Fairies over the years 🩷💕

Beloved: incredible. Difficult, important, beautifully told. Next: Stone Butch Blues. I don't know why it's taken me so long to read this. It's time 😌

Fairies over the years 🩷💕

Fairies 🩷

Fairies 🩷

What I think a lot of people are missing is that the goal of writing a book or making a comic is to write a book or make a comic. It's not to make a TV show or movie. The goal is to make a book. The end goal, is to have a book that people can read and cherish. THE GOAL IS BOOK.

Relationship dynamic

Relationship dynamic

"if you could give your jewels to a thief and watch them wear them to a fancy party, would you do it?" 🥺 bsfr.

I really enjoyed Silent Companions. I do think it became predictable at certain points but I don't believe that's always a bad thing. Next: Beloved by Toni Morrison.

New post up on Patreon 😘

New post up on Patreon 😘

Delighted to see me and @kelsijosilva.bsky.social 's OFF MENU on YALSA's 2026 list of recommended "great graphic novels for teens"! Seeing how determinedly librarians are supporting our book always makes my day. www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2026/...

It seems to be one of the rules of the universe that every library hold will become available at the same time 🫠

Hiking 😌

Obviously I love Hill House. It's part of my personality now. Next: the Silent Companions! This premise is so unsettling. I love it.

Hey if your AFAB partner had "not like other girls" energy, buy them chocolates and flowers for Valentine's Day. Trust 🙌 There's a good chance no one ever has. Every once in a while being treated like a "girl" is nice, is all.

Share your couples art!

Hiking 😌

Little ☺️

I just think, maybe we shouldn't be casting movies based on our 14 y/o perceptions of a story. Maybe we should be casting movies with fully grown adult consciousness. Maybe we should be really careful with the changes we make to the source material and how that impacts the themes.

Unfortunately my work computer is likely either dead or gonna cost a shit ton to fix. And for a whole slew of reasons im broke as shit. So if anyone is feeling like being generous i would greatly appreciate it. 💜💜 ko-fi.com/iceghost

Patricia Highsmith's prose was really odd to me, but I can see why The Price of Salt (or Carol) earned it's cult following. I did NOT expect a happy ending at any point, and yet! Now, a reread! Although I've never physically read this book, I have listened to it twice.

Both my apple pencil and my headphones died AT THE SAME TIME. Im being betrayed by my technology.

I have booked all of my travel for C2E2! See ya nerds there!

She's so cute.

The penguin deluxe editions are my favorite editions of classics. I don't know how to express the way this small stack pleases me 🥺 I would like to collect all of them. They have the deckled edges, and the cover flappies. They're just the right size and shape. They look nice on the shelf!

misc page I like. I think the style of the book has pretty well solidified now, and that feels nice. it took about 100 pages to get it right, but at least I got there.

I think I don't want to see the Wuthering Heights movie after all. :( As much as I want to encourage the production of more gothic media, neither Wuthering Heights or Dracula this year seem like they're good adaptations.

misc page I like. I think the style of the book has pretty well solidified now, and that feels nice. it took about 100 pages to get it right, but at least I got there.

I could have quite literally read Weyward in a single sitting. I INHAILED it. Next: The Price of Salt, or Carrie. I love how beat up this library copy is.

Some fun facts about prohibition: -the opening of most Saloons was funded by breweries. The growing wealth of these companies and the overconsumption of alcohol was where a lot of the push back came from. -it probably would not have happened if it weren't for one fanatical lady and her axe.

It's not a race! Hope this helps :)

Someone send me some of the snow you all keep complaining about 😭😭😭 I WANT IT. WHERE IS WINTER?

New additions to the collection 😌

Next: Weyward. You ever read the first few sentences of a book and KNOW you're gonna vibe with the writing? I'm gonna like this book, I can taste it.

We Love You Bunny, a book about how an entire prestigious creative writing program does anything to avoid writing! (Except for Jonah, of course, who is perfect.)

WRITE IT EVEN WHEN IT FEELS SILLY. JUST WRITE IT.

the chapter I'm editing today is definitely the most "that's not how that works" chapter of my book, and I'm being very brave about it. 😤 Stories can take liberties.

As someone who does both sometimes I genuinely cannot remember whether I listened to or read a book. The argument against audiobooks counting as reading is so deeply insipid.

More annoyed now that I like the original scene more than what I re-wrote. This whole business is nonsense.

Dramatic teenager activities

Annoyed that editing is resulting in me rewriting huge chunks of scenes. When I already WROTE THEM. TWICE.

Hey hey, are you a fan of love and/or sex? Well I made some comics about those and now you can get them for super cheap! (sale lasts through Feb 14th) Get 'em here: alterici.itch.io

ICYMI: I started a newsletter! This is the best way to stay up to date on my work, as well as whatever I'm thinking about every month. Last month it was mostly anime. This month it might be salsas. I contain multitudes. Next issue comes out SOON. You should subscribe. buttondown.com/OllieGerlach

Now reading We Love You, Bunny. (Proof I am still reading books written in the last 10 years.) I might have to read everything Mona Awad's ever written, idk.

NEWSLETTER DAY! Look at me, twice in a row, writing the newsletter within the first week of the month! www.patreon.com/posts/hovel-...

NEWSLETTER DAY! Look at me, twice in a row, writing the newsletter within the first week of the month! www.patreon.com/posts/hovel-...

Average lesbian posting.

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