween-themed!

It's also like 15k words so I think I'm gonna divide it up internally into chapters... Most of the smut will be in 2...

(I'll release it all at once though)

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This is Antigreen btw

(Doodle by @koinumilk)

couples tshirts that say "god won't let me die" and "I'm god"

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Antigreen Chapter 17 is still on its way, by the way, but (seeing as it's July, no longer June) it'll take a lil bit longer. Sorry! Just wanted to update so that people know..

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The Shadow out of Time has all the time in the world with which to cast herself into its sweep.

In the mean-time, she makes dreadful shadow-puppets on the asphalt.

Antigreen (AO3) and ScribbleHub and RoyalRoad

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when I'm sending 👀👀👀👀👀 I do mean this:

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vampire girlfailure who's afraid to be a predator, who whimpers and feels guilty when she feeds, who sleeps away the days (and nights) because it helps her forget about the thirst, who's self-conscious about the way her fangs stick out over her lip. Her girlfriend thinks she's the most beautiful creature in the world

Scarlet Windowpanes (AO3) is like this..

vampire failgirl whose always tired, has trouble standing up without fainting, and has really bad eye bags. she's always asking her roommate for blood because going out to the closest blood bank is too hard. when she drinks she keeps saying thank you thank you thank you thank you. her roommate keeps her muzzled

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"why so quiet, puppet?" 😈

defiantly glaring while bouncing on it

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She's beautiful

Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturns Enceladus

Credits: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

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Chapter 16 is taking a bit longer than expected... I am rather apprehensive about it as it features heavy content and relationship "drama"? Thanks for bearing with me, I will try to have it out before the close of the month

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(In which Calliope takes the roguelike a little too seriously and somehow strands herself in the Greek underworld... How serendipitous then that her girlfriend is not at all impeded by the paltry veil of death...)

Antigreen (AO3)

(Ettie art commissioned, dialogue & framing by me)

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Every scientific research team should have at least one designated poet/writer, because you're telling me scientists made people see a new color by stimulating M-cones with lasers and they called it fucking olo (for binary 010)?

Entire clades of chlorophyllic words were open to them, and that's what they pick? C'mon. It's hideously phallic, too. A sampling of what we could've had:

- praseochlor, from two Greek roots for "green" -- a moon-moon situation

- mreen, even, for M-cones

- on that note, why not mondegreen?

- Luigi

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Nerdy Nomenclature: Calliope Mondegrene

(This is a yap post for Callie, the protagonist of my web novel Antigreen, which concerns transfem girlfailures, eldritch goddesses, New England, etc--for context, lol. Expect much hypertext!)

Calliope's name is first in a few ways: literally, the first words in the first chapter, and the first name I came up with at all! She's the seed crystal around which the entire story's green/growing.

The name itself means "beautiful-voiced", with the Greek root kallos, which has many beautifully derived words (more on those later). As one of the nine Greek Muses, she's often invoked at the start of oral poetry, asked to "sing" through the poet in a kind of creative channeling. She's the mother of Orpheus, notorious underworld double-taker, among others, and her department's specifically epic poetry, the kind of lengthy narratives describing the dealings of mortals with supernatural forces (you can probably see where that's going).

What drew me to the name most was the description of muse-Callie's voice as possessing "ecstatic harmony"--ecstasy meaning an out-of-body-experience (OOBE) here, from which I assume the eponymous drug gets its name. My Callie has nonstop ecstatic experiences from the very beginning, whether chemical or spiritual! She's the Muse and channeling rod for a beautiful, terrifying Presence, after all, in a kind of subversion of the usual channeling direction.

(Kaleidoscopes, from Wikimedia)

The connection with drugs was also kind of an inspiration, though: one of the most well-known calli-words is kaleidoscope, a cylinder of mirrors and colorful fiddlybits that produces a cool psychedelic effect when looked through. The Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LSD, infamously) contains the lyric:

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

The song's persistently rumored to be inspired by an acid trip, despite denials, so from that: girl gets high, gets possessed by a God that acts out through her eyes follows nicely--eyes and eye contact being a bit of a fixation for me throughout Antigreen.

Let's tackle that smattering of calliclatural allusions now:

caleidoscope, as mentioned, but also the collective noun for a group of butterflies!

calliope hummingbird (suspiciously pink and green), a similarly nervous critter to Callie

calliope steam organ, patented in Massachusetts, often heard at North American fairgrounds, and again serving to channel an external power, in this case steam

calligraphy, 'beautiful writing', which I aspire at least some fraction of my work to be

teocalli, an ancient Mesoamerican temple, literally meaning "god-house" in Nahuatl. A Cyclopean vessel for the divine.

Calliope Beach in Antarctica, not so distant from the Mountains of Madness

callipygian 'having large buttocks', callithumpian 'noisome; riotous'

calembour, of dubious relation, but I can't resist a good pun

...I also recall hearing the phrase "space-time calliope" from the show Bravest Warriors. For a character who's influenced from a Thing outside of space and time, it seems worth mentioning... and wouldn't you have it? 'Influence' originally meant one 'from the stars'

Calliope also has a nice diminutive in Callie, another persistent theme in Antigreen--almost every character has one, and I use that as a way to embiggen/belittle them as needed by the narrative!

So Calliope's a muse, a vessel for a deity, a tiny flitting bird, but firstly an ordinary human: beautiful, though she doesn't think so; smart, with some drive, just dashed by her having to drop out of college; tall (5'9) and willowy and always bumping herself on corners, but stealthy when she needs to be. She sounds a little clocky, but when she's being puppeted her voice would at last acquire that rare, ecstatic harmony... (maybe a voice training braindump could be a birthday gift idea?)

Lastly, of her surname Mondegrene, I've already written a bit, but my thoughts are:

It adds good green down-to-Earthness to her name

A mondegreen is a misheard lyric--a mischanneled Muse, if you will

Vaguely French sounding--generations back, her family were immigrants to Boston from Quebec during la grand saignée

(art by the ever-lovely @koinumilk! Designs take loose inspiration from both generations of Gala/Galli, gender-transgressing priestesses of Inanna and Cybele, respectively)

Thanks for listening; I'll do more of these if y'all like em. In the meantime: chapter 16 and fifth oneshot out soon tm !

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Remember; your body is a temple

That is to say, a place for Gods and Goddesses to fill and use as they please

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Evergreen

if an eldritch god ever met me they would be entranced by my dope soul and pleasant vibe i think

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To be the Goddess' chosen bedmate

is a sort of hexing heaven, after all*

*(Eldritch Yuri: Anything Goes (AO3))

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Read Antigreen, maybe

(art by @koinumilk)

"PLEASE let me out of this stupid thing"

"But why, puppet? You're safe in there and have everything you need: food, water... Me, for entertainment..."

"... If you mean that, I'm pretty sure it'll just make it roll around a lot."

"Well, you'll just have to lie very still for me then, won't you? Be a good guinea pig..."