Joel Donato Ching Jacob
@cupkeyk.bsky.social
Author of Wing of the Locust (Scholastic Asia Book Award 2018, Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award 2021) Ani ng Dangal 2021 for Literature. Clarion West 2021 cohort. Rimbun Dahan Artist in Residence 2023.
When eating, you go, "this tastes like it was cooked with love."
Buti na lang di ganun sa reading otherwise we'd go, "this reads like self loathing and the dread of being overwhelmed."
Buti na lang di ganun sa reading otherwise we'd go, "this reads like self loathing and the dread of being overwhelmed."
October 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
When eating, you go, "this tastes like it was cooked with love."
Buti na lang di ganun sa reading otherwise we'd go, "this reads like self loathing and the dread of being overwhelmed."
Buti na lang di ganun sa reading otherwise we'd go, "this reads like self loathing and the dread of being overwhelmed."
Me: I seem to have found my short story niche at 6000-15000 words.
Also me, proofreading myself: I am sick of proofreading, why is this story so long?
Also me, proofreading myself: I am sick of proofreading, why is this story so long?
October 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Me: I seem to have found my short story niche at 6000-15000 words.
Also me, proofreading myself: I am sick of proofreading, why is this story so long?
Also me, proofreading myself: I am sick of proofreading, why is this story so long?
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Submissions are open until 30 November, with an extended window to 15 December for trans and BIPOC writers.
This subs window is for issues #1 & #2 (Spring & Summer 2026). #writersky 🌈📚💙
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This subs window is for issues #1 & #2 (Spring & Summer 2026). #writersky 🌈📚💙
Full guidelines on our website:
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October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Submissions are open until 30 November, with an extended window to 15 December for trans and BIPOC writers.
This subs window is for issues #1 & #2 (Spring & Summer 2026). #writersky 🌈📚💙
Full guidelines on our website:
This subs window is for issues #1 & #2 (Spring & Summer 2026). #writersky 🌈📚💙
Full guidelines on our website:
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Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
I use deadlines to motivate myself to finish projects. Last July, I crammed 60+k words for the Epigram Book Prize.
I didn't get long listed but that's ok. Finishing a novel is a reward in itself.
/Sweetlemons
I didn't get long listed but that's ok. Finishing a novel is a reward in itself.
/Sweetlemons
a lemon with a smiley face on it is hanging from a tree
ALT: a lemon with a smiley face on it is hanging from a tree
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October 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I use deadlines to motivate myself to finish projects. Last July, I crammed 60+k words for the Epigram Book Prize.
I didn't get long listed but that's ok. Finishing a novel is a reward in itself.
/Sweetlemons
I didn't get long listed but that's ok. Finishing a novel is a reward in itself.
/Sweetlemons
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October 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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I have two pending manuscripts for publishers and I was told to expect news in October. And I am have been having a hard time resting because I KEEP FUCKING REFRESHING MY INBOX. I need to calm my ego. Delays and rejections are not a reflection of my skill or hard work. Exhale...
October 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I have two pending manuscripts for publishers and I was told to expect news in October. And I am have been having a hard time resting because I KEEP FUCKING REFRESHING MY INBOX. I need to calm my ego. Delays and rejections are not a reflection of my skill or hard work. Exhale...
I blame Emily Dickinson for my love of em-dashes
# of em-dashes in various stories:
Colors of the Immortal Palette: 81
If a Digitized Tree Falls: 39
Carnival Nine: 36
Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War: 35
Our Chatbots Said "I Love You," Shall We Meet?: 14
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read: 7
Colors of the Immortal Palette: 81
If a Digitized Tree Falls: 39
Carnival Nine: 36
Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War: 35
Our Chatbots Said "I Love You," Shall We Meet?: 14
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read: 7
September 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I blame Emily Dickinson for my love of em-dashes
I won't say that these personal essays that push soundbytes come from TikTok culture because I've certainly read preTiktok essays that have these "gems" that make you want to highlight them, or reblog them, turn them into tshirts... But maaaaaaaan, why do I feel like I am walking through sales talk?
September 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I won't say that these personal essays that push soundbytes come from TikTok culture because I've certainly read preTiktok essays that have these "gems" that make you want to highlight them, or reblog them, turn them into tshirts... But maaaaaaaan, why do I feel like I am walking through sales talk?
Rotc story idea.
5% of population are born with powers and they are obligated to join a reserve forces of the military as a semblance of agency but during times of crises they are mobilized to differing successes.
5% of population are born with powers and they are obligated to join a reserve forces of the military as a semblance of agency but during times of crises they are mobilized to differing successes.
September 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Rotc story idea.
5% of population are born with powers and they are obligated to join a reserve forces of the military as a semblance of agency but during times of crises they are mobilized to differing successes.
5% of population are born with powers and they are obligated to join a reserve forces of the military as a semblance of agency but during times of crises they are mobilized to differing successes.
As an atheist editor, I would occasionally run across Christian fic, and the text tends to explain their faith based realism. I don't see this in Buddhist or Muslim fic where things just happen. I wonder why.
September 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
As an atheist editor, I would occasionally run across Christian fic, and the text tends to explain their faith based realism. I don't see this in Buddhist or Muslim fic where things just happen. I wonder why.
So... My Facebook got suspended and it's not looking hopeful. Si I might as well move to my existing socmed elsewhere
September 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
So... My Facebook got suspended and it's not looking hopeful. Si I might as well move to my existing socmed elsewhere
Rebyu ng Wayang Alimagnum
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That was yesterday. Social battery depleted. Hybernate.
September 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
That was yesterday. Social battery depleted. Hybernate.
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This is the third draft of this workshop. I want to spread simplifying novel(la) planning to as many people who'd want it. I see myself adding more activities and games to pull in participants who might not be as confident in their work.
This is the third draft of this workshop. I want to spread simplifying novel(la) planning to as many people who'd want it. I see myself adding more activities and games to pull in participants who might not be as confident in their work.
Redirecting...
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This is the third draft of this workshop. I want to spread simplifying novel(la) planning to as many people who'd want it. I see myself adding more activities and games to pull in participants who might not be as confident in their work.
This is the third draft of this workshop. I want to spread simplifying novel(la) planning to as many people who'd want it. I see myself adding more activities and games to pull in participants who might not be as confident in their work.
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9 Spellbinding Reasons to Start Reading Alipin Trilogy Today
Looking for a new book to enjoy this monsoon season? Here are nine reasons to read this hot new fantasy novel series that will emancipate you from the limits of reality.
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I have an event at the Alfredo Tadiar Library in San Fernando, La Union this Sunday. Things are about to heat up so you will want to be there as at soon as it opens at 10 AM
July 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I have an event at the Alfredo Tadiar Library in San Fernando, La Union this Sunday. Things are about to heat up so you will want to be there as at soon as it opens at 10 AM
Alam mo yung "my boss is an inconsiderate slave-driver with no respect for my needs and boundaries" except I am writing, so I am my own boss atm.
July 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Alam mo yung "my boss is an inconsiderate slave-driver with no respect for my needs and boundaries" except I am writing, so I am my own boss atm.
PEAK WRITER FEELS: Having my trilogy on the Fullybooked Bonifacio High Street Window.
July 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
PEAK WRITER FEELS: Having my trilogy on the Fullybooked Bonifacio High Street Window.
My newest story, They Wear their Truth like Mobile Battlesuit, pits the Doñas Victorina and Consolacion from Noli Me Tangere as tech powered trans women on different sides of the 1896 revolution, give or take a century.
#fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #sff
#fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #sff
June 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
My newest story, They Wear their Truth like Mobile Battlesuit, pits the Doñas Victorina and Consolacion from Noli Me Tangere as tech powered trans women on different sides of the 1896 revolution, give or take a century.
#fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #sff
#fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #sff
Oh my a title reveal!!!
Steel yourself for the power in these pages.
☢️ “The Last Shift” by @ryandouglass.bsky.social
🦴 “Love, Bone and Sausages” by @rozkaveney.bsky.social
🦾 “They Wear Their Truth like a Mobile Battlesuit” by Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social
☢️ “The Last Shift” by @ryandouglass.bsky.social
🦴 “Love, Bone and Sausages” by @rozkaveney.bsky.social
🦾 “They Wear Their Truth like a Mobile Battlesuit” by Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Oh my a title reveal!!!
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I have two sets of The Alipin trilogy for sale for 1000 pesos plus shipping
I have two sets of The Alipin trilogy for sale for 1000 pesos plus shipping
Wing of the Locust
Tuan escapes his mundane and mediocre existence when he…
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June 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I have two sets of The Alipin trilogy for sale for 1000 pesos plus shipping
I have two sets of The Alipin trilogy for sale for 1000 pesos plus shipping
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Snuck a peak at Heirs to Flame's good reads. So far so good.
Snuck a peak at Heirs to Flame's good reads. So far so good.
Heirs to Flame (Alipin Trilogy, #3)
Liksi, Tuan, and Gilas’s efforts to retrieve the enslav…
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June 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Snuck a peak at Heirs to Flame's good reads. So far so good.
Snuck a peak at Heirs to Flame's good reads. So far so good.
Get started on the Alipin Trilogy for the price of a coffee.
Napakamura. Kumusta naman royalties ko diyan? Nakakaloka.
Ito link ng store:
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Ngayon din sa Shopee Store #sale #fiction #fantasy #filipino #youngadult #middlegrade #reading
Napakamura. Kumusta naman royalties ko diyan? Nakakaloka.
Ito link ng store:
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Ngayon din sa Shopee Store #sale #fiction #fantasy #filipino #youngadult #middlegrade #reading
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June 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Get started on the Alipin Trilogy for the price of a coffee.
Napakamura. Kumusta naman royalties ko diyan? Nakakaloka.
Ito link ng store:
s.shopee.ph/2qIpDsYgj4
Ngayon din sa Shopee Store #sale #fiction #fantasy #filipino #youngadult #middlegrade #reading
Napakamura. Kumusta naman royalties ko diyan? Nakakaloka.
Ito link ng store:
s.shopee.ph/2qIpDsYgj4
Ngayon din sa Shopee Store #sale #fiction #fantasy #filipino #youngadult #middlegrade #reading