#werewolves
My@knotbang collab with the ever Fabulous @kalika999and@fantasticwinter is here!!!!!! We have werewolves and found family! We have Drama! Did I mention WEREWOLVES????
Read it here!!!! (And remember to shower your author with those kudos and comments if you enjoy it!)
Unboxing videos but its a werewolf filming her vampire wife groggily waking up from a coffin when the sun goes down.
Werewolf: what could be in this box
Vampire: [muffled voice] your wifeWerewolf opens the coffin: Beautiful, just what I always wanted!
The empty coffin on screen: [bashfully] Stop! I dont have my makeup on!
My newest story Red is finally out in paperback as well as ebook.
Just a reminder but my books #Redand#AnIcyRoadtoaWarmHeart are available at Amazon for purchase.
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Nichol-DeCastra-ebook/dp/B09JZZTJC3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YKZJJBHVZ3UQ&keywords=Nichol+DeCastra&qid=1651936137&sprefix=nichol+decastra%2Caps%2C313&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Icy-Road-Warm-Heart-ebook/dp/B08MFT7P4Q/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1651936137&sr=8-2
I made a goofy one page rpg today, please enjoy!
been drawing some werewolf stuff over twitter, here, have them all together as one big sequence. the bit where she’s complaining about it keeping her awake is about 2 weeks later.
for the record: the talk of coyotes is because there are no wolves here on my island. they are extinct and we imported coyotes to take their place (it did not work well)
just looked through about 700 werewolf books, good grief.
most seem to fall into two categories:
- werewolf serial killer mysteries
- domineering alpha romances
neither is really what I’m interested in.
here is what I’d want from the werewolf novel of my wildest dreams:
- good relationships, especially friendships between packmates (lone wolves are boring)
- werewolves who like being werewolves. (angsty wolves are boring)
- the practical details of werewolfery: who’s got the bail money for animal control, whether anyone’s microchipped, what you pack in a bag for a night out werewolfing
- the uses of werewolfery: hiring yourselves out as trackers or canine rescue, getting certified as service dogs, spending your free time at the library letting little kids read to a friendly doggie
- female werewolves, and no weird gross hypermasculine alpha stuff going on in werewolf culture
- queer werewolves, and no weird gross heteronormative ‘laws of nature’ stuff going on in werewolf culture
- dog jokes.
The standard urban fantasy female protagonist dating a werewolf who is not an alpha. Bonus points for it being a cute beta werewolfess who thinks her girlfriend’s perpetual posturing as the ‘baddest bitch on the block’™ is the most adorable thing ever. Extra bonus points for fuzzy baby werewolves and adopted babies. (Because actual wolf packs? Exist to raise children. They’re family units, focused around rearing cubs.)
#werewolves #queer wolves #werewolves as the foster parents of the supernatural world #if there’s a kid so much as sniffling in their general vicinity they’re going to get adopted #the fae discovered that they could straight-up hand off changlings to werewolf packs #no deception needed #magic using children of mundane parents who can’t handle it? #every pack has a dozen of them #fic ideas
okay this is one of the cutest reblogs I’ve gotten.
imagine it
werewolves just going YES FAMILY GOOD and adopting everyone and making sure they get attention and food and understand that it’s fine to be who you are and that you’re not alone, you’re pack now
and the kids that can’t turn into wolves get to ride on the dogsleds to make sure they’re not left out during the full moon family bonding time (… you have to be an adult to pull a dogsled. mistakes have been made.)
werewolves on the PTA. werewolf den mothers. werewolf little league coaches. werewolves filling the bleachers and auditioriums and dance halls and galleries, cheering for their kids. werewolves helping kids with their homework, werewolves sewing costumes for the school play, werewolves showing kids how to change a tire
werewolves with battered kitchen tables with chewed legs. werewolves with huge family dinners. werewolves ferrying pies and casseroles and fresh baked bread back and forth between family members’ houses. werewolf extended families. massive werewolf packs that are technically only about 25% werewolf but still definitely packs
puppy teeth being left for the tooth fairy. fangs being left for the tooth fairy. cuttlebones being left for the tooth fairy. stolen teeth being left for the tooth fairy. werewolves with giant families full of kids with different needs and species.
werewolves adopting everyone. werewolves fostering everyone. werewolves who wind up with dozens of kids, all of whom are family and therefore pack.
yes good, give me more like this
i feel this in my soul
WEREWOLVES BASED ON ACTUAL WOLF PACK BEHAVIOR INSTEAD OF BULLSHIT DOMINANCE THEORY! All the werewolf fiction I’ve read involves everything falling to shit due to infighting over who gets to be alpha like WAY TO ILLUSTRATE EXACTLY WHY THIS IDEA DOESN’T WORK. You really think wolves would be successful hunters if they were constantly getting injured and wasting energy fighting each other?!
The whole idea of “alpha” dynamics is based entirely on the behaviour of wolves in captivity! If you so much as google “wolves in captivity alpha”, you’ll get a bunch of results about why it’s not representative of actual wolf behaviour.
As it turns out, if you capture, restrain, and shove together wolves from unrelated packs, they will fight and form a hierarchy of power.
Kind of like prison. Because, functionally, the exact premise of that kind of captivity is kind of like prison.
Wolves are social animals, and they interact in the wild pretty much the same way other family-centric social animals do.
Hey, you know what another family-centric social animal we’re all familiar with is?People. Just, you know, take away the oppressive idea that one parent is the definitive and unchallengeable head of the household that most of us have lived under for so long first.
Wolves are apparently group problem-solvers, and presumably, in large packs, you’re going to get squabbling and older pack members mitigating it, just like that one patient aunt or uncle or grandparent or close family friend who is essentially a relative often does in big families.
There’s a very legitimate basis for writing werewolves as friendly, community-minded folks. If your werewolves view their human neighbours as other packs not in competition with themselves, they’re likely going to be those people that the entire neighbourhood views as very nice, but “a little overwhelming.” (And maybe a little too indulgent with their kids, according to the neighbourhood snobs.)
Your gigantic werewolf family is probably going to be a litle less threatening and overtly secretive and a little more “we’re having a barbeque, when can we expect you??? you didn’t come last week, were you sick??? we were all worried- do you not eat meat?? oh, okay, I’ll have Sophie and Thaddeus pick up some Halal burgers and we’ll scrub off the second barbeque for them and some vegetable skewers, too, does that sound good?? so when can we expect you????”
(Also: werewolves taking in queer kids and mentally ill kids and kids from broken homes even though they’re mundane because they can’t comprehend how someone could not want them. Werewolves taking in street kids.)
#…a pack of werewolves living in a huge house together like one of those huge families people sort of smile incredulously at#multiple generations#a pack occupying a trailer park because it’s near the woods and there’s a certain amount of security in having a mobile home#packs being viewed by mundanes as those eccentric families that fill the school gymnasium every time there’s an event with one of their kids#packs migrating to accomodate new packmates and encountering other packs#packs fusing to form entire communities#wolves taking in mundane street kids#werewolves#writing#urban fantasy
*SLAMS FIST ON TABLE* NOW THIS IS THE KIND OF CONTENT I WANT TO SEE
cowboys are to pirates what werewolves are to vampires
well since nobody in my notes has stepped up and done this. fuck it wolfboy and vampirate
literally the only funny tags in the history of this post
during october werewolves are at their most powerful. they don’t physically get stronger it’s just a pleasant confidence boost.
Scott Mccall
The werewolves who protected and fought for the good of the community, the same as the witches who lived at the edge of the village, shared in the powers of the Gods and Goddesses of the wilderness beyond. To give and to take. To heal or to curse. To frighten or to seduce. To travel across time and boundaries otherwise impassable to mortal humans and there to meet with strange spirits and with the beloved dead, the Ancestors. To have the ability to change shape and to divine the past and the future. To speak sooth, the Divine truth of prophecy, and to propagate as needed between the people, the Gods, the land, and the Fey. To fight in the air or in other worlds for the fertility of the fields, the orchards, the beasts and the tribe or village itself.
The power of the werewolf, of the warrior, springs from that deep well, one that goes back millions of years. Woden, as the God with the ability to loosen bonds, could unfetter the chains of civilization and society, even of convention, and so He is rightfully lord of the wolves and of the werewolves. He is the First Fruit of the World Tree, the one who sacrificed Himself to be reborn as something other,to journey elsewhere and come back again with great gifts of knowledge and abilities beyond the norm. He became two-natured, a King and a trickster, a warrior and a shaman.
Shapeshifting, flying, seducing, with the ability to curse or to heal, the Gods and Goddesses of the troop of night [Wild Hunt] reflect the same power of the witches and werewolves who came at Their command. Just as the full moon is said to cause the transformation of man into wolf, so the Moon Goddess calls forth the chosen to fly to far places, to the battle, to the feasting. As the Goddess could give life or take it, so Her witches had the same authority. They walked as She walked, between worlds and as a part of the cycle of nature. While those who were called by Woden, who sworn to Him, walked the dual nature of man and beast, partaking of both and belonging to no world and all worlds. They were both within and without the rules of law, the so-called “natural order,” by obeying an even greater and more mysterious natural order that had little to do with human rules. They could protect or they could consume, just as nature can give bounty or death.
These are all powers outside the pale, making those who bear them outsiders and dwellers in the unknown wilds, the desolate places, the Old Forest of myth and legend, the world of Faery. Half here and half there, a living bridge between two very different and yet intertwined worlds.
- The Bird-Foot Goddess and the Werewolf God, Veronica Cummer
I accidentally more were au…
second sketch is a size comparison for peridot and jasper.
been drawing some werewolf stuff over twitter, here, have them all together as one big sequence. the bit where she’s complaining about it keeping her awake is about 2 weeks later.
for the record: the talk of coyotes is because there are no wolves here on my island. they are extinct and we imported coyotes to take their place (it did not work well)
A werewolf bf for by bestie @otterpop-rave
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Should I post my newest absolute garbage first draft unedited chapters? No.Am I going to anyway? Yes. Absolutely!
Here they are:
Wollstonecraft Chapters 7 & 8
(i’m holding off on posting them on tumblr for now)
tags under the cut
Should I post my newest absolute garbage first draft unedited chapters? No.Am I going to anyway? Yes. Absolutely!
Here they are:
Wollstonecraft Chapters 7 & 8
(i’m holding off on posting them on tumblr for now)
tags under the cut
Should I post my newest absolute garbage first draft unedited chapters? No.Am I going to anyway? Yes. Absolutely!
Here they are:
Wollstonecraft Chapters 7 & 8
(i’m holding off on posting them on tumblr for now)
tags under the cut
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