New Releases - Tumblr Posts

Can you believe that we're now one week away from the Kobo, and Amazon releases of my debut novel, The Tengu And The Angel? Well, believe it, because we are! My fluffy, angsty, gay friends-to-lovers romance is coming to Kobo and Amazon exactly one week from now! Get your copy next week, on December 10th!

(God I'm so excited to launch it. AAAAAAAAAAAAA)

Thanks for the tag! I’m sooo excited for YWIMC and Tenshito ^_^

The Tengu And The Angel

A troubled teen artist makes his way up north after running away from his abusive alcoholic mother, and is taken in by an equally troubled fashion designer. They become best friends, fall in love, and learn to let go of their pasts while being the most sickeningly sweet and loving fictional couple you’ll read about this year. As you might’ve guessed from the title, Japanese mythology is a major theme in this book. Released December 2023, and available now on Amazon Kindle and Kobo

Night Of The Blue Moon

Indie game developer who lives a double life is forced to live a triple life when she’s given powers by the titan Phoebe, and tasked with defeating Orpheus, the supervillain whose son ruined her life and her career prospects. Also she’s in love with her sidekick, but she doesn’t know it (Yet). This is basically Miraculous Ladybug meets Percy Jackson, but for adults. Also it’s very gay because what’s a magical girl story without sapphic subtext? Currently in progress, release date TBA, but will likely be early 2025

Blood On A Yellow Rose

Aromantic vampire doctor befriends terminally ill patient who is also aromantic. Vampire turns terminally ill patient into a vampire so that they can live forever when it becomes abundantly clear that the two of them are soulmates, and there’s a lot of discussion about amatonormativity in human society, and how it contributes to bigotry against people on the aromantic spectrum. Both are tired of being treated like second class citizens due to never wanting to be in a romantic relationship, and being abandoned by their friends in favor of romantic pursuits. In progress, release date TBA but will likely be sometime in 2026

Tagging @gioiaalbanoart @mysticstarlightduck + open tag! Don’t be shy, come say hi! ^_^

✨Badly Summarized Story/WIP Tag✨

Thank you for tagging me here, @theink-stainedfolk !! Excited to do this one 💛✨

Rules: Pick a bunch of your WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote on which one they'd be most likely to read. Multiple/all/none options are completely optional.

Alriiiiight, time to add some art for the ones that are more developed ✨

1. Peter Hart

1. Pirate captain abducts a twinky prince, inadvertently saving him from an arranged marriage. Now forced to go on an epic adventure across the sea with this captain and his gang of adoptive sea dads, the prince and crew discover hidden secrets, find valuable treasures, and become an inseparable family. The Captain and Prince also gradually fall in love via slow burn Enemies to Lovers and have a lot of sex.

2. Your Wish is My Command

2. A Graduate student majoring in History and Architecture stumbled upon an ancient lamp during one of his field studies. After freeing the genie from the lamp, said genie wishes to explore the world and how it has changed from his last imprisonment. However, the researcher is a shut-in that hates public interactions. The genie becomes the researcher’s roommate and helps to bring him out of his shell, while learning some new things on his own. Also a slow burn, Friends to Lovers Slice of Life with lots of sex.

3. In The Realm of Giants

3. A high-fantasy adventure in the great Norse north. Two idiots, a giant and a human, go on an epic quest to one of the three major roots of the World Tree. Giant abducted human after catching human stealing some of his food, forcing the human on a journey across Jotünheim. Everything is giant to the human. Everything. Don’t ask how—this is also a slow burn Enemies to Lovers with….you guessed it….a lot of sex.

4. Tenshito

4. Archangel escapes the restrictive teachings of his seven older brothers to explore Earth Realm. Winds up accidentally launching himself into the cosmos, landing in a forest located in Japan. Angel must keep a human disguise to not be discovered by both Earth’s inhabitants, and his brothers who are actively hunting him to drag him back to the Heavenly Realms. Runs into a kind stranger, lives with him in his remote dojo in the woods, and discovers even deeper secrets about life on earth, outside of Earth, and his new friends. Friends to Lovers, Slice of Life in Japan where…..you get the idea 🍆

5. Lone Star Rangers

5. Gay cowboy finds a bounty (gay plant alien) on a dying planet, decides not to turn him in for credits, and both become bounty hunting partners. Intergalactic sci-fi, weird-western cowboys and aliens adventure across the cosmos. Cowboy sex. Yeehaw.

6. Operation: Relations

Man who is a professional cat burglar is rivals with a museum night guard. Preparing for heists at night, lives a normal life during the day. Runs into his rival outside of work, and night guard develops a huge crush on the thief. Thief knows exactly who the night guard is, night guard does not know he developed a crush on his rival (thief uses a disguise and voice mod). Crime syndicate that thief is a part of thinks this is a great opportunity to keep tabs on the Night Guard as part of the operation: tells Thief to take Night Guard on his offer to date. Thief is reluctant, but has to stick to the plan. Lots of shenanigans and sex ensues.

I’m going to gently poke the tag list to vote (and also of anyone wants to join in, feel free to!) Leaving this as an +open tag! 💛✨

Tag List for writing tidbits (lmk if you want + or -)

@autism-purgatory , @jev-urisk , @talesofsorrowandofruin , @clevah-girlboss , @wyked-ao3 , @glasshouses-and-stones , @gioiaalbanoart , @deanwax , @honeybewrites , @paeliae-occasionally , @lychhiker-writes , @thatuselesshuman , @kaylinalexanderbooks , @katenewmanwrites , @zackprincebooks , @billybatsonmylove , @madi-konrad , @far-cry-from-finality , @froggy-pposto , @fractured-shield , @avaseofpeonies , @topazadine , @thecoolerlucky , @willtheweaver , @rivenantiqnerd , @somethingclevermahogony , @noxxytocin , @leahnardo-da-veggie , @addicted2coke-theothercoke , @illarian-rambling , @mysticstarlightduck , @the-letterbox-archives , @ominous-feychild , @saturnine-saturneight , @words-after-midnight , @sableglass , @cowboybrunch , @yourpenpaldee , @moltenwrites , @pixies-love-envy , @davycoquette , @writeahurricane , @nczaversnick , @greenfinchwriter , @oliolioxenfreewrites , @lavender-gloom , @aintgonnatakethis , @thecomfywriter , @pluppsauthor , @michellekarnold , @flurrysahin , @authorcoledipalo , @jadeglas , @spookyceph , @astramachina , @48lexr , @inseasofgreen , @saebasanart , @leatafandom , @justabigoldnerd , @pippinoftheshire , @just-emis-blog , @aalinaaaaaa , @badscientist , @dearunreliablenarrator , @worlds-tallest-fairy , @rhikasa , @eccaiia , @swordslord

Thanks for the tag! Going in with one of my favorite lines from a recent chapter:

Blue Moon nodded solemnly, looking at Solana as if she were seeing her for the first time. “That’s right. I’m Ariel Gianapoulou.”

Tagging @mundanemoongirl @mysticstarlightduck and @inkshine!

last line tag!

There I was, minding my own business, getting ready to start drafting Chapter 22, when along came @cowboybrunch. Thank you for tag :3

This is from DMLS Book 2, Sullivan's POV. Sheriff Mason providing the last line of all time:

"With all due respect… no shit."

Tag!

@cowboybrunch @finickyfelix @saturnine-saturneight @ashfordlabs @autism-purgatory

@noblebs @aintgonnatakethis @the-golden-comet @asablehart @mauvecatfic

@leahnardo-da-veggie @sableglass @gioiaalbanoart @words-after-midnight

@lavender-bloom @jev-urisk @wyked-ao3

What current or future wip are you looking forward to writing the most?

Thanks for the ask! After I’ve finished Night Of The Blue Moon, I’m pretty excited to get to work on Blood On A Yellow Rose. I’ve had the idea since at least 2022, and I’m excited about writing not one, but two canonically aromantic MCs (Nathaniel, the secondary MC of The Tengu And The Angel is demiromantic, so he’s on the aromantic spectrum, but Pamela and Zinnia are both completely aromantic). Pamela not only embraces her immortality as a vampire, but celebrates it, and the only drawback she finds with it is not having anyone to share it with due to being abandoned in favor of romantic relationships by her friends. There’s gonna be a lot of discussion about how platonic relationships aren’t valued by society, and how even lifelong friendships are tossed to one side as soon as one party enters a romantic relationship, and people are expected to just be ok with that. Both Pamela and Zinnia are tired of always being treated like second class citizens due to not wanting romantic relationships, and it’s through this that they learn that soulmates don’t have to be purely romantic in nature. They are each other’s soulmates.

I’m also really excited to start working on the sequel to Night Of The Blue Moon. The first book deals with Orpheus, a villain who is using his powers to bring back someone who doesn’t deserve to live, (His son, Brooklyn, a serial stalker and rapist) but the second book will deal with Mia Morrigan, a villain who kills people who she thinks don’t deserve to live. She is a nurse who stole the choker of Thanatos, and is using it to reap the souls of patients she doesn’t want to care for. At first, all of her victims were truly awful people (A serial rapist, and a drunk driver who killed the parents of a five year old girl), but as time went on, she started targeting people she simply didn’t like. Ariel, Solana, and perhaps a new ally (I haven’t decided who will be joining them yet, but it will probably be either Myrna or Raphael), will be charged with defeating Mia, and taking back Thanatos’ choker.

Sex Education: Season 4 (2023) – Just some thoughts.

Over a span of four days, my housemates and I sat down to watch the final season of sex education; the show had started in 2019 (which feels like a lie, but we move I guess) and was loved by the masses. People really resonated with it as they showcased people dealing with all sorts of different complexities and natures and it was truly wonderful to see so many demographics being represented.

And while I know some of the criticism comes from the fact they favour representation over solid writing, I can understand that sometimes it’s just nice to be seen on a tv show with no ulterior motive and to be frank, this show has some great writing with certain characters. But like most TV shows, it didn’t mean it didn’t have its faults much like this season. But I think the best way to talk about this show is through its characters, which are the driving force of this TV show and it both benefits and fails from it.

The New Characters

When going into it, I was quite sceptical about the new characters, and coming out of it, I think I still am. I enjoyed the representation of ‘The Coven’ or whatever they were called, I think Aisha was written the best out of the three considering she had a broader storyline and I loved how they discussed accessibility for disabled people it was very refreshing. But coming out of the show, I don’t think I felt anything for these characters, and I found myself wishing they had Lily and Ola back.

O felt like a complete waste of a character – it felt like they made her very purposefully antagonistic, and yet when it came time to redeem her character it felt like a last-minute decision. I also think the way they handled her asexuality was very odd and felt quite forced at times, I remember during season one the writers seemed to be suggesting Otis was asexual but then didn’t push through to it, O just seemed like a rehash of that exact thing. There was clearly some stuff left out because O felt very antagonistic back at Otis, but Otis didn’t really do much towards their opposing sex clinics.

Adam (and Michael too)

This storyline became a favourite when the show ended and I didn’t think it would hit me as hard as it did. Adam’s character arc through the show has been very interesting to see, when looking back to last season I was never really a fan of Adam and Eric’s love story but that was the storyline that made me like Adam so I guess there was something to it. I also enjoyed that Adam didn’t go into sixth form and instead followed what his interests were, it’s quite cool to show there are different options rather than just sixth form, then university etc. But I loved the interesting parallels between the son and father, both were coming into their own person which was needed for both of them so they could accept one another and their heart-to-heart at the end was very sweet.

Jackson and Viv

I love the platonic bestie vibes this duo have, it’s so wholesome and I enjoy that the writers never compromised their friendship for a relationship because it’s something you don’t really see that often. I liked the storyline Jackson had surrounding the stigma of cancer in men, it was different and very unexpected but I liked that because it is scary and it weaved very well into his intrigue with his identity. One thing I was a bit confused about was Jackson’s journey with his sexuality; I feel like they slightly breached the topic but there was no clear closure for that storyline which was a big part of his character arc last season, but perhaps I missed something. With Viv, her storyline also quite surprised me; I truly didn’t expect her romance with Beau to take an abusive turn – but in retrospect it’s very interesting to see all the qualities of possessiveness and obsession that Beau had throughout the season. But either way I liked the resolutions in their ending (also loved that Aimee and Viv kind of became a duo), and I’m sad to let them go.

Ruby

One thing I really didn’t like this season was Ruby’s storyline; it was just her pining over Otis again and Otis not giving her an inch despite using her to help his campaign. It felt very backwards to me, especially seeing as Otis didn’t even thank her (more on that later because I have so much more to say on Otis); although she found her own confidence at the end and didn’t dance with him, I honestly would’ve preferred if they were just friends, but I can understand the need to have tension and drama to make things more interesting, but I was just left wanting a bit more with her character rather than her problems being purely surface.

Jean (and her sister… and her baby)

I will be honest, it was very odd to see Jean without Jakob (or Sven as my housemates and I referred to him), but truly I kind of didn’t miss him because they introduced a much more compelling duo with her younger sister. Jean’s storyline was quite interesting; to see a woman struggle with post-partum depression on-screen and not be villainised for it was very refreshing and I thought linking it with her fear of being like her own mother was very good. Her sister’s storyline was also very interesting, I liked how different they were and also that they had a very natural sisterly bond, which is something you don’t see among older women anymore in media.

Cal

I really enjoyed that we got more of a look into Cal's life because that was one reason I didn't really connect with Cal last season was because we didn't get a sense of who they are. But this was majorly broached in this season and I was glad because I really enjoyed their character. Their story was wholly centered around their identity and I thought it was very heartwarming that the school charity came together for their top surgery. Two things that I struggled with though were the fact that their attempt to take their own life was very much brushed over and the fact that their and Jackson's storylines didn't really get completed either. But overall, I really enjoyed their character.

Eric

Honestly, he and Aimee are the best characters on this show, and you can’t even change my mind. One thing I was very glad for was that they tabled the whole Eric and Adam relationship and that they recognised that someone shouldn’t be in a relationship with their bully (and because Eric can do so much better, and I say that while loving Adam as a character too). Something that surprised me but in a good way was his relationship with his religion, it’s so interesting to see because you don’t see a lot of this, especially nowadays. And it was nice to see him flourish with friends that understand him and his views on things (OTHER THAN OTIS WHO DOESN’T CARE), and his turmoil of wanting to be baptised but then realising he doesn’t need that to reaffirm his relationship with God. And Ncuti is just SO funny and charming as Eric, he’s going to be a star one day (especially since he’s been in Barbie and Doctor Who) and I genuinely can’t wait to see it.

Aimee and Issac (but mostly Aimee)

Oh god where do I start, Aimee Gibbs is genuinely one of the best TV show characters ever; she is so likable and the journey her character has gone through is amazing. When the show opens with her documenting her recovery, I was immediately struck that she was going to have a fabulous ending to her story. I loved that she was trying different things like art to express her trauma and seeing her have fun with it was just so, so human and I love when media replicates that side of humanity. One thing that was a pleasant surprise was Issac and Aimee’s relationship; now this may be a controversial take, but I was never really an Issac hater… I know, how insane. So, seeing him get fleshed out more and more was really moving; their relationship was something very different and also made so much sense. I wouldn’t have put them together, but the actors had a lot of chemistry and I enjoyed that they uplifted one another but never crossed any barriers of their own agency.

Maeve

Maeve is a very interesting character; now for another controversial take, I was never a big fan of Maeve, it’s nothing I could really pinpoint but she often seemed very abrasive. But on the flip side, I also respected that about her character, that the writers were never afraid to make her spunky and outspoken, and for her to not be punished for that either. Her storyline this season was great, it made me enjoy her character so much more than I thought I would; the way she acted around the death of her mother was so good and felt very real – and I loved how mature the ending of her, and Otis’ love story was as well. Again, I know some people may think differently but I’m glad they didn’t stay together because let’s be honest, the two wouldn’t last a week ESPECIALLY long distance. She got to focus on herself and her career in the end, which was something she wanted since the beginning of this show; and it was incredibly satisfying to see that on screen.

Otis Dickhead

My, my… you know for the literal LEAD of the show, you’d think they’d write a character that’s at the very least tolerable. Because oh my god, now I’ve never liked the way Otis’ character is written, but Jesus Christ I think we’ve hit an all-time low. One thing he does that drives me up the wall is that he never texted anyone back; like when Ruby kept asking him where he was, he didn’t even message or anything and that was before Maeve’s mum passed away, he is just so inept.

Also, the fact that he’s a so-called sex therapist yet he struggles to article his own problems with BASIC problem-solving skills actually amazes me – I admire the writers for being able to write someone SO thick in the head without going braindead themselves, I really do. Okay rant over – Otis’ storyline really felt like a backdrop to everything in the season, the only interesting thing was his and Maeve’s story and that wasn’t even his main dilemma on the season. Overall, his character is shit and I’m so glad I never have to see his face again (sorry Asa Butterfield, love you!).

ANIMAL CROSSING IS COMING TO COLOURPOP!

Mark your calendars! This January 28th, Colourpop is releasing their much anticipated Animal Crossing themed collection! The collection will include 11 pieces, including four eyeshadow palettes, three lip tints, two blushes, a Super Shock Shadow, and a glitter gel. Ulta will also be stocking the collection February 14th, 2021.

okay, so, i just read/finished my favorite book ever. that feels weird to type but- wow. i want so badly to read this again for the first time and it feels ridiculous to live in this world where everything and nothing has changed. ive texted like everyone about this book and now im going to tumblr to talk about it because nothing will ever fill the void of this book’s magic and i need to reccomend it everywhere i can. so it’s a new release called Such Big Teeth by Rose Szabo and it’s a weird mystery/fantasy/mild horror type thing that probably isn’t for everyone but it’s SO GOOD. i dont know how to describe it without spoiling everything, but there are werewolves (kinda not really) and witches (kinda, more than the werewolves but not entirely) and creepy mysteries and it’s also gay, but gay in a very subtle way??? like the gays are there but it barely even registered for me under all of the ✨ wow ✨. this rant is so disorganized lol but just- creepy mystery!!!! with weird family dynamics and a grandma from france!!! what more could you want???

Temptation - Greyson Chance

New stuff from greysonchance has got me excited! 😝 We all know him for Paparazzi but he’s really grown since I’m so proud and can’t wait to hear the rest of Planet X. Check out this song Temptation on sound cloud and you can buy his new single Thrilla in Manila now! His falsettos will make you melt. 😉