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🩸📚 TCN Writes 💙📚
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🎨 Writer and artist ✍️ | 25 | 🏳️‍⚧️ He/They ⚧️ | Lover of queer horror 🌈📚 & all things historical or gothic 💀 | Punk rock fan 💿 | Currently working on my first two novels 🖋️ Living Dead Youth & The Saint and The Scholar 🎫
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Some genuinely traumatic news. I'm devastated. My partner and I are being evicted because the landlord wants to sell up. It's our home. We imagined ourselves living here for years and years. Packing up some of our book collection and sewing supplies since they're the easiest to do with what we have.
A moving box of colourful paperback books tightly packed together. Most of the books are horror or fantasy novels.
September 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I shouldn't have dragged you in.
#MyArt #OriginalArt #LivingDeadYouth #SFF #SFFH #SpeculativeFiction #Horror #BookSky 💙📚🩸📚
A drawing of Elise, a young woman, kneeling on the dirty ground, wiping blood from her face. Elise has light brown skin, short, slicked back curly black hair, and is wearing ripped dark jeans and a grey t-shirt. Elise has a black eye and is bleeding from her nose, knee, and knuckles. She's surrounded by rubbish bags, water, and broken glass. A man's shadow opening the door is in the foreground.
September 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Elise at 19 and her terrible, awful, no-good ex.
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A pencil drawing of Elise, a scowling young woman with a curly mullet, heavy lidded eyes, and an aquiline nose. She has a muscular build and wears a CBGBS OMFUG t-shirt. A leather jacket is over her shoulder. A pencil drawing of Toni, a smiling young woman with wavy hair, heavy lidded eyes with long eyelashes, and an aquiline nose. She has a round face. She wears a low-cut vest and her jacket is falling off her shoulders. In the corner is a pair of leather boots hanging by their laces.
August 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Updates on LDY's second draft progress
In orange are finished chapters. Hoping to send this off to be reviewed by the end of summer!
I've also gotten quite a few other chapters done, but I want to focus on Act 1 for now
#AmWriting #LivingDeadYouth #SpeculativeFiction #SFFH #SFF #Horror #BookSky 💙📚🩸📚
A screenshot of my progress on Scrivener, with half of the chapters in Act 1 coloured in orange, to show them being second drafts.
July 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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My lovely partner drew Joyce in inks!!

#OriginalArt #LivingDeadYouth #SFF #SFFH #SpeculativeFiction #Horror #BookSky 💙📚🩸📚
A black and white traditional ink drawing of a young person from the bust up with long wavy hair and a plaid shirt staring at the viewer. Their hair is blowing to the right. They have piercing, shadowed eyes, a pointed nose and slightly thick lips. Their expression is neutral and they have acne. Underneath "Joyce Resnik" is written with a flourish.
June 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Just finished Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot. Definitely a shrimpteresting book. Generally really enjoyed it though it went completely off the rails in the last act (I like off the rails though). Also went to a nice wee cafe to hang out away from the miserable weather.
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A tableau of my cafe setup. The book Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot sits in the middle of a wooden table. The cover of the book is blue, with a haloed teenage boy gripping onto his backpack. There's a purple latte with a black teacup and saucer in the top left corner, in the top middle there's a sugar bowl with brown and white lumps of sugar, and n the top right there's a custard pastry accompanied by a black plate, napkin, and fancy knife.
June 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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8. Some fun dialogue for when you have to move back in with your ex but you don't want her to be your ex.
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“….I’m not trying to butter you up”, said Delilah. “Like hell you aren’t. Jesus, for how clever you are, you never learned to be subtle.” “I’ll be lonely out in the living room. I’ll be out there, exposed to the world.” “Too bad. Share with the cat.” “In the living room, what a fate.” “I didn’t even once say you’d be in the living room. You’re under the stairs.” “In the dungeon.” “It’s a bedroom.” “You’re evil. Keeping me in the cold, dank dungeon. I bet there’s rats.” “There’s a fold out bed and a heater.” “Like that shall save me from the rats.” “I hope the rats bite your toes when you sleep.” “I see…. I see… I’ve been a friend, a lover, for so very long, and you consign me to a subway tunnel” “You’re still not getting any closer to being in my arms” “I don’t want to be!”, said Delilah. She wanted to be.
June 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I know for a fact that there would be a truly murderous energy between Joyce Resnik and Biming Ma had they worked at the same restaurant.

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A doodle in pink of Joyce and Biming staring at eachother angrily. Joyce has short dark hair, acne, and is wearing a server's uniform with a name tag. Biming is wearing his line cook uniform, a bandana, and has short dark hair and a widow's peak.
June 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Joyce with her brothers, circa 1968.

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A drawing of three siblings in front of an apartment building. A girl of about 10 stands between two young men. All three have pale skin and they wear clothing that looks late 60s in style. The man on the left smiles and stands casually, he has red hair and glasses and dresses in a slightly dishevelled way. He has a patch on his long brown jacket, stubble, and his flat cap is slightly eskew. The girl in the middle also looks dishevelled. She has chin length curly black hair and stares emptily into the distance. Her posture is stiff and awkward. She wears a red sweater, clearly an oversized hand me down, over a plaid green dress with a black collar, and her knee socks are falling down. The man on the right has neat curly black hair, a moustache, and a phlegmatic look. He has a hand in the pocket of his corduroys and wears a hand knitted blue tie and sports jacket. The apartment building is old and red brick, and has a green door.
June 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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6. Ohhhh I've had these in my back pocket for a while. Still not finished though.
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June 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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5: Late since I was busy yesterday then got ill (yes I'm constantly ill, the joy of having a Victorian Waif Constitution)
The Saint and The Scholar is like Hypnospace Outlaw, The Barbican, Eat Your Young, and Derry Girls
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An image of the Barbican, an iconic brutalist estate. Grey brutalist apartments are positioned around a courtyard with a pool of water covering most of it. Saturn Devouring His Son by Goya. It's a grotesque painting of a naked man with wild eyes eating the arm of his decapitated child. A screenshot from Derry Girls Series 1 Episode 1. The girls sit in a schoolbus in their school uniforms, all the other girls are looking at James with suspicion.
June 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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POV: You Live in Fantasy Birmingham

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A drawing of two young women, a chirpy blonde woman with light brown skin waves at you and says "Hiiii! We're here to kill you! Sorry!", she has a cane covered in caution tape and a blue knee brace, she wears a whimsical blood themed jumper. Her sister looms tiredly behind her, with short black hair and clad in a long leather coat.
June 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Not sure yet for The Saint and The Scholar, but comp titles for Living Dead Youth include We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix and One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston which is... definitely a combination.

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The cover of We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix The cover of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
June 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Hiya, I go by TC Nimok, I write speculative fiction and horror. My current main project is Living Dead Youth (you're a messy 70s punk band and it turns out you're under a death curse!)

My first line? (It was not a happy new year)

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"Happy New Year!" written in italics.
June 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Doodled this when I finished the first draft of my novel. Me too, me too.
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A doodle of three disheveled and deeply exhausted looking people, covered in black goo. The caption says IT'S OVER!
May 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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These are some of THE oldest drawings of Elise, from 2017. The 1st one is very obviously from a school notebook haha. She was originally a side character from another project, "Left", where she's Edith's aunt who comes visiting from out of town. I enjoyed her so much I made an entire story from her.
A picture of an ink drawing of Elise, a thin young woman who dresses in a punk rock style. She has a crooked nose, voluminous curly hair, and a thin frame. She wears torn drainpipe jeans and a studded leather jacket. She has her hands in her pockets and is looking sideways, smiling. The drawing is clearly on a school notebook. A picture of teenage Elise in a cartoonish style. She has curly black hair and light brown skin. She grins and holds up a camera, which covers most of her face. She wears a mustard turtleneck, brown flares, black chelsea boots and a taupe trenchcoat. The background is abstract in bright pink and orange.
April 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Reading Please Kill Me again and this entire book feels like watching other peoples' drama from a distance and going "guys stoooooooop" 💙📚
A photo of the book "Please Kill Me" by Legs McNeil open on a cafe table with a library bookmark inside.
April 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Love looking over my first draft to start polishing it off and it's full of beautiful, artistic lines like this. #AmWriting 💙📚 🩸📚
A screenshot of a word processor: "Joyce looks at them like Limmy". A screenshot of a word processor: "the tattered Night of the Living Dead, Black Christmas, and Frogs posters. The horror posters ranged from classics to some things she'd only watch high, mostly Frogs with Sam Elliott." A screenshot of a word processor, highlighted in purple: "KILL KILL MURDER KILL!!!!!" A screenshot of a word processor: "Allow me to introduce myself", with a flourish of her hand that Joyce thought was reserved for theatre, "I am Delilah, Mage and Sorceress in Residence" "......ok"
March 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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SO! ANNOUNCEMENT!
I've officially finished the first draft of my horror novel, Living Dead Youth #AmWriting 💙📚 🩸📚
A PNG of a black and white mottled composition book with "LIVING DEAD YOUTH" emblazoned on the cover.
March 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I really need to redraw him but...... the one the only most-important-character-who-isn't-a-pov-character, the toxic yuri himself, Douglas #MyArt #LivingDeadYouth #SpeculativeFiction #Horror #BookSky 💙📚🩸📚
Douglas, a muscular youth with light olive skin and black, messy hair smiles at the camera with one hand behind his head. He wears a tight, ratty dark grey band t-shirt with his band's logo on it in red and three small bracelets. He's against a red background.
March 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Local second hand shop just re-opened! 💙📚
A picture of a bookshelf.
March 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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THREAD: Just some of Delilah's many makeup looks.
Here is Delilah fresh-faced and looking bald and peeled.
#MyArt #LivingDeadYouth #SpeculativeFiction #Horror #BookSky 💙📚🩸📚
A bust of Delilah, a young, thin dark-skinned Black woman smiling towards the camera. She has large, soft brown eyes and a round, oval-shaped face. Delilah has bleach blonde Bantu knots and thin, bleached eyebrows, the black roots of her hair are showing. She wears a loose-fitting red vest. The background is a scribbled yellow.
March 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The cigarette Joyce lit, with a wavering matchstick, felt like a balm on a bullet wound. She hadn’t felt like this in a long time, hadn’t felt that stabbing pain in her mind, in her chest, in her kidneys, since-

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In a rainy city at night, a person with hands in coat pockets walks towards a subway station, bathed in yellow and blue light. This is a cropped version of a public domain 1979 photo "Die dritte Generation" by Massimo Ankor.
March 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Joyce Resnik is a normal, well-adjusted, and non-scary butch.
#MyArt #LivingDeadYouth #SpeculativeFiction #Horror #BookSky 💙📚🩸📚
A cartoony image of Joyce, a young photographer, staring intently, slightly uncomfortably, and stone-faced at the viewer. Joyce grips a 70s-style camera. She has short, messy red hair and very pale white skin with acne. Joyce is wearing a sloppy plaid black and red shirt, a red handkerchief around her neck, an olive green duck jacket, and dark flared jeans with a leather belt.
March 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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What is your damage?

#MyArt #LivingDeadYouth #SpeculativeFiction #Horror #BookSky 💙📚🩸📚
A cartoony image of Douglas, a man in his 20s, who is struggling with trying to cut a demo tape. He has a frustrated expression on his face. He has black hair, stubble, and a light olive skin tone. He wears a ratty grey t-shirt with a green "The Clash" logo on it. He wears navy cargo trousers and black work boots. In one hand he holds a cassette, spilling the tape, in the other he is trying to cut it with a red pair of scissors.
March 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM