ARTIST STATEMENT

A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION

I care a lot about freedom of expression in art. From your fluffiest narrative, to your darkest fantasy, and every shade of gray in between - it has a place to exist, and no one has the right to snuff out what brings you joy.

All fiction is lovely fiction to someone - no matter how repugnant you may find it.

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My name is Namiin Stone, and I live in fantasy worlds full of strife and full of grief - but they are worlds overfull with love and longing, too. A tender ache in the space where darkness and desire coalesce into the surreal and taboo.

I am an adult artist and author with a singular story that I want to tell, time and time again: a father and his daughter caught in a romance fraught with tension, with desire, with an inescapable - and sometimes supernatural - need to be together. Proclaiming mutual, irrevocable, burning love that extends far beyond the bounds of family, flying in the face of social taboos without heed for consequences.

I choose to be brutally honest about what heals me, to be so terribly vulnerable about what brings me joy, and to be viscerally open about what what breeds base carnality in me. You will find romance here, you will find erotica here, and you will find pornography here, but I must stress abstraction. These stories are wholly fictional, these people are wholly fictional, and any and all similarities to any real person - living or dead - are an absolute coincidence.

If this intrigues you, then I'm glad you found me, and I hope you enjoy what I've set at the table. Sample anything you like, and leave a tip if you feel so inclined. ♥

THE STORIES I WISH TO TELL

Each of these stories is an alternative universe centering around two main characters, Ila and her father Idris. Ila is mine, Idris belongs to my husband and (not-quite-so) old man, Diallo. The characters are always father/daughter even when it may not seem so, and they will always have a happy ending, even when that might seem an impossibility. I write searing romance, not shocking tragedy! ;)

These stories are currently being outlined and written, and are not available in fully finished formats. If you'd like to support me in creating them and other things, check out my support page for more information. Each story will at least be a novella in length, contain illustrated front and back covers, and accompanying illustrations both erotic and not.

THE SUMMONING

An ancient, unfathomable Incubus with intent set on claiming the heart of the girl that summoned him. The girl that was made from him, the lover that was made for him and him alone. Ila, who thought she'd been abandoned since childhood, unwanted and untouchable - only to discover through the loss of her last living relative, an outpouring of over twenty years of grief, and surreal nightmares that bleed into reality that she had not been abandoned at all. She had been stolen. Far from untouchable - she was only meant to be touched by one alone; a powerful Incubus called Idris.

He needs her as much as she needs him; an Incubus needs his Cambion daughter to become his mate for both of them to be completely whole.

BLACK STAG - WHITE DOE

An Arabic, symphonic metal band called Elk Garden vanished without a trace over twenty years ago.

Ila comes back home from her third year in an out-of-state college after getting into a car accident that nearly ended her life. Idris, ever her doting dad, welcomes her home and encourages her to enroll in a local college to continue her studies, so he can keep a watchful eye on her. Her coming home coincides with Idris getting peculiar phone calls that have him working long evening hours at his accounting firm, despite being only weeks away from a late retirement.

At the same time, the band Elk Garden makes a sudden, explosive comeback with its larger than life, seven-foot-five, elk skull masked and anonymous front man, The Black Stag. As Ila bonds over the band's music with a bad boy named Ahmed she liked but never had the courage to approach before she went out of state, tensions with her protective father rise at home over Ahmed, and what, exactly, his true intentions are with her.

At their apex, an odd turn of events leads her to the backstage of an Elk Garden show, and right into the arms and heart of the mysterious, mythical, eerily familiar Black Stag...

THE MEANING OF GARDENIAS AND GLADIOLI

An Arab merchant and his albino daughter live in relative comfort and solitude in the French countryside, 1873. The old merchant is approached by a noble who wishes to ask on behalf of his son for the daughter's hand in marriage. The merchant, Idris, emphatically refuses - his daughter will marry no one, and he would be remiss to marry her off against her wishes. The noble asks again several weeks later, and again is refused, harsher this time - until he insinuates something about Idris's past "dealings".

Idris's blood-soaked past has come to collect its due. He must marry Ila off to the son of the Vicomte to save them both from a grisly demise, despite her pleading, despite her protests that rip his heart in two. The circumstances become deadly - dire - when Ila awakens her assassin father's long-buried hunger for her by kissing him with so much passion during a heated argument about her unwanted betrothal. For her, to keep her, he will spill the blood of kings again.

The two of them stall for time to plan an escape from France as their tremulous, tender romance blossoms right beneath the Vicomte and his son's noses, and Idris's decades of experience as a honed, lethal weapon will mean the difference between life and death.

CONTACT AND MISCELLANEOUS

If you'd like to contact me for any reason, be it to pick my brain and ask questions, discuss my work and themes, or inquire about commissions or hiring me for commercial illustration work, please send an email to [email protected].

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