Heckin Rad

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

ok awesome

so i have finished a psychological thriller novel, and have begun the process of doing research so i can prepare to query agents. now, my novel has some pretty intense triggers in it, so i am aware it’s a bit of a hard sell– that being said, many agents have a “do not send me your novel if it has these things” list, so that’s what I’m looking for so i don’t accidentally trigger someone.

so i’m going down this list, and i find this agent. their “do not send me” list includes the following: non-consent/sexual violence, age gaps, teacher/student relationships, stalkers, cheating, everyone dies at the end, miscarriage/pregnancy, and abuse masked as love.

okay, cool! everyone has different tolerances for stuff, and it’s perfectly reasonable to not want to be involved with a story that has stuff you’re uncomfortable with. not the agent for me, but good on them for defining their boundaries.

but then i scroll back up and they’re requesting for gothic horror.

excuse me?????????

gothic horror without pregnancy or miscarriage? gothic horror without cheating? without stalking? gothic horror without major character deaths? GOTHIC HORROR WITHOUT ABUSE BEING FRAMED AS LOVE AND THE INTERROGATION OF THAT DYNAMIC?????

HEY CAN I GET A GOTHIC HORROR WITH NOTHING???

Eternity

Bonus pg below

Excited to reveal my artwork in the special edition of “Iron Widow” and “Heavenly Tyrant” by Penguin Random House and Xiran Jay Zhao

i had so much fun making the girlies fight for my part of my 2025 dbh big bang (@dbh-bb) collab with @texssins !!

we gather here today to celebrate Gavin trying and failing to keep his psychic powers (and ever growing gayassery) in check in tex's 'Freefall'!!!

this fic took me clean out so many times, and im, as ever, honoured to have been able to contribute to gavin's Bad Time (with a happy ending. eventually)

I KNOW this sounds wild. Let me explain. About a year ago I (240, M) was arranged a marriage with my wife (18, F) by the gods. Neither of us were happy about it. I admit, in the beginning, I was cold (imprisoning her in her rooms, confiscating her wheelchair, threatening to kill/torture/force fem her boyfriend (19, M)) and she chafed under my boundaries (not having her face seen or her body touched by other men, me knowing her whereabouts at all times) HOWEVER over the months when she broke up with her boyfriend for making our non consensual son (its a long story) she grew closer to me and slept with me multiple times. I was so nice to her. I let 2 women into the government and even freed people being wrongly imprisoned when she asked! I even gave her a safe word!

Fast forward to THIS WEEK. My wife and I were killing the gods. Then, out of NOWHERE she STABS me. I thought at first it was due to her ex boyfriend who was there (he poisoned and falsely imprisoned me for several months so that I couldn't be with my wife and I planned to smash him to death with a hammer) but THEN my wife says that she HATES ME? and wants me DEAD? Even though she had sex with me?

I finished book and i coping with the ending only way i know how