Allison Carr Waechter

Author of fantasy romance (The Immortal Orders, Outlaws of Interra). Romanticizing the hell out of my life. Neurodivergent, queer, here for a good time.

[cosmos-kitty]

Finishing off the year with an idea I've wanted to paint for a while, a cat in the clouds ☁️

[mischievousdog]

Wonky Fenrir vibes in honor of the winter solstice and the polar night

[loish]

That feeling when you realize what a mess you made and you don’t know where to start with cleaning it up. 

[allisoncarrwaechter]

I am, perhaps, relating to this on a too-deep level today.

[neil-gaiman]

Tonight I gave Art Spiegelman the National Book Awards Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. And we're both being banned. Some of you may think this is a good thing because you don't like my books or you don't care for Maus. But I guarantee that there are books you love on the banned lists too. That's why libraries and librarians fight for their rights to have all the books on the shelves and for your rights to read them. And it's why I support them.

[neil-gaiman]

Just reblogging because none of the threats to books and libraries have gone away. Mostly they've got worse. If you are capable of joining your Library Board or School Board do it...

[spnyuri]

And if you personally are unable to join your local Library Board or School Board, find the people who ARE running for those positions who support your values and SUPPORT them!!! It’s usually an elected position, and the pro-censorship crowd is pouring COUNTLESS resources into putting their people in power. It’s so important to get involved in your community, because that’s where change starts.

[inconveniently-discorporated]

And if you think you're in a "blue enough area" think again.

I desperately encourage you to look at who is actually running, and also historical election data. For example, one of our school board positions was nearly filled by someone who was anti-mask, pro-censorship and was beaten out by less than 1k votes.

Look at the stuff these people say on social media. Some of my local candidates for various offices -- officially sponsored by the local republican party -- have expressed a desire to destroy public education and public libraries. Literally. Like the exact words were "get rid of libraries, they're liberal brainwashing facilities".

Don't have kids? DOESN'T MATTER. These systems support the ENTIRE COMMUNITY. The next generation will be who takes over in the positions that maintain your electrical grid, keep your water running, oversee supply chain in your local companies so things keep running. You want people who are educated. You want people to have equal access to food and shelter and dignity.

The more of a gap you have, the more space there is to be filled by hateful rhetoric that leads to violence -- yes, violence, in your backyard.

"That can't happen here" -- our area just recently faced sabotage to power substations LESS THAN FIVE MILES FROM MY HOUSE. Right down the road. During a cold snap that could've KILLED people and they know it. It can happen "here", and it will if people don't take an active stand in their communities.

[allisoncarrwaechter]

Here’s the youngest of the monster cats. His name is Tibby, which is a nickname, because his real name is James Tiberius Kirk, and he lives up to his namesake in all kinds of foolish and adorable ways. We scold him by yelling, “Damnit, Jim!”

And listen, I wish I could tell you that we had the incredible foresight to name his much more serious cat companion Spock, but we didn’t and that’s on us.

As an apology of sorts, please also have this GIF.

[librarysilverfish]

Friendly reminder that your writing will never reach the level where a critique partner can’t find anything bad to say about it. You can’t go on forever asking for feedback and making every change suggested. At some point you have to acknowledge that asking someone for criticism will always result in criticism, and the writing really is as good as it can get with the tools you’re working with now.

[bookishdiplodocus]

To add to that: this is also true for the most genius bestselling authors.

[allisoncarrwaechter]

Adding: As I’ve become someone who gets reviews, I welcome my critique partners’ feedback more and more—and ask them to be tougher on me.

This, of course, never stops negative reviews. But, I’m always so grateful when my CPs stop me from making a total ass of myself.

[cuuno-moved]

its unreal how all of my favorite characters have exactly the same traits and hobbies and diagnoses as me

[technicalzombie]

oh, have you been tricked into loving yourself?

[cuuno-moved]

oh my fucking god is that what just happened

[allisoncarrwaechter]

And this, my babes, is why I write about neurospicy bisexuals and all their neurospicy queer friends. I love us.

[requiem-on-water]

“Winter, through your hoary frost, I travel on, longing to be lost.”

by Patrick Mueller

[horrorlesbians]

normalize hand tattoos for people with boring, normal careers 2023

[obestriddbifftomat]

Very hot of her

[butibelieveindivinity]

[percieved-eunoia]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) // Chanan Mazel, 2007 // Anne Carson, Euripides // Trista Mateer via tumblr // Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice // everything, everywhere, all at once (2022) // @-dungeonsanddragonsfifthedition // hanya yanagihara, A Little Life // Sade Andria Zabala // Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

[allisoncarrwaechter]

These are some of my mood boards for The Immortal Orders series.

It’s been such a trip to write these books. I honestly feel so honored that a story about an anxious, neurodivergent witch who has been through it has reached anyone at all.

I just really wanted to write something where a curvy, mess of a neurodivergent bisexual got to be the main character, go on an epic adventure, fall deeply in love (again), and have her badass moment.

Writing the third book feels so sad and happy at the same time. I don’t know, Harlow just means so much to me, and it’s going to be hard to leave her, Finn and Okairos behind.

[knifeplusheart-deactivated20200]

horror literally works with every genre it’s such a sexy savory condiment

[allisoncarrwaechter]

Agreed. I love working it into romantasy, and I’m generally the babiest baby there is when it comes to scary stuff.

[allisoncarrwaechter]

People tell me all the time that this cat is majestic. And he is, but when he’s just woken up from a nap, he’s a baby muppet.

[oliverryanart]

Some of the backgrounds I painted for arcane

[zevlore]

ARCANE: LEAGUE OF LEGENDS (2021) by Riot Games and Fortiche Production Happy 1-year anniversary!

[allisoncarrwaechter]

It tells you how deeply I loved Arcane that I haven’t started re-watching it obsessively yet. The time will come and it will just become my entire personality again. Sorry to all of you when that happens

[chirun-i]

Here are my OCs that I couldn't post before