Tonight I finished reading Vow of Loathing by @kmbauthor.bsky.social and really enjoyed it. Not my typical kind of book, and I was worried it was gonna be one that just wasn't for me, but I genuinely had a great time with it. Plus Kirsty is just a super cool person.

Falling prey to the comparing myself to other more successful debut authors bug, which needs to stop ASAP please 😭😭

Developing the mycelial networks to make healthy soil for growing!

☀️ JUNE 2026 ☀️ (also posted to insta 👀)

#LGBTQWRITEATHON Day 27! I have basically written nothing new in WEEKS but I have been fleshing out a lot of things, lineages, historical events, characters, etc so when I get back into it, I'll have more of an idea of who the side characters are and what the main characters are fighting for

One of my favourite things about writing the Despised Bonds series is writing about the seasonal courts. If I could I would live in the Autumn Court forever... Which season would you want to live in permanently, if you could? 👀

I've been MIA the past few weeks here but I've been moving all my notes from google docs to notion and adding new (deceased and not) characters to family trees so this is how its going 😂😂

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 26! There are too many artists I love, but I have always wanted to work with @bloodwrit.bsky.social 's on a cover, so one day maybeee 👀

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 25! ❄️💔🦊⚔️🍻

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 24! First off, I'm not that pathetic. This was a ridiculous work of fan fiction at best. The author got me entirely wrong. I'm fun! I was sad for a bit, sure, but it wasn't that bad. The sex scenes were hot & pretty on point though tbh, it redeemed it enough to give it 2 stars?

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 23! I invited my mate to my wedding as a way to let him know that we were over, but he showed up anyway?? And when I told him to leave, he just stuck around and tried to stop my wedding and ended up being dragged away, and now I can feel his misery through the bond... AITA?

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 21!

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 19! My angry mate pounds my butt the day before he gate crashes my wedding to the princess of summer, only to end up in bed with a literal bear

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 18! Objections of War

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 17! In which Kairos fails to consumate his marriage, multiple times

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 16! (Skipping 15 because obvious reasons) I love chapter titles so much, but I'm also a lover of SHORT chapters, which lead to my first book having 70ish chapters and I'm not sure I have it in me to come up with that many titles LMAO

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 14! Okay, as predicted I fell behind BIG TIME with this so excuse me whilst I spam to catch up LMAO

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 13! Has it really been a week? I've written NOTHING (excluding all the ideas I jotted in my notes app). Tuesday I took my mum shopping, Wednesday was our monthly family movie & dinner, Thursday was rest day, yesterday was my mums hospital apt. I'm BEAT, so maybe next week 😅😂

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 12! Late because I wanted to make something but I do not have the spoons for it so just know that almost all the characters in my entire despised bonds universe is lgbtqia+. In OOW specifically Baelin is bi, Kairos is gay, Xamira is a lesbian, Gwyn is trans, and Calix is ace 🫶

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 11! My biggest supporter is honestly my mum, she listens to me ramble about every plot idea I've had, each chapter I wrote right after I wrote it & she's recently started writing a story she's always wanted to write because she says I inspired her to start it —

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 10! Already in OOW Baelin has broke and entered, committed identity fraud & considered murder multiple times.

HI. IF YOU WRITE, YOU ARE A WRITER. That's all.

##LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 9! I think readers of OOW will gush over: 🦊 fated mates 🗡 opposite sides of a war (so much angst) 🦊 he's marrying someone else & his sister is jealous because she has feelings for his new wife 🗡 puppies!! 🦊 a slutty fae man begging on his knees for his mate to choose him

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 8! I'm hoping to get back to writing tomorrow so if I can write 5k this week & push through the depression it'll be a good week 😅

So many that I WANT to get back to, but who knows if I ever will. ADHD is the reason, it lost my attention and I'm just waiting for it to catch the hyperfixation bug again 😅

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 7! I've posted this before but it's the end of my prologue for OOW & I still love it so much

Is it still a lil writing break if I spent the whole weekend moving my notes from google docs to notion and prettying them up??

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 6! Honestly? It started off great, I managed to get to 50k so I think I wrote just over 10k this week, but the last 2 days motivation has been dead and depression is keeping my energy low so I'm struggling rn 😅

##LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 5! I'm late with this one but 🦊 He marries someone else 🗡 Opposite sides of a war 🦊 Toxic fae men being toxic 🗡 they've been mates for almost 200 years and never said 'I love you' 🦊 he discovers he has a pain kink AFTER telling his mate he's marrying someone else

Writing a family tree for my wip and realising i have to name SO MANY dead characters

Writing a two sentence bullet plot point and it becoming at least 2k words of emotional depth, you add two new characters and the set up has you wanting to write a whole ass novella for them >>>>

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 4! Honestly, I feel like the weirdest inspiration I get is from my brain and the things it remembers that I don't even realise I remember. It might be a plot point or a character trait/personality, a piece of dialogue, etc. In the moment it feels random—

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 3! The inspiration for my first book was ACOTAR, but 2 of the side characters that my lil shipper brain latched onto, and watching bridgerton at the time I wrote it definitely impacted it. Now I'm writing the sequel and its fully gotten away from the original inspiration 😂😂

I want to be able to hug my characters but I don't want them to know that I wrote them and everything bad that happened to them 👀😂😅

In Vow of Loathing Erasmus repaired his whole family dynamic. His father created a toxic environment for his children to live in. They struggled with bonding with one another due to trust issues and fear —

My characters truly never do what I expect. A poisoning scene where one character planned to kill the poisoner?? Became the poisoner being spared because he was just a civilian being used as a pawn and now he's a prisoner of war, and I didn't see that coming even though I wrote it 😂

#LGBTQWRITEATHON DAY 2: This is how I've always pictured Kairos and Baelin. Kairos - Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia Baelin - Bartek Borowiec I'm not sure if Bartek acts, but I need him to because he is PERFECT

Writing a character that is depressed and heartbroken rn is so healing

Hi! I'm Kirsty M. Black, 31 yo. & a UK based writer. I'm working on my second book: Objections of War. It's a gay, fated mates fantasy romance, set during a war that sees both characters on opposite sides. As of right now I'm at 39k but I'm aiming for 90k.

🏳️‍🌈 E-BOOK SALE 🏳️‍🌈 Vow of Loathing will be 99p on amazon for the entirety of June!! ❤️ Fated Mates 🧡 Slow Burn (like over a century sloooow) 💛 One Sided Enemies to Lovers 💚 Only One Horse 💙 A gay, 300+ year old virgin fae prince/A Bisexual, Half Human Assassin 💜 So much trauma & healing

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️THE TIME HAS COME!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #LGBTQWriteAThon begins June 1st! Join @amaralynn.bsky.social & @rebeccafrostwrites.com for a month of writing and fun prompts! Follow @queerwriters.bsky.social & enable post notifications for reminders (only reposts the daily prompts). #queerwriters #writesky

Does anyone else have a rabbit disguised as a cat orrr

Can I get a FUCK AI, with a side of FUCK AI please?

"Give me a spoiler from your book with no context." I can't do that, what I CAN do is give you spoilers with so much context that you no longer need to read the book

MAY WRAP UP So much happened this month and my depression has been fighting me harder than usual, but I'm writing again, IWTV is back next week & pride month starts tomorrow, so the world is looking brighter 🙂‍↕️🫶

A scene I just wrote for OOW, Baelin receives some tough love and Aurelia forces some self care onto him (as she should)

Me, checking the word count and the "short lil sex scene" ended up being 4k?? 😅😂😭

I literally cannot imagine replacing the feeling of spending hours lost in a story, typing without even thinking about the act of typing, just taking words from my brain and creating something that makes me feel so many emotions with . . . Typing a prompt into some ai bot