I’m a queer disabled writer writing queer adult fantasy featuring weird, queer disabled characters
I’m always open to asks and tag games!
I’ve dabbled in so many different genres and styles over the years, but love symbolic, poetic writing, and am currently on a fantasy and romance kick, with all my WIPs falling into action/adventure too
just a warning: I do write detailed sex scenes, a fair amount of graphic violence, and tackle sensitive topics, including the messiness of living with severe mental illnesses and navigating sexual intimacy after sexual trauma.
(though, my usual posts have been the stupid shit I write when I’m bored and tired—my favorite)
this is a new account, but I’m far from new to tumblr and writeblr. this is a second attempt at a writing blog on here for me, with a focus on increasing opportunities for connection for writers. in these trying times, art and connection have never been more crucial, yet unfortunately also most attacked and lacking, respectively.
I used to be @starbuds-and-rosedust , you can find me on ao3 and itch.io by the same handle, and on Bsky @ starbuds-and-roses
current hostings:
Flash! It’s Friday, a weekly writing exercise/flash fiction prompt day
Pilot Week, #1 (Pride Inspired), #2 (Fluff Edition), #3
next prompt: this week! June 19th
Woanton Weekends—every other weekend, come celebrate sexuality and freak out with fellow writers via sexy snippet shares and smutty discussions, all while never forgetting how to spell wanton!
Pilot Week, Pride Week #1, Pride Week #2, #3
next prompt: this weekend! June 18th, 20th, 21st
current WIPs:
joke intros
“the big wip” (arcs 2/7)
two disgustingly-in-love middle aged men just try to fuck around and find out (literally & figuratively) together in peace but an angst-filled 20yo weapon crashing out over his ex-situationship has other plans. oh and don't forget the grief
“Pal”
you ever wonder what would happen if you actually took those traveling proselytizers up on their offer? welp, it looks like that cult somehow all of you joined late one night in a moment of weakness is indeed the murdery kind
Lark
jaded tragic lesbian vampire gets stuck on a road trip with the world's most unhinged fifteen-year-old girl and her cold dead heart is forced to care for someone for the first time in decades
long intros
“the big wip”
secondary world fantasy, romance, action/adventure, swords & (a bit of) sorcery, coming of age, Own Voice (disability rep), adult, disability & queer rep
high in explicit sexual content, discussions of loss and suicide/suicidal behavior, and descriptions of blood and injury
features a fleshed out world that seven different main POV stories take place in so far. the world has its own unique celestial bodies, night/day cycles, two suns, countless moons, creation story involving a handful of gods and goddesses and one vengeful god, and seven different main kingdoms with a shared origin history and unique cultures, people, and geographic features
Bazyli (bah-zihlee) and Cecyl (see-sihl) Tzetzes (tzeht-zees)’s story follows a pre-established, lovey-dovey married couple—the King of Glazign, King Bazyli Tzetzes, and his husband, Lord Cecyl—who have two adult sons, Aleksey and Bence. It centers around:
kingly affairs
dealing with a particularly annoying bigoted neighboring kingdom when yours is essentially a progressive electoral monarchy that seems to attract interesting, unconventional characters to rise to leadership
navigating an acquired disability (/of a loved one) under the public eye (be advised that although they get lucky, their life is pretty much a guide to how to NOT live with a seizure disorder with a very short aura period before episodes)
grief
figuring out how to pick up the pieces of a relationship while enduring grief
reclaiming sexuality
enjoying the process of fucking around and finding out in middle age
and accidental fugitive acquisition.
Eloy Maro de las Llanurjoj (ē-loy mah-r~oh dey lahs yah-nur~-yoy ~indicates rolled sound)’s is the post-teenage "coming of age" story of the beloved prince of Ferraz's personal guard and sheltered childhood friend who has never had anyone but him. Being so close to royalty ousts him from his community in the plains, and bearing the surname Maro, relation to his older sister, and the same condition brings on the declaration of being a curse, courtesy of said community. No one else has ever wanted him.
Outside of exposition, his story actively moves through:
mildly homoerotic situationship
ignoring one's feelings through rage
trying to persist in an old identity and role that one has been forced out of by circumstance
accidentally collapsing half dead on the king of an opposing kingdom's doorstep (twice)
extreme stubbornness
going through the mess of trying to forge a new life for oneself after the old one has been torn out from under your feet and ditched you in a foreign place.
“Pal”
quest fantasy, romantic subplot, action/adventure, swords & (a bit of) sorcery, adult, disability & queer rep
high in graphic depictions of violence and disturbing gore
set in a DND-esque world with so far minimal world building, features a main group adventuring party that's being hunted down by a group of cultists that all members of the original group were once tied to somehow, and is split into two main acts
meet:
Echethier (ehtch-ih-theer) — "Mind if I speak freely?" the "dad/ grandad" of the main group
Paych (paych... like "paycheck" without the "-eck" and slurred together) — "Alchemy can't fix that." the perpetually annoyed alchemist who can technically poison them all covertly if she wishes but chooses not to
Cal'eris (cahl-EHR-ihs) — "Do you want me to kill him?" is a major source of conflict as much as he is stuck in perpetual internal conflict: homophobic loser that you hate to sympathize with
Hali (hah-lee) — "I, uh, sorta forgot everything in the other room. I'll be right back." a seemingly carefree, hotheaded trickster and former thief that has just been given the most convenient ticket out from the town that hated him. also a newly discovered bisexual disaster
Yasča (yahsh-chah) — "At least the blizzards will give me a warmer welcome than you have." a cold, stoic, sometimes sharp tongued, 4'9" swordsman from an isolated mountain community and who hardly speaks common. was dragged into this bullshit by helping the wrong clueless foreigner and is now stuck with him
Maessil (may-seel) — understandably full of teenage rage due to complicated cultist lore and is only nice to her lyre. don't be fooled by the bright colors—they weren't originally pastels
Nim (nihm) — "I like to get to know a man before I kill him."
Lark
urban fantasy, modern setting, coming of age, action/adventure, teenaged protagonist, adult, queer rep
high in depictions of grief and descriptions of disturbing acts of “self-violence”
jaded tragic lesbian vampire, Laurel, gets stuck on a road trip with the world's most unhinged fifteen-year-old girl, Lola, and her cold dead heart is forced to care for someone for the first time in decades
excerpt (draft):
[…] but cave to her "whims". Though, that gravel to her voice sharpened into a bitter, serated edge—enough to dig in and bite instead of graze.
"You're a walking corpse."
She shrugged it off, like Laurel was the little puppy nipping at her ankles that had just been kicked, and twirled her hair around her finger. "So. . . no?"
Laurel spared her a glance, lips pressed into that tight line that bordered on frown just enough it was as if she was making a point of showing she couldn't be bothered to commit to the expression. "Most likely not."
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I'm an adult fiction author—fantasy and contemporary fantasy—and my debut fantasy releases May 28, 2024.
I initially got the idea for SOUL-BOUND in early April 2017, wanting to explore how a winged character would navigate their world without flight. But I didn't truly start writing it until January 2019 and now I'm finally pursuing publishing it!
Here's the gorgeous cover! Illustrated by the wonderful @oxiente, who has drawn Mika and Roshan a lot for me over the past few years. I'm really grateful that she took on this project. She delivered beyond my expectations! There are so many cute details! 🥺
PITCH
When a tsundere princess with healing magic loses her flight during her quest to heal corrupted crystal roots, she must depend on a charming vagabond's aid to help her before their avian world collapses to corruption.
SUMMARY
Avem, a continent inhabited by bird-like humans called Avians, consists of seven territories, each of which contains a crystal root: a treelike sanctuary preserving magic. Avians cannot wield the land’s magic themselves.
Except, Mika, the princess of Passíer. However, her father forbids her to use it out of concern for her safety.
Due to the expanding corruption from Cantio; a fallen territory under Passíer’s jurisdiction because of its damaged root, Zayn the militant king of Nyx, suggests Scorching Cantio. To avoid such a catastrophic outcome, Mika flees from home, determined to heal Cantio’s root herself.
In Cantio, she meets Roshan, a vagabond playing double agent to protect what’s left of his uncorrupted homelands. Upon noticing her pink feathers, unique for her specific species, he cautions her to leave before she’s captured and used as coin. She snubs his warning and is nearly taken captive.
During his efforts to help her, Roshan is wounded. Mika heals him with her magic, unintentionally and unknowingly bonding them together.
When the quest costs Mika’s wing and grounds her, she accepts Roshan’s offer to escort her across Avem to heal the damaged roots before corruption destroys their world.
If you like birb characters, the ship dynamic from Anastasia and Tangled, books like Dance of Thieves and The Girl at Midnight, and prose like Naomi Novik and Margaret Rogerson, then stick around 🩷
I just finished Tanya Huff‘s THE SILVERED. It pulled me in and pulled me along to the very end.
Understandably I highly recommend it. Available in Kindle, Audiobook, Hardcover.
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15 BEST Book Releases of June 2021 | Dark Scifi, Quest Fantasy, Red Riding Hood Retelling + More!
15 BEST Book Releases of June 2021 | Dark Scifi, Quest Fantasy, Red Riding Hood Retelling + More!
June 2021 is packed with new books to read from dark scifi, Sapphic fantasy and dragonslaying YA. Here's everything worth keeping an eye on.
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Regnate by R. M. Dorn is a standalone fantasy adventure novel, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint.
The story is an epic-style quest fantasy to defeat a tyrannical ruler and save the realm, with the twist that the ruler is the hero's own brother, who had won the tournament for the crown and intended to change the cruel ways of the regime, only to seemingly become corrupted by some mysterious force behind it, which must be rooted out.
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Free for a limited time @ Amazon (should be available worldwide).
Description
Life in the Commonwealth of Sutherland is far from content.
The Regnate rules his land with an iron fist, and has done for 25 years. Exactly the same as the previous Regnate. And many more before him. Every 25 years, the heirs of the eight High Houses battle to the death to earn the crown of Regnate.
After a brutal tournament, John of the House of the Red Dog emerges victorious. John is a fair, noble and compassionate human being. Surely he will not allow the people to suffer the same injustices as his predecessors. Yet, after a couple of days, all the old principles are clearly there to stay.
John’s brother, Tom, cannot believe his brother is that cruel. When he is finally granted an audience with the new Regnate, he is shocked to discover the grisly truth. Determined to unveil the truth of what has happened to the Regnate, Tom refuses to succumb to his predicament, and finds some unlikely allies in his quest.
Will their combined forces be able to save their Commonwealth? Or is the power they face too great to overcome?
Regnate is packed full of action with fantasy and magic bursting from every page.
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[Free eBook REPEAT] A Symphony of Storms by Robert E. Vardeman [Epic Quest Fantasy]
A Symphony of Storms by Robert E. Vardeman, a 1972 Hugo Award finalist for Best Fan Writer, in addition to being an author in his own right, is the 3rd novel in his The Demon Crown trilogy of epic adventure quest fantasy, free again for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint.
This was originally published in 1990 by Tor. The trilogy is set in the usual sort of fantasy land where a lost heir must be found and restored to the disputed throne with the aid of a magical artifact.
This story follows the aftermath of two such restoration quests, which have yielded a corrupted king and then his potential replacement twin, who seems to be a suitable queen but whose beginning reign is plagued by treachery and civil war from her ousted brother-king's faction, leading to the third and final quest for the aid of a legendary wizard to help save the realm.
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Description
The third and final instalment of the gripping, Demon Crown trilogy.
Santon and Vered have found Lorens’ twin sister, Lokenna. She, with royal blood, is the last chance of hope in the now, all but totally destroyed kingdom or Porotane.
They find her working as a barmaid under her oafish, feeble-minded husband, Bane Pandasso. A timid and passive woman who leads a simple life. Not a queen yet…
With the aid of the stolen Demon Crown, Lokenna is transformed from the diffident wife that Pandosso had known into a mighty and fair queen. She can see!
The band of travellers moves stealthily between vying rebel militias and royalist armies, all out to kill them and reclaim the crown for themselves.
Meanwhile, Lorens, in lacking the powerful Demon Crown, has been chased from the castle and now moves with his armies in search of the Vered and Santon, whom he believes possess what he seeks.
When Lorens and Lokenna meet, the new queen convinces her twin brother to help them gain safe passage back to the castle. However, she is betrayed by her weak husband, Pandosso who attempts to bargain with the corrupt king.
Locked in the castle dungeon, the fellowship have only one choice; to seek out the powerful and mysterious Wizard of Storms, Kaga'klab.
[Free eBook] A Symphony of Storms by Robert E. Vardeman [Epic Quest Fantasy]
A Symphony of Storms by Robert E. Vardeman, a 1972 Hugo Award finalist for Best Fan Writer, in addition to being an author in his own right, is the 3rd novel in his The Demon Crown trilogy of epic adventure quest fantasy, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint.
This was originally published in 1990 by Tor. The trilogy is set in the usual sort of fantasy land where a lost heir must be found and restored to the disputed throne with the aid of a magical artifact.
This story follows the aftermath of two such restoration quests, which have yielded a corrupted king and then his potential replacement twin, who seems to be a suitable queen but whose beginning reign is plagued by treachery and civil war from her ousted brother-king's faction, leading to the third and final quest for the aid of a legendary wizard to help save the realm.
Offered worldwide, available at Amazon.
Free for a limited time, available worldwide @ Amazon
Description
The third and final instalment of the gripping, Demon Crown trilogy.
Santon and Vered have found Lorens’ twin sister, Lokenna. She, with royal blood, is the last chance of hope in the now, all but totally destroyed kingdom or Porotane.
They find her working as a barmaid under her oafish, feeble-minded husband, Bane Pandasso. A timid and passive woman who leads a simple life. Not a queen yet…
With the aid of the stolen Demon Crown, Lokenna is transformed from the diffident wife that Pandosso had known into a mighty and fair queen. She can see!
The band of travellers moves stealthily between vying rebel militias and royalist armies, all out to kill them and reclaim the crown for themselves.
Meanwhile, Lorens, in lacking the powerful Demon Crown, has been chased from the castle and now moves with his armies in search of the Vered and Santon, whom he believes possess what he seeks.
When Lorens and Lokenna meet, the new queen convinces her twin brother to help them gain safe passage back to the castle. However, she is betrayed by her weak husband, Pandosso who attempts to bargain with the corrupt king.
Locked in the castle dungeon, the fellowship have only one choice; to seek out the powerful and mysterious Wizard of Storms, Kaga'klab.
[Free eBook] Darkfell by Mary Corran [Coming of Age Quest Fantasy]
Darkfell by British author Mary Corran is her standalone coming-of-age epic healing quest fantasy novel, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint.
This was originally published in 1996 by Orion's Millenium imprint. This is set in the same fantasy world as a previous novel, Imperial Light, although it is a self-contained novel and not a direct sequel.. The story stars a young heir to secret knowledge—which has apparently placed her family into spiritual conflict with the local faith— which may save the land from a mysterious plague, if she and her cousin can survive the journey to unlock various magical mysteries and the battle that will ensue.
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Free for a limited time, available worldwide @ Amazon
Description
None of them will ever be the same again.
Ninian is the heir to Arcady, but her happy childhood is brought abruptly to an end when, in a rite of passage, she and three of her friends venture into the Barren Lands.
There they hear voices that tell them secrets that shouldn't be shared and give gifts that shatter souls.
None of them will ever be the same again.
Priests struggle with their faith as a deadly plague spreads through the land and evil forces take hold of its people.
There is only one woman destined to save them, brought up to carry the secret of generations which she fiercely guards. The knowledge she possesses offers the only possible form of salvation, a secret which is buried deep within the Avardale lake.
Together with her cousin they must call upon the ancient mysteries of the magical Tearstone and the siren call of a sleeping leviathan.
With the number of deaths increasing and surrounding villages being wiped out, one family must fight to put aside their spiritual differences and risk their lives to save all those who depend on them. The battle which follows is beyond religious explanation as legend becomes reality and hope is all that is left.
DARKFELL is the story of a people under threat of persecution, of a waterborne plague bringing sickness to the healthy. It is the stunning return to the world of IMPERIAL LIGHT.
