This is adorable. Also my brain immediately heard “sh-shaw” in the voice of Dale Gribble making it extra goofy

What’s that you say? No, this was not in any way inspired by the “I have one daughter” meme that definitely was not going through my head all afternoon

Uneasy peace ensues. Call that a “why choose the breeder” trope 🤘 😎 🤘

Each of the men thinks he’s got the breeding orifice. Some time later she reveals that SURPRISE BITCHES both holes are breedable, oh and also my species can have polyploid offspring with two dads and now the three of us are BOUND via this child.

And I’m not committing to this but suppose it’s split perspective romance, and the love interest is a forest demon charged with destroying the humans who log his forest

So anyway this line of animal-husbanding witches is the result, and they keep settling down with partners who can help materially provide while they make house calls in the surrounding countryside, always with a small squadron of kitties in tow, living or otherwise.

The deceased cats stick around for the same reason cats instinctively take up flanking positions when humans sleep: to protect their family sweet Jesus on a stick why am I getting teary eyed fml 🐈‍⬛

Actually, for bonus points let’s say a witch, and she wasn’t born a witch, just a particularly charismatic young girl who learned she had the ability to acquire familiars.

Also—I’m not a BookTok author but I often write with songs in mind, which can seep through in themes or even wording. Some music really lends itself to this. For me there’s a couple of bands whose influence in my stories I suspect is palpable, and one is Sleep Token.

Ahh.
Okay I’m only a minute or so in, and probably won’t get much further til tonight, but I think I see where she’s going with this, and I do get it. V’s lyrics *are* super open to interpretation both within the band’s mythology and without. And all about relationships.

Sauce? As an erotica writer who’s into them and peripheral to booktok, I am *intrigued*

I love demons as partners 😈 Devious, ravenous, and absolutely do not give a fuck whether your mortal meatsack is normative to other mortal meatsacks