Elise (they/them)🇦🇺
@eliseswritings.bsky.social
I'm an Epic Fantasy author & Aussie on Wurundjeri country.
Living my best ADHD, autistic, chronically ill, enby, aro-ace life!
(Blog & Discords in 📌 post 🧵)
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Living my best ADHD, autistic, chronically ill, enby, aro-ace life!
(Blog & Discords in 📌 post 🧵)
📚's Direct: https://payhip.com/EliseCarlsonFantasyAuthor
All🔗's: https://elisecarlson.com/
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Not perfect, but some great songs. (I liked Young Modern more 😉)
Not perfect, but some great songs. (I liked Young Modern more 😉)
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Not perfect, but some great songs. (I liked Young Modern more 😉)
Not perfect, but some great songs. (I liked Young Modern more 😉)
Yep, copyright page train. (I won't bore you with the ISBN bit though 😉.)
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Yep, copyright page train. (I won't bore you with the ISBN bit though 😉.)
The aurora australis mainly looked like a band of colour to the naked eye, but with Port Phillip Bay to reflect it, my phone saw it ok.
Williamstown, Melbourne.
Williamstown, Melbourne.
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The aurora australis mainly looked like a band of colour to the naked eye, but with Port Phillip Bay to reflect it, my phone saw it ok.
Williamstown, Melbourne.
Williamstown, Melbourne.
Thanks. I made it for UnhingedPit, and it certainly felt fun pitching a book with a drawing like that vs., say the art Lawrence Mann did for the cover... 😆
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thanks. I made it for UnhingedPit, and it certainly felt fun pitching a book with a drawing like that vs., say the art Lawrence Mann did for the cover... 😆
Seeing as I already had this #Novmemeber prompt item on file... here's Rarkin.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Seeing as I already had this #Novmemeber prompt item on file... here's Rarkin.
First record you bought?
Technically I wasn't old enough, but I was tall and no one asked questions 😉.
It was from a music shop called 'Sanity' which (like almost everything in that shopping centre from 25 years ago), is long gone.
Technically I wasn't old enough, but I was tall and no one asked questions 😉.
It was from a music shop called 'Sanity' which (like almost everything in that shopping centre from 25 years ago), is long gone.
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
First record you bought?
Technically I wasn't old enough, but I was tall and no one asked questions 😉.
It was from a music shop called 'Sanity' which (like almost everything in that shopping centre from 25 years ago), is long gone.
Technically I wasn't old enough, but I was tall and no one asked questions 😉.
It was from a music shop called 'Sanity' which (like almost everything in that shopping centre from 25 years ago), is long gone.
I'd like to kick off Trans Awareness Month with 32 stories of Trans People Taking On The World, by mainly trans authors
Your heroes may tackle; love, friendship, magic &war, self discovery, trauma & healing, demons (literal or metaphorical 😉) & or the world itself!
🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿ itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Your heroes may tackle; love, friendship, magic &war, self discovery, trauma & healing, demons (literal or metaphorical 😉) & or the world itself!
🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿ itch.io/b/3352/trans...
November 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I'd like to kick off Trans Awareness Month with 32 stories of Trans People Taking On The World, by mainly trans authors
Your heroes may tackle; love, friendship, magic &war, self discovery, trauma & healing, demons (literal or metaphorical 😉) & or the world itself!
🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿ itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Your heroes may tackle; love, friendship, magic &war, self discovery, trauma & healing, demons (literal or metaphorical 😉) & or the world itself!
🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿ itch.io/b/3352/trans...
I don't understand humans who get gen ai to pose as authors. What do they possibly gain from this? Aside from annoying actual human authors, getting reported and blocked?
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I don't understand humans who get gen ai to pose as authors. What do they possibly gain from this? Aside from annoying actual human authors, getting reported and blocked?
Thanks #SFFChat!
For anyone interested in a series where the worst monsters are certain humans (like the MC's father 😉), and the main character's day job is relocating stray monsters to their habitat (away from humans 😉), Book 1 of my Sythe Series is out now.
elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/
For anyone interested in a series where the worst monsters are certain humans (like the MC's father 😉), and the main character's day job is relocating stray monsters to their habitat (away from humans 😉), Book 1 of my Sythe Series is out now.
elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Thanks #SFFChat!
For anyone interested in a series where the worst monsters are certain humans (like the MC's father 😉), and the main character's day job is relocating stray monsters to their habitat (away from humans 😉), Book 1 of my Sythe Series is out now.
elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/
For anyone interested in a series where the worst monsters are certain humans (like the MC's father 😉), and the main character's day job is relocating stray monsters to their habitat (away from humans 😉), Book 1 of my Sythe Series is out now.
elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/
Torian birds may have been inspired by when, in my early 20's, I was driving a 2 door Hyundai through a state forest when a pair of wedge tailed eagles soared over my car, their wingspans wider than it's roof. Rarkin's Monster Containment team first encounters them in the Farm Zone.
#SFFChat
#SFFChat
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Torian birds may have been inspired by when, in my early 20's, I was driving a 2 door Hyundai through a state forest when a pair of wedge tailed eagles soared over my car, their wingspans wider than it's roof. Rarkin's Monster Containment team first encounters them in the Farm Zone.
#SFFChat
#SFFChat
Beautiful sunny day in Melbourne today. I wasn't alone in making the most of it; the swans and their signets were out and about too.
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Beautiful sunny day in Melbourne today. I wasn't alone in making the most of it; the swans and their signets were out and about too.
Happy dilemma; which sunset over a Norwegian fjord photos do I keep?
Definitely this one 😉. The other 40 will be harder to cull to 10 🤔
Definitely this one 😉. The other 40 will be harder to cull to 10 🤔
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Happy dilemma; which sunset over a Norwegian fjord photos do I keep?
Definitely this one 😉. The other 40 will be harder to cull to 10 🤔
Definitely this one 😉. The other 40 will be harder to cull to 10 🤔
Yeah, the ruined variety, and while what was left of some wasn't far above ground level, these two were pretty good for crumbling ruins.
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Yeah, the ruined variety, and while what was left of some wasn't far above ground level, these two were pretty good for crumbling ruins.
Often as a traveller I've appreciated good weather. But there's something moody, broody and atmospheric about clouds. So I was lucky to catch castles and abbey's on both sunny and cloudy ones on my England road trip. Byland Abbey was a great cloudy day.
October 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Often as a traveller I've appreciated good weather. But there's something moody, broody and atmospheric about clouds. So I was lucky to catch castles and abbey's on both sunny and cloudy ones on my England road trip. Byland Abbey was a great cloudy day.
Anyone familiar with Neolithic sites in England?
I visited this one 9 years ago, with multiple stone round houses, probably after Avebury Standing Stones (my photos are out of order so I can't be sure).
I'd like to know their name, but can't find them on the English Heritage website/ internet.🏺
I visited this one 9 years ago, with multiple stone round houses, probably after Avebury Standing Stones (my photos are out of order so I can't be sure).
I'd like to know their name, but can't find them on the English Heritage website/ internet.🏺
October 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Anyone familiar with Neolithic sites in England?
I visited this one 9 years ago, with multiple stone round houses, probably after Avebury Standing Stones (my photos are out of order so I can't be sure).
I'd like to know their name, but can't find them on the English Heritage website/ internet.🏺
I visited this one 9 years ago, with multiple stone round houses, probably after Avebury Standing Stones (my photos are out of order so I can't be sure).
I'd like to know their name, but can't find them on the English Heritage website/ internet.🏺
Last day to grab these Asexual Spectrum books in bulk!
My new release, Walking the Knife's Edge is in it. Rarkin's asexual questioning, though also preoccupied with CPTSD, autism, trust issues, underdeveloped social skills, wielding a stun gun to contain monsters etc 😉
♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
My new release, Walking the Knife's Edge is in it. Rarkin's asexual questioning, though also preoccupied with CPTSD, autism, trust issues, underdeveloped social skills, wielding a stun gun to contain monsters etc 😉
♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
October 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Last day to grab these Asexual Spectrum books in bulk!
My new release, Walking the Knife's Edge is in it. Rarkin's asexual questioning, though also preoccupied with CPTSD, autism, trust issues, underdeveloped social skills, wielding a stun gun to contain monsters etc 😉
♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
My new release, Walking the Knife's Edge is in it. Rarkin's asexual questioning, though also preoccupied with CPTSD, autism, trust issues, underdeveloped social skills, wielding a stun gun to contain monsters etc 😉
♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
The first draft of Manipulator's War was called Door to Another World. Its archway was engraved stone, but it too stands in a forest, on a trail strewn with leaves, surrounded by moss covered forest giants.
This tree in Ireland reminded me of the one Linh & her friends stumble through in Australia.
This tree in Ireland reminded me of the one Linh & her friends stumble through in Australia.
October 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The first draft of Manipulator's War was called Door to Another World. Its archway was engraved stone, but it too stands in a forest, on a trail strewn with leaves, surrounded by moss covered forest giants.
This tree in Ireland reminded me of the one Linh & her friends stumble through in Australia.
This tree in Ireland reminded me of the one Linh & her friends stumble through in Australia.
As I cull photos from my Iceland trip, a reminder that some ice is beautiful.
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
As I cull photos from my Iceland trip, a reminder that some ice is beautiful.
Where did this week go?
How is there only 2 and a bit days left to grab this book bundle?!
♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
(The answer for me when it comes to time is always ADHD perceives it differently/ barely at all 😉).
How is there only 2 and a bit days left to grab this book bundle?!
♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
(The answer for me when it comes to time is always ADHD perceives it differently/ barely at all 😉).
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Where did this week go?
How is there only 2 and a bit days left to grab this book bundle?!
♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
(The answer for me when it comes to time is always ADHD perceives it differently/ barely at all 😉).
How is there only 2 and a bit days left to grab this book bundle?!
♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
(The answer for me when it comes to time is always ADHD perceives it differently/ barely at all 😉).
So many great moments in years of my travel photos, like this time I was walking down a forest road in Ireland, and Bambi walked out from between the trees and started drinking from a creek flowing beside the road. I froze so still it didn't notice me at all. Beautiful nature moment!
October 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
So many great moments in years of my travel photos, like this time I was walking down a forest road in Ireland, and Bambi walked out from between the trees and started drinking from a creek flowing beside the road. I froze so still it didn't notice me at all. Beautiful nature moment!
For Ace Week, you can browse 51 books with asexual main characters, and or by asexual authors here ♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
If you fancy half, you can pick up a bundle of
25 for $25 itch.io/b/3321/ace-p...
The other 26 for $26 itch.io/b/3322/ace-p...
Or all 51 for $50 😄
If you fancy half, you can pick up a bundle of
25 for $25 itch.io/b/3321/ace-p...
The other 26 for $26 itch.io/b/3322/ace-p...
Or all 51 for $50 😄
October 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For Ace Week, you can browse 51 books with asexual main characters, and or by asexual authors here ♠️🌈📚 itch.io/b/3318/ace-p...
If you fancy half, you can pick up a bundle of
25 for $25 itch.io/b/3321/ace-p...
The other 26 for $26 itch.io/b/3322/ace-p...
Or all 51 for $50 😄
If you fancy half, you can pick up a bundle of
25 for $25 itch.io/b/3321/ace-p...
The other 26 for $26 itch.io/b/3322/ace-p...
Or all 51 for $50 😄
Just finished culling photos from my first overseas country as an adult traveller, and am blown away by how lucky I am to have seen and experienced so much, met such great people & done it young & able bodied, making the most of every opportunity.
(Photo me at Santorini, Greece.)
(Photo me at Santorini, Greece.)
October 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Just finished culling photos from my first overseas country as an adult traveller, and am blown away by how lucky I am to have seen and experienced so much, met such great people & done it young & able bodied, making the most of every opportunity.
(Photo me at Santorini, Greece.)
(Photo me at Santorini, Greece.)
Culling travel photos is challenging when you love archaeology. For eg., I have too many photos of Greco-Roman statues, but I can't cull this one, because look at those curls! And I can't cull this one because its Rome's first emperor, Augustus and... not easy at all! 😉
October 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Culling travel photos is challenging when you love archaeology. For eg., I have too many photos of Greco-Roman statues, but I can't cull this one, because look at those curls! And I can't cull this one because its Rome's first emperor, Augustus and... not easy at all! 😉
I'm doing an epic (20 years worth of digital!) photos cull, before shifting files to my new computer. My early photography skills and the quality of pics my first digital camera could take are pleasantly surprising me.
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I'm doing an epic (20 years worth of digital!) photos cull, before shifting files to my new computer. My early photography skills and the quality of pics my first digital camera could take are pleasantly surprising me.
3.5 more days for this bundle!
My Manipulator's War (epic & portal fantasy) has multiple main & secondary characters with ADHD (some also being autistic 😉).
Its fast pace and my love of complex worlds and plot twists & turns are all indebted to my ADHD.
🌈📚🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...
My Manipulator's War (epic & portal fantasy) has multiple main & secondary characters with ADHD (some also being autistic 😉).
Its fast pace and my love of complex worlds and plot twists & turns are all indebted to my ADHD.
🌈📚🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...
October 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
3.5 more days for this bundle!
My Manipulator's War (epic & portal fantasy) has multiple main & secondary characters with ADHD (some also being autistic 😉).
Its fast pace and my love of complex worlds and plot twists & turns are all indebted to my ADHD.
🌈📚🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...
My Manipulator's War (epic & portal fantasy) has multiple main & secondary characters with ADHD (some also being autistic 😉).
Its fast pace and my love of complex worlds and plot twists & turns are all indebted to my ADHD.
🌈📚🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...