So happy to announce that my latest short story, HEARTS AND HALF-MEASURES, about a t-girl manananggal eating transphobes and sex tourists while solving the serial killings of her manananggal sisters, is out now with @pseudopod.org 🫀

“You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one.” PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures, by Cassiopeia Gatmaitan Narrator: Jess Lewis Host: Scott Campbell Audio: Chelsea Davis C/W: murder, transphobia (see show notes for more)

contract signed! if you like trans rage and folkloric filipino horror, then you might wanna stay tuned for HEARTS AND HALF-MEASURES, my blood-soaked story featuring a trans girl solving the serial killings of her fellow manananggals 🫀 coming soon from @pseudopod.org!

does anyone have any tips for writing body horror 👀

BTW if you guys haven't heard yet, folk singer and ethnomusicologist Grace Nono has a book called Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans, Voice, Gender, and Place If you are curious about the traditions of the spiritualists of our isles and how it survives this age, you guys should read it :D

🌌🎪 x Sapphic Moulin Rouge Raised on war and lost love, Carina acts out revolutionary stage plays in colonial Manila. Dissent is a death sentence, but she’s willing to risk it all when a familiar face from her past sits down one night to watch her perform #QuestPit #WIP #novella

I heard it's tradition around here to share your art on your birthday? 🌸🍃

Hello! Taking more #commissions while I'm still looking for a day job. If you need some OC art (mechas, furries, and creatures ok!), then I'd love to work with you! 🎸✨ It's also my HRT anniversary this month, so comms will really help me cover upcoming medical transition needs. 🫡🏳️‍⚧️ Thanks!

Pokemon fanfiction when I was 7 years old 😭

AND IT'S HERE The gorgeous cover for LORD OF RUIN with art direction by Ella Garrett and artwork by @superstarfighter.bsky.social Isn't he just stunning? Isaac will be coming to you this August from Orbit! Pre-orders are available now!

Announcing the official preorder campaign for THE STARVING SAINTS! Order through @copperdogbooks.bsky.social and you’ll get an extremely cool pin designed by @missdaisydee.bsky.social and a gorgeously gory art print by @miavern.bsky.social 👀 www.copperdogbooks.com/starvingsaints

Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️

hello, everyone! it would mean the world to me if you could come to the very first book launch of a book i contributed to! it’s at sunday, feb 16th, 2025 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET online, hosted by firestorm books. i’ll see you there 🫶🏼 registration 🔗 below 👇🏼

Resurrected by a dark power, muse Aleida wakes without her memories in a strange house lorded over by a man who sees visions of the holy and the damned. Slowly, she begins to piece her past together and in doing so, comes closer to solving her own murder. #QuestPit #WIP

Between Nathaniel and Arsenia lie three corpses, a curse that spans generations, and the love that ruined both their lives. When she dies married to someone else, he steals her back from death. Only, she’d found peace in her grave—and now she wants revenge. #QuestPit #WIP

so excited to share that the anthology which published the first short story i ever wrote is in the locus recommended reading list 🖤 as an avid reader of sff and all things speculative, this is a dream come true ✨

We are delighted to announce a new Six-Week Workshop scholarship for Trans writers. The Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for the Six-Week Workshop, has been offered by an anonymous donor and will be available for the first time this year.

for some reason, i always think of the “a face, a false memory, a feeling” line. (this is from deadmuse, my 1920s manila gothic horror in which an artist’s muse wakes from death intent on solving her own murder)

how do you guys find joy in writing :( i’ve been struggling with writing lately because i used it as a crutch to express feelings while working through trauma but now i have better coping mechanisms and i don’t know how to get back to it in a healthy way

#meetmymcs trapped by a life she doesn’t want to live and spurned by a man she doesn’t even want to love, arsenia finds solace in death. but after she’s resurrected by the one who spurned her, she seeks revenge, and in doing so awakens an ancient curse art by nicoledealart

#meetmymcs aleida wakes from death in the dark devoid of her memories. whilst dealing with a ghost who haunts her and a husband who keeps secrets from her, she reckons with the one thing she knows about herself: she was murdered. and now she has to find out who killed her art by @alamangoes

finally back in the kitchen (cooking)

hello friends! my colleague, the brilliant Lorna Hemingway, is on the hunt for new projects! she represents everything in the children's space from board books to YA and is specifically looking for: - contemporary romance - coming of age (especially BIPOC) - gorgeous, punchy graphic novels #mswl

happy new year, everyone 🥳

(re)introducing my project, #cipherwip: THE IMITATION GAME x HIS DARK MATERIALS x ARCANE x steampunk dark academia As the threat of war stalks the continent, magic meets theory and genius meets guilt when two estranged former lovers are drafted into a treacherous arms race.

either the night circus by erin morgenstern or piranesi by susanna clarke 🙂‍↕️

my 25 for 2025! in all honesty, i’ll probably read these all in january then go into a reading slump for the rest of the year 😅

thank you so much to @nicoledeal.bsky.social for this wonderful portrait of arsenia, the main character of my filipino wuthering heights wip 🦋 nicole captured all the details so well, from the traditional dress to the butterfly motif 💛

cath’s publication directory 📚 💀 maiden, monster, muse - in 1920s manila, an artist traps his muse in a cycle of murder and resurrection (death in the mouth anthology, volume 2) t.co/1hTgN6KQUR

Born to an exiled heron lord whose folk are imbued with the gift of prophecy, Mercy is forced to become a conqueror’s bride. With her gift used to wage war against her own people, she’s faced with a choice: live and be used as a weapon or die and save them all. #ShortPit #F #OnSub

i only had one publication this year, but i made it count 🖤 maiden, monster, muse, my short story set in 1920s manila about an artist who traps his muse in a cycle of murder and resurrection is out now in the death in the mouth 2 anthology! check it out: sloane.bigcartel.com/product/deat...

you know, i still wait at the edge of town, pray straight to god that maybe you’d come back around | made a #timebomb #arcane edit ⏳

if you liked Arcane, you might want to check out these books! #booksky

💫 #MeetMyMCs is BACK, friends! please load up your posts for 𝟭𝟮 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, when we'll be discussing and celebrating all things main characters. tl;dr: open to all writers and WIPs of any stage. this is meant to be a *supportive* joyful event, not a professional/pitching one, with a focus on MCs.

i am now on tiktok! with my only video being an arcane timebomb edit i finished 10 mins ago 🙈

my most anticipated reads of 2025! #booksky

✨ publish more short stories ✨ finish a novel-length draft ✨ be happy and satisfied about my own writing (this is the biggest one)

if you guys are into beautiful animation and media that really makes you think, may i recommend mononoke: the phantom in the rain? it’s on netflix and i’ve been thinking about it all day. beautiful movie, compelling story

• vampire x priest historical horrormance • culture-based oceanic fantasy • epic fantasy in a southeast-asian inspired world + a bunch more i’m probably forgetting

my next wip is a horrormantasy featuring a vampiric woman who makes her confessor fall in love with her on the eve of her execution, stripping him of the notions that the church and the Spanish colonizers currently massacring their people are good and just.

welcome to the Farmstead. it's been waiting for you ❤️

I think we're going to see a HUGE proliferation of #horror over the next four years. We will need the catharsis, and of all sorts: splatterpunk, weird, cosmic/eldritch, folk/cult, Gothic, and bubblegum, to name a few. Horror contains multitudes. Horror can heal. Horror lets us know we aren't alone.

ever since finishing arcane, my entire life has been consumed by timebomb/jinx x ekko. i love them so much 😭

🇵🇭 Wuthering Heights Between Nathaniel and Arsenia lie three corpses, a curse that spans generations, and the love that ruined both their lives. When she dies married to someone else, he steals her back from death. Only, she’d found peace in her grave—and now she wants revenge. (resharing my pitch)

i wanna make more bookish friends and starting on a new platform seems to be the opportune time so friendly reminder that if you ever wanna talk horror or history or wips or reading i’m open 💛 it’s so nice to be on here with old friends and new people 💛

just sent a bunch of people dms here on bsky about joining the server! it’ll be relatively small and made up of my friends/mutuals so hopefully you guys can get to know each other 💛

does anyone wanna start a group chat on discord maybe 🧍🏻‍♀️(if this flops you didn’t see it)

bringing back my trope/plot point map for my filipino wuthering heights reimagining 🦋

Six since the end of October actually. Don't turn away from us. The places getting hit too are either very high-up places that NEVER get flooded or places that haven't recovered from Storm Kristine. This was never just a local problem, we have to acknowledge that.