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A scholar’s research into an obscure folk song takes a sinister turn when it leads him to the decaying castle of Astiigos and the lord who governs it.

For readers who enjoy Dracula, The work of Vernon Lee & M.R. James, The Historian, The Castle of Otranto, heavily historical world building and many footnotes. This is a queer gothic horror novel written in the style of early 19th century prose.

“A gorgeous blend of folk horror and the gothic, Astiigos has a vividly imagined world, brooding, elegant prose, and delightfully sexy and eerie secrets in equal measure.” - Robin Zeno

You can get a free teaser or purchase the full Part I on my itch store. $7 gets you the epub, mobi, PDF and a darkmode PDF.

i should mention--i released a version of this back in 2023 and then decided to rewrite all of part I, so this version out now is totally new. if you read the old version, throw it away and get this one (you should be able to download it for free if you bought the old version.) it's much gayer, more fucked up and gothic and weird and overall much better. thank you !

A scholar’s research into an obscure folk song takes a sinister turn when it leads him to the decaying castle of Astiigos and the lord who governs it.

For readers who enjoy Dracula, The work of Vernon Lee & M.R. James, The Historian, The Castle of Otranto, heavily historical world building and many footnotes. This is a queer gothic horror novel written in the style of early 19th century prose.

“A gorgeous blend of folk horror and the gothic, Astiigos has a vividly imagined world, brooding, elegant prose, and delightfully sexy and eerie secrets in equal measure.” - Robin Zeno

You can get a free teaser or purchase the full Part I on my itch store. $7 gets you the epub, mobi, PDF and a darkmode PDF.

i should mention--i released a version of this back in 2023 and then decided to rewrite all of part I, so this version out now is totally new. if you read the old version, throw it away and get this one (you should be able to download it for free if you bought the old version.) it's much gayer, more fucked up and gothic and weird and overall much better. thank you !

A scholar’s research into an obscure folk song takes a sinister turn when it leads him to the decaying castle of Astiigos and the lord who governs it.

For readers who enjoy Dracula, The work of Vernon Lee & M.R. James, The Historian, The Castle of Otranto, heavily historical world building and many footnotes. This is a queer gothic horror novel written in the style of early 19th century prose.

“A gorgeous blend of folk horror and the gothic, Astiigos has a vividly imagined world, brooding, elegant prose, and delightfully sexy and eerie secrets in equal measure.” - Robin Zeno

You can get a free teaser or purchase the full Part I on my itch store. $7 gets you the epub, mobi, PDF and a darkmode PDF.

i should mention--i released a version of this back in 2023 and then decided to rewrite all of part I, so this version out now is totally new. if you read the old version, throw it away and get this one (you should be able to download it for free if you bought the old version.) it's much gayer, more fucked up and gothic and weird and overall much better. thank you !

new stickers in the store! some angels, some devils, a knife, railing against adobe illustrator, and BLACKLETTER for those more inclined towards stickers than t-shirts. get em! 👼🏼😈

mini minis are online! 💃🏻 since these were a mistake (half inch smaller than usual) i've only got the fifty, so get one if you want one!

why is anyone hard on their own art? online? the bar has never been lower, and today it's also lower lower. attack art, perfectionism, and me personally with your worst art today please. because it's make a terrible comic day 2024.

Hey, so, Patreon is lying to you about Apple forcing their hand.

Patreon is getting rid of 1st-of-the-month/per-creation billing, claiming a new decision by Apple has forced their hand. This will hurt a lot of creatives, and their excuse is bullshit. Allow me to explain.

In 2018, Patreon tried to impose a new ill-considered fee structure on everyone that would have cost creators a lot of smaller pledges. They ended up apologizing for this profusely; they have now deleted this apology from their website and unfortunately I was unable to find it on the Internet Archive. This was shameful, but to their credit they backed off quickly when things got ugly.

Back in 2021, Patreon discussed plans to force all creators into a rolling bill structure and get rid of first-of-the-month/pay-up-front billing. The community once again very decisively shouted them down, and they had to walk it back again. This whole fiasco damaged the already shaky trust between Patreon creators and staff.

This week, Patreon announced that, along with extra fees, Apple's policies were supposedly forcing them to move everyone over to the rolling fee structure that they first tried to get us to agree to in 2021. Patreon will tell you they are not happy about this. As a person who spent a long time watching Patreon make terrible decisions, I can tell you-- they are probably very happy about this, because it's exactly the smokescreen they needed to do what they've been trying to do for years, which is pull ALL Patreon creators away from 1st-of-the-month and per-creation billing.

The spin in the news I've seen so far is "Apple bullies Patreon, boo hoo hoo poor Patreon". This is very obviously not what's happening. Mind you: Apple does suck, and they are doing something bad here. Fuck apple. But Patreon and Apple are BOTH the asshole in this situation; Everyone Sucks Here. Patreon has options: they can make the iOS app a reader app and do billing through the browser to avoid the restrictions and the extra fees (Netflix and Amazon, notably, both do this), or they can allow creators to opt-out of iOS billing if they want to use billing models that don't work with it.

It seems most likely to me that the Apple situation is a real fire that Patreon has chosen to use as a convenient smokescreen to do what they've been wanting to do since at least 2021, and maybe since 2018.

What do we do?:

They have a feedback form specifically about this.

They also have a creator discord.

And they have lots of social media pages where they probably really, really hope that this doesn't blow up again, because they never learn. The incidents I've described here aren't the only two other times Patreon has pissed off their creators. They know if they don't contain the noise it'll be harder to get away with it, so make some noise. They've done a lot of work to spin this cleverly so you'll have sympathy for them and they won't get the kind of backlash they know they deserve.

Please don't misuse these links and make threats or spam or something. All you have to do is give well-reasoned feedback. Patreon hates feedback. Make sure they get a nice heaping helping of their least favorite vegetable.

Datura and Mandrake posters are in stock. 11"x17" on 100lb paper with a satin finish. Only 25 of each available.

>>>>get them here while they last<<<<

datura posters are going fast!

Datura and Mandrake posters are in stock. 11"x17" on 100lb paper with a satin finish. Only 25 of each available.

>>>>get them here while they last<<<<

datura posters are going fast!

Mandrake poster to match the one I made for datura last year.

These two will be for sale in my etsy as 11"x17" prints as soon as I get them in the mail from the printer. And this time there will be more than just 12 available like last time!

A poster for datura. Pen and ink on paper + photoshop.