Cydney Deamon, first and foremost, is a human being.
She is definitely not a demon of chaos taking human form in order to collect as many books, black cats, and items of gothy wonder as possible.
When she is not hyperfixated on writing whatever has possessed her brain, Cydney can be found arguing with her dog, playing referee to her two house panthers, consuming media things meant to scare her for fun, and testing the limits of Dr Pepper consumption on the human body.
Alternatively, if spotted in the wild instead of in her cave of darkness, she may be seen rambling to herself about anything from book ideas to how many times she had to walk down that aisle before remembering to grab the damn chips she came here for.
Prior to becoming a published author, she worked in customer service—which was a grave mistake on everyone's part. She currently also works as a freelance writer, writing the session notes for mental health professionals. With an origin story that includes poverty and severe childhood trauma, mental health and empowerment for everyone has always been extremely important to her.
Cydney seeks to write books that have their own heart and soul and that can help those in the way books helped her growing up, whether that be by providing an escape or an inspiration.
Dracula voice: I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for my lawyer, his wife, his wife’s girlfriend, his wife’s girlfriend’s fiancé and their extra boyfriends the Cowboy and the doctor and the doctor’s thesis advisor who knows how to kill vampires for some reason!
adhd is so embarrassing ur basically like “I have to have fun right the fuck now or I’m throwing myself off the roof” 90% of the time and you also have very little control over this
This was the single most important thing for me to start understanding re: my undiagnosed ADHD, and it's the thing no one tells you except other ADHD sufferers. My brain's reward system is so broken that boredom rapidly becomes indistinguishable from a depressive episode. There's no healthy, normal ability to experience something as simply being a little dull--as soon as my brain isn't getting regular hits of stimulation, I start clawing at the walls. This is what makes working in a structured environment and initiating tasks so difficult for me, not malice or other character flaws.
boredom rapidly becomes indistinguishable from a depressive episode
Oh my god. Thank you for this. This explains it PERFECTLY. Growing up neurotypical people were acting like doing something boring was a minor annoyance and I couldn't grasp that because it was a Whole Fucking Thing for me that included physical pain in my chest.
Not everyone had cutesy family Christmases growing up. Some had to be the responsible one and deal with the golden child. But Holly is not going to do that anymore.
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Please reblog to help support a disabled author 💜 This book was a labor of love I funded entirely myself, so it would mean a lot to see it go somewhere. It's heavily based on my life as a trans trauma survivor, and book two is already written and has a planned release for sometime early-mid next year 🥰 Book three is planned. I have other books outside of this series written as well, so you'll be seeing a lot from me in the coming years.
Four teenagers come together to try to solve the murder of someone they all know, and they begin to uncover secrets involving an evil cult and the ancient mythology behind their powers.
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