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AMERICAN DREAM. — an intro

IF YOU LIKE: Bones & All (2022), t4t romance, horror as metaphor, I Saw The TV Glow (2024), Ethel Cain, Thelma & Louise, My Own Private Idaho (1991), butch4butch4butch, analyzing the impact of capitalism on queer bodies and communities, wondering what we owe ourselves and to those we love... READ ON!

genre: queer (specifically lesbian) horror, late-stage coming-of-age, litfic central themes: Cannibalism as a metaphor for love, for consumerism, for self-isolation, for dehumanization. The American Dream. The finding and losing yourself within capitalist society. content warnings: graphic violence (body horror), classism, depictions of transphobia & homophobia

In the twilight of their twenties, three childhood friends accidentally find each other and embark on the road trip of a lifetime. Each of them has a secret. Each of them has a reason why they're no longer friends. Each of them has something — or someone — they're running away from. Being together again for the first time in over ten years, Birdie, Judi, and Eddie are forced to confront the past as well as consider their future... if they are even able to have one.

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choking on sea salt

chapter 1, chapter 2 part one, chapter 2 part two

genre . gothic horror, folk horror

status . outlining, drafting

tag . #choking on sea salt

a fishing village with a foggy history. whispers and visions of century-old evils. unexplained shipwrecks and an ocean no one is permitted to step foot near.

if you're a fan of vengeful sirens, feminine rage, or the concept of "coastal gothic" (in the same vein as southern gothic), then choking on sea salt may draw your interest...

Hi writeblr!! Sooo, I've been around here since about 2014. (Yes, I am ancient.) However, I've been dormant for the past 4-5 years. Blame college and a brief stint on Twitter. Now that I'm active again, I thought I should make an updated writeblr intro so ppl know my Deal. Basically, I want to engage with other folks who write fiction (esp original SF), and that's a little easier if I have a clear post that outlines what I do. Here to make connections and hear about your blorbos :)

About me

Hi, I'm Vee! They/them, 23, 💖 🤍 🧡

I do journalism/comms in western New York

My literary jam is feminist/adult SF and gothic lit (OG or modern) 🥀 ⚔️ 🌙

Enthusiastic about gay people, body horror, and sociopolitical allegories

I cook, run, play tabletop games, and occasionally draw. Other than that, I'm mostly writing (for work and for fun)

If you were on pre-2020 writeblr, you likely know me from my eight billion daily tag games. (I still like tag games and appreciate u for tagging me. I have also gained adult responsibilities and better mental health, so I respond very slowly now. <3)

Always happy to get asks or dms, tho as I've noted: I may reply slowly.

Sometimes open to beta read! I only read one longer project at a time, but it's always super fun :)

I tag very consistently – happy to tag triggers for followers/moots

Fun fact: I love mushroom hunting and worked as a mycology TA. #cottagecoreera 🍄 🧚‍♀️ 🌱

About my creative writing

I write,,,, feminist/adult SF with gothic leanings (surprise!)

Longform and short! Trying to do more short writing this year, and I'll likely share a bit on Tumblr. It's easier to clip a short story than a 150k novel, god bless.

The Aesthetic: moral g(r)ays, Victoriana, androids/cyborgs, Women™, monstrous femininity, incessant Hamlet/Frankenstein motifs, extremely boring socioeconomic worldbuilding, evil queens and/or dilfs, psychosexual witchcraft, probably a cat. Also, an ominous, plot-relevant letter laced with anthrax from your unhinged and brilliant ex-wife. Open if you dare.

Major projects

I'm going to be writing some short work this year, but these are the longer projects that I have going in the background. If I reblog blorbo-related text posts, they probably have something to do with these.

Let me know if you want to be added to any project-specific taglists 😎

Heart of Lead – Series

The big one

Perpetually evolving

Never ceasing

Pls send help I can't stop adding shit

5-book gothic fantasy epic that I'll definitely publish one day but probably no time soon! My bastard child, my wicked firstborn, my greatest love <3

Character-oriented political drama set in a pseudo-Victorian, dystopian oligarchy where everyone's heart is made out of metal. It's about coming of age and discovering queer identity in a world that is absolutely fucked. God is an extraterrestrial lesbian who gives ppl very traumatizing magic powers. There are cyborgs, shapeshifters, and morally gray women in STEM. It's tight as fuck idk what else what to tell u.

Book 1 is about achillean monarchists, and book 2 is about sapphic anarchists. There are only two genders, I guess.

At this point, I've drafted most of the books at least once. Working to refine a lot of raw material atm!

Tag: "heart of lead tag" or "hol tag"

Lost Letters – Book

Aka the current active HoL WIP, and book one in the revised series structure

Length: 80k as of now; around 120-140k when the first draft is finished, I presume.

Genre: adult fantasy, gothic, noir detective drama?? um?? If you want me to frame it in BookTok terms (why?) it's a dark academia villain x villain tragic romantasy. Hrgh.

Summary: Cyborg soldier goes to college, joins a shady socialite frat, and falls in love with the jilted heir-apparent to the throne. Hilarity ensues.

(By "hilarity," I mean a militant revolutionary faction and a tragedy of Greek proportions.)

POV characters: Charles (the cyborg), Dale (the heir), and Cecelia (Charles' sister, a junior detective, the love of my life and potentially the Chosen One???)

This book is twisty and dark and immensely fun to write.

I'm about halfway through the first full draft! Hoping to share snippets and vaguepost about my children here.

Tag: "lost letters tag" (also "hol tag," tho that one's less specific)

The Last of Mortal Tourists – Book

The next longform project on the docket!

Length: a standalone work that will hopefully fall on the shorter novel/novella spectrum.

Genre: literary SF, cyberqueer, psychological space quest

Summary: The consciousness of a dead coding genius, trapped inside a spaceship, seeks a new planet to sustain their sister, the last surviving human, after the destruction of Earth.

If you're here to get wildly philosophical about gender and the myth of essential self, this is the story for you! That's why I'm writing it, lol. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🚀 🤖

This one started out as a short story (100% finished) which I want to expand.

POV: Archer Alto, the coder. Spaceship? Human? Soul?

Supporting Cast: Pandora, the last human, and Abby, a holographic impression of Archer's childhood consciousness

Tag: "the last of mortal tourists tag" or "tlomt tag"

If you read all this way, you get a whole bouquet of flowers that are certainly NOT poisonous: 🌸 🌹 💐 🥀 🌺

WIP INTRO :: WILL O' THE WISP

※ genre: sci-fi/superhero fiction/thriller/tragicomedy novel ※ status: outlining/first draft ※ rating: mature (see notes)

wip page || main wip tag || playlist (coming soon!)

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synopsis!

Noe Crane is on his way to becoming a household name in his hometown of Las Glorias, California. His investigative talk show, Exposé, is known for delving deep into people involved in the ins and outs of the city, from obnoxious internet celebrities to ex-convicts and criminals. As a host, Noe himself assumes a rather eccentric—if not slightly controversial—persona on camera: witty, intensely brutal, and above all, an insatiable appetite for the truth. What the public doesn’t know, however, is that his quest for justice continues behind closed doors, as he partners up with his longtime acquaintance, Azra Moyer, becoming violent vigilantes hiding in the shadows. With the help of Noe’s mysterious ability to conjure and manipulate fire, they’d stop at nothing to cleanse the city of all evil and leave no trace behind, allowing them to tread safely between their two lives. But their work is jeopardised when a figure from the past comes back into their lives, reminding them of the days they thought they’ve left behind. Noe soon finds great danger lying ahead of his twisted sense of justice, and as he taps into his powers and how they came to be, he will discover that his perception of “evil” may have already overlapped with his existence itself.

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meet the characters!

PROJECT INTRO // THE TIME'S SACRIFICE TRILOGY

Celin's dream is to become a knight. When she manifests her Wisdom - the ability to take the pain of others onto herself - and was finally legitimized by her duke father, she believes it's her chance to prove herself useful to the kingdom and the people she loves. She knows that court life at Aslemor can be vicious; it drove her mother, a commoner with foreign blood, away from the love of her life. But Celin has always been an optimist, and she believes the world is on the precipice of change. Crown Prince Alasdair was blessed by the Elder with two Wisdoms: the gift of empathy - to feel the feelings of those around him and to make them feel his own - and the ability to shapeshift. It's made him beloved and revered by his kingdom. His father is scarcely even gray, yet they've put all their hopes on him. But Alasdair would give anything not to become king. When he and his guard (and closest friend) are rescued by a blacksmith's apprentice who can heal them by taking their wounds onto herself, he becomes inspired to push for the change he's longed for: to open up the isolated kingdom of Artrus to the rest of the world. Nico was born in Dren Rua, a nation hated across the Isles for siding with the dragons in the Dragon War. When he began to have visions about his future with Prince Alasdair of Artrus, he wanted to ignore them. When he could not, and his visions drove him to follow, he was told to never return home. He has spent the past five years as the crown prince's bodyguard, though often it feels as though Alasdair is trying to protect him rather than the other way around. He is given some leeway for possessing a Wisdom, though his visions rarely come when called. His Wisdom becomes further frustrated when he meets Celin, a fellow Wise One whose future he can't see. As the three become more and more entangled in each other's lives and fates, their bond will irrevocably change the kingdom of Artrus, the Isles, and Time itself.

In Ponderosa Bay, Oregon, people go missing all the time. Unlike the rest of them, Analía Monroe reappears.

Blurb: Split living between her mother and her father's new family, Monroe is a ghost in her own home: unwanted and misunderstood. She only finds solace in her small circle of misfits—her younger half-sister Rajel and best friend June—and the dangerous but magical world of Mosswood deep in the forest, but their obsession may have deadly consequences.

Setting: Ponderosa Bay, Oregon, a small, rural town along the coast, 2002-2005

Genre: Adult contemporary fantasy

Series: 1 of 3

POV: Multi-POV, third-person present-tense

Characters:

Analía Monroe: INTJ-T, equal parts pretentious and pathetic, tortured prophet who doesn't believe in prophets, oneiromancer, voted God's favorite little lamb most likely to be slaughtered, the most autistic person you've ever met, a 12-year-old adult who will grow up to be a 20-year-old child.

Juniper Bardot: ENFP-T, very sweet and outgoing, Monroe's self-appointed guard dog, responds to most situations by either making tea or committing acts of extreme violence, wears wool sweaters all year round.

Rajel Cohen-Monroe: ESFP, chaotic little sister who wants to be taken seriously, cello player, has a deeply complicated relationship with Monroe, attempts to hide her insecurity behind sarcasm to varying degrees of success, underachiever with an inferiority complex.

Vibes: dark forests, the taste of blood, cracking lightning, crinkly notebook pages, cherry-red neon diner signs peeking through the fog, ink-stained hands, winding mountain roads, milky tea, two-headed lambs, rain-slick streets, your mother's church you haven't been to in years, laundromat arcade games, uncanny convenience store taxidermy, the beach at dusk, rings of toadstools, the feeling of being watched, bicycles on gravel roads, second-hand Converse with the sole peeling off, decade-old missing posters.

Soundtrack: I Know the End, Phoebe Bridgers / Big Sky, Kate Bush / Dear Arkansas Daughter, Lady Lamb / In Dreams, Ben Howard / Dreams, The Cranberries / I'm Your Man, Mitski

Word Count: 96k

Project Introduction

TitleThe Last Normal Night on Earth

Genre horror (adult)

The last normal summer of Brit Moss’s life was a shitty summer, so she didn’t even appreciate it. It rained constantly. She counted, and there wasn’t a single day of July where it didn’t rain at least part of the day.

The Last Normal Night on Earth is an adult horror novel about finding out that dealing with found family can be just as hard as dealing with your real family and the consequences of ending the world. Even if you (eventually) try to fix it.

Rose Garden Project Intro

[Twitter Thread | #RoseGarden]

Rose Garden (working title) is a comic I’m currently working on the script for. It’s my take on reincarnation/time reversa/ect. fantasy romance series and the common tropes featured in them, but sapphic.

Intro

Victoria is the daughter of a small noble houshold in [insert generic fantasy country here]. She dies at the hands of her abusive husband and gets sent back in time to just before their engagement is settled. Victoria is desperate to avoid repeating her marriage and first life at all costs but as a young woman in this country she has no power over her own fate.

Oliver is a woman who’s fighting to get acknowledged as the rightful heir to her family’s title, being the last surviving direct desendant. As a close relative to the king, and one who has his favour the other nobility cannot simply deny her right, instead those against her cherry pick old laws and technicallties to prevent her from gaining her title (none of which say the head of a family must be man because it’s assumed to be obvious). Their center point is a paragraph in an obsure document stating that a Duke must be married, as both a husband and a wife are needed to take on different duties to properly manage a Dukedom.

Victoria comes to Olive with a deal to help both their situations: Olive’s opposition are trying to get her to marry a man so she does not have direct access to her full authority but the law in question actually states that ‘a Duke must have a wife’ so why not do exactly as it says and take Victoria as her wife?

My Plan