🔥Dev🔥

Horror and fantasy writer from Arizona. Creator of Devil Went Down to Vegas and Fever Dreams. Catch me carving bones in my desert hovel 🏜️

[dev-solovey]

"Everyone talks about trans victims. No one talks about trans victories."

This is a quote for my debut horror novella, Fever Dreams. As a trans creator, something that always bugs me is the fact that the majority of media with trans people shows them being depressed and hating their bodies. I hate that, I think it sends a bad message, so I decided to write a story about a kickass trans guy who knows he could fight a God and win. He wakes up to horrors, over and over again, faced with insurmountable odds, and he still retains a will to survive.

This book is now available for purchase and it's only $4 on Kindle. It would mean the world to me if my fellow queer creators could share this, even if you don't have the money to buy it. I want the world to know that, much like Thaddeus Morozov, I and all of my transgender siblings will continue to live on.

Fever Dreams - Kindle edition by Solovey, Dev. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like

[dev-solovey]

SEEKING ARTISTS TO COMMISSION

I'm releasing a weird west horror novelette called Bone Rot. I want to promo it by commissioning artists, bc I'd rather support my fellow artists than just a shit out a bunch of bland social media marketing posts. Details below the image. Here's the cover art:

Blurb:

Corporal Ambrose Price wakes up from surgery to install a prosthetic jaw, after a radium experiment gone wrong. He finds Fort Backwater nearly abandoned, its soldiers killed by an unknown malicious creature. Can he escape with his life, or will he be mauled like the rest of his comrades?

Great for fans of Fallout, New Vegas, Alien: Isolation, and The Hateful Eight.

Who I'm looking for:

Artists who enjoy horror, weird West, sci-fi and creature features.

What I'm commissioning:

It'll be something like a standard commission where I ask you to draw a character or two. Once complete and the novellette is released, I would then ask you to post that image on all of your socials, with an attached link to the novellette. You will also, of course, be able to use the art in your portfolio and use me as a reference for future things you apply to, because I want this to be beneficial to you as well.

Release is currently estimated at late July, but I'll give grace periods as needed to artists. If you'd like to see more visual examples of the contents of the story, my main illustrator, Ryan Miller, has been posting some of the images on his Instagram, @ramillerart, and I'm perfectly willing to send you some references too.

As for budget, I sadly can't pay more than $70 per commission. I wish I could, but late stage capitalism is kicking my ass 😭

Please reblog and share elsewhere!!

[peelingmandarins]

[bees-with-swords]

"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

[hearnoweevil]

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I've had bookmarked forever for class.

I hope you like it :]

[87sukiyaki]

[perfect-jerry-blossom]

i genuinely can't fucking deal with the larger internet anymore holy shit what the fuck are you people TALKING about. i am at my limit with this stupid bullshit. who the fuck cares if a man is hired to draw medical diagrams for young girls jesus christ we're pearl clutching about medical illustrations now? next you're gonna tell me male pediatricians shouldn't advise parents on their kids' vulva issues? male surgeons shouldn't be in the room when performing a procedure where a woman's breasts or vulva might be exposed? male researchers shouldn't conduct gynecological medical research? sure. better for men to live in ignorance and NEVER ally themselves with us to expand access to sexual education and reproductive healthcare i fucking guess. Twenty thousand likes. i hate it here KILL ME

[crunchymayo]

Lord, grant me the strength to throw away this box that i'll never use, the courage to throw away this box that i'll never use, and the wisdom to throw away this box that i'll never use

[maximumgraves]

to be honest, i only personally care about plotholes when they appear in writing i already have a bunch of other problems with. if i like something enough, i'll give it a pass/invent an explanation in my head. i can't find the exact quote, but roger ebert said something about this. to paraphrase: "the movie's problem wasn't [such and such inconsistency], its problem was that i was bored enough to be thinking about that."

[mousidy]

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

[gunsandfireandshit]

[kjscottwrites]

[X] <- psst click this

[dev-solovey]

ALL NEW EPISODE OF DEVIL WENT DOWN TO VEGAS, OUT NOW!! Read it on webtoon!

[taylornprice]

oysters

[dev-solovey]

NEW DEVIL WENT DOWN TO VEGAS, OUT NOW! Caprian is just a little guy 🥺 Read it here on Webtoon

[dev-solovey]

WHAT'S UP HELLIONS NEW DWDV JUST DROPPED 🔥🔥🔥 read it here on webtoon canvas!!

[spirulin4]

what ppl defending kids on ipads don’t seem to understand is that there are other ways to keep kids occupied. my mom had a whole bag full of little toys and games for me to play with while waiting in lines at disney world. once your kid is like 7 or 8 they can read a book. they can color. or they can literally just sit there and imagine things. i did that a lot as a kid.

[spirulin4]

thanks for putting your wrong and bad commentary in the tags where i still have to read all of it. most of what you said is untrue.

[imyselfamstrange]

OP: giving children too young to process things so much access to ipads isn’t good for them maybe.

People in the notes: So you hate moms??? You’re ableist?? You think we should go back to the Dark Ages?? (My personal favorite because it makes no sense) you’re poor shaming??

Why is it so difficult to explain that children not developing fine motor skills and losing their attention spans is bad actually??

[purplesweetpotatoes]

also children can end up being entertained by just about anything. I remember building "bird nests" with sticks in the backyard when I was like 7 years old. That was it. It took up my whole afternoon and I was entertained the entire time.

[atomicjellycat]

I worked at a kindergarten for a year, and Jesus Christ these kids are falling behind on so many milestones

Everyone knows who the iPad kids are

I've seen it all from kids who don't know how to use scissors, and can't perform the motions right compared to other kids in that age group, to kids who can't write the alphabet or spell their names (the older ones)

And one of the most startling thing I encountered was every now and then we have a country day, where we choose a country, color in the country's flag in the colors and watch a little film about said country.

And I was overseeing the coloring, and one boy just refusing to color

It happens, stubbornness, bad days, 'just don't wanna' s happen, but I sit with him and continue to try and encourage him and figure out why he doesn't want to

And he keeps saying he doesn't know how to color

And I'm like ??? Just pick up the pencil and put it on the paper buddy, cmon

So I'm showing him how, and he refuses to try over and over

So then I try like, coloring while guiding his hand, and again this is a flag were coloring it's a giant rectangle, not much precision is needed

And I realize while I'm helping him, literally moving his hand to color for him, he's CLEARLY never colored before. He's 4, there is no excuse for this when kids start coloring at like, 2 maybe younger.

By 4-5 kids can generally color inside the lines well enough and draw recognizable figures like people and landscapes and pets

Eventually he got into it, understood how to do it and requested to continue on by himself, which was great! I told him I was proud of him and we continued on with our day but it absolutely shocked me that these iPad kids are so beyond stunted like jesus

He didn't know how to grip a pencil, he didn't know the wrist movements and motions, he didn't understand the pressure control, he had no control over where or how he was coloring like, these kids NEED TO learn these things it's STARTLING how many kids don't have these milestones and are just not developing these fine motor skills

Ask any kindergarten attendant and they'll tell you the same thing-

The best thing you can do for a kid is buy them a shitton of construction paper, decorative child-safe scissors, and coloring books

Please please please kids need to cut paper up and color. It helps them develop so many fine motor skils

Now don't be mistaken, the percentage of these kids are low, for now. It's definitely not every kid, and thankfully not the majority but it is still a problem

[theclockwitch]

What you're going to start seeing is a social class stratification of this.

I was at an MVA call--car into a powerline. Three kids, 9, 5, and 2 years old, trapped in the back of a car, crushed against a pole, live lines on the car. Meaning they were fine as long as they stayed inside but we couldn't cut the car open until the power company came and killed the line.

It took about a half an hour. We were all losing our MINDS thinking about three kids who had just been in a significant car accident, unknown injuries, trapped in a car without their mom, and all these strange noises and people around them. We thought these kids would be terrified.

Nope. All three of them were on devices watching videos. Like they didn't even register what had happened or the danger they'd been in or why people were so worried, or even THAT we were worried.

The most distress I saw the kids in as we drove the 30 minutes to the peds hospital? Was when the 2 year old's device's battery died. She went from sitting unnaturally quietly staring at Cocomelon to SCREAMING and throwing things and biting anyone. She only calmed down when her older brother agreed to share his device with her.

It was spooky af, man.

The mom thought she was doing a great job bc her kids were 'so well behaved'. To this day I wonder about kids who cannot process anything other than visual dopamine. How are they going to do in school? Sure? But how about their social development? How are they going to have friends? Boyfriends? Girlfriends? Anything?

[jovialjuggernaut]

[sprouch]

not dead!!!!

[loumishoumi]

I love you speed limit cactus 🌵!