Lucy Black, Local Ghost
@lucillewalterblack.bsky.social
currently trying to make queer urban romantasy a thing
native, disabled, dyke, leftist
https://linktr.ee/lucillewalterblack
native, disabled, dyke, leftist
https://linktr.ee/lucillewalterblack
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Native Americans in horror films are GOATED
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Native Americans in horror films are GOATED
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I wrote a longer response to this sentiment on my Tumblr when someone asked me what I thought of using AI to generate an outline or finish a scene or write a few paragraphs - I genuinely don’t understand not enjoying the PROCESS of writing and refining!
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I wrote a longer response to this sentiment on my Tumblr when someone asked me what I thought of using AI to generate an outline or finish a scene or write a few paragraphs - I genuinely don’t understand not enjoying the PROCESS of writing and refining!
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The only thing less useful than a political action you think is useless is complaining on the internet about that action.
For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.
For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.
October 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The only thing less useful than a political action you think is useless is complaining on the internet about that action.
For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.
For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.
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A momunmental achievement and wonderfully presented by the Story Lab.
Also gotta note the timing of its release - the same week as Tony Abbott's "history" of Australia book/doco.
Also gotta note the timing of its release - the same week as Tony Abbott's "history" of Australia book/doco.
The epic story of Australia and its first peoples — like you've never seen it
The story of Australia and its peoples is vast and deep. It's one you should know, but possibly one you've never been told. Well, not like this anyway.
www.abc.net.au
October 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A momunmental achievement and wonderfully presented by the Story Lab.
Also gotta note the timing of its release - the same week as Tony Abbott's "history" of Australia book/doco.
Also gotta note the timing of its release - the same week as Tony Abbott's "history" of Australia book/doco.
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Nothing could stop me from showing up today — not my skin flare ups, or anxiety, or the congestion of the public transit system today. Knew I needed to make it and use my voice to fight against ICE and Donald Trump with the rest of Chicago. It was an amazing turnout, estimated over 100,000 people.
October 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Nothing could stop me from showing up today — not my skin flare ups, or anxiety, or the congestion of the public transit system today. Knew I needed to make it and use my voice to fight against ICE and Donald Trump with the rest of Chicago. It was an amazing turnout, estimated over 100,000 people.
for those of you not from Indiana, IU and Purdue have a historic long-lasting rivalry and this is absolutely going in the record books as a victory for the Boilermakers. I’m dying. well played AND well done.
Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
for those of you not from Indiana, IU and Purdue have a historic long-lasting rivalry and this is absolutely going in the record books as a victory for the Boilermakers. I’m dying. well played AND well done.
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My novelette, 'That Slow Nightfall', finally dropped!
It features a blind MC who undergoes a study to utilise the eyes of her hot new companion. She's not supposed to fraternize, but when she catches sight of a terrible crime, she's got way more than a broken contract to contend with.
It features a blind MC who undergoes a study to utilise the eyes of her hot new companion. She's not supposed to fraternize, but when she catches sight of a terrible crime, she's got way more than a broken contract to contend with.
October 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My novelette, 'That Slow Nightfall', finally dropped!
It features a blind MC who undergoes a study to utilise the eyes of her hot new companion. She's not supposed to fraternize, but when she catches sight of a terrible crime, she's got way more than a broken contract to contend with.
It features a blind MC who undergoes a study to utilise the eyes of her hot new companion. She's not supposed to fraternize, but when she catches sight of a terrible crime, she's got way more than a broken contract to contend with.
thinking about the concept of “support” as it’s tossed around in leftish online circles and feeling a little bit like we’ve lost the plot because nobody will define what it means and different answers are contradictory and hypocritical, helping no one and confusing everyone. thread, 1/?
October 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
thinking about the concept of “support” as it’s tossed around in leftish online circles and feeling a little bit like we’ve lost the plot because nobody will define what it means and different answers are contradictory and hypocritical, helping no one and confusing everyone. thread, 1/?
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Down to his last penny, Jason “J.D.” Donovan makes a deal that saves his life but inadvertently puts his friends and family in danger.
Can he save them without sacrificing himself?
A horror novella in the tradition of “The Twilight Zone” and Stephen King
www.ilenegoldman.com/books
#Booksky
📚💙
🩸📚
Can he save them without sacrificing himself?
A horror novella in the tradition of “The Twilight Zone” and Stephen King
www.ilenegoldman.com/books
#Booksky
📚💙
🩸📚
October 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Down to his last penny, Jason “J.D.” Donovan makes a deal that saves his life but inadvertently puts his friends and family in danger.
Can he save them without sacrificing himself?
A horror novella in the tradition of “The Twilight Zone” and Stephen King
www.ilenegoldman.com/books
#Booksky
📚💙
🩸📚
Can he save them without sacrificing himself?
A horror novella in the tradition of “The Twilight Zone” and Stephen King
www.ilenegoldman.com/books
#Booksky
📚💙
🩸📚
if we ever figure out what it is about M/F fanfic readers that makes them hungry and eager to buy new original M/F romance while queer fanfic readers have to get strapped into a high chair while authors go “here comes the airplane!” about their queer romances, we will legitimately fix publishing.
October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
if we ever figure out what it is about M/F fanfic readers that makes them hungry and eager to buy new original M/F romance while queer fanfic readers have to get strapped into a high chair while authors go “here comes the airplane!” about their queer romances, we will legitimately fix publishing.
“overly ambitious alchemist who will drag her boyfriend along on every adventure even if it ends with him drinking soap or getting turned into a safety pin” x “jock with very little self preservation instinct who will fight anyone at any time if they say shit to his friends”. is this anything.
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“overly ambitious alchemist who will drag her boyfriend along on every adventure even if it ends with him drinking soap or getting turned into a safety pin” x “jock with very little self preservation instinct who will fight anyone at any time if they say shit to his friends”. is this anything.
Thinking about breaking out my cheesy 90s Native fusion cookbook for today but idk what I’d make
October 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Thinking about breaking out my cheesy 90s Native fusion cookbook for today but idk what I’d make
happy Indigenous People’s Day! friendly reminder that you can read my cool novella for the low price of $0 and make your local Native fantasy author feel happy at the same time
GROCERY SHOPPING IS A DANGEROUS JOB, out now:
- queer urban fantasy
- established f/f and trans!m/f relationships
- Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school
- a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid
- $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop...
- $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl
- queer urban fantasy
- established f/f and trans!m/f relationships
- Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school
- a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid
- $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop...
- $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl
October 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
happy Indigenous People’s Day! friendly reminder that you can read my cool novella for the low price of $0 and make your local Native fantasy author feel happy at the same time
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Murder mysteries are hard
October 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Murder mysteries are hard
happy indigenous peoples’ day! go flip off your local monument to a colonizer for me
October 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
happy indigenous peoples’ day! go flip off your local monument to a colonizer for me
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Omg. I just seen a post about yt people being scared of land back and a response to “but where would we go?” Was “I dunno to therapy” and it’s priceless in using that from now on.
October 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Omg. I just seen a post about yt people being scared of land back and a response to “but where would we go?” Was “I dunno to therapy” and it’s priceless in using that from now on.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“No team, strong solo.”
“No team, strong solo.”
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"Aren't you a charity?"
"Aren't you a charity?"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
The Late Walk-Ins
The Late Walk-Ins
October 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“No team, strong solo.”
“No team, strong solo.”
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Spellcheck hates me for my vast and archaic vocabulary.
October 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Spellcheck hates me for my vast and archaic vocabulary.
- wake up out of dead sleep
- need Cold Iced Tea
- go get Cold Iced Tea
- drink Cold Iced Tea in can
- return to bed with plan to finish tea and go to sleep
- pick up WRONG CAN OF TEA that I didn’t know was not empty
- swallow two mouthfuls of Tea That I Can Smell Is Going Off
- silently scream
- need Cold Iced Tea
- go get Cold Iced Tea
- drink Cold Iced Tea in can
- return to bed with plan to finish tea and go to sleep
- pick up WRONG CAN OF TEA that I didn’t know was not empty
- swallow two mouthfuls of Tea That I Can Smell Is Going Off
- silently scream
October 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
- wake up out of dead sleep
- need Cold Iced Tea
- go get Cold Iced Tea
- drink Cold Iced Tea in can
- return to bed with plan to finish tea and go to sleep
- pick up WRONG CAN OF TEA that I didn’t know was not empty
- swallow two mouthfuls of Tea That I Can Smell Is Going Off
- silently scream
- need Cold Iced Tea
- go get Cold Iced Tea
- drink Cold Iced Tea in can
- return to bed with plan to finish tea and go to sleep
- pick up WRONG CAN OF TEA that I didn’t know was not empty
- swallow two mouthfuls of Tea That I Can Smell Is Going Off
- silently scream
Between 0-1. I work full time and write in between my other responsibilities and hobbies; if I get 5-7k words in a week I’m very lucky.
Authors, in the interest of helping readers spot gen ai 'authored' books, how many novels do you publish a year?
I publish one 80-100k+ word (epic fantasy) novel, and I can only do that because I drafted 8 novels before I started publishing any. 📚💙
I publish one 80-100k+ word (epic fantasy) novel, and I can only do that because I drafted 8 novels before I started publishing any. 📚💙
October 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Between 0-1. I work full time and write in between my other responsibilities and hobbies; if I get 5-7k words in a week I’m very lucky.
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Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit
October 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit
I’m now at a point if I have to decide that my first book in this series is done at ~73k words or if I should carry it through to its original intended end point and boy it feels like an impossible question
October 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I’m now at a point if I have to decide that my first book in this series is done at ~73k words or if I should carry it through to its original intended end point and boy it feels like an impossible question
who are some of the writers/artists that made you?
JRR Tolkien
@rosalarian.bsky.social (yes, really)
Libba Bray
Arthur Conan Doyle
Laurie J. Marks
Tamora Pierce
Sarah Orne Jewett
Rumiko Takahashi
Kaori Yuki
JRR Tolkien
@rosalarian.bsky.social (yes, really)
Libba Bray
Arthur Conan Doyle
Laurie J. Marks
Tamora Pierce
Sarah Orne Jewett
Rumiko Takahashi
Kaori Yuki
who are some of the writers that made you?
jrr tolkien
libba bray
jd salinger
ken follett
cs lewis
joanna campbell
lemony snicket
richelle mead
stephenie meyer
kurt vonnegut jr
eva ibbotson
se hinton
lois duncan
you? 📚💙
jrr tolkien
libba bray
jd salinger
ken follett
cs lewis
joanna campbell
lemony snicket
richelle mead
stephenie meyer
kurt vonnegut jr
eva ibbotson
se hinton
lois duncan
you? 📚💙
who are the five writers that made you?
Matt Christopher
Sam Kieth
Kevin Smith
Denis Johnson
Brian Evenson
Matt Christopher
Sam Kieth
Kevin Smith
Denis Johnson
Brian Evenson
October 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
who are some of the writers/artists that made you?
JRR Tolkien
@rosalarian.bsky.social (yes, really)
Libba Bray
Arthur Conan Doyle
Laurie J. Marks
Tamora Pierce
Sarah Orne Jewett
Rumiko Takahashi
Kaori Yuki
JRR Tolkien
@rosalarian.bsky.social (yes, really)
Libba Bray
Arthur Conan Doyle
Laurie J. Marks
Tamora Pierce
Sarah Orne Jewett
Rumiko Takahashi
Kaori Yuki
GROCERY SHOPPING IS A DANGEROUS JOB, out now:
- queer urban fantasy
- established f/f and trans!m/f relationships
- Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school
- a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid
- $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop...
- $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl
- queer urban fantasy
- established f/f and trans!m/f relationships
- Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school
- a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid
- $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop...
- $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl
October 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
GROCERY SHOPPING IS A DANGEROUS JOB, out now:
- queer urban fantasy
- established f/f and trans!m/f relationships
- Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school
- a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid
- $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop...
- $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl
- queer urban fantasy
- established f/f and trans!m/f relationships
- Animorphs x early Buffy x magic boarding school
- a werewolf, two faeries, & a human jock fight a squid
- $0: lucillewalterblack.itch.io/grocery-shop...
- $5: books2read.com/u/3yygxl