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    “What are vampires anyway?”

    My mother tensed, face hardening.

    “Vampires are dark creatures.” My father said carefully. “They are evil.”

    “But I’m a vampire?” I asked.

    “Basil,” my mother snapped. “You cannot say that. What if someone were to hear you? No one can know. Vampires are evil and bad. Do you understand that, Basil?”

    “Am I?” I asked.

    “Are you what?”

    “Evil and bad.”

    “If you act like a vampire, yes. Now go play outside.”

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    Vampires attacked Watford and Baz was Turned, but this time Natasha Pitch lived. What would Baz’s life be like growing up with his mother? How would Natasha feel about her son’s… condition? And what happens when you throw the Mage’s Heir into the mix?

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    26 Aug 2024

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    thoughtful baz-centric piece exploring him growing up with natasha still alive and hating vampirism

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    There were many such stories, he had read, where a fisherman would fall in love with a selkie and take her coat so she would forever remain a human. They would marry, then, and likely have children.

    "A happy ending," his mother had said with a soft smile, reading to him by his bedside, and quietly snuffed the candle out to tuck him in.

    What a cruel thing, he had always thought. To fall in love with something so beautiful and different, only to trap it in a world where it doesn't belong.

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    25 Jul 2024

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    Please read this wow there’s mystery, political intrigue, monster biology and symbolism, and incredible Laios and Kabru characterization and backstory stuff! Very thorough food descriptions and speculative magic lore which expand the world in fun ways. Everything I want from post-canon stories!

    It starts with platonic intimacy and is very slow with anything explicitly romantic because they are both in denial. Their weird dreams get a little freaky but nothing too graphic.

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    King Laios learns about loss.

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    09 Jul 2024

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    The day is saved. The demon is defeated, the kingdom is returned, and a new king is crowned. It’s the perfect ending to a tale of heroes and adventure… But Laios and his friends have never fit particularly well into storybook molds.

    Left with a hundred questions still to answer about the future, and amidst growing concerns about forces that would be all too happy to take that future away, they make their way as they always have: by holding fast to each other and figuring the rest out as they go.

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    07 Jul 2024

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    Everything’s good, you see. It's absolutely fine. Laios dreams of kissing and stroking monsters all the time. Clearly this is a completely normal monsterfucking dream, and Laios just has to look down to find that Kabru has tentacles again, or double scorpion stingers for legs. Or perhaps he’s a faun, or a satyr - or a centaur, or an ichthyocentaur, or maybe even a beastkin who’ll transform any minute now…

    Laios looks down.

    No, he thinks, in dawning horror. No, no, that can’t be.

    Because all he sees is regular tallman Kabru. All he's dreaming of is regular tallman Kabru, tender and unguarded, curled up in his bed.

    Inveterate monsterfucker Laios Touden discovers, to his immense surprise, that he’s fallen in love with a human.

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    08 May 2024

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    Freaky monsterfucker Laios is hilarious and seeing Laios’s perspective of Kabru would make me fall in love with him too.

    The writing style describes the wildest monster sex things so nonchalantly it’s hilarious. The more casual intimacy of sharing a meal? Working together?? I’m fanning myself. Laios dreaming of Kabru shaving his face or cuddling with him is more vulnerable than any of the monsterfucking.