Ellery Baxter

Literally in awe of this combination of words right now. 😳

This sounds like a job for catposting.

A tuxedo cat with a very serious facial expression standing inside a half-loaded dishwasher

Feel like posting nonsense; here's Woz in the dishwasher.

#queerprompts catch-up, March 15: AMAMT has botanokinetics! This uncommon psionic talent allows people to encourage unnatural plant growth, or sometimes to create plants entirely. It's widely considered a useless talent, but it can be handy under the right circumstances...

#queerprompts catch-up March 14: This is a fun one. AMAMT & GWP have very different pallettes. AMAMT is red- it's Devin's hair, it's Chloe's roses, and not to be edgy, but it's the color of blood. GWP takes place in a northern coastal town, so it's ocean blue, storm-gray skies, sand and earth tones.

Canon Jesus is so much cooler than fanon Jesus

#queerprompts catch-up, March 13: I don't know if I'm ever going to use this in anything, but there is a story about Devin's family of origin I really liked creating. The people who abandoned them, their reasons why, and what they went on to do after.

#queerprompts catch-up, March 12: I mean, a lot of what Devin and Rob get up to is questionably legal, if not flatly illegal. Usually if Rob is committing a crime, Devin is right there with him, colluding.

#queerprompts catch-up, March 11: AMAMT's Chloe is one tough cookie. She has experienced a lot of trauma, a lot of loss, a lot of fear, and she remains steadfast and - most importantly - uncynical.

Classic meme format image of a wide-eyed tabby cat in a refrigerator, hunched over several food items and licking its lips, captioned "IM IN UR FRIDGE, EATIN UR FOODZ"

This meme, except it's me in your discord server

#queerprompts catch-up, March 10: In the Gay Wizards Project, Shanna is an apothecary and resident healer of the group. Patching up idiots and being a mom friend about it is kind of her forte.

#queerprompts catch-up, March 9: AMAMT takes place (primarily) in the modern US, so daylight savings exists. Devin would literally do murder to change that, but alas.

Meanwhile, in the Gay Wizards Project, where I and not reality make the rules, there is no such thing.

#queerprompts catch-up, March 8: I think probably my favorite typo I've ever committed would be "shitroy" for "history".

And my favorite typo I've ever seen someone else commit would be "opionion" for "opinion"

#queerprompts catch-up, March 7: I need everyone to know I put entirely too much thought into this. 😅

Anyway, here's Devin and Chloe, half a world apart, and Devin overtaxing their telepathy as usual.

#queerprompts catch-up, March 6: In keeping with the last one, we'll use Devin again.
Chloe: An asshole. A...lovable asshole.
Rob: Difficult to manage, but worth the effort.
Vanessa: A problem I'm going to have to solve if it doesn't quickly solve itself.
Nate: A better person than they believe.

#queerprompts catch-up, March 5: Think I'll pick on AMAMT's Devin for this one, since it turns out we have several things in common.
- Bi/pan
- Neurodivergent (though their neurotype is different than mine)
- View gender as performative
- June birthday (but they're a Gemini and I'm a Cancer)

Oho, shots fired!

This is a picture of Ian McKellen as gandalf in a scene from The Lord of the Rings where he has the white hair and beard. It has been photoshopped to make his robes pink put a pink bow in his hair and change his gnarled wood staff into pink plus place a hello Kitty image on his chest which is a little white cat's head with a pink flower on top. The text reads "UwU shall not pass"

You can't imagine how much pr0n I had to scroll past to find this, but I've been saving it for a rainy day.

#queerprompts catch-up, March 4 - Oh, probably. Anything I read or watch that resonates with me ends up amalgamated into the mishmosh of my imagination. But it's hard to come up with specifics.

#queerprompts March 3 - I have no sense whatsoever of what tropes are popular or not. I do know that if you connect two characters telepathically, you will immediately have my interest.

👉🏽 Emotional wounds are what drive your character
👉🏾They already exist before the story starts
👉🏻They can be a trauma or past emotional hurt
👉🏿The emotional wound makes your MC believe something about themselves and the world that isn't true
👉🏽Then MC acts from a place of believing that lie

#QueerPrompts March 2 - How about a favorite childhood author? Bruce Coville fanned the earliest sparks of my interest in sci-fi and fantasy. I don't think I've ever read a book by him that I disliked, and he also seems to be a high-quality human being.

#queerprompts March 1 There are so many different places I could go with this prompt. I'd say overall, the most common form of discrimination you'll see represented in my work are poorly accommodated sensory needs and ND people being treated as weirdos in general. They say 'write what you know'...

I'm Ellery, largely a fanfic writer trying to stretch my wings into more original content. I write queer and neurodivergent characters with various superpowers. I have a couple long-term WIPs because I get bored easily, and this month I'll probably talk about all of them. 😅

Will I actually make it through this one before my executive functioning gives out? Only time will tell, but I'm gonna try. 😤

Me: Scroll...scroll...scroll - wait, did that say cyborg sex? 👀

The vagrant cat has lore, by the way, which I should probably make a thread about at some point because bsky loves cats and I feel the tale would be appreciated.

I said I would commit to using the bsky more regularly, so this is that.
Recent Baxterhappenings:
-NOT TEACHING; my spring semester course got canned for low enrollment 😞
-Cooking up a short story about autistic burnout and rejection, and also cyborgs
-Unexpected adoption of a weird vagrant cat

"Why are you not supposed to publicly criticize fanfiction?"

Because you're bitching about a free service that takes a mountain of effort, provided by someone who takes time out of their busy day to provide this service, because they didn’t do it exactly the way you wanted, WHERE THEY CAN HEAR YOU.

The immediate stack of unread books was big enough that I had to roll a d12 to select one. We're gonna ignore any implied significance to the first dice roll of 2025 being a 1 (it's not a d20 anyway, it doesn't count) and kick off the year with some good ol' Douglas Adams.