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Fantasy writer | Building Kalibayan: a world where spells cost memory and grief births monsters. Myth, magic, and fragments from the in-between. Join the project → guianocon.substack.com
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New poem up in my Substack. Link in bio 🫶🏽
20.10.2025 23:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#amwriting #writingfantasy #wipnovel #fantasywriter #indieauthor #filamauthor #diasporicfiction #kalibayanproject #filipinoauthor #filipinofantasy #monsterlore #wip
11.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Magic in Kalibayan runs on memory. The more painful, the more powerful. Burn too much, too fast, the world breaks open. Out come the monsters. Like the taklob. A shame eater wrapped in mirrors.
Read more ➡️ guianocon.substack.com
Thank you for the reposts, y’all!
06.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Monster #1, She’s a baddie
New article up my substack, my beasties ⏩ link in bio
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01.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Filipino horror. Memory-fueled magic. Mythical monsters. All good all good. Let’s lean in!
New Substack is LIVE ➡️ guianocon.substack.com / link in bio
I can't even bring myself to read the rest of that drivel lol
06.09.2025 17:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A meditation on transience ✨
Link in bio bbs!
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20.08.2025 19:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I grew up hearing ghost stories and watching The Exorcist way too young.
Now I write monsters into my fantasy world.
New Substack: on Filipino myth, memory, and worldbuilding with fangs.
🩸 The monsters have always been here.
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Me: background character.
Him: I am the plot now.
🚨new post🚨 guianocon.substack.com
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Check out the new article if you’re interested to read more on these needy suckers ➡️ guianocon.substack.com also link in bio
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This started out as a post about lore. Then one of the gods asked “Do you love us?”
The gods in Kalibayan are weird, moody, and full of questions…very anxious. It’s just…mood 😂
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18.07.2025 13:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What does memory become, when it walks? What does it leave behind? Excerpt from my novel-in-progress. Stirring shit up in the cauldron over here 🧙🏽♀️ ⏩ 📖 guianocon.substack.com
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This world needs those
who know how to do that.
Those who could find a tunnel
that has no light at the end of it,
and hold it up like a telescope
to know the darkness
also contains truths that could
bring the light to its knees.
Grief astronomer, adjust the lens,
look close, tell us what you see.
Grief Astronomer, by Andrea Gibson
Posted by them on their Facebook page on 3/15/2021
A difficult life is not less
worth living than a gentle one.
Joy is simply easier to carry
than sorrow. And your heart
could lift a city from how long
you’ve spent holding what’s been
nearly impossible to hold.
My heart is broken at Andrea’s passing. But my heart is also full of poetry. And I’m so grateful for art. And for artists. And for my heroes like these poets who are fighting the good fight. And winning.
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I still can’t stop thinking about Andrea Gibson. I saw them perform back in 2004 when they came to Santa Cruz. I was a freshman in college. I also saw Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, and Buddy Wakefield. That group inspired me to commit to the creative writing program. They still inspire me.
16.07.2025 11:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Love Letter From The Afterlife, pt 3
By Andrea Gibson
Read part 2 in my previous post
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Love Letter From The Afterlife, pt 2
By Andrea Gibson
Read part 1 in my previous post
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Poet Andrea Gibson passed away today. Heartbroken. Read their poetry. Love your people. Love big today of all days. For them. The rest of this phenomenal poem will be posted in a second post.
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13.07.2025 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m a poet who writes about memory—how we invent ourselves from half-remembered things. Now I’m writing a fantasy novel. Still grief, still loss. Just with monsters.
Kalibayan runs on memory magic.
So… still poems. Just longer. With fight scenes.
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It’s dumb how often I trip out about the correct use of lay, laid, and lie. Especially while someone’s casting memory magic in a ruined war vault. 😵💫
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