chimeric anomaly

32, writer, injured artist (ink/painting, embroidery, knitting), literature degree. good/bad horror movies, fantasy books, video games. bisexual/biracial/bipolar. bit of a monster furry. multilingual (日本語 OK, ESP mal).

[breserker]

Welcome, I write books

And also draw them sometimes.

Hi, my name is Bre, I'm a mixed Mexican-American indie author writing a magical realism mystery series called Jackrabbit Brujo that takes place in Tucson, Arizona. Vel, our beloved protagonist, solves cases that are strange and unexplained, or dumped onto him by the TPD. To do so he uses a mix of approaches - like he too is a mix - including some of the magic he learned from his dead, allegedly bruja mother. Currently, 2 books are out, and a third is being worked on.

Digital - Buy Jackrabbit Brujo through my Ko-Fi

Physical - Buy Jackrabbit Brujo through the indie bookstore that helped launch my books

All the artwork for the covers is also done by me, this is very much a singular passion and any support is greatly appreciated.

Storygraph Reviews are a great way to learn more about the books and also send some support my way if you've read and enjoyed them. [Book 2 link]

Relevant tags: #Jackrabbit Brujo, #Vel, #Shoua

Book 3 is in the works, I would like for it to be out sometime in 2026 but I do have a full time job and long covid to contend with.

My tumblr is on the informal side - you will see me posting about Digimon and Monster Hunter and Horror Movies (good and bad) when I'm not talking about writing.

少し日本語が話せます. Puedo leer algo en español, pero no soy ぺらぺらです, solamente ingles y japonés. In recent years I've been listening to a lot of latinidad music and watching La Rosa de Guadalupe on occasion. スペイン語が分かりことを手伝ってくれて ありがとう.

Thanks for reading 💛🧡❤️💜

[spookyboywhump]

I do really love it when women write graphic and fucked up things. I feel like so often people react to fucked up fiction with “of course a disgusting man would write this 🙄” and it often carries an unspoken (honestly sometimes spoken) message of “a woman’s PURE and DELICATE and FEMININE mind could NEVER think of something this VILE”. Thank you women in fucked up fiction 🫡

[breserker]

one thing that really bothered me about that review of an indie animation is that in the comments i caught them saying yeah dark fiction is fine but it has to be right and respectful and in actuality i vehemently disagree. its like trying to get everyone to like you all at once.

whats right and respectful to you may be catharsis or even empowerment to another. theres a post on here that i love that contemplates how the damsel in distress trope became comforting to them after their disability means that someone caring for them where they can't is their deep comfort.

for me, theres this moment in Berserk an ex brought up because to him in his fury he thought that Casca getting a debilitating period on the battlefield was bad for the sake of bipoc women and i, a bipoc woman (and he is not bipoc) was really, and still am, pissed about that. its been 6 years and im still pissed. because while the plot didnt Have to have her on her period, it only necessitated a physical state where she falls off a cliff, i read that and i got this Moment where i went oh my god, I have periods that render me bedridden. i know how that feels. being in battle would suck. i would faint. and if she had simply been injured to show off her badass prowess, i wouldve never have gotten that moment where i felt seen and understood. conversely, the narrative takeaway from if she had gotten injured instead could still be leveraged or interpreted as women dont belong on the battlefield. instead, guts says "its rough to be a woman, huh" when he sees her period. because then hes acknowledging there is shit he doesnt have to deal with while casca does without complaint.

six years and i am STILL pissed about that interaction (sorry bro but it did annoy me that deeply)

you will never write a dark fiction that is 100% right and respectful all of the time. ive written characters that have gotten me messages that they are too mean and unsympathetic, these same charactere have gotten me messages of "oh god. you know what its like. i thought i was the only one."

i think you will never write any fiction that is 100% respectful and right, ever.

be free. you will find your people.

[veliseraptor]

If fiction is only a commodity, then a writer is a mere content producer, or as McGurl puts it, a "servant" and a "service provider" while the reader is a "consumer." If a writer is a service working - a corporate employee/contractor - it naturally follows that a work of fiction is a service and is judged on whether it fulfills that service accordingly. [...] There's a subtle but key difference between being socially permitted to have your own opinion about whether something was good - whether it met your version of the implicit contract - and the decision that you are "owed" customer satisfaction in a literal, actionable sense. If you read a book or saw a movie and you didn't like it, you're allowed to say so: but it's not a mattress, and you don't get your money back. But on the other hand, if a novel or film or TV show isn't art, only more stuff you bought, then the writer does owe you, as does the corporation who sold you that product, from whom you can demand everything you want.

from Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality by Lyta Gold

[dykerory]

i don't think they've made another movie since mortal kombat (1995). they've tried but it just simply hasn't happened.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

where do you go once you've already reached perfection

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[avhira]

I could use some luck

[monarobot]

The good luck post! \o/

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[breserker]

i still find it funny that in amazon's big fantasy show that they advertised relentlessly as a means of trying to compete with the epic and gritty aspects of the game of thrones stuff had a violent first-cousin forced marriage at the tips of their fingers and they didn't do it

[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[sculppp]

Andrea Mantegna (1431 – 1506)

St. Sebastian, detail, 1506

[perplexingly]

a dynamic I really enjoy in fiction is when a relationship starts with some power imbalance, then changes into something sweet and balanced, and eventually shifts into imbalance in the other direction 🤤

[sivavakkiyar]

opening epigraph to Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables

[princesonic]

I dunno, stop apologizing for your art. This includes not posting enough, too much, changing style, inconsistent style, repetition, subject. Its your art its your expression. Have fun.

[the-east-art]

Digimon tamers showing digivolution as the literal warping of the Digimon as the literal warping of the wireframe models do the Digimon was so peakkkkkkk we still talk about you tamerssss

[ouroborosorder]

at the JRPG cafe, and the drink sizes are sod, soda, and sodaga

[breserker]

i am experiencing so much relief right now y'all have no goddamn idea

[2-beadyeyes-deactivated20251104]

um. cut him in half

[gorbling]

hot dog or hamburger style, boss