Keygan S. S. McClellan
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Keygan S. S. McClellan
@keyganssmcclellan.bsky.social
writer, naturalist, artist, amateur nature photographer
It is late. Please see the attached image for an unhinged list of potential audiences for THE TOWER'S BLOOD, my (querying soon) science fantasy about a fugitive blood mage who helps start a workers' revolution with the power of Heart and Bad Jokes (and flesh manipulation).

#QuestPit #Q #A #SFF
May 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
A fugitive blood mage, trying to lay low, finds a new home (an organic, malevolent palace where the world's corrupt rulers dwell) and a new family (the four young revolutionaries infiltrating it).

His power could be the revolution's salvation. His secrets could be its downfall.
#QuestPit #Q #A #SFF
May 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I don't believe I have a choice in the matter.
May 4, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Near the end, some Things happen. Horror-adjacent Things.

#CRPFireflies #CampRevPit #MoodboardTwist
May 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
That was more fun that I expected! Some feedback on my 1st chapter was that I didn't explain enough about what was going on, and I edited accordingly. Looking at where I put cyan for backstory, I realized how useful that feedback was! There would've been way too little cyan before
April 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
So, I didn't end up participating in #PosterPit because I got sick, but I felt like making something just for fun. I'm NOT a graphic designer, and I just used purely free-to-use elements from Canva, but I made something kinda creepy. ^.^ Adding here just for some fun vibes.
April 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Makin' a little intro post for the novel I'm currently working on for anyone curious:

A renegade blood mage joins a burgeoning workers' revolution in the halls of a malevolent, organic palace. Think Gideon the Ninth x the Avalanche team from FFVII.
April 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Spring is here!!!! 🌱🌸🌿

Featuring the sharp-lobed hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba)
April 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This was late 2023; last year, they had owlets with their mate (attaching picture of one of the goofy muppet babies). ^.^
April 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
✨ Bird protocol. Take a bird, leave a bird. Bird. ✨
April 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"There are places where the skin of the world is thin. Where the atmosphere grows teeth: space can unfurl, convulse, or split like a frost-cracked tree; ghosts gather like mold. Visiting a place like that isn’t something you do unless you’re desperate or have a death wish."
#1stLinePit #F #A #Q soon
April 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
When your first major assertion of self-identity is also your first major act of rebellion 😄

(also some world-building, all from my science fantasy manuscript)

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
March 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trying to submit to #RevPit but the outside is so ✨️atmospheric✨️
March 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I'm a professional naturalist. I am a non-professional gamer and critter-keeper. (Here is one of my critters and also my current workplace ^.^)
March 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A tense moment from my blood magic science fantasy.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
March 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
FF7’s Avalanche x GIDEON THE NINTH
Civilization, bloated with oligarchs and corrupt mages, runs on blood. The biggest flaw in the system? Cirrus: blood mage, outlaw, wielder of bad jokes, healer of the powerless, and now—maybe—new recruit to the workers’ revolution.
#WSPitQ #A #F #SF #LGBT #WSPit
February 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

A little bit of ✨atmosphere✨ from my fantasy novel

Who's the better hiking buddy?

A) that guy who hikes like it's *exercise* so that by the time you get somewhere cool, you're too out of breath to enjoy it

or

B) some Weird Ghosts™️
February 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Upcoming Disruptive Action: 24-hour "economic blackout" (mass boycott) on February 28th, organized by the People's Union. There are planned continued actions after this. Let's see what the impact is.
February 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
FF7’s Avalanche x GIDEON THE NINTH

Thanks to his dad’s desertion from the cult-like Sanguine Order, blood mage Cirrus is an outlaw. Could he also be a revolutionary?

A job with saboteurs could be his chance to wield magic to heal instead of harm—if his past stays buried.

#2025Pit #A #F #SF #LGBTQ
January 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
FF7’s Avalanche meets GIDEON THE NINTH

An outlaw blood mage is recruited to the worker’s revolution. The job: protect his team while it infiltrates and sows chaos among the oligarchs. The problem: his enemies, the mages who power civilization, are still hunting him.

#YouDeservepIt #A #SFF #LGBT #Q
January 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM

2024 is the new hottest year ever, but there's something else I thought was kind of staggering.

The last 11 years are the hottest 11 years on record.

That is nearly my entire adult life.

Data from NASA's Earth Observatory
January 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I want a nice first post. Here is a picture I took last July of a gray treefrog (Hyla species) on a blackberry leaf.
January 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM