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[zoestormwriting]

Cover reveal!

My next book, DRESS CODE AND OTHER STORIES, is coming out on December 24th as an ebook, and nine days earlier, on the December 15th, as a paperback. And here's the cover!

Pretty, isn't it? And the book is good, too! You can preorder it now as an e-book from itch and other online stores, so you'll automatically get it when it's released on December 24th!

It will also be available as a paperback from Amazon starting December 15th, but I can't set up preorders for that; I will notify y'all when it's released. (Yes, I'm aware that many people don't like Amazon, but it's unfortunately the only viable choice for self-published paperbacks.)

Also, given the current situation (imagine me gesturing at everything), I have an announcement to make:

I will be donating 100% of the royalties from this book from release day up until the end of January 2025 to Advocates for Trans Equality, and I'll also match that donation 1:1 myself.

So: do you want to read seven short stories about trans people in school and other related places? Do you want to do some good?

Preorder my book!

(Pretty please? 🙏)

And thank you all for your attention :)

[n-ehpamoi]

I thought, "why bother being aware if all it lets me do, is suffer?"

And "why suffer if all it lets me do, is write?"

Until you came along, calling my words beautiful, and I thought, like a fool,

"maybe all the pain isn't so bad."

And I haven't stopped writing, since.

V. Rue, 2024.

[rose-of-the-grave]

No bingos 😔

I write for HP and acotar

Npt: @sylveryfire, @rika150, @waitingformysandman, @girllblogging777, @charmsandtealeaves, and anyone else who wants to

Thank you for the tag, @laurfilijames!! I haven't done one of these in AGES!

And as always, no pressure tags for: @lathalea @mithrilhearts @i-did-not-mean-to @evenstaredits @enchantingkryptoniteheart-blog @littlesweetdressmaker and anyone else who'd like to play!

[eve-e-jane]

I am procrastinating writing by writing…. Hm.

[circadeacademia]

A list poem on things worse than death

i. I'm painting my lips with the brightest red of life. it's bleeding into my mouth, staining my teeth. it tastes rancid and sits on my gut.

ii. I drug my feral heart every fortnight. cleanse the lovesick blood with my favourite poison. your eyes are deeper than the trench of my self deprivation.

iii. I visited the grave of my childhood yet again. it was right beneath my home where I buried it last. it's growing roots now, crushing my bones.

iv. My mirror's eyes are haunting me. I might kill it soon.

v. The walls are speaking to me. they speak a tongue of memories I can't recall anymore.

vi. I must've smeared my lips against my heart. It's taking over veins and screaming in plasmic angst.

vii. My parents raised a hellhound. It chewed its way out of the belly button. they named it sweetheart and fed trauma in flesh.

viii. Grief is stuck in my unreachable zones. in my gray matter, in my lungs. I forgot breathing, I unlearned thinking. but how do I shed my pericardium?

ix. And when I asked, even death betrayed.

— circadeacademia

[oneandocey]

To be seen is not to be loved. But to be loved is to be seen and understood completely.

[curatorotl]

I think one of the weirdest side effects of being a writer is that while I'm reading, I'll just start subconsciously editing the book. Like, if a sentence sounds odd or off to me, I'll fix it in my head and continue reading as if that were how it was written.

Does anybody else do this?

[readersdailycrisis]

me whenever something happens

[reidiot]

don't fucking interrupt me when i'm reading my x reader fics it's rude

[liesandnights]

My version of flirting is looking at someone I find attractive multiple times and hoping they're braver than me.

[n-ehpamoi]

Invade me, did you?

I shouldn't be surprised.

What's sovereignty to a person like you, who sees my skin as nothing more than ashen earth on which your fingers might find purchase?

Would you tell me that those pretty, greedy hands couldn’t help but encroach upon me?

As if they had minds of their own? As if you could do naught to reign them in?

But, for you, maybe, I don't quite mind --

I can't help but let you have your way, so,

Take me over or take me in, and I might just let you envelop me whole --

So long as you don't mind, being stuck with me, forever.

"Take me, you fool." V. Rue, 2024.

[bihudson]

Siempre que tengo el corazón roto, vengo a Tumblr.

[angelasscribbles]

Writing is exactly like this

Writer's Corner

[itsbansheebitch]

"Character doesn't act traumatized"

The flaw with the criticism of "this character isn't acting traumatized, you need to show how this event changed them" is that a lot of people experience EXTREME traumatic events and think it's normal. Their behavior might change in subtle ways, but they mostly just continue with their life.

This is especially true in children/young characters. See example here:

[inkwell-chronicles]

We are all here, lost, trying to find our path in life.