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My visual output for Ancilla has decreased slightly, because I've started making promos and mood collages for Soror Mystica. I am still, however, making Ancilla material. 

Many of the tiles have poetry on them because April is National Poetry Month.

Once I get done making this page, I'll need to get back to contest reading.

I think I've mentioned before that "Magister" is fond of the poems of Francesco Petrarca.

These next three contain excerpts of poetry from T S Eliot's The Wasteland.

First: "They called me the hyacinth girl..." I couldn't resist, since the myth of Hyakinthos, the pretty shepherd boy beloved by both Apollo and by Zephyr, god of the wind, plays in with the Lover-and-beloved trope that, gender tweaks aside, I mostly play straight in Ancilla.

Readers of Donna Tartt's The Secret History will recognize these stanzas.

What better Wasteland quote for a pair of amorous vampires than this one?

Yet another dark academia-themed tile. It's spring, but I keep wanting to wallow in autumn.  How very "Magister" of me.

Ever played with a flower whip? 

Pablo Neruda again. 

Leaning into the way "ancilla" and "Magister" feed on each other (he more so than her, of course)

A tile that emphasizes arcane studies.

Knowledge flowers

The Fire tutorial this quote is taken from was originally conducted on a log...

More poetry. "Love Song," by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Poor "Magister." It's all off-scene, and you never see it, but he hurts worse than "ancilla" does when he frees her, telling her to live her own life apart from him.

Those of you who have grown attached to him will be happy to know he comes back in the third book, Adept, albeit in a changed form.

Another tile referencing "ancilla's" girlfriend, who was her first real love. 

Do you have any idea how hard it is to find tasteful bondage images to put into collages?

This comes from the section of the Binah chapter where "Magister" and "ancilla" are lying on the lawn in front of Wade Lagoon, near Severance Hall and the Cleveland Museum of Art, discussing the possibility of creating a permanent future together. More accurately, "ancilla" is toying with the idea, while "Magister" is sabotaging his own dreams and dashing their mutual hopes. 

The verse comes from "Moths," a Jethro Tull song written by Ian Anderson that is sheer poetry.

Yet ANOTHER dark academia tile

This last one on the page is all "Magister." 

Who, let it be said again, was hurt worse than "ancilla" by his decision to free her.