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LESBIAN GIRLGROUP PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR NOVEL INCOMING FEB 21 BABY

After much forewarning, my sophomore novel AMBROSIA is officially gonna hit us on the 21st of February 2025.

AMBROSIA follows a superstar and second-most-lucrative-member-of-her-girl-group from the point where she's Katya, a grossly ambitious teenager clawing her way through a pseudo-dystopian celebrity training program, to the peak of her career, where she's lost herself in the big diva persona of Ambrosia, bleeding from her nose more than is usual, and hiding a breakdown-induced shaved head from the world.

AMBROSIA is a seven-year-long story of management-dictated shower times, performance-enhancing drugs, and ill-advised affairs with beloved and behated group-mates, told in increments by a semi-reliable narrator over the span of only the one fateful day where a life in service of being looked at finally translates into clawing out eyes.

That is all to say it is now PREORDERABLE - both in ebook and paperback - wherever you get your books from! (If you want to cop a paperback from evil overlord Amazon and it's listed as unavailable on your regional evil overlord storefront, try the US one.)

And ALSO you can read ahead on the first couple chapters for free right HERE.

Thank you for your support and thank you, once again, @shalida for this incredible cover.

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love a character that's like. i survived (<- not a brag) (<- this is a curse that weighs on me every waking hour)

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after eight years, I finally updated my huge Historical Fashion Reference & Resources Doc! Now in the form of a MUCH more easily updated Google Doc with better organization, refreshed links, and five more pages of books and online resources.

I know tumblr hates links, but it’s worth it for a doc that I can now update with far more regularity going forward! RIP to the original, you did your duty for far longer than you should have. 😔🙏🏼

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its like they always say: Id rather be eating oranges in the shower than imprisoned in a tower

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Little things I don't think non-cane users would know cause Issues™, for reference in writing!

- gusty wind not only throws personal centre of balance off but if you've got a lightweight metal cane it will throw your placement of the cane off

- same goes for being driven past by busses or lorries

- uneven pavements can suck my ass the cane is meant to be parallel to your leg and this is very hard to do when the pavement isn't level

- same goes for cobbled streets, brick paved streets tend to be smoother so I love them <3

- some paving slabs get really slippy when they're wet! This often means that I lean on my cane much heavier bc I can't rely as much on even my good leg to stay stable

- yes cane height should be adjusted to account for heels/ wedged shoes it's a bit of a bastard if you used a fixed length cane

- using a cane for the first few days/weeks hurts! If u only use it irregularly/ on bad days it can hurt every time! Wrists aren't used to taking weight in this way.

Check RBs and my asks tag for more info!

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After we kill our father but before we leave the island, we argue. Cal doesn’t want to go; he’s afraid of the water. Even after the rest of us outvote him two to one, he refuses to move, crouching on the ground, pressing the ruined side of his face into the earth, snarling whenever we try to touch him. In the end Ari has to sit down with him and say something in a quiet soothing susurrus, like they do, and the whole time Mir is pacing in the waves at the very edge of the water, where it barely comes up to her ankles. She is moving back and forth and back and forth, with her eyes on the horizon, and when this is happening Father’s blood is still on all of our hands but mostly on hers.

new max short story dropped. (+ an audio version!)

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hello! due to some circumstances outside of my control—including primarily struggling to afford my hrt and medication, school, and saving to move out of an abusive household—I'm opening commissions until I'm able to find a steady job. you can contact me and ask questions through tumblr dms or, if more preferable, my email at jzuraw15@gmail.com. I will respond as soon as possible.

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sometimes all you need to do is heavily relate to a dog and you'll start to understand the dog motif

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most useful piece of novel-writing advice i've heard recently: if you're ever stuck on what comes next, just ask yourself what you haven't brought up in a while. is there a character who hasn't been seen in a few chapters? did you offhandedly mention some piece of backstory that could resurface as a subplot? what's going on in your characters' lives that could become relevant again?

i'm drafting with these questions in mind, and now every time i get stuck, i can just be like, "oh, well i guess i didn't resolve that implication from a few chapters ago, let's explore that for a little bit," and usually that gets the ball rolling again.

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new short story involving the significance of an ugly dog, who is this?

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You know what I think its grossly under-rated in fandom? Second loves.

What it's like to love and lose and then love again. To suffer through either the death of a loved one or the death of a love you used to share. To know that loss, to know that hurt, and to still make yourself vulnerable to someone again. To love scared, to love wounded, to love anyway.

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I like reading writeblr snippits but I am hesitant to interact because I feel like I need to dive back into the blogger's backlog for further context lest I make a fool of myself commenting without all the info. Any advice?

I almost NEVER have all the information. Sometimes I'll read something and think "I don't know this Fandom or this character, but these four sentences made me love them."

You don't need to know all the lore to like a piece of writing. Did you like a piece of imagery or word choice? Did it make you feel? Is it relatable? Maybe it just sounds good and makes your brain happy for no particular reason. Those are all excellent things to share!

Oh but one major tip: writers love sharing their worlds. If you like a snip but don't know something, ask! Nobody is going to judge you--in fact I'm willing to bet writers would be overjoyed to get questions.

Some starting comments I myself would love, even if they are in another post somewhere:

How do these two characters know each other?

What is the context of this line/scene?

Can you tell me more about this wip?

How/when did these characters get to this setting?

What is important about the necklace/tattoo/etc?

Tell me more about character X.

In short, anything you want because writers love engagement. And if you're not sure, you can practice comments and asks on myself, @dyrewrites and @the-golden-comet and any of the writers that I'm sure will volunteer themselves in the comments/reblogs. Then you can support writers you don't know the vibe of yet by reblogging even without comments.

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Ive seen people be like in modern fantasy like "oh the pritagonists can just look up spells on their phone how do you solve that"

Imma be honest most people who go on recipe websites and book every recipe they see don't even use them lmao why would with be different

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Sorry that we turned our found family dynamic into a weird sex thing. We will do it again.

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I FUCKING FORGOT TO DRAW EAMON'S STUBBLE.

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Started a drawing of my character Eamon over on twitch a while ago, and I finally finished it! This is a partner illustration to this drawing of Sparrow. I’m cooking up more art of the two of them soon <3