I saw someone with a bingo card for their 2026 goals, and I want to make one, but I can’t for the life of me come up with 24 goals that’s a lot of goals, man;;; I’m stuck with a day job that eats up most of my time 😭

Smashwords sale ends on January 1st and the itch sale ends on January 5th so you've got a couple more days to shop!

I forgot that I’m running a sale on itch right now. all 4 Sidetracked books for $8 Jayde meets a weird hot guy who can turn into a cat, tons of stuff happens (most of it bad), then she gets a happily ever after (with a different weird hot guy who isn’t mean to her). It’s 600,000 words long. Enjoy!

Writers who advocate using genAI for covers and "nonessential" tasks are fuckin' traitors and not to be listened to.

Finally back to working on that Triple Baka Miku, Teto, Neru piece I started months ago. If I want to keep doing artist alleys, I feel like I need to get some non-OC designs done.

Sidetracked is written from Jayde’s POV, but she would feel A LOT of secondhand embarrassment reading it. 😅 I think James would cry almost the whole time as he read. He doesn’t know everything that happened. Ice would kill himself—or at least try. I think he’d refuse to read it, tbh. #QueerPrompts

tbh, I haven’t written nearly enough to know what I prefer yet, but it largely depends on the POV character, their comfort level with whatever terminology, and what they’re most focused on. I wrote “cock” the other night, so some characters clearly have a higher tolerance than I do. lmao #Smutcember

[something bad will happen soon] #WIPSnips

This sale is still going on!

I’m sharing a second one because I wrote this nonsense a couple hours after my first QRP, and it’s both spicier & funnier. (CW for two losers awkwardly roleplaying in the bedroom) #Smutcember

omg I reread them, and, um… I don’t think the scenes are bad—they’re actually very funny (Jayde & James are huge dorks)—but they’re more explicit than I remember them being as I wrote them (while possessed by a demon or whatever happened to make me write 4.5k words of smut instead of sleeping). 🥴

someone tell me I’m not completely insane for printing out the optional sex scenes I wrote overnight and including them in the Sunrise proof copy I’m giving to my step-mom for Christmas lmaooooo

ok I basically finished the second scene I was working on, so I am going to pass out for an hour now

okay it’s like 9:30am I can’t stay up forever writing smut in my notes app; I NEED to take a nap

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image. (is it cheating to use my own artwork? lmao)

How I’m walking out of 2025

I respect Jazza for this. Admitting when you were wrong can be hard. Using your massive platform to own up to being wrong AND explain why in detail is very cool.

"Ice Monroe," a familiar voice says. "Thank you, Cara, I'll take it from here." She thanks him before dipping away, and Dr. Eric Corel takes her place. A real blast from the past. Someone I previously hoped to never see again. The very last immortal doctor I wanted to run into. #WIPSnips

well;;; I finished writing the Sunrise sex scene, but a full open door scene after the main series was all fade to black feels so out of pocket that I think, when it comes time to publish, I’ll upload it separately and link to it in the book using a QR code so people can skip it if they want. 💀

Here’s part of the Afterglow beach cave scene from James’ POV. It’s not particularly graphic. Just a loser guy and his loser gf getting down in a cave that happens to be a 5-7 minute walk from where a bunch of their friends are hanging out on the beach. nbd #Smutcember

look, it’s me opening Christmas presents in 2010 (I was 15) I wore that cat ear trilby every day for like 3 years lmao

I spliced annotated Jayde POV scenes into the Ice POV outline (bc I need all of their canon dialogue), and it’s now 86k words long. Just for book one. i am in danger 😀

It would be cool to one day surpass the subscriber count of my dead YouTube channel on a platform I actually use regularly.

I want to finish this so badly, but I’m scared to open the Sony Vegas file. It’s almost 9 years old. lmao

I don’t *need* one, but securing a fabulously wealthy patron would be nice. 🥺 Past that, none of the goals I set are too unrealistic. I just need to stop procrastinating and make a few long-term checklists so I have a better idea of what I’m doing. #PretendPanel

I’m tired of seeing gen/ai character song covers. Bring back making UTAU voicebanks for characters by painstakingly clipping tiny bits of their dialogue to collect every phoneme

What is happening? Who even are these people? I’m afraid of the me who wrote this #WIPSnips

What is happening? Who even are these people? I’m afraid of the me who wrote this #WIPSnips

It’s raining on one side of my house and sunny on the other side.

I have no control over this sort of thing. It’s all organic character development. James has always been vanilla as hell, but I never would have expected that Jayde would be lowkey controlling in bed or that Ice has something of a degradation kink until things ended up that way. lmao #Smutcember

currently beating my head against the wall trying to work out what terminology Jayde would use for various things it’s 5am on Christmas morning !! I should be asleep, not writing smut in the notes app of my phone 🫠

Trying to write sex scenes always has me feeling like an unwilling voyeur. Like I’m taped to a chair outside their window being asked to describe what is happening to a third party, and I can also unfortunately read their minds.

There is no such thing as a perfect victim, and Jayde is certainly no exception to that rule. (this is a continuation of the Resignation snippet I posted yesterday!) #WIPSnips

it’s Muppet Christmas Carol time

it’s Christmas Eve why are there so many mosquitoes in my house? 😭

“Goblet” doesn’t appear in anything I’ve written. I could have gone with “wine glass”, but this scene came to mind. Resignation is basically “Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms: The Novel” #WIPSnips

“Goblet” doesn’t appear in anything I’ve written. I could have gone with “wine glass”, but this scene came to mind. Resignation is basically “Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms: The Novel” #WIPSnips

I’m certainly no smut-writing expert, but my advice is to be earnest. Sincere. Let your characters be vulnerable—if not to each other, then at least to themselves in their own head. if that makes sense? #Smutcember

I saw someone in a FB writing group ask how to do research for a character’s job without utilizing ai, and I was baffled. ai only been around for a few years???? You can still google shit & scroll past the AI overview to read a Reddit thread from 2017. I genuinely don’t understand the struggle.

Ice in Sidetracked Part 1 radiates baffling levels of “it’s not like I like you or anything, baka!!” energy considering he’s a 22yo man it’s no surprise Jayde had no fucking clue how he felt about her despite him outright telling her that he liked her multiple times & also kissing her that one time

Jayde is a college student relying on financial aid & student loans. She probably should have gotten a summer job but got distracted. Her dad pays her half of rent. James is homeless & unemployed & won’t ask for help 💀 Ice & Night are so wealthy that running low on funds is a foreign concept.

I hope every artist with imposter syndrome sees people who defend genAI and know that even if they draw the most shaky stick figures, they are 10000x more of an artist than anyone that feeds the ecological destruction theft machine and claims to be a creator.

I find it funny when ai bros accuse real artists/writers/etc of thinking they’re better than those who use gen/ai because, for once, they’re actually right. I do think I’m better than ai bros, and I think other artists should feel the same way.

#Smutcember There isn’t any actual, on-page smut in my published work (or Sunrise), but my step-mom, younger sibling, and old third/fifth grade teacher beta-read all 5 Sidetracked books for me. I’ve only explicitly discussed Jayde’s mildly horny nature with my sibling, though. lol 🧵👇

I feel like the cat shifter element of Sidetracked rarely comes up, but that (and the existence of a secret cat shifter branch of government) is THE fantasy premise & main factor that kept Jayde stuck in a cycle of horrors the entire series. 🥴 (from Sunrise) #WIPSnips

me when I see a self-described “creative” using/defending generative ai (or have the misfortune of seeing a cybertruck in person)

a) 🎄 b) ✨ c) 🧿 d) 🤡

I need to draw this but Jayde

I can’t believe I wrote 600k words and never once had Ice say “I would prefer not to.”