For my first substack, a little writerly ramble, inspired by the chaos of my mind and the turmoil in my manuscripts. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

OK, ok, I need to stop being coy and self-effacing. I am DELIGHTED that my work in making lesbian history accessible for authors of historical fiction is being recognized in books that used my work. My ultimate goal is to never again hear an author of a sapphic historical say "There's no sources."

This year decided to test me in every way. I have been sleep deprived, anxious, had my first ever panic attack, experienced both limerence & actual love (w/ 2 separate people), got my heart broken, possibly failed an exam for the first time ever, & lost my twitter account of 7 years to a stupid scam

Falling for someone who doesn’t live in your country is stupid and foolish and torturous because why does my heart feel displaced, why am I suddenly so terrified about the wellbeing of someone I can’t physically protect.

Harsh but fair

Looking for all of my booktwt mutuals on twitter & new writing mutuals! If you can RT this and spread the word, I’d really appreciate it. Hey, everyone! I’m Yasmine, a medic & writer of glittering historical fiction & visceral feminist gothic horror. I have a massive love for Mediterranean history.

One like = One Book-Related opinion / hot take

Falling in love was not on my agenda for 2025, but this year has been full of surprises

The most accurate scene in Grey’s Anatomy is when Cristina is sat on the bathroom floor crying over a guy when she should be studying for her boards. Women in medicine core.

“She doesn’t have albinism, her eyebrows and eyelashes are dark” Have you all never heard of this really cool thing called makeup? You know, the billion dollar global industry?

My twitter account was recently hacked, and I lost contact with thousands of my mutuals. If you can help find some of them here, I would truly appreciate it!!

It’s wild to see this post and think back to everything that has happened in the past 5 months. I am not the same girl I was when I posted this lol.

Snippety Snippet From my short story — A Cabinet of Curiosities

Logging onto this site has made me incredibly nostalgic. So much has happened in the past year that I haven’t been able to focus on writing and reading and interacting with my book community mutuals. I’ve missed it all so much.

Looking for all of my booktwt mutuals on twitter & new writing mutuals! If you can RT this and spread the word, I’d really appreciate it. Hey, everyone! I’m Yasmine, a medic & writer of glittering historical fiction & visceral feminist gothic horror. I have a massive love for Mediterranean history.

I’ve decided to try and suspend my twitter account. If everyone who follows me on twitter can report the account, I would really appreciate it.

Seeing as I have lost my twitter account, I am considering simply leaving twitter for good and rebuilding my audience on here and on instagram. Musks’s “X” has become a cesspool full of spam, bots, and scammers. It is no longer a safe place to be.

Just got hacked on twitter and can’t get in 🫠

Snippety Snippet From my short story — A Cabinet of Curiosities

Writers Dr. Frankenstein 🤝 🤝 It's for my research 🤝 🤝 Serial killers Plankton

Haven’t been able to focus on writing because I’ve just been having the wildest emotional rollercoaster in my love life. Someone snap me out of it, please

I’m pretty cute sometimes <3

It’s always the men who pursued you first who end up hurting you like damn you really just wanted to ruin my peace innit

A late eid mubarak from me <3

What are 2-3 comps for your current WIP? IN A PARLIAMENT OF MONSTERS (circuswip) is an Ownvoices historical gothic fantasy intertwining the found family dynamics & political intrigue of Six of Crows with the themes of AHS: Freakshow & the magical atmosphere of The Night Circus.

What are 2-3 comps for your current WIP? IN A PARLIAMENT OF MONSTERS (circuswip) is an Ownvoices historical gothic fantasy intertwining the found family dynamics & political intrigue of Six of Crows with the themes of AHS: Freakshow & the magical atmosphere of The Night Circus.

Yasmine Core ☀️🍊

Haven’t posted a snippet in a while From my short—a cabinet of curiosities

Eid Mubarak Day 1 and Day 2 🌸

Somber over the uncertainties of a possible relationship and then I clicked on tiktok, saw that my girlies with albinism are making groups online, and felt a surge of joy that is completely unreal. This is the one community that can do me no wrong. I love them so much.

Alaa lost her account again but still needs help ❤️

Opening this app after a whirlwind week and a half that has turned your world upside down is so disorienting because it feels like meeting up with a friend who’s missed everything

Literally only Paris Paloma and my books can heal my weak broken heart snd soothe my worries.

Chronicles of Africa's most powerful Women sovereigns: Amanirenas, Njinga, and Eleni. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/chronicles...

A PhD in the history of the early modern Mediterranean 🥺

Mediterranean gothic horror steeped in culture and feminist folklore, you will always be my favourite 🤍

A cold sweat covers me, trembling seizes my body, and I am greener than grass. Lacking but little of death do I seem. #art #ocart #dndoc #oc #dnd #elf #dndart #elfoc #ocsky #ocs #digitalart #highfantasy #fantasy

Reminder to support books about disabled characters from disabled authors. There’s so few of us telling our own stories and being the voice for life with our own disabilities 🖤

Ramadan kitty

Happy International Working Women's Day! Now more than ever, it's important to remember that the feminist movement was founded by working-class migrant women from the Global South, who experience the worst of patriarchal white supremacy. 💜

After the craziest three weeks ever, l'm ecstatic to announce that I'm now represented by @literaryfey.bsky.social of @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social! From the time she noticed my pitch right up to her offer, l've been blown away by her enthusiasm for Phoenix Bones!

Writers, what are the tropes/themes in your WIP? #circuswip has: 🎠evil albino trope subverted 🖤found family of marginalised outcasts at the heart of the british empire 🎠enchanted circuses & courtesan masquerades 🖤political intrigue & revolutionary fervour

“The free world” is a colonial myth. America has never been a leader because there’s never been a free world so as long as people are being exploited off the back of it.

I need Emilia Perez to lose in every category it was nominated.

Marie-Auriéle, my Martiniquaise beauty, I will always love you <3

We are not, in fact out, of the woods yet :(