perelith

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About Me

All drawings by @perelith 💛

Hi, i'm Nestor/Alan, an MLM Ukrainian writer, an avid BL watcher and a stubborn asshole, according to some.

I don't like to limit myself with a particular genre and mostly write queer literary fiction, which often revolves around romantic relationships and sometimes murder. Among those i like to explore the themes of shame, guilt, forgiveness and second chances. My characters are more than imperfect and they don't always get better but they're trying their best and that's what matters.

PROJECTS

FREEZE TO EXTINGUISH

It's a short (horror) story about being a mother's son and a hum that won't go away.

Finished. In the process of cover design.

SECRET PROJECT

A secret visual novel project co-written with @perelith over at @tarsusteam

WIP. Script writing & story visuals.

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Socials

Only good old Tumblr for now.

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Animated collage for Astral Booze by Purple Hill Witch 👾

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Omg omg the English translation for my short story is finally done!! And it's sooo good!

Support my best translator @perelith hehe

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kidnap is awesome everyone go watch kidnap. i'm so normal about it

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4/4 - Mavka / Мавка

last illustration for my uni project based on ukrainian mythology in modern times! this one depicts mavka, a spirit of a dead (often unbaptized) person. they dance people to death and are recognisable by the fact that they don't have backs, so their insides are clearly visible

this one's really late because I forgot to post it lmao. I don't really have a story for this one so no under the cut stuff. mavkas are very popular creatures in ukrainian mythology so you can easily find a lot of info about them. I recommend reading "The Forest Song" by Lesya Ukrainka, MC here is a mavka!

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NOT ME collage animation

Made this animation ages ago for a uni project.

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3/4 - Rusalka / Русалка

third illustration for my series with ukrainian mythology creatures in modern times. rusalka differs from story to story, but they are most often described as spirits of people who drowned. I honestly don't remember where from I took the idea of translucent skin, so this may be something I made up. more under the cut!

this particular illustration is inspired by a story where parents of the girl who became a rusalka managed to lure her back home on Rusalna Week (Русальний тиждень) and kept here there until next such week.

this one is just in the process of leaving home during Rusalna Week. her parents aren't very happy about it.

info from "Ukrainian mythology" by Volodymyr Halaichuk / "Українська міфологія" Володимир Галайчук.

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2/4 - Lelet / Лелет

second illustration in my series about creatures from ukrainian mythology in modern times. this one is lelet, though be aware that I heavily modified lelet's appearance to suit my needs

in ukrainian mythology lelet could be: 1) souls of people who died too soon that look like birds and scream loudly 2) bird-like embodiment of unchristened people 3) children who their mothers left in the woods because they were born out of wedlock

lelets generally look somewhat like birds, or something between a bat and a frog. I went with giant unidentifiable bird-like creature for epicness purposes

the plot for this one is basically 3, but when the child became lelet, it started haunting it's mother with intention to kill. i made it up

source for info included is "Українська міфологія" Володимир Галайчук / "Ukrainian mythology" Volodymyr Halaichuk

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1/4 - Chort / Чорт

one of the four illustrations I made for an uni assignment. the concept was to draw creatures from ukrainian mythology in modern times, and somehow along the way they all became anthro cats. oopsie.

this one is based on a story about how once a girl was going out on dates with a boy at night. her family never saw the boy, and with time noticed that their daughter is withering away. at some point while she slept, her mother put in her braid aconite and rue. next night when the girl went to meet her boyfriend, he couldn't come close to her, and asked her to take out aconite and rue. she couldn't find it. when sunrise came, boyfriend turned into a chort and said "if not only aconite and rue, you would be mine!".

for this illustration I used slightly different variant of this story where chort tried to make the girl cut her braid off.

source for info included is "Українська міфологія" Володимир Галайчук / "Ukrainian mythology" Volodymyr Halaichuk

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i love them ur honor

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have some shitty chaotic pride flags ^^

check out the rest of the flags on my profile since tumblr has a 10 image limit lol as well as the fixed versions of a few of these cuz I’m big dumb

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