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cassiopeia (cath) ☀️
@lagunabayfables.bsky.social
filipino writer of the gothic, the glamorous, and the grotesque ⋆ wuthering heights 🫶🏼 ⋆ words in uncharted, mekong review + elsewhere
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i only had one publication this year, but i made it count 🖤 maiden, monster, muse, my short story set in 1920s manila about an artist who traps his muse in a cycle of murder and resurrection is out now in the death in the mouth 2 anthology! check it out: sloane.bigcartel.com/product/deat...
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📢💥SUBMISSION CALL📢💥

Subs are anon.
Full guidelines are posted in a carousel on my instagram, but if you need info (or don’t have insta) email us and we’ll be happy to provide you with it!!

You DON’T have to have experience to submit!

www.instagram.com/mj.marlowe

#bluesky #booksky #anthology
October 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
So happy to announce that my latest short story, HEARTS AND HALF-MEASURES, about a t-girl manananggal eating transphobes and sex tourists while solving the serial killings of her manananggal sisters, is out now with @pseudopod.org 🫀
“You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one.”

PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures, by Cassiopeia Gatmaitan

Narrator: Jess Lewis
Host: Scott Campbell
Audio: Chelsea Davis

C/W: murder, transphobia
(see show notes for more)
PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures
You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one. You think it’s all bull. Anyone in their right mind would. But he watches you like a hawk…
pseudopod.org
August 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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“You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one.”

PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures, by Cassiopeia Gatmaitan

Narrator: Jess Lewis
Host: Scott Campbell
Audio: Chelsea Davis

C/W: murder, transphobia
(see show notes for more)
PseudoPod 990: Hearts and Half-Measures
You eat the hearts of men because your father says that if you consume enough, you’ll turn back into one. You think it’s all bull. Anyone in their right mind would. But he watches you like a hawk…
pseudopod.org
August 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
contract signed!

if you like trans rage and folkloric filipino horror, then you might wanna stay tuned for HEARTS AND HALF-MEASURES, my blood-soaked story featuring a trans girl solving the serial killings of her fellow manananggals 🫀

coming soon from @pseudopod.org!
May 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
does anyone have any tips for writing body horror 👀
May 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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BTW if you guys haven't heard yet, folk singer and ethnomusicologist Grace Nono has a book called Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans, Voice, Gender, and Place

If you are curious about the traditions of the spiritualists of our isles and how it survives this age, you guys should read it :D
May 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🌌🎪 x Sapphic Moulin Rouge

Raised on war and lost love, Carina acts out revolutionary stage plays in colonial Manila. Dissent is a death sentence, but she’s willing to risk it all when a familiar face from her past sits down one night to watch her perform

#QuestPit #WIP #novella
May 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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I heard it's tradition around here to share your art on your birthday? 🌸🍃
May 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Hello! Taking more #commissions while I'm still looking for a day job. If you need some OC art (mechas, furries, and creatures ok!), then I'd love to work with you! 🎸✨

It's also my HRT anniversary this month, so comms will really help me cover upcoming medical transition needs. 🫡🏳️‍⚧️ Thanks!
March 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Pokemon fanfiction when I was 7 years old 😭
Where did you really learn to write? Did you go through a BFA program? The school of fanfiction? Tell me where you really started to hone your craft! #WritingPrompt
March 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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AND IT'S HERE

The gorgeous cover for LORD OF RUIN with art direction by Ella Garrett and artwork by @superstarfighter.bsky.social

Isn't he just stunning? Isaac will be coming to you this August from Orbit! Pre-orders are available now!
March 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Announcing the official preorder campaign for THE STARVING SAINTS!

Order through @copperdogbooks.bsky.social and you’ll get an extremely cool pin designed by @missdaisydee.bsky.social and a gorgeously gory art print by @miavern.bsky.social 👀

www.copperdogbooks.com/starvingsaints
March 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️
February 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
hello, everyone!

it would mean the world to me if you could come to the very first book launch of a book i contributed to!

it’s at sunday, feb 16th, 2025 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET online, hosted by firestorm books. i’ll see you there 🫶🏼

registration 🔗 below 👇🏼
February 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Resurrected by a dark power, muse Aleida wakes without her memories in a strange house lorded over by a man who sees visions of the holy and the damned. Slowly, she begins to piece her past together and in doing so, comes closer to solving her own murder.

#QuestPit #WIP
February 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Between Nathaniel and Arsenia lie three corpses, a curse that spans generations, and the love that ruined both their lives. When she dies married to someone else, he steals her back from death. Only, she’d found peace in her grave—and now she wants revenge.

#QuestPit #WIP
February 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
so excited to share that the anthology which published the first short story i ever wrote is in the locus recommended reading list 🖤

as an avid reader of sff and all things speculative, this is a dream come true ✨
February 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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We are delighted to announce a new Six-Week Workshop scholarship for Trans writers. The Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for the Six-Week Workshop, has been offered by an anonymous donor and will be available for the first time this year.
Announcing a Scholarship for Trans Writers
We are delighted to announce the Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for our flagship Six-Week Workshop, offered by an anonymous donor, which will be awarded each year to one…
www.clarionwest.org
January 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
for some reason, i always think of the “a face, a false memory, a feeling” line.

(this is from deadmuse, my 1920s manila gothic horror in which an artist’s muse wakes from death intent on solving her own murder)
January 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
how do you guys find joy in writing :(

i’ve been struggling with writing lately because i used it as a crutch to express feelings while working through trauma but now i have better coping mechanisms and i don’t know how to get back to it in a healthy way
January 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#meetmymcs

trapped by a life she doesn’t want to live and spurned by a man she doesn’t even want to love, arsenia finds solace in death. but after she’s resurrected by the one who spurned her, she seeks revenge, and in doing so awakens an ancient curse

art by nicoledealart
January 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
#meetmymcs

aleida wakes from death in the dark devoid of her memories. whilst dealing with a ghost who haunts her and a husband who keeps secrets from her, she reckons with the one thing she knows about herself: she was murdered. and now she has to find out who killed her

art by @alamangoes
January 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
finally back in the kitchen (cooking)
January 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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hello friends! my colleague, the brilliant Lorna Hemingway, is on the hunt for new projects! she represents everything in the children's space from board books to YA and is specifically looking for:

- contemporary romance
- coming of age (especially BIPOC)
- gorgeous, punchy graphic novels

#mswl
January 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM