I earned this rage

Hey there! You call me Lex and/or Averey. Queer, disabled, mixed. I like to write urban fantasy, supernatural/paranormal, poetry, and will be exploring horror. Everything I write is queer. I want to put my own works out there, but also form connections with other writeblrs and support their work. Send me an ask if you’d like me to check something out or just talk! picrew credit @bbymazz

[lexwritesgayshit]

Writeblr Re-introduction

(Updated 7/6/2025 )

Note about Accessibility: I will try my best to add image descriptions to photos I post or reblog. My old wip posts are largely in screenshots, which I will go back through and add IDs. This being said, I have arthritis in my hands, so it's possible some longer reblogged posts may be missing IDs. I'll do my best to check if anyone else has added them, and copy/paste text for my original posts. I will not post or share any flashing images. I discuss and write about heavy topics that are common triggers, and I'm very forgetful with tagging in general. Please use caution when interacting with my blog.

Hello, writeblr community! 🐌

I'm Lex! I'm in my early thirties, biracial, queer in every way, disabled, and have raging ADHD and autism. I will make all of this my ocs problems. This blog is writing-focused, but I'll probably post a bit about books and other shit. I write longer novels (or try to), occasionally short stories, a lot of poetry and fanfiction, lyrics, and I also make my own moodboards and character playlists!

What I read: Mostly speculative fiction. My favorite genres are urban fantasy, paranormal, sci-fi/fantasy horror, and folk horror. I like scary houses, seemingly "normal" people with sharp claws and sharper fangs, and fucked up people desperately clinging to the smallest shreds of hope. Also, the kind of poetry that punches you in the gut (go read Ocean Vuong, Natalie Diaz, and Saeed Jones if you also want to be punched in the gut). I prefer Adult, but I've recently discovered that I haven't completely outgrown YA like I thought. I've just outgrown overhyped, white mainstream YA. I like stories where romance doesn't overshadow the plot. Or no romance at all.

Current fave authors: Ling Ma, Ocean Vuong, Octavia E. Butler, Antonija Mežnarić, Vincent Tirado.

What I write: Adult urban fantasy, queerness, neurodivergence/disability, relationship anarchy-style group dynamics. Kinda depressing poetry and songs. Big fan of writing the self as the true villian. I've only written a little horror but want to write more. I'm slowly getting into erotic horror - we eroticize violence and gore and people eating each other as a sign of devotion here.

Wips:

(Under read more - I'll add links and blurbs when I can get on my laptop)

If you made it this far, come tell me about a wip that you’re currently working on/want to be working on! Bonus points if it has an intro post or tag that I can get lost in! Or anything!

Open to being tagged in writeblr tag games and receiving asks for things like Storyteller Saturday and Worldbuilding Wednesday!

~ Lex

Wips (info coming soon)

Lost Things

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Weeping Brentwood

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The Crooked Heir

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Untitled paranormal romance wip

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[valtsv]

the author's barely disguised open wound splattered livid and filthy across everything they create

[lannegarrett]

[divergentmisfit-fandomsblog]

I feel called out by this 😅

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Let that WIP in your folder become a short story. Don't feel pressured to create three part novels out of every idea you have. Let the story tell you how much space it needs to play out.

[the-bitch-mob]

fuck it. be creative even if you never really *make* anything. write out plot synopses of stories and then move on. design OCs you'll never use. make mood boards and concept art and don't do anything with them. life's too short to forget everything that inspired you and creation doesn't have to be "complete" to be worth the time you put into it.

[lexwritesgayshit]

Time for my biannual login to talk about another new wip!

I'm really excited to flesh this one out. I don't think I've ever had a wip idea that felt so alive. I can see where the story would start, multiple impactful scenes, how those will connection, the ending. Surely this is too much for an idea I got like ten hours ago. It feels so real.

I've been thinking about a post I read yesterday, a review for Emerald Fennell's flop of a Wuthering Heights adaptation. OP mentioned that, erotically speaking, every time Fennell could have made something truly erotic and transgressive, she flinched. To say that my new wip is going to be unflinching sounds pretentious, but that's a big goal. To be truly, even grossly, erotic, to show how this kind of obsession can manifest into equal parts devotion and hatred. Both Heaven and Hell vying for the privilege of destroying you, how fun is that?

[gr8writingtips]

do you have the courage to write a terrible first draft?

[lexwritesgayshit]

What are your favorite names? I'm trying to name a character. Especially if you can think of something that has a pretty but gothic vibe to it.

[lexwritesgayshit]

Popping in several months late with a new wip idea

[mallalada]

get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are "little cunt" and "catatonic with grief"

[danlous]

I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

[ecrivainsolitaire]

Some types of unreliable narrator:

The Watson: is present for the event but does not have the same level of perception as protagonist

The Lemony Snicket: isn't present for the event, reconstructs the facts based on later research, can get things wrong or incomplete

The Ted Moseby: is present for the event but has romanticised and embellished their memory of it through nostalgia to an extent that you cannot fully believe it; is also prone to misremembering or outright forgetting details.

The Katniss Everdeen: is present for the event, is the protagonist, but is completely foreign to the world and out of their depth so they don't quite understand a lot of what is going on.

The Rose Quartz: is present for the event, but due to their personal agenda or feelings of shame hides and embellishes what actually happened in favour of a version that paints them in a better light.

The Big Brother: overwrites what actually happened in favour of propaganda.

The Jonathan Harker: is absolutely clueless about what is going on around them and the genre they're in so their perception of events is tinted by their own naivety.

The Goob: the narrator's own emotional bias clouds their judgement of what really happened.

The Tyler Durden: the narrator is suffering from hallucinations and doesn't realise it.

The Pi: the narrator has survived a traumatic experience and copes with it by turning it into a wonderful tale.

[lexsreadingcorner]

Me, bolting upright out of bed to write a random story idea: how do I write this so that it doesn't sound like it's been influenced by other things I've seen/read?

Logical writer brain: You don't. Your art is influenced by everything you've encountered in one way or another, and that isn't something you need to aggressively go out of your way to hide. Many people have shared story ideas but no one is going to tell it the way you do. Just write the damn thing.

Me: Thanks, brain.

Logical writer brain: np. Oh, and don't forget to make it gross and horny.

Me: You got it, boss 👍

[finehs]

You know what’s ironic? I thought you of all people would know not to judge a book by its cover.

[quinnandersonwrites]

Damn, okay, was not expecting Channing Tatum to motivate me to write today. But I’ll take it!

[perverted-asexual]

"You're putting your sick fantasies onto fictional characters!!"

Oh!! Oh no! I was putting FANTASIES... onto FICTIONAL characters!?! Why did no one tell me!?

[fairycosmos]

life would be sooo good without my curse

[maxknightley]

there's a fascinating type of post on this site which boils down to "what if, instead of being cliché, such-and-such work of fiction instead dodged all genre tropes in a way that instead made it really boring"

[maxknightley]

"imagine an indiana jones or lara croft type who repatriates artifacts instead of taking them abroad" - kind of hamhanded and potentially white savior-y, but it is at least An Idea that meaningfully engages with the genre

"what if indiana jones was like a real archeologist and spent all his time filling out grant applications and carefully dusting off pottery sherds" - yeah I dunno man. what if he was like that. you could maybe get a five-minute SNL sketch out of it. good luck making it an interesting movie or video game though lol

[maxknightley]

I think a lot about that one post where it's like "why would a monster that subsists on fear / suffering inflict it when it could instead eat people's existing anguish, thus making them feel better"

and it's like. idk maybe because that isn't fucking scary or angsty or a particularly good allegory. and the monster is a Character or Plot Device, not a real fucking guy.

[maxknightley]

people are likening the last one to the plot of Monsters Inc. so I feel obligated to point some things out:

the "fear vs laughter" premise of monsters inc is part of a broader allegory about corporate greed at the expense of the health and well-being of the world at large. in particular, it's roughly analogous to the world's continued reliance on fossil fuels, which is due in part to fearmongering about nuclear power and wind farms.

a key element of the plot is that it's not just a matter of "the main characters don't want to subsist on fear, they want to be Niceys." the plot and characterization rely on sully and ESPECIALLY mike buying into the corporate line on human children, and thus going from "terrified" to "confused and intrigued" when it becomes apparent that human children are not actually dangerous

the result of all this is that "laugh power is just as feasible, and in fact more efficient" develops the themes and characters rather than shutting them down. if the premise of the movie were simply that sully and mike are Niceys to begin with, you lose the allegory, you have to rewrite the plot from scratch, and the characters - imo - become considerably less interesting, because you're robbing them of the tension between "maybe what I'm doing is wrong" and "I would like to have Money to Eat, not cause a mass panic, and not get thrown in jail or killed or written off as a crank"

attitude is a major element here. monsters inc isn't out here implying that the concept of monsters engendering fear/pain in order to harvest it is stupid. undertale isn't a game where "you're in a dungeon but everyone is friendly;" a pacifist run is a conscious decision that you make with people firing bullets at you. this one's a Twitter example, but - something like lovely lady rpg or clam man 2 isn't starting from the absurd premise that harry dubois and the setting he's in are Generic and therefore Uninteresting, only to tear them out and replace them with nothing of substance.

lastly, and imo this is key:

a short tumblr post is ill-suited for exploring ideas in any real detail, which tends to make it more annoying, not less.

more specifically: these posts rarely dive into the actual narrative implications of anything they're proposing, instead favoring vague gestures at pithy but underdeveloped ideas. there's a difference between saying "what if Indiana Jones didn't go on adventures lol" and "what if a normal, realistic archaeologist still got drawn into a pulp adventure and had to get by in spite of being terrified and under-equipped to deal with the situation." the latter would be A Story that engages with the genre, not just a cheap gag.

in conclusion:

[znorton]

[radioactive-yuri]

when i say that there's a disparity in how aromantics and asexuals are treated, what i mean is that romantic asexuality is allowed to exist, but sexual aromanticism is not. what i mean is that all sexual content is expected to be tagged appropriately, and sex-repulsed people can block those tags, but romantic content is almost never tagged as romantic, and romance-repulsed people are just expected to be alright with that. what i mean is that you cannot make a single post about aromanticism without someone tagging it as "ace" or "aroace" (even if you specifically make a banner that says not to do so). what i mean is that i have gotten several hate anons from other aspecs just because i talk openly about being a non-ace aro. what i mean is that all aromantic representation is aroace. what i mean is that the aspec community is incredibly sex-negative. what i mean is that popular aspec media openly spouts alloarophobia and still gets praised as good aspec representation. what i mean is that non-ace aros are expected to seperate our sexuality from our aromanticism entirely because it might make some aroace uncomfortable to acknowledge that sexual aromanticism can and does exist.

there is a fucking disparity, you're just not listening to us.