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Writer of epic fantasies. Lover of cities and odd words. Just here to tell stories. 🟦 🏳️⚧️they/ him https://mcburnell.itch.io/ https://books2read.com/mcburnell https://payhip.com/AuthorMCBurnell
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jfc I google-image 'man with slumped shoulders' bc I want reference images and the internet is like 'not man enough??? let us man you up pussy!' dude I just want to draw a tired person
Hey I'm not here to tell you how to live. If you want to sit on my kitchen counter for 4-5 hours, I would happily mix you up a cup of 50g warm water and 50g AP.
Yuuuuuuck, as a claustrophobe, I get your concern.
Oh gosh, yeah, 20% is a generous dose of joy in that context
It's an entire country, and a pretty spacious one. But yeah the prohibition on travel is something a lot of mages complain about.
that is quite a swing! same genre?
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🤣 I would not make him live in my fridge but they are both effervescent joy-bringers
to get to their own protectorate. *humorous aside* this is referred to as the 'right of passage,' and it drives my wp bonkers bc it just cannot let go the conviction that I mean 'rite.'
#WritingPrompts Mairid left home when he was discovered by a mage at 17. That was 300 years ago, but until the story starts, he hadn't been anywhere other than the Complex and his protectorate, which is near the Complex. Mages aren't allowed to visit one another's lands unless they have to
Excellent self-care. ✨
I'm nervous. Chuck usually lives in the fridge but had to spend a day and a half on the counter. Is he okay? I'll find out tomorrow when I bake. Cross your fingers for my dough-baby.
My story in COSTS OF LIVING is a rare venture into Chicago writing for me. It is about those grotesque Midwest millipedes that invade our homes every summer. I hope you will share this post and support this book! #horrorsky #booksky #booklaunch #horror #anthology #shortstories #fiction
May I introduce Gabriel Belmont, who is excited to share his journey with you? Video description and credits available on YT (in comments). Coming October 10, 2025: A Demon to Save Me, new novel by H.S. Kallinger www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjX-...
Feel like sharing one or two of these today. Mairid because he's my favorite. #authorart #writesky
#SeptemberWorldbuilders Spring lands mostly in King of Ill-Omens, which is a weird contrast. This is one of the darker points on several people's timelines, esp the characters at the Complex. The sun is getting warmer, green hints everywhere -> 3 characters wind up in prison at the end 🌞
I would be too embarrased to admit this is how I felt
I'll be back to updating more frequently once my life is no longer in boxes, but I do have the first 6 episodes of my t4c lesbian otome isekai up on Patreon! Happy Sapphic September! dax.ink/patreon
I feel like sharing the rest of the conversation so I can freak other people out as well (there's a chunk of text missing btwn the 2 fyi)
#WritingPrompts 'purple'
#QueerPrompts The toughest decision Mairid makes is to give up his protege. He does what he does for several reasons, not all of them selfless, but it benefits the people he tricks into running away. He knows Kair will go with them bc Kair loves the FMC, who hates & distrusts Mairid
#WIPSnips 'tired' from the chapter 'an invisible person vanishes' ngl this squicks me out, I kind of dislike myself for writing it 😅
#Septopolis #WritingPrompt Zimanges is a waystation up in the mountains. The city is very new; the person who turned a tiny town into a major urban center is still ruling it. Ppl move there bc it's a place to start fresh, which is how my cast of roommates come to meet.
If someone's perceived desirability as a life partner (or employee or leader) derives from their birth season, this gives people an incentive to lie about it. Idk if that's an idea that works thematically with your stories, I write a lot of intrigue 😅
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CHICAGO - ICE Be like my pal @jenreadsromance.bsky.social & pull out your phone RIGHT NOW and add the number for reporting ICE to your contacts. Then you won't have to look for it when you inevitably see some bullshit this week.
Harvestborn has a pretty ring to it. I find myself wondering if kids have cultural symbolism hanging on them based on their birth in this setting, judgments on their characters or what they might achieve.
So much this!
The last card for the Vampire's Tarot has been turned in. 78 illustrations completed this year for my fifth and final tarot deck. My wrist hurts ⚰️ Hopefully I'll soon have news from the publisher about release dates, so stay tuned
may your housing system depend slightly less on glitching
Hey hey! I am so excited this exists! I love cities! Oh hell, which should I talk about? Let's go with Zimanges, since it's where I want to be drafting next. I'm stumped on some major issues with the climax, maybe prompts will help shaking something loose.
I love that your answer is 'harvest,' this gives such a sense of mood versus 'dates on a calendar'
The Lost Boys meets She-Ra and the Princesses of Power in this sci-fantasy coming-of-age about finding your humanity even as you become less human. Coming October 10! Pre-order at your favorite online retailer today! hskallinger.weebly.com/found-humani...
I'm seeing more "I never see things I'm interested in on bsky" posts, so here I go again: HOW TO USE BLUESKY: a basic primer thread. Fundamentally it breaks down to: * Feeds * Lists * Interaction * Moderation Are you sitting comfortably? Then let's begin! 🧵
Let's gooooooo, #BookSky! The "Interesting Times: A Hopepunk Anthology" is LIVE! RIGHT NOW! On Kickstarter! You can help bring to life an anthology that beats back the darkness and finds hope to stand up, to fight, during, well, everything going on. www.kickstarter.com/projects/int... 📚📢
#WritingPrompts 'blue'
If you happen to have the day off today, or even if you don't, hope you get to enjoy some well-deserved rest and relaxation #art
#SeptemberWorldbuilders 1. Tipping World starts at the tail end of spring. It's an epic, so it doesn't finish until almost two years later. You go all over the continent, too, so what seasons mean varies. Not everyone's winter brings snow. Dsiabor is tropical and has a rainy season
#QueerPrompts Hey friends! I'm currently releasing a 9 book epic about a society of warrior-mages sworn to protect their world. They blow up the world instead bc their creed forbids them to have feelings and they're not able to obey
#WIPSnips 'excuse' Was going to say 'uh-oh Mairid's up to something,' then remembered this chapter is actually called 'those rascally Haimar of Dsiabor are up to something'
I'm no cover simp, but: LOOK AT IT! 👀😍
It’s my birthday! 🎉 May I be so bold as to ask to share my art? Below I’m going to drop some links (ko-fi tip jar, portrait commissions, contact for freelance) as all kinds of support are incredibly appreciated in these trying times! 💖
I just mt'd 'salivating' as salibating and was like... yes, that is in fact how I feel about shoes.
Reasons why you WON'T like my next book: 😘you have to read the last 7 1st 🙃a mirror/ gateway btwn 2 ppl's heads 🕐time-travel in fantasy 🌈unheroic heroes 😞a narrative character gets mind-controlled 🤦pathetic incel villain
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The 2025 Swordtember prompt list is here! ⚔️ #swordtember
That's the dream, right?
30 days, 30 facts about my MC What do they never leave home without? Since mages can make objects with their imaginations, 'oh no, I forgot to bring--' isn't really a thing. So, I would say Ramsu, Boy, and Mage Warend. #WritingPrompts
Oh the bad guys are genuinely bad and antagonists. No question. Many of the narrative characters, tho, are people of dubious virtue who take the chaos the villains cause as an invitation to stake out a side of their own.
I’ve participated in #SciArtSeptember for a few years & this is year 5! The main theme is Conservation with weekly themes shown below. My artwork is anatomy-based so I'll play with the prompts. But I have many ecological-themed poems so I’ll post more poetry this year.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
It's swords against the deadline as time is running out. But there's still a few hours left to send your best #swordandsorcery tale to NESS!
The Dark Side of Super is currently 99 cents through September 2nd as part of Kobo's September Weekend Sale. It's also available through Kobo Plus! books2read.com/darksideofsuper #BookSky 📚📢
#WIPSnips 'green'
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If Mairid proves right, Rhyna is going extinct. Its capital has always been a trading hub, and it now straddles the line where his half of the center of the continent butts up against lands still beholden to the Complex. There's even an artificial canyon! Amazing people-watching
Feinzad is where 75% of the heroes wound up. They're trying to remake the broken absolute monarchy into something better, making it up as they go along. If one wants to participate in meaningful social change, that would be your place.
#WritingPrompts TW's antagonists don't take center stage imo. It's a story about a society imploding, so the heroes are often themselves angry revolutionaries burning the old way down. Many of them - even ppl whose ideology aligns - won't work with each other. Are we the baddies?
#AugustWorldbuilders 31. Feinzad or Rhyna. Kandeshul has the right climate and is also moving in interesting directions politically and culturally, but it's too seismically active.
#WIPSnips 'faith'
#FantasyIndiesAugust Wrap up? Got very little writing done but made HUGE progress with my drawing practice, really put some effort into that. Also remembered this week that I meant to rerelease Darkbower and spent all spring creating bonus mats, probably want to *finish* that. 😅
Don't forget that Meta stole our books, and here are mine, still on sale as a bundle #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky itch.io/s/149961/met...
I hope you're okay, however bruised
I propose a swap because I just came across 2 stretches of He.. He... He... paragraphs. You slide me some names, I'll pass you some pronouns?
oooh, i definitely recommend this short story, folks! 🤍🥀🍃 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
SECOND LAST DAY! 11 people have signed up to receive an ARC of this dark, spicy, exhilarating scifantasy novel. Can we make it 15 before the signup deadline tomorrow?? Get in on it to see how Tårik, Jälen, and Kalaanë struggle against their apocalyptic destiny. #ARCreviews #ARCreviewers #readersky
Just finished this one from @backwardsknight.com ! I'm not much of a fantasy reader, but this one kept me reading for sure. Just one more chapter! 📚💙 #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #BooksIRead
We'll be hosting a Q&A Session on September 27th, 3pm PST in our Discord! Questions form - forms.gle/QpDWroJPLx... Discord - discord.gg/VgGHggJdka
30 days, 30 facts about my MC. 23. Honestly, my answer to this is just 'no ty.' I don't see the appeal in shipping my characters with someone else's world. #WritingPrompts
That's brilliant.
#FantasyIndiesAugust snippet Saturday Keep writing snippet 'snippter.' Anyway, Ramsu forced to face the fact that not wanting to be a hero or in charge has had very serious consequences
#WIPSnips 'nose' Mairid making an imaginary maze to stop his people from being mind-controlled
#WritingPrompts 'yellow' Makes me happy that yesterday's snippet was from the practicing-camouflage scene.
#QueerWritersChat Q5. No links, but another commissioned drawing this week: this wonderful full body of Sareena! 🖤🥰
Thank you for hosting #QueerWritersChat! If you guys find me worthy of your time, please check out #DiaryOfNana here on Bluesky/my site: muzetriggerstudios.wordpress.com/diary-of-nan... Otherwise, here’s my itch (with revenue sharing off, but everything’s #free anyway :v)
You can find all of my works on my website pmurphyauthor.com.
You say that as if my brain isn't imploding 😅
I get that it's chaotic, but it really helps me cope with block and stress bc I can set something aside when it's not working and not feel like that's negative at all. Just pivoting to a different project
Generally more than 3. I have a second pen name, which used to be just my write-for-fun stuff until my friends convinced me to publish. So for each, there's usually 'the thing I'm really trying to progress' and 'the thing I like but not sure where it's going yet'
You can learn more about Honeycomb Heart here! Really excited to introduce y'all to my chaos quartet of two lesbians, an octopus, and a swarm of bees. Thanks for hosting, Amara Lynn! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #QueerWritersChat
"Waldeinsamkeit" - the feeling of being alone in the woods #Art #DarkArt #OC #Azra
#QueerWritersChat I'm most active here at this point, but I do have a portfolio website and a cobwebby blog: parkergoodreau.com And if you're in the mood for something ridiculous, recently I've started making blackout poetry from a 50 cent copy of Breaking Dawn: breakingdawnblackout.tumblr.com
Check out my stuff at ko-fi.com/jebdarsh I write a monthly newsletter and there's some short stories and art. I need to update it more often, but thats a next year problem #QueerWritersChat
Thanks for this! "Cold," my collaborative horror story, is here: writesinister.substack.com/p/cold-chapt.... Voting for what happens in Chapter 3 ends tonight (8/29) at 11:59pm Central (US), and the next chapter drops 9/1. You can also find my debut werewolf novel at Substack. #queerwriterschat
You can find me at royalroad.com/profile/489955 Follow so you get notified when Warden's Curse chapters start going up on Monday! #QueerWritersChat
making lemonade out of plotholes is solid craft, cheers
#QueerWritersChat A5. Checkout my #KoFi ko-fi.com/ngchloe38#sh...
💜😂 SAME, this was not supposed to be my protagonist! He's a leader and his people see him more clearly than he realizes, but it takes someone who doesn't take orders from or go in awe of him to help him learn to be good to himself
#QueerWritersChat Thanks for hosting! My epic about a society of warrior-mages who aren't just forbidden to love, they're forbidden to have feelings. books2read.com/PathofEndles... BF: buy.bookfunnel.com/68clr2ik2x
I often like 'just a jerks.' Bullying prick rival or rival who turns his jerkishness on the deserving?
#QueerWritersChat Q4 I wouldn't know, I don't write anymore. 😭 I jest: this has been an extremely weird year. Nose-to-grindstone is pretty fundamental for me. If I can't work, I work anyway. If that's not doing it for me, I work on something else. If can't write for serious, I write for fun
if i'm mathing this calendar correctly, it's been exactly 90 days since i released my sapphic ace romantasy! come for the baby dragon, stay for the disaster queers fighting for justice ✨ #QueerWritersChat books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6 vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...
#QueerWritersChat Q3 Realizing he's letting himself be controlled by the cycles of abuse that shaped his childhood (300yrs later) is a big moment for him, but acting differently bc of it? It's not clear how long it might have taken had another person stepped in
#QueerWritersChat Q2 Mairid keeps secrets for no good reason. He lets ppl treat him badly bc he'd rather that than be seen to care.
Hey all! I write (too much?) epic fantasy, but I'm currently trying to put a modicum of effort into the horror/ dark fantasy I released ages ago and left languishing on KU with no marketing or support. I'm taking it wide and trying to give its packaging a buff when I do
I'd love to but I'm on a deadline, I need to submit this by tonight.
Dancing down the street in bright colors loving every minute of it is how I feel about living in a city as well.
Still trying to come up with a tagline. I hate everything that's crossed my mind. It's all so *generic*. Might as well just go with 'It's a dark fantasy... with faeries'