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✒️🏳️‍🌈⚧️🐲 34 y/o queer nb fantasy author The Cogs Turn Quietly (https://tapas.io/series/The-Cogs-Turn-Quietly/info) - ON HIATUS User picture and banner designed by the amazing @felinefero.bsky.social
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I don't care if I'm basically a fan account at this point, this painting is gorgeous. The details on those tattoos is chef's kiss. I am in love

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I think I've cracked it. I think the reason I'm having such difficulty writing this bit is because it's the end. Endings have always caused me issues #writers #writingcommunity #audhd

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I just have to share this. The latest version is also my phone's lock screen because... well, just Look At Him.

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I'm at the end of my tether, here. Does anybody have any tips for organising creative work and staying on top of it? Bonus kudos if they're made with AuDHD in mind! #writers #writingcommunity #audhd #asd #adhd

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is so cute. Loved watching it take shape in real time while pretending I was watching the landscape go by haha

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#pretendpanel Ah... watch this space, I guess! I can't really do this social media thing, but I'm dedicated to trying so I can make this work. #Bluesky is a great platform so far. I hope that the changes it goes through as it grows don't take it to that familiar place everything else has gone to.

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#pretendpanel I'll finish Quietly, edit it, use its finished form to inform the plans for the rest of the series, post it online, then write the rest of the series to completion. I'll probably have to monetise it in some way so I can afford to keep writing, but that's a problem for another day.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

#fantasyindiesJanuary #queerwriters I'm writing high fantasy in a "pastel-steampunk" setting. Multiple different perspectives weave together the story of a city on the brink of revolution. I write exclusively LGBT+ characters. The first instalment should be available on RoyalRoad before midsummer.

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#fantasyindiesJanuary 30. It depends on where I am and what I'm doing. If I'm drawing or walking, audiobook; if I'm writer-researching or chilling with a brew, physical copy; if it's nonfiction, ebook (for easier note-taking)

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#pretendpanel The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune (honestly, we all need this in our lives) Literally anything by Ursula K LeGuin, sci-fi or fantasy (my absolute monarch of the genres) Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (Quincy has been compared to Howl)

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#fantasyindiesJanuary 28. Taru's goals shift from escapism to activism; Quincy's aren't quite so clear 29. See image: I have several, (including one that's almost exclusively NIN instrumentals) but here's 9 tracks from my 58 track "Write - General" playlist

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#pretendpanel If your MC was a musical instrument, which would they be and why? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #writingPrompts

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

#pretendpanel European mythological creatures (with a particular focus on different types of Fae creatures); hair protection and cleaning around the world; types of tea and brewing methods from around the world; global mourning traditions and more (incl. different sexualities and identities)!

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I love these comics sooo much! Delta's stupid little potato head over Osprey's shoulder in the second panel drives me nuts 😂

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#pretendpanel #queerwriters I started writing Taru's story as part of an online tourney. It made me sit down and write consistently for longer and more consistently than I ever had before! As for Quincy, which I started years earlier: it opened the door into writing my truth.

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#fantasyindiesJanuary 24. Taru: oil and dust; Quincy: lemon and ginger tea, bergamot 25. (see images) 26. I work on one or two at a time but they're all part of a single series and are, therefore, liable to change according to one another 27. Air-carriage and air-omnibus. In Shude, anyway!

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I've had some discussions about fictional parents with my writing groups. The topic of "mothers" is one that gets particularly heated. So I was wondering... Who are the best and worst fictional mothers, in your opinion? #writing #reading #booksky💙📚 #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #queerwriters

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

#fantasyindiesJanuary 20. The Shudean gods are multiple groups of twins, each representative of a need of the people and the city's answer to it 21. Pastel steampunk, political, eco-conscious 22. Taru had a plan, once; Quincy has people to plan for him 23. Taru problem solves; Quincy throws tantrums

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#pretendpanel Sometimes, the only way to know what you want is to try different things, but even so: not knowing what you want does not mean you deserve nothing.

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#writing #booksky💙📚 #WIP #fantasy #queerwriters After over a month of no writing, having encountered one of those grim writerly blocks, guess who finished writing a whole chapter today! It me. Turns out, sometimes you just have to force it. Can't pretend the candle didn't help, though.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment