hi! i’m hel, i have a ba in creative writing & film, and just finished a publishing masters. i work as a publishing assistant at the moment!

i love sff, literary fiction, and anything kind of weird. my favourite series is the wayfarers by becky chambers, a sf series that has fantastic worldbuilding, alien societies, complex inter-species relations, and just a whole lot of beautiful writing.

my main wip is called the faery children, a broody, morally grey fantasy story about elemental witches, which you can read about here. 

i have just started outlining/drafting a short story called baby, let the band keep playing, we’ll keep swinging ‘til last call. you can read about it here and here.

i love reading other people’s work and am always looking to help people with their own writing. if you’re interested you can contact me on here. i have experience with essays, fiction and non-fiction articles, and i spent two years as an editor on a creative arts magazine.

i also beta read! that does not need to be sought after on a separate site, feel free to drop me a message or an ask and i will quite literally drop everything to read something. fully not joking.

i would love to make more writer friends of any form or genre :) ask and tag game friendly!!

nothatsmi:

Commissions opened!!

Commissions are finally opened!

I lost my job so I really need the money, in hopes that it can please people as well))

It’s my first time ever opening commissions so, maybe i’ll be clumsy in the process, but i’ll do my best. Send me a dm here or on instagram (same username) if you’re intersted!

[ If you can’t or don’t want to purchase anything i’d still appreciate reblogs, make the info turn etc. Thank you so much! ]

pawbeanies:

my bravest knighttt… come hither ….. mmmwah !! ok you are dismissed

naamahdarling:

copperbadge:

rhube:

rubyjones:

Create your own book cover - without generative 'AI' | Ruby Jones

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Too many writers are using generative 'AI’ to make their book covers, so I’ve written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.

If you can’t afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!

I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.

I annoyed my cat by writing this and not playing with her; you might find it useful?

This is a fantastic guide not only to the technical aspect of cover design but the aesthetic aspect as well!

This is GREAT STUFF. Highly recommend! Exactly the techniques I have used on covers in the past, and they look great!

at-thezenith:

at-thezenith:

hello brethren!

my dear friend zel is an incredibly talented artist (made my icon hehe) and they are currently selling their very first tshirts!!! 10% of profits go to black trans alliance so if you are a butch, or you know any butches, consider supporting a lovely person in lesbian visibility week and getting urself some sick art :)

update:

now featuring more designs !! plus tote bags, stickers, and prints :)

at-thezenith:

hello brethren!

my dear friend zel is an incredibly talented artist (made my icon hehe) and they are currently selling their very first tshirts!!! 10% of profits go to black trans alliance so if you are a butch, or you know any butches, consider supporting a lovely person in lesbian visibility week and getting urself some sick art :)

update:

now featuring more designs !! plus tote bags, stickers, and prints :)

derinthescarletpescatarian:

cryptotheism:

My top three rules for world building:

• How are these bitches eating?
• How do these bitches stay warm at night?
• Who is paying for all of this bullshit?

Don’t forget “where are these bitches shitting?” – hygiene and waste disposal are critical components of any society

littlestpersimmon:

the ornithologist and the lady of the forest

hellsbaby:

*flirting* if you had to kill me how would you do it

kawareo:

screaming, crying, throwing up, as I force myself to write a story i’m very passionate about and love writing and have no obligation to write except that i want to

sakrafka:

sketchbook page of random doodles

scottiequeen:

sevenmoreminutes:

when the objectively bad person has traumatic and honestly reasonable reasons for why theyre like that but it doesnt excuse their actions and only serves to make them more tragic as a character

sobernatural:

i wish i could scoop out all the words and stories inside my head with a butter knife and spread it onto a document and that was it

bumblebeebats:

asneakyfox:

asneakyfox:

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy’s way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn’t expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

“Frances and I were considering attending a Lesbian/Feminist conference this summer, when we were notified that no boys over ten were allowed. This presented logistic as well as philosophical problems for us, and we sent the following letter:

Sisters: Ten years as an interracial lesbian couple has taught us both the dangers of an oversimplified approach to the nature and solutions of any oppression, as well as the danger inherent in an incomplete vision.

Our thirteen-year-old son represents as much hope for our future world as does our fifteen-year-old daughter, and we are not willing to abandon him to the killing streets of New York City while we journey west to help form a Lesbian-Feminist vision of the future world in which we can all survive and flourish.”

— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response.“ (This essay in particular was apparently first published in 19-fucking-79, which is how long this conversation’s been going on.)

writing-is-a-martial-art:

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

reader-twisted:

Dear December,

Please find me a good ending.