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guiamonster
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Fantasy writer | Building Kalibayan: a world where spells cost memory and grief births monsters. Myth, magic, and fragments from the in-between. Join the project → guianocon.substack.com
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · 2d
New poem up in my Substack. Link in bio 🫶🏽
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · 2d
#poem
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · 2d
New poem up in my Substack. Link in bio 🫶🏽
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · 11d
#amwriting #writingfantasy #wipnovel #fantasywriter #indieauthor #filamauthor #diasporicfiction #kalibayanproject #filipinoauthor #filipinofantasy #monsterlore #wip
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · 11d
Magic in Kalibayan runs on memory. The more painful, the more powerful. Burn too much, too fast, the world breaks open. Out come the monsters. Like the taklob. A shame eater wrapped in mirrors.

Read more ➡️ guianocon.substack.com
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · 16d
Thank you for the reposts, y’all!
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · 16d
Monster #1, She’s a baddie
New article up my substack, my beasties ⏩ link in bio

#amwriting #writingfantasy #wipnovel #fantasywriter #indieauthor #filamauthor #diasporicfiction #kalibayanproject #filipinoauthor #filipinofantasy #monsterlore
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · 21d
#amwriting #writingfantasy #wipnovel #fantasywriter #indieauthor #filamauthor #diasporicfiction #kalibayanproject #filipinofantasy #monsterlore #wipwednesday
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · 21d
Filipino horror. Memory-fueled magic. Mythical monsters. All good all good. Let’s lean in!

New Substack is LIVE ➡️ guianocon.substack.com / link in bio
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Sep 6
I can't even bring myself to read the rest of that drivel lol
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Aug 25
A meditation on transience ✨
Link in bio bbs!

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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Aug 20
#filipinofantasy #mythicfiction #worldbuilding #manananggal #amwritingfantasy #writingfantasy #wipnovel #fantasywriter #indieauthor #filamauthor #diasporicfiction #kalibayanproject
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Aug 20
I grew up hearing ghost stories and watching The Exorcist way too young.
Now I write monsters into my fantasy world.
New Substack: on Filipino myth, memory, and worldbuilding with fangs.

🩸 The monsters have always been here.

guianocon.substack.com
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Aug 4
Me: background character.
Him: I am the plot now.

🚨new post🚨 guianocon.substack.com

#amwriting #writingfantasy #wipnovel #fantasywriter #indieauthor #filamauthor #diasporicfiction #kalibayanproject
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 21
Check out the new article if you’re interested to read more on these needy suckers ➡️ guianocon.substack.com also link in bio

📸: @jiwan_kirti and that’s my beautiful friend

#amwriting #writingfantasy #wipnovel #fantasywriter #indieauthor #filamauthor #diasporicfiction #kalibayanproject
a bloody mouth, a hallelujah | Guia Nocon | Substack
Praise songs from the tender wreckage (poetry). And then... Dispatches from a fantasy world where spells consume memory, grief fuels monsters, and forgetting has a cost. Essays, lore fragments, and...
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 21
This started out as a post about lore. Then one of the gods asked “Do you love us?”
The gods in Kalibayan are weird, moody, and full of questions…very anxious. It’s just…mood 😂
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 18
#amwriting #writingfantasy #wipnovel #fantasywriter #indieauthor #filamauthor #diasporicfiction #kalibayanproject
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 18
What does memory become, when it walks? What does it leave behind? Excerpt from my novel-in-progress. Stirring shit up in the cauldron over here 🧙🏽‍♀️ ⏩ 📖 guianocon.substack.com

📸: @jiwan_kirti 🙇🏻‍♀️

#amwriting #writingfantasy #wipnovel #fantasywriter #indieauthor #filamauthor #kalibayanproject
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 16
#amwriting #writingfantasy #fantasyaesthetic #filipinofantasy #indieauthor #writinglife #writerstruggles #fantasybooks #speculativefiction #filamwriter #wipwednesday

Join the project ➡️ guianocon.substack.com
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 16
#andreagibson
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 16
This world needs those
who know how to do that.
Those who could find a tunnel
that has no light at the end of it,
and hold it up like a telescope
to know the darkness
also contains truths that could
bring the light to its knees.
Grief astronomer, adjust the lens,
look close, tell us what you see.
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 16
Grief Astronomer, by Andrea Gibson

Posted by them on their Facebook page on 3/15/2021

A difficult life is not less
worth living than a gentle one.
Joy is simply easier to carry
than sorrow. And your heart
could lift a city from how long
you’ve spent holding what’s been
nearly impossible to hold.
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 16
My heart is broken at Andrea’s passing. But my heart is also full of poetry. And I’m so grateful for art. And for artists. And for my heroes like these poets who are fighting the good fight. And winning.

#andreagibson #poem #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #ArtOfWords #WordedArt #BlueskyPoets
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 16
I still can’t stop thinking about Andrea Gibson. I saw them perform back in 2004 when they came to Santa Cruz. I was a freshman in college. I also saw Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, and Buddy Wakefield. That group inspired me to commit to the creative writing program. They still inspire me.
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 14
Love Letter From The Afterlife, pt 3
By Andrea Gibson

Read part 2 in my previous post

#poem
#poems
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#PoetryDaily
#ArtOfWords
#SkyPoets
#WordedArt
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guiamonster @guiamonster.bsky.social · Jul 14
Love Letter From The Afterlife, pt 2
By Andrea Gibson

Read part 1 in my previous post

#poem
#poems
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#PoetryDaily
#ArtOfWords
#SkyPoets
#WordedArt
#BlueskyPoets
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