welcome! my name's gabriel or lamia and i like to draw my ocs in situations and post them on the internet; i also occasionally make fanart. if you'd like to know a little about my characters, here's some brief info on their stories:
STORY INDEX
AMENSALISM
1980s northern england + scotland, deindustrialisation, rural idealisation, medievalism, ghosts, criminality, addiction, identity
a dysfunctional friend group in 1985 - 2001 manchester hew out a life for themselves against the backdrop of a curse persisting from the middle agesact 1. farrier and opiate addict valentine 'tiny' blackmarsh is plagued by past memories of an infanthood spent in the fictional northumberland village of Wrong, a closed community formed around a peat bog. something lives in that wetland that might be traced back to a trial in the 1600s, when it was insisted that a chicken, cow, dog and horse testify in a court of provincial law as the only witnesses to a terrible crime. their inability to answer is interpreted as a refusal, for surely God would allow the beasts to speak, just this once, rather than let such an injustice go unpunished?act 2. in the mid-90s, jerome roshan mohana, admist the mad cow disease outbreak, begins uploading short videos to FTP sites of the furnace at his mother's horse crematorium being used to dispose of sick cattle. fancying himself a bit of a filmmaker, it gives him some ideas
key characters: valentine, artegall, lawrence, malika, jerome
THE RESURRECTION MEN
early 19th-century scotland + ireland, medical history, body horror, gothic romance (essentially toxic 1830s yaoi)
five years before the Anatomy Act of 1832 passes, james cochrane matriculates into edinburgh medical school where he meets naoise รณ broin. when both young men begin to fail as fledgling physicians due to a lack of anatomical knowledge and social capital, james is prepared to do what naoise, initially, dare not in order to learn the inner workings of the human body
key characters: james, naoise, shep
i also tend to play dollshouse with my ocs and write them into different fictional universes, plots, periods etc. to figure out where i might wanna go with them