#Keeper of Day and Night

[magekate07]

Happy Pride Month!

I announced at the start of the month that I would do a project for it. Truthfully, I could’ve finished this sooner, but I got caught in between projects.

Anyway, I decided to show some of my LGBQT OCs that I’ve made throughout the years. They are as follow, from left to right:

Ethan Park (my protagonist for High School Story Class Act by Pixelberry) - Bisexual

Minnie Novelty (my first OC for Epithet Erased by Brendan Blaber aka JelloApocalypse) - Pansexual

Moi Emerson (my changeling OC for Fantasy High on Dimension 20) - Genderfuild

Violet Jackson (one of my many protagonists for Keeper of Sun and Moon by Brynn Chernosky) - Asexual and aromatic

Hopefully, next time when I don’t so many projects on me, I could draw another group photo featuring more of my LGBQT OCs because I have so much more of them. For now, I’m glad with what I’ve drawn for this year, and I hope to anyone who sees this remembers that they are loved no matter what they identify as.

[faylighting]

thinking about how my Leon Dalton romancing Keeper was roommates with him. thinking about how i headcanon they pushed their beds together and cuddled and slept like that for OVER A YEAR. thinking about how after the dream sequence arc Leon comes back one day and sees the beds pushed back to their original sides, with my keeper sitting on his reading a book like nothings happening. IM SO NORMAL ABOUT IT WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT-

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 4: Deranged Bedfellows

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.5)

[purplesoup-lad-le]

sometimes i wonder if one of those couple name generators would do better than what we've come up with.

I don't have to wonde anymore

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

Going buckwild at the way Hilda The Series portrays adulthood and loneliness. Kaisa has no one to go to to ask for help getting the due book back, even though all it would take was someone she could minimally ask to knock on an elderly lady’s door and ask for a favour; she’s in the library after hours, is shown to have no allies aside from the woman who raised her and who she lost contact with. Johanna is only ever seen working or caring for Hilda, and her lack of a life aside from those two activities is pointed out by her own daughter when she thinks that this is going so far as to affect their relationship. The bell keeper lives alone in a small cabin on the edge of town, barely within city limits and away from everyone, a house barely even inhabitable and clearly only a place to sleep and eat. He works a solitary job and he’s the only one in the town still working it, meaning he’s probably overworked and forced to pull inhumanly long shifts. Victoria hyperfocused so hard on her projects that whatever friends she had before - and she must have had some from college time at least - lost contact with her, and she never made any other connections in Trolberg, anything that would tie her to the city and it’s inhabitants and make it so it wasn’t worth it to live by herself at the top of a hill. Even when that was over, she still chose to isolate herself somewhere abandoned and keep what was essentially another machine she’d built as her source of company, something she could understand and control instead of an unpredictable human being. Gerda works a job she likes but is shown to be disregarded by the person she works the most around, her abilities and intellect thrown aside for the good of someone she has to bear because of a hierarchy she was forced to accept in order to keep working. She’s appreciated by the town, but other than the main characters, we don’t see anyone paying her any mind when they don’t need something from her.

Meanwhile no kid has ever been alone in Trolberg. The mean kids are a group, the good kids are a group, even the gloomy teenage girls are a group. One of nightmare inducing entities, but a group nonetheless. All children in that world seem to operate on a ‘no man left behind’ code, looking out for each other even if they aren’t exactly fans of one another, helping even grown ups without asking why and working together. And this logic seems to extend to the adults who work around children too; especially the Raven Leader, who we see that through the children works as a vital part of the community and a way through which it comes together.

This isn’t very articulate but do you see the point? Do you see how clever that is? That a show about growing up has these themes? You can be magical, kind, strong, intelligent, competent, but none of that will make you truly happy if you don’t keep the most important thing from childhood? If you don’t keep your friendships, your bonds, something to tie you down to your reality and your community? The adults in the show all made their choices, and it’s okay to want to be alone, we all need it and some more than others (this is coming from someone who needs it a lot), but isolating yourself completely is the one thing that will make growing pains truly painful. I’m just so emotional over it. It’s so subtle and so clever considering the whole Mountain King plot that Hilda is willing to change species because she feels detached from her main relationships and surroundings. I love this show so much.

[iobartach]

hey

i needed to show the dash one of the-- few? only?-- panels of m.iguel cradling his brother g.abriel...

[gingermintpepper]

On that trojan war au thing you're writing. 1. What are the tags for it, cause I'm super interested! And would love to read what you have so far! 2. "And Odysseus is a much grimmer darker man due to his home being one of the places that were first swallowed up by Erebus" - I wanna know more about this. Please tell me more.

Oh , wow, I'm so flattered! I'm very happy it sounds appealing to you <33 This work is a huge passion project of mine so I'm always glad to talk more and more about it, especially since there are many aspects occurring in the background (such as the alternate fates of the main players of the Trojan Conflict) which I cannot properly cover or even explain within the events of the novel itself.

That said: 1) If you mean tags as in ao3 - unfortunately, this work isn't on ao3 my friend :( As I said above, these are elements and concepts in the greek mythology based-fantasy novel I'm currently writing (the concept of which I outlined here in the introductory post of my novel concept!) As for wanting to read whatever writing I currently have available: I currently have three fics available on ao3 that are written in my Pursuing Daybreak verse!

The Prince and Princess series deal with a young Apollo and Artemis and the many consequences they face after Apollo has slain Python. The two works uploaded right now are Exeunt Phoebus Apollo which covers the murder trial of Python and Manent Apanchomene Artemis which covers the intense feelings of helplessness and alienation Artemis experiences after Apollo returns from his banishment and is completely changed. Both of these have themes of family, grief and relationship exploration at their heart.

The third bit of writing I have up is quite outdated but does cover the immediate aftermath of Hyacinthus' death. It's called A Petal Falleth and features Apollo making one of those Big Silly Decisions that have completely unintended but extremely important consequences: namely, instead of the larkspurs being made of Hyacinthus' spilt blood, Apollo anchors the boy's soul to the flowers so Thanatos wouldn't take him. Like the Dawn is also set in this world but because it is nsfw in nature, I wouldn't recommend it as easily as the other three bits of writing. If you don't mind the whole naked men thing though, I'd definitely suggest reading Like the Dawn for a better idea of what my current writing is like (along with eventually getting to see characters like Hector, Andromache and Cassandra/Helenus) Like the Dawn's themes are also different to the other three works with it focusing more on the power dynamics of a god/mortal relationship, exploring masculinity and masculine sexuality and self discovery.

The running theme here, of course, is that all of these bits of writing are centered on Apollo/Artemis or Hyacinth because my novel itself is centered around them. There are, of course, other important characters and figures like Eros, Psyche, Penthesilea and Iaso (one of Asclepius' daughters) but while there is the definite presence of characters from the Trojan War they most certainly aren't at the center of the novel (and the ones that are aren't the Greeks but rather the Trojans i.e Hector, Alexander, Andromache, Cassandra, Helenus, Aeneas, so on and so forth.)

2) The basis of the apocalypse in my work is cosmological! Due to Apollo's err-- untimely departure, there's no longer anyone maintaining the axis of the heavens or the navel of the earth. Because of this, Erebus - whose darkness is usually kept firmly in the spaces between the realms - begins to spill out into both the heavens and the earth. The beasts of Erebus (referring primarily to the Seven Curses - Old Age, Misery, Deceit, Violence etc etc) consume, torment and destroy whatever is inside of Erebus' darkness and Ithaca, as one of the islands on the far edge of the world, was one of the very first places that were devoured in this manner. Odysseus was visiting the Argives at the time for a festival and had left the pregnant Penelope at home since he didn't want her to suffer through the voyage in discomfort. He only finds out about the destruction of Ithaca after it had already been consumed when Athena personally interrupts a feast to warn both him and Diomedes. Needless to say, Odysseus, like everyone else, assumes that everyone on Ithaca has died and thusly is a very, very different man in terms of humour and comport. A part of him still stubbornly clings to the belief that Penelope managed to escape - that she was smart and resourceful enough to see the end approaching and do her best to escape - but that doesn't stop him from being dour for the majority of the time. Diomedes does his best to keep his spirits up in the meantime. Without him around, Odysseus is something of a black hole when it comes to the oppressiveness of his discontent though he does manage to lighten up when in the company of Helen, Clytemnestra and even Menelaus on occasion.

[wildfairies]

girls girls girls !

my @keeperofthesunandmoon mcs lol. felicity (cambion), cristina (magician), autumn (drakaina), daisy (nephilim), bia (kitsune), & brooke (hunter). more here if u want 😽

[asexualbookbird]

Goodbye June! I'm six books ahead of my arbitrary reading goal! I also bought I think as much as I read whoops. I also did a lot, art wise, and turns out Project DIVA has a display tap mode and I'm kicking ass at that game. I can complete extreme mode songs! Even managed to not fail out of an extra extreme song! I am miserable, healthwise, but my hobbies have never been more productive.

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim ⭐⭐⭐⭐Fun! Exciting! Well done! Wanted more! Excited that there was a second one! Adorable love interest! Deffo recommend!

Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne ⭐⭐Fine? I guess? I expected something like House With Good Bones but it was mostly forgettable and too focused on romance.

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman ⭐⭐⭐⭐Delightful! Actually glad I waited so long, because I don't think I would have appreciated it ten years ago

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I spent the whole time trying to figure everything out and had a wonderful time about it

The Dragon's Promise by Elizabeth Lim⭐⭐⭐Disappointing, characters I loved before were annoying here, the dragons were Mean and not the focus at all, still enjoyable in it's own right but Crimson Cranes could have been a beautiful standalone

The Keeper of the Night by Kylie Lee Baker DNF Sad I didn't enjoy this, I was looking forward to it, but it just. Was not good. Seraphina dealt with similar themes and executed it better (I didn't know they dealt with similar themes, but it was kind of fun to compare!) Most notable complaint was wordlbuilding said the reapers could hear a whisper across a noisy room and then Ren was eavesdropping on them, and talking, in an airvent above them and no one noticed lol

I'm such a mood reader, but I think I'm going to try to put together a stack of books I want to read this month and do my best to stick to it! It might make me get through my shelves quicker. Somehow, the floor stacks keep multiplying. Send help, I'm being buried.

July I'm definitely finishing my Name of the Wind reread, even though I missed book club, and I'd like to get through a stack of graphic novels I got for my birthday! Other than that, who knows! Lets go!

[sunshineandviolets]

Kol 🥺🥺🥺

[hopeless-venus]

Bianuca for @synonymroll648 !!

(My attempt at)Younger Biana dragging Maruca away from foxfire and probably into mischief! I love drawing Maruca you guys have no idea

[marymekpop]

I’d crawl into my bed after a hectic day and it’d always feel like something very important was missing. I also had trouble sleeping. But then I found you. The missing piece.

[honeylemonbutte]

Illustrated angst ratings for every main RO in The Keeper of the Day and Night.

I am extremely nosy and played through every RO route because I wanted to learn everyone's secrets in Book 2. Used the character creator at the beginning because I didn't romance everyone in Book 1. Spoilers, but I'm trying really hard to keep it vague. Ratings don't really reflect my fav ROs, just the angst of their story lines.

Long. Sorry to people who follow me and didn't follow for Interactive Fiction.

Katia - 11/10 - I'm biased, don't fight me. I've been in love with Katia since she broke all my MC's toes in book 1 with her terrible dancing. But still, the flashback to find out what happened to Katia? I wanted to scream and cry. Never hated anyone more than the current and former nymph leaders.

Leon - 10/10 - see above, I have never hated anyone more than the nymph leadership!!! DESTROY THEM! Bring [redacted] back from the dead so I can kill them myself!

Cressida & Cyrus - 10/10 - murder bad, ritual sacrifice ok? IT IS NOT OKAY. Protect Cressida and Cyrus. Stop putting them through this utter shit.

Serafina - 8/10 - the past is still with us. The past is still with us every damn day. Davina drama.

Astrid - 7/10 - the past is still with us. Davina drama. But maybe we can start healing.

Thalia & Yakov - 6/10 - hm, how to describe this? Yakov did some bad things because that's how he was raised. Thalia did some bad things to humans because she's a siren and not a human. But they wanted to change.

Kol - 5/10 - I'm getting tired of these Frostbite dipshits. They are going down in book 3.

Altair - 4/10 - honestly? This was a very sweet story line. Altair is a Good Boy. Angst is low in this route.

Characters belong to @keeperofthesunandmoon

[geekynerfherder]

'The Keeper Of Night' by Antonello Venditti.

Cover art for the Italian edition of the novel 'The Keeper Of Night', book 1 of 'The Keeper Of Night' duology written by Kylie Lee Baker.

[grapecaseschoices]

[Edit taken from here, Cressida is from @keeperofthesunandmoon, quote by Clarice Lispector, ID by @quaxorascal]

[ID: a graphic depicting the relationship between Cressida Monroe, a character from the Keeper IF series, and Emile Ryan, OP's Keeper character. The graphic compares the two, with their name, an icon representing them, six triange-shaped images along the center of the graphic, and four traits being listed for each: Protectiveness, Possessiveness, Physical Affection, and Verbal Affection. Each of these traits has one to five dots following it, with 1 dot being the lowest level of that trait and 5 dots being the highest. Emile's accents and images largely feature shades of peachy pink and Cressida's largely feature shades of dusky pink; a light pink line separates the images in the center, putting three on each side of the line.

Emile's icon is a bloody hand in a fist, gripping a heart. Their images depict a cluster of peach-coloured roses, the words "I will storm the gods" set against a purple-and-peach sky, and a cluster of pearls resting inside a seashell. Their traits are: Protectiveness 4/5, Possessiveness 5/5, Physical Affection 3/5, Verbal Affection 4/5.

Cressida's icon is a wing of white feathers, with some feathers having gold tips. Her images depict a teacup with a rose gold handle and white flowers floating in the pink tea, a picnic basket on the grass with a dark bottle with a pink label inside, and a drawing of two hands with manicured nails holding each other by the pinky. Her traits are: Protectiveness 5/5, Possessiveness 5/5, Physical Affection 2/5, Verbal Affection 3/5.

In the upper right and lower left corners of the graphic is one half of a quote. Together, the quote reads: "Have you suffered much for love? / I am prepared to suffer even more." /end ID]

[justapalspal]

so my sister does this funny thing where she invites a bunch of people over for game night and then forgets to tell me, the keeper of the game night games, that we are having game night

which if I had like, a nickel for how many times that happened, I’d have two nickels, which wouldn’t be a lot but