Patreon shorts + might work on a small side story to get back into the swing of things/build up to our next series

Hopeful despite all odds was a running theme for both of us LAST year

In 2025, Iris celebrated her first year of sobriety, Foxglove moved to a new place, we worked on a new book series (it’s coming along!) and published a Starian Tale featuring Yves and Charon. We are ready to kick off the new year!

This holiday season, bundle up with a steamy, Queer ds-verse romance set on a frozen island: a.co/d/4mQE8rB

Everyone say hi to Foxglove (who forgot to sign up for social media again)!

It really was an unhinged situation! I’m having fun writing Queer books she would hate, though, so that’s a happy ending!

I was a TA for a different prof, but her students would come to my office hours crying about how they were going to switch majors/give up on writing altogether. Writing instructors should never demoralize their students.

Years later, she tried to sabotage my attempt to reveal a department-wide plaigarism scandal led by several prominent professors. I never proved her involvement but I’m 99% sure she was the ringleader.

She was almost gleeful about dashing the hopes of “genre writers.”

When I told her that, she said, “there are many vanity presses that make you pay to publish, but they don’t make you a poet.” I pointed out that the magazine was pro/union eligible and had already paid me. I will always remember her expression.

A professor once waxed philosophic about a misogynist’s poem before telling me that mine would never sell because it involved magic/fantasy. She said that I should stick to writing about “the real world.” The poem she’d been trashing had just been accepted into a magazine.

If you come into a public place, unmasked, and sneeze on everyone before loudly complaining to the world at large about how miserable and sick you feel, they HATE you

Signed, someone who woke up sick at 3am

We have wildly different preferred writing environments.

Foxglove: sitting weirdly on a chair, possibly upside-down, writing on the phone in complete silence

Iris: In the middle of a sensory maelstrom, but the keyboard + computer system is immaculate

Does Iris get imposter syndrome? Honestly, when she’s writing, so much is going on (videos playing on TV, possibly music, cats trying to sit on the keyboard every .5 seconds, notifications pinging, the cats have now decided to climb her like a cat tree) that there’s no room for it

Having sudden imposter syndrome in the middle of writing an intense scene is less than fun, because in one moment, a hot man is suffering, and the next, a hot (due to HRT hot flashes) man is suffering

Speaking of cats hating the strangest things, the black cat hates the McElroy brothers specifically? I kid you not, I can put on any other podcast or music and he’s fine, but if I put on MBMBAM he will yowl and smack the phone around until I turn it off.

(She’s technically a little older than kitten age now, but she’s still The Kitten comparitavely) Keep what you know of tabbies in mind when I say that she is the best-behaved cat of the bunch.

A blank-eyed tabby kitten being held by Santa Claus. She’s staring at the camera as though begging to be freed.

The heater is her ENEMY. So is Santa, actually. This may be the origin of her hatred of Christmas:

The kitten is now afraid of the following things:

-snow
-the Christmas tree
-the heater
-the soft warm blanket

Does she just… hate winter? She might hate winter.

The 10th Kingdom walked so that Once Upon A Time could run, stumble, trip over itself, go careening into several cartoonishly large glass windows carried by astonished construction workers, and land face-first in a puddle

Every now and then I see a clickbait article run across my feed that says “it’s time for this underrated fantasy show to get a remake,” and every single time, without fail, the show in question is the 10th Kingdom

This little Christmas ghost romance is half off, if you have fifty cents and a burning urge to read something a little different from what I normally write (no jokes in this story, only hauntings and longings)

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It's that day again. Try and have a good one. 🦉

a guillotine made from gingerbread, decorated with white icing snow and icicles

I am brimming with holiday spirit

Maybe that explains why one of my former professors would bring the kittens she was fostering to her office hours. She was a great professor, don’t get me wrong, but I think the kittens were the main draw.

Sariel has black cat vibes because he basically IS a black cat.

Sebastien: Cat energy, but the .05 percentage of cats that are actually graceful

Astra: the 99.95% of cats that are NOT graceful whatsoever and keep needing to be rescued from the top of doors (how did they get there???)

Characters with big labrador retriever energy:
Sasha
Aleks (a little)
Levi, but only because he keeps eating things he shouldn’t
Hear me out, Azaiah (Good-natured, follows Nyx around like a puppy, loves people sooooo much)

If Marius were a cat, he’d be the little scruffy tabby who makes you go, “good god, how did he survive in the wild before we lured him home with a Zaxby’s chicken strip?”

Ranger would be orange. No need to elaborate.

I’d say that the character of ours who most accurately represents a scrungly little cat that you have to fish out of the gutter would be Marius Chastain. That man gets the worst haircut of his life, rolls down a muddy hill, is exposed to Hiking, and gets hunted by multiple burly men.

Sabrina the teenage witch surrounded by people trying to hand her multiple plates of pancakes. She looks distressed. Text over the pancakes say: New series, old man yaoi novella, mental health????, winter glooms, Patreon shorts, Iris’ projects, demon series rattling the bars of its enclosure, Foxglove’s solo book, end of year family obligations, work

If you’re wondering why we’ve seemed quiet lately, it’s probably because we’re swimming in the deep end at the moment

Yes, it IS possible to simply leave a comment and fix it during edits, but have you considered ✨✨✨anxiety✨✨✨