#captain nathaniel northland

[throuple-tournament]

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by @wanderingandfound.

Trevor: the born and bred monster slayer, whose noble family was all killed by a village mob when he was a child, and he is the lone survivor of that massacre. Alucard: the half-vampire son of Dracula who lived a very happy life until the church killed his human mom and his vampire dad went mad from grief. And Sypha: the magician from a travelling people known as Speakers who have a prophecy that basically says the three of them are to team up to kill Dracula.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula: For most of the book it's about two of the characters' romance (Vlad and Nathan) and Ursula meets them closer to the end. Their relationship, I think, is supposed to be continued in the next book. They all kiss each other and it's clear from the book that they like each other, and are all open to polyamory.

[joydemorra]

Do you ever start something as a joke and lose complete control over your life?

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more... [read the full blurb here]

What is Hunger Pangs?

Hunger Pangs, often shortened to “Phangs” by the self-proclaimed phangdom, is my debut romance novel, published in Nov 2020, featuring a deaf, disabled werewolf, a neurodivergent, mad scientist vampire, and an all-powerful enchantress who is the last of her kind.

It is the first book in a slow-burn, polyamorous gaslamp fantasy romance series focusing on the relationship(s) and antics of the three main characters, Nathan Northland, Vlad Blutstein, and Lady Ursula, as they work to save the world they love from imminent magical and ecological disaster.

The first book primarily focuses on the relationship between Nathan and Vlad, with Ursula heavily alluded to in the next book (Pride and Folly) via some shameless flirting and stolen, impulsive kisses.

No love triangles here. Just three highly competent, world-saving bisexuals sharing the same brain cell the closer they get to each other.

There are two editions of the novel. The Flirting with Fangs edition depicts on-page sexual acts, and the Fluff and Fangs edition which uses alternative scenes/fade-to-black scenes for those who prefer not to read depictions of sex. You can read more about why I decided to do this here.

How Did Phangs come to be?

Like most things on my blog, the original concept began as a joke. My friend and enabler, @jeneelestrange, and I were talking about our least favorite tropes in romance/erotica, including but not limited to toxic “alpha” werewolves, brooding stalker vampire boyfriends, and the absolute profound bullshit that is the Conflicted Love Triangle and Bury Your Gays.

Eventually, it culminated in this post:

(source)

It was meant to be a joke. I really cannot emphasize this enough. It was meant to be a shitpost between friends.

A throwaway ADHD impulse.

Tumblr, however, wanted more of these posts, and like a swarming mass of drift-compatible rats in a trench coat, grabbed hold of my lack of impulse control and Ratatouille'd me into becoming an international bestselling author, and, well, here we are.

I also started writing the series while dying, which I highly do not recommend as a functional creative process.

Absolutely do not start a 500k five-part novel series about love and hope while dying from an undiagnosed genetic disorder. Or if you do, make sure you actually die so you don't have to edit the damn thing. (I am mostly kidding.)

What are the themes/tropes/character dynamics of the book?

In the simplest of terms, Phangs is a queer-polyamorous-paranormal-satirical-romance series featuring vampires, werewolves, and all other manner of creatures that go bump in the night.

It is set in a pseudo-regency meets fake-Victorian Gaslamp Fantasy world, complete with gothic castles, enchanted forests, and just a smidge of industrial coal dust.

Style-wise, Phangs has been described by readers as "like reading the queer, goth love child of Terry Pratchett meets Jane Austen," and I've never been more proud of anything in my life.

If Game of Thrones ascribes to the idea that the night is dark and full of terrors, Phangs is the monster-fucker politely sidling up to them at the bar and asking if they can buy them a drink.

It is also primarily a love letter to fandom, which has led some people to believe it’s fanfiction with the serial labels filed off. But as the person who spent five years agonizing over the world-building, I can assure you this is all very much the product of my weird little ADHD brain picking up tropes, shaking them upside down, and running off with whatever fun and interesting things shake loose.

As already stated, the first book, True Love Bites, focuses primarily on the relationship between Captain Nathaniel J. Northland and Viscount Vlad Blutstein.

The first part of the book primarily focuses on Nathan coming home injured from war and trying to find his place in the world as newly deaf and disabled -- something which alienates him from his werewolf family, who don't know what to do with an injury that can't be mended by a full moon.

While working on the island of Eyrie, he encounters Viscount Blutstein -- Vlad-- a neurodivergent, mad scientist dandy vampire with an enthusiasm for demonic botany and a streak of unfailing kindness as broad and expansive as the sky.

It's not so much love at first sight for the pair as instantaneous lust hampered by the restrictions of polite 1880 society and old ingrained prejudices that make them think the other couldn't possibly be interested in them that way. They're just misreading all those heartfelt stares and sexually charged chess games.

(The love is requited, your honor, they're just idiots.)

Both characters are explicitly queer/mspec, as is Ursula, who drops into their world like a magical atom bomb going off, but not before she spends her own parts of the book desperately trying to figure out what manner of dark entity is killing the magical shrines around the world that keep the world alive.

Thematically, the series touches on many things, but the book’s overriding theme is love. Romantically, of course, and love between families, both found or otherwise. But also love as an act of courage. As a choice. An act of defiance in dark and troubling times, and what it means to be loved and belong even though you’re different.

Especially when you’re different.

And I really fucking hope you enjoy it.

To read the full synopsis and check out the heat ratings, buy links and content tags, go to www.joydemorra.com

[thebibliosphere]

Do you ever start something as a joke and lose complete control over your life?

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more... [<< read the rest of the blurb here]

What is Hunger Pangs?

Hunger Pangs, often shortened to “Phangs” by the self-proclaimed phangdom, is my debut romance novel, published in Nov 2020, featuring a deaf, disabled werewolf, a neurodivergent, mad scientist vampire, and an all-powerful enchantress who is the last of her kind.

It is the first book in a slow-burn, polyamorous gaslamp fantasy romance series focusing on the relationship(s) and antics of the three main characters, Nathan Northland, Vlad Blutstein, and Lady Ursula, as they work to save the world they love from imminent magical and ecological disaster.

The first book primarily focuses on the relationship between Nathan and Vlad, with Ursula heavily alluded to in the next book (Pride and Folly) via some shameless flirting and stolen, impulsive kisses.

No love triangles here. Just three highly competent, world-saving bisexuals sharing the same brain cell the closer they get to each other.

There are two editions of the novel. The Flirting with Fangs edition depicts on-page sexual acts, and the Fluff and Fangs edition which uses alternative scenes/fade-to-black scenes for those who prefer not to read depictions of sex. You can read more about why I decided to do this here.

How Did Phangs come to be?

Like most things on my blog, the original concept began as a joke. My friend and enabler, @jeneelestrange, and I were talking about our least favorite tropes in romance/erotica, including but not limited to toxic “alpha” werewolves, brooding stalker vampire boyfriends, and the absolute profound bullshit that is the Conflicted Love Triangle and Bury Your Gays.

Eventually, it culminated in this post:

(source)

It was meant to be a joke. I really cannot emphasize this enough. It was meant to be a shitpost between friends.

A throwaway ADHD impulse.

Tumblr, however, wanted more of these posts, and like a swarming mass of drift-compatible rats in a trench coat, grabbed hold of my lack of impulse control and Ratatouille'd me into becoming an international bestselling author, and, well, here we are.

I also started writing the series while dying, which I highly do not recommend as a functional creative process.

Absolutely do not start a 500k five-part novel series about love and hope while dying from an undiagnosed genetic disorder. Or if you do, make sure you actually die so you don't have to edit the damn thing. (I am mostly kidding.)

What are the themes/tropes/character dynamics of the book?

In the simplest of terms, Phangs is a queer-polyamorous-paranormal-satirical-romance series featuring vampires, werewolves, and all other manner of creatures that go bump in the night.

It is set in a pseudo-regency meets fake-Victorian Gaslamp Fantasy world, complete with gothic castles, enchanted forests, and just a smidge of industrial coal dust.

Style-wise, Phangs has been described by readers as "like reading the queer, goth love child of Terry Pratchett meets Jane Austen," and I've never been more proud of anything in my life.

If Game of Thrones ascribes to the idea that the night is dark and full of terrors, Phangs is the monster-fucker politely sidling up to them at the bar and asking if they can buy them a drink.

It is also primarily a love letter to fandom, which has led some people to believe it’s fanfiction with the serial labels filed off. But as the person who spent five years agonizing over the world-building, I can assure you this is all very much the product of my weird little ADHD brain picking up tropes, shaking them upside down, and running off with whatever fun and interesting things shake loose.

As already stated, the first book, True Love Bites, focuses primarily on the relationship between Captain Nathaniel J. Northland and Viscount Vlad Blutstein.

The first part of the book primarily focuses on Nathan coming home injured from war and trying to find his place in the world as newly deaf and disabled -- something which alienates him from his werewolf family, who don't know what to do with an injury that can't be mended by a full moon.

While working on the island of Eyrie, he encounters Viscount Blutstein -- Vlad-- a neurodivergent, mad scientist dandy vampire with an enthusiasm for demonic botany and a streak of unfailing kindness as broad and expansive as the sky.

It's not so much love at first sight for the pair as instantaneous lust hampered by the restrictions of polite 1880 society and old ingrained prejudices that make them think the other couldn't possibly be interested in them that way. They're just misreading all those heartfelt stares and sexually charged chess games.

(The love is requited, your honor, they're just idiots.)

Both characters are explicitly queer/mspec, as is Ursula, who drops into their world like a magical atom bomb going off, but not before she spends her own parts of the book desperately trying to figure out what manner of dark entity is killing the magical shrines around the world that keep the world alive.

Thematically, the series touches on many things, but the book’s overriding theme is love. Romantically, of course, and love between families, both found or otherwise. But also love as an act of courage. As a choice. An act of defiance in dark and troubling times, and what it means to be loved and belong even though you’re different.

Especially when you’re different.

Both of you...

And I really fucking hope you enjoy it.

To read the full synopsis and check out the heat ratings, buy links and content tags, go to www.joydemorra.com

[whumpdoyoumean]

Whumptober Masterpost

Hey, everyone! Thank you all again for your support through October! I did it!!!

Some stats! I wrote a total of: - 116 pages and -42,325 words for -22 fandoms and two original works!

All works are linked below the cut! All links are within tumblr. Huge, huge thanks to everyone who put this together and kept it running! I had a great time. You're all fantastic! Also for anyone who doesn't know and is interested, my Ao3 can be found here!

Day 1| fandom: Hawkeye & Spider-man; whumpee: Clint Barton

Days 2-4| fandom: Teen Wolf; whumpee: Stiles Stilinski part 1 part 2 part 3

Day 5| fandom: Vox Machina; whumpee: Vax'ildan Vessar

Day 6| fandom: Nightwing & Red Hood and the Outlaws; whumpee: Dick Grayson

Day 7| fandom: The Penumbra Podcast; whumpee: Juno Steel

Day 8| fandom: The Umbrella Academy; whumpee: Klaus Hargreeves, Diego Hargreeves

Day 9 & 16-17| fandom: The X-Files; whumpee: Fox Mulder part 1 part 2 part 3

Day 10| fandom: Black Sails; whumpee: John Silver

Day 11| fandom: The Bear; whumpee: Carmy Berzatto

Day 12| fandom: Pacific Rim; whumpee: Raleigh Becket

Day 13| fandom: The Last Kingdom; whumpee: Uhtred of Bebbanburg

Day 14| Original Content

Day 15| fandom: FBI; whumpee: OA Zidan

Day 18 & 19| fandom: The Man From UNCLE; whumpee: Napoleon Solo part 1 part 2

Day 20| fandom: Inception; whumpee: Eames

Day 21| fandom: Hunger Pangs; whumpee: Nathaniel Northland

Day 22| Original Content

Day 23| fandom: The Losers; whumpee: Jake Jensen

Day 24| fandom: Justified; whumpee: Raylan Givens

Day 25| fandom: Captain America; whumpee: Clint Barton

Day 26| fandom: The Witcher; whumpee: Geralt of Rivia

Day 27| fandom: Midst; whumpee: Jonas Spahr

Day 28| fandom: 911; whumpee: Evan "Buck" Buckley

Day 29| fandom: Limitless; whumpee: Brian Finch

Day 30 & 31| fandom: The Sandman; whumpee: Dream

part 1 part 2

[lynmars79]

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites

A Polyamorous Supernatural Romance

[ID: images of the two covers each for Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites and the novella Crewel Intentions]

This is a book I’ve been waiting on for a few years now, watching @thebibliosphere​ (aka Joy Demorra) get tricked into coming up with characters, plot, and then drafts as she grew sicker, until finally getting the diagnoses and help needed to turn the corner last year to everyone’s relief. This book is a labor of desperate love and it’s felt in every page.

Set in an Earth-like world inhabited by known and out supernatural creatures like werewolves, witches, and vampires, the story takes place in a pseudo-European empire in the late 1880s. Captain Nathaniel James Northland, the second son of the northern Wolf Lord, has returned home from war due to severe injuries--the werewolf managed to survive a silver-tipped bullet, but it’s left him disabled and unable to continue as a soldier.

Vlad Blutstein is the son of the Count, who has been given control of the Eyrie, a dreary little island, and all the responsibilities of Parliament lords with none of the respect accorded their mortal peers. Vlad pretty much runs the island with his many civil projects and botany hobby, but has need of a new Guard Captain.

Meanwhile, mysterious Lady Ursula and her guardian look for what is killing the all-important Ancestral Trees dotted around the world, and why.

Vampires and Werewolves don’t get along, as one expects. Yet Nathan ends up Captain at the Eyrie and the attraction between him and Vlad is electric. Lady Ursula’s appearance is late enough that the romance hasn’t reached her yet, but that’s in part because the story is so long that the original draft for Book 1 had to be split--but the three-way attraction is very much there already.

The Eyrie is inhabited by Vlad’s family--Lady Riya is a darling and I love her, Lady Margrete is sweet, and the Count is terrifying but largely absent. The Collins family remind me of the Bennets from Pride & Prejudice in a good way. The guards remind me of the Watch from Discworld in a good way. Many inhabitants of the world, including at the Eyrie, have disabilities (Lady Margrete used mobility aids), Vlad is neurodivergent, and some folks use they/them pronouns. Riya is adopted by the Count and has Vlad wrapped around her little finger; she’s also described as a dark-skinned woman, and Ursula, the romantic woman lead, is also darker-skinned.

Nathan, a large, strong military man, is allowed emotional vulnerability and softness, not just with himself, but also the other people around him, and especially Vlad as the two men grow closer than either of them expected. His disabilities get accommodations and are a part of him. He also tripped my Werewolf Hero character love hard in Part 3 and I was already liking the character. I love everyone (except the reprehensible antagonists of course) but I have a few favorites and Nathan is one of them (Riya and Kitty are also High on my list).

The sex scenes are tasteful and lovely; it’s definitely about these men figuring out their emotional stakes, kinks and consent, and care needed. There is an alternate version of the book that is smut-free. “Flirting with Fangs” for the sex, “Fluff and Fangs” for no sex (and more discussion/alternate versions of scenes with fade outs). Joy’s website has info on her heat ratings and any other triggers needed by readers.

The book is also very funny; Joy is known for her wit and puns as much as her advocacy, and there were times the book made me laugh, and a good couple of “oh crap” moments (like the Count’s first actual appearance; the tension and fear of him from other characters had done its job well). The climax is understated; as this was originally longer and so split into two, the first step to saving the world comes in a library. It feels like a definite good start to the greater magical plot that backdrops the romance.

There were a few times I wanted a little more time spent in places, more description, but this is already a long book and was trimmed down and finally split in half, so some of the skips and summaries do make sense knowing that, and none of it detracts from the core relationships and plot points.

Many of the secondary and tertiary characters in the book are named for Joy’s Patreons of a certain tier and timeframe, as well; as I said, this book is an act of love for friends and followers.

If you want to test Joy’s setting, characters, and style (assuming you aren’t already reading her blog and fanfiction), there’s also a novella “Crewel Intentions” which shows the established romantic trio and a happy for now ending. There are also Flirting/Fluff editions of the novella.

It’s rare to find a book with good polyam rep, with diverse characters simply allowed to inhabit their world, weaving in the political intrigue and a greater magical mystery while focusing on the main romantic chemistry of the leads, but I can say I am not disappointed in this story we’ve waited so long to see, and with more to come.

[throuple-tournament]

Li Shimin/Wu Zetian/Gao Yizhi created by @xiranjayzhao.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by @mochithewondercat.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown 's submissions.

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Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by Anon.

Gotham city sirens :

They're all strong female characters part of Batman's rogues gallery with questionable taste in men, an interesting blooming friendship born from becoming partners in crime occasionally who end up hanging out with each other more once their relationship becomes more established.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula: For most of the book it's about two of the characters' romance (Vlad and Nathan) and Ursula meets them closer to the end. Their relationship, I think, is supposed to be continued in the next book. They all kiss each other and it's clear from the book that they like each other, and are all open to polyamory.

[throuple-tournament]

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown.

Description provided by Anon.

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Image of Rielle/Audric/Ludivine found by @locksleyofrobin.

Characters Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown 's submissions.

Description provided by Anon.