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🪻 Upcoming queer horror novel (read pinned!)
🦋 Written by Cal (weird guy. loves cats. those are unrelated)

📚 Posting book updates, art, and ramblings. Also probably some other stuff.

🏳️‍⚧️ Tags: #queerwriters | #writingcommunity | #lgbtqauthors
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Figured I should make a post for any newcomers-- Q & A about Unlit Matches!

TL;DR spooky horror story with some queer romance mixed in for good measure.

Check reply for a link to the doc itself :)

#indieauthor #horrorbooks #queerbooks #transauthor
PAST 100K WORDS. IT'S GOING TO BE FINISHED (HOPEFULLY BEFORE THE END OF THIS YEAR).

posting this as motivation for myself but Mostly because I want another excuse to share cover art drawn by @oddoblivion.bsky.social

man-made queer horrors beyond human comprehension coming your way (eventually)
April 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I don't know what I believe, but I have hope. Hope that there's a place where I'm truly happy; a place where I can go outside without trembling; a place for me in the world that's defined in something more than writing. Maybe I'll never like myself. And maybe that's okay. I'm still here either way.
December 1, 2024 at 4:20 AM
every time I look into the mirror & can't match the gaze of my own two eyes, I often wonder how people see me vs. how I see myself.

a friend, a stranger, a family member; all people that view me through their own lenses.

I hope one day I can look through my own & find something like they do.
December 1, 2024 at 4:18 AM
my hands are cold but wearing gloves makes it hard to write. suffering
November 25, 2024 at 5:19 AM
very fun to know that I’ve written a whole ass book, multiple short stories, etc and yet when I need to write a 6-8 page essay for college my fingers all call out sick for the semester
November 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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I know I don't have a super big following here but I still want to build community with a
💗💙🤍TRANS ARTIST ART SHARE!🤍💙💗

🤍Art, Writing, Game Dev, Crafts etc welcome!
🤍Comment, Repost, Like!
🤍Share + Engage with others!
🤍Support + love each other!
🤍No AI/NFT!

#artshare #transartshare #trans #queer
November 8, 2024 at 1:32 AM
<— trans writer with a penitent for body horror here!

There’s nothing more horrifying than your own mortal flesh! And maybe the true horror was the friends we made along the way :)

I write other stuff but nobody needs to read my research essay. It needs to be burned. The irony isn’t lost on me.
I know I don't have a super big following here but I still want to build community with a
💗💙🤍TRANS ARTIST ART SHARE!🤍💙💗

🤍Art, Writing, Game Dev, Crafts etc welcome!
🤍Comment, Repost, Like!
🤍Share + Engage with others!
🤍Support + love each other!
🤍No AI/NFT!

#artshare #transartshare #trans #queer
November 9, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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The woods are safety; the trees are home. But your mind skips like a scratched record as your vision flickers between this reality and the next.

Oblitus Memoria.

「 art by @raccoonbutler.bsky.social

#indiehorror #queerhorror #unlitmatches
November 8, 2024 at 5:07 AM
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I think the hardest thing I've had to overcome writing my first ever book is learning how to take casual rejection.
Some people don't like it; some people don't even like reading-- but having excitement for something where others don't care is a definite hurdle.
💙📚
November 8, 2024 at 5:09 PM
I think the hardest thing I've had to overcome writing my first ever book is learning how to take casual rejection.
Some people don't like it; some people don't even like reading-- but having excitement for something where others don't care is a definite hurdle.
💙📚
November 8, 2024 at 5:09 PM
The woods are safety; the trees are home. But your mind skips like a scratched record as your vision flickers between this reality and the next.

Oblitus Memoria.

「 art by @raccoonbutler.bsky.social

#indiehorror #queerhorror #unlitmatches
November 8, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Finished up uni work for the week so I'm back to editing. I stare at the word count and feel both accomplished and insanely amazed at fanfic authors churning out 150k+ fics just for fun. As I type this out I realize that I'm also writing this for fun but. You get the idea lol

#queerwriters
November 8, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Just signed up for the NYC midnight challenge! Never done one of these before, it’ll be fun no matter if I make it past the first round or not :)
November 7, 2024 at 4:35 PM
An excerpt.

Tomorrow will arrive the same as always, and I will be there to see it. I hope to see you there.

If I can do nothing but breathe, that's what I'll do.
If you can do nothing but breathe, that's what you'll do.

Stay alive.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍉✊

💙📚 #writingcommunity
November 7, 2024 at 4:34 AM
I wrote this months ago and boy did it not age well LOL
November 5, 2024 at 3:00 AM
these are just New Chapters I've written. When I said I'd reach 100k words I was not expecting to do just that lol.

still no idea how fantasy authors do it. how are you churning out 300k+ words per book. are you okay. are your fingers and wrists okay. please drink water
November 3, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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May I interest you all in some cosmic horror this evening?
tw: blood

💙📚 #horror #queerhorror #unlitmatches

(once I'm finished editing, I'll have to format things. I will do it, but there is no joy to be found in the settings page to adjust margins)
November 2, 2024 at 4:45 AM
May I interest you all in some cosmic horror this evening?
tw: blood

💙📚 #horror #queerhorror #unlitmatches

(once I'm finished editing, I'll have to format things. I will do it, but there is no joy to be found in the settings page to adjust margins)
November 2, 2024 at 4:45 AM
instead of a regular post: meme posting. these are all them
October 30, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Little fun fact:
A lot of things that inspired both Bram & Liam were older trans & queer people I got to meet and talk with. Liam's DI scars are a little messed up-- based on a person I met that had similar scarring & got their surgery done in a literal back alley in the mid 80s.
October 30, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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Figured I should make a post for any newcomers-- Q & A about Unlit Matches!

TL;DR spooky horror story with some queer romance mixed in for good measure.

Check reply for a link to the doc itself :)

#indieauthor #horrorbooks #queerbooks #transauthor
October 28, 2024 at 10:22 PM
I know someone will ask (because it’s happened multiple times already) but no it’s not set in Maine because of Stephen King. it’s set in Maine because other people live here besides him (aka me)

he was my aunt’s English teacher. I used to drive past his house on my way to therapy lmao
October 29, 2024 at 7:01 PM
being a writer is both sobbing over tragic endings but also cackling like a low-tier villain whenever you get the chance to write tragedy and angst
October 29, 2024 at 6:25 PM
maybe the true eldritch horrors were the friends we made along the way :)

!! art by moochupon !!

* #ocs * #art * #unlitmatches
October 29, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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