Mads G. Alaine
@mgalainewrites.bsky.social
Spite is a hell of a drug. Writer of feminine rage and revenge. Midwestern witch vibes
29 | They/She | Queer | Disabled | English Teacher | 🍉
29 | They/She | Queer | Disabled | English Teacher | 🍉
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I’m Mads (they/she). I’m a fantasy/horror writer and teacher in the Midwest, and I create things that reflect my experiences as a bisexual, nonbinary, neurodivergent, disabled person.
I’m more than my labels, but those labels shape what I write in fundamental ways. 🖤
I’m Mads (they/she). I’m a fantasy/horror writer and teacher in the Midwest, and I create things that reflect my experiences as a bisexual, nonbinary, neurodivergent, disabled person.
I’m more than my labels, but those labels shape what I write in fundamental ways. 🖤
The summer was awful and stressful and gross but I survived and it’s autumn now so it’s officially time to screech into the blue void again about my various projects and novels and elaborate dreams of writing
October 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The summer was awful and stressful and gross but I survived and it’s autumn now so it’s officially time to screech into the blue void again about my various projects and novels and elaborate dreams of writing
Today is weird and gross and overwhelming for so many people. To everyone who is at risk because of this bs please know I see you, I hear you, I stand with you, and I will do everything in my power to help you through the next four years and into infinity!
Take care of yourselves and each other ❤️
Take care of yourselves and each other ❤️
January 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today is weird and gross and overwhelming for so many people. To everyone who is at risk because of this bs please know I see you, I hear you, I stand with you, and I will do everything in my power to help you through the next four years and into infinity!
Take care of yourselves and each other ❤️
Take care of yourselves and each other ❤️
Update on this goal: have yet to write anything for the short story but I did write a decent chunk for the unhinged WIP so that’s something!
Hoping I can settle into this new routine quickly so that I can get back to writing because I am brimming with ideas! 🤞🤞🤞
The goal for this weekend is to write the bones of a short story that’s been bouncing around in my head since New Years.
The goal for this weekend is to write the bones of a short story that’s been bouncing around in my head since New Years.
January 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Update on this goal: have yet to write anything for the short story but I did write a decent chunk for the unhinged WIP so that’s something!
Hoping I can settle into this new routine quickly so that I can get back to writing because I am brimming with ideas! 🤞🤞🤞
The goal for this weekend is to write the bones of a short story that’s been bouncing around in my head since New Years.
The goal for this weekend is to write the bones of a short story that’s been bouncing around in my head since New Years.
January 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Hoping I can settle into this new routine quickly so that I can get back to writing because I am brimming with ideas! 🤞🤞🤞
The goal for this weekend is to write the bones of a short story that’s been bouncing around in my head since New Years.
The goal for this weekend is to write the bones of a short story that’s been bouncing around in my head since New Years.
Studying up on Thomas Cromwell for personal interest reasons, and suddenly the primary antagonist in my current WIP is making a whole lot more sense 😲
#amwriting #writingsky #writingcommunity
#amwriting #writingsky #writingcommunity
January 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Studying up on Thomas Cromwell for personal interest reasons, and suddenly the primary antagonist in my current WIP is making a whole lot more sense 😲
#amwriting #writingsky #writingcommunity
#amwriting #writingsky #writingcommunity
Me with Dragon Age Origins the first time I played it. Also with Cyberpunk 2077.
You ever play a game so good you gotta just sit with the title screen for a while after watching all the credits roll?
January 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Me with Dragon Age Origins the first time I played it. Also with Cyberpunk 2077.
Foaming at the mouth because my literary wife is sending me her beautiful words as soon as she’s done editing so I can devour them with my eyeballs and probably cry because it’s so good!
How this woman doesn’t have an agent yet is beyond me…
How this woman doesn’t have an agent yet is beyond me…
January 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Foaming at the mouth because my literary wife is sending me her beautiful words as soon as she’s done editing so I can devour them with my eyeballs and probably cry because it’s so good!
How this woman doesn’t have an agent yet is beyond me…
How this woman doesn’t have an agent yet is beyond me…
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Corporations seem to really not get that “cyberpunk” is a literary genre about anti-corporate rebellion in a dystopian wasteland of extreme disparity between the wealthy elites and the common folk, between the empowered and the powerless…
…and not just “when stuff is cool, but in a tech way”
…and not just “when stuff is cool, but in a tech way”
December 31, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Corporations seem to really not get that “cyberpunk” is a literary genre about anti-corporate rebellion in a dystopian wasteland of extreme disparity between the wealthy elites and the common folk, between the empowered and the powerless…
…and not just “when stuff is cool, but in a tech way”
…and not just “when stuff is cool, but in a tech way”
Random Life Update: overworked my wrist at my bartending side gig two weeks ago, and it /still/ hurts! I cannot yet tell if this is a new disability symptom or just a sustained injury/sprain, but I’m over it.
December 29, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Random Life Update: overworked my wrist at my bartending side gig two weeks ago, and it /still/ hurts! I cannot yet tell if this is a new disability symptom or just a sustained injury/sprain, but I’m over it.
A Ballad of Storms and Horror
Literally just the title of my life 🙃😂
Literally just the title of my life 🙃😂
A Song of Spears & Ships
Sounds like either a Viking epic or a Pirate erotica. 😆
Sounds like either a Viking epic or a Pirate erotica. 😆
December 29, 2024 at 8:46 PM
A Ballad of Storms and Horror
Literally just the title of my life 🙃😂
Literally just the title of my life 🙃😂
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This is your reminder that I wrote a #book coming out in 2025!!
HOLLOW is a cottagecore folk horror featuring an autistic girl who gets separated from her friends & ends up in an off-the-grid compound with a kind but mysterious and secretive boy 👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
HOLLOW is a cottagecore folk horror featuring an autistic girl who gets separated from her friends & ends up in an off-the-grid compound with a kind but mysterious and secretive boy 👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Hollow
HOLLOW, coming from Peachtree Teen in Fall 2025, is a Y…
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December 28, 2024 at 5:50 PM
This is your reminder that I wrote a #book coming out in 2025!!
HOLLOW is a cottagecore folk horror featuring an autistic girl who gets separated from her friends & ends up in an off-the-grid compound with a kind but mysterious and secretive boy 👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
HOLLOW is a cottagecore folk horror featuring an autistic girl who gets separated from her friends & ends up in an off-the-grid compound with a kind but mysterious and secretive boy 👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
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Write because you are going to run out of everything else: time, money, fucks to give. But you will never run out of your own bullshit. You could live forever on this unlimited fuel of emotional damage and charm. Plus people think you're funny. You're such a good writer. Live más.
December 27, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Write because you are going to run out of everything else: time, money, fucks to give. But you will never run out of your own bullshit. You could live forever on this unlimited fuel of emotional damage and charm. Plus people think you're funny. You're such a good writer. Live más.
I should probably pop my little gopher head in here to squawk about my books, huh?
Sometimes writing is realizing a secondary character is actually just a background character who might gain more story footing later. And I just think that’s neat…
#writingcommunity #writingsky #writersky #amwriting
Sometimes writing is realizing a secondary character is actually just a background character who might gain more story footing later. And I just think that’s neat…
#writingcommunity #writingsky #writersky #amwriting
December 27, 2024 at 12:14 AM
I should probably pop my little gopher head in here to squawk about my books, huh?
Sometimes writing is realizing a secondary character is actually just a background character who might gain more story footing later. And I just think that’s neat…
#writingcommunity #writingsky #writersky #amwriting
Sometimes writing is realizing a secondary character is actually just a background character who might gain more story footing later. And I just think that’s neat…
#writingcommunity #writingsky #writersky #amwriting
Alrighty internet friends, I’m building my classroom library list out some more and I’d love some recs! What books did you love as a teen? Doesn’t matter the type, length, or genre! I want to make sure my classroom has a little something for everyone!
#booksky
#booksky
December 12, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Alrighty internet friends, I’m building my classroom library list out some more and I’d love some recs! What books did you love as a teen? Doesn’t matter the type, length, or genre! I want to make sure my classroom has a little something for everyone!
#booksky
#booksky
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I don't wanna work I wanna go hang out with the crows
December 11, 2024 at 8:20 PM
I don't wanna work I wanna go hang out with the crows
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Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
Working in a funeral home turned bar is all fun and games until the ghosts start tapping on the pipes when you’re in the basement alone.
December 7, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Working in a funeral home turned bar is all fun and games until the ghosts start tapping on the pipes when you’re in the basement alone.
Literally hate the essay I’m writing right now. Luckily it’s just a rough draft so it doesn’t need to be good. It just needs to be submitted…
December 7, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Literally hate the essay I’m writing right now. Luckily it’s just a rough draft so it doesn’t need to be good. It just needs to be submitted…
It’s weird to want to write 3 very different novels at the same time. It basically amounts to the vibes in my mind being on constant shuffle.
#amwriting #writersky #writingcommunity
#amwriting #writersky #writingcommunity
December 5, 2024 at 7:53 PM
It’s weird to want to write 3 very different novels at the same time. It basically amounts to the vibes in my mind being on constant shuffle.
#amwriting #writersky #writingcommunity
#amwriting #writersky #writingcommunity
Finally finished Veilguard… I have so many thoughts/feelings. I’ve waited for this game for so long, it’s hard to think that wait is completely over. I finally know the end (so far).
And I’m going to need a solid 24-48 hours to process that ending. #dragonage #datv #veilguard
And I’m going to need a solid 24-48 hours to process that ending. #dragonage #datv #veilguard
December 1, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Finally finished Veilguard… I have so many thoughts/feelings. I’ve waited for this game for so long, it’s hard to think that wait is completely over. I finally know the end (so far).
And I’m going to need a solid 24-48 hours to process that ending. #dragonage #datv #veilguard
And I’m going to need a solid 24-48 hours to process that ending. #dragonage #datv #veilguard
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If you don’t want to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein together by the fireplace whilst sharing a vintage bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in an abandoned château in the French countryside during a raging snowstorm, then please don’t tell me you’re “down for a good time”.
November 26, 2024 at 11:26 PM
If you don’t want to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein together by the fireplace whilst sharing a vintage bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in an abandoned château in the French countryside during a raging snowstorm, then please don’t tell me you’re “down for a good time”.
What’s everybody up to in the #writingcommunity this week? How are those wips coming along? How’s querying going?
Give me a snapshot of your journey right now! ❤️
Give me a snapshot of your journey right now! ❤️
November 26, 2024 at 10:53 PM
What’s everybody up to in the #writingcommunity this week? How are those wips coming along? How’s querying going?
Give me a snapshot of your journey right now! ❤️
Give me a snapshot of your journey right now! ❤️
If I ever manage to write a contemporary/specfic novel, trust that at least one character will have my habit of stress baking to avoid their problems
November 25, 2024 at 3:14 AM
If I ever manage to write a contemporary/specfic novel, trust that at least one character will have my habit of stress baking to avoid their problems
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📢 For all querying writers 📢
Let’s connect ❤️
If I’ve missed you, drop a comment below and I’ll add you to the list.
#amquerying
go.bsky.app/35uSCi9
Let’s connect ❤️
If I’ve missed you, drop a comment below and I’ll add you to the list.
#amquerying
go.bsky.app/35uSCi9
November 17, 2024 at 12:58 AM
📢 For all querying writers 📢
Let’s connect ❤️
If I’ve missed you, drop a comment below and I’ll add you to the list.
#amquerying
go.bsky.app/35uSCi9
Let’s connect ❤️
If I’ve missed you, drop a comment below and I’ll add you to the list.
#amquerying
go.bsky.app/35uSCi9
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We've got a lot of newcomers! If you write SFFH in English and it's your second language, I can add you to this starter pack for ESL author ⬇️
Also, folks, you should follow all these great authors! #WritingCommunity #BookSky 💙📚
Also, folks, you should follow all these great authors! #WritingCommunity #BookSky 💙📚
November 11, 2024 at 3:56 PM
We've got a lot of newcomers! If you write SFFH in English and it's your second language, I can add you to this starter pack for ESL author ⬇️
Also, folks, you should follow all these great authors! #WritingCommunity #BookSky 💙📚
Also, folks, you should follow all these great authors! #WritingCommunity #BookSky 💙📚