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Evening dress

circa 1927, France

#vibes #q

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Actually, I love her being a bitch here

(ignore my highlights)

#my writing #those horrid horrid things

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Poll for writers and artists

Whether you write fanfic or original works or paint/draw, be it fan art or original work or whatever else - I have to know, because I have a feeling this is going to be very decisive:

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Do other writers ever get this like, hyper-specific dialogue exchange drop into their brains and you know exactly where these character are standing and what they’re doing and how they’re saying these words but that’s all you get. You don’t have much other context and this specific moment that exists only at this time in your headspace??

#yess

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I'm sorry but my partner really is the best every time "big iron" plays in fallout new vegas he quietly sings "big iron on his diiiccckk" I love him so much

#rambles #not writing

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Went back to revise THHT Chapter 1 again so that it's Loki internally narrating "I can get out this, I'm the smartest person imaginable," and then proceed to have them be the dumbest person imaginable

#my writing #those horrid horrid things #can't gaslight gatekeep girlboss this one away

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Went back to revise THHT Chapter 1 again so that it's Loki internally narrating "I can get out this, I'm the smartest person imaginable," and then proceed to have them be the dumbest person imaginable

#my writing #those horrid horrid things #idk if i'll keep this or not but

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Went back to revise THHT Chapter 1 again so that it's Loki internally narrating "I can get out this, I'm the smartest person imaginable," and then proceed to have them be the dumbest person imaginable

#rambles #those horrid horrid things

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this club has everything! sea shanties, a lighthouse, homoeroticism, madness from the sea, a giant squid

#posts leech would love #q

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being a fan of a friend's ocs is actually so humiliating....... like yes my favourite character rn is tragically doomed and a pillar of humanity who i think is relevant to the current world. you can find information about them on discord dot com and sometimes in late-night conversations with this guy i know. what the fuck

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Wait what did Freydis Moon do? :( I've read their books and really liked them, but I don't follow them anywhere online, so that last ask you got worried me

Freydis Moon has been exposed to be Taylor Barton, a white person from the state of Oregon, someone who had a history of faking their race, being racist, and general abusive behavior. You can read more here about this Taylor person here, and you can find an incredibly long thread here.

Freydis was a colleague of mine, and they took me under their wing when I entered the indie book scene. They presented themselves as a Latine, mystic, queer trans author — who was older than me, I should add — so I deeply admired them and confided in them. I don't think ABM would have ever gotten much attention if I hadn't received their guidance.

There had been some whispers that Freydis was really Taylor, but I'd seen Frey's seemingly darker-skinned hands and heard their real name, which was supposedly Daniela.

Two things I should say before the big reveal: Freydis briefly hired a publicist named Cordi, who was also an agent with their own agency, named The Lynne Agency. Cordi, very randomly, decided to leave the industry and left their clients, and Freydis, hanging. Someone else to mention is Saint Harlow, an author of gay, cannibal erotica. On twitter, Saint was known for peddling a lot of drama — sometimes, he was on the good side of things and sometimes the bad, but he tended to be a massive bully. Freydis allegedly comforted some of Saint's victims.

And the reveal:

Freydis is the race faker Taylor Barton. The evidence is substantial, but most notably, some of the files they shared with other authors, including me, had metadata with the names of Taylor Barton's other identities. I was able to check the files myself to confirm.

They were also Saint Harlow. Meaning Freydis was bullying people secretly on one account and comforting them on another. And the bullying was a lot more disgusting than you might think, but for the sake of the victim, I won't share details.

They were also the publicist/agent Cordi. Why did they pretend to be an agent at all? I'm not sure but they wasted a lot of authors' times, that's for sure. Were they just looking to plagiarize off manuscripts sent to them? Who knows. (A friend of mine who sent their manuscript to them fears so).

There were a lot of interactions between Taylor and I that are much much weirder in retrospect. They critiqued the industry use of #ownvoices, which I agreed about, but blew the issue out of proportion, like thinking #ownvoices gay-trans author book lists shouldn't exist because of potential outing, mlm books by mlm authors lists shouldn't exist because of potential outing, and that lists of books by people of color about people of color also shouldn't exist because... potential outing? Taylor was, to me, oddly sympathetic toward certain authors accused of racism and shot down my concerns of a certain book with what I felt to be pro-colonizer themes inconsistently — their response to racism seemed to depend on whether they already disliked a person or not.

I could say a lot more but as someone who spoke to Taylor in private at times, there were a lot of things I was unsure about even when I was on their side of things. To some people, apparently, Freydis had said they were part Mexican, but only ever told me they were Peruvian (they might've known I'd clock them as a faker). Regardless, when this all came to light, their response was shockingly dismissive.

This may be more info than you asked for but TLDR:

Freydis Moon faked their race and ethnicity, bullied and manipulated many readers and authors using various fake identities, took advantage of latine author resources, and so on.

#oh my fucking god #god fucking damnit #i got their erotica short three kings a while back and enjoyed it enough i followed them on twitter and recommended the book here #maybe im just not on my writer twitter enough to notice #but ive come to find out they were bullying other indie authors including authors ive read and enjoyed #also op im so sorry you're dealing with this #you don't deserve any of the flack that should be directed at freydis/taylor esp when youre one of the people impacted by this #adding to what ari said count me in as intrigued by abm goddamn (pun intended)

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#hmm #top hat!

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Camden and Zax Scene (like 500wc idk)

(WIP: The Bitten and The Damned)

CW: blood, death, a vampire sucking someone to death, in the draining them of blood sense, suggestive comment

Camden's kill routine had become predictable the first time Zax had seen it. By the third or fourth time, they didn't care to keep track, Zax found themself leaning against the wall, checking their fingernail polish for chips, bored with how long he took to do it.

"Pathetic human," Camden was saying. They tuned him out while he did his thing because it was always the same. He'd grab them by the throat with one hand and lift them off the ground as high as he could to taunt them. Being almost six and a half feet and having long arms, it probably would have been scary to a human even without the glowing eyes and fangs bit. Luckily they didn't know how recycled all his lines were, and in that sense, Zax envied them.

He said adrenaline tasted like a hint of cayenne. Zax doubted Camden remembered cayenne from his human life. He certainly hadn't remembered how to act, and it had only been 70 years. He could have lived to be an old human man by now. Maybe that would have been better for everyone.

Zax stepped back when the blood sprayed near their shoes, sucking their teeth in annoyance. Camden was tacky for playing with his food, but an idiot for being such a messy eater. He could never find anything to wear that wasn't once bloodsoaked.

Zax looked up at the sound of a body thudding, Camden having dropped it onto the pavement, drained. The blood was almost black in the darkness as Camden used his forearm to wipe his mouth and chin, mainly just smearing the situation, to grin at Zax. His typical menacing grin hadn't even been intimidating the first time, let alone once Zax had quickly realized that it was his third most common expression.

"I like it when they squirm, pathetic fucks," he said, following it with a dark chuckle as he picked the body up, a human man in a suit, to sling over his shoulder, limp and dripping like an old car. Camden favored men in suits and Zax was not the least bit interested in why. Camden on the surface sucked enough, they didn't want to know what abomination of inner workings made him that way. It was an interesting line to draw in the sand for a demon, but Zax was content to let Camden take first place in the category of fucked up.

"Are you seriously always like this?" They didn't bother to hide the disdain in their voice. Even if they cared about his feelings, which they didn't, it seemed to be impossible to affect them.

Camden's grin didn't falter from its state somewhere between shit-eating and suggestive, as Zax had predicted.

"Why? Does it turn you on?"

#love how bored zax is with cam #cam thinks he's the shit and they are not having it #other people's writing #other people's wips #the bitten and the damned #tw: blood #tw: death #q

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ALT

A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.

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#oh no it's me and #well you know #q

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sweatpants that say "these thighs turn heads" up the side but it's about the wearer's ability to snap people's necks

#is this anything? #tw: suggestive #not writing

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3 components of worldbuilding:

1. The author’s kinks

2. The author’s power fantasy

3. The author’s political agenda

Plot and logic optional