CJ Yeates
@cjyeates.bsky.social
📚 Writer of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror
🧬 Neuroscience PhD | 🎨 Artist | They/them
✍️ Currently querying: space fantasy with a queer love story
Find me elsewhere: https://bio.site/cjyeates
🧬 Neuroscience PhD | 🎨 Artist | They/them
✍️ Currently querying: space fantasy with a queer love story
Find me elsewhere: https://bio.site/cjyeates
My short story, “The Merit of a Curse” is out in The Literary Fantasy Magazine today! I put a lot of myself and my experience with leaving academia into this story about a tenacious curse and the burgeoning romance between a pair of retired mages.
July 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My short story, “The Merit of a Curse” is out in The Literary Fantasy Magazine today! I put a lot of myself and my experience with leaving academia into this story about a tenacious curse and the burgeoning romance between a pair of retired mages.
I’m pumped up about getting back into a more regular art practice, which of course means that the impulse to buy 5,000 new reference photos has struck.
May 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’m pumped up about getting back into a more regular art practice, which of course means that the impulse to buy 5,000 new reference photos has struck.
Made a couple pour paintings today. I didn’t pour them at the same time, but the patterns ended up matching really well. May keep them as a set like this.
May 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Made a couple pour paintings today. I didn’t pour them at the same time, but the patterns ended up matching really well. May keep them as a set like this.
I am querying a space fantasy novel, and I don’t know what to do when literary agents say they don’t like space opera. Do you dislike the “space” part or the “opera” part? Because my story involves interplanetary travel but isn’t an opera. There’s no ongoing military conflict and no dystopian drama.
April 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am querying a space fantasy novel, and I don’t know what to do when literary agents say they don’t like space opera. Do you dislike the “space” part or the “opera” part? Because my story involves interplanetary travel but isn’t an opera. There’s no ongoing military conflict and no dystopian drama.
I’ve got three pieces of flash fiction and one piece of CNF I’ve been working on. I’m planning to send one flash piece to an open call this week. The others I’m not sure where I’ll send yet, but I’ve been wanting to expand my flash repertoire for a while.
March 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I’ve got three pieces of flash fiction and one piece of CNF I’ve been working on. I’m planning to send one flash piece to an open call this week. The others I’m not sure where I’ll send yet, but I’ve been wanting to expand my flash repertoire for a while.
BG3 is my favorite rummaging simulator.
March 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
BG3 is my favorite rummaging simulator.
Done with my painting of the anomaly from #Arcane! This was a lot of fun, basically one big experiment. Acrylic paint with a ton of modeling paste and also beads for texture and color variation.
March 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Done with my painting of the anomaly from #Arcane! This was a lot of fun, basically one big experiment. Acrylic paint with a ton of modeling paste and also beads for texture and color variation.
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Playing dress-up with a pre-Veilguard Dorian Pavus. 🐍
#DragonAge
#DragonAge
March 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Playing dress-up with a pre-Veilguard Dorian Pavus. 🐍
#DragonAge
#DragonAge
Texture painting experiment based on the anomaly from Arcane. I want to make a few more adjustments, but I need to let it dry.
March 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Texture painting experiment based on the anomaly from Arcane. I want to make a few more adjustments, but I need to let it dry.
Man I want pączki, but they don’t sell them around here, and garden variety jelly doughnuts don’t quite scratch the itch
March 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Man I want pączki, but they don’t sell them around here, and garden variety jelly doughnuts don’t quite scratch the itch
Why is it that any time paint is labeled “nontoxic” part of my brain goes “alright, it’s finger painting time”
February 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Why is it that any time paint is labeled “nontoxic” part of my brain goes “alright, it’s finger painting time”
There is something repulsive about drinking a smoothie and suddenly getting a big lump of partially defrosted, unblended banana
February 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
There is something repulsive about drinking a smoothie and suddenly getting a big lump of partially defrosted, unblended banana
Sketch of an old character of mine. Seriously, I’ve had some version of this guy in my head for twenty years, and I am tempted yet again to resurrect an old comic project.
Eventually. For now I’m just trying to practice drawing faster.
Eventually. For now I’m just trying to practice drawing faster.
February 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Sketch of an old character of mine. Seriously, I’ve had some version of this guy in my head for twenty years, and I am tempted yet again to resurrect an old comic project.
Eventually. For now I’m just trying to practice drawing faster.
Eventually. For now I’m just trying to practice drawing faster.
Today is leg day, meaning the cat is sitting on my exercise mat and watching me judgmentally as I flail my way through Bulgarian split squats.
February 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Today is leg day, meaning the cat is sitting on my exercise mat and watching me judgmentally as I flail my way through Bulgarian split squats.
Just a sketch of a little dude inspired by both Flow and a fluffy black cat that lives in our neighborhood.
February 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Just a sketch of a little dude inspired by both Flow and a fluffy black cat that lives in our neighborhood.
We’re watching Flow, and oh my god, this movie is gorgeous. Also, despite having my namesake, a cat, as the main character, I’m pretty sure I’m the lemur.
February 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
We’re watching Flow, and oh my god, this movie is gorgeous. Also, despite having my namesake, a cat, as the main character, I’m pretty sure I’m the lemur.
I still remember, back in college, my bestie and I having a conversation about how all our favorite pairings involved at least one character with pronounced dark circles under their eyes.
I am pretty sure that has held true in all the years since then.
I am pretty sure that has held true in all the years since then.
February 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I still remember, back in college, my bestie and I having a conversation about how all our favorite pairings involved at least one character with pronounced dark circles under their eyes.
I am pretty sure that has held true in all the years since then.
I am pretty sure that has held true in all the years since then.
I ground some star anise yesterday in the spice grinder I usually use for my coffee and nope, I definitely did not get all of it out before the coffee beans went in. Tastes nice, though.
February 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I ground some star anise yesterday in the spice grinder I usually use for my coffee and nope, I definitely did not get all of it out before the coffee beans went in. Tastes nice, though.
He was just staring at this patch of sunshine on the floor.
February 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
He was just staring at this patch of sunshine on the floor.
Starting to think it’s just a matter of time before I get into 3D printing. I want so badly to learn how to make cosplay props that move. Am I finally entering my tinkering era?
February 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Starting to think it’s just a matter of time before I get into 3D printing. I want so badly to learn how to make cosplay props that move. Am I finally entering my tinkering era?
Welp, it’s starting to look like everything I write from novella length up involves some sort of psychic connection or characters speaking in each other’s minds. What can I say? It’s one of my favorite things.
February 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Welp, it’s starting to look like everything I write from novella length up involves some sort of psychic connection or characters speaking in each other’s minds. What can I say? It’s one of my favorite things.
I bought a couple pumpkins to use as indoor Halloween decorations in early October and they just… never went bad. So now it’s becoming a bit of a science experiment as to whether they’ll make it to next Halloween.
February 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I bought a couple pumpkins to use as indoor Halloween decorations in early October and they just… never went bad. So now it’s becoming a bit of a science experiment as to whether they’ll make it to next Halloween.
Self portrait in the Arcane style! I really sank some time into this one because I wanted to use it as painting practice. And as an excuse to stare at tons and tons of Arcane character art.
February 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Self portrait in the Arcane style! I really sank some time into this one because I wanted to use it as painting practice. And as an excuse to stare at tons and tons of Arcane character art.
Every time I realize I need new running shoes, I actually needed new running shoes like three weeks ago.
February 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Every time I realize I need new running shoes, I actually needed new running shoes like three weeks ago.