H.S. Kallinger (he/they)

I miss closing my eyes while Enya or the like played and our director told us a story that worked as well as a hypnotization session (speaking from experience) and opening them feeling Ready.

Random thought:

I saw someone post about a writer's greenroom, and it reminded me of how disappointing "greenroom" became when I first entered one in the wild that wasn't pre-stage, and it was just a place to chill and ignore everyone instead of full of relaxation exercises and cast/crew bonding.

A line of 5 colorful Care Bears with the center bear twice the size of the other 4. From left to right, the Care Bears are: Hopeful Heart Bear, Share Bear, Togetherness Bear, Grumpy Bear, and Funshine Bear.

A different angle of the line of 5 colorful Care Bears with the center bear twice the size of the other 4. From left to right, the Care Bears are: Hopeful Heart Bear, Share Bear, Togetherness Bear, Grumpy Bear, and Funshine Bear.

For our anniversary, my husband gave me these additions to my Care Bear collection (the main goal is to get all the ones with rainbows XD but everyone is welcome!)

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This is still going, and will continue until the asswipes in D.C. return SNAP benefits and Congress walks back the cuts to ACA credits.

I am so sorry. These fucking scam bots need to be stopped. They're cruel.

A moodboard with images of stars, forests, a blonde woman in a cloak, and a fantasy inn.

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE x FREIREN

When her father disappears, Sav must navigate the aftermath: her village’s abandonment, her mother's blame, and her own depression. Entering a magical tourney to win audience with a powerful mage might restore her people’s faith…or break her own. #GhostPit #A #F #W

Vampires see blue differently than other colors. It stands out the most vividly when in front of warm, earthy colors--AKA, skin tones. Certain greens in front of the same colors will also stand out, but they see it as the same blue.

Just a little food marker for them.

#NovemberWorldbuilders

SO. Yes. There are trans parents in the Found Humanity series, and to avoid spoilers, that's as much as I can say 😅

AS a trans parent, there's definitely one in my own story 😉

#QueerPrompts

Oh, no, forks need to be small, too. I cannot risk them touching my teeth at any point -_-

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks! 💙

Thank you!

Round cake, photo taken from above. The base layer is a thin layer of off-white frosting, and it is decorated with aqua blue frosting in bumpy flowers around a squiggle circle around the number 21 with a heart above it. It's sitting on a black marble counter.

Our oldest baked and made the frosting on our anniversary cake (almond wedding cake with almond buttercream), and 16 decorated. They, uh, ran out of the white 😂

My husband and I were married 21 years ago, and we've been together for 24 years total! ^_^

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If you're in the area of Salem, Oregon, be sure to drop by the Skein & Scribe book and yarn store on Commercial St. On the south side. I'm joined by author Donovan Reves as well.

#booksky

Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 on Itchio. Image: 32 Book covers on a a sunset photo background by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits

Trans main characters tackle themes including self-discovery, love & friendship, trauma & healing, literal and/or metaphorical demons, magic, war, or even the world itself in this multi-genre set of 32 books by trans authors!

Queernormative worlds! Found family! Trans joy!

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Me in a red and black Mothman costume with a steel-spiked black pleather N95-shaped mask, standing outside.

Me in a red and black Mothman costume with a steel-spiked black pleather N95-shaped mask, standing outside. I've spread the wings here, revealing the full pattern that includes eye mimics like on a real moth, and my black pants with black knee braces over them.

Me in a red and black Mothman costume with a steel-spiked black pleather N95-shaped mask. I'm standing over the camera with my wings spread, taking up most of the field of view, with some tree branches and sky behind.

A close up of my face in a red and black Mothman costume with a steel-spiked black pleather N95-shaped mask and glasses, standing outside in front of trees that are mostly still green but some foliage has turned autumn colors.

My costume!

Autism is pretty heavily correlated to transness, so... (I'm not diagnosed with that officially, but I have been peer diagnosed, lol)

Here, the rule is 'porch light on.' If it's off, it means you aren't supposed to ToT (and legally in the US, sex offenders have to have theirs off, so it's incredibly foolish not to abide by it on top of the unbelievable rudeness).

CW: discussion of child abuse

The root of mine is actually that I grew up in an abusive home, where I was called a monster on a regular basis (for having ADHD, for making childish mistakes, and for just existing sometimes), until that's all I saw myself as. So, it's a little less deep for me 😅

I love that your little ghosties are flitting around it!

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A Demon to Save Me by H.S. Kallinger. Title letters are rendered in fire inside a blood circle, with a bloody pentagram drawn with a finger on a hardwood floor. Some blood is scattered around it. A pair of amber eyes with thick, black eyelashes are just visible on the floor above the circle. Rainbow circles fade in and out around the image. Author name is in pink, blue, and white in the lower right corner. In white lettering at the top is "Book One of the Found Humanity series". Cover is displayed against a starfield with a little nebula to the left and lit behind with blue on the left and pink on the right.

Image of six books under the header The Lost Humanity Series: Hotel of Lost Souls (moon filled with a scene of 3 survivors from a train crash and two hotels over palm trees), Pet (shirtless man with his hands bound by medical straps wearing light blue jeans and holding a shock collar, standing in front of flames), Bridges (picture of the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog just after a very pretty pink and blue sunset with the walkway replaced with a guitar bridge), Predators (a redwood forest at night containing shadowy shapes with glowing eyes in the blue spaces between trees), Castles (a crumbling castle ruin in Northumberland on a green hill with the dark sky night sky featuring the milky way behind it), and World of Lost Souls (the Earth in space, focused on North America, showing the lights of cities from space), by HS Kallinger. Background is a blue and black starfield.

White text reads: The Found Humanity Series. Gabriel "Gabby" Belmont has the same dreams and hopes as human kids. Graduate high school, go to college, med school, live the dream. He should have the same, ordinary life as his peers. Most dhampir are just like humans, maybe a little faster, stronger, healthier, but overall, you can't tell them apart. Unfortunately for Gabby, he's not 'a little' enhanced. He's almost half as strong and fast as a vampire. What's more, he's gifted, both by human terms and vampire. Other kids can't feel emotions from their peers. Other teenagers can't summon real demons in their bedrooms. Even among dhampir, Gabby is an outlier, and he's been lonely a very long time. This story is about friendship, found family, love in all its forms, healing, self-discovery... and stories that transcend the multiverse. Background is a dark club with people dancing under pink and purple laser lights.

White text reads: THE LOST HUMANITY SERIES We've heard the hero origin stories, and we've heard from the villains, too. But seldom does the story revolve around the people supporting our heroes and villains. This story does. It's not about the hero's faithful sidekick. Nor is it about a sniveling sycophant seeking power. Zack Henderson is just an ordinary guy until the villain gets his hands on him. One trauma leads to another, and the abuse and rewards take him down a path of moral disengagement into a life of actions he would never have believed himself capable. But Zack is just trying to rebuild his life from the ashes. This is the perfect opportunity for the villain to mold him into a good lackey. But he has no idea how much Zack will mold him in return. Image in background is a dark-faded image of a burning parking lot with a bare-branch tree to the left and another with an unidentified object--either a car door or a trash can--burnt to the right. Slightly off center to the right is a shirtless tan man in blue jeans with his hands bound by medical straps, holding a black shock collar, faded in from just below the ribs to the upper thigh.

Today is your last chance to snag any of my books (or all of them) at half off for my Halloween sale!

You can get them either on Itch or Smashwords:

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www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Image of 9 books covers for books by Helen Whistberry: Roadkill, shows a highway with animal skeletons on it; The Final Voyage of Avery Mothmere, has a black cat playing with an old-fashioned sailing ship; When Your Heart is a Broken Thing, has a white rabbit crying red tears and a red rabbit with skeleton exposed crying blue tears; Once Upon a Wave of Witches, with co-author Eli Belt, has a green kraken tentacle sweeping through turbulent blue waves; The Tail of Nightshade, has a gray mouse among purple nightshade blooms; The Melody of Trees, has a red fox among twining tree branches; The Weird Sisters, has a full moon behind tombstones with a hand visible lying on the ground; The Avenging Angel, has a full moon behind a mansion; The Ghostly Groom, has a full moon behind a tombstone with a black bird on top of it.

What's on sale?

My books!

Fantasy, horror, folktales, fairy tales, little sci-fi for kicks, adventure quests, eldritch beings, a wise-cracking noir detective, illustrations, nonbinary autistic ace folks

Something for every taste!

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$1.50 or less per book or $11 for all!

The Final Voyage of Avery Mothmere is good, too! I've been going through the Melody of Trees in bits of ADHD allowance and enjoying it as well. Helen is a delightful creator 💙

That is, in fact, rather awful 🙁

Blessed Samhain, friends. May the aos sí, fey, or whatever be kind, the dead find solace and hospitality, and if you reflect, do so in truth and kindness to yourself.