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oliviariesling.bsky.social
Oli 🌼 on sub
@oliviariesling.bsky.social
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💅30-something she/her

🦻🏻Hearing aid user

📚 Writing spicy adult romantasies about being disabled and disappointing your parents.

Repped by Bonnie Swanson at FinePrint Literary
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OUTLAWED x Anastasia

Notorious outlaw Roberta “The Raven” Eastmont teams up with her immortal ex-lover to rob a train and avenge her mother.

(still a WIP, but it felt weird to exclude it)
a simple mood board with the title "a bird in hand" in the center on top of a prairie background. On the left is a photo of a blond man in a suit labeled "ex-beau, gambler, cowboy, and...?" On the right is a photo of a young woman brandishing a pistol labeled "wanted outlaw, eldest daughter, blessed or cursed?"
March 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Supernatural x American Primeval

Rescued from a job gone wrong, Morn finds herself falling for her savior only to encounter the violent supernatural cult he’s running from.

#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitE
a simple mood board with a background of desert mountains in a storm. The title "Morning rises" is in the middle. To the left is a photo of a woman with her head down, face covered by a cowboy hat. It's labeled with "lady sheriff, hard of hearing, chaotic bisexual." To the right is a photo of a man hunched over a book. It's labeled with "former cult member, dysfunctional sibling, scholarly & soft."
March 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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MY LADY JANE x THE FRUGAL WIZARD'S HANDBOOK

Demigod Bonnie's attempt at attending Woodstock is a few centuries off, leaving her at the mercy of Sir William of Berwyn. Little does he know, she's the monster he was sent to kill.

#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #PopUpPitE
A simple mood board with vinyl records on an orange background. The title "Bonnie's Summer of Love, Swords, and Other Long, Hard Things" is in the middle. To the left it has a character portrait of a young woman in medieval clothing with a 60s hairstyle holding a pet rock with the descriptors "vintage girlie, neurodivergent, monster." To the right it has a character portrait of a young man in medieval clothing holding an emerald pendant with the descriptors "medieval knight, hard of hearing, monster hunter." Art by Phaea Galicaea
March 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Pet rocks, knights, unicorns…something for everyone!

#WritingCommunity #OnSub
Also retro themed splash image titled “things you might see in Bonnie’s Summer…” Clip art of a smooth stone holding a guitar surrounded by text reading: First stop, Woodstock, where you might meet Jimi. Maybe not the one you were looking for, but he still rocks. Literally. So we missed Woodstock by…a few centuries. Good news, there are knights. This one in particular seems a little shy, but he’s eager to please. …and honestly, he’s easy on the eyes. Not bad at all Oh look! A unicorn! Nothing bad ever came from petting a unicorn.
March 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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DO NOT SEPARATE or else the sheriff’s gonna come for you.
A cardboard box labeled “this is a set do not separate” A picrew of a straight passing couple about to kiss. The man is reclined on a bed with his shirt half unbuttoned, eyes closed, and mouth pursed in anticipation. He has blond hair, freckles, a willowy build, and short shorts. The woman crawls over him with a confident smile and her eyes slightly open. She has long brunette hair. She’s fully dressed, but not petite.
March 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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OUTLAWED X Anastasia

Teaming up with an ex to rob a train and avenge your mother...nothing can go wrong with that, right? Except he's weirdly obsessed with this 70-year-old painting.
Huh.
Anyway.

#WSPitW #A #F #R #Own #Dis #WSPit
A six-panel mood board with a snippet in the middle. The top three pictures are a cowboy on horseback looking over the prairie, an old royal family portrait, and a cozy picture of cinnamon rolls and coffee. The bottom three photos are a guitar on a rustic front porch, a small glass elephant, and a woman in late 1800s western clothing. The snippet in the middle reads "I know how he sighs when he’s kissed. I know the way his eyelashes flutter when he’s content. I can’t look at his face without my stomach tying itself in knots, but when I look at my feet all I can think of is how my skirt matches his eyes."
February 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Supernatural, but make it yeehaw:

Morn's chased her fair share of outlaws across the desert, but a hellcritter cult creates a threat unlike any she's ever seen. To save her city, she has to place her trust in a pair of renegade brothers and find an absent god.

#WSPitA #F #R #Hi #Own #Dis #WSPit
a 9 panel mood board with southwestern aesthetics. It features silhouettes of a man and woman separately against a sunrise and together in front of a fire, a desert landscape, a california condor, books with illustrations of monsters in them, and a variety of civil war weapons. It includes the snippet "need build in my veins. The need to have him, to be the one responsible for protecting someone so fundamentally good. Not something motherly, something carnal. If I could open my ribs and hide him between my lungs, I would."
February 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Demigod Bonnie's attempted jump to 1969 leaves her stranded in 1464 where she forges an unlikely alliance with Gil, an ambitious knight, on her quest to find a new portal while evading monster hunters and the wrath of her mother.

#WSPitS #A #R #F #Own #Dis #WSPit
a mood board made to look like a collection of poloroid photos with retro and medieval vibes. It includes photos of a Route 66 town, an old English town, a pet rock, a discarded sword and chainmail, a couple embracing, an old church, a man asleep among books, and a woman with flowers in her hair. Hand drawn berries, flowers, sparkles, hearts, and a speaker playing music are scattered throughout.
February 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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This dialogue didn’t make it into the current draft, so I’m using this as an excuse to air it.

Birdie’s feelings on her mom’s heroism.
"I was six and I needed my mama. I turned twelve and I needed my mama. I was sixteen, twenty, and not a day's gone by that I haven't needed her, but where is she? Gone. She left me." "She spent her whole life fighting for what's right, but what about me? She brought me into this world then abandoned me for it."
February 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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She likes him, I swear. (Birdie and Cress from 🚂 WIP)
a valentines day themed doll maker featuring a male/female couple. The man is smiling with a dazed expression. There's a lipstick smear on the corner of his mouth. He holds up his hand in a half-heart. The woman looks like the viewer caught her by surprise. She completes the man's half-heart with a thumbs up instead of the other half of the heart
February 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Bonnie doesn't know where the time jump took her, but it sure doesn't look like three days of peace and music. It looks an awful lot like pitchforks and torches.

Luckily a cute knight offers to help. Too bad she's the monster he's hunting. 🤫

Currently #OnSub
Art by Phaea (ko-fi.com/phaea)
A young woman with shoulder-length, flower-adorned hair wearing medieval clothes and holding a smooth river rock. She's looking over her shoulder directly at the viewer. Behind her is an art nouveau-style background featuring strawberries and golden leaves. A young man with curly brown hair wearing medieval clothes and holding an emerald pendant that's hung from his neck on a chain. He's looking softly to the left, in the direction of the young woman's picture. Behind him is an art nouveau-style background featuring blueberries, pie, and golden leaves.
February 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I’m going to the Michael’s “WESTERN DISCO” seasonal display and never coming out.
Good bye.
An ad for Michael’s crafts that features western, cowgirl, and gambling themed items in orange and pink
February 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Went to a bookstore. Did the thing. Call that “manifesting.”

“This is where I go.”
A woman sitting on the floor of a bookstore with her hand wedged between books on the shelf
January 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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My blood went to Idaho this week. In the past it’s been sent as far as New York. Even if you’re not in the PNW, donate! They can ship it where it’s most needed.
A map of the United States with heart-shaped pins on it. Two of the pins are in Idaho, one in Utah, one in Nevada, and one in New York.
January 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Still looking for betas!

OUTLAWED x Anastasia
Weird West second chance romance

Notorious outlaw Birdie "the Raven" Eastmont teams up with her immortal ex-beau to rob a train and avenge her mother.

#WritingCommunity
A shuffle mood board with southwestern aesthetics including poker cars, horses, a young woman looking up at someone on horseback, an old photo of a well-dressed blond man, a family portrait with the youngest child cut out, a white salamander, a glass elephant, and an emerald necklace
January 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Aside from some minor voice edits, she’s ready 👀

And my calendar is currently clear if anyone needs a swap (but I’ll likely only take one. I’m a slow reader and can’t take on more)
Please be advised of the following content warnings: This book contains genre-typical depictions of violence, death, dismemberment, domestic abuse, implied sexual assault, forced pregnancy, abortion, and graphic sex scenes between consenting adults.
January 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Birdie slaps this on her horse’s ass
A bumper sticker that reads “I heart being really hot and supporting reproductive freedom”
January 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Time to start hyping my [OUTLAWED x Anastasia] WIP before I need to fish for beta swaps 👀

Teaming up with an ex to rob a train and avenge your mother...nothing can go wrong with that, right? Except he's weirdly obsessed with this 70-year-old painting.
Huh.
Anyway.

Weird West second chance romance
A six-panel mood board with a snippet in the middle. The top three pictures are a cowboy on horseback looking over the prairie, an old royal family portrait, and a cozy picture of cinnamon rolls and coffee. The bottom three photos are a guitar on a rustic front porch, a small glass elephant, and a woman in late 1800s western clothing. The snippet in the middle reads "I know how he sighs when he’s kissed. I know the way his eyelashes flutter when he’s content. I can’t look at his face without my stomach tying itself in knots, but when I look at my feet all I can think of is how my skirt matches his eyes."
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Idk, I just think that books about dismantling cults that enable deep-seated hateful beliefs are about to make a comeback
Illustration from the Utah War including a woman being executed and a coyote prancing through a field of skeletons. Two snippets accompany the image. The first reads “It amazed me how piety could beget evil without hesitation.” The second is “Men like that don’t learn a lesson. Even if they’re killed, their ideals persist.”
January 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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📖 Yeehaw!Supernatural

Morn's chased her fair share of outlaws across the desert, but a hellcritter cult creates a threat unlike any she's ever seen. To save her city, she has to place her trust in a pair of renegade brothers and find an absent god.

#W #A #R #F #Dis #OV #BluePit (looking for betas)
a 9 panel mood board with southwestern aesthetics. It features silhouettes of a man and woman separately against a sunrise and together in front of a fire, a desert landscape, a california condor, books with illustrations of monsters in them, and a variety of civil war weapons. It includes the snippet "need build in my veins. The need to have him, to be the one responsible for protecting someone so fundamentally good. Not something motherly, something carnal. If I could open my ribs and hide him between my lungs, I would."
January 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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📖 Demigod Bonnie’s attempted jump to 1969 leaves her stranded in 1464 where she forges an unlikely alliance with Gil, an ambitious knight, on her quest to find a new portal while evading monster hunters and the wrath of her mother.
#OS #A #R #F #Dis #OV #BluePit
a mood board made to look like a collection of poloroid photos with retro and medieval vibes. It includes photos of a Route 66 town, an old English town, a pet rock, a discarded sword and chainmail, a couple embracing, an old church, a man asleep among books, and a woman with flowers in her hair. Hand drawn berries, flowers, sparkles, hearts, and a speaker playing music are scattered throughout.
January 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Haven’t used this mood board in a hot minute 👀
For my adult romantasy currently on sub
A nine panel mood board with an overall retro vibe with a hint of medieval fantasy. It features vintage items like a yellow typewriter, a Polaroid camera, big boxy computer monitors in grayscale office cubicles, and a Zoltar fortune teller. There are also blackberry brambles, an old church with stained glass windows, an abandoned sword swathed in field daisies, and an old well. A couple embraces in the top middle image. The view is from behind the man. We can see his dark hair and the woman’s hands behind his neck holding flowers. In the middle there is a crumpled Woodstock poster and a smooth river rock.
January 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Are you an East Coast (long, skinny) or West Coast (short, fat) butterer?
Two sticks of butter. One is significantly longer than the other. The shorter one is slightly thicker. Both are half a cup.
December 29, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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I haven’t shared these publicly yet but I keep staring at them 👀 so…Merry Christmas

🚂 Birdie/Cress 🏜️ Jaime/Morn
Picrew of a couple kissing in bed. The woman reclined against the pillows. She has a serene look on her face, like she’s been waiting for this. She has long light brown hair , freckles, lightly tanned skin, and red toned clothes. The man hovers over her with a smirk while blushing. He has blond hair, light skin, warm toned clothes, and a gemstone pendant on a necklace. Picrew of a couple kissing in bed. The man reclined against the pillows. He has a concentrated look on his face and he’s blushing, like he’s nervous. He has short light brown hair , freckles, pale skin, and humble clothes. The woman hovers over him with a smirk. She has dark brown hair, tan skin, and cool toned clothes.
December 25, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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🚂 WIP isn’t a Christmas story, but this song is AGGRESSIVELY stuck in head while writing rn
Lyrics to Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Sleeping At Last. They read: (Christmas)Baby please come home (Christmas)If there was a way (Christmas)I'd hold back these tears (Christmas)But it's Christmas day (Christmas)Baby please come home
December 23, 2024 at 8:03 PM