I bought a bunch of various dresses off Andrea this week, and now some LHFers are modeling the results. From left to right, there's N'Yenya, Shaniqua, Materyllis and Janet. My favorite article of clothing in the picture is N'Yenya's dress. Janet's shirt is adapted from a Barbie-sized dress. It, of course, has robots on it! Now if only I could get ( Read more... )

The Chocolatiers thought that it would be merciful if they killed Affie out of Materyllis' sight, but Materyllis disagreed. She loved Affie like her own daughter, and she believed that she herself should euthanize Affie. So she did ( Read more... )

The discussion amongst the Chocolatiers and Materyllis regarding Affie's fate was a bitter one. You see, it is a general principle across all metro Boston vamp clans that the penalty for any crime that endangers vampires as a whole is death. There are several categories of activity that merit the death penalty:

1. Harming a mortal under the age of ( Read more... )

Affie calmed down and regained some of her intelligence, enough for Materyllis to get out of her the story of how Affie was changed by Joe. Affie had called on Joe after the birth of her first child, who had come out premature and sickly. Even though Affie brought Joe in, her baby died. Joe seized the day and vamped Affie. The loss of her child and ( Read more... )

It makes the most sense for Joe Coldstone,  Materyllis' rapist and transmittor of vampirism, was a practitioner of hoodoo, but I'm not going to use that word because it sounds like voodoo, which has enough misconceptions around it already. So I'll say he was a conjure man, practicing a syncretic form of healing/rootwork/matural magic that borrows ( Read more... )

So her name is Amaryllis Whatley, but no one calls her that. She's so notorious that she goes by just Materyllis, mater being Latin for "mother."

I modeled her and made her up last night, and she is one natty, smokin' hot :p babe. I didn't expect her to be so damn hot. I expect she died just a few years older than Will, at around 35.

Anyway, I haven' ( Read more... )

So I picked up a bunch of local history books at the library recently. One is In Our Own Words: Stories of North Cambridge, Massachusetts 1900-1960. The most memorable person in the book is Ruth Jones (1895-1996), an African-American townie. She comes across as a take-no-shit person who tells you what to do because she's experienced and smart and ( Read more... )