cassiopeia (cath) ☀️
@lagunabayfables.bsky.social
filipino writer of the gothic, the glamorous, and the grotesque ⋆ wuthering heights 🫶🏼 ⋆ words in uncharted, mekong review + elsewhere
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!
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
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!
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!
🌌🎪 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
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
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 👇🏼
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
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 👇🏼
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 👇🏼
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
#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 ✨
as an avid reader of sff and all things speculative, this is a dream come true ✨
February 1, 2025 at 10:14 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 ✨
as an avid reader of sff and all things speculative, this is a dream come true ✨
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)
(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
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)
(this is from deadmuse, my 1920s manila gothic horror in which an artist’s muse wakes from death intent on solving her own murder)
#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
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
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
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
#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
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
#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
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
finally back in the kitchen (cooking)
January 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
finally back in the kitchen (cooking)
my 25 for 2025! in all honesty, i’ll probably read these all in january then go into a reading slump for the rest of the year 😅
December 27, 2024 at 7:41 PM
my 25 for 2025! in all honesty, i’ll probably read these all in january then go into a reading slump for the rest of the year 😅
thank you so much to @nicoledeal.bsky.social for this wonderful portrait of arsenia, the main character of my filipino wuthering heights wip 🦋 nicole captured all the details so well, from the traditional dress to the butterfly motif 💛
December 22, 2024 at 4:32 PM
thank you so much to @nicoledeal.bsky.social for this wonderful portrait of arsenia, the main character of my filipino wuthering heights wip 🦋 nicole captured all the details so well, from the traditional dress to the butterfly motif 💛
Born to an exiled heron lord whose folk are imbued with the gift of prophecy, Mercy is forced to become a conqueror’s bride. With her gift used to wage war against her own people, she’s faced with a choice: live and be used as a weapon or die and save them all.
#ShortPit #F #OnSub
#ShortPit #F #OnSub
December 18, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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...
December 17, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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...
i am now on tiktok! with my only video being an arcane timebomb edit i finished 10 mins ago 🙈
December 10, 2024 at 4:36 PM
i am now on tiktok! with my only video being an arcane timebomb edit i finished 10 mins ago 🙈
if you guys are into beautiful animation and media that really makes you think, may i recommend mononoke: the phantom in the rain? it’s on netflix and i’ve been thinking about it all day. beautiful movie, compelling story
December 8, 2024 at 12:36 PM
if you guys are into beautiful animation and media that really makes you think, may i recommend mononoke: the phantom in the rain? it’s on netflix and i’ve been thinking about it all day. beautiful movie, compelling story
my next wip is a horrormantasy featuring a vampiric woman who makes her confessor fall in love with her on the eve of her execution, stripping him of the notions that the church and the Spanish colonizers currently massacring their people are good and just.
December 4, 2024 at 1:55 PM
my next wip is a horrormantasy featuring a vampiric woman who makes her confessor fall in love with her on the eve of her execution, stripping him of the notions that the church and the Spanish colonizers currently massacring their people are good and just.
🇵🇭 Wuthering Heights
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.
(resharing my pitch)
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.
(resharing my pitch)
November 22, 2024 at 10:03 AM
🇵🇭 Wuthering Heights
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.
(resharing my pitch)
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.
(resharing my pitch)
bringing back my trope/plot point map for my filipino wuthering heights reimagining 🦋
November 18, 2024 at 1:20 PM
bringing back my trope/plot point map for my filipino wuthering heights reimagining 🦋
the author // the character
me smiling right before the eras tour vs. my main character arsenia sad post-husband murder. sometimes i feel kinda bad for putting her through all of That
art by alamangoes
me smiling right before the eras tour vs. my main character arsenia sad post-husband murder. sometimes i feel kinda bad for putting her through all of That
art by alamangoes
November 16, 2024 at 2:11 AM
the author // the character
me smiling right before the eras tour vs. my main character arsenia sad post-husband murder. sometimes i feel kinda bad for putting her through all of That
art by alamangoes
me smiling right before the eras tour vs. my main character arsenia sad post-husband murder. sometimes i feel kinda bad for putting her through all of That
art by alamangoes
hello #booksky and #writersky! i’m cath, writer of historical horror and fantasy, short stories, and more. i’m studying to be an archaeologist, and i’m writing a filipino gothic wuthering heights retelling. nice to meet you 💛
November 15, 2024 at 3:55 AM
hello #booksky and #writersky! i’m cath, writer of historical horror and fantasy, short stories, and more. i’m studying to be an archaeologist, and i’m writing a filipino gothic wuthering heights retelling. nice to meet you 💛
i wrote an archaeological fantasy flash fiction piece a while back, and watching a video about the oldest depiction of a human face reminded me of it. it features someone who was loved enough to be remembered through the millennia, and i really hope to share it with you soon 💛
November 10, 2024 at 2:31 PM
i wrote an archaeological fantasy flash fiction piece a while back, and watching a video about the oldest depiction of a human face reminded me of it. it features someone who was loved enough to be remembered through the millennia, and i really hope to share it with you soon 💛