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oh what's that? i'm back on my bullshit but this time transgender horror murder mysteries?

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Would anyone be interested if I put together a post on how to write a scientist/engineer/techy/smart-guy type character? What would y'all want to know?

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the night auction is out in like 3 weeks yall...

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A day of research

Tumblr made me murder the resolution on this because apparently when I'm not constrained by what looks good on a phone screen, i like to draw in damn near 4k. I'm debating putting the full res thing up on Patreon, but at least you get some detail shots with it this time!

These are my characters Dian (left) and Dusk (right) from my fantasy epic The Millennium Saga, which I'm planning to start querying/prepping for self pub later this year! Both use he/him pronouns.

ALT text in images. | Commissions currently closed, but may open soon. | Do not repost to other sites.

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Come with me on a little nature walk and learn about the science and the naming in my upcoming YA fantasy novel, Runaways!

If you want to get the STEM themed study guide it's available on my Ko-Fi right now for $5 and you can read the first three chapters of Runaways for free on my mailing list!

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Reintro!

I've been on writeblr four years, I figured it's time for a reintro! a lot of the folks who were here when I first came to this wonderful community aren't here anymore, and it's time to meet some new lovely people!

I'm Lila, she/her, and I am a queer fantasy romance author! I'm an indie author with six books currently out! they are:

All of those are available here! This is my author website, and my author instagram!

I also have a monthly author newsletter, with first looks and sneak peeks!

This is my Kofi, where I post novelettes/short stories.

I have a general taglist that i use semi-often, so please let me know if you'd like to be added to that! you can find more details about my finished/unfinished works here!

I'm also a frequent fanfic writer, so dm me if you want my ao3 or my fandom blog.

I am always looking for new writeblrs to follow and wips to track! please especially reblog if you're a writer who fits any of these:

is an indie author (ALWAYS looking to support more indie authors)

writes mostly fantasy

writes queer romance

is active and posts about their wips often

but of course, all writers are welcome, even if you don't fit those points! boosts are encouraged!

GENERAL TAGLIST: @worldbuildng @muddshadow @nikkywrites @47crayons @directionoftime

@chayscribbles @magic-is-something-we-create @rodentwrites

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I didn't have the chance to actually read this book because I've been crazy busy with life stuff but @writeblrfantasy is a good friend of mine and has always been super supportive of Runaways so when she asked to do an interview about her upcoming book, I agreed. The full thing is live on YouTube now!

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🚨PRIDE MONTH BOOK SALE🚨🏳️‍🌈

for pride month, all 5 of my ebooks—yes, all five—are half off. That’s only 1.99 for ebooks about weird, queer little guys, all month long!

You can catch up with my body of work while you’re waiting for the night auction to come out as a fitting end celebration to pride.

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Keep reading... [X]

Beloved Audience! We are excited to announce that Chapter Three of our latest adventure is now available for you to feast upon for free!

In this installment, the Lost arrive on Rommekkane station, ostensibly to better prepare themselves for an eventual escape... though Ano Nmos seems to have some ulterior motives for this particular pit stop, and The Champion has finally woken up.

We hope you enjoy their hijinks - as frustrating as they were to us, we Watchers can recognize that they were, indeed, funny.

Real life translation: Chapter Three is now available for everyone, everywhere! I hope you enjoy this one, as it's taken a full six months to complete - rest assured, you won't have to wait that long between installments again for a while.

Also, as a heads up: you can click the arrow next to the words "content warning" on the page this redirects you to for the full list of content warnings for the chapter. Be sure to read them carefully, as none of them are there just for fun.

All pages described in ALT Text here and on the site itself.

Want early access to chapter four? [X] Want the fonts/main brushes used in the comic? [X] Want to read from chapter one? [X]

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fantasy romance writer here! my tagline is that I write about powerful people falling in love. my sixth published novel is dropping on july 1st, and it's a purely sexy queer romantasy!

looking for active fantasy writeblrs

It's hard to find each other and connect. If you write romance fantasy, urban fantasy, or paranormal drop a one-liner about your stories!

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Flee! Flee! Flee!

They had to flee! Flee! Flee!

The city streets pounded beneath their boots, crunching and cracking with every heavy stomp. But every heavy stomp grew lighter and lighter with every step.

Cops chased after them.

Calling and shouting and threatening to fire their magical weapon: deadly and not.

Their heart pounded.

Their steps grew lighter.

Lighter. Lighter. Lighter.

So light, in fact, that they began to rise.

To rise.

Feet off the streets.

Into the sky.

And they rose and rose and rose.

Until they kissed the clouds.

(This is based on the magic of Air and the character of Sprik in my upcoming book of urban fantasy short stories!)

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Update!!

I had given up after a series of missed calls and finding out that birth times were never ever recorded before 1940. But my mother surprised me by seeing a psychic and asking for the time of birth, which was 7:09 AM, and making a birth chart for her has proven that number accurate!!!

strap in for a sisyphean saga, my friends

so about two weeks ago, after i'd finished reading my own astrology birth chart, my mom's in incredible depth, my father's, and his late mother's, i had the brilliant (sisyphean) idea to ask about my maternal grandmother's information!

context if you don't know: you need place of birth, date of birth, and exact time of birth in order to generate a birth chart for astrology. the first two are important, but without time of birth you're kinda fucked because you can't generate 2/3 of the information in the chart, including your rising sign. without the time all you have is the planets pretty much, which was not good enough for me.

my maternal grandma died before i was born, and yet i've always felt closest to her just from stories alone. i know everything about her life from the stories her seven children have told me, from photos, from the letters she wrote, from the interviews my mom conducted with her about her life.

she was a hilarious firecracker and accepted everyone, no matter their identity. i love her endlessly and i like to think she's watching over me, and i am always searching for ways to feel more connected to her.

the point of reading a star chart is to learn and understand everything about a person's life, and so i really wanted to read my grandmother's chart--if not for myself, then to share with my mom, who adored the reading i did of her own chart and was very very close with her mom; i knew she'd appreciate it as much as me.

we knew my grandma's birthday, birth place, but not birth time...oh no problem! we ordered a copy of her birth certificate and waited eagerly for its arrival. it took four days in the mail, it felt like forever, but no problem! the wait will be worth it :) easy!

wrong. i did not know what i was in for.

the birth certificate comes, and the time of birth isn't listed. nor is the place of birth--it only lists the city, not the hospital. and so begins the journey i have been on for the last eight days trying to find out this goddamn woman's birth time. strap in, people.

do you know your time of birth off the top of your head? probably not. most people don't. i knew mine because my mom makes a habit of pointing it out on my birthday every year. my dad had to look at his birth certificate. the only reason my mom knew hers was because her mother wrote it in a journal; it wasn't listed on her birth certificate.

my grandmother was first generation american and her parents spoke very little english, and so i'm guessing they didn't fill out everything on records either because they didn't understand or had trouble communicating with the staff. also this was 1939. and the birth certificate was filed like 10 days after her birth (which i think is later than average) which is the thing that's been making me wonder the most if she was born at home. bc why wouldn't they have filled out the birth certificate in the hospital then.

my mom asks all her siblings if they remember her mentioning a time of birth, they say no. one of my aunts sends pictures of two other birth records, neither of which have the time or exact place. we decide that between seven kids and countless grandkids and my late grandpa's notorious big mouth, SOMEONE would've remembered if my grandma ever mentioned being born at home, she would've thought that was not average.

my grandma was an only child and her parents died decades ago, so we can't ask them. everyone of that generation who would've had any contact with this issue is dead. and i live across the country from my mom's entire side of the family so i can't go to their houses and ask to look in their records in case someone wrote down an elusive TOB in a journal somewhere. the "ask family members" avenue has been exhausted from my pov.

my grandma was raised catholic. i have been told churches keep thorough records. so i determine and call the church where she was baptized! the woman there asks for her name and date of birth, tells me she'll get back to me and look.

also my grandma's name is thus: (legal first name of two possible spellings, name she went by, middle name, confirmation name, hard to spell maiden name, first husband's name, second husband's name.) so when people ask for her name i start sweating and usually give them her legal first name and maiden name over the phone. this is the time i start to think there is some kind of cosmic joke being played on me.

when i was on a ladder painting (murphy's law) the woman from the church calls me back and tells me they don't keep records from before 1945 (grandma was born in 39) so there's no baptism record on file. she also says it's not standard to put time of birth on baptism records. i ask about first communion records then. she calls me back on the ladder fifteen minutes later (murphy's law) and says they're not there either, huh, weird, are you sure it was this church?

my mom says it's impossible my great grandma would've gone to any other church. that was her church. she's buried there. went there every sunday. got married there. no way it was anywhere else.

the woman from the church directs me to a larger org of church records in the big city. i fill out that archdiocese's record request help form and explain the situation, explain that i am only interested in finding time or building of birth. they promptly get back to me and cheerily ask if i've checked her birth certificate!

i ask god why he hates me.

i explained to them that i had, that if they could even tell me where she was born that would be a huge help. that was three days ago and i think it might've been a no reply email since they replied so promptly the first time. might open that avenue back up.

while i don't know where she was born, if she was even born in a hospital, i know there weren't many open in this city in 1939. hospital records are the best bet, right? they're medical things. if they don't have my grandma's name i can at least ask about her mother being admitted to a maternity ward. they can give me a vague time, at least, right?

i find the biggest hospital in the city where she was born, confirm it was around long before she was born, and shoot my shot. call and get directed to records department, to the birth registry's answering machine. explain i'm trying to find out if [grandma's name] was born there at all. just trying to get my foot in the door, hoping to speak to a human to explain that i don't need a copy of anything, i already have her birth certificate, i am just trying to find her time of birth.

i complain about this to my friend, who is catholic, and says yeah that's weird the church definitely should've had those records. if only i was there to check in person! three days after the first voicemail (yesterday) i leave another voicemail with the hospital birth registry department.

and now we're up to today's events, where the hospital's birth registry returned my call while i was in public (murphy's law) to tell me they don't keep records from that time. they direct me to the city hall, in a cruel and ironic twist of fate, since my grandma had a career as a city clerk. in a different city but cosmic humor nonetheless. grandma, i hope you think this is funny.

i was surprised the hospital returned my call on a holiday weekend at all, yet i am still disappointed to have to wait till monday to call the city hall. if the city hall only has her birth certificate to offer me, as i fear, i think i'll try the other possible two hospitals in the city. maybe the archdiocese again. after that, i don't know what the fuck i'm gonna do. how i wish i was on the east coast in order to not be at the mercy of online forms/the phone. kill me.

all this for a birth chart. her rising sign better be as fucking fascinating as we all think it will be.

and i have decided from this point on i'm going to document my journey because it's becoming quite comical and what does a writer do if not poeticize their struggles. if anyone has any advice i will consider anything, i will call anyone, i am desperate at this point lmao. thank you for listening to my tale. will update.

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More shameless Runaways posting!

(I'm almost at 300 followers on my Instagram if you want to cross follow me there lol)

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I have a large issue with the fact that in modern day, in the face of social media censorship and pearl clutching, authors have become expected to offer a disclaimer that they don’t condone the behavior or topics in their books. This doesn’t just go for authors who write from the perspective of a killer, but for an author who writes a toxic relationship, or abuse, or a villainous woman as a protagonist.

Many people assume that, if the author says nothing otherwise, they must be condoning this behavior. Some people even say it’s irresponsible of an author not to offer a disclaimer, for fear of corrupting readers’ minds. That authors have a responsibility to write about good and moral things for the sake of their readers, a sentiment which rubs me in all the wrong ways.

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Reintro!

I've been on writeblr four years, I figured it's time for a reintro! a lot of the folks who were here when I first came to this wonderful community aren't here anymore, and it's time to meet some new lovely people!

I'm Lila, she/her, and I am a queer fantasy romance author! I'm an indie author with six books currently out! they are:

All of those are available here! This is my author website, and my author instagram!

I also have a monthly author newsletter, with first looks and sneak peeks!

This is my Kofi, where I post novelettes/short stories.

I have a general taglist that i use semi-often, so please let me know if you'd like to be added to that! you can find more details about my finished/unfinished works here!

I'm also a frequent fanfic writer, so dm me if you want my ao3 or my fandom blog.

I am always looking for new writeblrs to follow and wips to track! please especially reblog if you're a writer who fits any of these:

is an indie author (ALWAYS looking to support more indie authors)

writes mostly fantasy

writes queer romance

is active and posts about their wips often

but of course, all writers are welcome, even if you don't fit those points! boosts are encouraged!

GENERAL TAGLIST: @worldbuildng @muddshadow @nikkywrites @47crayons @directionoftime

@chayscribbles @magic-is-something-we-create @rodentwrites

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i'm sorry but it's true and someone needs to say it. the best books you will ever write will not come from the idea that you sit down, plan out meticulously, consciously working hard on every detail before you ever start writing and slowly working through the problems that arise.

the best books you'll ever write will come from an idea that hits you like a sucker punch in the chest in the middle of the afternoon on a regular monday, after which you will barrel through a draft in an utter fugue state, making everything up as you go and dropping the best lines/prose you've ever read in your life, apropos of absolutely nothing, until a few weeks/months later you pop your head up and look back at what you've created and declare that you are michaelangelo, actually. and then you'll wonder how you did it and not have an answer when someone else asks. you were possessed by god and he is no longer in the building

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🚨PRIDE MONTH BOOK SALE🚨🏳️‍🌈

for pride month, all 5 of my ebooks—yes, all five—are half off. That’s only 1.99 for ebooks about weird, queer little guys, all month long!

You can catch up with my body of work while you’re waiting for the night auction to come out as a fitting end celebration to pride.