your pal finn

One short day 💚 in the emerald city #wicked

i write mostly in order, but i have a separate document for scenes that happen later but i have to compose RIGHT THIS SECOND because they're so vivid in my mind. often these are the scenes that remain nearly intact from first draft to final

whenever i'm picturing an opening credits sequence for the villain edit (often) it's always to this song. it just captures the vibe i'm trying to get across so well somehow www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI1F...

Just between us, my YA figure skating graphic novel about two rivals who fall love, is out in the world now!!! Get it anywhere you can buy books⛸️⭐️🥇

The amount of people that are about to name this little guy Missile

Photo of a wooden charm of Athena from Ace Attorney held up to a bunch of leaves.

Numerous Athena charms spread out on a yellow backdrop.

be the change you wanna see in the world (athena cykes merch)

Glinda and Elphaba in their outfits from "Wicked: For Good", clutching onto each other tightly as they cry into each other's shoulders.

day 20: why are you weeping ☆
#minifemslashfeb2026

it didn't even occur to me that this might be an actual quote from a real businessman you know personally

the fact that you think businessmen only attend one golf tournament a year

pen and watercolor illustration of dale cooper from twin peaks. he is looking to the right, driving while recording a voice memo into a recorder in his left hand. speech bubbles say "diane, 11:30 am, february 24th. entering the town of twin peaks" and "i've never seen so many trees in my life"

happy twin peaks day 🌲🥧☕️

HELL YEAH. LET'S LEARN

[wistfully] cold war era gay spy romance... prohibition era gay mobster romance... literally anything requiring any historical research whatsoever

phoenix wright: "dude why do you have The Killer as your emergency contact" (to matt engarde, with shelly de killer in the background)

must have been the wind #aceattorney

fun fact the excerpt i always post with my pitches is almost EXACTLY the nico half of the original exercise (with just a few tiny changes and the addition of the final sentence)

my novel started as an exercise to help with same voice syndrome. the idea was to write a first meeting, two paragraphs from each POV, distinguishing the voices as much as possible. i wrote max and nico as strongly disliking each other, then thought "lmao how funny would it be if they fell in love"

forget continuing to follow mutuals when they switch fandoms i'm gonna start following people when i already don't know what the fuck they're talking about. bestie who are any of these people. followed

not to talk shit about contemporary romances while i'm writing one but i s2g if i have to read one more contemporary romance where the characters talk entirely in therapy-speak. if one of you doesn't get out of touch with your emotions in the next three seconds i'm going to mcfreaking lose it

need people to understand the fine line between "it was bad but in an enjoyable way" and "it was bad but i enjoyed it" the former means it has redeeming qualities (camp elements etc) while the latter means i enjoyed it because there is something wrong with me

[reading yet another romance where no one does anything wrong and everyone is good and perfect and everything bad is a misunderstanding] man. i need to make my characters worse again. i need to make them so deeply awful

i swear his laptop is normal sized he's just built like a refrigerator

digital illustration of a woman smoking a cigarette; in the background are two pendants in the shape of a broken heart, each half containing the image of a woman's face. over the image are the words CONTRACT CUPID.

Syd Hart is a “reverse matchmaker” or “breakup artist”, a professional who uses any means necessary to end other people’s relationships. She has a wide variety of clients: jealous exes, disapproving parents, and even members of the couples themselves. A dyed-in-the-wool cynic, she considers it her calling to put the break in heartbreak. Also, it’s a living. Syd has always maintained she can handle any client—right up until she’s hired by the patriarch of a (definitely not organized crime) family to prevent the engagement of his (definitely not mafia princess) daughter to her (definitely not mafia princess) girlfriend, who also happens to be the scion of his business competitor. His totally normal and above-board business competitor. With the help (and hindrance) of her thrice-revoked PI’s license, her bright-eyed and bushy-tailed intern, Barnaby “Bunny” Wimberly, and a whole slew of meddling definitely-not-mobsters, Syd throws herself into the job—only to find that the biggest challenge of all, to both her heart and her life, might be the happy couple themselves.

Chapter One: I NEED TO STOP MAKING ENEMIES Somethin’ a lotta people don’t know about Cupid is that he’s got two sets of arrows. The first set’s the classic: gold, love-drenched, ethically dubious. The kind that hits you in the ass and makes you go heart-eyed for Matt from Advertising, or Matt from Accounting, or just generally Matt from Anywhere who’d never get a date without divine fucking intervention. The other set’s lead. The toxic kind. It doesn’t make the Valentines cards, but it does make divorce lawyers—and me—a pretty decent living. Mostly off chumps with an excess of cash and a shortage of brainpower. “Hang on.” Bunny held up a hand to stop my dictation. He frowned bemusedly at his laptop, which was about two sizes too small for him, and gestured with his mug, which was also two sizes too small for him. Altogether he looked like a dad at a toddler’s tea party. “I don’t know that this is the best advertising copy, boss.” This is what you get for bringing on interns. One minute they’re all let me fix the copier, boss and need a hangover cure, boss? and the next they’re on their high horse telling you how to do your job. “What’s wrong with it?” I asked. “Telling potential clients they have a shortage of brainpower is a little…” He wobbled his hand in the universal sign for iffy. “Also, you’re pretty much guaranteeing no one named Matt will ever hire you.” “Not seeing the problem. We don’t need clients named Matt.” “Our last client was named Matt.” “Yeah, and he sucked. That’s where I got the idea.”

wait i HAVE to pitch this one for #CUPIT it literally has cupid in the title. self-proclaimed "breakup artist" gets in over her head when she's hired to prevent the engagement of mafia princesses from feuding families.

🌈f/f/f romcom
🔍old-school PI vibes
😈everyone is slightly terrible
#CR #RC #LGBT

A collage of images featuring a gun, a gallery, a woman on the catwalk, another gun, two men kissing, a man taking spy photos, a runway, the London skyline, broken glass.

THE AUGUSTINE AFFAIR

A queer, spy vs spy, globetrotting action-romance set against the backdrop of the fashion world.

Fashion mogul (and undercover MI6 agent) Felix finds himself the unwilling partner of assassin Kai after they are both betrayed by their agencies.

#rs #LGBT #cupit #q

thank you!!! ^^

Photo collage: A boy reading comics, pumpkin latte, boy with a mask, two teens hugging before sunset, Christmas market, basketball I’m invisible

17yo comic-nerd Zach is a liar. That’s his superpower. So when his best friends break up, shattering the trio, he dresses up as a superhero to get things back to the way they were. But he never expected Stella would ask him to help unmask the guy she’s falling for.
Being a hero sucks.
#RC #YA #Cupit

you have no idea how fast i liked this when i saw spy vs spy. wish i could read it right this second

an illustration of two boys, pictured from the shoulders up. One is blonde with an annoyed expression, the other is dark haired and grinning, making a peace sign with one hand and poking the blonde's cheek with the other. below, superimposed over a smartphone, are the words THE VILLAIN EDIT (attorneytrash)

At twenty-six, Max Reilly is already ex a lot of things. Ex-star of Affinity, the TV drama he led for three seasons. Ex-fiancé of Holly Aveline, his costar, who hasn’t spoken to him since the scandal that tanked his career. And ex-darling of the show’s fan base, who went from love letters to death threats faster than the speed of cable. Most of all, Max is exhausted. The last thing he wants is to be back in the public eye. But when offered a deal to get out of his contract for good, it’s hard to resist—even if the catch is a pre-season publicity tour with Affinity’s current cast. Even if that means weeks on the road with not only his former castmates, but also the show’s newest cast member: Nico Mariani, a scandal-happy reality TV transplant known for exclusively playing villains. It’s only a few weeks. A few weeks facing crowds of people who actively hate him, of being hounded by gossip columnists, of being trapped on-and-offstage with Nico, who Max can’t shake to save his life. Because as it turns out, Nico has his own deal with the producers—and soon angry fans and nosy reporters will be the least of Max’s problems.

EXCERPT: Nico’s first thought on seeing Max Reilly in the flesh had been, damn, this dude’s tall. He wasn’t sure what he’d expected. Rory Harper, maybe, that archetypal boy-next-door who’d bit the dust at the end of Affinity season three. There was this one publicity still of him—white t-shirt, jeans, flannel tied around the waist, artistically placed smudges of grease—that was pinned to the vision boards of church-and-chevy girls nationwide. Oh my god, so dreamy, fuck me in a hayloft, etc. Max Reilly was a very different creature. Nico had him cataloged in one go. Indoorsy, sleepy eyes, hair unfortunately cut with the roots grown in. Skittish. Bad posture. Cargo pants (seriously). He didn’t dress like America’s Boyfriend, or anyone’s boyfriend, honestly, if we were being totally honest here, if we were being candid. He was, to put it nicely, nothing to write in your diary about. Tall, though, damn. And those freckles. But that was the devil talking.

Yaaaay #CUPIT time! disgraced actor formerly known as America's Boyfriend VS. serial reality TV villain. three weeks, three fan conventions, and a whole lot of antics.

❤️romcom (com heavy)
📺celebrity hijinks
😈characters behaving badly
🌈mlm enemies to lovers
#CR #RC #LGBT

From the late Jesse Hamm. My personal mantra for the past decade.

vibes so powerful they make me read books with footnotes and citations. just so the longing and yearning can have an accurate political and diplomatic context

Following that “post the first line of your book” prompt

As of rn: “So you want to hear the story again? Alright, if that’s what you wish”

#GreatGatsbyIIE

being in my Gay Spies Era and despairing about the tragic lack of gay spy media, i've been brainstorming many ideas for a cold war era espionage novel... with kissing... but as much as i love historical romances researching them is a daunting prospect for me