Matt "UnceasingToe" Large

"Skunk" comes from the Algonquin word "segankw," meaning "urine fox."

#etymology

I have a PhD in Nanomaterials Physics I'd love to be in people's back pocket (in a not weird way) ☺️

I have sometimes wondered if it's structurally unsalvageable and therefore I should just give up on it entirely...

Oh my goodness I'd love either, but a sketch of Kye and Jude would be so amazing 🤩 I reckon Jude could pull off a Korra costume and Kye would make a cute Asami... Or maybe Kyoshi and Rangi would better fit the height difference 😁 haha

Book Give Away graphic for Name Her Holy. It features the cover of Name Her Holy, offering a signed paper back as part of the giveaway. Or a Kye and Jude pencil sketch in the cosplay of your choice. Under this text is a very goofy drawing I did of Jude holding Kye on a toddler leash.

🌸✨GIVE AWAY ✨🌸

To celebrate Name Her Holy being out for 6mo, I’m doing a little giveaway!

We got two prizes:
📚signed paperback
✏️pencil sketch of Kye and Jude in a cosplay of your choice

To enter reblog this post, follow, leave a comment with which you want (both is fine)

Winners picked on 8/13 💖

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Unrelated (it's totally not) but North Dakota is like... crazy flat. Just... no wrinkles. Smooth. Flat as a pancake. Planar.

That must be a strange landscape to traverse, right? No landmarks/geological features/changes in geography to connote distance travelled. Flat for miles in every direction 😵‍💫

Turns out this new WIP is going to be a satire of the current LLM generation. It's not very subtle or clever, but I bet people won't get it anyway 😂

I've got theme, setting, characters, now I just need a plot... shit 🥲

#korrasami

I got a free evening so am elbows-deep in research land 😅 Horse rearing and travel, vegetable oil cultivation, natural gas distributions, maps of river flow rates...

Hot tub thinking time has revealed a main character, but I'm not going to get away from the "all your characters are women" allegation with this one... 🙃 Oh well!

Just need some kind of working title and I can create a new doc and dream up some scenes 👀

A hand-drawn fantasy world map for a continent called Æa. The continent is divided into five provinces: Tanis in the north, Midæa and Ostenwald in the east, West Seaxe in the west, and Deigland in the south. My story Aria of the Wayward mostly takes place in Midæa (in the province capital of Novalis)

Another incomplete hand-drawn draft, but this is the (known) world of my story Aria of the Wayward (and eventually its sequels and spinoffs! Haha), the continent of Æa

Right. This is serious. 🌼🐝

Help me raise at least £1000 for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust‬ by donating to my campaign to draw 1000+ bumblebees in as short of time as I can (around 3 hours)

If more than £1000 is raised, I'll draw #bees to match the amount.

www.justgiving.com/page/1000bum...

*the night before I go on holiday for a week with the in-laws and won't have any time to write 🥲

Have been struck by the muse with a new story idea (silly though it is), the first new writing idea I've had in months if not years. Feels good to be excited about something again 🥹

Might try a different tack and plan this one before drafting... Probably a short story length, but it's something

With "writers" embracing the mediocrity of AI-produced slop, it's on us to fight back.

And by fight back I mean be feral in your writing, be deeply weird and vulnerable and obsessive and human.

Let the predictive text write its anodyne MoR bs.

Spill your wild and your strange onto the page.

Was searching my later chapters for a callback I want to include in the next book, and stumbled over this line. Melodramatic AF I love it 😂

Aaaa tysm!! 🥰

"The dark reaches of the night seemed then to crawl with unsavoury malice, and in an instant sleep became Taiera’s enemy."

The company is owned by Epic Games, and on top of being US-based (which I interpret to mean "functionally lawless") their privacy policy states that one's sensitive information may be transmitted to their partners in third countries which don't have as strict data protection laws. FML

Can't access DMs in any form in the UK now without agreeing to hand over sensitive personal data to a US-based (i.e. lawless) business. @bsky.app taking oceanic quantities of piss

Just re-read the first scene I ever wrote out of spite, and I hope the intention comes across 😂 (a very unsubtle rebuke of the male gaze in stories about wlw, written because of the comments I got when a couple of guys at work found out I was writing a Fantasy novel with two women as the MCs 😒 jfc)

"For the longest time she had fought to be left alone; now, for the first time, the silence, and the stillness, made her itch."

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Oof, I'm in this picture and I don't like it

Legit reading this has reignited my passion for writing. If I didn't have work tomorrow I'd be riding the wave of serotonin through the night in a frenzy of editing 😂😂

a panda bear with its mouth open and a surprised look on his face . Alt: A cartoon panda with a completely awestruck expression on its face

Finished Name Her Holy by @clericofthevoid.bsky.social this evening and I think I'm going to need at least a week to recover 🥹😍💔🤯 Goodness me this book is a decadent, resplendent monument, so lovingly detailed. Very glad to hear there is more on the horizon! I wait with baited breath 😁
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Create your own comfort media. From scratch. Nothing matches the joy of having a world where every last detail is something you can call your own, and can't be ruined by an obstinate company caving to capitalism. You can even add as many *100% unambiguous* lesbians as you want! Unlimited lesbians!