#Allison Sekemoto

[lauraisakilljoy]

I’ve been re-reading blood of eden and I’m once again upset that there is not a large fandom for it so interact with this post if you love the series and maybe I’ll make a tumblr community for it 👀

[tabithahallows]

Yeah, okay, I know this famdom is largely non-existent but there's gotta be at least a couple of you mother fuckers out there so I made us some memes to share 🩷

[marahsfandomloves]

Blood of Eden characters by @unusualmuffin-art.

From top to bottom-

Zeke Crosse

Kanin

Jackal

Allison Sekemoto

[jkags-doodles]

Allie: ‘ooh, I’m the bigger person’ I’m 5’0 bitch, give me a gun

[burrowkit]

Jackal: Hey, sister...? Allie: Yeah? Jackal: Remember how I said you owed me? Allie: I remember you saying that. Not that I did owe you. Jackal: Yeah, well, I need your help. Jackal: I may have angered a few vampires and I need to lie low. So I was thinking of hiding at Eden, but I didn't just want to show up and have you kill me for being there. Allie: Why Eden? Jackal: Because it's heavily guarded, full of food, and relatively unknown to the world. Allie: No. Jackal: But I'll be killed. Allie: What did you do? Jackal: er, it doesn't matter? Zeke: Of course not. Allie: Alternative idea- travel with us. (same time) Jackal: Maybe? | Zeke: No way. Jackal: (pause) oh, if it'll upset the puppy so much... absolutely. Zeke: I hate you. Jackal: But you love my sister. Which makes us family Zeke: I still hate you. You killed my family. Jackal: And I'm pretty sure I saved your a*$. Let's call it even. Zeke: no. Allie: So, we're heading this way, on foot. Sounds fun? Jackal: On foot? Yeah, no, I'm finding us a car. Zeke: Absolutely no- Allie: Just let him. Plus, we'll have more time to save the world this way. Jackal: I'm driving and my sister is riding shotgun. Allie: Still no idea what that is Jackal: Sitting up front. Zeke: See, he's already trying to come between us and make us split up. Jackal: Or maybe you're too annoying to be around when you're constantly making out. I'm not your chauffeur, and I don't trust either you to drive. So shut up, and deal with being split up so we can talk and not listen to you two making out all night. Jackal: Thank you. Jackal: {under breath} Love Sick Idiots

[why-am-i-not-cat-blog]

Screaming into the void with this one but I have a theory that jackals raiders are the reason Zeke's town was attacked by rabids. Kanin tells Allison that he turned jackal "a few decades ago" and not to long after being turned he took his gang and booked it "into the mountains". And where was Zeke's town? At the base of a mountain! So it shouldn't be too much to say that they could have been in the same geographic place at the same time (plus it feels odd that kagawa would have both of them have ties to mountains). Also isn't it odd that 47 years into the apocalypse Zeke's town suddenly gets attacked by rabids? (He was 4 when the rabids came and he is 17 when he is telling Allison about the attack). So I think that the raiders where close to Zeke's town but probably just didn't have a clue where it was and the rabids came poking around because they smelled humans and found the town by scent while looking for the raiders who were probably raiding other towns close by (and let's be real here they most likely killed everyone in the towns they came across so the rabids had no food left for them). So yeah I've had this theory for like 8 years but just now have time and energy to get into my fav fandoms and if anybody thinks I'm right or wrong I'd love to talk about it

[byndebondry]

Illustration of Allison Sekemoto for the spanish edition of Julie Kagawa’s book: La Sangre Inmortal 🩸

And published by Siren Books 🖤

[burrowkit]

I swear, I see Blood of Eden stuff in every tumblr post.

Some of the less romantic ones could work for Allie and Jackal as siblings?

Like, 1 is def Allie then Jackal

2 is maybe Allie and Jackal, either saying either lines

3 and 4 are def Allie to Zeke

5 could easily be Jackal being all "idk how everyone just like, died, but like, I'm still trying to figure out how this happened" in a very innocent tone.

6 is Allie's demon about Zeke

7 is either Allie to Zeke or Zeke to Allie. Somehow both?

8 might just be Zeke.

9 could easily be any one of the main trio. Like, I could see Jackal freaking out because he really realizes he (familial) loves his little sister, and he'd love to just, not. But he can't.

10 I swear Allie said to Zeke in the books

List of “angry confession” prompts

“Since when did you ever care about me?!” “Since fucking forever, you idiotic dunce!” 

“I can’t leave you alone for one second without you hurting yourself, can I?” “I mean, I’m fine so it’s okay—” “No, it’s not okay. Not when I feel like I’m going to go batshit fucking crazy, thinking you’ve hurt yourself.“

“Well, I’m sorry I fell in love with you, okay? But it happened and I can’t do shit about it.” “You… What?” 

“You think I wanted this to happen? You think I, of all people, wanted to fall in love with you?” 

“Trust me, I’m also trying to understand how in the shit this happened.” 

“…This is why I knew I shouldn’t have gotten close to you.”

“I’m going to need you to stop for one second because I just find it so incredibly rude that you think I’m not head over heels in love with your stupid, oblivious ass. Are you a brick? Because you’re dense as fuck.”

“Tell me how I’m supposed to un-love you, then. Tell me. Spare me.” 

“Yeah, well, if I could, I’d lose feelings for you. But it’s not that easy. It’s not that easy to just let go of someone you’ve held onto for so fucking long.” 

“What part of ‘I want you, and only you’ do you not understand?” 

[j-marlowe]

Contributing to an extremely niche Fandom time. I finally got around to posting my Blood of Eden work that I've been working on forever. Sit back and Enjoy some Zeke content

(Side note if you love the apocalypse, Vampires and religious themes you should totally check out this book series)

[nellasbookplanet]

Book recs: vampires

Listen, vampires are a classic for a reason, but they have also been done to death (pardon the pun) to the point that finding books that are creative with the premise can be a bit of a slog through tired old tropes. Hopefully this rec list can be to a bit of help for all vampire fans out there wanting something fresh!

For details on the books, continue under the readmore

Previous rec posts:

Really cool fantasy worldbuilding

Really cool sci-fi worldbuilding

Dark sapphic romances

Mermaid books

Sci-fi vampires:

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

Octavia Butler my beloved, literally you cannot go wrong with one of her books. Fledgling follows what at first seems to be a ten-year-old amnesiac girl, who finds out she is in fact a decades old vampire on the run from others of her kind. The vampires here are a separate species from human, not supernatural, and are as a whole very fascinating and unsettling. Come in prepared for fucked up power dynamics.

Blindsight by Peter Watts

Vampires and aliens and questions of the nature of consciousnesses, oh my. Not a vampire novel so much as a scifi novel about aliens in which there also happens to be vampires (one of which is captain of a spaceship sent to explore an alien ship just entering the solar system). Another example of vampires as an entire separate species, but more horror focused than Fledgling. No, seriously, this book will fuck you up, highly recommend if you're okay with a lot of techno babble and existential horror.

Peeps (Peeps duology) by Scott Westerfeld

Young adult. Vampirism as a sexually transmitted parasite that turns most people into bloodthirsty monsters. Cal is an asymptomatic carrier working to find other infected before they hurt people, including his own former girlfriends. But there is something else lurking in the dark, an ancient enemy of the vampire parasite...

Post apocalypse vampires:

The Hallowed Ones (The Hallowed Ones duology) by Laura Bickle

Young adult. Katie is an Amish girl eagerly awaiting her rumspringa, when she gets to try out the outside world. But before she has the chance, something happens to the Outside; a nearby town is wiped out, and something evil stalks the night. To protect their community, the Amish elders decide that no one can leave and no one can enter the sacred ground that makes up their home. That is, until Katie finds an injured young man and decides to help him.

The Company of Death by Elisa Hansen

Wild mix of genres, where a zombie apocalypse has struck and vampires gather up humans to keep their food source from going extinct, a robot travels across America with a young man she's tasked to keep safe, and former-vampire-hunter-recent-zombie Emily teams up with Death himself to stop the apocalypse. Features bi and ace characters! Bonus rec: the author also runs the youtube channel Maven of the Eventide, where she talks about various vampire media. Check it out!

The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden trilogy) by Julie Kagawa

Young adult. Another zombie apocalypse (well; feral vampires) scenario in which vampires gather humans up to keep their food safe. Allison Sekemoto hates vampires, but when she ends up on the brink of death and is offered a way out, she has no choice but to take it. Hunted by a mad vampire and forced to flee the relative safety of her city, Allie must enter the post-apocalyptic outside world and team up with the free humans roaming there, seeking a cure for the undead plague that ravages the world.

Urban fantasy vampires:

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Queen of fucked up gothic horror, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, comes for vampires in this gritty novel following Domingo, a garbage collecting street kid in a Mexico City where vampires walk the streets. His life gets turned upside down when he meets Atl, a vampire descendant of Aztec blood drinkers who’s on the run and needs all the help she can get.

Sunshine by Robin McKinnley

Urban fantasy on a level of its own, where dangerous magic exists alongside humans. It keeps you guessing and much is left unexplained; if you want clear answers and explanations to everything you might be disappointed, but if you want a world that feels mysterious and dangerous and lived in you'll probably like it. It follows a baker who, after getting kidnapped by vampires, gets embroiled in a dangerous struggle and has to team up with one of them to survive. The vampires here are really inhuman and unsettling.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Young adult. After vampirism swept the land, special Coldtowns were built to quarantine anyone bitten, whether they have turned or not. After having survived a massacre at a party in which her ex-boyfriend got bit, Tana sets out with him and mysterious vampire to reach the nearest Coldtown, not knowing if she’ll ever be able to leave it again.

Modern vampires:

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Swedish literary novel set in the 1980s. Follows twelve-year-old Oskar, a troubled and bullied boy who befriends his new neighbor, Eli. But there’s something strange about Eli, such as her only coming out at night. Also available as two separate movie adaptations (I highly recommend the Swedish original; the American remake is perfectly adequate standard horror fare, the original is a masterpiece).

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

Literary novel following Lydia, who’s grown up as a vampire under the thumb of her mother, who’s been obsessed with self-hate over their existence as blood drinkers. Finally on her own for the first time in her life, Lydia moves to London hoping to make it as an artist. But surviving alone as a vampire is harder than expected. Slow and fairly light on plot, but utterly captivating.

Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde

Young adult. After Kerry saves a young man from three attackers who claim he's a vampire, she's drawn into a dangerous game and forced to work with a manipulative vampire. Pre-cursor to the modern ya vampire genre, Companions of the Night utilizes many of the same tropes but in very different ways, making it a unique experience.

Historical and fantasy vampires:

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

Dracula inspired novella, following Constanta, who’s turned from a medieval peasant to an undead bride. As time passes the relationship between Dracula and Constanta grows all the more strained and potentially dangerous. Teaming up with his two other consorts, she seeks to unravel her husband's secrets. Sapphic and polyamorous.

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

Having escaped from slavery in the 1850s, young Gilda is taken in by a vampire, and eventually finds herself turned as well. Consists of a series of novellas following Gilda throughout the centuries, from the past to the present to the future. It’s also sapphic!

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

In a world where the rich drink blood to preserve their health, Marion applies to a position as bloodmaid in a notorious noble house far from home. Suddenly showered with luxuries and debauchery, Marion soon gains the interest and favor of Lisavet, countess of the house. A fresh take on the idea of vampires and deliciously dark sapphic romance.

Bonus AKA I haven't read these yet but they seem really cool

The Hunger by Whitley Strieber

Ancient vampire is on the hunt for a new partner, none of which tend to last long.

My Soul to Keep (African Immortals series) by Tananarive Due

I keep seeing this one described as a vampire book, and once stumbled on the description "almost a vampire book" and listen by now I'm simply curious to see what it's about.

Team Human by Justine Larbelestier & Sarah Rees Brennan

Young adult. As far as I can tell, a satire on typical ya vampire romances.

The Madness Season by C.S. Friedman

*chanting* vampires in space vampires iN SPACE

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Young adult, sapphic. Three vampire girls turned and abandoned by the same vampire get together to stop him from turning yet another girl.

The Balance of Fates by Raquel Raelynn

Young adult, sapphic. A girl enters a competition against vampires and werewolves, complicated by her feelings for one of her vampire competitors.

[marahsfandomloves]

Allison Sekemoto from Julie Kagawa's Blood of Eden trilogy!!! Art by @unusualmuffin-art

[jkags-doodles]

Rule #4(fish inside a birdcage) can be about Jackal and Allison if you try hard enough and truly believe.

[burrowkit]

Allie: Trick or treat! Jackal: Tonight's not Halloween. Allie: What? But it's late fall. And I'm wearing a costume. I even made Zeke dress up in a costume. Jackal: Where is your puppy? Zeke: I'm not a puppy. Jackal, roars in laughter at spotting Zeke in a dog costume. Jackal: It appears like you are. Allie: So, will you let us crash here a few nights? Jackal: Yeah, I guess if the puppy is willing to dress like the puppy he is, I can let you stay a few nights Jackal: Just don't let him pee on my floors or scratch up my furniture Zeke: I'm not a puppy. Jackal: Maybe curb that barking habit Allie: He's not a dog..., he's a vampire, remember? Jackal: ... some days I do? I guess in that case, don't let him bite the sofas? Zeke: Sigh Allie: I promise he won't bite your sofas.

So, idk what, just still in a Halloween mood.

Any thoughts on Allie's costume to visit her brother? Maybe she'd be wearing a red hat with white trip and a pompom at the end?

Or maybe Cat in the Hat? Idk. I can't see her doing too much.

[why-am-i-not-cat-blog]

Just finished rereading book 1 of blood of eden and allison at the beginning of the book describes kanins fangs as surgical instruments but at the end of the book when she is told zeke is in surgery she doesn't know what that means. So either jkag forgot that Allison knows what surgery is or Allison thinks surgical instrument is just used to describe something as really REALLY sharp.

[burrowkit]

I’m pretty sure this is basically Allie and Jackal? This is like, half their arguments.

Person A: "I think we got off on the wrong foot."

Person B: "You slapped me."

Person A: "Fight or fight reflex. Have mercy."

Person B: "You mean 'fight or flight' reflex?"

Person A: "No."

[shadowsof-thenight]

Book Recommendations: week 7

Book 7

The immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

I’ve mentioned before that I LOVE fantasy and I can now add that within the fantasy genre I adore vampires. Yet, I don’t read an awful lot of vampire books. This one was the exception and I am so glad I found it. 

The story follow Allison Sekemoto who is surviving in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city in dystopian USA. By day she and her friends scavenge for food and by night they must hide. The city is controlled by vampires, who keep humans enslaved like cattle for their blood. Allison doesn’t want to be anyone’s slave, but she also knows she wouldn’t survive outside of the walls that enclose this city. 

Yet when she dies and is reborn, she must face the fact that her life of surviving just got more difficult. Her friends turn their backs on her and she is forced to flee the city—where she must evade the rabids, bloodthirsty creatures that pose a threat to humans and vampires alike. 

What I liked was that Allie could’ve chosen the easy route many a times and didn’t. She kept fighting for a world, a position within the world that she could barely envision. She has heart, despite trying to keep others out and she will fight for the underdog whenever she can. Even though she has a lot to learn about her new life, she keeps looking out for others and feels a strong need to hold on to her morality. Despite her sudden allergy for the sun and an incessant need for blood. 

Every character has such a different view on their morality, their humanity and how they should move through the world. There is no black and white with these characters, even though some are pretty vile. 

This story is fun, interesting and has enough twists and turns to keep you wanting more.  Which comes in handy, as it’s part of a trilogy.