Hello! Thought it was about time to write up a more formal introduction/pinned post as I want to engage more with readers and writers on Tumblr!
My name is Leandra ‘LJ’ Inglis, and I’m an independent speculative fiction author. I enjoy (both as a reader and a writer) fiction that explores concepts of friendship, trust, obsession, queer experiences, and connection to the arts through speculative elements like the fae, the multiverse, angels and demons, or sharing a body. All of my original content can be found on my website, lionofstone.com and you can get updates and behind the scenes by subscribing to my substack or joining the lionofstone discord.
BODYSHARE follows Luke Milton after he makes a deal with the devil: in exchange for a thriving musical career, he agrees to share his body. Dealing with a mutually agreed upon divorce and floundering after finishing his college degree, Luke is desperate for connection and fame. The devil offers both. Published in October 2024, this is my most recent release.
My current WIPs are referred to as PROJECT CD and PROJECT SUNSCREEN. Both are set in space—Project CD being more science fiction and Project Sunscreen being more of a space fantasy—and both involve ragtag spaceship crews inspired by pirates. You may also see various posts tagged with ‘ref’ tags (for example, ‘ref absolution’). These are ideas more than they are projects, but I like to collect things that remind me of them.
Other books and short stories are linked and summarised beneath the cut!
SERIES/NOVELS
THE SPIDER PRINCE TRILOGY: Set in fictional small town Alberta, Canada, this trilogy follows Author Wilshire, Edna Koch, and Eddie Karpinski as they make their way through faerie realms in search of curse cures. When Author Wilshire’s oldest friend, Eddie, is attacked by the Wild Hunt and transformed into a spider, Author must travel to Lockswood to reconnect with an old friend and plead for the help of the Spider Prince. It might have worked, if only the Spider Prince weren’t cursed as well. Comprising CHAOS AND THE SPIDER PRINCE, THE WITCH HAZEL TREE, SPIDER SPIDER BEE, and the short story collection GREEN QUEST AND OTHER FAERIE TALES.
SHORT STORIES
CONVERGENT: Devin has recently discovered the multiverse is real and has spent the last 180 hours bouncing between different timelines. Accidentally. One constant is his friend Spenser, an invaluable resource in helping Devin figure out how to stay in one place. It’s a lot harder than it should be.
PRECIPICE: Ophelia is afraid of demons. When Ronna asks why, she wants to say ‘Because I’m one wrong move away from becoming one’. She doesn’t. She thinks it would be giving away too much.
RECIPROCAL HAUNTINGS: It takes Reyna a few weeks to notice the ghosts. In her defense, she’s never been haunted before.
ABUS & PHARENTINE: Pharentine, a daughter of the son god Charo, is called to find the moon god Abus and bring him home. An original myth set on a fictional planet.
NECK & NECK: After attending a night class together, Elaine Holmwood and Missy West discover a fascination with vampires and each other.
TAGS & NAVIGATION
Published Works
bodyshare - bodyshare content & related posts
tsp trilogy - the spider prince trilogy content & related posts
convergent - convergent content & related posts
precipice - precipice content & related posts
rh - reciprocal hauntings content & related posts
a&p - abus and pharentine content & related posts
neck & neck - neck & neck content & related posts
Current WIPs / Pre-Publication
project cd - posts relating to project cd
project sunscreen - posts relating to project sunscreen
Ideas / Concepts
ref luciferous - posts relating to lucifer and his garrison (iykyk)
ref be not afraid - posts relating to qemuel and their garrison
ref feywild - posts related to the faerieverse, if not specifically tspt
ref absolution - posts relating to the therapist and her client
ref otherplace - posts relating to the others and the otherplace
ref masks - posts related to the heroes and their villains
ref apoc - posts related to the kids and their apocalypse
Its so sad when gamers have no interest in a games storyline like broooo the developpers themes and ideas. You dont care about their characters? You dont care about their plot and development? You just want to hit things a lot till they die?
Literally me whenever somebody talks about skipping cutscenes and story.
And the sheer number of times that the excuse is something like “well none of it makes sense” as if them not watching the cutscenes doesn’t directly cause that, or “well it’s not interesting to me” YEAH OBVIOUSLY IT ISN’T GOING TO INTEREST YOU IF YOU REFUSE TO PAY ATTENTION
Happy Pride Month from Author, Eddie, and Nuisance from The Spider Prince Trilogy!
In Fairy Hill, Alberta, Canada… it’s easy to get cursed.
When her oldest friend, Eddie Karpinski, is transformed into a spider by a group of vindictive fae, Author Wilshire sets out in search of the Spider Prince to barter for a cure. Reuniting with her long lost friend, a faerie she calls Nuisance, is just a nice bonus. But there’s more at stake than just Eddie’s life, and there’s more magic at work than Author is prepared to face alone. Curses are complicated, and so are relationships with the fae. Even comatose ones, like the Spider Prince.
Happy Pride Month from Author, Eddie, and Nuisance from The Spider Prince Trilogy!
In Fairy Hill, Alberta, Canada… it’s easy to get cursed.
When her oldest friend, Eddie Karpinski, is transformed into a spider by a group of vindictive fae, Author Wilshire sets out in search of the Spider Prince to barter for a cure. Reuniting with her long lost friend, a faerie she calls Nuisance, is just a nice bonus. But there’s more at stake than just Eddie’s life, and there’s more magic at work than Author is prepared to face alone. Curses are complicated, and so are relationships with the fae. Even comatose ones, like the Spider Prince.
writing scifi, we’ll see if it goes anywhere (image description below the cut!)
[ID: text reading: “I would love to see it was a selfless choice. That I agreed to this dull, one-way mission out of the goodness of my heart and a love for my fellow colonists, but the truth is much more simple and complicated than that: I envisioned someone else with their hands on my thruster and genuinely thought I might throw up. Given that the conversation was being had in zero-G, that would’ve been unpleasant for everyone involved, so instead I vomited up the words, “I can go.”” END ID.]
[ID: text reading: “Here’s another drawback of a harpsichord drive: it’s fast, and the ships that are built to have them are also built to withstand moving at those speeds and across those distances.
Here’s an important detail about my ship: it’s not built to have one.” END ID.]
writing scifi, we’ll see if it goes anywhere (image description below the cut!)
[ID: text reading: “I would love to see it was a selfless choice. That I agreed to this dull, one-way mission out of the goodness of my heart and a love for my fellow colonists, but the truth is much more simple and complicated than that: I envisioned someone else with their hands on my thruster and genuinely thought I might throw up. Given that the conversation was being had in zero-G, that would’ve been unpleasant for everyone involved, so instead I vomited up the words, “I can go.”” END ID.]
some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it
Know that you are loved now. It should always have been so,
but if it was not, know that the past only goes back so far,
but tomorrow’s hands extend forever. Know that the love you were denied
does not reflect the love you can be given. Know that I love you
with many others and that we hope one day you will join us.
Know that until then c'est ce que c'est and it will do until you’re ready.
Know that there’s a high chance of sunshine after storms
but until the storm is put to rest
it’s okay to need a lighthouse.
i love you mirror versions i love you possession i love you cloning i love you simulacrums i love you shadow selves i love you digital copies of a mind i love you alternate timeline versions i love you tropes that play with identity and what it means to be a certain person
i love my friends bc i can jokingly say “grace phm and chell portal are siblings. source: they wear the same outfit” and everyone just joins me in that reality and also include colt fall guy 🙂↕️
