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Countess Sappho

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Senka• History & Folklore• Writer, horror and dark romance• Diasporic Slav• Butch• Closed Triad🏳️‍🌈 she/her 30+ ⭐No nazis in Valhalla⭐ (all art by my wife @blastedcat0w0.bsky.social ) https://senkaheksum.carrd.co/ https://senkaheksum.substack.com/

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · Nov 8

Introducing my my sapphic folk horror novella here: Draugr of the Danube! Set in the late Viking Age along the Danube River and in the Viking Rus

🪓Butch Viking MC
🩸Slavic Vampire
⚡️Mythology
🕯️Seidr
🥀Grief & Acceptance

Carmilla ★ Interview with the Vampire ★ The Northman

Photograph of statues in a cemetary, a woman lying with her eyes closed, head resting in another woman's lap. The sitting woman kisses the forehead of the one who is laying. Text in the foreground reads "There is a danger in empathising too much with a creature whose motives are beyond your comprehension"

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 1h

I was just pondering this problem the other day-- even as a cis-woman, TDEE can be such a mystery. I can only imagine how much of a nightmare it is for trans women! I hope you're able to find someone helpful

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 2h

Harrowfield.

Quiet folk horror in the Marches. Memories of summer to be enjoyed in the autumn.

mybook.to/Harrowfield

Wrap of novel Harrowfield. Front cover shows tree overlooking two standing stones in a dark field. The back, a larger stone in the corner, 'looking' towards the tree. In the sky, fly two ravens. Colours are all shades of green.

Blurb:
Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales. On the edge of this village lies another field, the Harrow Field, the one from which the settlement takes its name. At its entrance stands the Mother Stone, guarding her Children, the two smaller monoliths at the top of the field. This is the ancient site of the Harrowing.

When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. Midsummer approaches and, even though they find him unharmed, they become caught up in strange events which lead them to the Harrowing. An ancient act of penance … or sacrificial revenge?

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 1h

And the gals love a good nose!

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len gogos 🏳️‍🌈👽 Open for work! @lengog.bsky.social · 5d

Most of the gigs I had planned for the foreseeable future have fallen through and even though I'm working on things and planning things, I also gotta eat y'all

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𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔩𝔢 𝔤𝔯𝔬𝔳𝔢, 𝔰𝔞𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔫𝔶𝔪𝔭𝔥𝔰 @hymntosappho.bsky.social · 1d

comms open!

✦ would draw: oc, fandom characters; wlw pairings, oc/canon; light gore; nudity
✦ maybe: mlm and het
✦ wouldn't: furry, mecha, nsfw, extreme gore
✦ full prepayment through boosty
✦ deadline 1-2 months
✦ price of the decor/background depends on the complexity (15$-40$)

DM if interested!

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 2h

You have to count these little victories, they go a long way towards maintaining sanity!

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✨jess🔮yuri wizard✨ @witchazard.bsky.social · 23h

Babygirl anatomy 🐺💋

#oc #monsterhearts

Bianca in comparison to her werewolf self

Notes are scattered around which say:

Her hair and fur is naturally black but she bleaches often so she has blonde tips on her wolf

Wolf is between 8-10 ft depending on slouch but bianca is 5'6

Wolf has blunt back claws and webbed front dabloons and she has stretchy skin all over like a cat

Hair is luscious in both wolf and human form

And lastly, she has mauled and killed 3 people on accident

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 17h

That's the one I have, too. It's fabulous

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 17h

I really like Morningwitch for button-up shirts but they are $50 each so🫠

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 17h

What's really getting me right now is footwear. Enough with the clown shoes!

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 17h

I needed to buy some business casual stuff for a work conference recently and wanted to jump off a cliff after the experience. Getting the right fit at the right price is a struggle

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 18h

Plenty to share, too!

Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 20h

It's so extra right? WHO is drinking out of this? I would, however, use it obnoxiously for many other things

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 21h

When I'm making the big bucks from writing, I will treat myself to a giant ice cream sundae in this

Screenshot of a product page with Death & Co of an awkwardly shaped cocktail mug-- a viking ship priced at $140 (yikes)

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 2d

This past month was so busy I’ve been neglecting my book promos, so how about a little sale?

🌸✨Name Her Holy ebook for $1✨🌸 only on my kofi from now through Friday!

Get yourself a slowburn sapphic space fantasy novel for your weekend read 🍂☕️

ko-fi.com/s/748ece637a

Cover for Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis, a crown of dusty mauve and earthy flowers surround a black swirling void. Behind the cover is a split image of a red haired woman in armor and a woman with dark short hair covering her face.

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Abigail F Taylor @abigailtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

I have:
A novella HOW TO SEE DEER set in Occupy Alcatraz/Vietnam War/The Indian Relocation Act

A Dust Bowl saga inspired by my Choctaw-Irish family

A newly released MARYNEAL 1962

I'm drawn to these periods b/c it's part of my history & so much of it isn't taught in schools.
#WritingPrompt

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me about your work more grounded in the historical. What drew you to that setting? What things did you learn? #WritingPrompt

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 1d

DISGUSTINGly well written

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kej ✨✨✨ @kejart.bsky.social · 21d

updated my commission info

✨ kejartcommissions.carrd.co ✨
✨ kejartcommissions.carrd.co ✨
✨ kejartcommissions.carrd.co ✨

a collection of my art - mostly couples staring intensly at eachother or characters posing and staring at you; with a big caption that says COMMISSIONS on top

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(V)Ladz The Impaler @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 2d

I'm stumbling late into October with a pumpkin stout and pairing my works with some Halloween icons. Which is your fave?

🧙‍♀️ books2read.com/thecradleofe...
⚰️ books2read.com/TheFealtyofM...

A black cat background with white text that reads “your favorite halloween icon + the book you should read”

A black cat background with text overlaid that says “Witches” below right aligned in the blue cover for The Cradle of Eternal Night with two women back to back. In the bottom left is a white line sketch of a witch on a broom. The Left aligned text reads “women’s wrongs” “grief, and perseverance" and “horror and romance”

A black cat background with text overlaid that says “Vampires” below right aligned in the red, and pink cover of The Fealty Of Monsters, the art makes it look like embossed metal. In the bottom left is the white line art of a vampire. The text reads “political intrigue” “queer and high heat” and “for the gothic girlies”

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 2d

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 2d

Kye from Name Her Holy with a quote bubble for the post below. She has light gray eyes, dark brown wavy hair, tan skin covered in scars and is holding up a hand pouring with smoke and glowing with magic

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, hello, thanks for the rec

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J.C. Snow @jcsnow.bsky.social · 3d

It would definitely make Monday morning better to wake up and see 100 people following my queer epic fantasy kickstarter 🥰 (if you are, you know, into sword lesbians and emotional trauma)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jcs...

Kickstarter Banner for The Seaglass Blade: queer high fantasy exclusive hardcover, by JC Snow. Currently at 97 followers.

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 3d

Just stumbled across this book, which is open access! I haven't read too much of it yet but it seems well written and researched so far. It's no "The Viking Way" (Price, 2002) but it IS free and there's definite overlap

directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.50...

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