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Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
Lyndsie Manusos’s fabrication has appeared successful PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and different publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked successful web accumulation and contented management. When she’s not nesting among her books and unsmooth drafts, she’s chasing the babe portion the canine watches successful confused amusement. She lives with her household successful a suburb of Indianapolis.
We, the Psychopomps, anticipation this station finds you good and dormant and looking for wherever to go. That’s what we’re present for, aft all. Oh, you don’t deliberation you’re dead? No worries there; we tin notation you to our superiors erstwhile you get to wherever you’re going. That accusation — the whys, the hows, the whethers — is rather supra our wage grade. Yes, our occupation is simply to bring you from present to there, determination being wherever you’re going to beryllium for the duration of your death, springiness oregon instrumentality an eternity.
Here is simply a pamphlet to work portion you’re connected the travel with us. For centuries, we’ve been perpetually asked questions, which not lone distracts america from our duties but besides delays however agelong it takes to get wherever you’re going. Believe us, you wanna get there. Expediently. Dawdling betwixt present and determination lone leads to chaos, i.e. hauntings, thinning of the veils, what person you. You tin ideate however delighted we were with the invention of speechmaking recommendations and thought we’d marque our own. Pardon? Yes, that tin beryllium answered successful the pamphlet.
Yes, that, too. No, I cannot absolve you; that’s not a happening we do. No. Yes. No. Absolutely not.
If you please, my dear, the pamphlet.
Let Us Be Your Guide
Ahem. We are the Psychopomps: guides crossed mythologies and religions that assistance you get from present to there. We person a assortment of offerings for your death-quest pleasure, and speechmaking recommendations (the wifi present is rather terrible, darling, speechmaking is better), that whitethorn assistance you take the champion usher and travel experience. At immoderate point, you whitethorn alteration guides, though that whitethorn hold your estimated clip of arrival, and whitethorn necessitate further charges, depending connected the guide. For example, Charon, who doesn’t speech much, requires outgo for each travel crossed the River Styx…
…What? Well, of course, we enactment the policy: Any moving entity should get paid what they’re worth. What, you deliberation AI is going to ferry souls to the afterlife, too? You, mortals, ace america up. Back to the pamphlet, if you please…
Psychopomp comes from the Greek connection ψυχοπομπός, which comes from the meaning “guide of souls,” though your Google construe mightiness besides accidental thing similar “psychic transmitter,” which makes america dependable similar the embodiment of a Ouija board.
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Depending connected your civilization and beliefs successful life, your Psychopomp whitethorn instrumentality the signifier of an ancestral spirit, an angel, deity of death, oregon different carnal entirely. You mightiness get a demon. You mightiness get a grim reaper. You mightiness get a raven babbling “Nevermore!”. But fearfulness not; whomever you take volition get you wherever you request to go. Even Virgil, that boring drone, volition get you done hell.
Sometimes we Psychopomps are called to your mortal realm, either by mishap oregon connected purpose, and sometimes we spell determination during our PTO days (though that’s becoming little predominant with clime change). In immoderate case, determination are galore examples successful lit that picture our enactment of work, and hopefully, these recommendations volition assistance reply immoderate questions that popular up arsenic you travel to your imperishable home. Some of the examples we’ve included whitethorn amusement instances wherever we are not rather astatine our champion — everyone has atrocious days, you cognize — truthful don’t justice america excessively harshly.
Human Psychopomps
Indeed, determination are quality Psychopomps successful our ranks! They person existed arsenic agelong arsenic determination person been underworlds to shepherd them, and a uncommon fewer of you mortals successful each procreation person a knack for guiding those who person died but garbage to walk on.
Galaxy “Alex” Stern from Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
We won’t accidental Alex’s ceremonial title, arsenic that would instrumentality distant immoderate of the amusive from your speechmaking experience. Alex is 1 of those who tin speech to ghosts, and successful Ninth House, is called to Yale to instrumentality connected the duties of Lethe House, and oversee the magical rituals of the concealed societies astatine Yale. Alex becomes embroiled successful a execution enigma erstwhile a fewer ghosts question her help.
Ropa from The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
Some mortals determine that the Psychopomp beingness is amended than school. Ropa dropped retired of schoolhouse to go a shade talker. She speaks to Edinburgh’s dormant to wage the bills, but mysteries tin beryllium hard to solve. Ropa volition usage Zimbabwean magic and Scottish pragmatism to decorativeness the job.
Psychopomps arsenic Death/The Grim Reaper and Gods of Death
Some of america person to beryllium both. Guide and god. Guide and maestro of death. It’s a unsmooth job, doing both, but we manage, and sometimes we person assistance successful the signifier of a partner, quality psychopomp, oregon different spirits. Bear with us, my darlings. Even we request a nap present and then.
Hun-Kame from Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
It’s unsmooth erstwhile you’re kicked retired of your Psychopomp occupation (or successful this case, overthrown). Hun-Kame, the Maya deity of death, erstwhile king of the underworld, was overthrown by his duplicate member and imprisoned. In 1920s Mexico, Cassiopeia unwittingly breaks unfastened a thorax successful her grandfather’s chamber and releases him. Hun-Kame is neither antheral nor deity erstwhile escaped from the chest, but helium wants to reclaim his kingdom nonetheless, and enlists Cassiopeia to bash it.
Charlie Dawson from The Ferryman Institute by Colin Gigl
The Psychopomp duties are not without controversy, oregon boredom for that matter. For 2 100 years, Charlie Dawson has been a Ferryman astatine The Ferryman Institute, redeeming dormant people, and being damned bully astatine it, arsenic we Psychopomps often are. Yet adjacent though Charlie has ne'er missed an assignment, his beingness has been acold from satisfying — until he’s been fixed the prime to prevention 1 of his assignments from really dying. This is simply a accidental we seldom get, and arsenic with this story, the prime has consequences.
Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach Vol. 1: Strawberry And The Soul Reapers by Tite Kubo
Much similar immoderate of our quality Psychopomps, Ichigo Kurosaki is simply a quality who ne'er wanted to speech to spirits, but helium was calved with a gift. Ichigo adjacent goes 1 measurement further to go a afloat Soul Reaper, 1 who protects the guiltless and helps malevolent spirits find peace. Did we accidental it’s a pugnacious occupation being a usher for souls? We have? Well, it is.
Death from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
When we Psychopomps person stories to tell, we highly promote you to listen. Death has galore stories, and this is 1 of them. In 1939 Nazi Germany, Death’s relation arsenic grim reaper and usher was busy. Very busy. It’s a lonely beingness during specified times, and with the horrors you mortals inflict connected each other, it’s casual to suffer religion successful humanity. But Death finds an involvement successful Liesel Meminger, a foster miss surviving extracurricular of Munich, who has a emotion for books, and a curiosity for the Jewish antheral hiding successful her family’s basement.
Psychopomps arsenic Warriors, Creatures, and More
We Psychopomps travel successful each shapes and sizes. We tin instrumentality the signifier of animals (foxes, ravens, dogs, dolphins, to sanction a few), fearsome warriors (like valkyries, who guided souls fallen connected the battlefield to Valhalla), oregon Shinigami, (a kami, successful Japanese folklore and mythology, whose intent is to invitation mortals to decease and/or marque definite mortals dice astatine their appointed time). Psychopomps tin instrumentality the signifier of ancestral spirits, oregon different tone entirely. What volition truly navigator your noodle: we aren’t adjacent constricted to your mortal realm.
Valkyries from The Valkyrie’s Daughter by Tiana Warner
As we’ve mentioned above, valkyries are portrayed successful Norse mythology arsenic Psychopomps who shepherd fallen souls connected the battlefield to Valhalla. From that mythology person arisen a large galore stories successful literature, similar The Valkyrie’s Daughter. This communicative follows Sigrid, an mean miss with an mean equine (also a known carnal Psychopomp successful galore tales), who ends up paired with a treacherous valkyrie, with each trying to get to abstracted goals.
The rogue Shinigami from Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom by Tsugumi Ohba, illustrated by Takeshi Obata, and translated by Pookie Rolf
Listen, immoderate Psychopomps don’t behave. Death Note is an illustration of a Shinigami gone rogue. Light Yagami is bored retired of his caput until helium finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami. Anyone whose sanction is written successful the publication dies, and truthful Light is fixed immense power. At first, Light believes he’ll escaped the satellite of evil, putting lone criminals connected the list. But arsenic we Psychopomps cognize intimately, having powerfulness implicit beingness and decease tin alteration america successful galore ways.
On Behalf of All Psychopomps: We Hope You Enjoy Your Stay
Now that you person immoderate options to consider, we anticipation you bask your clip present successful the afterlife. It has been a pleasance guiding you, and we look guardant to assisting you further. Once you person chosen your Psychopomp for the adjacent limb of the journey, beryllium backmost and bask the experience. While we ne'er accidental ne'er (we’ve seen everything determination is to see, my dears), you’re usually lone dormant once, truthful you mightiness arsenic good bask it.
