🌠 PAID OPPORTUNITY 🌠
Hello! I am looking to pay a wheelchair user of color for a sensitivity read on one of my novellas (about 25,000 words). If that is you or you know someone who qualifies, please respond here or email me at riengrayiswriting at gmail.
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you don't know what fatigue is until you need to decide between showering or ansswering an email mybodyistryingtokillme.com
All the craft level-ups, and all the ways life and art imitate each other, and the humanity of it all. Just because it's hard, I don't want anyone or anything to do it in my place. It's mine. It's me.
And also: the moment you look at your writing from months ago and realize this one personal life thing you can't stop thinking of? It's been bothering you for longer than you think. You've already projected it on approximately 7 characters from multiple angles.
The moments when it all comes together just right. When you look back at an older scene and realize you've already perfectly foreshadowed the Act III reveal. The symbolism you didn't consciously put in there, and yet there it is. That one line that makes you go, "Did I really write that? Am I cool?"
Full disclosure: I don't even like writing as in drafting. I love plotting and editing. Drafting is the tedious process that exists to bridge the two, and I would NEVER think of outsourcing it to AI because no matter how hard and dreary it sometimes gets, there are all these little moments.
Ugh. Bodies suck so much at times and put energy in all the wrong things. Hoping for the most benign outcomes possible for you!
Some days I just want to be a hooded figure in the dog park.
Or possibly a gelatinous cube.
When I say I'm good at English grammar, that doesn't mean I make no grammatical mistakes. It means I'm very good at spotting them after the fact. The entire shameful billion of them.
#WritersLife
Rainbows are pretty and nice and generally the best, but not when you suddenly start seeing them around every light in your house...
![Paris Paloma - Miyazaki [Official Music Video]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:44jl3o37keybbjy53aquxuxy/bafkreiga4djuvjb6aahlr3uukelcbfpekqm6xwblxf3fo74dbdcfsuhkme)
Paris Paloma's Miyazaki is the most instantly relatable song I've heard in forever 🤩
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a guy inside snuggled in blanket - i'm perfectly fine except for all of my problems mybodyistryingtokillme.com
...when I got bedridden and now people would rather have machines do the same thing worse because it costs less, and it sucks not just because of my individual situation, but because what the fuck are we doing as a humanity.
It just feels like talking about most things I think of is trauma-dumping😅
For me it's like... a mix of morbid topics that I risk sliding into all the time. Sometimes it's literal thinking about dying. Sometimes it's the spiraling state of the world. Sometimes it the capitalism and the AI and how a few years ago I had a skillset that let me earn money even...
Lately it's been taking me an uncomfortable amount of effort to avoid half of my social interactions turning into some versions of that "Do you guys ever think about dying?" beat from the Barbie movie.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
#poetry
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What the actual ever-loving fuck 😬🤯😱
I prefer slow burn. I love it when characters get to know each other before catching feelings, then it really feels to me like they're falling for each other, not for their ideas of each other. Sometimes I try to write faster attraction for a change, but I struggle to make it feel authentic.
#WIPSnips #WriteSky
If any fellow Dust Warriors see the mention of Dust and immediately think about 4thewords—why, yes, this is me writing fanfic for our favorite writing rpg.
I am not these bones, this flesh, this greying hair, I am the fire inside the shell, passing the light forward. Says Skeletor vaguely remembering what hair was like.
You had me at "Chosen One (derogatory)," then "endgame poly" solidified it. Will definitely check it out!
Square Image of a castle with an overlay of lightning in the background. In the center of the image is an inverted silhouette of two men kissing. The top of the image has the caption, "Love, Death, and Revolutions | The Art of Malignance, Book One" A caption in the center reads: "Tobias makes a bold decision to resurrect a prince with magic that he doesn't understand. Prince Lucian wants to help bring his kingdom relief from a debilitating famine. And somehow, they fall in love at the start of the end of the world." In the top left, there's an image of a dagger with a shadow keyed in. In the bottom right, there is a photoshopped image of an androgynous mage with a hood covering their head while a tome is placed in their hand. There is are different tropes and highlights written along the border, in clockwise order: "I Won't Say I'm In Love." Dark Fantasy AuDHD MC S L O W Burn He Died (Nobody Tells Him) Life-Siphoning Necromancy Childhood Friends to Lovers Medieval Inspired The Chosen One (Derogatory)
Square image of desecrated ground. There is a skull and a separate part of a jawbone. Keyed in is a robed figure transparent against the background. On the top of the image, there is the caption: "Passion, Survival, and Revenge | The Art of Malignance, Book Two | The Kingdom of Sunderland" In the center is a blurb: "Tobias Druiminn is torn up with grief after the hostile takeover of Sunderland. As a result, he begins embracing his sinister bloodline as a tool for revenge, no matter the cost. Mícheil Dunaidh wants to help the soldiers that had been brainwashed by the Usurper King, especially his oldest and dearest friend, a love that he thought was lost forever. Inquisitor Declan Sutharlan must root out defectors. When he is sent to his hometown to carry that out, he must come to terms with what the reality of his situation is, as well as how much power the Inquisition truly has over him." There are tropes and story highlights listed along the edges, in order from top to bottom: "Vengeance is a Poison." Revolution Gone Wrong Grief-Induced Madness The Chosen One Gone Wrong Bisexual MMC Friends to FWB to Enemies to Lovers Subplot Life-Siphoning Necromancy Transmasc MC Unpacking Trauma
A square image of the branches of a snow-covered tree. Keyed in is a gradient created by an aurora that overlays the background image. The caption on the top reads: "Passion, Survival, and Revenge | The Art of Malignance, Book Two | The Brømkhaldic Territories" Underneath the caption are the words: "Megin. Styrkr. Hugr" which is Old Norse for "Power. Strength. Courage" written in a Futhark font. At the center of the image, there is a faded image created using the website Heroforge of two men kissing: One is heavyset and blond with an undercut. The other is thin with auburn hair tied back in a braid. Barely visible are purple lightning scars all over the side of this man's face. They are both dressed for the winter. There is a blurb placed in front of them: "Prince Lucian flees north to Brømkhald, a nation known for its dense wilderness, its warriors, and its conquests. After he enlists the help of Auðunar Thrandsson, a cold-hearted mercenary, he begins to question everything about himself that he ever knew, including his abilities to rule, to fight, to survive, and to love." There are tropes and story highlights listed along the edges. Lefthand side: Old Norse Inspired Setting It's Not a Love Triangle. It's Polyamory. Fate Brought Them Together "If you did not push me to fight, I never would have realised that I could." AuDHD MC Clairvoyant Magic Righthand Side: Morally Ambiguous LI S L O W Burn "You Saved My Life." Love After Loss/Heartbreak "A beautiful man like you should not have to hide anything about yourself." Banter and Yearning
Square image of a mountain range with an aurora across the night sky. Keyed in is a transparent overlay of purple flames. At the top of the image is the title "Devotion, Anguish, and Repentance | The Art of Malignance, Book Three" At the center of the image is a small blurb: "The fate of the world rests solely on the shoulders of a runaway prince, a soldier questioning his faith, a former mage who could end it all if he truly wanted to, and a mercenary who fears the dangerous magic that threatens to destroy it." Along the edges of the image are tropes/highlights of the story. On the left side: Polyamorous MC Charting Your Own Course AuDHD MC Divine Magic Political Corruption Transmasc MC Clairvoyant Magic On the right side: Disabled MC Undead Old Norse Inspired Setting Life-Siphoning Necromancy "It's Not Your Fault." Runaway Prince Turned Mercenary Endgame Polycule On the bottom: "I would die to save the one I love."
The Art of Malignance has:
🏳️🌈Multiple Queer MCs
⚔️Moral Ambiguity
💀Necromancy
🔮"The Chosen One" (Derogatory)
📖AuDHD MC
❤️Endgame Polycule
👑Critiques of Medieval politics
🛡️Old Norse inspired setting
An ongoing queer dark fantasy series set in a world that is falling apart.
#WSPit #W #A #F #R #LGBT #ND
I’m not very good with words, so today I’ll be sharing some of my very personal artworks exploring some of the complicated feelings and experiences I had over the past 4 years.
Honestly, it does sound really cool. The vampiric apes sound like fun beasties to combat, and there's a lot to mine about the idea of parent and child adventuring together.
Me: Has been using rain sounds in my headphones as sleep noise forever.
Also me: Puts on a soundscape that combines instrumental music and rain sounds while writing.
Me, once again: Wow, why am I feeling all groggy instead of focused? Do I need more coffee? This is so mysterious.
🤦😂 #WritersLife
Lovely flowers and such a nice picture! 😍