Callisto Khan @Persephone Effect Out NOW!

I like the implication here that dying your hair green is unethical osidjfasoidfjsfdiasdfjsodifj

I'm so glad this scene resonated with readers. I'll be honest, this was another joke I just kept making while we were outlining the book and then it actually happened lmao

lets fucking GO

I imagine she did a bunch of things stylistically as a younger woman

20 years from now people might understand a bit better that attempting to rest on a "sex/gender distinction" for trans advocacy and the complete failure of its effectiveness is sort of like if we had done "all humans are biologically heterosexual but being gay is about attraction to aesthetics"

Aphrodite and Ares scissoring

Young Melita

"Maria Ying Inflation," I type in the search bar. No results. It is day three hundred and twenty four. Nevertheless, I persist. i am a patient woman. "Maria Ying Inflation real live dot jpeg," I type again. My time will come.

The Persephone Effect: A Non-Exhaustive Trope List

:)

Happy International Women's Day💗

my cypress tattoo is now finished!

For International Women Day you should read Maria Ying books since we're a team of 3 women, so that's 300% women in the bargain.

mariaying.itch.io

How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

Adrastus: directly taking action against the state sanctioned oppression of his people

Persephone: Code Gayass

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

So what I'm hearing is that teaching people to read leads to trans women.

Women are the main consumers for het, gay, and lesbian fiction... because men don't read.

The Persephone Effect (2026)

My mission every day is to make my parents reconsider if Zeus's edict was actually a good idea 😇

The presence of trans women in himedanshi circles doesn't make the subculture queer. It just means that they are himejoshis-in-waiting. When I hear about straight men who like yuri, i do suspect a little 🏳️‍⚧️, but this doesn't mean thats every himedanshi, and it doesn't make "men who like yuri" queer.

A meme from the movie Shrek. Shrek angrily yells "Could you stop trying to kill each other for five seconds?"

Adrastus, bleeding out in a nightmare laboratory at 4am after narrowly escaping getting killed at least three times in the worst night of his life:

9/10

LMAO

(Persephone Effect chapter 9 spoilery reactions as I read!)

Commander Wake writing on the ceiling? Unexpected crossover?! /j

Khrysothemis dialogue, i missed herrrrr 🥰 oh how sweeohhh god what the fuuuuuck!

Persephone seeing Cedalion biting Madalithea: "You gonna eat that?"
5/?

A comic of a goose chasing a running man. The goose is labelled Persephone, the man is labelled Adrastus. The goose honks "1v1 me bro, come on!"

I couldn't unthink this as a i read, i had to pause to make it while Persephone is soggy and talking shit. Even though all this is horrifying, there are some aspects of this scene that did make me giggle. This book has range!

6/?

A woman with long white hair covers one eye with her gloved hand; her other eye is glowing and red with a crosshair-shaped pupil; streaks of blood run down her face. She wears a black pilot’s suit with gold accents against a yellow and black background. Text: THE PERSEPHONE EFFECT.

Out now! Our lesbian Greek myth sci-fi continues: come for giant robots and desire so consuming it becomes cannibalism, stay for the terror of turning into your mother. Will Persephone become a god... or a monster?

Itch: mariaying.itch.io/the-persepho...
Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGXHSNHN

You do not, and I can't believe I have to say this, give it to the cops.

once again I reiterate that I have never found a more effective barometer for "is this space safe for my fat cis body" than "show me your specific policies for creating a safe space for trans bodies"

it has a 100% success rate everywhere from doctors to waxing to clothing-optional soaking pools

Bestie it's good. Team underdog to team underdog 👌