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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it

Many stories of haunted houses may be related to Cyclosa imago, also known as the Haunting Spider.
When a colony settles an abandoned building, they collectively defend against human intrusion by forming dense webs, which have been interpreted as ghostly apparitions.

Weird fauna and flora that does weird freaky shit like this is that good worldbuilding crack that I love

Just put this shit right into my veins, man 🕷

Inktober Day 31 - Award

Inktober Day 27 - Onion

Inktober Day 28 - Skeletal

Inktober Day 26 - Puzzling

A screenshot of the website www.burkshelf.com showing the authors' book The Black Lily with a button to purchase directly from the authors.

The best way to support indie authors is to buy from them directly. Our ebooks (excluding anthologies by other publishers) can now be purchased at www.burkshelf.com for $1 off the price of other online retailers!

#indieauthor #authorlife #ebooks

Inktober Day 22 - Button

Creepy looking crow with a demon face on its chest. In its beak dangles an eyeball

Day 23 for #repostober

Creepy crow (I’m forgetting what I reposted, so hope I haven’t already posted this)

#darkart

Inktober Day 23 - Firefly

🦅 #OC

Please clap.

Inktober Day 17 - Ornate

Hang in there, struggling artists

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Inktober Day 08 - Reckless

Inktober Day 07 - Starfish

painting of a black cat but it has nothing on its face next to a socket that looks like a scared face

pareidolia - the phenomenon that makes us see faces in objects

Inktober Day 04 - Murky

Inktober Day 03 - Crown

Inktober Day 01 - Mustache

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A guide to Original Sin, a contemporary portal fantasy by G.D. Burkhead - a tale of swords, sorcery, sin, and study guides.

The pitch: When college student Morgan Amell finds a magical grimoire in a second-hand shop, her curiosity betrays her, and a botched spell attempt sends her hurtling into Hell. Now she must navigate a demonic city where seven races of sin live colorful lives under the rule of a forgotten Arthurian knight-squire who's somehow ruling in the devil's place. Can Morgan survive sinful society, treasonous plots, and the capricious whims of a man out of time obsessed with learning all about her and her world? Will she be able to find a way back home while keeping her amateur magical talents secret on pain of death?

For fans of Gideon the Ninth, Frieren, The Grey Bastards, and Hazbin Hotel.

What to expect: Trapped in another world; unexpectedly real but unfortunately illegal magic; self-motivated, self-taught heroine; strange flora and fauna; lost, forgotten and/or erased history; colorful, detailed worldbuilding; secret schemes and shady plots; and they were roommates! With only one bed!

My new hellish fantasy book Original Sin is finally out in just two more days!

Here's a quick rundown of what to expect, in case all of my excited babble up to now hasn't been enough to get the point across yet.

#indieauthor #fantasyauthor #fantasynovel #portalfantasy #newrelease #bookpreorder

Original Sin is a hellish portal fantasy novel by G.D. Burkhead, releasing October 1. Find it at books2read.com/original_sin_burkhead

Y'all like books? Cuz I've got a new one coming out soon, full of demony magicky goodness! And badness!

Check it out at books2read.com/original-sin..., if you'd be so inclined, and tell me I sent ya

#indieauthor #fantasyauthor #fantasynovel #portalfantasy #newrelease #bookpreorder

embroidered patch with florals on top of a bouquet that reads “queer existence is eternal”

embroidered floral patch on top of a bouquet of dusty pink and red roses that reads “trans existence is an undying garden”

a reminder ! also I still have so many of these :)! your support helps me scrap by and also be able to support mutual aid efforts when and where I can !

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