chpearcewrites

Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves New Weird, history, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep Carleen Geisler | w: chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce

[chpearcewrites]

Hello! Writing/art friends keep telling me my people are on tumblr so I am going to give it a proper try! I’m an Australian writer and artist. I’m going to start by posting my old art + fan art in chronological ish order so excuse the chaos! Going forward I will post more bookish/writing-related things as well as art.

For reprint, art print or commission questions etc please email or use the contact form on my website rather than DM as I do miss things here and your message may get lost in the notifications soup (delicious soup)

Art tag: #my art

Fiction tag: #my fiction

Pet photos tag: #my rats

www.chpearce.net / INPRNT shop

chpearcewrites.bsky.social / IG c.h.pearce

More about me…

[whodoesnataliehave]

Happy pride, everyone 🏳️‍🌈

[qqchurch]

[littleredwritingcat]

😭

[chpearcewrites]

Please enjoy this ultra close up of Dumpling napping, taken by my 9yo 🥰 🐀 💤 🙃

[chpearcewrites]

Book mail! Excited to read Multitude by Marie Vibbert (Apex Books). I mostly read ebooks these days but I can still be tempted to buy a hardcopy by preorder book swag... 👀 📚 Look that beautiful keyring (art by @stillroomart ✨ 🦑 ✨ ) Love the cover too (art by Robert Carter, design by Mikio Murikami)

[hopefullybeth]

Thanks for tagging me @wilwarindi! Haven't tried a tag game thing on tumblr (I don’t know if all of these count as fandoms but they are some characters from some things I like)

Rules: Make a poll with seven of your all-time favorite characters from seven different fandoms, and then tag seven people to do the same. See which character is everyone’s favorite.

Which one of these seven fictional characters is your favorite?

Helen Norville - The Newsreader

Pippin - Lord of the Rings

Waymond - Everything Everywhere All At Once

Your Aunt Beth - The Infinite Now

Max Fisher - Rushmore/Wes Anderson

Chel - Janus Descending

Josh - Please Like Me

Voting ended onMay 25

I tag: @leals3 @lapislantern @slenderyodeler @grifff17 @aarlone @n1et @chpearcewrites

(if you feel like it)

[chpearcewrites]

Thanks for tagging me @hopefullybeth ! This made me realise how many of my faves are part of a dynamic duo (how can I list Misty without listing Natalie, argh!)

Rules: Make a poll with seven of your all-time favourite characters from seven different fandoms, and then tag seven people to do the same. See which character is everyone’s favourite.

Which one of these seven fictional characters is your favourite?

Misty Quigley - Yellowjackets

The Narrator - The Stanley Parable

Benrey - Half-Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware

Anna Tromedlov - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Mr Milchick - Severance

The Lawyer - Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Max Caulfield - Life is Strange/Life is Strange: Reunion

Voting ended onMay 27

I tag (with zero pressure!): @keysandopenmind @cat-hesarose @fionnmacpherson @cztacks @masonhawthorne @whimsyandmetaphor @aciddropwriting and anyone else who wants to play <3

[chpearcewrites]

When I saw that theme I had to submit a story... 👀 So excited to have a story included in Bad Romance ed. Marie Vibbert alongside all these amazing writers! 🐀 How gorgeous is the cover art by Grace Vibbert! Stretch goals include internal illustrations by the cover artist so I'm motivated to contribute myself... 👀

Kickstarter link:

Bad Romance: An Anthology of Trash Couples

The 23rd annual Triangulation Anthology: fantasy, science fiction, and horror short stories and poems.

[fionnmacpherson]

Had to make a pinned post eventually.

See more Fionn Mac content through these various trustworthy links 👇

https://linktr.ee/fionnmacpherson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=36e2c00e-846d-436f-b072-5a603bcfde16

Fionn MacPherson | Instagram | Linktree

She/they/whatever-the-hey Writer, I suppose. Fiction editor for Lost Souls magazine. Living as an uninvited guest on Ngunnawal and Ngambri

[forlorngarden]

kind of crazy how they drop this bar like 20 minutes into the game. let me get up let me get uppp

[chpearcewrites]

#disco elysium

[chpearcewrites]

🐀 🐀 🐀 💤

[maryrobinette]

My Favorite Bit: Marie Vibbert talks about MULTITUDE

Marie Vibbert is joining us today to talk about her novel, Multitude. Here’s the publisher’s description: We float to the surface, and we see that there is more to the world than the ocean. We see stars. Then one day, we hear a song from far away. It could be nothing, a new dance of energies made by stars muttering to themselves… but it could be everything. We pull tight to your direction in…

[chpearcewrites]

Sharing the colour version of my illustration in Lost Souls Issue 3, I had so much fun writing + drawing this prickly contrarian from “Tredge, the Informationist” and the friendly (?) Careopticon. 🦔 👁️ Thank you LS & writing friends for your amazing edits 🖤 💚

It’s a stellar issue and you can grab a copy of the mag here:

Home | Lost Souls

Lost Souls is a print and online magazine that publishes new work by Australian writers of dark, intelligent, strange, beautiful and similar

I also have new prints in my shop for those occasions when you want a giclée art print, card or fun laptop sticker of too many eyes??? 👁️ 👁️ 👁️

Shop gallery quality Art Prints by C.H. Pearce.

[chpearcewrites]

Great night last night at Spellbound at Gang Gang Cafe, thank you Ben O’Mara + Lost Souls for organising, Megan Cook, Americo Alvarenga, Imogen Wall, Maddie Jiang, MC Fionn MacPherson for their dark and magical readings and music, and everyone for attending, it was lovely to see you 🖤 📚 🍂 🧙‍♀️

So excited to have a story and illustration in Lost Souls magazine Issue 3 alongside this TOC with names I recognise 🤩 How stunning is that cover art by Nic Carey too 🍄

[chpearcewrites]

If you are free in Canberra tonight come join us for spooky witchy readings & music at Gang Gang cafe 6:30pm + the launch of Lost Souls magazine Issue 3! I'll be reading from my story in the mag about cursed ergonomic software alongside other amazing writers, artists and musicians. Info & tix here:

Spellbound - Readings and Music (Lost Souls/Macabre Dreams)

Would you like to try living deliciously? Want to gather with others venerating the gods of old? Join us for a taste of witchy readings and

Brains trust, help me decide, which dress should I wear? 📚 🧙‍♀️ ✨ 🍂 🖤

🐦 🐆 🐀

Birds

Blue cheetah (?)

Rats

Voting ended onMay 7

[downton-not-downtown-smh]

what about blorbhov from my complicated russian novel though

[judasconcrete-deactivated202306]

blorbeaux from my nilihist french plays

[sprachgefuehle]

blorbón from my weird latin american magical realist novels

[hearteyedraccoon]

blorbug from my kafkaesque short stories

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

von blorbow from my german sturm und drang novel

[dichterfuerstin]

Don Blorbo from my opera

[toomanystoryideas]

błórbżo from my polish poetry

[velociraptrix]

blorbocles from my ancient greek epics

[amarguerite]

Mr. Blorby from my Jane Austen novels

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Blorbio from my early modern plays

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Assembling some more from the notes:

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

And the kicker:

[lastvalyrian]

useless rosetta stone

[chpearcewrites]

“You have legs. Now I have legs. You have a body. This house is my body. What do you think of my new deck? Do you like it?”

—“Heart of the Gestalt” by Matt Tighe in MARKET OF LOSS

Last year I read and loved Matt Tighe’s horror short fiction collection DROWNING IN THE DARK AND OTHER STORIES, so was thrilled to get my mitts on an e-ARC of Tighe’s new fantasy and sci-fi short fiction collection MARKET OF LOSS (Four Ink Press). Running through all these varied, striking, fantastical stories is a thread of sometimes-human connection and complex familial love. Particular favourites included “As Brittle as Granite,” in which a family will literally crumble from expressing emotion, in contrast to their limestone neighbours—and “Samantha's Encounter with the Giant Hare in the Valley of Unbreakable Vows, and What Came of It,” which deftly interweaves fantasy with the everyday life of a contemporary office worker, including the unforgettably-described Giant Hare (this uncanny creature now lives in my brain somewhere alongside the Deer God from Princess Mononoke.)

*re MARKET OF LOSS, I received a free e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. Re DROWNING IN THE DARK, disclaimer: I was a judge for the Australian Shadows Awards and the Aurealis Awards last year. This review is my personal opinion and does not reflect the opinion of any judging panel, coordinators, or the AHWA or the Aurealis Awards.

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