Previous Chapter Begin at the Beginning Support This Project [Note: This chapter contains references to transphobia and sexual violence.] V. Athulf told me the tale of our peril as he helped me hobble back to the bower. “It was no warband that met us on the steppes, Allie,” he said, “it was an army, and … Continue reading The Graveyard of Empires — Chapter 5
Previous Chapter Begin at the Beginning Support This Project [Note: This chapter contains sexual assault, including mentions of CSA. None of it is salacious, but do proceed with caution.] IV. The witch was the first, of course. I was eleven winters old for the second. There were three of them, three boys, about fourteen winters, … Continue reading The Graveyard of Empires — Chapter 4
Previous Chapter Begin at the Beginning Support This Project [This chapter contains: Violence, transphobia, intersexism, mention of sexual assault] III. I was caked in the filth of the steppes with dried blood crusted about my mouth as I rode into Doros. I bared myself, letting the world see the web of scars across my body, … Continue reading The Graveyard of Empires — Chapter 3
Previous Chapter Begin at the Beginning [This chapter contains: Implied sexual assault/CSA, suicide mention, drug use, self-harm, gore, cannibalism] II. “I don’t ever wanna talk that way again I don’t wanna know people like that anymore As if there was some obligation As if I owed you something I don’t wanna see the world … Continue reading The Graveyard of Empires — Chapter 2
Prologue Act One: The Land of Horse and Bow Chapter One I. [Note: The beginning of the story takes place in Crimea, near what’s now the city of Sevastopol] [Content warnings for this chapter: Intersexism, transphobia, sexual assault, violent fantasies] “Spread out facedown on the stained, cheap motel sheets She’d spent the last years … Continue reading The Graveyard of Empires, Chapter One
The slave uprising of Spartacus; the story that’s been retold in so many books, movies, and tv shows; the uprising that carved a path of fire and war up and down Italy and came within a hair’s breadth of sacking the Eternal City itself; that war was known to the Romans as the Third Servile … Continue reading The First Servile War
Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; I shall begin by making land, money, property common to all. Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: Why, the slaves, of course. --Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae *** On … Continue reading [Essay] A Servile Nation: The greater implications of prison solidarity
“Wake now, wake now! War is kindled! Now helm to head, The hand to the sword! Wake now ,warriors, Wielding glory! To wide Valhol Ways lie open.” --J.R.R. Tolkien, The New Lay of Gudrun Prologue This tale is true, and mine. They call me many things. Some call me a crownless queen; others, less wise, … Continue reading The Graveyard of Empires, 0 — Prologue
Hey so it’s October and October is traditionally the perfect time of year for getting sad about the past, so this is a thing I’m doing. Expect lots and lots of posts in this series. Das Institut Für Sexualwissenschaft was founded in Berlin in 1919 by Magnus Hirschfeld and Arthur Kronfeld. From their headquarters in … Continue reading Our Queer Ancestors: Das Institut Für Sexualwissenschaft
In Norse and Germanic mythology, Wayland (Volund in Old Norse) is a really interesting character who sort of straddles the line between folk hero and minor deity. He has his own story, of course, but he's best known as a blacksmith and craftsman, and like the Greek Daedalus and Finnish Ilmarinen he's credited with creating … Continue reading Poem: “Fire From Stone”
