#i haven't known what the hell i've been doing since 1984 and i'm not about to start now

[fortunatetragedy]

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hello! welcome to blog!

who i am

a gender-apathetic homosexual "elder millennial" with one (1) bachelor's degree who types faster than they think and is a good illustration of the "childhood trauma to self-deprecating writer with a substance problem" pipeline.

between 2017 and 2021 i published fiction in the dark fantasy and horror genres under a pen name. i left social media in 2021. other than lurking on pinterest and rejoining tumblr that hasn't changed.

i live with adhd, anxiety, and chronic pain in the form of cervical spine stenosis and trigeminal neuralgia. i am considered disabled.

where i'm from

i am an air force brat. i've lived several places, but i don't have a hometown.

as of june 2023 i live in oklahoma. that move inspired me to write a novel about human suffering, true love, and time loops.

what i write

my big project has the working title DOOM METAL LOVE STORY.

a weird western trilogy set in the 1870s, it follows a cavalryman and his outlaw lover as they escape a time loop to stop a delusional man from summoning an apocalyptic god-spirit.

book 1 | status: complete revising, 167.5k words (2024/3) playlist/chapter list here character intros: [x] cole sullivan [x] arthur royston [x] erik hofer

book 2 | status: in progress, 33.7k words (2024/5) book 3 | status: slowly becoming an outline

you can find DMLS posted in installments on AO3 every monday.

also on AO3:

a living machine [m:ta] is the story of a child prodigy/son of ether who grows up to become a mad scientist. | status: in progress, 18.3k words (2024/5)

among the elements [m:ta] is a shitpost of a short story i wrote about my player character's NPC father, khalid, aka the mad scientist from ALM. he grows a baby in an incubator and has to hide it in his guts to keep safe. it sounds weird. it is weird. don't be scared. | status: complete (10.9k words)

finally, i am planning the following:

an UNTITLED NAUTICAL HORROR STORY about a group of young divers whose impulsive decision finds them trapped in an underwater cave with changing corridors and the sense something is in there with them

a story about RIVAL VAMPIRE ASTRONOMERS - exactly what it says on the tin

content warnings: in general, you're going to find

violence, blood/gore, sex [DMLS]

violence, blood/gore, body horror [ALM]

blood/gore, thalassophobia, claustrophobia [UNHS]

violence, blood/gore, vampire sex [RVA]

themes: futility, metafiction, existential dread/horror, making one's own purpose, chaos vs. order

neuroqueer characters who have to earn their happy ending

like infodumps? i have that too.

final warning

if we're mutuals i'm going to get obnoxiously excited about your projects and characters because fiction rules and so do you.

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