So I sat down and wrote out all my writing-themed mental demons, with the hopes that they can live in a document instead of rent-free in my head. Who knows if it'll help, but I feel a little better at the moment? I just want to keep moving, and for these thoughts to leave me alone.

INTO THE WAGON, LET'S GO

#WritingPrompt I mean, Strangers ends with a swordfight, so the question is what happens if the antag brings a gun to it 😬 Therapist in Another World would be hilarious considering the, you know, title and entire theme (STOP BEING DEPRESSED, HONORED DRAGON *shoots at ground*)

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Halfway(ish) through the bundle and doing pretty great! itch.io/b/3352/trans... (A handful of people have downloaded my traumatized-bisexuals-in-the-fantasy-countryside book; thank you so much 😭)

Brainstorming for the next novella, and I keep coming up with some kinda dark ideas for the deuteragonist. Brain, wtf. This was supposed to be a fluffy one. I mean, all my stuff is fluffy to some extent, but fluffiER. The last craft book I read had an interesting point: find what you're best at. +

If you see this QTP with a female anime character you love Someone already claimed Holo, so I'll go with her feral modern counterpart

#WritingPrompt Great question. I did not map out who my audience is (demos etc.), I still don't know who they are, and I refuse to Pick A Lane (write about one exact type of person always) I kind of enjoy that, as bad a strategy as it is? It's a happy accident if anyone enjoys my work.

Same. I'm sure that thinkpiece posted on the wall of the Nazi bar is nice and all, but no thanks, I'll pass

I was just leafing through 1725 occult tome The Secret Magic of Abramelin the Mage in search of scary invocations for the BOOK, and I came across this list of subordinate spirits to the princes of Hell.

AI will NOT take the sparkle emoji from me ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

I let insecurity get the best of me a bit ago. It happens. So: If you find me cringe or insufficiently edgy or boring or shill-happy or whatever, I encourage you to unfollow or hey! Mute or block me! They're great tools. Randos don't get to tell me what to post on my own fucking account. ♥️

(You asked for more useless chatter, universe. Remember that) I've done everything I was interested in with Hades II, so I've been catching up on summer anime. TSHD a.k.a. Kiddo, I'm Begging You, ***Please*** Go Elsewhere for College is as good as everyone said it was. Ugh.

#WritingPrompt You are not the only one with unhappiness in your past, some people will understand, and while it won't be undone, it also won't define you. Also, you can't change/win over/defeat some antagonists, but you can make them irrelevant, and that's enough.

Re indie marketing scams: if someone is asking you if they can review your book, they want money for it if they really loved it, they'd be posting about it without your permission

Really enjoying the election news, but it is kind of funny to see people throwing Pittsburgh's mayoral election in the list. Yes, we have a Dem mayor; apparently the last time we didn't was 1933. 😅 So yay, but also dog-bites-man, that's all. The mayor is a Democrat, it's cloudy, welcome

as someone whose standard road rage grumble is "Sorry your dad doesn't love you", this is perfect

It's an honor to be included, *and* it's doing great. Exciting.

Eeyyy! Itch is back up and it turns out we cracked $1K in just three days! Let's keep that energy going! itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Happy Monday morning; I'm blocked into my driveway by a crew doing ...something... with ...underground pipes... (water?) right outside my house. (To recap, I work in an office, not my house. Elsewhere. That I can't get to) So! While I wait, I finished the first draft of Evil Overlord for Hire. 🎉

This is the reason I'm constantly mentioning that I have a day job - it's looked down upon in the writing world, but I refuse to play into this expectation that everyone "should" always succeed immediately. Those that do succeed immediately, fantastic, rock on.

If you see this, share your favorite Animal Crossing villager! (Narrowing this down to one was deeply unfair lol)

Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now. We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.

Monthly Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #TransSky #BookSky

#WritingPrompt Plot. I do not understand it. I can write character decisions and their implications and aftermath, which *looks* like a plot, but "a compelling, exciting string of things that Just Happen, and People Want to Read It" may as well be alien speak I've read SO many craft books

Heading home from a screening of / Q&A about the Princess Bride by Cary Elwes. Lovely time. At the end of the day, that movie came out when I was 10, and I never had a chance of resisting. The Last Unicorn, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride. I'm a simple nerd.

I'd like to kick off Trans Awareness Month with 32 stories of Trans People Taking On The World, by mainly trans authors Your heroes may tackle; love, friendship, magic &war, self discovery, trauma & healing, demons (literal or metaphorical 😉) & or the world itself! 🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿ itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Ten-second rant time: Am I especially clumsy, or does Mailerlite LOVE deleting entire paragraphs at the slightest provocation? I stg it obliterates the last five things I wrote if I breathe in the wrong direction. Otherwise it works for me, it's just that. Rant over

#WritingPrompt Frankly, anything, considering all the times I've felt like I was out of ideas / completely incapable / etc. I'm still here, dammit.

#WIPSnips “ancestor”. Did not expect to have this one! From Evil Overlord for Hire, in the early moments of the fight between Zil (pretending to be the Dark Lord) and a light mage. This is the mage’s graduation party. He’s going to show off, even if his dads want him to mind the antiques.

And it's live! Runs through Nov. 15.

We never get trick or treaters on our street, so it's time for fire!!

Data: It's Good at the Bottom of the Barrel? - Left KU at the beginning of 2025 - The spikes are group promos (❤️🙏) - itch.io never took off for me, so its collapse didn't hurt either? - Oct. 2025 isn't complete, no D2D or itch yet Still, it's interesting that a small-timer is chugging along.

“My tax dollars are paying for their steak!” Yeah, well, my tax dollars are paying for ICE to threaten and abduct my neighbors. Steak sounds better.

Starts Nov. 1! 🌈 itch.io/b/3352/trans... 32 books for $35, including my newest novel The Strangers' Sanctuary - its first time in a sale! I'll be donating my cut to Trans Lifeline. This is not a charity sale; that's just something I want to do personally.

🎶 Another song by this artist - "All This Time" - was stuck in my head this morning, but that's the kind of uplifting bummer I love, and this one is more fun generally. (Still kind of a bummer? But in a humorous way) (Here's All This Time) youtu.be/TvVNxqosZ7s

Quote post your favorite reaction gif of all time

#WIPSnips “spell”. Plenty in Evil Overlord for Hire. I went with a moment of recovery after the magic fight featured on Blood-Curdling Day. The poultice is basically an enchanted item, which we’ve touched on a couple of times in this setting. I just liked the idea of a sigil instruction booklet. 😅

Just a National Cat Day contribution. Lily is in her Hiding Under the Bed era now, but curled up in a ball sleeping is still Burghie's default state

"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy

Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now? Implying one single answer for "came out", imagine 🫠 Bi: 40 or so? Gray-ace: 44; did not know that was an option, so to speak Nonbinary: Finally let go of my internalized Stuff and embraced it at 45 48 now 🌈

I'd much rather my taxes go to poor people buying soda and chips than to rich people buying their 5th yacht and 10th mansion

PITTSBURGH FRIENDS: here's a list of "pantries, free fridges, food banks, and free grocery programs by neighborhood or region" for folks impacted by impending loss of SNAP. *please share* www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/with-... #SNAP

AH, THE DREAM (I usually don't share things without alt text, but this hit me *directly* in the face. 3-panel comic: "Awesome news, fam! I learned to bury my feelings so deep, y'all won't notice how sad I am! No more killing the vibe!")

Interesting episode. The title of the guest's book is intentionally over the top; chill. But the thesis statement is that many problems can be tracked to a set of 3 ingrained cultural values: 1. There's not enough to go around 2. Kill or be killed 3. Us vs. them / divide & conquer 🤔

#WIPSnips “costume” This story was born for this one! From Evil Overlord for Hire. Zil’s first outing as the fake Dark Lord, flying solo except for a borrowed horse. As for progress, it's inching through the last big scene; we're *almost there* aargh

I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w... There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.

Still Playing a Game I Suck At Diary: We have reached the point where "replaying to play out the side quests" becomes "RNG-cursed grinding". Just enough progress that I haven't quit yet. Seriously Circe where the fuck are you. I even like your twee-ass depiction in this game, get OVER here please