James StAnthony

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need some good horror novel recs if anyone has any! *preferably contemporary settings but i'll never say no to 'and then there was a GHASTLY MURDER in the WAINSCOTTING' style gothic

and surely the answer is 0. the answer can only be 0.

seeing a couple of well-intentioned but ultimately uninformed pieces weighing the social costs of not opening schools vs the likelihood of spreading the infection & asking what's an acceptable risk, implicitly what's an acceptable mortality rate

the ease with which it's been accepted as a normal, rational debate is only accelerating my alienation from this country

the reopen schools debate is one of the most ghoulish things i've witnessed in british media the gleeful demonisation of unions & teachers, the unearthing of hateful blairite horrors desperate to open a new culture war front, the open contemplation of 'how many deaths are ok'

One day things shall not be as they are. One day the Gate of St Alisaunder will open again. One day the saints shall know their master and the keys to the kingdoms will find again their chatelaine. But it is not this day. What is revealed shall remain hidden: until the end.

The Grand Coven, a hidden order of queens & witches, stands secret & beyond the restrictions of the Three Papacies. They renounce the mastery of Hell, Fairy & Christendom and shroud themselves in secrets like snowfall.

The Kings of the surviving Kingdoms of the Isles (Gorse, Domeric & Dorimare) patronise the Order of St Victory, those monastics licensed & familiar with the workings of Hell, Fairy & the Everafter and permitted to practise in arts otherwise forbidden

The Duchy of Marigold is not to be trusted.

The only known angels are those flung from Heaven like bolts of lightning - each is amnesiac and paranoiac - believing each alone, these Princes of the Everafter, are the only survivor of the Fall. Broken-hearted & betrayed they wander Christendom, searching for a means of return

"What remained of Tourmaline lay under the terrible dominion of the fey queen, Fair Rosamund until she was defeated in the Third Crusade, where she was trapped in a mirror. Her shadow, lost by misaventure, reigns on as the Candlelight Queen in the Canton of Ten Thousand Candles."

The Dowagers: A small sect who believed the lands of the Fairy Cantons had been the dower lands of the Virgin. Initially politically useful to the Innocent Papacy but became something of an embarrassment after they argued St Anne had been a boggle.

False Transubstantiation: the erroneous belief that saucers of milk may be consecrated along with bread and wine and thus taken by Christian fairies at Communion - this relies upon the further heresy that Christ’s entry into Fairy permitted the ensoulment of the Hidden Folk

Heresies of the Cantons The succedanei who refused to believe in infant baptism, and promulgated a doctrine of baptism at 12, for it was believed no changeling could reach puberty without revealing its true nature.

"Hell, being full Harrowed when Christ entered Fairy as conqueror (never to return, lost in the Gloaming), is forever diminished. Satan, being slain, is no more. A series of regents occupies the Shattered Throne – the last and greatest of these being the Princess Penitential."

"The twin kingdoms of Tristan & Tourmaline were lost when Fairy (the Empires of Twilight, the Kingdoms Without End) breached the Gate of St Alisaunder & stole away a part of Christendom. In their stead they left the Fey Cantons, each ruled by an exile Prince of Fairyland."

"Dame Margaret Greengrass commands the Pax Christi, the bloodiest mercenary company in all the Palatinate. Under the white flag of the bleeding lamb they march, their cannon thunder enough to wake Christ and all his blessed Saints and raise the dead in their bloody shrouds."