✨Honeybee Rae✨

Congrats!!! Wishing you zero writing blocks and tons of creative momentum to keep going!

I love u bby ❤️‍🩹

YOUR first draft doesn’t need to be perfect. but mine does

The world is falling to shit, but I have a beautiful friend who made a beautiful story that I got to celebrate this weekend! Read it! Love it! Join the discord!

A photo of the drink corner at the party, with an under the sea backdrop and iridescent water-like table cloths. On one table, there are three drink dispensers - Pirate brew, which is a strawberry margarita. Mermaid lagoon water, which is just ice water. And pixie juice, which is a green melon-based mixed drink. The second table has an inflatable pirate ship cooler on top, for keeping canned beverages cool - and disposable gold champagne style glasses standing in rows in front of it.

The activity table at the party. Standing in front of a backdrop depicting a pirate ship in front of a large moon on the water, the table has a gold table cloth, a vase of pink flowers, and some candles along with a string of Star-shaped lights. The book poster is to the side for people to sign, there’s supplies for people to make their own bookmarks, and there are sheets of temporary tattoos for people to give themselves one if they choose.

A close up on one of the other tables. Lots of blue light and warm fairy lights, a vase of blue flowers with a lantern in front of it. On either side of the lantern stand a funko pop of Captain James Hook, and a custom-made funko pop of Wendy Darling that was made to look more like the author. Behind the Wendy funko pop is a prop version of the Captain’s hook.

An entryway desk with gold sparkly letters, T F T H M, the acronym for the book. Miniature green pine trees stand behind the letters, and a garland of green leaves and white flowers hangs down over the side of the counter. Below the flowers, a string of letters and stars spell out Welcome to Neverland.

A mock-up poster of a potential cover for the book - an adult Wendy Darling, with long hair and a blue shawl, is facing away from the viewer and looking up at the night sky, where the second star to the right is visible. The title of the book - The Fear That Haunts Me - runs along the bottom of the poster, along with the author’s real name, Rachel Hoover. Various signatures from friends and family attending the celebration are signed across the night sky in metallic marker.

One of the tables of food at the party - dim overhead lighting and warm mood lighting from fairy lights and fake candles. Greenery and flowers and butterfly garlands and mushrooms, to simulate the forest of Neverland. Each plate of food has a marker to label it on the table - acorn kisses, which are Hershey’s kisses stuck onto Nilla wafers. Fairy offerings, which is a fruit tray. Nymph offerings, which is a vegetable tray. Sticks and twigs, which are pretzel sticks. Come for the plot and stay for the spice, which is chips and spicy salsa. Second stars to the right, which are Star-shaped bites of cheese. And book worms, which are sour gummy worms.

The world is awful right now - but this weekend, I was blessed to be able to celebrate finishing the first draft of my book after three years of work, with some very dear friends. Looking forward to the endless editing ahead, and hoping to visit our little corner of Neverland soon! #booksky #author

Plus supporting other writers is just… so fun? It’s truly one of my favorite parts of having chosen to actually go through with writing my book, the community you get out of it if you look for one is unmatched 🥰

You’ve got this! Take breaks for yourself bby ❤️❤️❤️

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

bookshop.org/ebooks

Not gonna lie, the fastest way to get me to read something is to say the words “similar to howls moving castle”

But all the controversy about the Gaelic names not being researched properly (I’m a language nerd who’s also 56% Scottish), the second and third books being progressive let downs… I’m expecting to just read the first one to say I did it, and probably look for synopses of the others hahaha 😭

Every review about the series makes me want to read it less 😅 I got the first one at its peak popularity on TikTok, and my partner ended up reading the first two books and says they aren’t his favorite either. I feel like I’m obligated to at least give the first one a shot 😭 just because I bought it

Someday you will write the book.

Most people will not read it. But someone will, and it will change something inside them.

Then they will write a book, wholly their own, but slightly indebted to your ideas.

And so on.

The chain never ends. There are echoes of you at the end of the world.

About a year ago, I posted my D&D character's backstory on ao3! It's called the Palace Mysteria and it features a transmasc, non-binary tiefling and their life in the circus!
Now more than ever I think it's important to share queer stories no matter how small.
archiveofourown.org/works/540718...

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DM: you see a giant lizard, venom drip-

Me, a Druid: I befriend it

DM: you see a huge wolf, foami-

Me, a Druid: I befriend it

DM: you see an enormous spider

Me, a Druid: I befriend-

DM: IT DOESN’T WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND.
#dnd #nerdsky

Just a reminder that as Trump weaponizes law enforcement to target dissent, a lot of people need to start including law enforcement in their thread modeling.

That means STOP USING FACE ID AND THUMBPRINTS. You need a long, strong passcode for your phone.

This protects you AND everyone you talk to

Don’t?? Do this??? Lord 🤦🏻‍♀️

Just subscribed! Excited to watch this afternoon after my shift 🥰

General rule for fanfic etiquette can be compared to someone gifting you a cake. 🎂

Privately telling a friend “it was dry, not my favourite” — ok

Declaring you hated it where the person could reasonably stumble upon that comment? Rude! No more cake for you.

Maybe a mix of short-form videos (YouTube shorts, even though the system isn’t the same as TikTok maybe it’ll help get a foot in the door), and some regular longer uploads as well? I’m playing with the idea still myself so that’s all I’ve got atm 😅

As a girl who’s completely overhauled her socials presence because of the recent bullshit, I so get it - I’m building my presence on here, Tumblr, and I’ve set up a discord for my existing readers - but I’m looking into building a YouTube, too! Maybe try that? The algorithm might be more consistent!

Psst!
If you like:
✨My story “The Fear That Haunts Me” on AO3
✨Neverland/Captain Hook/Wendy Darling content
✨ Supporting an author who’s in the process of editing her fic to be publishable

…then you should join my new discord server 🥰
discord.gg/6aUZAshB
#author #ao3 #captainhook #bookblr #fanfic

Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)

EA Noble is an unbelievable writer and a Black woman fighting for her place in the industry. If you have $7 you can spare, go pre-order her r-release of When Blood Meets Earth! A Fae, anti-colonial fantasy! Help this be a massive success!

a.co/d/79Mvusl

My Mom has been encouraging me to get a membership and now seems like a great time.

I have the first two on my TBR shelf! Planning to read the series officially this year 🥰

Just starting to play around with it - I love the privacy, buying more premium features is more expensive than Google was but I’ll spring for it at some point maybe lol. Planning on using it strictly for official book stuff (website, applications, reaching out to editors, etc), I’ll keep you posted!

Thanks so much! I’ll check it out 🥰