#SummerOfStories Everywhere. All over the place. Every little thing you experience can be a source of creative inspiration. Dreams? Rocks? Particularly compelling bowls of soup? YES. Now the big ones for me are pieces of media I grew up with. My brother and I wrote the OG Fah-Drael lore... (1/4)

#QueerPrompts Hailey is a trans girl in high school who started transitioning in junior high. All the same K-12 school. So everyone knew her before she transitioned. Some people bully her but the vast majority are accepting. Still she gets a lot of people that just don't 'get it'. (1/4)

My top 10 games of all time: 🥇Control 🥈Silent Hill 3 🥉Legend of Legaia 🏅Spyro the Dragon 🏅Shadow Hearts: Covenant 🏅Rule of Rose 🏅Psychonauts 🏅Ristar 🏅Lost Odyssey 🏅Bloodborne

“Verify your age” First album I bought was ⬇️.

#AwesomeCharacters Please oh please let it be Danielle. Super serious, shrewd, business oriented, definitely aggressive at marketing. Like I could see her being an awesome person to work with. Everybody else... 👀 Hailey: she will totally get distracted and do something else. (1/2)

#ThreeBigFeatures Hailey: 🪻 Witty 🪻 Empathetic 🪻 Braver than she thinks Dannie: 🗡 Protective 🗡 Intelligent 🗡 Obsessive Cinder: 🗝 Cunning 🗝 Vengeful 🗝 Opportunistic Lapis: ♟️ Flippant ♟️ Ruthless ♟️ Meticulous CSD: ⏱️ Charming ⏱️ Patient ⏱️ Idealistic

#SummerOfStories So, I joke about my protags all being extremely unlucky. Hailey has it ROUGH. Wish she didn't. This excerpt is pretty upsetting. Late in the book, zero context, Hailey is crying, and it makes her remember being at the hospital after losing her knee. CW: self harm, depression.

#BluePit Savage as You - a 130k Portal Fantasy extravaganza. 🏳️‍⚧️ Transfem protagonist 🪄 Magic meets our world ⌛ Race against time 👻 Horror elements 👹 Befriending monsters ❤️ Love triangle 🐍 Eels 🧭 Setting off into the unknown #📖 #P (Well, out September 1st) #NA #F #LGBT #TR

It's mildly busy here today. 😅 But it's such a gorgeous day! Not surprised.

#BluePitHype SO much. Definitely The Neverending Story (book), American McGee's Alice, Silent Hill is a massive piece of inspiration for Savage as You, believe it or not. Legend of Legaia, Legend of Dragoon, Ecco the Dolphin. Countless games, books and movies are the inspiration for SaY.

A GALLON OF IT

#AwesomeCharacters Danielle, hands down. 🥇 Cinder likes to fight ... insofar as a small dog likes to fight. Danielle doesn't look for trouble but she's strong as an ox. If Cinder tried to fight Dannie, I think Danielle'd pick Cinder up and suplex her. Or give her the Bane treatment. lol (1/2)

#BluePitHype Have fun! I'm self-pubbing so no pitchies for me. I'm just here to make friends and show support to all the lovely, creative people. :D You're all amazing. 🫶

New haircut bitchesssss It's so bouncyyyyyyy

#WIPSnips Here's a brief one from Savage as You. A bit late in the book, and slightly zen.

#QueerPrompts I've got BOTH. Dream sequences are integral to the story because Esraidambôl links directly to mortal dreams. And once your Axis gets attuned (magic awakens) you becoming a walking conduit for supernatural beings, even Gods, while dreaming. (1/2)

OPTIMAL DOG: Stone ground mustard, spicy relish or sliced jalapeno, and diced onion. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

#AwesomeCharacters This is NOT going to be a good party. 😂 I think Lapis would be the liveliest? Cinder would refuse to dance or participate, finding it 'lame'. Hailey would just want to hang out with Dannie, and Dannie would just want to dance/chill with Hailey. (1/2)

#JulyWorldbuilders By virtue of H I G H S C H O O L 🌩 Hailey is up very early every day. But I happen to know if left to her own devices she eventually grows up to become a night owl who likes to sleep in ... after nights at bars singing karaoke and dancing at clubs.

What if we kissed under the lesbian flag gradient disco ball? 🥹👉👈 (This job cracks me up in the most random ways I swear)

#JulyInterviewFic "I dunno... like, honesty? So you keep your promises and don't lie. Don't betray. Or cheat on your partner or whatev—" *Hailey abruptly clams up and blushes. Eyes averted, nervously running her hands through the low ponytail over her shoulder* "Y-Yeah. Honesty is most important."

It's time for another... #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #lastfourfriday Very interesting week. 😂👀

#BluePitHype I wish I had more art! Hopefully I'll have the spare scratch to commission more stuff soon. Here is an illustration of the protagonist Hailey (who needs a cane to walk after an accident in the prologue) and the dazzling cover. Both by the incredibly talented @sacherali.bsky.social

#SummerOfStories So far it's mainly personal feedback from my partner, friends, brother, and eARC or beta readers. Not a lot of people have read my writing until now and I'm a bit spooked by the whole thing. Self-conscious, honestly. I've been writing for like 20 years and I'm finally sharing it.

#PretendPanel Depends hugely on what I'm describing. If it's a setting I generally describe a few things to set the scene. Scent. Notable landmarks. But if a place is very iconic to the story, like the lavender field in Savage as You, I'll take more time to map it out. (1/3)

A remaster on the level of Persona 3: Reload for Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2.

#SummerOfStories The introduction of Chloé in WIP 2 is perhaps the most flowery description of anyone or anything I've ever written. 💀

#AwesomeCharacters Hailey ... does none of these things. Granted, she's a teenage girl. But still, so is Danielle. Who's very responsible and athletic. The only thing holding back the floodgates of Hailey becoming a sentient garbage compactor who lives in bed is probably her mom. (1/2)

#BluePitHype My characters really aren't something I make per se. They kind of pop in my head and a movie plays in my brain on a loop. I just write down their adventures. I this journey and the bizarre hero/villain dynamic Hailey and CSD share is as enjoyable to read as it was to write!

#BluePitHype Our antagonist is a mysterious stranger skulking around Hailey's honetown. He looks human. But he definitely is not. Hailey thinks he resembles a creepy pervy vampire. So she dubs him CSD (Count Stranger Danger) for almost the entire novel. 😅 (1/2)

#BluePitHype Hailey is the protagonist because I feel like trans rep especially in protags is rare. Plus I had this idea for a narration quite unlike anything I'd done before. Very energetic, funny, spunky. And just knew this was going to be Hailey's voice.

Me + my first Pokémon game

#WIPSnips This is a snip from my sister novella to Savage as You, entitled Vitrified. In this scene, Amelia is our perspective character, and she's preparing something big. My few dutiful eARC readers might know what, from SaY.

Dark Souls is pretty bad. The world is dying. Everyone is undead and slowly hollowing/losing their humanity. Pretty much every organism a giant asshole that wants to kill you.

#QueerPrompts A platformer in the vain of Alice: Madness Returns? Maybe the gameplay might change in certain regions. Like Chalan Rysp would suddenly become survival horror? Nal-Tace would be a stealth section. Etc.

Savage. Absolutely savage. 💀

#AwesomeCharacters Hailey would like them in theory but probably get bored or distracted. Danielle would be very down to do a really big, elaborate puzzle. I could see her liking that. Cinder ... would not be a fan. Lapis loves board games and puzzles! He actually invented a board game.

#BluePitHype Hiiii. I'm Jubilee aka J.M. Weaver. I'm a trans woman from NJ who writes horror and fantasy stories. Currently about to release a dark yet humorous portal fantasy novel called Savage as You. It stars a trans girl named Hailey who's sent a gateway and a letter... (1/2)

#JulyWorldbuilders I gots two. In Fah-Drael, there is no sun. If you fly up far enough you enter the Fah-Draelic equivalent of the afterlife. And die, essentially. There's a certain point where the sky becomes The Hallowed Gyre. There is no space, nor known boundaries to the realm, horizontally. 🧵

OK. Got off a support call with Ingram. Fun fact: you cannot put dots in your name on Ingram for printed books. Ebooks, you can. Just not print because they have separate processing systems. So, if you are a dot enthusiast such as myself, still your hand and relinquish your dots! Lest chaos ensue.

#WIPSnips Take a shot! I'm posting page one of Savage as You again! Only example of 'humid' in SaY or Vitrified. Didn't feel like digging around in WIP 2 or 3. In this scene ... camping. 🌩️ Hailey is not a fan. Thus: her intro mental tangent. One of many to come.

#SummerOfStories We stan the em dash in the House of Jubilee. I love 'em. Great little grammatical Swiss army knife that can add flair to all kinds of writing situations. Also very nice tool for humorous writing. Fuck AI for trying to ruin YET ANOTHER perfectly good thing. Won't stop using them.

Welp, the front tires on my truck blew out. Specifically, the driver's front tire is out and the passenger side one has to be replaced at the same time and is in serious danger of blowing out. I've got a $250 bill due tomorrow for them. I have $3. If anyone wants to help me out, paypal.me/danzier

#JulyInterviewFic Hailey: "Water. Don't worry, I don't have rabies. I mean, like, deep water. Scary water. Water that goes on forever and it's full of living, breathing nightmare fuel. With teeth. You also can't breathe or see very far or ... OK, gonna get dizzy if I keep thinking about it." 1/2

#AwesomeCharacters Phew... had to think about this one for a second! Newest character is probably Malika. She's going to be a big part of WIP 4, aka the sequel to Savage as You. I'm drafting that book out at the moment. Can't say a whole lot about her other than she and Lapis will be closely tied.

#OCasks #OCqotd #OCsky #OC This is a very easy thing to do for Hailey. She naturally tends to trust anyone who isn't outright hostile toward her. But if you break her trust it's very difficult to win back.

#WIPSnips A snip early-ish in Savage as You. The main gang has almost reached their goal: a place called Hillcrest Asylum nestled in the swampy region of Chalan Rysp. A couple notes: Lysander is the snake of Hailey's chimera buddy. And dolls are previous adventurers' dead bodies.

#SummerOfStories When I started writing, it was all very unplanned. Just me wanting to tell horror stories and dark fairytales. The more stories I wrote, certain ideas took hold. Like... oh, this story added this realm. This story added a pantheon of Gods. This one is where Axis is from... (1/4)