The chapter of Book Two I’m editing today is called “The Mother”

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When I started writing Inheritance, absolutely no traditional publishers were buying queer fiction for adults. It was YA or go home. I didn't even look for a publisher under those conditions. Self pub was the only choice. Queer adult fiction is out there. Stop waiting for trad to feed it to you.

Here's the thing about queer stories: We don't think centrism fixes shit 🤣

watercolor, 2023

Trying not to tear up about the character I’m killing today 😭😭😭

SUCH a great thread 🧵

I have a lot of complex feelings about this but basically it boils down to “we expect boys to jump from middle grade books to adult fiction when they hit a certain age and most don’t.”

I think what I liked about Arcane is it showed you could have an action-adventure fantasy show that had great fight scenes, with a diverse cast, without sacrificing thematic depth (season two is another dang story here)

one of my FAVORITE parts of writing is putting in the little details I want readers to notice the second time through!!!

I am prepared to go INSANE for this season

Boy I hope yall like the word “slithered”

saw a video of lesbian lumberjacks and I just want to make it canon that Cevette can keep a cabin warm and toasty all winter long.

Maybe if I drink enough tea I can finish editing chapter nine tonight

Evazina Gavon is for every autistic high schooler who thought “surely if I get really good at throwing knives they will invite me to parties”

One of my favorite parts of the Lizeth POV in book two is how thoughtful and patient they are, especially because they would never consider themself a thoughtful or patient person.

A joke inspired by a conversation today with @heymonsterboy.bsky.social An autistic horror story

nonbinary character: i don't have a sex their roommate [gender: knight]: don't worry, my liege ... i haven't had sex in years

i love u trans women 💕 the world is more magical and beautiful for having you in it

Sheltering the littlest flames

I love it when the Amazon algorithm suggests keywords for Skullrunner like “hockey romance” “reverse harem” and “omegaverse” because I too would like to read that version of the book

We can't trust trad publishers to be the gatekeepers of quality.

Big Book Two Andreas Gavon Energy:

Blue Wyvern by CactusFishMonsters 🌟 #dragonsky 🌟 #dnd 🌟 #art 🌟 #fantasy 🌟

Absolutely wild to see the takes that Aang is a bad romantic partner because he expects Katara to emotionally support him when he’s struggling, like I thought we all wanted cis men to seek emotional support and Aang survived a genocide???

My other Katara hot take is she should have said “fuck.”

stay tuned for *unnamed WIP*

this was such a thoughtful review, i'm kind of blown away. kind of staggering to put something in the world and realize that people genuinely get it

I don’t aim to write queer joy as much as I am to write books where queer struggle has the same mythological weight as the struggles in the fantasy books I grew up reading.

Seeing some ATLA discourse pop up so I will throw my hat in with: despite what you think of Katara and Aang, it’s weird to say that Katara should have married Zuko for power, because it’s very clear that women have more power and respect in the Southern Water Tribe than in the Fire Nation

books that understood the ultimate child fantasy was never to become an adult but a creature of tremendous power and mystery are rarer than they should be

I thought this said AMAB and I was like “look his gender is Chonk.”

I do find it fascinating how people will say “we need more fantasy about men” and then absolutely refuse to acknowledge fantasy books about queer men, BIPOC men, etc.

Touching base with the OG enemies to lovers classic:

Evazina Gavon would love this because she loves boats.

Now bring out the big can opener!

okay I know they said we wouldn’t be able to see anything from land but I went down to the beach to watch the livestream anyways

Getting a bit emotional reading the Wikipedia page about the invention of the parachute. As far back—further—than da Vinci, people have been working out the technology to let us go to space and come home. 😭

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As a nonbinary person who has been fighting for years to get industry support for an epic fantasy series with queer characters, I really do not like to see epic fantasy reduced to “mantasy.”

Maturity is letting other people be wrong on the internet, but let me just say: no, not all authors who self publish are doing so because they can’t get a traditional deal, and yes, the horror stories about trad *do really happen to people.*

obviously the attacks on trans rights are abhorrent and have a chilling effect, but the fact that every day I still see people taking on new names and pronouns, going on HRT for the first time, getting surgeries, etc is proof positive that we will always exist no matter what

the blood clings to you, i've learned. all those little choices, all those lives. you cannot quantify the guilt; no matter how many years yawn on. it clings to you. it clings.

One of my favorite parts of writing this story is that it’s about guerrilla fighters and pirates leading a revolution but so much of it is really about the small practical details of how you pull off ambushes and sabotage as well as how you live your life in the meanwhile.

God I love looking at pictures of ridiculous historical military uniforms and saying “put that on a butch lesbian”

Crying a bit about the names of moon craters

Okay but it is so cool to watch a space mission with so many women involved in it and to see astronauts openly expressing joy and wonder at the Moon

Part of what I love about writing Cevette is that she will be incredibly, incredibly patient with an enemy, feeling them out, but when she decides to kill somebody she does it quickly and without hesitation