I wanted to share some notes on my stories, the universes that they inhibit, and the ways that they relate to each other. Please read this note first; I promise I will keep it brief. In general, there are three universes that I'm posting here: space, the detective, and fairytales. I'll make a master author's note the detective and space universes themselves soon, but here are the important parts:
Space/The Celestial Cycle (We Stand in Moonlight, The Sleeping Beauties, A Dance Before Midnight): two twins, one male/one female, are Aspects/bonded to immortal Living Gods. They live cyclically: awaken, fight a great evil, fall into a healing sleep for centuries, awaken. There are usually two older brothers, Raphael/Rafael and Dorian, but there are seven total siblings in the full universe that my brother and I have written over the years and he has published with our late friend and writing partner. The male twin/Orlando/Aurelius is bonded to a man (the Guard Captain), and the female twin/Dionearia/Azkadelia is bound to a woman who is reborn many times with many different names and identities. These twins are the main characters in Puss's Boots, but they are not explicitly the Living Gods; it's not mentioned, but they are Aspects - their spirits are splinters of the Gods that are reborn across many Earths.
The Detective: all of these stories are based around a single character of The Detective; she is a woman who lives in a world of magical realism based on famous horror poems/short stories or fairytales. These stories do vary in scope, how many liberties are taken with the source material, and how magical they are, but they are all linked, even if some might lightly contradict each other (please just give the benefit of the doubt). She is a strong, clever, compassionate woman who does her best to help the people she is sent to help, even if she doesn't always make the best decisions or have all of the information when she does. The Detective works for the High King and High Queen of Alicante who are aspects of the Living Gods, but they are not explicitly magical.
Fairytales: each story is different and independent, but there are a few overlaps (Beauty at Ella's Bride's Night, and she also appears in The Knight story as a character's godmother). These are meant to be stand alone and represent different aspects of the queer community like gay, lesbian, found family, poly, asexual (Little Snow-White, female Snow-White). Some play with gender assumptions and cross-dressing in the same way that Shakespearean characters use gender and cross-dressing to both allow their female characters freedom through disguise and to also quietly (or not so quietly) allow their readers a space for discourse in gender. Each story has their own Author's Note if you want to learn more about that story.
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Dionearia Red
Fairytales and poems are some the first pieces of literature and have been reimagined countless times. Here they will be retold again, but our versions all have a queer identity at their heart and, of course, end with 'Happily Ever After'
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