#secretnecromancerwip

[elizmanderson]

last line tag

thanks to @rachaellawrites for the tag!

Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence

...I'm in danger because the last sentence I wrote was technically a fragment but a very long fragment, oops

if you've read "The Raising of Hester Macrae" in Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction (no. 4), turns out Hester simped for Annie hardcore from the moment they first saw each other lmao, love that for her

anyway this is from a lowkey expansion I'm sort of vaguely writing based on that short

The scowl she turns on the housewife she's talking to before she turns away and trudges off down the street, alone, a scowl whose intensity is burned so hot into Hester's memory it might as well be a caress.

lmao it's 39 words, send help

we all know I'm not tagging 39 people, but I will tag Several. no-pressure tags for: @gracewritesbooks @victoriacbooks @shatterboxin @adwills @averyames @anotherindiewriter @authorfinnd @ceilidhnewbury @prosebforebros

[elizmanderson]

you think you're joking but old adult is my genre, let's fucking go lmao, ready for the age of Old Adult Literature to begin

Due to the exciting successes of 'weird horror' and 'hopepunk', we're happy to announce a new slate of literary genres for release in Q3 2023. From now on you can expect to start seeing marketing TikToks and insufferable thinkpieces responding to marketing TikToks about:

Nicepunk

Eastern Orthodox Fantasy

Old Adult

Cosmic Horror But Without The Racist Parts

Yiffbong

Ahistorical Romance

Political Snoozer

Erotic Mystery

How Does This Have A Netflix Show It Just Came Out?

Mormon Realism

Dog Isekai

Shampoo Ad Novelization

Rock-hard SciFi

Smileglad

Nasty Fiction

Cosmic Horror But It's Only The Racist Parts

'The Scottish Genre'

Penis Books

[elizmanderson]

ugh I am just. obsessed with them. OBSESSED. feral!! enthralled, even.

select songs from their playlist:

A Thousand Years, Christina Perri

Safe & Sound, Taylor Swift (Hunger Games OST)

Start a Riot, Banners

Become the Beast, Karliene

Without You, Ursine Vulpine ft. Annaca

things I am supposed to be working on: not them things I am working on: them!!

read the original short story about a secret necromancer and her plant witch wife, published in Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction (no. 4)

art by @perseruna and it is literally like she plucked them right out of my head

[elizmanderson]

women's rights | women's wrongs

art of Edna by SoundOfMind on Instagram; art of Hester and Annie by perseruna on Twitter

(quotes by me)

[elizmanderson]

you know that post that's like "my daughter is making up a story and just now she came up to me crying like 'mom the story got sad all by itself'" well that is me with this project that I'm not even really technically working on, @ my brain please stop devastating me thusly

[elizmanderson]

line game

borrowed from @rachaellawrites purely bc a line for the first bit came to mind immediately lol

tagging anyone who thinks this looks fun or who also has a specific line come to mind immediately, go forth and share a line if you want

Rules: post a line that you're tremendously proud of writing & a line that’s just out-of-context ridiculous

okay these are both from SecretNecromancerWIP aka the lowkey expansion I've been sort of vaguely working on of "The Raising of Hester Macrae" (Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, no. 4)

a line I'm tremendously proud of writing

When Hester presses her mouth to Annie’s, she remembers half-forgotten tales of princes kissing maidens to wake them from deathlike sleep.

a line that's out-of-context ridiculous

...okay this is actually really hard for this story lmao but the closest we get is probably this

"I liked ye naked," she says.