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Rascal Hartley
@rascalhartley.bsky.social
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I write. Supposedly.
dear stupid penpal - out now! 🪐
Artifice & Access - out now! ✨️
Current WIP: 13k

unfortunatelyobsessed on AO3, 2019 Hugo award winner (iykyk), bestselling author (apparently?!)
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Preorder DEAR STUPID PENPAL ✌️ store.tenebrouspress.com/products/dea...
In the style of a terrible clickbait ad. There's a very stereotypically-dressed vampire on the left (pale, black hair, cape with red lining) holding a copy of Dear Stupid Penpal. On the right it says "Romance? In MY queer horror book?" Beneath that: It's more likely than you think. As a fake yellow button with red words: PREORDER NOW!
September 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Graphic design is my passion. Preorder today!

store.tenebrouspress.com/products/dea...

store.tenebrouspress.com/products/dea...
In the middle of this is the cover of Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley, which is mostly dark deep space except the silhouette of a man at an instrument panel that's lit in rainbow hues that trail into space. Surrounding it, in terrible order and form, are the following: Insipid flirting People keep saying it's good (my discord DMs are filled with keysmashing) Not gay as in happy, queer as in i love you An author that definitely knows how to market Queer [this is in all rainbow] Oh also it's in space BTW Aroace characters (this is very important to me Written entirely in letters An amount of queer that would make your grandma clutch her pearls (they're my pearls now gimme) Comedy :) Tragedy :( Just kidding (or am I) If I put queer on here one more time I get a bingo Unknown whispers Taco Bell I had to look up multiple words while writing this Horror romance Homance, if you will Rorror? HORROMANCE (it was right there!) End ID
September 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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In the spirit of preorders opening, please enjoy this collage I made for my blorbos like. ages ago. Aku and Finch my beloveds
Img ID: a collage. At the top are fancasts for Aku (Ekin Koç) and Finch (Dev Patel). Between them is an image of an astronaut. In the middle is a galaxy that looks like an iris, and superimposed over that is a painting of two men grasping one another (the painting is The Fall by Alan Stephens Foster). Beneath, at the bottom, is an oil painting of a swirling galaxy. Over this all are prose lines: I won't be in the history books. That's for you. But I loved you first. As long as they get that right, I don't care what they say. End img id.
September 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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GUESS WHAT CAME IN TODAY
A picture of the cover of the book Artifice & Access, a teal cover depicting heroes in various positions, including one with a prosthetic leg and one in a wheelchair. A picture of the first page of A Witch's Tale by Rascal Hartley. It reads: There once was a witch who could cure almost anything. She had a name, as most witches do, and she lived in the woods, as all witches do. She liked sunlight dappling through green leaves overhead, and she liked the thing shaped like a cat that would sit on her windowsill and purr. She liked embroidering her skirts and decorating her cane with crystals and pinecones. But, most of all, she liked the heroes that came through. They didn't come through often, as heroes are not an everyday sort of thing, but at least twice a decade, some knight or another would invariably knock on her door and ask for shelter. On the few occasions they made it back, she healed their wounds and sent them on their way. She liked being a footnote in their stories, a fond remembrance. And I was healed by Lady Golgora, may peace rest fondly with her. She healed broken bones and sprained ankles, arrow pokes and upset stomachs. She strained willow bark for headaches and harvested passionflower for ill memories. She knew how to cure the mumps, measles, mouth sores, and mange. There is but one thing that she" [end page]
January 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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So, this is like the coolest thing ever
Screenshot of anthology Artifice & Access on Amazon, with the "top new release" badge circled Screenshot of anthology Artifice & Access on Amazon, with the "#1 new release" badge circled
January 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM