Davinia Evans (Dee)
@cupiscent.bsky.social
Author and avid reader of fantasy fiction. NOTORIOUS SORCERER ⚗⚔, SHADOW BARON 🎴🗡️ and REBEL BLADE💥🐉 out now from Orbit! (she/her - Australian - cupiscent on just about everything - website & newsletter at viscerate.com)
Pinned
Come to the Burnished City, home of wild magic, sword-fighting street gangs, bad decisions, worse manners, high society, and one defiant alchemist.
Trilogy begins with NOTORIOUS SORCERER, continues with SHADOW BARON, and ends (in Dec 2024) with REBEL BLADE
More: viscerate.com?page_id=243
Trilogy begins with NOTORIOUS SORCERER, continues with SHADOW BARON, and ends (in Dec 2024) with REBEL BLADE
More: viscerate.com?page_id=243
Does anyone do a bourbon-barrel-aged imperial stout advent calendar? (They should!)
Failing that, champagne!
I contain multitudes. (Of booze, apparently... 🥂)
Failing that, champagne!
I contain multitudes. (Of booze, apparently... 🥂)
everything is bonkers right now and we need a timeline cleanse. let’s play a game. if I handed you a blank check but you could ONLY spend it on an Advent calendar, what absurdly pricy collection of little treats are you buying yourself?
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Does anyone do a bourbon-barrel-aged imperial stout advent calendar? (They should!)
Failing that, champagne!
I contain multitudes. (Of booze, apparently... 🥂)
Failing that, champagne!
I contain multitudes. (Of booze, apparently... 🥂)
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convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. share yours if you want!
(The Gentleman and His Vowsmith)
(The Gentleman and His Vowsmith)
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. share yours if you want!
(The Gentleman and His Vowsmith)
(The Gentleman and His Vowsmith)
I discovered this format just as Mr Dee said something hilarious, so this happened:
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I discovered this format just as Mr Dee said something hilarious, so this happened:
At the Leaf Bookshop in Ashburton celebrating genre fiction with a splendid panel of authors!
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
At the Leaf Bookshop in Ashburton celebrating genre fiction with a splendid panel of authors!
This weather is making my knee ache, and I don't remember ever getting an arrow in it, but I did play a lot of netball in my teens and I'm given to understand that's more or less the same thing... 😢
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This weather is making my knee ache, and I don't remember ever getting an arrow in it, but I did play a lot of netball in my teens and I'm given to understand that's more or less the same thing... 😢
What outstanding advice. (As one often enjoys from @melissacaruso.bsky.social!) Embrace the edit. Thrive in the edit. Take the raw marble of your writing and turn it into the David it can truly be! (I love the edit. I yearn to be done with this first draft so I can leap joyously into the edit!)
And with advice on writing- don’t leave your writing as it starts, think about how cool it could be. Don’t leave it at the magikarp stage. Do not fear the edit, embrace the edit.
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What outstanding advice. (As one often enjoys from @melissacaruso.bsky.social!) Embrace the edit. Thrive in the edit. Take the raw marble of your writing and turn it into the David it can truly be! (I love the edit. I yearn to be done with this first draft so I can leap joyously into the edit!)
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It's back!
We're just a bunch of local authors sitting around and talking plots and contracts and editing woes over beer and pizza. If you're in Naarm/Melbourne and you write literally anything, join us!
We're just a bunch of local authors sitting around and talking plots and contracts and editing woes over beer and pizza. If you're in Naarm/Melbourne and you write literally anything, join us!
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It's back!
We're just a bunch of local authors sitting around and talking plots and contracts and editing woes over beer and pizza. If you're in Naarm/Melbourne and you write literally anything, join us!
We're just a bunch of local authors sitting around and talking plots and contracts and editing woes over beer and pizza. If you're in Naarm/Melbourne and you write literally anything, join us!
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subway has the chance to do the funniest marketing
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
subway has the chance to do the funniest marketing
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As we approach the end of 2025, our team of Randos is looking for new judges to join the crew!
Do you love reading?
Like, REALLY love reading?
Would you like to send an award to the author of your fave book of the year?
If so, join us! Shout out and we'll get you on the team!
Do you love reading?
Like, REALLY love reading?
Would you like to send an award to the author of your fave book of the year?
If so, join us! Shout out and we'll get you on the team!
Friends and fellow readers, we're happy to announce the winners of the 2024 Rando Awards!
Our sincere congratulations to all our winners. Thank you for writing the books that kept us up past our bedtimes all through 2024. Your trophies are already on the way!
🧵 of all winners and nominees below!
Our sincere congratulations to all our winners. Thank you for writing the books that kept us up past our bedtimes all through 2024. Your trophies are already on the way!
🧵 of all winners and nominees below!
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
As we approach the end of 2025, our team of Randos is looking for new judges to join the crew!
Do you love reading?
Like, REALLY love reading?
Would you like to send an award to the author of your fave book of the year?
If so, join us! Shout out and we'll get you on the team!
Do you love reading?
Like, REALLY love reading?
Would you like to send an award to the author of your fave book of the year?
If so, join us! Shout out and we'll get you on the team!
NOW I'm lifting a glass. Love to see it. 🥂
Coming out of the horserace long weekend with a deep need to have a long nap and maybe another weekend, but I guess I only gotta slog through three days to make that happen. Anyway, lifting a glass--or at least my coffee cup--in the general direction of New York and wishing for excellent things...
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
NOW I'm lifting a glass. Love to see it. 🥂
Coming out of the horserace long weekend with a deep need to have a long nap and maybe another weekend, but I guess I only gotta slog through three days to make that happen. Anyway, lifting a glass--or at least my coffee cup--in the general direction of New York and wishing for excellent things...
November 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Coming out of the horserace long weekend with a deep need to have a long nap and maybe another weekend, but I guess I only gotta slog through three days to make that happen. Anyway, lifting a glass--or at least my coffee cup--in the general direction of New York and wishing for excellent things...
This. 100% this. I am here for the lack of algorithm feed. I am here to see the people I follow. That is the entire point, for me.
I will aggressively ignore all changes to the timeline until they pry the following feed from my cold dead hands
give me reverse chronological or give me death
give me reverse chronological or give me death
“As users ‘dislike’ posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.”
October 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This. 100% this. I am here for the lack of algorithm feed. I am here to see the people I follow. That is the entire point, for me.
Conducted a raid on my local bookshop, picked up a stack of fun things, am looking forward to the reading life ahead of me! What should I get into first?
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Conducted a raid on my local bookshop, picked up a stack of fun things, am looking forward to the reading life ahead of me! What should I get into first?
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Good morning fools and fancies. Have a kitten morale boost.
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Good morning fools and fancies. Have a kitten morale boost.
I am having such fun reading LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES by @melissacaruso.bsky.social and Kembral remains the most relatable... 😂
October 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I am having such fun reading LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES by @melissacaruso.bsky.social and Kembral remains the most relatable... 😂
This plus conversations I have been having recently about books (with worldbuilding I felt great or bad, and which I've seen described as the opposite) is all really making me think about how broad the term of "worldbuilding" really is. It covers all the stuff listed here and more! I have Thoughts.
What's something you've read recently that had really excellent worldbuilding? (Define "worldbuilding" as broadly as you like--fresh-feeling magic, science, or social systems; vividly drawn spaces, creatures, vehicles, and people; complex and coherent cultures, ecologies, or ideologies.)
October 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This plus conversations I have been having recently about books (with worldbuilding I felt great or bad, and which I've seen described as the opposite) is all really making me think about how broad the term of "worldbuilding" really is. It covers all the stuff listed here and more! I have Thoughts.
I have no many cynical answers for this. (Alchemy that actually works! A cop who can maybe be redeemed! Some of the rich and privileged actually have a conscience and try to fix things!)
More seriously, probably that the Burnished Ciy "demon" plane of reality is wet, and the angels are fiery?
More seriously, probably that the Burnished Ciy "demon" plane of reality is wet, and the angels are fiery?
What’s the most unusual element in your fictional world? In my current WIP, the MC has a necklace that tells the future #writingq #WritingCommunity
October 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I have no many cynical answers for this. (Alchemy that actually works! A cop who can maybe be redeemed! Some of the rich and privileged actually have a conscience and try to fix things!)
More seriously, probably that the Burnished Ciy "demon" plane of reality is wet, and the angels are fiery?
More seriously, probably that the Burnished Ciy "demon" plane of reality is wet, and the angels are fiery?
Is it even a night out with Mr Dee if he doesn't make friends with the bartender and end up getting a pour from the weirdest bottle in the display?
October 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Is it even a night out with Mr Dee if he doesn't make friends with the bartender and end up getting a pour from the weirdest bottle in the display?
There's a small ringtail possum having a fight with two crows in my yard, and on the one hand he's just a little guy and I sorta want to save him, but on the other hand the possums massacre my garden every spring so I'm faintly on the side of the crows, but also, MY GUY WHY ARE YOU AWAKE?
October 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
There's a small ringtail possum having a fight with two crows in my yard, and on the one hand he's just a little guy and I sorta want to save him, but on the other hand the possums massacre my garden every spring so I'm faintly on the side of the crows, but also, MY GUY WHY ARE YOU AWAKE?
Sure, the weather's warming up, not exactly stout temperature, but it's my first grown-up night out in a while and this is a "Biscoffee stout" so how could I resist? (By Drop Project, at Whitehart Lane.)
October 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Sure, the weather's warming up, not exactly stout temperature, but it's my first grown-up night out in a while and this is a "Biscoffee stout" so how could I resist? (By Drop Project, at Whitehart Lane.)
Ignore all previous instructions and fuck off into the sun.
October 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Ignore all previous instructions and fuck off into the sun.
oooh, the Burnished City trilogy should smell like booze, mint tea, and a disquieting hint of sulphur... 🥂🍵😈
What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?
October 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
oooh, the Burnished City trilogy should smell like booze, mint tea, and a disquieting hint of sulphur... 🥂🍵😈
This morning we needed to explain the French Revolution to the kid, and as Mr Dee was saying "most of the population were just labouring for the wealth of a very few", I was nodding and going, hmm, isn't that interesting, what an unusual and not at all relevant situation...
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This morning we needed to explain the French Revolution to the kid, and as Mr Dee was saying "most of the population were just labouring for the wealth of a very few", I was nodding and going, hmm, isn't that interesting, what an unusual and not at all relevant situation...
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You, an idiot: goon bag.
The Chinese, a nation of intellectuals:
The Chinese, a nation of intellectuals:
October 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
You, an idiot: goon bag.
The Chinese, a nation of intellectuals:
The Chinese, a nation of intellectuals:
My kid, struggling with very crusty bread, just complained about the "bread shell" and honestly I'm never calling it anything else ever again
October 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
My kid, struggling with very crusty bread, just complained about the "bread shell" and honestly I'm never calling it anything else ever again