Greetings from the Ashcombe Non-Cinematic Universe, where everyone is emotionally damaged, nobody communicates properly, and the Google Docs continue to multiply in the dark.
I have been enjoying the summer, which means my promoing has been:
a) nonexistent
b) reblog-based
c) not especially creative
But that is fine, because my novels are very much existent and somewhat creative. There are tropes, yes, obviously, but I like to think of them as delightful, toe-curling seasoning. A little spice. A little garnish. A little “oh no, why are these idiotic teenagers/adults/timeline-dependent disasters doing idiotic things again?”
So, without further ado, I warmly welcome all delightful recurring commenters, silent readers, new victims, and connoisseurs of queer yearning to the current menu:
❤️ ASHCOMBE / 169k words, 38 chapters, completed on AO3.
Original M/M boarding school romance set in 1993–1994, featuring first love, rugby, repression, religious trauma, terrible teenagers, dorm rooms, yearning, British weather, and falling catastrophically hard for your roommate.
Come for the cute boarding school romance. Stay because the garden chair made of emotional damage has already hit you and you can't crawl away.
❤️🩹 WESTRAY
Now updated to chapter 33/45 on AO3!
The sequel that can also be read as a standalone, if you enjoy entering a room while two grown men stare at each other with years of unresolved emotional damage between them.
Second-chance queer romance, adult reunion, old wounds, new hunger, renovations, heatwaves, Greek food, better clothes, worse communication, and the slow horror of realising the love did not die. It just learned to wait and sharpened its knives before pouncing.
🫀 EAST WORKS
Now updated with chapter 9/? on AO3!
The forbidden archive. The side quest forest. The drawer full of AUs, missing scenes, alternate timelines, smut, deleted scenes, bad ideas, worse ideas, and occasional wholesome content standing bravely in the corner as a statistical minority.
Chapter 9 is Robbie POV and includes one tattooed electrician with a nice grin and a filthy mouth. As we all know, East Works is where only the bravest may enter in search of my more... explicit shenanigans.
Please read the warnings, pack snacks and don't feed the wildlife.
I love you all. I love your comments, your yelling, your support, your theories, your live reactions, and your willingness to follow me into increasingly cursed landscapes.
Come read. Come chat. Come hang out. Poke me here or on Discord (housemasterwilkes).
I bite only consensually, and usually after multiple chapters of emotionally damaging slow burn.
Wonderful Westray river-view header by my loved, gorgeous, funny, sharp collaborator witch darling @rocksaltandroll (go read her Ted Lasso fanfic, or original works - we also have a kinktober collaboration incoming!!)
Character art by absolutely wonderful @cursedartistnelari, who you should commission when they have their commissions open again, because if you don't, I will, and I'm gonna steal that commission spot.
