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Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Most realistic elements: Ulysses’ anxiety dreams & preferring to face zombies and demons rather than defend his thesis.
Most fantastical: getting your PhD 2 months after your supervisor asks for revisions to the conclusion & being handed a job… lol
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A book. Old Time Religion. E.H. Lupton. Bronze figures, two men, one shirtless and holding a dagger, the other wearing a toga and supporting him, holding a branch in the other hand. Both have green ivy around their heads. A black background.

November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

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Niv and Elyan would co-author one cafe ‘Safe Foods’, which would include a set of recipes with consistent textures (Niv), and general stuff about food hygiene devolving into vibes (Elyan). Very niche.

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerPrompts November 24: If your MC/character(s) wrote a cookbook, what would it be called?

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November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

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When you reread after a year and it’s just as delightful as the first two times! Magic academia queer romance with gods and demons. Looking forward to finally reading book 4. @pretensesoup.bsky.social

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A book. Dionysus in Wisconsin. E.H. Lupton. A bronze cover with black etching- look figures of two men wearing green ivy wreaths. One is sitting down holding a goblet and the other leans towards him with a hand on his shoulder.

November 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

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Hero with heart definitely. None of them is interested in power or wealth, and Rathaliel and Elyan don’t care too much about unfair laws or rules so will flout or break them to get by when needed.

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 3d

#QueerPrompts November 22: Would your MC/character rather be a villain with unlimited power and wealth or a hero with only their heart?

November 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Elyan: Heartstopper (though he’d find the queerphobia super weird) and pulp fantasy. Rathaliel: action movies like Terminator and Aliens. Niv: historical (laughing at inaccuracies) and pulp #romance/ #fantasy
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November 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

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‘It makes as much sense as that bullshit! You’re so godsdamn determined to think the worst of him.’

‘I healed the bastard!’

‘And then sulked at every minute you had to spend with him!’ Rathaliel stalked to the door; Daem grabbed at her arm and she wrenched it away.

‘Where are you going?’

‘Out,’ she said, slamming the door behind her.

November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Not famous, exactly. They’re known, by different monikers, but in the ‘hey, that indie band I randomly saw last year is touring again’ way rather than ‘OMG METALLICA!!!’

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 7d

#QueerPrompts November 18: Are any of your characters famous in your story's world?

November 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Niv has an apprentice musician, and the MCs and others are all trying to learn and teach what magic they know. Everyone’s learning!

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 8d

#QueerPrompts November 17: International Students' Day: Any students in your story?

November 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

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Daem was leaning against the railing with his back to the river and Elyan’s purported misery, arms folded and an expression of studied disgust on his face. Mostly feigned.

‘How long can you keep this up?’ Rathaliel muttered to Elyan.

‘It’s getting pretty tedious. If the deck doesn’t clear soon I’ll clutch my arse and make a run for the dunny.’

She stifled a laugh and pointedly didn’t look at Daem, whose amusement tingled at the edge of awareness no matter how much he tried to hide it.

November 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Second Chances in New Port Stephen, @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social . Cute rom com with MCs in their 40s, Eli returns home post-transition and runs into his high school ex.
An Unsuitable Heir, KJ Charles. Historical Genderqueer + m romance (you have to read the whole series for it to make sense!)

🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 11d

#QueerPrompts November 14: Free Friday or trans reading recs

November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

The calendar is divided into moons and tendays (which approximate the cycles of the two moons respectively).

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Elyan's life was a fucking hot mess, practically asking the clans to put his neck in a noose five times a tenday, yet this could the first time in his life he’d contemplated his own death with regret rather than indifference or, in darker moments, something that might have been longing.

Extremely helpful thoughts to be having when it could all become moot any moment.

November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Rathaliel was the ‘gifted’ child who found schoolwork easy (and a bit boring) and constantly asked ‘why’. She was considered difficult by some, but only those who couldn’t keep up with her.

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 13d

#QueerPrompts November 12: GIF/Audio or description of how well behaved your MC was as a child

November 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

In Anathlenor they can choose their genital configuration like anyone else, when they’ve figured out their gender ID. Some choose to change but others don’t. It’s not a big deal.

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 17d

#QueerPrompts November 8: Intersex Day of Remembrance: How are intersex people treated in your story's world?

November 8, 2025 at 5:34 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

I often find myself unexpectedly writing scenes. E.g. in my romance short story the MC has a queer romance book club and when I wrote a scene about it two of them were mean about one of my MC’s fave authors.
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Daryl Marez @darylmarez.bsky.social · 19d

Day 006 // WEEK 1: THE FIRST CHILL
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November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

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Because Daem was so focused on healing magic, which Rathaliel had little aptitude for and less skill, they’d naturally spent a lot of their time in the caves apart. And it had been good. Being in each others’ pockets was all very well at the beginning of their relationship, since they’d both ripped their lives up and left everyone else behind.

But travelling with Elyan had put an itch under her skin, or maybe lit a fire under her arse. Waving her swords around just to keep a roof over her head and food in her belly while she tried to follow the trail of a ghost was starting to feel suffocatingly small.

November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

A lot is happening in the world! Elyan is probably the most stressed, though he keeps his emotions barriered.

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November 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

I use notes on my phone. One of my favourite ways to brainstorm is while roller skating, so when I have an idea I’ll get off the rink, note it all down then get going again for the next idea!

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Daryl Marez @darylmarez.bsky.social · 20d

Day 005 // WEEK 1: THE FIRST CHILL
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November 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

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Rathaliel danced backwards as her opponent’s blade slashed towards her stomach. She parried low with her left-hand weapon, drawing the right up high, ready. So quickly the steel blurred, her series of blocks and thrusts drove him backwards. Sweat slicked his face as it did hers. As he dropped low to swing at her legs, she vaulted the blade neatly, delivering a roundhouse kick to his shoulder that sent him stumbling backwards and a low sweep that landed him on his backside. Another time she might have kicked an opponent in the face, but he was far too pretty for that.

November 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Celebrating the return of my favourite bookmark from the ADHD portal. It has been missing for a week. Praise be!

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A leather bookmark with Oxford University and college shields, names and dates on a dark blue background. It is in front of a purple book.

November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

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It wasn’t long after Rathaliel banished the magelight that the breathing from the two in the bed took on the even rhythms of sleep. Wouldn’t that be nice. Elyan’s eyes flicked open, staring into the darkness, his thoughts a tangle of sluggish but maddeningly insistent snakes.

November 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

I originally had the world becoming increasingly homophobic, but decided to make it mostly queer normative with magic as the main axis of oppression, because I deal with it enough irl.

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 22d

#QueerPrompts November 3: Why you chose or didn't choose queer acceptance in your story's world

November 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Hard relating to Cicero this morning!
I am part feline after all.

‘I’m wet, Thomas! Wet!’

@jordanlhawk.bsky.social

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A book cover. Hexbreaker. Jordan L. Hawk. A Hexworld novel. Top image: two white men with short dark hair wearing formal dark grey and white clothes. One stands close behind the other, eyes closed, mouth close to the other’s face. Their hands are entwined. Bottom image: silhouette of a cat super-imposed on an old map.

View through a train window looking at train tracks and a station. Rain runs in rivulets down the glass.

November 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM

Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Running out my KU free trial at the start of the month, increasing my audio listening in the middle as I started listening while commuting (and definitely not at my desk while working), and library books.

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