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noahhawthorneauthor · 8 months ago

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Happy Pride Month! I'm a queer author who writes under the pen names Aelina Isaacs and Noah Hawthorne. I've been publishing fantasy punk books for about three years now, and now I'm working on a historical fiction adventure novel.

Phantom and Rook is the first novel in my urban solar punk fantasy series Adventures in Levena, and the ebook and audiobook are on sale for the entirety of June.

The Rebel Foxes is the first book I wrote under my new pen name Noah Hawthorne, and it features trans mains in a gritty diesel punk world.

Have you read any of my books yet?

#aelina isaacs #pride month #queer books #indie books #lgbtqia+#lgbtqia books #phantom and rook #the eternal machine #the rebel foxes #queer author #trans book #cozy fantasy #urban fantasy books

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fuumiku · 8 months ago

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It was Maid Day today yesterday a week ago so I got struck by inspiration to draw the worsties, and it ran away from me into a whole AU where they’re coworkers at a maid cafe. She’s a med student & this is just a part time job, and this is his depression job while he gets his life back together. He needs something he can be workaholic about to forget what it’s like having a personal life and personal issues. He’s actually the accountant, but the new hire janitor (Izutsumi) doesn’t show up for half her shifts and is a sloppy worker, so he gets the extra work of doing her job on top of his because he’s undervalued and overworked. Of course, janitors also have an uniform to keep the aesthetic cohesion as they go about cleaning the place, of course.

Senshi’s the part time cook you only see slivers off, he’s kind and warm when you do see him and have a chat but most shifts he’s in and out the kitchen without a trace. Laios and Falin are regulars because Falin and Marcille are besties & in the same med school, Laios accompanies Falin as she visits her friend at work and gets hooked on the food. Chilchuck has to remind Marcille to work instead of chatting with Falin for an hour, and next thing he knows she’s distracting him from work too. That’s it that’s the AU. Inspired by this idol AU fanart a bit <3

This was not meant to be birthday gift but well…… Happy bday Chil!!!

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#Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #Chilchuck tims #marcille donato #spoilers #dunmeshi au #Maid cafe au #Marchil #Workwife marchil save me. Kabuholm in the background bc i said so lmao #i think people forget marci n chil are coworker worsties first and foremost. Ppl should capitalize on it more #The orange hair swag that makes him look like a marketable idol more #You can tell idk how to draw maid outfits. I hate those hats sm I will miku miku beam them out of existence #Marcille does change her hairstyle everyday btw #they don’t get back together btw she goes you haven’t talked to me in 4 years and he immediately goes YOU haven’t talked to ME in 4–#i mean ehem i’m sorry haha… while Marcille is like 4 years?! 4 years…#Mei only did it bc Fler has been getting jittery again kept sighing #I wanted to draw Chil with a car key at his belt but it wasn’t meant to be #idk if marchil ever gets together in this one it’s an eternal summer coworker with tension situationship au #romance is when you slowly deteriorate his work ethics so he starts skipping on his worktime to spend it at the front messing around w you #once he’s blessedly in the office and he hears this huge crash and the Marci just goes ‘…… Chiiiiiil?’ cue sigh and having to repair #the coffee machine. So many lil comics i couldn’t indulge myself to draw save me #shoutout to the time as a cashier in training at a convenience store I was left by my coworker who was supposed to wash the greasy chicken #oven but didn’t so I had to clean it for the first time myself while I was alone in the store and was also supposed to man the front #Shoutout to my convenience store’s accountant helping us with cashier duties often when there was less job to do ty ty #Understaffed struggles are so real #People also call Chil a manager because the boss is most often away so he just does everything #There’s no union but maybe one day he’ll get to overthrow the boss idk #The pay IS good at least #Modern au

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gothpossums · 2 months ago

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got nothing but my sweat and blood to reverse engineer the god

#arcane #viktor arcane #machine herald #symbolism here: cherry branches (education/resilience/new beginnings) + yarrow (healing) + dahlia (change but also warning)#snakes symbolize eternal life and transformation but also i was going for caduceus here compositionally #caption from “'clockwork god” by tardigrade inferno. SUCH a viktor song I HAD TO #artists on tumblr #riot games #arcane season 2 #digital art

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critter-of-habit · 1 year ago

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Not to get emotional about my big dumb bird friends but, I love my big dumb bird friends.

If you watch Sunwings in the late afternoon, they will keep their wings outstretched to catch the last sunrays on their solar panels. Then as soon as the sun sets, they panic. They'll frantically flap up towards the west, squawking and flailing, before landing and booting up their shields - they'll repeat this pattern over and over again until dawn. But why raise their shields when there is no active threat? My theory is, they're scared of the dark. Their source of energy and light is gone and their tiny bird brains don't know it'll come back again because they aren't programmed to know about "morning". So they boot up their glowing shields, wasting their power, so they have some light against the dark.

Then the sun rises in the opposite direction and they go "...OH." and turn around to sunbath and recharge again.

So dumb, I love them.

#horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west #Guerrilla puts so much effort into their machine programming I'm eternally impressed #not me noticing this last night after a couple of wines and getting emotional no sir #mine #critter rambles #need to book my sunwing tattoo appointment soooon

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fatedroses · 3 months ago

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More than just the Demon.

#ffxiv #digital art #zenos yae galvus #venat #endwalker spoilers #will forever be fascinated with this man #look guys look- the literal embodiment of wol's wings of hope LOL (and me going hehe about that and footfalls)#the part of me that adores digging into the nuance of character writing (intentional or otherwise) is just latched onto zenos #and venat-- they cant just give us two characters who get really important 1v1 duels #and ask really important questions #and love the MC and are willing to risk themselves so unconditionally #and have them not live rent free in my brain #--and maybe this tiptoes into the realm of crack theory so beware there will be a lot past here--#but I cant help but think zenos is akin to an oracle or warrior of light but was tempered/corrupted by zodiark #or some strange happenstance of varis (who shares visual traits to golbez before 6.0 ever came out and the dark mana burst)#and carosa (who it seems zenos got his looks from- and he already looks like he has ties to venat and argos like minfillia does)#was he a result of the eternal chess match between the two parties' machinations? or just some strange twist of fate?#another day of him being “emet's successful experiment” (again- intentional or no) making me thonk #theres something so strange about the final days dreams and how dark aspected he is- that his void abilities are more tied to him tbh #yet his mannerisms beyond just what he's been through almost reminds me of light corruption and the uncanny calmness #we see in most beings associated with the light in any significant way and like second phase eden shiva #he almost has all the marks of someone who shouldve already had the echo or blessing of light but for one reason or another #was unable to hear hydaelyns call #of course it doesnt help i mentally associate him with connections to zero and how she was corrupted before she was even born #and durante- who states uncanny ability and connection with light and darkness and yet favors dark magic more #i simply live with the idea that zenos' soul was an eternally faithful companion to wol's and #this time the cardinal sin of separating the pair finally happened to rather dire consequences lmao

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thestarfishface · 5 months ago

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describe you art style

You can look at it

#it is visible #star talks #idk it feels weird that I keep getting comments asking this #I am eternally suspicious people are trying to replicate my shit with ai whenever they ask this kind of thing #I will not feed your prompt machine #pick up a pencil and live

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grayrazor · 1 year ago

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There’s something uniquely captivating to stories about people living like vermin in the vents and shafts of some massive living world-machine. Its origins and purpose beyond their understanding. Constantly hunted like parasitic bacteria by its immune system.

#sci fi #fantasy #great machine #arcology #eternal engine #ringworld #i have no mouth and i must scream #scorn #prey 2006 #treasure planet #blame!#forbidden planet #zathras

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inkwell-dorid · 1 month ago

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More Chalice & the Machine Content. A small, funny panel of how they first meet and a 6 character inspo chart for Pandora. One of these days, would like to get the first encounter story more fleshed out.

Honorable mention for the chart include the iron golem from Castle in The Sky, Webtoon's & Dommcell's Emmy the Robot, and the Tale Foundry avatar from the YouTube channel.

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velvet4510 · 29 days ago

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paintbrushfrog · 7 months ago

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Finally finished the last 20! This challenge was very fun :)

Once again credit to @cinnamonsly for the color pallets

See the first 20 here!

See the second 20 here!

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fruttymoment · 8 months ago

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The cycle never ends.

#oneshot game #doodle #oneshot niko #the world machine oneshot #eternity

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noahhawthorneauthor · 2 years ago

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I'm Noah, and I write queer fantasy books with disabled and/or neurodivergent characters.

The Eternal Machine was my debut book, the first in an epic and dark steampunk fantasy series. ⚔️🏴‍☠️

Phantom and Rook is a cozy urban fantasy, and the first one I went 'all out' with. I also have special news about this one. 🏳️‍🌈✨

The Rebel Foxes is the last book I released, and it's the first one under my new trans af pen name, Noah Hawthorne. It's a standalone in an interconnected dark fantasy punk series. 🔥🏳️‍⚧️

My website is here, and you can subscribe to the Crew of Misfits and get free novellas here.

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absolutebl · 17 days ago

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From your answered ask on colorism:

"Again this is often done to showcase a class or cultural difference or mixed blood. Rich boys NEVER go out in the sun. Colorism is often associated with classism where to be darker skinned meant (GASP) manual labor (GASP) outside."

Are there series where the seme is poor and the uke is rich (and it works)?

series where the seme is poor & the uke is rich

Hum well "works" is a judgement call but, off the top of my head:

Love By Chance

Love Sea

(MAME likes to play with this particular dynamic)

Love is Like a Poison

Perfect Propose

Golden Blood

Ghost Host Ghost House

Last Twilight

Laws of Attraction

Moonlight Chicken

My Ride

Never Let Me Go

Only Boo

Boys Love

A Case Could Be Made

Can I Buy Your Love from a Vending Machine

Eternal Yesterday

Behind Cut

Wish You

Where Your Eyes Linger

Unknown

1000 Stars

Nation's Brother

Not poor but def class/status difference

Advance Bravely

My Esports Genius Brother

Kisseki Dear to Me

See Your Love

We Best Love

Some of these, esp Taiwan, may have not strong seme/uke.

I'm just spitballing here.

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nakachokos · 1 year ago

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hey everyone. i wrote some stuff and drew some things about my favorite mountain goats songs and it’s free to download. your mountain goats source of the future… now!

#the mountain goats #tmg #john darnielle #art #zine #jenny from thebes #Tallahassee #the sunset tree #goths #beat the champ #dark in here #transcendental youth #all eternals deck #the life of the world to come #zopilote machine #all hail west texas #the coroners gambit #full force Galesburg

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oldgamemags · 10 months ago

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Mean Machines SEGA #16, Feb '94 - Part 2 of the review of 'Eternal Champions' on the SEGA Mega Drive.

#Eternal Champions #SEGA Mega Drive #Mean Machines SEGA 16 #Feb '94

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ohheyitsjustbear · 6 months ago

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You shouldn't be allowed to miss someone who broke your heart, like, they should just not enter your brain anymore ever

#someone get me the eternal su shine machine please

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