Sanguine Saturnalia

Sanguine Saturnalia is a story written and illustrated by spicy-wrenegade and Devin Ambrosia. It originally ran in Issue 123 at https://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/sanguine-saturnalia/.

Summary

An antique flyer is posted to a FetLife group, connections are made, shenanigans ensue. There is blood (enthusiastically given)

Author's Notes

Devin: First story collaboration with Wren (spicy-wrenegade) on the books! We both did not have time for this and desperately wanted it to just be a poster but the ideas kept happening and Wren’s enthusiasm eventually won me over. I wrote the image texts, Wren did the visual art (incredible, beautiful, hot), that’s my hand lol, and we roughly split the character dialogue, which made it very fun to banter back and forth. I hope you got at least as many laughs from it as we did.

Thank you, W2, for demanding more sex. Also, ftr, collaboration is fucking vulnerable and I feel so grateful to Wren for taking risks and building trust with me. I'm learning a lot. Our SS*BB little corner of the world is magical and I love it.

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Wren: “I really don’t have time for anything big this issue,” I said and then this happened. Thank you to the internet for being a wondrous place.

I don’t think I’ve ever started out with illustration concepts first that needed a narrative to connect them, so this was new. As was collaborating on both text and visuals instead of separating the two — and what fun it was to detangle the threads that kept springing up! Fitting for the season, the process felt like a fever dream (positive) where our creation kept changing the shape it wanted to take. I hope you have as much fun with what it became as we had making it.