#griffin flaherty

[skiddykid]

Continuing on my quest try more book cover illustration by doing my own take on a cover for Widdershins 🌀

[a-pepper-honey]

Nobody:

Absolutely nobody:

Whyborne in Griffin’s shadowsight:

[wildmadumb]

But do have a conversation later, please.

[mushabon]

WIP - my two favorite Lovecraftian goobers from Jordan L. Hawk's "Widdershins." Its about time I got around to doing a lil something for those books seeing as I've only read the series like 4 times... going on 5...

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[Image description: the first image is a digital drawing in a semi-painterly style of Whyborne and Griffin walking arm in arm down the street. Whyborne is holding a red flower and blushes as he looks down at it, and Griffin is looking at him and smiling. The background is painterly and shows the street and lampposts lining it. The second image is a closeup of the drawing. End description]

Valentine’s day stroll through the bestest horrible murder town!

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are there any folks who use dreamwidth who would be interested in joining a Whyborne & Griffin and/or general Jordan L Hawk book comm?

Been rereading W&G and I’m thinking of making one...

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Minnesota Twins Recap vs the Detroit Tigers - April 19th, 2024

The Minnesota Twins may be starting a Tortured Blow-It Department soon if this losing streak doesn’t end soon. They’ve lost 4 straight after losing the finale in Detroit then getting swept by Baltimore with the last game ending in a walkoff home run. We do know they will never stop battling and we think they’ve established a good clubhouse culture & they expect to have a great season in…

[pretensesoup]

Queer fiction, day 2/30

Since I mentioned it yesterday, let's talk about Widdershins, which is book one of the Whyborne and Griffin books. There are eleven in total, but they're in a series such that you kind of have to read in order, so I'm going to talk about them as a group.

I only have these as ebooks right now, so I'm gonna hotlink to goodreads for the cover. Hopefully that works.

Okay, so the plot. Let's start by saying these do have a plot. Set in a very gothic town called Widdershins, in Massachusetts (just down the road from Arkham, it seems). As places go, it's very Night Vale--people keep to themselves and don't make eye contact if they're out after dark; the city's museum was designed by a man who slowly went mad during the work; everyone worships at a church called First Esoteric, which has some rather non-standard ritual practices.

The books are set around 1900. At the outset, we meet Dr. Percival Endicott Whyborne (he goes by Whyborne, which makes sense). He's highly educated, a philologist (someone who studies the history of languages). He speaks something like thirteen languages himself, and is also interested in cryptography, so it makes sense that when a private eye named Griffin Flaherty is referred to the museum with an occult, encyphered book, Whyborne is the person who's asked to help him. Together, they investigate a secret brotherhood and also fall in love.

I love a bunch of things about these books: the side characters are excellent; the sense of place (for a place that doesn't exist!) is extremely strong, and it's a funny, creepy place; the way the main characters get a chance to grow, both personally and in their relationship across all the books (unusual to find a series with so many entries in this genre); the explicit ways that Hawk deals with and subverts the ideas of "other" in Lovecraftian fiction.

Key quote: "Although the public areas of the museum were designed to give the appearance of a neat and orderly progression through history, the rest of the building exemplified chaos. Storerooms burrowed deep into the earth, while various wings sprawled off in every direction. The library was a literal labyrinth, and shortly after I'd first been hired, I'd found myself obliged to cross the flat roof of one of the wings as the most direct route from one department to another. Even though the museum was less than forty years old, there were rumors of lost storerooms and offices, and I did not doubt the possibility."

These books have a lot of sex in them, so be forewarned. When I read the first book, I found the use of euphemism in these a little grating to the inner ear ("my length" and suchlike), but over the course of the books I came to appreciate the voice. Then I read all the books and turned into a tiny eldrich creature myself.

10/10 for them.

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No, I'm *completely* normal about P Whyborne and Griffin Flaherty and Christine Putman and Iskander Barnett etc at the moment. I have no idea why anyone would think otherwise. ;-)

(I bought the whole Whyborne & Griffin series as an ebook bundle on Kobi. Incredibly good value. It is also ONE EBOOK so I need to read the whole lot so that then Partner can. Alas. Woe. Etc.. ;-))

(Anyway if you like ripping paranormal mystery adventures set in the late 19th century US, using some of Lovecraft's worldbuilding but with the kind of storylines and attitudes he'd hate (queer romance! some awesome characters of colour! moral nuance!), you'd probably like this. :-) )

(TBF Lovecraft probably *would* like the cat. :-D)

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Current Things

Tagged by @101octopodes! Thanks! This is fun!

3 ships: Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, and Percival Endicott Whyborne and Griffin Flaherty (see Currently Reading 😅). 

Last song: It Is What It Is by Jenna Raine–it's on one of Oldest Child's playlists--I get most of my new music that way these days.

Currently reading: Deosil by Jordan L. Hawk. It's the last Whyborne and Griffin book and I'm all 😭 about this fact. Ten novels, a novella, and several short stories was clearly not enough for me.

Last movie: Middle and Youngest decided we needed to watch the Mario movie, and I'm so mad at how much fun it was. 

(Unless you count showing the Sunday school kids my old favorite Veggie Tales video Josh and the Big Wall this morning with hot chocolate for their last weekend of break before school starts back up. I still have most of it memorized 😅 I don't watch a lot of movies on my own apparently)

Currently watching: Nothing right now. 

Currently craving: I bought Fritos to go with the leftover chili in the fridge that look really good right now (especially now that someone else–probably Spouse–has already opened the bag).

Currently consuming: About to sit down with green tea with toasted rice and a cranberry orange muffin. Oldest and I made them this afternoon because they're trying to get me to read their favorite webcomic because it has characters they think I would like, and they're right, I do like those weird little guys, but I'm not really into webcomic pacing so I don't keep up with it (everything gets from point A to, like, point Q so abruptly it doesn't feel real). So whenever we bake, I'll read it while things are in the oven so that I can tell them how far I got into the story and they can screech gleefully about it. 

Tagging (no pressure! just for fun if you want!): @aurorawest , @lowkeyed1 , @seamu5 , and @ossified-hypothesis

[skiddykid]

whyborne & griffin

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[professionalqueerbookworm]

Queer Reviews: Jordan L. Hawk, "Fallow" (Whyborne & Griffin #8).

CW: explicit sexual content, period-typical homophobia, mildly graphic violence, childhood trauma, mentions of racism

Plot: When Griffin’s past collides with his present, will it cost the lives of everyone he loves?

Between the threat of a world-ending invasion from the Outside and unwelcome revelations about his own nature, Percival Endicott Whyborne is under a great deal of strain. His husband, Griffin Flaherty, wants to help—but how can he, when Whyborne won’t tell him what’s wrong?

When a man from Griffin’s past murders a sorcerer, the situation grows even more dire. Once a simple farmer from Griffin’s hometown of Fallow, the assassin now bears a terrifying magical corruption, one whose nature even Whyborne can’t explain.

To keep Griffin’s estranged mother safe, they must travel to a dying town in Kansas. But as drought withers the crops of Fallow, a sinister cult sinks its roots deep into the arid soil. And if the cult’s foul harvest isn’t stopped in time, Fallow will be only the first city to fall.

9/10 on the Rainbow Scale™ 🌈: Everyone say a prayer for my poor baby Griffin, after seeing where he was raised and by whom it's honestly a miracle he's not swimming in self-hate anymore. Whyborne is still an anxiety-ridden idiot, but at least they love each other 😂😂😂 Christine and Iskander would like to have ONE good day.

[wildmadumb]

What good eyes you have, child.

[twins2994]

Tigers Rally Late To Beat Twins.

Tigers 5 Twins 4 W-Chafin (2-0) L-Thielbar (0-1) SV-Foley (6)

The Minnesota Twins had a rough time in Baltimore as the Orioles swept them. They returned home to play the Tigers tonight at a chilly Target Field. The Tigers were ready from the start as Kerry Carpenter lined a two-out double to right in the first. Spencer Torkelson singled him home to put the Tigers up a run before the Twins grabbed a bat. The Twins answered in the bottom of the first as Alex Kirilloff doubled to center. Trevor Larnach belted a Jack Flaherty fastball out right for a two-run homer to put Minnesota on top. The Tigers would answer in the third with a Parker Meadows walk and stolen base. Wenceel Perez singled him home to even the game at two. Kerry Carpenter lined a run-scoring single to left fo put Detroit back on top. The Tigers added on in the sixth as Wenceel Perez led-off with a triple to right. Kerry Carpenter dumped a single to left to put Detroit up by a pair. The Twins would rally in the sixth with an Eddie Julien walk and Ryan Jeffers reached on a flyball that Wenceel Perez couldn't catch. With two outs, Byron Buxton plated a pair with a double to left to tie the game at four. The bullpens held up until the ninth when Parker Meadows lined a two-out single to right and Mark Canha walked. Wenceel Perez lined a run-scoring single to center to put Detroit up. Jason Foley had a scoreless ninth and the Tigers picked up the win in the series opener.

-Final Thoughts- Joe Ryan did okay tonight and went 5 1/3 innings. He gave up four runs on seven hits with a walk and six strikeouts. Kody Funderburk got out of the sixth, Brock Stewart had a clean seventh, and Griffin Jax got in and out of trouble in the eighth. Caleb Thielbar gave up a run in the ninth to take the loss. Trevor Larnach led the team with two hits. The Twins hit 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position and left four men on base. Tomorrow, Reese Olson faces Bailey Ober in Game 2.

-Chris Kreibich-

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Weights from Atlantic City

Kristian Prenga 255 vs. Sam Crossed 208 (NBA Continental and NABA heavyweight titles) Anthony Johns 112 vs. Ramon Velasquez 116.5 Justin Figueroa 154 vs. Manuel Moreira 154 Malik Nelson 125,5 vs. Joseph Adorno 127.5 Francisco Rodriguez 134 vs. Marco Dorame 134.4 Gabe Gerena 131 vs. Joshua Maldonado 132 Avious Griffin 146.5 vs. Jose Gazzo 140=9 Isaah Flaherty 157.5 vs. Dewayne Williams 161,5 Derek…

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If you’ve been following me for awhile you might have noticed I’m a huge Jordan L Hawk fan. 

So I’m excited to announce I was commissioned by Omniverse Press to do the profiles for the Widdershins RPG game! Its Kickstarter.

Above we have the two main characters of the Whyborne & Griffin series ;  Percival Endicott Whyborne and his husband Griffin Flaherty.