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St John Starling

@stjohnstarling / stjohnstarling.tumblr.com

Retired jazz musician, he/him, adult Author of What Manner of Man 🦚🔮🕯️
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St John* Starling; a bird of ill omen and author of queer novels of subversive high camp.

Read What Manner of Man ->

𖤐 What Manner of Man is a blasphemous gothic romance about a priest and a vampire.

Father Ardelian has been summoned to a distant, secluded island to perform an exorcism. What will happen when he begins to suspect his host — the mysterious, nocturnal lord of the manor — of wanting him for another reason entirely? Will the piously celibate priest be able to resist his monstrous host’s diabolically seductive charms?

Get the complete novel here/DRM-free on Itch.io, or read the draft for free! 💌

My next project is A Companion in Vice, about mad scientists doing nasty things to each other.

Other things you can do:

Want to post about What Manner of Man (or anything else) without me being able to see it? Tag your post #st john begone

* pronounced /ˈsɪndʒɪn/ or, more colloquially, SIN GIN (as in SINful GIN and tonic)
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therabbitwarren asked:

I haven't finished a novel in literal years. I get through the first act, get bored, and drop it. It's something I'm deeply ashamed of. I just read What Manner of Man in one sitting. It took me four hours. It's seven past midnight now. I'm sending this as a thank you. It's a fantastic novel, and it helped me do something I thought I was no longer capable of. It's really wonderful :)

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💜 No, thank you! This is really touching, I'm glad it could be that for you.

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Hi everyone it's trans day of visibility!! If ya feel like it, I'd love if you shared my work.. My name is Rachamim and I make personal queer fantasy work inspired by my Greek Sephardi background.

It's what always kept me going through my hardest periods of illness and instability and I feel very lucky to still be here sharing with y'all. If ya want links of where/how else you can support my work they're all here!! Thank you!

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so he gets in my face and yells at me to feed him and he only wants affection on his time and sometimes he hurts me and to be honest he's a bit of an unempathetic narcissist and he tortures animals but I love him anyway

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this is him btw

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warthogreporter asked:

Hey ummm, can I get an uh, pathetic little twink priest with a nice arse and sad little eyes hinting at his repressed turmoil which is connected to a mysterious incident in his past, unable to be honest with himself about his true nature and desires, unfamiliar with genuine acceptance and affection and only aware of this on a subconscious level, haunted by strange dreams revealing both the future and his own suppressed feelings, and a side of fries with a chocolate shake. Oh and some ketchup for the fries obviously.

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Order up!

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The real death knell of the internet is that people have all stopped putting links in their fucking posts. I keep noticing that people trying to direct attention to their projects won’t include any links!

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The way that ALL the major social media platforms have been slowly training their users out of the habit of sharing links - either by not allowing them at all or via algorithmically suppressing content that contains them - is genuinely apocalyptic for internet culture. It MUST be resisted.

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Links are literally what the internet is made of! That’s what the inter- part is!!

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Love Abound - April’s limited edition print release goes on sale tomorrow at 10am (mountain time) and 50% of the proceeds will go to local (Albuquerque, New Mexico) queer and trans non profit organizations.

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