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Artie - 26 - they/them - main blog is @tombstuck - ao3 username is Stormendale

writeblr intro 3: the bee's knees

hi everyone! it's time for an updated intro, because the 2nd one is from a year ago and I'm hoping to be more active on here again!

  • artie (was marty before, sorry to confuse anyone!), 26, missouri
  • queer fantasy romance is what I mostly write.
  • my work tends to include queer and disabled themes, as i belong to both groups myself
  • i read mostly fantasy and contemporary romance myself
  • i like watching tv. my favorite show is supernatural. i have a side blog called @sammys-doe-eyes if anyone wants to check it out (be forewarned, Im a freak and this blog is solely about my love/thirst for sam winchester, and wincest)
  • im still in my emo phase and my homestuck phase that both started when i was 13, which i think has got to be a world record for at least one of those, right?
  • if you want to see my art you can look at my other side blog @tombstuck-does-art.
  • i love ask games and tag games, i don't get around to actually doing them all the time, but please tag me anyway!

my wips/completed projects

You can click right here in order to download and read my work!

  • Oranges Don't Fix Everything (finished)
  • My 1st novel, written in 2013 when I was 14 years old. It's a contemporary ya romance about 3 teens running away from home.
  • Knucklehead Versions 1 and 2 (both finished)
  • My 2nd and 3rd novels. Written over the course of 6 years starting in 2017 when I was 18 years old. They are both contemporary ya queer romance. They are about a group of queer friends in a small rural town in the midwest.
  • Muckspout (wip)
  • This is a follow up novel to Knucklehead Version 2, in which 2 of the characters get isekai'd into a d&d style fantasy world. It will be fantasy new adult queer romance.
  • Shapeless Heart (currently my main wip)
  • This one is a fantasy adult polyamorous queer romance. It's about a shapeshifting warrior, an enchanting psychic, and a secret prince.

Now that nanowrimo has officially called it quits allow me to suggest roughdraftmonth.org as a substitute. It’s a small community with a discord server and it’s what I used instead of nano last November. There are flexible goals and we use trackbear to track our word counts. Everyone is super nice and I highly recommend it if you’re looking for a nano substitute! We are having another writing event in June, come join us!

how to spot a writer:

  • unhinged google search history
  • crying over fake people
  • owns 200 notebooks (they're all empty)

There's nothing more important than writing what you want to read. Don't worry about who will like your book. Don't worry about what market it can neatly fit into. Don't cut corners or blunt edges to satisfy an imaginary person who might dislike aspects of your art. It's yours. Treat it as a pure expression of your soul. Compromise is for cowards.

So Nanowrimo is actually dead.

After 25 years of operation, Nanowrimo is shutting down.

An email came out in the hours approaching April Fools

A video was attached to the email, which can be viewed here:

The video is on Kilby’s channel and not the long dead Nanowrimo channel. The video is full of…

Kilby logic, but there is some relevant information contained within.

If have anything on Nanowrimo you need to get off the site, take it now. The site will likely not be around for too much longer.

Despite everything that the organisation has been through, the closure of a 25 year old nonprofit is still a tragedy, and my heart goes out to everyone that’s grieving from this. Nano has hurt a lot of people, but it meant a lot to so many, and I will be sorry to see that go.

Even if I don’t agree with many things in the recent video, I can agree with the sentiment of one slide.

I will update you all if and when relevant information comes out. Despite everything, I now doubt that this will be my last post.

X-Files/Supernatural Crossover Fic

This is my new fic! The first chapter is up on ao3. It's a university AU set in the 90s. It's Mulder/Sam.

Sam and Dean are loudly yapping about a case in the university library, and Mulder and Scully, fellow students at the same university, overhear them. Mulder thinks they're LARPing, and Scully just wants them to shut up so she can work. Sam ends up lying off the cuff that he's writing a fantasy novel. Mulder is intrigued by Sam, and it's not just that he's a fantasy author. They become e-mail penpals, and Mulder very quickly realizes that Sam's mind is a fun puzzle he wants to disassemble and put back together. Did I mention that their sexual tension is through the roof?

Actually you CAN use the same word twice in the same paragraph. The same sentence even. If it's funny, if it's for emphasis, if it's harping on a theme, if you're sexy and you do whatever you want forever. Write on

did you know you can do anythingh with your ocs and no one can stop you.. did you know you can make aus of your ocs. you should make aus of your ocs

"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.

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