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25 | Adult Sapphic Fantasy Writer & Reader | FREE🇵🇸 | AuDHD | they/she | writing very very slowly 🥲 feeling the burnout | 🌏🦘🐨
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Reading Update!

Learning Curves was super cute and sweet! Two nerdy professors. Age gap romance. 4⭐️

Not On The Resume was a workplace / age gap romance, that felt like scenes were cut short or completely missing made it hard to believe the chemistry. 2⭐️

#BookSky #SapphicBooks #RomanceBooks
Image of the cover for Learning Curves by Rachel Lace. Two women on the cover, one curvy red head in a skirt and sweater, the other a white woman with brown hair in pants, button up and jacket. Fall background of university. The Cover of Not On The Resume by Chloe Peterson. Two woman on the cover, cute but casual blonde girl and a dark hair business woman.
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Enryn has long, thick, wavy, copper-brown hair she keeps braided back most of the time. Shes considered cutting it to be more practical for combat but its one of the few more “feminine” things she enjoys personally. (My big buff lesbian😌)

#AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky
Pic crew art by crowsen. A white woman, tan, light freckles across the nose, eyebrows lowered, brown eyes level, no nonsense mouth. A scar on her jaw. Long brown/copper hair, half up in a bun.
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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When Saint Opelli comes looking for a sword guardian Enryn refuses; she’s done with that life. But when the magical saint finds herself in trouble Enryn cant deny her training or instinct to help, and agrees to protect Opelli until she finds an adequate sword guardian.

#WIPPit #Fantasy #A #Sapphic
A graphic. Over the blurred picture of a white woman with redish brown hair in armour on her knees, holding a sword pointed down, reads: “you don’t want me.” “But i do.” [italics] “There is blood [circled in red] on my hands [underlined in red].” “On mine too.” [underlined in white] “Do you know what they call me?” “The betrayer…[highlighted in red]”. Theres a muddy green boarder with vines.
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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In a post empire world where everyone grapples for power, a magical Saint & her four guardians—
a disgraced sword🗡️
a craven shield🛡️
a cannibal heart🫀
& a false voice💭
—set out to ascend to higher power & quell the maddening in an attempt to find their path to redemption

#WIPPit #Fantasy #A #Sapphic
A fantasy mood board. Written over the top: My dear Saint if you wish to survive the maddening you must rely on your sword, your shield, your voice, and your heart. 16 images 4x4. Starts light and bright from top right corner and gradually darkens to bottom left corner. Images: 1. A black woman in a white gown. 2. Sun shining across grassy hills and trees. 3. Horses. 4. The back of a cloaked person with a bow and arrows. 5. A grassy field and trees. 6. Ppl in white robes holding light in their hands. 7. A woman in a white robe knighting a soldier on their knees. 8. The head of a massive stone statue on a forest. 9. A bulletin board with posters. 10. A white woman in armour kneeling with a sword. 11. Three dark cloaked figure holding swords upright. 12. A dark barren forest floor. 13. A knights shield. 14. A dark green forest. 15. A barren land. 16. An old dark crumbling castle wall.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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The everlasting was suppose to be my next read but typical mood reader me picked up Discovering Nicola instead and devoured it!
Very sweet romance of two complex older women discovering themselves post divorce!
#BookSky #RomanceBooks #SapphicBooks
Cover of the book Discovering Nicola by Clare Ashton. Two older women stood back to back on the cover.
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Finished The Princess Knight yesterday! 4.5⭐️ was a super fun read, i really enjoyed the two mc’s in this one!

Next is The Everlasting!
#BookSky #FantasyBooks #LadyKnights
Cover of “The Princess Knight” by Cait Jacobs. A pink themed cover with swords and flowers around the border and art of the mc’s in the centre. A blond princess in a pink gown holding a sword and a dark haired man by her side. Cover of “The Everlasting” by Alix E. Harrow. A sword in the centre surrounded by flowers, and half a face in the reflection of the sword.
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Whats 🏕️Camp Fairwood✨ about?

✌️A small community of wirters
💙Super awesome people
🏆Lots of support, fun, and games
🌊Ocean house rules aka friendly completion hehe

This group has helped me write more over the last almost 2 yrs? now and i just love them so much.

#discord #WritingCommunity
SUNNY SAYS... Calling all writers: ask us about how you can join Camp fairwood this fall! Sun graphic with a fall background.
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Come. Join us. Camp Fairwood is the place for writers to unlock their potential…

(We currently have an event going and i want that xp! Ocean house for the win)
#writingcommunity #discord
A meme. The anime guy (labelled camper) looking at a butterfly (labelled: random person on social platform)… is this a new recruit?
September 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Choose your cabin!
🌊Ocean House
🌿Green Meadows
🫧Pearl Lodge
☀️Sunshine Valley
Write to win gold🥇on the weekly leaderboard!!

#WritingCommunity #Discord
Text in a autumn leaf background. Text reads: are you trying to write more? do you yearn for a sense of community? does the idea of summer camp make you nostalgic? we have the server for you! message for more info about joining Camp Fairwood on discord!
September 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Romeo & Juliet x My Happy Marriage but Sapphic.

💍a political marriage to end a war
👑a catatonic princess brimming with witch power
🗡️a fae hunter in human skin

Not all are willing to let go of the past but Nymael and Runnan must if their desire for peace is real.

#QuestPit #W #A #RF
Mood board. Green to purple-blue colour way from right top corner to bottom left corner. Text on torn paper reads lyrics from Hozier’s Work Song: lay me gently in the cold dark earth, no grave can hold my body down, ill crawl home to her. Pics top to bottom, left to right: a white woman with blonde hair in a garden. Green hair in a braid. green leather armour. A hand against the backdrop of an evening sky and crescent moon. Holding hands. A forest with yellow eyes peering out. A woman in pretty dress. An eye glazed with swirling starlight. The back of a hood figure with a bow and arrow.
August 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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A political marriage to end a war.

A human princess left catatonic & brimming with witch power. Nymael longs for peace but must find her will to fight.

A fae hunter in human skin. Runnan itches to draw her sword but must resolve to stay her hand.

#QuestPit #W #A #RF #Sapphic
A start night sky in the top right, a mossy forest floor in the bottom left. A torn old page ripped between them with the word Incarnation in purple writing. Antlers and a star adorn the words and pressed flowers decorate the edges along with a yellow moth and blue butterfly on either side.
August 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Audio book on the go😌
Screenshot of Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo audio book on spotify - chapter 3 A photo of my dogs walking on a trail in the bush.
June 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Finished! This was the perfect cozy yet thoughtful read 5/5⭐️ I very much look forward to the next one!

#books #cozybooks
A photo of my hand holding the book A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. “A monk and robot book.” “HUGO AWARD WINNER!” Theres a path winding through a field of flowers and leaves. A robot at one end a monk sitting on a carriage with a cup of tea.
June 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Started Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo on audio for my book club! I don’t normally do audio but thought id give it a try while i walk the dogs.

First chapter was good! I like the narrator, i just need to get better at staying focused.

#books #audiobooks #bookclub #dogs #walk #beach
A screen shot of the audio book for Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo on spotify A photo of my dogs on the beach, water coming in between the rocks.
June 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Currently reading A Psalm For The Wild-Built. Picked it up from the library and started it last night, I’m practising casually reading instead of only reading when i have time to just sit and devour.
I can already tell its gonna be a five star!
#books #scifi #cozyreads #solarpunk #novella
My hand holding the book “a psalm for the wild-built” by becky chambers against a green wall.
June 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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This month i will be participating in my discord servers annual event LWAB!!

I have a base goal of 5k new words for TMoD WIP to help get me out of my slump. Additionally id like to edit three chapters!

Invite will be in the comments if you’d like to join the fun!
#LWABcampfairwood #writers
A graphic with grean leaf border and the following words in the centre: Let’s Write a Book Camp Fairwood June 2025 #LWABcampfairwood
June 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Then today i read and annotated What Feats at Night by T Kingfisher, the second book to What Moves the Dead.

It was just as good if not better, tho i think that was in part because i really related to the horror aspects it played into, with nightmares and a theme for trauma/ptsd
5/5🌟
#horrorbooks
The first page of what feats at night, with a post it note key for the annotating tabs. Descriptions, Mystery, Research, Resonated.
May 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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I have been in a reading slump, writing slump, everything slump between being sick for a month and getting a big promotion at work (meaning more responsibilities) but i think im finally starting to break free!

Ive read three books in the past week!

🧵 for reviews!

#books #bookreveiw
A copy of What Feasts at Night by T Kingfisher held against a green wall, with tabs down the page edge. A light horror novella Book 1 and 2 of CosmoKnights by Hannah Templer. Queer sci-fi graphic novels.
May 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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A snippet using “memory” for #Saturdark from my wip The Misery of Daughters.
"Thirty-five years may seem like a lifetime ago for those in the inner regions but to the people here the memory of war is still fresh. Most here lived through the horrors, lost their homes, their families." Amalia spoke at last.
April 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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My two girls. On the left is my young border collie Kyoshi, a total chaos demon lacking in impulse control. And on the right is my old girl Katara who would do anything i asked but is relegated to light exercise only.
A black and white border collie and black and tan Australian kelpie sitting on the grass looking into the distance.
March 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I did some writing sprints today and the words flowed nicely for once! I reached a scene I’ve had in mind since the early conception stages of this book. The first major (internal) turning point for the mc.

#WritingCommunity
"It is too late, Ehlani, please, i am fine with the life I have." "But how long can you be just fine for?"
March 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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“Woman” for #WIPsnips

Analia’s second youngest sister is becoming too “womanly” to avoid the horrors of their country any longer.

#WritingCommunity
Isolde was the third born and looked like Amalia and their mother with black hair and pale skin but where Amalia was all bones and no colour, Isolde had filled out into a desirable young woman. The three were close in age and had been inseparable at one time. Cordelia the sweet eldest sister always trying to please and impress, Amalia, the silent, broody second sister everyone was too frightened to mess with, and Isolde the rebellious third sister always into trouble. But it was the sight of Ophelia the fourth sister, born a fair few years after the older three, that had Amalia's heart racing. Her face was buried into the side of their father. This would be her first burning. She'd gone two years longer than most children without seeing one. Their parents had lied about her age to keep her from the horrors a little longer. But Amalia supposed at six and ten she was beginning to look too womanly.
March 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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“Late” for #WIPsnips

Specifically, approaching the late stages of the magic mutating plague…

#WritingCommunity
"Thank you," Varnd mumbled and gulped at the medicinal tea. Sweat beaded along his brow and his eyes were dark and heavy with exhaustion. Amalia lowered herself to the floor by the bars. "You shouldn't sit so close." he curled tight on himself. Kana likely shared his sentiment but Amalia couldn't bring herself to move away, to leave him to suffer alone. "It's alright," Amalia said. "You wont hurt me." "Not on purpose," he shook his head, "but l've seen what the late stages of the plague can do to the mind." "You're not there yet." And even if he were, he still couldn't do any real harm to her. She'd never caught the sickness from Mila and neither had Laila. She suspected they were immune due to their taint. "Just for a short while," Kana said tapping her shoulder. Amalia kept from flinching and didnt object.
March 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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“Crown” for #ScibbledSheroes

A little about the magic system and lore… or one version of the lore anyway…

Amalia is considered tainted and a skilled tainted at that…

#WritingCommunity
In Magaelia you were born either skilled, talented, or tainted. Everyone had a talent, but to be skilled was the highest honour, someone capable of wielding power to their will. The tainted however were those gifted with the power of the fallen goddess, Malla, and anyone in possession of taint was considered a conspirer against the crown and against Myros the One God.
March 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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So nice to come home from work to not one but two! Book packages!!

My lesbians and my gay boys 😍

Also shout out to @gracereadsaudio.bsky.social for the gift card i won!! Which went towards these books! Thank you so much! 🫶

#BookMail #QueerBooks #Books📚💙
Two books (Heaven Officials Blessing 1 and The Lotus Empire) on brown packaging displayed on black and blue quilt. The head and front paws of a dog can also be seen in the top right corner.
February 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM