Aphrodite / Demeter #WIP. I am pleased with this dialogue.
"I bow to no husband and I still take my pleasure with men and I get nothing."
"How about you forget about gods and men and take your pleasure with a goddess instead?" Aphrodite purred.
A cute, pink blush crept over Demeter's cheeks.
"Isโฆ is that an invitation?" she asked.
Aphrodite gave her a wet kiss on the lips.
"Do you need one?"
#phantastikprompts 17.4.
Verleihst du Figuren manchmal absichtlich eine Vorliebe, die sich sehr von deinem eigenen Sinn fรผr Schรถnheit, Geschmack, evtl. auch Attraktivitรคt unterscheidet?
Jein. Ich versuche das durchaus, immerhin sind es nicht meine Klone.
Aber so gรคnzlich kontrรคr zu meinem Geschmack, das ist schon selten.
Anders, sicherlich, immerhin schreibe ich Mรคnner und Frauen, und viele haben andere sexuelle Vorlieben als ich - aber dass jetzt jemand Spinat mag...
Hey #Bookstodon
Any recommendations for books with nonbinary or transmen main characters? Feeling like I could really use the representation, but all I'm finding are transwomen, and that's... not me. As long as it's fiction, any genre is okay. @bookstodon
Raven Tower by Ann Leckie comes to mind, if you want fantasy.
The protagonist of Witch King by Martha Wells is technically a demon who is gifted a human body but their female body is killed and they have to switch to a male in the book. Also fantasy.
Witch King is not part of a series at all so read it anytime, if you think you will like it (I did).
If you want to read the Murderbot series (also fits the original question as the MC insists that they are an "it") then the first Book, All Systems Red, is a good starting point. If you would rather read a short story first before deciding about the books there is Compulsive, which is also the earliest story in the internal timeline of Murderbot.
I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like โInvisible Handsโ from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didnโt have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. Thereโs more too.
It's nice to read folklore from further north. In the Alps region women must not do chores of any kind during that time or the Truden (Wild Hunt) will pay them special attention.
Currently in the middle of this dystopian science fiction novel, written by Mary Shelley and set at the end of 21st century. It's 2090's but the flavour is quite 19th-century-ish: people are still using carriages and there's conflict Greece-Turkey, as if we were still in 1919.
Have you read it? #bookstodon@bookstodon
Noticing is a question of knowledge and character. Will she notice her first missing period, will she understand what it means, she take it seriously? If the answer to all of this is a yes and the parents on both sides are not given to drama then they can get their license, have their banns read and marry before she's more than 12 weeks along.
Slow off the mark opens endless possibilities to torture that character. For example, she'll probably be irregular, being young, but it might well be painful enough that she'll notice the absence of pain, even if she manages not to notice any other changes.
If you want the families to have a chance to preserve some face she needs to built up a good panic before the four month mark.
The Homeric (and Orphic? I am not entirely certain which one is quoted in the Daphnis and Chloe retelling) version of Echo is gorier but brutality seems preferable to Ovid's spitefulness.
Mind you my issues with Ovid are so bad I sometimes wonder about reincarnation.
Roughly: Echo is so musical that the muses teach her several of their arts. Pan is jealous, especially as Echo is not interested in men, women or Pan. He makes some humans manic and they murder her by dismemberment. Gaia absorbs the pieces of Echo's body and sort of keeps her alive but can't fully restore her voice, hence echo.