please forgive me but i must engage in Capitalism
It's time to update my promo thread!
First up: If you like girls kissing girls, greek myth, and fey, check out my upcoming romantasy, OATH OF FIRE!
isn't it wild that every black girl remembers watching the brandy cinderella over and over until the tape wore out but white girls forget it existed at all?
If you missed it, I was lucky enough to get to write ANOTHER story for magic the gathering!
this one features aesthetically inclined vampires, a gay wedding, mobsters galore, and as much old time slang as i could manage.
plus it stars this guy!
secret lair concept: 'the most hated man in the multiverse'. five removal spells depicting urza getting his comeuppance from five people he's wronged. thinking serra, gerrard, mishra, and karn, but not sure about the last one....
I can *finally* tell everyone about what might be the biggest honor I've ever received:
I got to write the story for
#MTGMachine
!
In Episode 1, we get an inside peek into Elesh Norn's head, and what's up with all this invading stuff:
this arc has plenty to love if you are:
-a rowan fan
-a will fan
-a fan of buff women
-a fan of villainous women
-a furry
-really into fairy tales
-someone who took way too many medieval lit courses in college
-a goose hater
'hey guys, we added views to twitter so you can see how lively this place still is!'
'you mean how little people are interacting with anything?'
'yeah, see, there are tons of people here ignoring you!'
Do you love Magic Story? Then make sure youโre actually reading the story! Please click through! Send it to your pals! Listen to the audio!
The more we can show that story is an important part of Magic the Gathering, the more likely we are to get longer stories!
If I can be really gay on the TL for a moment, I'd like to say that today is my 10 year anniversary with my partner Charlie.
It's been an incredible ten years full of growth, discovery, and love. I can't wait to spend the next ten years together too, and the next.
The news is outโI had the great fortune to write the Main Story for
#MTGWOE
! Itโs packed full of all the fairy tale references I could manage, and features some little linguistic things Iโm very proud of.
I hope youโll come along for the trip!
>playing edh
>I'm at 1 life
>opponent draws 36 cards in one turn
>o fuck
>he does not have a reliquary tower effect
>look at my side of the board
>sanguine bond, sangromancer
>wait for end step
>manage to avoid death
>HE FORGOT ABOUT MY CARDS
>win when he discards down
Wizards: We need an ending that ties up two decades of loose ends while having a strong voice on justice, obligation, and the power of love. Can you write something cathartic?
K Arsenault Rivera: I can and will cathart a bitch under the table
Iโm just a girl, holding her books at Barnes and noble, waiting for a tall person to come by who can put them back on the shelf now that I signed them
it's really funny watching every author offer up their children on the altar of trigun yaoi so that the new god, bigolas dickolas, may bless them with sales
If you had to sum up each magic the gathering color in a three word phrase, what would you pick?
Blackโs my favorite, and Iโd go with โat any costโ
Anyway as a reminder: you donโt have to like an authorโs work, but you also donโt have to quote tweet them to tell them so! Hating us doesnโt bring your faves back!
Talking with my partner charlie about todayโs
#mtgmom
events:
Charlie: so she was an angel the whole time and just forgot?
Me: yep
Charlie: so she was just making 1/1 soldiers outta nothing and thought that was normal?
first novelist: murasaki shikibu
first poet: enheduanna
first person paid to write fiction: christine de pizan
first genre fiction writer: mary shelley
men, for over 3,000 years: idk i just think writing isn't a woman's place
the ASCENDANT trilogy is about two lesbian princesses whose moms are an action bisexual and a lesbian hopelessly in love with her. I can count the straight characters on one hand, but I'd need a crowd to count all the cool fights
please, i beg you, when your writer family member says they are working--please, please treat that the way you would if they were working a shift of a 9-5 or retail job.
I SOLD ANOTHER BOOK! And it's a ROMANCE!
(Okay, a *fantasy* romance!)
Greek Mythology has always been a great love of mine, and making it Sapphic? Say less.
It's Eyes Wide Shut x Eros and Psyche x An Enchantment of Ravens!
Thanks to
@SaraMegibow
and
@LeahHulten
!
So terfs are okay with cis folks altering their diet and working out an insane amount to change their bodies, but not taking some hormones and going to therapy. Is that right?
Todayโs episode of Wilds of Eldraine features:
-a ballroom sequence
-a mysterious and hot witch
-the multiverseโs hottest enby walker
-a giant goose
-improper application of magical potions
But most importantly:
- womenโs wrongs
Link in next post!
This is a very, very important story chapter, guys. And also probably my favorite.
@Grayhaem
let me really go in for this, and I'm so grateful. Also grateful to
@marthawells1
for all her Dominaria stories, which really informed this one.
#MTGMachine
stories, day 6
She shakes her head. The girl has thrown her arms around her in embrace. She tousles the girlโs hair.
โYouโre safe now.โ
Episode 6: The Last to Leave -
Cis guy at the comic shop just hit me with โwow you donโt see too many girls who are into magicโ like the majority of people I play with arenโt girls or queers of some stripe
Todayโs Magic story is the finale of the
#MtGWOE
arc!
It features:
-references to both medieval and Victorian lit
-Anakin vibes
-Reappearances for Imodane and a small one of Royse
-the Kenrith family all you can eat knuckle sandwich buffet
- stupid sexy (spoiler)
A big theme of these stories is Fear. Chandra, Elspeth, Kaito, Wrenn, almost everyone at some point addresses it.
The reason for that is my own struggles with panic attacks, and the way dealing with fear every day has shaped me.
How it can shape heroes, too.
So I'm definitely Going Through Some Shit (tm) right now, but I honestly think
@ArsenaultRivera
's words on fear in today's Magic story would have made me tear up on my best day.
The first episode of the
#MTGWOE
story is here!
Join us for a knightly duel, Rowan going mildly apeshit, and our introduction to the sweetest kid in the realm--our new hero, Kellan!
(Also a hot hunky woman I couldn't resist adding in)
Link in next post!
Y'all. If you've ever wanted to read a novel that's BLACK SWAN meets SUSPIRIA, with a touch of ritual horror, and Black as fuck? You *need* to check out I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME, coming to you from
@wickedjamison
!
I finally get to tell you guys what I've been working on! Some of you may know that I'm a huge MTG fan. I have a tattoo of Avacyn's symbol! Working on this set was beyond a dream come true.
New main story chapter out! I named this episode after one of my favorite wheel effects. Nissa and Chandra reunite, and Iโm sure itโs totally cathartic!
#MTGMachine
stories, day 4
โNorn probably doesnโt think a handful of rebels are a threat. We can use that hubris to our advantage, and strike before she realizes how threatening we can be.โ
Episode 5: Cathartic Reunionย -
when i say there are a lot of really personal touches in MOM, i really mean it. the part about drumming in this episode is an ode to my stepfather and mother.
If you liked my March of the Machine stories, please check out my original fiction too! If you like long emotional stories about sapphics, a plague that spreads via black fluid, duels, and cathartic reunions, it's got plenty!
Happy book birthday to THE PHOENIX EMPRESS, second in the ASCENDANT series! If you liked THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER, or even if you just like my jokes, please consider picking up my very queer epic fantasy books :)
@ArsenaultRivera
you absolutely nailed the MOM story, but I'd love to see it expanded and some of the background events explored. Please tell me
@wizards_magic
will let you write a novel for this!! (And that you want to haha ๐ )
First story I followed in a LONG time. A+ work.
guys, this set goes so hard. every time i see a new card from it i get emotional. i've never seen a mainstream fantasy world include us like this, celebrate us like this. it's so beautiful
are you gay? do you love fantasy politics? do you have a high tolerance for definitely not period accurate costuming? also, do you love diverse casts?
watch wheel of time
I donโt have any memes for this one. Itโs a good episode.
But if you want themes: friendship, perseverance, and redemption.
Iโm proud of this oneโplease check it out.
Hey everybody! My second story for
#MTGMidnight
is now up. Arlinn fans enjoy a deep dive into her past, and Chandra fans? Chandra fans get some pretty cute contentโฆ
Happy Pride Month!
Some important reminders:
๐ณ๏ธโ๐We wouldn't be able to celebrate this at all without the work of trans WOC
๐ณ๏ธโ๐Trans women are women, trans men are men
๐ณ๏ธโ๐Ace, Aro, Bi, Pan, NB--we're all in this together.
Now go out there and queer it up! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Hey, did you like the March of the Machine story? Please check out my *OTHER* novel length work about two women falling in love amidst an apocalypse of pestilent black fluid, THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER!
Duels! Sapphics! God-Slaying!
on sale for SIX BUCKS!
today in star wars rpg adventures, my girlboss hapan crime lord saw a woman in charge of her own ship and completely blew the party's cover because gorl hot.
Charlie and I play very friendly couples Magic games. For instance, I just reanimated their Vorinclex and made them draw 52 cards from a 48 card library.
Episode 2 of the WOE story is here! It features:
-brooding Rowan
-2 different anthros
-my best attempt at writing a malevolent song
-A Sweeney Todd reference
-Kellan making friends!
Check it out!
Two new
#MTGMachine
main story chapters are out! Theyโre both important to me.
Tamiyo is one of my favorite walkers. In episode 3, she returns to her home and unleashes her bound scrolls.
Bring tissues!
#MTGMachine
stories, day 2
"The scroll itself becomes oil in Tamiyoโs hands, dripping between her fingers.ย This is how the story ends, and how it has always ended: with Phyrexiaโs victory.ย "
Episode 3: Mother, Son, and Storyย -
Thereโs a bit of discourse going around about prose these days. People a lot smarter and more eloquent than I am have posted great threads already.
I just want to tie something in:
โFunโ fiction can be just as important to us as โseriousโ fiction.
When I say
@fictograph
knocked it out of the damn park with this I really mean it. SO happy to see such good and tightly focused character writing, and such a strong start for canon gruulfriends. Please read it!
dreamed that i wrote ridiculous magic fanfiction and posted it for everyone to see. woke up and immediately checked my phone.
glad you guys didn't see THAT
reasons to be in a polycule:
-even distribution of grocery carrying
-always someone home for packages
-built in ranked queuing partners
-easiest rent split in the world
-group hugs on demand
-being surrounded by hotties
In Episode 2, we check in with Chandra and the others. Writing Wrenn in this meant imagining
@seananmcguire
staring at me from the nonexistent cornfields outside of my window, menacing me. I hope I did well!
However, increasing to 18 stories is a huge improvement, and the character writing of
@ArsenaultRivera
and
@seananmcguire
has been fantastic. I'm more emotionally invested in this story than I've been in years and it's because of how much depth these characters have gotten (2/2)