“And for Helena’s fracturing mind, an absence of cruelty was sufficient solace. For her starved heart, it was enough.” - @senlinyu.bsky.social #alchemised #helenamarino

“No matter how you’ve romanticised him, Kaine Ferron is not a person. He is a monster.” - @senlinyu.bsky.social #alchemised #kaineferron

My most anticipated book of 2025 was #Alchemised by @senlinyu.bsky.social and I knew that I would need to draw something for the story. I posted this a while back on my Instagram but am now sharing it here! Hope you all like 🥀 #bookfanart #kaineferron #helenamarino #bookillustration #digitalart

Alchemised by @senlinyu.bsky.social These two just don't want to leave my mind. 💔❤️‍🩹 #Alchemised #KaineFerron #HelenaMarino

For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work

lovely

#alchemised meets Rocky Horror

I wonder what you could have turned into without the war 🌹 #alchemised #art

the pursuit of moralizing fiction is in fact a fascist movement and more importantly, it seeks to deny individual thought by replacing it with group adherence. if your morals are broken by a work of fiction, your morals were not real in the first place.

hear me out, THIS time "finding some fictional element from pop culture that mostly women like and deciding it should be destroyed because it's... making society immoral or something" is DEFINITELY going to get us back on the good timeline. we just need these chicks to see reason

It's fantastic to see all the love that #Alchemised is receiving, congratulations to @senlinyu.bsky.social ! I'm really honoured I was asked to draw two #maps for her dark fantasy story 😊 -- #fantasymap #bookmap #cartography #bookart #illustration #mapart #manacled #citymap #worldmap #citymap

Welcome local PNW author, SenLinYu to ECCC from Mar 5-8! @senlinyu.bsky.social, debut author for the dark fantasy novel Alchemised, will be joining us for interactive panels, signings, workshops, & more 📖 Get your ECCC tix by Nov 10 so you can meet them IRL: ECCC26.com/BuyTickets

Alchemised by SenLinYu Can’t help but post this cause I’m so proud how it turns out. 🥹 #Alchemised #SenLinYu #HelenaMarino #KaineFerron

februa 1786 i am surprisingly weak for young kaine as well 😩 #alchemised

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

Helena Marino. 💔 Inspired by the "Two-thousand yard stare" by Thomas C. Lea. #Alchemised @senlinyu.bsky.social

“I’m not fragile. I am not going to break. Please believe that about me.” #alchemised @senlinyu.bsky.social

Interviewer @bethtabler.bsky.social was privileged to talk with @senlinyu.bsky.social , an author she’s been reading for years and greatly admires as a lover of the morally ambiguous.

i got into alchemised recently and made a first warm up-drawing to get familiar with the characters 🌙 #Alchemised

Reading Alchemised in the open is a wild game because I'll be reading the most heart wrenching line and will have to force a straight face and take deep breaths to stop myself from curling into a ball and cry. Thank you will never be enough @senlinyu.bsky.social

“Luc could have been friends with anyone, but he picked me. I wouldn’t have had anyone without him.” #alchemised @senlinyu.bsky.social

#Alchemised by @senlinyu.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹🥀

Lila for Sen 🥀 #alchemised @senlinyu.bsky.social

“A healer and killer, circling slowly, the push and pull inexorable.” | drawing this was about as painful as reading the book, but I still couldn’t stop until it was finished 🥲 (I’m at chapter 48 and hanging on by a thread. This book is incredible) @senlinyu.bsky.social #alchemised

Alchemised by @senlinyu.bsky.social #alchemised #kaineferron #helenamarino #fanart

"You sound as enslaved as I am" - Alchemised by @senlinyu.bsky.social #alchemised

🌒 Transference Tonight 🌘 Alchemised by @senlinyu.bsky.social #alchemised #kaineferron #helenamarino

Have you finished Alchemised or has Alchemised finished you? @senlinyu.bsky.social #alchemised #fanart

formally launching my campaign for the helena/kaine ship name. their surnames are marino and ferron, right? marino = seawater and ferron = iron. what happens when you mix seawater and iron? you get RUST I've suggested this before, but it's not catching on for some reason? 🤔

Cat reviews SenLinYu's hotly anticipated dark fantasy debut ALCHEMISED: "My life paused for this book... Absolutely unique, brilliant and like nothing you've ever experienced before." Read more: tinyurl.com/37vfnssc @michaeljbooks.bsky.social @senlinyu.bsky.social @druidcat.bsky.social

Kaine and Helena sketches before bed 🥀🥺 #alchemised #alchemisedfanart

ONE WEEK!!! I’ve never been so excited to hold a book in my hands. @senlinyu.bsky.social #alchemised #senlinyu #helenamarino

While waiting for next week, my hyperfixation hit hard last night Hence me fangirling over Alchemised by @senlinyu.bsky.social in the only way I can:

Getting a sudden deluge of follows from blond models and aspiring actors right now… I cannot imagine what they could possibly want. 🤔

cons of re-reading your own fic: mortifying

“Her eyes were dead. There was no fire in them.” A quick sketch just to pour more love into Alchemised. @senlinyu.bsky.social recently took pity on me and allowed me to capture Helena with more accuracy. I usually don’t post my digital sketches but I was quite happy with this one. #alchemised

𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 🥀 Art by @dracodormiensss.bsky.social Comm’d by me & @balerionthedread.bsky.social Scene from Manacled by @senlinyu.bsky.social NO REPOSTS Likes & shares appreciated

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

“Women & queer people being horny and making cringe art is what’s causing the downfall of society” is unironically what a fascist would say

I really hate how even in proship spaces sometimes someone will say some shit like "m/f ships are boring/gross, and it's sexist misogyny when women enjoy fics where it's fucked up and abusive, and the woman is always small and dainty, and the man is large and mean"

Painted exclusively for @senlinyu.bsky.social, this piece titled “Rose in the Graveyard” was my attempt to capture the essence of Sen’s masterful world of Paladia amidst the sombre blues and dying reds. 🥀 #alchemised #senlinyu

"what happens after the end of your book?" look man I already told you everything I know

would you still love me if I was a wyrm 🐉

This is now my standard set of authorial disclaimers: 1) No, not everything in my fiction is something I want/believe. 2) No, that sex scene isn't gratuitous, and that's not what "gratuitous" means. 3) No, I cannot stop people from blowing up the moon.

I agree, but I want to take it further. They even want people to think het missionary sex is wrong (especially for women) so that people have shame. Shame lets people be controlled. You *must* fight back against shame, and stand with people who are kinkier and weirder than you.

Jinu + Rumi = 💖💋✨ the moment we all waited for 👀 . #kpopdemonhunter #fanart #jinu #rumi #kiss #illustration

Meow ✨ #kpopdemonhunters

I really, truly, deeply need people to understand that a matriarchy is not just “a find and reverse gender roles.”