#updates from yours truly.

[bthearst]

The Gentleman's Club - a series.

Some time ago I flirted with the idea of creating a long-form play set in 19th century London that revolved around an exclusive society consisting only of queer men. It was to be a dark comedy, something that played with societal expectations and gender norms, but I eventually scrapped it because it did not feel like the proper venue for such a story.

Fast forward to a few days ago, while whining about rewrites and revisions and them being no fun. The idea popped back into my head but in a much different form. Cue two entire days of feverish typing, sketching, info dumping, and outlining. Plots were formed (both literary and personal), game plans rudimentarily established, and eggs were sorted into neat little whicker baskets.

The Gentleman's Club, as it currently stands on paper, will be an anthology series comprised of five (so far!) novellas, each one following a narrator's frankly nightmarish encounter with each of The Bacchant Five -- the top ranking members of the aforementioned Gentleman's Club. The catch? Not only is each member The World's Worst Human Being tm, but they're also the love interest. Meaning that this series is a series for villainfuckers. It's gothic, it's horrific, it's romantic, it's queer.

Do not be fooled by the title. The Gentleman's Club is named as such because it was initially meant to be strictly for men, but in the brave new world of 1898, women and individuals who do not quite fit within that binary are also esteemed members.

Of the five planned novellas, three features men, one a woman, and another a nonbinary love interest. Each also has their unique take on sexuality as well, because asexual friends deserve some villain shenanigans too.

It is my intention to selfpub this series for a variety of reasons that I will explain beneath the cut, but I want to point out that chapters will be available over on my Patre0n! As well as a detailed account of the whole process for anyone interested.

I've been exceptionally focused on my high-stakes projects for quite some time out of some fear that I need to censor myself or else no agent will take me seriously. It's genuinely sucked a lot of the fun out of writing, and this series really taps into my writing roots in such a way that I am genuinely excited to take it on. I've been writing erotic literature for almost 17 years and I was always of the mindset that to make it in any way in the traditional industry I'd have to change my tune.

This is me saying screw it, we ball. Given the questionable state of "spicy lit" going around on the internet, especially the queer kind, I decided to square up and write what feels needed. Is it fucked up shit? Genuinely dark romances? Messy people navigating messy situations? Absolutely! And I am not in the mood to have the industry try and water any of it down, so we're going selfpub, baby.

I'm unsure as to what venue will be the best because, honestly, selfpub requires a lot of legwork. Amaz*n does a lot of the work but takes an obscene amount of royalties and a 90 day exclusivity period, and well, they're evil, obviously. I would love to be able to afford actual physical copies with properly paid-for covers by actual artists, so stats are pretty complicated given where I'm currently at.

I do intend to share each chapter on Patre0n, making the first book entirely free to read! People who sub at the lowest tier will get chapters a month in advance, but with some patience you'll able to indulge on all 9 chapters without spending cent.

Every day I walk the line of wanting all of my work to be accessible to everyone at the press of a button and being reminded that I, unfortunately, need to pay for the power that keeps the computer on.

I'll make a more detailed post on Patre0n because I don't want tumblr to just straight up nuke this, although I'm sure it's already on the shitlist for even referencing adult stuff.

[ughmerlin]

incorrect merlin quotes #11

[unrealisticallyyours]

i really want to write a fanfic where it's the ivy trio on a spaceship doing robin hood shit all across the universe and i can't quite explain why. anyway expect 20 chapters of that before 2026

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

Hi, it’s the op of the color of the sky compilation post.

So fun fact, you have given me several hundred notifications since you’ve reblogged it because not only am I getting notifications for the post itself, but all of the links are to my reblogs of other posts so I get notifications for those as well. So rip my notifications

But I’m glad you (and your followers) are enjoying it so much

I also want to say that I fairly regularly try to add more whenever I find a bunch, so the post will get updated every so often with more

Anyway, hope you have a lovely day, and hope everyone has a fun time with the Colors of the Sky™️

hello! I am so so sorry for contributing to destroying your notifications RIP

but it’s a truly truly wonderful post, and i’m very much looking forward to any future additions!!

thank you again for creating it and I hope you have a lovely day as well !

[as21-7]

happy make his ears tingle sunday yall

[mothercetrion]

AU where Kenshi is still a Yakuza member and he and Johnny have an affair :) multiple chapters planned

directly inspired by @tokillaking13 and their incredible Johnshi art (support it here and here!)

[littlerit]

AO3 readers, I’m curious

Add in the tags/comments whether you have ever done a spring clean on your subscription list…

[girlbenson]

just dropping by to say that I GOT THE JOB!!!

[mikadll]

never thought a character from a game that isn't even out yet would give me so much gender euphoria that i have decided to use their name as part of mine, and yet it happened and i'm glad

[babydollvibes]

[amourdivine]

Merry Christmas, everyone! And happy holidays, no matter where you are! 🥰

Here are a few updates:

I wanna thank everyone who reached out to me on behalf of a client who couldn't reach out to me. It's been solved! All my plans of moving across the country were cancelled and I was home-less for a little while (not to worry!), although I had friends and loved ones graceful enough to let me couch surf while I house-hunted with a broken ankle. I'm all healed now and living in a new apartment. I unpacked on Christmas eve, which was a nice little gift to have all my Tarot equipment with me.

On a different note, I will close out personal readings for a while (this will not affect my current paid orders, not to worry if you have ordered!) I'm starting a new job and although I love offering paid services, I also want to focus on my PAC's and my Youtube channel, which has been steadily growing thanks to all of you 💗💌

Once more, thank you so much! I'm looking forward to organizing next year's schedule to give away a couple of freebies and even a few giveaways if possible. Happy New Year to all of us and I'm wishing you a very holly jolly, divine time 🧿

Much love!

[bthearst]

TGC - Update

If there is one thing Sam Smith’s UNHOLY got right, it was my inability to understand its lyrics when it started making its rounds on TikTok because auditory processing issues and lack of subtitles do for very biased takes. Technically, that’s not Sam Smith or Kim Petra’s fault, but I’m still blaming them for it. But also, to say The Gentleman’s Club was inspired by the song isn’t entirely accurate since I had been sitting with Henry Beckwith’s character for a matter of months beforehand.

The origins for this series are nebulous, and it certainly started off as something different than what I am currently envisioning. The heir of a textile company in Victorian England has a very not good bad time, basically. A variety of scattered scenes followed, none connected, some half a page long and others three pages worth of rambles, but nothing substantial enough to merit being called a story.

Fast forward two months - Welcome to the series where the love interest is the worst person imaginable, everyone’s queer, the smut is unapologetic, and polite society is the villain. I hope you like Dead Dove content because this series if rife with it.

We’ve got your ghosts, your human experimentation, your very fucked up 19th century notions of gender and sexuality, you’ve got your trans folks picking up bloodied axes and taking them to the institutions that want to destroy them, etc. Jack the Ripper is there. It’s a wild time. If Victorian gothic horror erotica is to become my trademark as an author, then so be it.

Read the rest of the post over on Patreon!

[yell0wsalt]

Lin and Tenzin are having delicious sex in my WIP, by the way.

It's what they deserve.

[unrealisticallyyours]

i'm extremely sick and i had a fever dream where thomas from the maze runner and stiles stilinski from teen wolf swapped bodies and the main two things i remember were thomas freaking out because he was in an actual house and stiles trying to figure out why his hair wasn't sticking straight up and i fear that i have to write an actual fanfic about this now

[femmeidiot]

I already love a fizzy beverage but I like… LOVE a fizzy beverage after I’ve had an edible

[aezyrraeshh]

hello, loves <3. life's getting better day by day, fortunately, and I'll be back in a few days. missed you all 💕