Several of my characters are musicians! Ruby is the main character, then we're introduced to Arlo, TJ, Marko, Bliss, and Cameron down the line! From book 2 onwards, there is a larger focus on music and performances

I love playing games because it lets me live my wildest fantasies, such as waking up fully rested, and owning my own house

#QueerPrompts Ruby tends to steal hearts, though whether or not she reciprocates... more often than not she doesn't... One in particular is... let's just say he's not normal about his feelings towards her!

My BlueSky engagement strategy

When Fields of Mistria gets its marriage and achievements update I want to do a whole new playthrough and have my polycule Might stream it, too 👀

Chipotle I Was Born

#QueerPrompts Ruby is a musician, and I (aside from books) really enjoy music as well. I love making playlists for any occasion, and even the chapter names are based on songs!

Also worth noting that with all of these businesses making these kinds of AI graphics, they lose their brand identity and look literally like everyone else Not to mention it's all incredibly hard to look at in the first place because they're so busy and unappealing

I wanted to have a different game for each category and some of these could have overlapped so much, I tell you! You can do yours in the link below: grids.fun/t/about-me-v...

Characters I love and 5 moots to post theirs My brain froze while trying to tag so anyone can join in I suppose! @anotherindiewriter.com @marylopunny.bsky.social Uhh... anyone else wanna do it?

For months I've been battling this sex scene I've been trying to write. Finally, I finished it!

Me to my fiance about a character in my books based on a *certain political figure*: "It'll get my book banned, I think. Not that it matters, it's full of smut and lesbians anyway."

You can take em-dashes from my cold, dead hands

#QueerPrompts Ruby is NOT the kind of person to make the first move. She got bullied a lot, so she wants to be sure that someone actually likes her first. Amara definitely makes the first move on Cassie when she becomes comfortable in her sexuality. Charleen... absolutely would.

#LateNightWrite want links? I gotchu! I'm also trying to get back into travel writing so check my site (the WordPress logo) averyaldan.carrd.co

#LateNightWrite in a very early iteration of Juniper Wharf (when it was still in Scarlet Sun era), the MC did sort of die to fully embrace the demon side of her so...

#LateNightWrite there *is* a resurrection Demon in my story but that's not really a tangent we want to go down. They're sealed away for a reason.

#LateNightWrite hahahaha both of my projects were long dead at one point. Project Jubilee in particular was dead for 14 years until I brought it back this year

Hi #LateNightWrite, it's Avery here! I'm writing two projects - one being university students with powers, and the other being a coming of age story with 2008 nostalgia pre-financial crisis!

#QueerPrompts I *was* originally going to have a "from X character's perspective" book, but it's being absorbed into Book 4 instead Though there is a character called Starla who might get her own book down the line...

'All authors are using AI now" Not true! I've been getting by using my trauma for entertainment for years.

A guide to travel in Lisbon, Portugal (from someone who used to live there once upon a time)

As a writer, I would rather submerge my entire body in acid than use any form of AI for my writing

#QueerPrompts hey, I'm Avery! And I'm writing a story about people who live their silly gay lives but they have superpowers so every so often they have to go fight some bad guys and an evil ex of an evil ex Standard stuff, really

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Fuck JK Rowling

Enter the Dragonfly I adored the original trilogy (and still do) so this game the way it is right now is just disappointing

#QueerPrompts I use song titles as chapter names Not just randomly though, like, they have to have meaning

#QueerPrompts I'm an introvert to a fault, but I somehow manage to write extrovert characters just fine. I think it's the years spend masking around large groups that does it

#QueerWriters I've been doing a lot of reading, a lot of writing, more walks, heavily reduced my caffeine intake, and I've still yet to rejoin the gym because I misplaced my member card and need to go in on Monday to sort it out!

#QueerWritersChat I got the links, and not of the Zelda variety! averyaldan.carrd.co

#QueerWritersChat It's a long one, going into family bereavement and bullying.

#QueerWritersChat I absolutely loved reading and writing as a child. I'd always frequent the library (it's now a gym, boo). As for writing, I had to keep it a secret. The Sperm Donor would always say the things I wrote were stupid because I wrote in first person perspective...

#QueerWritersChat Ruby had a great childhood until her dad died, then it became a shitshow. As for Taylor in Project Jubilee, it was already a shitshow, but she thought it was normal (it was not normal)

Hey #QueerWritersChat, I'm Avery! I'm writing a couple of series right now, one of which is university students with superpowers, and the other is a coming of age story about a teenager that feels the need to find her place in the world!

The person who decided that small fonts in books was a good idea needs a stern talking to

Did you know? The *original* concept of Juniper Wharf was actually a magical boarding school, by name of Warrior Academy? I might revisit this concept and give the masses a whimsical magic story that isn't being used to pedal anti-trans narratives

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

#QueerPrompts Ruby does have an older sister, Cheri, though they are estranged at the beginning of the story. They do reconnect, though! (I accidentally made Ruby, Charleen, Garrot, and Amara all the youngest siblings in their families lmao)

#QueerWriters I have some fun goals for you this week! - Go on more walks - Rejoin the gym - Caffeine addiction must be stopped - Go to new bookstore - Start doing more at-home exercises when not at gym

Book influencer: trust my opinion on books Me: you literally have Harry Potter in view on your shelves, I won't trust your opinion

#QueerPrompts I end up writing a lot of bisexual characters, it seems! Ruby, Amara, Marko, and Cameron (among plenty others) are bisexual characters

What would make this even better is if they just said "Microsoft is removing CoPilot"

#QueerWritersChat I have a link with my links! I am working on building my writing portfolio on my WordPress site right now! averyaldan.carrd.co

#QueerWritersChat I feel like the bonds between my characters should feel real, and their reactions to the situation around them. The situations themselves can be a little bit exaggerated, though, but I suppose that's their reality. Okay Aeros is ridiculously exaggerated for a reason...

#QueerWritersChat I do like to have that suspension of disbelief going into a story that has something not of this world. But I like to ground it with realism so it doesn't become too farfetched. People converse, relationships get messy. But I have a meet cute that is kinda fantastical in itself...

#QueerWritersChat I love adding little moments of bonding and conversation, some reprieve away from the madness of the story. In one conversation, Garrot confuses polyamory with polyarmory!

Ayo #QueerWritersChat, I'm Avery! I'm working on a fair few projects right now, including a coming-of-age story, think This is England but set in 2008, and far less racism! Also my long-running series involving superpowers and complicated feelings!

If I finish a book on my TBR pile, but I know I am going to reread it in the future, does it technically return to the TBR pile? Asking for a friend... Because I just finished The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, and now I know how everything falls into place at the end, I want to reread it later

Tonight, I remembered that I had a coming of age story I was writing when I was in my late teens. I think it's time I brought it back, no? We welcome Project Jubilee (working title)!