queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
I haven't posted an entry in half a month but I guess we're picking up the pace.

I finished a one-shot for one of the prompts over at [community profile] getyourwordsout, so here it is!
written for the prompt "drunken confessions, but with only one bed" for a get your words out challenge.

dcu comics. bruce (& jason). grief, introspection. 1.6k.


The clock marks the start of April 27th, military time; Bruce enters the new day with the stench of alcohol firmly sunken on his breath.
queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
The FemFebruary meta posts I wanted to write this month fell to the side due to other obligations ^^U. However, I plan to make up for it now that March Meta Madness approaches!

In the meantime, here's another meme, just like I did for last month's reading.

Three book covers:  -Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (Mightily Oats reading a book and Verenice with a sword next to some Nac Mac Feegles fighting alongside him, at the front; and Agnes, Granny and Nanny in a fighting stand up front, against some floating vampires). -Dare Me by Megan Abbott (close-up to a girl biting her lip, painted red). -Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (drawing of two young women in period clothes standing in front of a tree, with patterns of flowers drawn on the spine).
Three comic covers. -Arsenal. Roy at the front with his bow shooting and arrow forward, Dinah next to him, and greyscale flashbacks of Oliver as Green Arrow looking disappointed over his shoulder, a kneedle, and a brunette Dinah consoling a crying Roy. It includes subtitles like "Sidekick, Loser... HERO?" or "When you hit rock bottom, you have to aim HIGH!" -Robin volume 1. In the cover, a smiling Shiva is kicking Tim in the face. -The Cull. Young woman drawn with vines and shining flowers growing on her head.
Three comic covers. -Batman: City of Madness. Batman with his arms extended forward, some tentacles seemingly coming out of him, and the court of owls beneath him. -Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special. Blonde starlet smiles and waves at the camera, holding what looks like a bouquet, but it's made out of human limps, bones, and rotting flowers. She's standing in water, with a stage behind her with the letters "The End". -Batman/Hunterss: Cry for Blood. With the subtitle "...when the pursuer becomes the pursued..." Helena appears at the front, dressed as huntress with a golden cross on her neck, showing her falms stained of blood. Batman looms behind her.
Three comic covers. -Robin II: The Joker's Wild!. Batman looms in the Batcave, snarling with his fists raised. At the front there's a framed picture of Robin. -Text-less cover of Supergirl volume 6 issue 35. Kara is at the front in a fighting stand, with her eyes shining red, and Red Hood fights alongside her with two swords. -Robin III: Cry of the Huntress. Robin stands on a Gargoyle with a high on his hip, frowning, and Huntress is a little ahead of him, with a crossbow pointing up.
Three comics cover. -World Without Robin, part 3 of 5 "Altered States", from the world without Young Justice arc. Stephanie as Robin flies in front of a window; the glass shows Tim reflected on it. -Batman Plus Arsenal. Roy and Batman jump from an exploding plane. Roy has an open-mouthed, shocked face, with his arms thrown up, and Batman is snarling with his arms pointed forward, with direction. -Harley and Ivy: Love on the Lam. Harley is at the front, in Harlequin suit with a toy gun. Behind her there are portraits of Batman with an obscured face, Joker with a huge grin, Harley dressed as Batgirl, and Poison Ivy.
Three comic covers. -An issue of Batman from the Knightfall arc. Batman is tied up to a tree by some vines, and Poison Ivy looms threateningly in front of him while he struggles against them. -An issue of Batgirl from the Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive arc. Batgirl is crouching on top a gravestone, leaning her arm on the handle of a shovel and pointing at the gravestone with a lantern. It reads: Rest in Peace. VESPER CATHERINE FAIRCHILD. Octover 14, 1973-January 4, 2002. -Robin volume 2 #102, part of Jon Lewis's run. Robin and Spoiler are at the front, with Steph holding onto his arm and Robin in a fighting stand. Behind them, Natalia Knight dressed all priest-like, with her palms up, extended to the side, and smoke surrounding her, as well as people with zombiefied expressions. The front reads "Things are getting weirder!"
 
(tried to put this behind a read more but dreamwidth is failing me again so. sorry ^^U. how do you guys do the thing where you hide part of the post under a  ▶ ....). ETA: I think I managed!

attempt at commentary

NOVELS

  • Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett. As with every other Discword novel, I practically devoured this one. Very enjoyable, especially Granny's plot, which did hit close to home for me lol.
  • Dare Me by Megan Abbott. This is proof that, despite having aged out of the YA bracket, some of it, the really good one, still holds up. Still, I know that if I had read this as a teenager, I would've made it my whole personality for at least a while xDD. Nonetheless, it was a great read. It's a pity that the show was cancelled before it covered the entire story, because I would've loved to watched an adaptation :/
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Of the Austen novels I've read so far, I would probably put it in the last place, but I did end up enjoying it. I had a good laugh with the Ferrars family drama, and I enjoy how... anti-karma Austen can be. Sometimes shitty, selfish people behalf shittily and selfishly, and that works out perfectly for them, lbr.

COMICS COMICS COMICS

  • Arsenal. And absolutely great mini (four issues long) in Devin Grayson's melodrama era. Vandal Savage collecting body parts of his descendants to replace his rotten ones is A Concept. And I loved the cameos by Dinah, Oracle, Connor... perfect.
  • Robin (vol. 1). Tim goes to Paris to train a bit more after Bruce decides he's ready to be Robin. There he ends up in between mob complots and gets trained by Shiva for a little while. My main takeaway is that Tim should have a musical staff in more stories.
  • The Cull. I kept waiting for this miniseries to go somewhere and... eh. The ending is a bit open so it might continue, but unless I hear something really solid I wouldn't pick it back up.
  • Batman: City of Madness. The concept of this story ended up being far grander than its execution, and I think I would've liked a longer, more involved, riskier storyline... The art is still amazing, though. It's given me some proto-ideas, though.
  • Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special. I could literally copy-paste the last paragraph here lol.
  • Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood. Amazing. Perfect. 10/10. One comic I'm going to recommend.
  • Robin II: The Joker's Wild!. This should've gone harder with the Jason-haunting-the-narrative concept, IMO, but I am NOT an unbiased party lol.
  • All of Jason Todd's New 52 (2011-2016) appearances. There is... so much I could say about this. Not much would be good, because yes, I still rage against the reboot xD. RHATO vol. 1 ends up looking even good after Red Hood/Arsenal (which improved a bit at the very end, admittedly); Lobdell is the worst, either way. Batman Incorporated/Wingman... too little effort put on it. Appalling, poorly thought-through characterisation all around, really, alongside a lot of choices I'm still baffled by (chessmaster Joker by beloathed). Batman & Robin Eternal got on my nerves, and not just for Jason. Robin War, Grayson... all of it needed a lot more development for me to be sold on it. The cameos in Deathstroke were... fine, but forgettable, when they shouldn't have been.

I did use the cover for Supergirl vol. 6 #35 because that's the ONE Jason appearance I can say I fully enjoyed! Jason is competent (aided by some "venom" which was an arc that amounted to nothing, but whatever), he is a MENACE, he seeks a team up with Supergirl but is a fucking asshole about it despite clearly wanting to be friends xDD... it felt as if I was almost reading new earth!Jason circa Green Arrow/Outsiders, which I really enjoyed! The stupid uncanny valley helmet makes an appearance but I just ignore that xDD

  • Robin III: Cry of the Huntress. Tim and Helena meet for the first time and team up! It was all right.
  • World Without Young Justice. I read the Tim-centric issue as it was one of the firsts in Lewis's run, so I decided to read the other four issues in the arc. Tim's is my favourite, though: it has Steph as the original Robin, in a story that really caught my eye and I might use at some point... honestly, I think superhero!Steph/civilian!Tim is a DELICIOUS set-up for the ship that I know I'll revisit in some fics where I don't have Tim donning a mantle (or at least, not in a traditional way).
  • Batman Plus Arsenal. Great one-shot (Devin Grayson does it again etc.). The moment where Roy gets on Batman's case for how sparse he is with praise was gr10.
  • Harley and Ivy: Love on the Lam. Another one-shot, by Winnick this time (I have my selected favourites). The dynamics are very clearly inspired by the DCAU despite being a new earth comic, but as those are my favourite versions of the characters involved, that works for me. It's about cycles and how hard it is to break them, of course
  • Knightfall. I started reading the arc in January. Although I'd read part of it before, this is the first time I really set out to read the complete thing. My veredict is that it focuses way to much on JPV, who I simply don't connect with LOL. The parts with Bruce, with Tim, and especially with Dick, and even with Gordon and Essen, are far more appealling to me, and I would've preferred them to be expanded upon to JPV's detriment tbh.
  • Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive. Amazing story arc, and as far as I'm concerned, a must-read among Batman/Batfam fans. Bruce's reasons for finally getting his head out of his ass were also very poignant and rang very true to him, as did his shitty non-apology about his actions lol. And in the end, Sasha and Bruce-Sasha ended up being a really fascinating part of it all. I might go back and read her older appearances.
  • Jon Lewis's Robin Run (vol. 2 #100-120). Really fun! A very enjoyable take on Tim Drake, very cute Steph/Tim stories, really good overall! And the plot with Tim's birthday... jail, jail to Bruce for one thousand years xDD


queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (Default)

Over a black background with some golden dots simulating stars in the distance, there's a drawn silhouette of a golden bee, inside a six-points stars, within a circle.


After some deliberation, given the issues we've been seeing with substack, I decided to make a patreon page. Everything I plan to post there now and in the near future will be available for free. Ignore the subscription (patreon doesn't let you put it as anything less than one dollar, and you'll save me the potential headache when it comes to taxes lol).

I already published there the short story/teaser for "Underground Elysium", and plan to post there (& crosspost in my other socials) things on the same venue as in my newsletter: monthly samples of my original writing in the form of short stories, flash fiction, or excerpts; and recommendations and in-depth analysis of other people's writing.

And since this will serve as my new sticky post: this journal is public. You don't need to give me access to yours, but know that everything I post here can be read by anyone. As for the stuff you're likely to find here: be prepared, first and foremost, for a lot of detective comics comics. Otherwise:
  • Authors & Books: Ana María Matute, Angela Carter, Camilla Andrew ("When the Stars Alight", "The Sanguine Sorceress"), "Carmilla", Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Dangerous Liaisons", Daphne du Maurier, "El cordero carnívoro", "Hymn to Demeter", Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley, "Medea", Miguel Hernández, Philip Pullman, "Pygmalion", Shirley Jackson, Terry Pratchett.
  • Comics: outside of DC, I tend to go for IDW (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees), Image (Monstress, Paper Girls, Saga), and Iron Man (volumes 1 & 3, Doomquest/Legacy of Doom, Fatal Frontier, the current run).
  • Films: the Alien franchise, Black Swan, Blancanieves (2012), Colombiana, El verdugo, Jupiter Ascending, Lust Caution, Pan's Labyrinth, Practical Magic, The Handmaiden, The Lion in Winter, The Mask of Zorro, The Terminator.
  • Shows: the Buffyverse, the Plecverse, Black Sails, Desperate Housewives, Dollhouse, Killjoys, Nikita, Person of Interest, Reign, Severance, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars.
queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
I posted a little ask meme on tumblr, where people would send me a number corresponding to one of my WIPs, and as many rose emojis as lines of it they wanted me to write & post. I thought I'd sare them here!


#22. outlaws vs. justice league: simulation. If you haven’t read the “Red Hood: Outlaws” webtoon, the premise is that Jason, Artemis, and Bizarro are made the new JL for a provation period… and then it’s revealed they’d been put in a simulation without their consent (a simulation where they showed more compassion to some of the “criminals” they meant to hunt than the JL did). Then the webtoon did nothing with that, which really disappointed me. So I ran with it instead.

“I played nice with you lot and all it got me and my friends was yet more time stolen from our lives while Bruce played mad scientist and every other member of the damn Justice League, heroic paragons of virtue, enabled him. And they don’t even have your excuse,” Jason said, pointing at Dick’s entire person with a lazy gesture of his hand.

My excuse?” Dick’s voice had a dangerous quality about it as it slipped through his clenched jaw.

“That you’ve been his bitch since you were nine years old,” Jason said, almost playful, drinking the last of his beer before Dick would inevitably to kick the bottle from his hand.


#12. gotham: bruce plots a murder. Future fic set on the Fox show, about how that Bruce might react to Valeska killing Jason. The title sounds tongue-in-cheek but this is very angsty I swear.

The press hounds the family for days (“Jeremiah Valeska kills Jason Wayne”, a headline whispered long before being printed), but the funeral is kept private.

Some of Jason’s friends, Lucius’s children among them, are present with their families. Dick Grayson sits at the front, choking on repressed sobs. Alfred is at the other side of Bruce, with a staight back and a stoic expression; Jim tells himself he’ll have to take him away from the manor, some place without witnesses where he’ll be able to finally let it all out.

At each side of Jim stand Harvey and Lee -Harvey on his cane, Lee clawing at Jim’s forearm-, neither of them disguising the tear tracks on their cheeks. And Barbara, little Barbara Lee, feet planted lifelessly on the stools of her wheelchair, who insisted on coming straight from the hospital and wears the bitterest expression Jim has ever witnessed on a person.

Selina isn’t among the crowd, but Jim knows he saw a shadow among the gravestones. Barbara senior, who stands all the way back, saw it too. She and Jim exchange a look; he knows she’s been in contact with Oswald, ready to pass any information the minute Valeska resurfaces. Jim hopes, whatever she does, she’s discreet. He doesn’t want to have to move a finger against it.

When all it’s over, Bruce remains sitted. Jim approaches, and Alfred and Dick leave them alone. Jim doesn’t think he’s ever seen him looking so lost.

“I’m sorry,” he says, his voice cracking in the middle, “if I had taken the shot when I had the chance-”

“This isn’t on you,” Bruce whispers. This is on me, Jim hears.


#23. pison break: robins. Jason is facing the death penalty (for something he 100% did, lbr). Dick can’t take it and puts himself in the same prison.

“I know what Waller offered you, if you agreed to join,” Dick murmured. Jason hummed, cavalier, while his fingers cleaned the cuts on Dick’s knuckles with the utmost care. “You told her no.”

“And what? You think that means I’m back in the fold? That I’ll ever agree with your fruitless crusade and shove my tongue as far up Bruce’s ass as yours is?” Dick kept his expression bland, refusing to raise to the provocation. “It just means that as much as I want the clown dead, as much as I wholeheartedly believe he needs to die… I happen to be selfish enough to think his death isn’t worth my freedom.”

Good,” Dick agreed. “Not long ago, you didn’t believe your own life was worth prolonging a single breath of his.”



(the read mores were giving me trouble again so xD)

queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
I'm still making my way through the DCAU! I'm almost finished with the first season of BTAS, and two of the episodes I watched today were new to me and gave me something to mull over.

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ETA: and for some self-promotion,
check out my three sentence ficathon fills!

queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))

I wrote a few ficlets for the three sentences ficathon these last few weeks, and I just crossposted them in ao3, so I wanted to share them here!

prompt: dc comics, any, never could get the hang of thursdays.

gotham city & jason todd, stephanie brown. canon compliant, post-war games/pre-utrh.
prompt: dc comics, joey wilson, like father like son.

dick grayson & joey wilson. canon compliant, post-judas contract. can be seen as gen or pre-slash, ymmv.
prompt: dc comics, mia dearden, future.

mia dearden, canon compliant, circa green arrow (2001).
prompt: dc, any, wing!fic.

batman & robin, canon compliant, pov outsider.
prompt: dc comics, jason todd, no man's land.

gotham city & jason todd, canon divergence, no man's land au.
prompt: dc comics, any f/f, late nights.

cassandra cain/barbara gordon, canon compliant, circa batgirl (2000), unrequited crush.
prompt: dc, any birds of prey member(s), wing!fic.

barbara gordon, canon compliant, oracle!barabara.
prompt: dc comics, kara zor-el, remembering krypton.

kara zor-el, canon compliant, kara & krypton.
queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (Default)
Over a black background with some golden dots simulating stars in the distance, there's a drawn silhouette of a golden bee, inside a six-points star, within a circle.

Today I posted February's author newsletter! I talk a little about how this past month has gone, and about a teaser/original short story I posted there recently, about another short story I want to retouch... and yet more recommendations lol. That's become my trade.
queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
I'm borrowing this idea from [personal profile] tjs_whatnot , and posting a list of what I read this month, with a little commentary (just a little, I hope! I don't want to go overboard añsldkfja).

NOVELS
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. This was, technically, a reread. I say technically because I don't remember the last part of the book and now I'm wondering if I DNFed it over a decade ago and completely forgot LMAO. I... could see why. While it's A Classic, and there's plenty to like in the novel, especially in the sisters, the moralising really got to me at some points. The biggest was the one where Jo attends this meeting full of artists and geniuses and political giants ~behaving just like people~~ and this is DEVASTATING to her (and then Bhaer peddles some chrisitanism). Gurl, I would have loved that LOL. But all in all I mostly enjoyed the read. I did it bit by bit, subscribed to The Public Domain Book Club in substack; each month (or, in LW's case, each couple of months) they go through a book. I've kept the subscription for February, where it'll post "Sense and Sensibility", another Jane Austen novel I haven't read.
  • Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirlees. I fucking ADORED this novel. I've mentioned it in this blog before but I just found it such a treat to read. Mirlees' prose is enticing and enchanting and everything I want mine to be. If you're someone that enjoys a good descriptive, florid style of narration, give this one a shot.
SHORT STORIES
I read three short stories by Angel Carter. The first three in "Burning Your Boats", apparently her earliest work: "The Man Who Loved a Double Bass", "A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home", and "A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)". They're not nearly as good as the handful of later ones I've read, but I enjoyed seeing some signs of her future style. "A Victorian Fable" was also really interesting in a technical sense.


COMICS COMICS COMICS


I'll just list here runs I set out to start and finished. Sometimes that means "reading every appearance of character X", sometimes "reading everything author Y did in this volume", sometimes "this one specific issue-long plot), sometimes it's a run properly speaking.
  • DC Speechless. Really cute run. Just some popcorn to the brain that you can chill with.
  • Robin: Year One. A re-read. Sometimes Chuck Dixon writes well. I absolutely don't have to hand it to him though.
  • The Judas Contract. A staple and a must-read if you're interested in these characters. Tara Markov's characterisation is sure. Something that happened. But unintentionally on the part of the writers, very, very interesting. And I loved reading Joey's introduction! Ngl, I lowkey ship him with Dick. I lowkey ship Dick with a lot of people lol.
  • Superman: Lost. This run is more interesting in a meta sense than a properly narrative one. I'll have to mull over it.
  • Oracle: Year One (The Batman Chronicles #5). Another re-read. BTW, it's already suspect that Robin: Year One has FOUR issues (and Nightwing: Year One SIX)m ETA: AND JOKER IS GOING TO HAVE THREE, but Oracle: Year One is like, 18 pages within a random issue of a Batman-adjacent comic ñlaksdjf. She deserved something longer and plottier. BUT. Those 18 pages are near perfect and a must-read to all DC fans.
  • The Next Batman: Second Son. About Timothy "Jace" Fox, who was Batman for a little while. I was curious, and it's a really short read (the issues are more webtoon-length than usual comics length). It was fine, but I had set out to read it before I was like, 99% done with Prime Earth lol. I wouldn't read it now and I doubt I'll continue his journey. Sorry Jace, you were cool.
  • Nightwing/Huntress. Loved it. Gave me a new OTP. A bit heavy-handed at times (Devin Grayson's writing gains a lot more subtlety later on), but I still loved it. And the art is gorgeous.
  • Batman & Son (Batman #655-658). AKA a reread of Damian's introductory arc. Morrison will have to answer for their crimes against Talia lol, but I wanted a refresher.
  • JLA/Titans. I'd say the same re: Devin's writer (and I'd say the same about the next in the list), but it was also a really enjoyable read. Very long, lots of characters and moving parts, lots of POWER OF FRIENDSHIP Titans stuff but they're messy as fuck (as proved by the continuation of this plot in...).
  • Titans #1-20, aka Devin's run. LOVED IT. They are SO messy, SO interesting, SO fun to read. The exact opposite of the current Titans run, if you ask me lmao. The character concepts alone... *chef's kiss*.
  • Devin Grayson's Nightwing run. Oh, this is a controversial one (yes, this one includes the infamous #93, but you have to analyse it in context)... but I adored it. Grayson's writing matured for this one, it's a lot more nuanced, it doesn't lead you by the hand. It was extremely compelling, maybe one of the most compelling storyarcs I've read in DC comics. And ofc, it was cut short and interrupted in an abrupt way by editorial meddling smh. @ dc, fight me.
  • Far From the Tree (Batman: Gotham Knights #15). I read this one because I wanted a taste for Tim's characterisation under certain circumstances. It's good. Bruce is an ass during it xD
ETA: I've nearly given up on my read mores working lmao. I was gonna add graphics but they made it worse, so I'll edit it/post them tomorrow.

ETA II: Okay! Let's see if I can make a read more work for the images, at the very least!

Read more... )

queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (Default)

I decided I'd do this every month. Because.

in general

  • I signed up for get your words out over dreamwidth, doing a habit pledge instead of a word count one: to write at least 180 days in 2024. divided by 12 months, that means writing an average of 15 days per month. I wrote 19. some days very very little (100-300 words for the three sentences ficathon), others more (dropping about 2k on one sitting), but the point of a habit pledge is to get less hung up on that lol. so all in all, I'm happy with my progress.

original fiction

  • I wrote and published a "prequel" or teaser for a somewhat larger work. you can find it in my author's newsletter. I'd also really appreciate a reblog of the post in tumblr, to boost it ^-^
  • I made a veeeeery loose outline of "Underground Elysium", a.k.a. said larger work. I know I will inevitably deviate from it, but this way I won't feel completely directionless lol.
  • I also outlined (just a tad more thoroughly) a short story that I want to retouch/rewrite. though idk if I'll publish that one on substack, or try to get some feedback and try my luck with magazines. we'll see.

fanfic

  • I posted a bunch of drabbles and ficlets for the three sentences ficathon hosted in dreamwidth. I'll crosspost them on ao3 (and update this post) when the event is over, in a couple of weeks.
  • I didn't finish my immortal jason wip because something that I predict will be a pattern for me happened: I went from an idea set in some ~vague point the timeline to deciding it'd be MUCH more interesting if I grounded it firmly in canon (even if I don't adhere to it fully and play around with things, of course). so I had to read some issues here and there to really settle it. it's on track now, so hopefully I'll finish soon!
  • I advanced a bit on my long young justice wip! not quite as much as I would've liked, but still. I also have a definite outline (pending changes that'll come up, as per usual with me), with all the character povs and arcs clearly visualised. this one is going to take a long while to be finished but I'm really excited about it.
  • I've also made a semi-loose outline for my journalist dick wip and plan to start writing it next month. I wanted to read devin grayson's nightwing arc, because the idea is to set it (with the exception of some key flashbacks) post utrh, albeit with a mix of comic and film canon because I wanted to explore the possibilities the later gave just this one time. I had shelved the wip for a little later in the year, but it turns out said storyarc has been incredibly inspiring lol, so it rose on the list


 
all in all, not a bad first month!
 

Also, as a reminder, I'm borrowing a meme I saw from a couple of people: FEMFEBRUARY. You guys post a comment with a fandom + a female character + (optionally, if you want) a specific topic about her, and I'll write meta about her next month!

So far I've been asked to write meta about Duela Doe (from the Gotham Knights show), Talia al Ghul, Caroline Forbes, Carmilla, Nanny Ogg, and a Batgirl of my choosing (spoiler alert: it'll probably be Cass).


queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (Default)
Snowflake Challenge promotional banner featuring a purple candle surrounded by pine cones, pink berries and snowflakes. Text: Snowflake Challenge: 1-31 January.

Your top 5 fandoms for 2023 were:

I started this year still continuing my sui generis rewatch of The Vampire Diaries. It was inspired by "stacked natural", this thing started by Supernatural fans where they rewatched the episodes of the show in the anniversary of their airing date, instead of in order. I decided I would do it with MY favourite problematic, cynical, seen-as-silly-due-to-genre-conceptions-but-quite-sharp-about-human-nature CW show. AND I had a blast doing it. It's all on my tumblr under the tag "stackediaries".

After that I had a very brief love affair with Yellowjackets. I binge-watched the first season just as the second started airing. I loved it. The second season... eh. It didn't quite land for me. I still haven't watched the season's finale and I don't know if I will. I'd have to hear great things about season 3 from my trusted dash.

IIRC it was around the same time when I started dipping my toes back into the DCU, which is definitely my star fandom of 2023 (and will predictably be the star fandom in 2024). I finally caught up with Young Justice, I started to read comics in earnest again (with a focus on Jason Todd, determined to read all the appareances I hadn't read or missed since I dropped comics, but I inevitably expanded my interests), I watched and rewatched some films, I rewatched Gotham (or what I call The Baby Batcat cut. Which means I kind of skip/half-watch scenes of subplots I don't find as interesting. Tbf that doesn't mean I only watch Bruce and Selina because there WERE other parts of the show I loved LOL, but they are my main focus)... and so on.

I think this fandom counts by at least 5 all by itself, so I'll stop counting here. Especially since I haven't really participated in others, with the exception of a couple I'll mention in a moment.


Your top 5 fandom spaces in 2023 were:

Tumblr remains my number 1. It has its downsides and it's not as active as it used to be, but I make do. Especially when I put in some effort. It's where My People are, it's where I keep finding more. I can post pretty gifsets, AND more involved meta posts (although those get the least attention lol), AND my random bouts of bitchiness :P

Discord has been a nice one as well. I'm not in a lot of groups because I struggle keeping up, but the ones that I participate in are small and filled with my writer friends.

Reddit has been one I've used more this year! It can exasperate the HELL out of me but it can also be pretty fun. And I don't mind getting into an argument with a troll once in a while. I have my fun trolling back LOL.

Other than thatt I didn't really use other spaces much. I didn't post any fic, although I did read & comment in some in ao3. I commented in some author's substacks and ko-fis. I have platforms like twitter and so on but I rarely if ever use them tbh. They just don't work for me.


The top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom/top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions in 2023 were:

 
stackediaries was definitely fun. I was doing it by myself lol (minus a mutual who did watch a handful of episodes), but I met a lot of other fans that way and we had great combos thanks to it.

I had so much fun that I went and did it with another problematic CW fave this year: stacked100, aka The 100. It's me and a handful of mutuals from back in the days the show aired, because I REALLY didn't vibe with the fandom at large and as consequence, I ended up finding My People, with whom I could enjoy the show with, without getting sucked into all the drama.

And since as I said, I didn't finish any story in 2023... I went to see my tumblr stats so I could link to my most popular posts LOL.

1. The Silly Shitpost (cannibalism edition). Because those are ALWAYS the ones that get the notes lmao. 1.798 as of now.

Screenshot from a tumblr post from laufire (with an icon of Caroline Forbes smiling and putting in a fluffy birthday crown). It shows an image from Yellowjackets where Mari, a bit deadpan, expressionless, says "I guess... no one wants breakfast.", the morning after they all ate Jackie's corpse. After that in text it's added "she is so me for this. funniest person in the wilderness, likely future victim of the cannibal cult for the foot-in-mouth disease." The tags say "and also for that moment where jackie used her to make shauna jealous, which i would've been totally there for, i know shauna still thinks of that, yellowjackets, yellowjackets spoilers, yellowjackets 2x03, mari yellowjackets, part of me wants her to be a secret big bad i think she has the range, love her xDD, id in alt text, captioned, cannibalism mention". It was posted 9 months ago on April 7, 2023, at 4:39 pm.

2 & 3. My Best Friend Wolfgang. Again, silly live watching is what does numbers there lol. 905 and 752 notes, respectively.

Screenshot of a tumblr post by laufire. The text say "whispers pulling the “I know you’re not going to harm us, will, it’s not in you, you’re not a killer” card only for him to go “lucky for me one of my besties is :)” before a wild wolfgang appears ready to crash into a helicopter if necessary is one of the best moments in the show. wolfgang brings a real “always down to go on a righteous murder spree even if it ends me” energy into the group project and everyone loves it.", The tags say "also he killed his own father as a kid. cold blooded. premeditated. burnt his corpse too. he's gr10 is what i mean, talking to the void, my thoughts, sense8, sense8 thoughts, i'm just skipping scenes here and there, wolfgang bogdanow." It was posted 9 months ago on April 20, 2023, at 6:48 pm.

Screenshot of a tumblr post by laufire. The text says "everyone else: sun maybe think twice before murdering your brother?  wolfgang: god forbid women do anything 🙄". The tags say "A Duo, talking to the void, my thoughts, sense8 thoughts, sense8, sun x wolfgang, a friend like wolfgang and a girlfriend like amanita. what more could one ask for, wolfgang bogdanow, sun bak". It was posted 9 months ago on april 20, 2023, at 10:57 PM.

That's my fandom wrapped!


PS: I'm also borrowing a meme I've seen from [personal profile] charlottenewtons and [personal profile] senmut : FEMFEBRUARY,

B
asically: send me a fandom (you can check my sticky post for inspiration) + a female character + (optional) an specficic topic about her, and I'll write meta about her in February!

queenslayerbee: marble statue of empress livia seen from the chest up with a raised arm, looking ahead, over a black background. it's edited to look like blood is dripping on it from above. (blood (underground elysium))
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Try something new. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Today I posted a new entry of my author's newsletter. This time it's a short story (around 5k) that could serve as a "prequel" for one of my ideas, "Underground Elysium.

A visionary vampiress, belonging to a matriarchal society of vampires with praying mantis-like habits, saw the apocalypse as an opportunity to subjugate humanity and elevate her species in a new world order, after the outside world became inhospitable to humans. Between the choice of risking falling prey to the walking, rotting corpses that roam the exterior, and a life of servitude under the civilised blood-sucking monsters underneath, many submitted to the second option. Nonetheless, there’s those even among her own that don’t appreciates living under Lucretia’s iron fist; around every corner a conspiracy against her brews, right as election season approaches.

The story offers a window to the beginnings of Lucretia’s dynamic with Dana, the main antagonist, and I really enjoyed writing! It's also the first time I share something longer / self-contained of my original writing, so I am excited about that as well.
Picrew of a black woman with ashen skin and a youthful appearance. She has red eyes and painted red lips, and her hair is black, long, in relaxed waves. She's wearing white, and she has a silver sun crown adoring her head, as well as a light golden moon behind it, and a paper with faded writing in the background. Picrew of a pale young white woman with freckles over her cheeks and the bridge of her knows. She has red eyes in spiral shape, and very dark red, short curly hair falling over her forehead and ears, around her face. Her lips are painted dark red, and she wears two fangs as earrings and a white half moon as necklace, as well as a blue dress that shows off her shoulders. Her background is an old ocre paper, and her head is framed by the shape of golden arrows coming out of it in a circle.

To finish this off, I'll let you with some picrews I made of the characters. I posted Lucretia's (left) in another challenge, and ended up making Dana's (right) afterwards.
queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
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Make a rec list! Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I fear you'll get tired of me reccing things (I feel I have done nothing but during this challenge!), but I'll obey the challenge,so, here: a few more! Exclusively comics, this time, and I'll try to pic some mini-runs and self-contained issues that I haven't talked about yet (that I remember lol).

  • Oracle: Year One. This criminally short story can be found in "The Batman Chronicles" #5. It should be AT LEAST four issues long, on par with other "Year One" arcs (the Joker is getting THREE FREAKING ISSUES this month smh), but it is pretty damn near perfect as it is. A love letter to Barbara Gordon's character and a look into how she rebuilds herself after TKJ. The perfect un-fridging.
  • JLA/Titans #1-3. Mainly a Titans story and a precursor for Titans (1999). Very, very interesting, seemingly like everything Devin Grayson writes, one way or another.
  • The Enigma of the Amigara Fault by Junji Ito. Just read it. I won't spoil anything, just embrace the creepiness.
  • Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1-6. If you know and love Kara Zor-El, read it. If you're only vaguely aware of who her character is, READ IT.
  • Dark Knights of Steel #1-12 (+ Tales from the Three Kingdoms). A "medieval" AU of DC. Quite interesting concepts. Might inspire you.
  • Batman '89 #1-6. A must if you liked Burton's Batman. It's set after Batman Returns, it's only six issues long, and it has a great (and very different) Barbara, AND a new Robin character that I feel for almost immediately.
  • Waller vs. Wildstorm #1-4. A reddit comment described its writers as “a de facto communist and a diversity hire grifter”, so it had to be at least interesting. Also, it has a better Waller than the one in canon rn.
  • Batman: Son of the Demon. A classic. Great Talia, great Brutalia, and the original inspiration of Damian.
If you have a short run/one-shot comic you'd like to recommend, feel free to leave a comment!
queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (Default)
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Tell Us about a Personal Win. Share whatever wins you’re comfortable with telling us all about. Found a new fandom that makes you light up? One of your creations has earned more kudos than you dreamed of? Wins from life, new job, new school, new adventure? You have a couple of wins you want to celebrate, we want to hear about them. Share a win or two so we can cheer for you.

I have mentioned this in another entry, but one personal win I had recently was last year, when I finally finished my degree(s) (although the certificates haven't arrived yet Because Bureocracy LOL). Due to some external factors I really struggled for a few years on the academic side of things, and it was such a relief to finally accomplish what I set out to do there. Things are far from settled for me in my professional life, but that was a huge step in the right direction.

Another thing I feel proud about is having started an author's newsletter, something I had wanted to do for a while. So far there's only one newsletter out, but there are two upcoming ones coming soon: another one with updates in February, and one with an original short story before the month is over. After some years floundering in the writing department -since sorting things out in academia took priority-, I also feel like I'm back on track on that front, too.

queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
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In your own space, create a fanwork. Post your answer to today's challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I decided to make a few icons! They're all from DC comics I've read (or reread) the last month or so, seventeen in total.

Bruce & Talia - Detective Comics #411, Batman #244 )Bruce & Talia - Detective Comics #411, Batman #244 )Bruce & Talia - Detective Comics #411, Batman #244 )
Steph & Tim, Detective Comics #648 )
Dick & Helena. Nightwing/Huntress #2 + #4 )

 

Barbara & Cassandra. Batman #567, Detective Comics #734 )
Dick & Jesse. Titans #11 + #12 + #19 )
Jason & Kara. Batman/Superman Annual #1 )
Zatanna. DC Speechless! #4 )
Damian & Talia. DC's 'Twas the Mite Before Christmas )

ETA: let me know if you use them! They're 200x200px, so adjust them if you need to.

queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (Default)
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Five Things! The five things are totally up to you. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

In one of these challenges I asked people to send me questions about my top fives, whatever they'd wanted.

This time I want to ask one myself: what are your top 5 female characters?

They can be from anywhere: books, films, shows, an OC you've created and nurtured for years... go nuts.

To break the ice, I'm gonna go with five female characters from my own original stories, Just Because. Not necessarily a definite Top 5 (I love them all, your honour), but a Top 5 RIGHT NOW :P
 

  1. Captain Latoya. She is and probably will always be number one in my heart. Space pirate, alien-human hybrid, daughter and grandaughter of tyrants. Arrogant, idealistic, ruthless, sharp, brave. A killer, a history savant, a natural performer and a hopeless romantic.
  2. Lady Vela. Years ago Vela requested the fairies' aid to free herself from the monsters raising her at home. Now, the fairies want to collect the debt. Vela is a young woman of deep, hidden melancholy with a trickster streak of her own, with a very tragic past and little hope for the future.
  3. Sadie Maxwell-Arriaga. A young, self-trained witch of immense natural talent, in love with magic above all things. Scrappy, greedy, kind, risk-prone, of easy-going manners broken occasionally by righteous anger. And murder suspect!
  4. Fanny. Seductive, deciteful femme fatala playing opposite to Giulietta, a lovelorn private investigator, both human woman (with a few extrasensory talents, in Giulietta's case) navigating a noir city of supernatural creatures. More than meets the eye 😉
  5. Imperatrix Lucretia. Visionary (or dictatorial, depending on who you ask) thrice elected leader of an underground society where vampires rule humans in exchange of protection from the outside world. Lucretia rose from the lowest depths of her society to the very top, fighting for her vision. She's calculating, paranoid, and pitiless, and would die before relinquishing power.
I added some images using this picrew, in order, from left to right:
Picrew of a light brown skinned young woman, with dark frekless over her nose and cheeks, red eyes with black scleara, and short black hair braided close to the scalp. She's wearing a white and golden outfit that leaves her shoulders uncovered, and has black wings. Her background shows the silouette of a sun framing her head, over a celestial sky.Picrew of a young asian woman, with light skin, green eyes, and a beauty mark under the right eye. She has black hair, braided down, and a white start on her forehead. She's wearing a sleeveless, high top with geometrical folms in ocre over maroon colour, and has pink and silver earrings. Her background is light, with drawings of eyes, moons, and stars.Picrew of a young, dark skinned, curvy black woman with grey eyes. She has thick, volouminous, curly black hair adored with two light yellow roses, and wears a soft yellow that shows off her shoulders, and an ocre relaxed ribbon as a necklace.Picrew of a pale white woman with big, dark brown eyes and plump limps painted red. She has long, styled, voluminous brown hair. She's wearing an open, long sleeved light blue shirt with small purple flowers in the colar, a light silver chocker, and earrings with a drawn grey eye. Her background is in sliding golden and dark brown, with the golden sillouete of a crown of laurel framing her head.Picrew of a black woman with ashen skin and a youthful appearance. She has red eyes and painted red lips, and her hair is black, long, in relaxed waves. She's wearing white, and she has a silver sun crown adoring her head, as well as a light golden moon behind it, and a paper with faded writing in the background.
queenslayerbee: Lisa simpson dressed in a multicoloured baggy shirt, with a sideways cap and sunglasses, and a disaffected look on her face. (lisa simpson (the simpsons))
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Rec Us Your Newest Thing. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I feel like all I've been doing during this event is recommending things LOL, but why not continue? I do like talking about my new shiny interests.

  • Titans (1999) #1-20. I just finish Devin Grayson's run in this volume and I really, really enjoyed it. It's definitely unpolished in some parts, heavy-handed in others but a.) the plot is solid and traps you, b.) the characters are MIGHTY interesting in this, and c.) the dynamics involved between them are JUICY AS FUCK. And the art is peak comic-book art. I really don't ask for more.
  • "Lud-in-the-Mist" by Hope Mirrless. This book has been on my to-read list for a long time now, after a friend's recommendation. I've just started it, I've only read a few episodes, but it's been a while since a book ensnared me so quickly. The jist of the premise is as follows:
Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dapple has its origin beyond the Debatable Hills to the west of Lud-in-the-Mist, in Fairyland. In the days of Duke Aubrey, some centuries earlier, fairy things had been looked upon with reverence, and fairy fruit was brought down the Dapple and enjoyed by the people of Dorimare. But after Duke Aubrey had been expelled from Dorimare by the burghers, the eating of fairy fruit came to be regarded as a crime, and anything related to Fairyland was unspeakable. Now, when his son Ranulph is believed to have eaten fairy fruit, Nathaniel Chanticleer, the mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist, finds himself looking into old mysteries in order to save his son and the people of his city.
But really, what has captured me is Mirrless' prose. It's vivid, whimsical in the best way, and utterly, utterly beautiful. Prose that is just functional has its place, don't get me wrong, but I do often feel that prose itself -beyond characters, tropes, ships, whatever-, receives very little appreciation. Craft matters!! And I love it when I'm before a book where the writer obviously gave it their all, where they thought long and hard about it, where every word is well-placed and produces a nearly musical effect. I want to write like this, damn xD

To close this, I wanted to link to the ficlets I've received in response to my prompts in the three sentences ficathon, so far
And that's all for now! But I encourage you to share your recs here, especially if you know any book with beautiful prose.
queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
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Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) that you are creating or enjoying.

A chance to ramble about my current WIPs? I'll gladly take that.

This month I went low effort, to ease myself into what's going to be a veeeeery busy week. The fics I'm tackling are two, and only one of those will be (hopefully) finished this month. Both are DCU fics, following my current obsession.

The short one is a 5+1 one-shot type (although I guess there's a chance I'll divide those in short-ish chapters). I've labelled it "Immortal Jason" because it's precisely about that lol. There's an argument to be made about new earth!Jason having some resurrection capabilities -or, maybe more accurately, about how the ~universe~, corrected by Superboy-Prime's punch, just... rewrites itself and puts Jason back alive, as he "should" have been. So I thought it could be interesting to write about different members of the Bat Clan finding out about it! At first it was a more diffuse project, but at the beginning of this month I set it on a definite timeline: all post-UTRH, pre-Countdown/Batman R.I.P, (ymmv on whether those would still happen after the fic; not my problem xD). With a more stretched out period than the comics allowed, because they can't allow any breathing rhythim, of course (technically right after UTRH there's a one-year time skip). I've roughly decided that a period of three years goes between those events, for this fic's purpose, and that works out great for the fic. So far, I have rough drafts of (in order), Tim's, Cass', and Dick's scenes. Next would be Damian's, Alfred's, and Bruce's.

The long project is... well, a long one lol, and I'll be tackling it for the next few months. It's a long fic set in Young Justice, the animated show, set after the last season and focused on briging Jason back to the fold, and introducing Damian with it. It takes a little inspiration, among other comic timelines (even a little of pre-crisis!Jay), from the DCAU version of Jason that was written into a comic a few years back; just a little bit, because I found the treatment of his character there fucking atrocious LOL, but there were a couple elements that I found interesting (mainly, Jason having an older sibling that dies before Bruce takes him in. A brother, in the comic, but I've genderswapped the character). Other than that, there's a lot of Jason, a lot of the Bat Clan and the al Ghuls, a lot of flashbacks visiting Jason's time as Robin Because I Love It, and a lot of secret identity shenanigans, because Jason conceals his true identity for a long part of the story.

I'm still working out the kinks -seeing what characters to include and how prominent they'll be, what events I want to show in flashbacks, key events I want to include, etc.-, and I've written a lot of the flashbacks and a handful of scenes down the line. I'm really enjoying it, because this is a huge passion project of mine that's been floating around my head for years, and it's now finally crystalising.

I'm also enjoying the three sentence ficathon. I've received some fills and I've written a couple myself; I'll publish a masterpost about it later down the road, in case I write or receive more ^-^

Finally, I've mentioned this before, but other than that, this month I'm focusing on an original short story, telling the backstory of the protagonist and antagonist of a slightly longer tale: two vampiresses that veer for control of an underground empire in an upcoming election. I aim to publish that in my newsletter by the end of January.

queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (batcat (batman returns))
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Make a list of fannish and/or creative resources. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I tend to think everyone knows about The Submission Grinder, a site for fiction and poetry writers to keep track of open submissions. But if you didn't know about it, or you're just starting to get your stories out, it might be useful!

And if you're on tumblr, check out Writeblr Graduates, to promote your published (be it traditional, indie, online, etc.) original writing.

Recently I found out about PostyBirb, a site that helps you speed up the process of posting to multiple sites and schedule posts, which can be useful for artists or writers trying to promote their work.

For my fellow DC fans, I wanted to post about the DCU guide, which I often use to track down characters appearances, chronologies, etc. (very useful for a completitionist like me lol). Although I mostly read batclan-related comics, and for that I tend to go for this regularly updated google spreadsheet of characters appearances and mentions.

Finally: if you haven't seen it, the three sentence ficathon is out! Go post your prompts! I posted a few myself (all about the dcu, of course), in case anyone's looking for inspiration 😉

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queenslayerbee: Isabelle Adjany as Lucy Harker in 1979's "Nosferatu the Vampire". She's surrounded by darkness, looking over her shoulder while she wears a white nightgown and a cross as a necklace. A hand with long nails like a claw is reaching for her neck from the darkness behind her. (Default)
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