Maybe I'll dive back into writing with some LD duology drabbles before actual wip work

Such a good one! 💛

When the rival vampire coven makes its home in the moldering ruins of a fallen castle, and the town is gothic, sea-swept, and shrouded in fog and secrets 🍂🦇🩸 📖: books2read.com/u/4AM9Qk

"the prompt said cheer, not force, cat..." well, you can't be sad during this, I promise. 💀

Make a large iced matcha (when I'm probably already over caffeinated & don't need one) & blast something like Fox Lake or We Came as Romans through my headphones to force me through the writing session. It makes my heard hurt later but ideally the work gets done. 💀

I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be

I canNOT think about a specific audience when I write, because then I'm no longer expressing what I want to express; I'm expressing what I think they want to hear the audience is me. if it resonates with anyone else, great

I still think Frasier should’ve ended up with Cam Winston

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Just got my husband's schedule for next year and hell yeahhh he doesn't even have to take vacation for either of the concerts we have plans for! Love when that works out!

Vengeance is tricky in Garner for Gold. Much of the story is Marzanna's revenge against the old order...so much so she inspires others to seek her downfall by following this path. Bettina has to learn to stoke her hate. It takes her a while to realize she not only can strike back - she WANTS to.

New little game - see the comments for the results! 🎉

A good reminder of where I stand on this: I DGAF how technically good you are at traditional painting. If you use genai in ANY part of your process, you have abandoned the soul of art, abandoned the artist community and forfeit any reason I should give you an ounce of respect.

On behalf of all self-published authors, I authorize you to reach out & tell us if you really enjoyed something we wrote. We’re all dog-paddling in a sea of self-doubt & impostor syndrome & those little messages mean a lot. Unless stated otherwise, our DMs/inboxes are always open for kind words 💞

New little game - see the comments for the results! 🎉

We're socialized to constantly apologize for being too outwardly excited about things, but this world is so full of terror and misery that I'd rather see those bursts of light and passion shine through the cracks wherever you can find them.

Sold out of mere flesh at an author event & unloaded a render to silver pocket gothic proof I had lying around too 🥰

Finished it

MESS. I hunt specifically for sentences that show where I hadn't figured stuff out, that don't read like they should, or for all those places I end up repeating myself or making a point too obvious. The initial pass I do cleans up enough so I'll be able to read it as a book next instead of a draft.

Gilded, rancid, decadent, & accursed...that is the Aebbenary Saint Bettina returns to after her lengthy exile. Goddess has called her back at last - & Bettina intends to use Her love to save her grown children, mortal Cristoval & Godling Cosima, from the golden appetite. #questpit #a #df #rf #p

A Fount - one of the women selected to serve Silver - teeters between survival & sanity. A High Priest masters the art of devoting himself to his God...but finds there might be something he cannot sacrifice. 👉🏻 shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?s4HkeA...

oh hell no. if i see an account with AI in their bio liking my posts about my writing projects—IMMEDIATE BLOCK!!!!!!! you ain’t stealing my shit. i’m not the one. i will crash the fuck out. a white man trying to steal my stuff? i shouldn’t be surprised…

I'll never hire or work with anyone who uses genAI, or defends its use in any way. You want my money or collaboration, you need to be fully anti-genAI. And I won't read your book if you're even vaguely permissive on this issue. GenAI haters only in this house.

I will never use AI for my covers, editing, translation, or anything else. It is not only useless to me as an author, it is actively hostile and harms every skill related to book production. If you're an author against AI used to generate writing, you better back everyone else in the chain too.

She calls [redacted] boy!! I'm weak!!

After much contemplation I think Gentian from A SONG FOR THE ROAD is the most deserving of a gun + she's literally the horrible goose foundling child so she's guaranteed to cause the most chaos learning how to use the gun & also with how many people she'd take out on sight!

(Reading The Everlasting, about 80 pages in) Una....Una, I might just love you...

Fanart for The Starving Saints 🥀🗡️

I write too much variety to pick just one group...which is sort of my answer, I guess! Readers who like their dark REALLY dark, but not necessarily grotesque in the extreme, & those who still appreciate whimsy & fun. Readers who appreciate me mixing it up per project & not sticking to one thing.

Dowry of Blood x The Death of Jane Lawrence x Saltburn 🩸1975 small English town 🩸cursed vampiric witches 🩸queer obsession 🩸everyone's guilty (Original artwork by yours truly) #QuestPit #F #A #Q #LGBTQIA #WritingCommunity

Gilded, rancid, decadent, & accursed...that is the Aebbenary Saint Bettina returns to after her lengthy exile. Goddess has called her back at last - & Bettina intends to use Her love to save her grown children, mortal Cristoval & Godling Cosima, from the golden appetite. #questpit #a #df #rf #p

A coveted Saint beseeches a Grand Archivist for aid. A huntress with a secret hunger fights inevitable heartbreak. A firstborn daughter, spurned & exiled, deliberates between ambition & freedom. Above them all, Goddess reigns in golden glory while glittering Aebbenary rots. #questpit #p #df #rf

Silver, god of greed, rules Aebbenary through his church & ambitious High Priest. Fount Marzanna craves freedom, prioritizes survival when her accidental Miracle kills a cleric & draws his attention. Silver's Hands & Eyes accompany her. But unholy secrets yet remain... #questpit #p #df #rf #a

It may be a daunting prospect, finding out who you are after you get old enough to realize the abuse/neglect you endured is no longer an excuse for any flaws you have, but you are capable of surviving this too. It's okay to learn you have also been wrong - it's never too late to change.

Silver, god of greed, rules Aebbenary through his church & ambitious High Priest. Fount Marzanna craves freedom, prioritizes survival when her accidental Miracle kills a cleric & draws his attention. Silver's Hands & Eyes accompany her. But unholy secrets yet remain... #questpit #p #df #rf #a

A coveted Saint beseeches a Grand Archivist for aid. A huntress with a secret hunger fights inevitable heartbreak. A firstborn daughter, spurned & exiled, deliberates between ambition & freedom. Above them all, Goddess reigns in golden glory while glittering Aebbenary rots. #questpit #p #df #rf

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

Heady seasonal magic, potion chaos, & slowburn spice & romance - all in my cottagecore romantasy A TURN OF THE WHEEL! 👉🏻 shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... OR 👉🏻 www.amazon.com/dp/B07VTB4YVL

Seems like Instagram died this year but I still have a lot of nice graphics to share my unhinged work sooo ❗NSFW snippet❗ shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?xKeSdT...

“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement. After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”

Imagine a shard of the all-knowing cosmos forcibly ripped down & made manifest in a vaguely human shape. Imagine an angel horrible in its glory condensed into threads of itself stitched together by miraculous power. The piece then gains independent sentience. Unasked for autonomy. Meet Magisend 💀

My Shadowheart Tarot Card ⚖️🐺 #shadowheart #BG3 #Tarotcard #BaldursGate3

Anyone trying to guilt-trip you or shame you into not mass blocking dipshits is a dipshit that deserves to get blocked by the way. Block hard, block often, block because of vibes alone. The internet turns into a good place when youre not constantly looking at dipshit takes and opinions.

That's TWO higher end reviews the evil river site has removed for Mere Flesh for no apparent reason. this sucksss. Idk who it is, if it's multiple readers or one person, but it's appreciated by me even if the doomed site is deranged 💀

What kind of ice cream would your MC eat on death row?

For some reason the first dumb thing I thought of was that ice cream shaped like fried chicken. Easoren just sadly crunching it every time [redacted] makes him a skeleton again 💀

(vultures wip) there's technically a monarchy & it's hunted around that it's important & empire-minded...but it's also very far away, so aside from the inciting incident it's treated as a side issue for a while. 💀

idk man i just dont think basic needs (food, housing, healthcare etc) should be tied to income like this isnt radical or revolutionary, its just compassion and empathy😮‍💨

me: damn how did it get so late?!? husband: it’s 4:30 me: oh. right. ((grumbling noises)) ⏰⏰⏰