I feel like I'm doing an odd mix of heavy hitting serious posts and lighter, sometimes bookish posts at the moment. Anyway, have a fantasy books giveaway!

'If we make it hard enough to be trans/disabled then people will just stop being those things!' Yeah, and if you make it hard enough for me to have freckles those'll just disappear too. Fuck off.

Across wide plains we wandered Through crumbling cities of stone Past battlefields of bone The Wars of Hate had ended Laws of Sanity undone The world had died with them Faster than any could run So on we walk alone Seeking forests of myth 'Neath a beautiful #magenta sun #vss365

it's time for #tdickxmas again~ 10. dominating someone (Jerome many be a newbie at this but damn he learn fast!)

I thought I saw a ghost but it was actually just a bioluminescent victorian child.

#amwriting #WIPsnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Moonlight guides you 🌘 Bust adoptable design with 3 extra variants, still looking for a home! 🌖 #art #characterdesign #dnd #adopts #adoptable

A short break from worries [OCs: Kiki and Darpan]

commission for @spookystirfry.bsky.social 💖🎨

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The Laurel, in its two varieties, large and small, is much used for spoons and combs, on account of its close

Have you ever based a story on a real-life crime or mystery? This is something I’ve always wanted to do, but haven’t gotten around to doing yet #writingq #WritingCommunity

When the moonlight leaves the lake, she will be a swan once more. 🦢

Stop scrolling I'm proud of you. I love you. You're doing great. It's okay to stop and take a break. Your hard work is seen. Celebrate your little wins. Take a deep breath. Drink some water. You're doing awesome. 💙 Carry on.

#Smutcember 7: Jenna is already half-smitten when she meets Tarek simply because she's spent months as part of her job obsessively studying the Reshketh and becoming enamored with them as a species. She finds them to be beautiful and fascinating from the very start. When she meets Tarek, (1/4)

cw: sex I’m still figuring out timelines/the ordering of things of course, but there is a good stretch of time after something awful happens that Cecyl altogether refuses to let Baz touch him at all. #writesky

thank you so much! If you’re interested in more, this is a passage from something I posted as a short story on my site: www.grantpiercy.com/the-infestat...

#WIPSnips Empty. A mural depicting the appearance of one of the Gods. Text in the alt. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Maessil, an Act 2 SC of the main group from “Pal”. onward movement; reversed: pushing forward too quickly, too brashly she’s surrounded by people who can help mend the broken strings of the lyre she so tightly clings to, if only she’ll uncurl her fist & sink into the present #DeckTheHalls #writesky

One of the saddest things I ever wrote. CW: grief #WIPSnip #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

I retreated a step. A drip sounded, followed by a squelch. And the bruised shadow rippled. I sucked in a breath, my heart pounding so hard I could feel it in the tips of my fingers. The darkness spread. Tendrils of it moving closer. Inching its way toward me. Something #empty and hungry. #YA #SFF

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts A shadow is empty, devoid of light that you yourself blot out. It is simply the shape of you.

You find yourself in a strange castle. Unexplained things start to happen. Are the walls breathing? You feel eyes watching your every move. And the man. You can't stop thinking about the man. Nothing makes sense anymore. Is it all a dream? #wipsnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

This, apparently, is a history lesson … From ‘House Rules’. #WiPSnips

the lesson of transness itself is it isn’t just what people are, it is also what they can be, what can unfold and blossom if you do not kill the bud

#Smutcember 7: So for both of them, one of the main ones is the other's smile - Sabbat loves the fact that Archer has a very specific half-smile that's pretty much just for him, and Archer loves the lopsided crooked uniqueness of Sabbat's grin. 1/2

okay, back to the main couple (Cecyl/Bazyli) from “the big wip”. Baz & Cecyl would list for hours if you let them, but I’ll just mention some of the favorite features of another that differ btwn the two of them. Baz’s favorite physical features of Cecyl are his freckles (1/4) #Smutcember

cw: sex Baz & Cecyl usually either go to bed for the night or take a nap shortly after sex, whether it’s one round or one that sparks multiple, only stopping when they’re both dead tired. even their more intense nights are relaxing in the end, due to the combined stress relief & aftercare #writesky

canonically, Baz & Cecyl do write letters to another when Baz is away for diplomatic trips. they mostly just update another about their weeks, the highlights & the ugly, though they are known for throwing in jokes & a good helping of yearning in their letters as well hehe (1/2) #QueerPrompts

Here's ObiDai's 🙈🏳️‍🌈 #Smutcember

#Smutcember I don't have a lip kiss yet, but I do have a hand kiss.

I have quite a few first kisses but most are either too rough and clunky to share yet or spoilers. Katie & Kyle's still needs work but is at least sharable. The context is this night they are sleeping together (but not *sleeping together*) in a hotel after a concert. #Smutcember

First kiss for #Smutcember today, from SWIM WITH ME, DARLING, my sapphic horrormance novelette. When Lana gets pushed into the cursed lake, she has a breathless meet cute with the monster behind the legends. A kiss that saves her from drowning and plunges her headlong into yearning for more. 💙📚

sorry the snippet is so long, but their first kiss and the very important “you can’t just kiss me like that” line are so far apart lol #Smutcember

#Smutcember 6: Context: Emile asked Cylus if he'd show "how his (butterfly) knives work", Cylus asked Emile to go somewhere private, Emile led him to a secret access "elevator" that sends them hurtling down through the miles-thick Europan ice sheet~ Guest this morning but back later to catch up!

sweetly 💜 a full sketch page on my patreon

#Smutcember 6: Very long snip today, but given these two have taken over a decade in-universe and over 500k words out-universe (plus multiple near-death experiences) to get to this point, I think they deserve it. (Context note: Archer's a vampire, so a slit throat isn't permanently fatal for him)

Be weirder and more unsettling

🎂🎉 It’s me birthday today 🎂🎉!! It’d mean a lot to me if you could please share my art around 💕💕✨!! Thank you >3 💕💕

I have 10+ handmade items in stock & ready to ship on my website! Go check them out → cvkvlv.com Every sale goes to rent, bills, and taking care of my kitty 🖤 December goal progress in comments ↓ #Beadwork #Art #Mvskoke

A Gorgon but her hair is Worms on a String

I said I’d only be talking about “the big wip” for this, but alas, I lied. while they still have quite a few firsts together in their arc, the couple from that wip have been married for forever so, have these two, from “Pal”, with a (not-so-)proper first kiss cw: borderline explicit #Smutcember

I’ve had the pleasure of being in a ttrpg/dnd therapy group for the past few months, & got to experience one of those “sent into a hypnosis state to face your deepest darkest fear via illusion while the rest of your party stands watching, unable to reach you” scenes the other day, and…

oooh this prompt game is right up my alley, thank you for starting it ! ik no one knows him, but Leo is 100% The Fool. he’s bright-eyed, still somewhat innocent to the world, even when Eloy meets him later on, & has thrown himself into something he is woefully underprepared for. #DeckTheHalls

Oh hey have I mentioned that I live with the most beautiful girl in the world?

#smutcember Shitposting is a love language and my characters are virtuosos of bad jokes. Also, so many of my characters catch feelings once they feel safe enough to let their guards down. Don't read into that, I'm not projecting!

#Smutcember 5 I just force them to experience the horrors together and hope for the best. 😭

I kinda have a long way of doing this, & it’s just spending months & months on writing exercises w the characters. I’m a v figure it out as I go person so, through all those “scene sketches”, I build lore, all sorts of complimentary little details, & char.s I’ve been told (1/3) #Smutcember

finally making a new ao3 account has been absolutely horrible for my sleep schedule holy shit. it’s 5am. at least I can’t say I haven’t read anything longer-form for fun in forever anymore

I’m ngl that Venn diagram almost near-perfectly resembles a circle lmao, but that’s also bc there’s a rather wide range of scenarios & kinks that fall under both. there definitely isn’t complete overlap tho, as my reading interests tend to span far outside my writing #Smutcember

both are great ! but I do have a slight preference for writing bc I can cater to the dynamics I like to read, embed a hefty deal of character study & context into scenes, & it can be hard to find stories that actually understand consent and don’t /accidentally/ become dub-con. #Smutcember