I'LL BE BACK 🕶️🤖

Dec. 24th, 2024 11:39 am
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)
It's been... a while lol.

I just wanted to pop in for a moment! I want to go back to use dreamwidth more, and the snowflake challenge is always a nice way to do it, so I'll be back for that in a few days ^-^

How have you guys been? Feel free to tell me anything new and exciting you have going on, fandom/creativity-related, or otherwise!

P.S. I did post a new entry of my author's newsletter, where I talk a bit of what's been going on with my life and my plans going forward, and gave a few recs, in case anyone's curious.

P.P.S. If you haven't yet, I recommend reading the piece the New York Times wrote about the smear campaign on Blake Lively (and here is the full lawsuit, if you can make the time), and this article detailing the case and perpetrators in the Gisèle Pelicot case. It's a downer way to end the post, but I feel it's something everyone needs to be informed about.

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NEW PATREON PAGE

Feb. 16th, 2024 12:24 pm
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.
  • Current Mood: cranky
  • Current Music: Emilia - Recalienta
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2ND NEWSLETTER

Feb. 2nd, 2024 06:22 pm
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.
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SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE #12: WINS

Jan. 23rd, 2024 11:26 am
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 snow-covered green bench in a snowy park. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

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.

  • Current Mood: cheerful
  • Current Music: Dixie Chicks - Landslide
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