#gray legrand

[lokiwaffles]

OC-Tober Day 23- Mad Scientist/Medical Theme (ALT LIST):

Gray and Ava (Gray’s Handler) in an AU where Gray dies in 2004. Ava is a scientist in this universe, and HYDRA orders her to brings him back to life to continue their dirty work. She succeeds, unfortunately.

[ladypepperofdavenshire]

Artfight attack of the Legrand siblings for @lokiwaffles

[lokiwaffles]

Look at the Gray and Holly, guys!!! You did such an awesome job Bow! And yessss it was SUCH a fun time!!

magma doodles

It was. So. Fun.

OC’s Holly and grey belong to @lokiwaffles, who drew with me along with @exhaustedwriterartist, who is the author of Our other halves, which is the Leo design on the bottom!

[lilith-chwan]

some stamps

[averyqueerhalloween]

Horror & Thriller Books with Queer characters: 🏳️‍🌈🎃

The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Ace Of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling

Murder Takes The High Road by Josh Lanyon

A Dowry Of Blood by S.T Gibson

The Taking Of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas

Manhunt by Gretchen Felcker-Martin

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Route Of Ice And Salt by José Luis Zárate

The Dead And The Dark by Courtney Gould

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Queen Of Teeth by Hailey Piper

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay

It Came From The Closet by Various Authors

House Of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

What Moves The Dead by Ursula Vernon

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

Night Of The Living Queers by Various Authors

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

Graveyard Of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew White

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew White

Dead Flip by Sara Farizan

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya Macgregor

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Everything The Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

The Promise of Lost Things by Helena Dunbar

Prelude For Lost Things by Helena Dunbar

My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron

All The White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

As I Descended by Robin Talley

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

[wardrobeoftime]

Master Post - N to Z

If you notice any show, movie or character missing that I’ve made gifs of, please let me know. Characters are sorted alphabetically by first their last name and then their first name.

Go to A-M | Last updated: November 3rd, 2024

N

Nussknacker und Mausekönig (Louise Stahlbaum | Marie Stahlbaum | Zuckerfee/Sugar Fairy)

O

Oktoberfest 1900/Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood (Clara Prank | Curt Prank)

Once Upon A Time (Belle French | Colette French | Cora Mills | Ella Mills | Regina Mills / The Evil Queen | Robin Mills | Emma Swan | Anastasia Tremaine | Drizella Tremaine)

Once Upon A Time in Wonderland (Alice | Cora Mills | Anastasia Tremaine)

Outlander (Abigail | Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne | Jocasta Cameron | Margaret Campbell | Geilis Duncan | Geneva Dunsany | Isobel Dunsany | Madame Elise | Brianna Fraser | Claire Fraser | Jamie Fraser | Janet “Jenny” Fraser Murray | Harold “Hal” Grey | John Grey | Lady Grozier | Mary Hawkins | Jeanne LeGrand | Louis XV | Mairi | Laoghaire MacKenzie | Letitia MacKenzie | Joan MacKimmie | Marsali MacKimmie | Mary MacNab | Elias Pound | Alexander Randall | William Ransom | Charles Edward Stuart | Suzette | Margaret Wake Tryon | Martha Washington | Elizabeth “Lizzie” Wemyss | Extras)

P

Q

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Agatha Danbury | Queen Charlotte | Violet Ledger | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Princess Charlotte of Wales)

R

Reign (Aylee | Kenna de Poitiers | Amy Dudley | Robert Dudley | Claude of France | Greer Norwood | Penelope | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots | Elizabeth Tudor/Elizabeth I | Elisabeth of Valois)

Reinas/Queens: The Virgin and the Martyr (Joanna of Austria | Empress Maria / Maria of Austria | Margaret Douglas | Bess of Hardwick | Isabel de Osorio | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots | Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain | Anna Throndsen | Elizabeth I/Elizabeth Tudor | Elisabeth of Valois)

Rise of Empires: Ottoman (Katarina Branković | Mara Branković | Gülbahar Hatun | Hüma Hatun | Constantine XI Palaiologos)

Romeo & Juliet [2013] (Juliet Capulet)

S

Sechs auf einen Streich (see the individual movies)

Shadow and Bone (Tatiana Lantsov | Zoya Nazyalensky | Genya Safin | Alina Starkov)

Sisi [2009] (Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria | Archduchess Sophie of Austria | Helene “Néné” in Bavaria | Charlotte of Belgium | Eugénie de Montijo)

Sisi [2021] (Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria | Archduchess Sophie of Austria | Helene “Néné” in Bavaria | Karl Ludwig von Grünne | Eugénie de Montijo)

Sissi Trilogy (Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria | Archduchess Sophie of Austria | Helene “Néné” in Bavaria | Ludovika, The Duchess in Bavaria)

Snow White and the Huntsman (Ravenna)

Sophie - Braut wider Willen (Sophie von Ahlen)

Still Star-Crossed (Guiliana Capulet | Juliet Capulet | Rosaline Capulet | Tessa Montague | Princess Isabella of Verona)

T

The 100 (Emori | Clarke Griffin | Lexa)

The Age of Adaline (Adaline Bowman)

The Last Duel (Marguerite de Carrouges | Jacques Le Gris)

The Little Mermaid [2023] (Vanessa)

The Crown (Catherine Middleton | Queen Elizabeth II | Princess Margaret)

The Empress (see Die Kaiserin)

The Eras Tour (Taylor Swift)

The Gilded Age (Bertha Russell | Peggy Scott | Extras)

The Great (Countess Belanova | Catherine the Great | Georgina Dymova | Marial | Queen Agnes of Sweden | Extras)

The Greatest Showman (Jenny Lind)

The Hunger Games Trilogy (Katniss Everdeen | Peeta Mellark | Johanna Mason | Finnick Odair | Coriolanus Snow)

The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Lucy Gray Baird | Livia Cardew | Arachne Crane | Clemensia Dovecote | Palmyra Monty | Iphigenia Moss | Juno Phipps | Persephone Price | Diana Ring | Vipsania Sickle | Tigris Snow | Lysistrata Vickers)

The Huntsman: Winter’s War (Freya | Ravenna)

The Originals (Davina Claire | Hayley Marshall | Aurora de Martel | Freya Mikaelson | Hope Mikaelson | Keelin Mikaelson | Rebekah Mikaelson)

The Other Boleyn Girl 2008 (Anne Boleyn | Elizabeth Boleyn (née Howard) | Mary Boleyn)

The Pillars of the Earth (Empress Matilda)

The Princess Switch (Margaret Delacourt | Fiona Pembroke)

The Royals (Princess Eleanor Henstridge | Queen Helena Henstridge | Wilhelmina “Willow” Moreno)

The Scandalous Lady W (Seymour Fleming)

The School for Good and Evil (Emma Anemone | Clarissa Dovey | Leonora Lesso)

The Serpent Queen (Catherine de Medici | Diane de Poitiers | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots)

The Spanish Princess (Catherine of Aragon | Henry VIII | Mary Tudor)

The Tudors (Catherine of Aragon | Bessie Blount | Anne Boleyn | Anne of Cleves | Katheryn Howard | Ursula Misseldon | Kathryn Parr | Jane Seymour | Elizabeth Tudor/Elizabeth I | Margaret Tudor | Mary Tudor/Mary I)

The Twilight Saga (Charlotte | Alice Cullen | Edward Cullen | Katrina “Kate” Denali | Jasper Hale | Rosalie Hale | Peter | Bella Swan | Caius Volturi | Demetri Volturi | Jane Volturi)

The Vampire Diaries (Bonnie Benett | Caroline Forbes | Elena Gilbert | Jo Laughlin | Rebekah Mikaelson | Katherine Pierce | Annabelle “Anna” Zhu | Pearl Zhu)

The White Queen (Anne Neville | Isabel Neville | Margaret Plantagenet | Bona of Savoy | Elizabeth “Jane” Shore | Elizabeth Woodville | Cecily of York | Margaret of York)

The White Princess (Mary of Burgundy | Elizabeth of York)

The Witcher (Calanthe of Cintra | Pavetta of Cintra | Tissaia de Vries | Philippa Eilhart | Sabrina Glevissig | Margarita Laux-Antille | Triss Merigold | Keira Metz | Lydia van Bredevoort | Yennefer of Vengerberg)

The Young Victoria (Victoria, The Duchess of Kent (née of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld) | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen | Queen Victoria)

Three Thousand Years of Longing (Hürrem Sultan | Kösem Sultan)

Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone (Anna Amalia of Prussia)

Tulip Fever (Mrs Overalt | Sophia Sandvoort | Mrs Steen)

Tut (Ankhesenamun)

U

V

Vampire Academy [2022] (Vasilisa “Lissa” Dragomir)

Victoria (Queen Victoria | Victoria, Princess Royal)

Vom Reich zur Republik (Victoria, Princess Royal)

W

War & Peace [2016] (Natasha Rostova)

What We Do In The Shadows (Marwa)

Wolf Hall (Anne Boleyn | Catherine of Aragon)

X

Y

Z

[bones-clouds]

books i read in 2024:

"extasia"

claire legrand

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️, 5

genre: horror, fantasy, wlw

synopsis:

Her name is unimportant.

All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain--an evil which has already killed nine of her village's men.

She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.

Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother's shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?

[post-sincerity]

I listen to a lot of music. A lot. Far too much. It's unhealthy. My proof is my RateYourMusic page: MordoGoodIGuess. I hate that website, but it's fine.

I also write a lot. And read a lot. And read and write about music a lot.

Which is why I can say that I think TTPD is genuinely horrendous from a writing perspective. The writing on that album is not self-aware, deep, or even some weird, surrealist marvel. It is the expression of otherwise shallow emotions in a way that no person would actually express them (unless they were so divorced from other humans due to exorbitant wealth and dissociating from society...like Taylor Swift). Not only that, but the lyrics are largely disingenuous, self-aggrandizing, and, again, demonstrate a complete lack of self-awareness (something that Taylor has actually demonstrated before!!!!).

I took far more than 2 seconds to understand the creative choices Swift and Antonoff make on that record. I fucking marinated in that shit.

Mind you, this is all the opinion of a likely-neurodivergent, lower-middle-class transfem writer and music producer: a demographic which is not entirely within Taylor's primary fanbase of privileged cis white women (though I am a fairly privileged white woman, ultimately). If you like the album, good on you; but to demean the intelligence of those who don't is genuinely disgusting and downright laughable.

Aside from that though, here's a list of female songwriters, cis and trans, who are far better and more intellectually stimulating that you could check out instead of Taylor Swift:

Annie Clark (St. Vincent)

Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief and her solo work)

Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins and my namesake)

Ichiko Aoba

Fiona Apple

Trish Keenan (Broadcast, RIP)

Victoria Legrand (Beach House)

Laura Marling

PJ Harvey

Amy Winehouse (RIP)

Lauren Auder

Laufey

Jane Remover

Elliebell

J (Glass Beach)

Helen Ballentine (Skullcrusher)

All of the Boygenius members

Linda Perhacs

My friend Lua Trilogy!

Karly Hartzman (Wednesday)

Sheena Ringo

Haley Heynderickx

Tujiko Noriko

Vivi (STOMACH BOOK)

Angel Olsen

Kristin Hayter (fka Língua Ignota, now Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter)

Chelsea Wolfe

Janis Joplin (RIP)

Diane Cluck

L'Rain

Julie Byrne

Julia Holter

Nia Archives

Pinkpantheress

Roxy Radclyffe

Jessica Bailiff

Aaliyah (RIP)

April Harper Gray (underscores)

Arlo Parks

Indigo de Souza

Julee Cruise (RIP)

SOPHIE (RIP)

Arca

Hope Sandoval

Katie Dey

Sidney Gish

Marika Hackman

Katie Gately

Julia Jacklin

Diamanda Galas

Kara Jackson

Natalie Rose LeBrecht

AND TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THERE'S A LOT MORE!!!

Don't let Taylor have a chokehold on your perception of female songwriters.

this is the best album release of all time because where else are you going to get unironic takes like this and then even get a few hundred people to agree with it

[lokiwaffles]

OC-tober day 11– OC in Love:

Yayyyyy the FREAKS <3

Blech they DISGUST ME.

Kinda rougher ‘cause im tiredddd.

[queerlit]

Six Spooky Queer Novels

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Photo Source Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. So while most girls celebrate their Quinceañera, Alex prepares for her Deathday―the most important day in a bruja's life and her only opportunity to rid herself of magic. But the curse she performs during the ceremony backfires, and her family vanishes, forcing Alex to absorb all of the magic from her family line. Left alone, Alex seeks help from Nova, a brujo with ambitions of his own. -- Amazon

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez

Photo Source The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Stories is a very lesbian American odyssey. Escaping from slavery in the 1850s Gilda's longing for kinship and community grows over two hundred years. Her induction into a family of benevolent vampyres takes her on an adventurous and dangerous journey full of loud laughter and subtle terror. -- Goodreads

The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Photo Source Caitlín R. Kiernan is a master of her craft of dark fantasy-sci-fi horror and The Drowning Girl is an excellent place to start with her books. India Morgan Phelps — aka Imp — begins her first person story by telling the reader that she is schizophrenic and that she’s aware of her own unreliability. This, of course, calls into question the entirety of the book that follows. But this is not a story that asks you to guess whether the supernatural elements are real or whether they are just a product of Imp’s mental health status. Instead, it’s an investigation of how the paranormal — Imp’s encounter with a mysterious figure — interacts with mental illness. This post-modern creepy, if not outright scary story, also features a lesbian relationship between a cis and a trans woman! -- Autostraddle

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

Photo Source Shady Grove inherited her father’s ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle’s tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can’t let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she’s going to have to make those ghosts sing. -- Goodreads

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Photo Source Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find. Zoey: the pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she’s broken—or maybe everyone else is. Val: the queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives, a heart made of secrets, and a mouth full of lies. Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black cliffs. Where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and around campfires. Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight… until now. -- Goodreads

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Photo Source Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps. -- Goodreads

[nyaaaaaw]

WOW🔥🔥🔥

[displayheartcode]

have an incomplete list because you want to read more queer romances 

* means the authors have several books 

romcoms

red, white and royal blue by casey mcquiston* (m/m, adult, enemies to friends to lovers)

what if it’s us by becky albertalli and adam silvera* (m/m, ya, hijinks)

written in the stars by alexandria bellefleur* (f/f, adult, fake dating)

she drives me crazy by kelly quindlen* (f/f/, ya, fake dating)

boyfriend material by alexis hall (m/m, adult, fake dating)

conventionally yours by annabeth albert* (m/m, adult, road trip)

check please by ngozi ukazu* (m/m, ya, graphic novel)

the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune* (m/m, adult, sff)

coming of age 

honey girl by morgan rogers (f/f/, adult, accidental marriage) 

we are okay by nina lacour* (f/f, ya, dual timelines)

the henna wars by adiba jaigirdar (f/f, ya, enemies to lovers)

the falling in love montage by ciara smyth* (f/f, ya, also romcom)

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson (f/f, ya, rival prom queens)

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz* (m/m, ya, historical) 

i’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson* (m/m, ya, dual timelines) 

stay gold by tobly mcsmith (f/m - trans, ya, high school romance) 

only mostly devastated by  sophie gonzales (m/m, ya, summer romance) 

full disclosure by camryn garrett (m/f - bi, ya, heartfelt)

sff

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone (f/f/, adult, time travel love letters) 

 ash by malinda lo* (f/f, ya, cinderella retelling) 

a universe of wishes edited by dhonielle clayton (everything, ya, anthology)

when the moon was ours by anna-marie mclemore* (f/m - trans, ya, friends to lovers)

the midnight lie by marie rutkoski (f/f, ya, quest)

the dark tide by alicia jasinka (f/f, ya, tam lin retelling)

the river has teeth by erica waters* (f/f, ya, witches)

cemetery boys by aiden thomas* (m/m - trans, ya, brujos)

girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan* (f/f, ya, action)

sawkill girls by claire legrand* (f/f, ya, horror) 

havenfall by sara holland (f/f, ya, portal fantasy) 

in other lands by sarah rees brennan* (m/m, ya, portal fantasy)

the dead and the dark by courtney gould (f/f, ya, horror)

the magpie lord by kj charles* (m/m, adult, historical) 

the watchmaker of filigree street by natasha pulley* (m/m, adult, historical) 

the fell of dark by caleb roehrig* (m/m, ya, vampires)

catfishing on catnet by naomi kritzer* (f/f, ya, mystery) 

labyrinth lost by zoraida córdova* (f/f, ya, brujas)

dreadnought by april daniels* (f/f - trans, ya, superheroes) 

timekeeper by tara sim* (m/m, ya, historical)

witches of ash and ruin by e latimer (f/f, ya, horror) 

these witches don’t burn by isabel sterling* (f/f, ya, witches) 

the fever king by victoria lee* (m/m, adult, action) 

the wise and the wicked by rebecca podos* (f/m - trans, ya, fairytales) 

summer of salt by katrina leno* (f/f, ya, also coming of age)

the spy with the red balloon by katherine locke* (f/f, m/m, ya, historical)

outrun the wind by elizabeth tammi* (f/f, ya, greek mythology) 

they both die at the end by adam silvera* (m/m, ya, angst)

the devouring gray by christine lynn herman* (m/f - bi, ya, horror)

[lunaryuwu]

I got curious so I went and checked

1. Disillusioned- LeGrand

2. Bring It On(inferiority superiority) - Giga ft. Kagamine Rin & Len

3. When Can I See You Again? - Owl City

4. Crush Culture - Conan Gray

5. Isotope(Remastered) - TheInnuendo

6. Really Don’t Care - Demi Lovato ft. Chee Lloyd

7. Two Player Game - Will Roland & George Salazar

8. I Love Play Rehearsal(two river) - Stephanie Hsu

9. Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven(I guess??)

10. Fuck You - Lily Allen

No pressure tags :)

@biscuitbakerbecca @bmctrash @dragonairice @theabyssgazesalsointoyou

🎃spotify on repeat tag game!🎃

Rules: shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist & post the first ten tracks, then tag people

Thank you for the tags @preqvelle and @ramblingoak !!!

1. I Am Not Afraid - Emigrate ft. Cardinal Copia

2. Mamma Mia - ABBA

3. Dig Up Her Bones - Misfits

4. Life Eternal - Ghost

5. Necropolis - Subvision

6. Mary On A Cross - Ghost

7. Lady Morgue - Subvision

8. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - ABBA

9. Another Day in Paradise - Phil Collins

10. Under The Spell - Me And That Man ft. Mary Goore

Tagging: @her-satanic-wiles @eyeslikelilith @da-rulah @writingjourney @anamelessfool @fxnofthxngs @ghu-leh @thew0man @bitchywitchygardener @zombie-rott @polurbehr

AND WHOEVER WANTS TO DO IT TOO, FEEL FREE <3

[sassymajesty]

Hey hiiii, i wanted to ask aside from the raven cycle, what other books do you like/ love and would reccomend? maybe your top 10 or 20?

coming up with these made me realize how little i've been reading lately, but!! here are some books that i really really enjoyed reading

contemporary

malibu rising, by taylor jenkins reid (who also wrote the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, but i feel like i'm a broken record recommending that one already)

one last stop, by casey mcquiston (red, white & royal blue is also a must read!)

the falling in love montage, by ciara smyth (bittersweet ending but god, so good)

radio silence, by alice oseman

we are okay, by nina lacour

sadie, by courney summers

the light between oceans, by m.l. stedman

still alice, by lisa genova (i cried like a gd baby)

water for elephants, by sara gruen

fantasy/magical realism/science fiction/paranormal

the once and future witches, by alix e. harrow

into the drowning deep, by mira grant

compass rose, by anna burke (oh, and thorn!! actually, anything by anna burke)

a thousand pieces of you, by claudia gray

paradox bound, by peter clines

sawkill girls, by claire legrand

memoirs

furiously happy, by jenny lawson (it talks about anxiety and mental health issues, but it the audiobook had me laughing out loud)

born a crime, by trevor noah

[lokiwaffles]

GRAY REF FINALLYYYYYY

Look at the handsome lad…no longer a twink *wipes away a tear*.

Close-ups/notes under the cut.

[aroaessidhe]

Character descriptions from Extasia by Claire Legrand, for fanart.

Contains spoilers. link to full database in pinned post!

author pinterest

Amity Rage

my long white dress with tiny blue flowers, my brown wool cloak, my boots

thin, dark-haired

Into the tender skin above my breasts he carves the mark of Saint Amity. Two hooked lines, joined by a small triangle. The letter m

My plain work dress has disappeared, and now I wear a gown as white as the long winter, softer than anything I have touched in my life. The ribboned bodice hugs my torso, and the long lace skirts circle around me like clouds.

He holds my hood in his hands. Cloth dyed red, ties hanging limp from his fingers like a skinned creature.

ribboned yellow dress embroidered with blue flowers

Blessing Hunger

honey coloured hair

Hunger in her deep blue gown

Father

Long legs and long arms and a broad bright smile, sharp dark features like my own.

Patience Barrow

She wears a pale yellow dress with a white collar, her skirts spilled around her legs. She twists a lock of my brown hair around her fingers. I watch her face, trace its soft lines. She showed us how to weave crowns of flowers, and now one sits crooked on her head, blue and white and pink all mashed against our blanket.

beneath the tallest one stands a woman in a fine gray gown, a cloak of wolf skin slung around her thin shoulders. She is pale, as I am, with my sister’s blue eyes and golden hair. Avazel has given me the gift of turning her ghostly face whole, her arms smooth and fair.

Samuel

A smile on his tanned face, even after all he has lost. His winter pallor has already faded. He works hard in the fields. He hunts and runs. The wind tousles his thick dark hair.

his chin is narrow and sharp

Temperance

On Temperance’s right shoulder perches a fright-bird, a Devil’s creature, all the feathers gone from its head. In their place, a single white eye and gleaming scales. Beneath her dark hood,

So different she looks, wearing a gown blue as jay feathers. The sleeves are long and loose and slip from her bare white shoulders. Her dark hair is soft with a silver sheen

Mercy Vengeance

long red hair to her waist, sharp nose, sharp eyes, freckled skin. Beneath their cloaks, they wear the long white dresses saints wear on holy days, with high lace collars and ribbons at their wrists

her dress as deep a green as summer leaves dipped in shadow. She watches me with sharp eyes. Tiny braids hide in the red cascade of her hair,

green dress

Silence Sorrow

Her hair shines white in the faint moonlight.

The scarred mark of Saint Silence pokes up from her collar—four little marks, like stitches, crossing a proud straight line

long fair hair and red hood

one year older than rage

has woven a few thin braids into her hair. Sorrow wraps one of them around her finger until the end softens and curls

Sorrow solemn and pale as snow, wearing a long black dress with loose flowing sleeves.

Malice

She wears a fine low-collared gown the color of blood. Roses bloom on her cheeks, and though the set of her mouth is hard, her eyes shine bright as a spring sky. She could be as young as I or as old as Granny Dale, whose house crawls with grandchildren. Her hair is black as the mud that gathers beneath my fingernails when I work in the garden, her skin pale as the white moon I know.

her blue eyes ablaze beneath her messy cap of short black hair (it is cut short in the book)

Furor

She points to another woman farther back in the trees. Furor is fair and slight with copper hair to her waist. Flowering vines adorn her sky-blue gown. She molds from the dirt a black wolf pup with shining white eyes and a bright pink tongue.

Furor, vines of red flowers trailing from her hair, holds two crooked knives as long as her forearms

Cunning

a woman with deep brown skin and shorn black hair stands beside another white tree not far from us, her eyes closed and a strange song moving across her lips. Some words I know—berry, sky, flesh—but others I do not.  She spreads her arms wide and rises slowly off the dark moss-covered ground, her bare feet pointed and her gown of sunset colors—orange and red and violet—floating in the air around her. In her right hand, she holds a white branch sanded smooth. When she opens her eyes, they are full white too, like my fright-birds’

her body draped in a gown of sunset colors, orange and red and violet.

Ire

a woman, white of skin and hair and eyes, wearing green trousers and a long white tunic hemmed in gold. She stands on a felled tree. Her words are part song and part prayer.

As she sing-speaks, bits of darkness peel away from the black sky and flutter down, forming themselves, until they alight upon her head and arms. Soon Ire wears a cloak of crows, their dark feathers all agleam.

green trousers and a gold-hemmed tunic, a great white-eyed crow on her shoulder

Gall

a pale woman with a light dusting of short black hair, shorter than a man’s. Her gown is sage green and leaves her shoulders bare

Storm

Her ruddy skin is striped with scars. One of her arms, I am shocked to see, is made of metal. Metal joints, metal fingers, as if a blacksmith has forged it for her. It moves as smoothly as my own and is polished to a gleam. I look at the fierce blue light in the woman’s eyes, her wild nest of gray hair.

wrinkled face

Liberty

brown skin and shining black hair tied back with a meadow-green ribbon. Around her are roots and mushrooms, long jagged leaves that glisten with oil. She crushes, tears, mixes, then raises her arm without looking up and murmurs one of those strange chants—part song, part plain speaking.

Jamie

A girl enters the room, closes the door quickly behind her, then turns to look at me. She has smooth skin, a dark brown like Cunning’s, and long black hair kept in many neat braids.

Jamie’s mother

her skin is just the same brown. The same dark eyes, the same black braids. She wears a long pale shirt to her knees, gray trousers, dark boots.

dress is a million shades of blue—royal and peacock, periwinkle and cerulean. Sleeveless with a high collar. Form-fitting bodice, skirts falling around my legs like waterfalls. It’s exactly the kind of dress I’m always drawn to when I browse the archives for old fashion editorials.

gray women etc

Above me towers a woman, silent and gray, thin and bent, five heads taller than any man I have seen. Her long arms trail to the ground, as if they have sprouted from it. The rest of her drifts formless in the air, disappearing into the night. Wild dark hair to her waist, wide toothless mouth hanging open, and though she has no eyes—that gaping mouth is the only thing I can see on what might be her face—I know she is watching me, waiting for me to speak.

Her mouth opens wider, a vast hole, and out of it drift a few buzzing black flies. Deep inside her throat shines a curve of silver, and though I know it is foolish, I cannot help but lean closer. What is that thing?

I hold still and look upon her face, once smooth and now cracking, now peeling away in thin shreds, her mouth widening, her skin stretching around it, and I will remember this, I will always remember this, I will hold it in my heart and mind forever. Then, suddenly, my mother cries out and staggers back from me. She groans, a wordless throaty cry, and looks away, hiding her face. Flesh falls from her body like shredded leaves. Flies buzz out from between her fingers. I know I should not, but I hurry toward her all the same, crying