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Tru Skies
@trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com
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British author of foul-mouthed queer fantasy The Cruel Gods and The Chosen One Con 📚 They/Them 💛🤍💜🖤 Trans rights! 🏳️‍⚧️

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Back The Chosen One Con: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/trudie-skies/the-chosen-one-con
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My handsome man Bayley turns three today!!! That's 28 in human years! He's a single dad now.
A photo of Bayley the ragdoll cat standing on a cat tree and looking distinguished. His fur is brown and white, like a cappuccino, and he has a white moustache and white milk drop on his nose. His eyes are a bright blue.
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Without downloading new pics, describe your gender:
A photo of a wizard with a white beard wearing a silvery robe, pointed hat, and sunglasses as he sits in a chair. Text says: me arriving on Earth with zero intention of doing the actual human experience.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Since today is the crowdfund launch, but I've got hours to kill yet...

1 like = 1 lore drop from The Chosen One Con 😎
The book cover to The Chosen One Con book, book one the Lost in the Aether duology by Trudie Skies. The cover shows a young white man in a long trench coat putting a glowing blue potion in his inner pocket as though stealing it. In the background are factories with chimneys blowing out dark smoke.
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Ask and ye shall receive!
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November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Lmao
A photo of Gustave the tabby kitten leaning over a cat tree at an angle with a plastic cone on his head.
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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They got more comfortable!
A photo of Gustave the tabby kitten snuggled up to Bayley the ragdoll on my office chair. Gustave is wearing a plastic cone around his neck and face. They're now sleeping opposite against each other so the cone is by Bayley's ass.
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Neither cat is comfortable right now 🙈
A photo of Gustave the tabby kitten snuggled up to Bayley the ragdoll on my office chair. Gustave is wearing a plastic cone around his neck and face which is digging into Bayley.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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He's still the same chaotic cat.
A photo of Gustave the tabby kitten sitting on a table with a plastic collar around his neck after surgery.
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Why should you back this campaign? Not only will your support help bring this project to life, but you'll get cool goodies, and I'll get an excuse to commission more art!

Here's a tease for what you can expect in the campaign:
A promotional image of The Chosen One Backerkit campaign with a sneak peak and the text: Back The Chosen One Con campaign and help me reach my goal for magical rewards! Including art cards, a poster, and more! The image features The Book Bazaar logo, the paperback and ebook covers of The Chosen One Con, three character art cards of Max, Lyle, and Hope, and a fake potion poster.
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Here are our main characters! The story is from their alternating POV with occasional guest POV's.

Art designed by the wonderful @aowna.bsky.social 💙❤️
An image featuring character art of the main characters from The Chosen One Con on a background of chimneys and grey smoke. The first image is of Max Farrow in a blue monochromatic style. He is a young man wearing a fancy suit and surrounded by bluebells. He is described as bisexual, loves magic, sex worker, addicted to magic drugs, wants a life of comfort, and his name name is Magnus. Underneath him is Lyle Miller in a red monochromatic style. He is a young man in a flannel shirt and surrounded by feathers. He is described as demisexual, hates magic, ex-miner and factory worker, dying from magic poison, wants a revolution, and his mage name is Lysander.
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Here's what you can expect from The Chosen One Con...

Please check out content warnings on my website here: www.trudieskies.com/the-chosen-o...
An arrow trope map for The Chosen One Con showing the book cover by Trudie Skies and a background of chimneys with smoke. The text says The poor mine the aether, the rich buy designer magic. The tropes arrows include: LGBTQ+ Rep, Celebrity TV Mages, A Contest of Trials That Don't Go Well, Will Suck Cock for Success, Queer-Normative World, Drug-Fuelled Hallucinations, Who Keeps Murdering? Everything is Fucking Blue, Enjoy the Revolution, Fake Chosen One Prophecy, Magic Potions Galore.
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The Chosen One Con is the first book in the Lost in the Aether duology—a queer gaslamp fantasy of industrial magic in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions.

It's part of @the-book-bazaar.com crowdfund launching November 12th!

Follow it: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
A promotional image for The Chosen One Con book by Trudie Skies. It shows a background of chimneys with smog and The Chosen One Con book cover along with the text: gaslamp fantasy of bad manners and magical tech. A televised contest of mages to find the "chosen one" in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions. Part of The Book Bazaar.
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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What you looking at? 😼
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October 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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The Chosen One Con is all about magical trials, so here's a throwback to an earlier chapter! #WIPSnips
A screenshot of my WIP, The Chosen One Con, with the following text: The camera swiveled to the priest who had been standing just out of view. He was an older man, his dark skin hidden under thick blue robes speckled with unprocessed aetherstone, as though he’d been dragged through a quarry. He held some sort of scroll before him and cleared his throat. “In times of strife and struggle, there will be signs of a unique individual who will lead Aefenhold to prosperity and peace. A soul that will shine brighter than all others. They will arrive before our Archons bearing radiant magicka and with a heart pure as ore. They will demonstrate their magical strength and unique talents by passing a series of trials devised by our Archons. Upon passing these trials, they will be ordained by the Holy Stone and recognized as Aefenhold’s chosen one to end conflict and usher in a new age of aether free from tyranny.” A chosen one? They had to be joking?
October 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Casually committing crimes again.
A photo of Gustave the tabby kitten lying across a fluffy grey cat tower with his legs stretched out and his paws crossing over each other in a casual pose. His face also has a cheeky smile.
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Day 15 & 16 of #Caulktober!

Max is in a working relationship with his 'boss', a man in his mid-fifties. It's business and pleasure. Said boss has definitely spanked him!

The boss is named Val (for Valerian) and Max/Val definitely took some inspiration from Hazbin Hotel...
A challenge game for Cocktober 2025 with the following days: Tell us about your cock-owning character who… 1 - is married 2 - is a virgin 3 - loves other cock-owners 4 - identifies as bi 5 - is in a poly relationship 6 - identifies as trans or non-binary 7 - is a shapeshifter 8 - has magical powers 9 - has received a blow job 10 - has given a blow job 11 - has been pegged 12 - has tied someone up/been tied up 13 - has survived something traumatic 14 - is a true romantic 15 - has been on either end of an age gap relationship 16 - has spanked someone/been spanked 17 - has watched other people have sex 18 - has had sex in public 19 - has saved the world 20 - is based on you or someone you know 21 - is featured on your favorite book cover 22 - has a crush on someone 23 - is an athlete 24 - is a musician 25 - has had sex with his best friend 26 - has had sex with his sworn enemy 27 - is from the past 28 - is from the future 29 - has had sex with a coworker 30 - is a billionaire or royalty 31 - isn’t human
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Running behind on my cocks! Day 11 & 12 of #Caulktober!

I'm gonna go ahead and say that Max has probably been pegged at least once 😂 He hasn't tied anyone, but he's definitely been tied up.
A challenge game for Cocktober 2025 with the following days: Tell us about your cock-owning character who… 1 - is married 2 - is a virgin 3 - loves other cock-owners 4 - identifies as bi 5 - is in a poly relationship 6 - identifies as trans or non-binary 7 - is a shapeshifter 8 - has magical powers 9 - has received a blow job 10 - has given a blow job 11 - has been pegged 12 - has tied someone up/been tied up 13 - has survived something traumatic 14 - is a true romantic 15 - has been on either end of an age gap relationship 16 - has spanked someone/been spanked 17 - has watched other people have sex 18 - has had sex in public 19 - has saved the world 20 - is based on you or someone you know 21 - is featured on your favorite book cover 22 - has a crush on someone 23 - is an athlete 24 - is a musician 25 - has had sex with his best friend 26 - has had sex with his sworn enemy 27 - is from the past 28 - is from the future 29 - has had sex with a coworker 30 - is a billionaire or royalty 31 - isn’t human
October 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Today is the 4th anniversary of The Thirteenth Hour, the first book in my Cruel Gods series. This book went on to become a SPFBO & BBNYA finalist AND Indie Ink award winner for best setting/wittiest character!

To celebrate, I've put the ebook up for FREE for today only! 🥳

mybook.to/TheThirteent...
A promo image for the Thirteenth Hour's 4th anniversary featuring the book cover with funky glasses over the characters, and the text: Fantasy of bad manners, tea, and naughty words - four years! Cruel gods demand worship from their mortal subjects in this gaslamp fantasy featuring magical portals, gothic cosmic deities, quaint Britishisms, and steampunk vibes.
October 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Well, considering I have a MC called Hope, this one is easy 😂
A screenshot from my upcoming WIP, The Chosen One Con, with the following text: Whatever dreams I had then were gone. I had to grow up, I had to become the man Hope needed me to be, but god, it was so terrifying, because what if I did it wrong? What if I couldn’t provide for her? Give her the life she deserved? On the day she’d confessed to me that she was a girl, she’d also said that she’d rather die than live a life that wasn’t hers, and that…that scared me to death. The thought of losing my sister horrified me more than anything. I couldn’t lose her. Not my Hope. Even if it meant losing myself.
October 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Happy International Lesbian Day to Hope from my upcoming book, The Chosen One Con!

Hope is a sixteen-year-old trans girl studying to be a medical mage at school. She's got a crush on a ex-porn star 🙈

Art by the wonderful @aowna.bsky.social 💙
A teal monochromatic portrait of Hope Farrow, a character from The Chosen One Con as designed by Aowna. Hope is a sixteen year old white girl with long hair in a braid. She is wearing a school uniform and a cloak on top of it. A heart-shaped locket dangles around her neck. There are two potion bottles floating beside her.
October 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Not done a #WIPSnips in a while, but we just happen to have a couple of dungeons in the end game 😂
A screenshot from my WIP, The Chosen Con, with the following text: “If you’d come with us, sir,” said one of the Argents. What now? They’d escort me to [redacted]—my—rooms and let me run riot alone? Lock me inside? We took the elevator down to the second level and entered a nondescript corridor lined with rooms. No. Cells. Oh, they’d brought me to the fortress dungeons. Of course, the Archons had their own private dungeons. Why wouldn’t they?
October 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Crimes being committed.
A photo of Gustave the tabby kitten climbing up a screen door designed to keep him out of a room. He is clinging onto the top with his claws.
October 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Day 6, 7, & 8 of #Caulktober!

No poly relationships in The Chosen One Con (yet?) but I could see Max being interested in the idea, he likes to share! No shapeshifters either, but Max does gain magical abilities from the drugs he takes, named bluebell. Magic is easily accessible in his world.
A challenge game for Cocktober 2025 with the following days: Tell us about your cock-owning character who… 1 - is married 2 - is a virgin 3 - loves other cock-owners 4 - identifies as bi 5 - is in a poly relationship 6 - identifies as trans or non-binary 7 - is a shapeshifter 8 - has magical powers 9 - has received a blow job 10 - has given a blow job 11 - has been pegged 12 - has tied someone up/been tied up 13 - has survived something traumatic 14 - is a true romantic 15 - has been on either end of an age gap relationship 16 - has spanked someone/been spanked 17 - has watched other people have sex 18 - has had sex in public 19 - has saved the world 20 - is based on you or someone you know 21 - is featured on your favorite book cover 22 - has a crush on someone 23 - is an athlete 24 - is a musician 25 - has had sex with his best friend 26 - has had sex with his sworn enemy 27 - is from the past 28 - is from the future 29 - has had sex with a coworker 30 - is a billionaire or royalty 31 - isn’t human
October 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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The kitten has become the cushion.
A photo of Bayley the ragdoll cat with his head and paw resting on Gustave, the tabby kitten. Gustave looks shocked by this.
October 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I'm going to take part in #Caulktober but specifically for Max and his sordid love life from The Chosen One Con! Here's the handsome chap.

Max isn't married and he lost his virginity aged 16, which is the age of consent in Aefenhold. He's bi, but he loves cock!
Character art for the main character from my upcoming WIP, The Chosen One Con, designed by artist Aowna. This is a portrait of Max Farrow, who is a handsome young white man with neat combed hair and wearing a suit with a cravat. He is surrounded by bluebells. The image is painted in a blue monochromatic style.
October 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM