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skulcrowrites · 3 years

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Hello writeblr, this is my second reintroduction in the last few months, but I felt it was needed.

You can call me Skel, I won’t be using my real name on here for privacy reasons, though there are some people who may know it from my old writing blog (rnoonlightink). I’m 30, trans nonbinary (he/they), bi, autistic, and I have a handful of mental illnesses and physical disabilities that prevent me from working a ‘normal’ job even when we aren’t dealing with a global pandemic.

Like most people who make these kinds of posts, I’ve been writing for practically forever. At least since fifth grade, when I used to write Zelda fanfic in my notebooks and my friends would read them during class. I like to think I’ve improved a lot since then :’)

Now I write original fiction and poetry, as well as the occasional fanfiction, though I haven’t had the courage to share the latter anywhere. Genres I write include but are not limited to magical realism, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, soft scifi, all written in what I hope is literary-style prose, with literary-style themes; I write for an adult and ‘new adult’ audience. As for reading, I’ll read almost anything, it just depends on my mood.

I have some poetry posted here, but I likely won’t be sharing any more publicly, as I am in the process of researching lit magazines and other publications to submit them, and I don’t want posting them here to disqualify them. But my poetry is generally focus on my mental illnesses, experiences with abuse and trauma, disability, queerness, general life stuff, reincarnation, and my undying love for my fiance.

My main wip is City of Knight (though I may change it to Knight City), and it’s difficult to summarize because I’m sort of half pantsing the first draft right now. But it’s basically a supervillain and hero origin story for three women living in a vaguely cyberpunk/biopunk alternative present. The story is character driven, and focuses more on how the characters’ relationships drive conflict and influence events around them rather than how ‘cool’ their powers are. It features an lgbt+ main cast, time loops, unexplained black clouds that swallow entire sections of the city and cause people to vanish, black eyed people (like black eyed kids, but of all ages!), organized crime, and a shady military lab. For an idea of tone, some of the inspirations for this wip include The Venture Bros, Gotham, and the novel The Sky Is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith. My word count goal for the first draft is 80k-100k words, and I am currently at around 21k.

I have a handful of other wips as well, but I’ll talk more about them when I stat giving them more of my attention.

I’m also an artist, and might post art of my characters sometimes, or reblog them from my art blog.

A little bit more about me personally, in case anyone is curious:

I’m polyamorous and have two partners; I live with one, and the other one (my fiance) lives in a different country.

I live in the US, in a red state, and I hate it.

I’m a secular witch and I read tarot

Not sure what my religion is — I make offerings to Hekate and Aphrodite and occasionally some other Hellenic deities, but I also have a deep interest in Gnosticism and I think Gnostic themes come through in some of my writing.

I’m into dark academia even though I haven’t been in university since 2015, nor have I read The Secret History yet.

I have two cats.

I’m a vegetarian for health reasons and I love cooking when I have the spoons for it.

I don’t like the ‘found family’ trope due to personal experiences with my own — now defunct — found family.

And I guess that’s it? I don’t really know what else to say, so I guess I’ll wrap this up here. Not sure when I’ll have individual wip posts, if ever; if I do write them, it won’t be until I’m on the second or third draft and things are more solidified so I’m not constantly changing them.

If you got this far, thanks for reading! Stay safe! :)

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