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Hey! I'm Moth, I’m 29, gender abstinent, and I use they/them pronouns. I’m a writer at [video game company redacted] by day, and I write both interactive and prose fiction in my spare time.

My favourite genres to both read and write are surreal/psychological horror, slipstream, fabulism, and literary fiction, but I also love SFF/spec-fic and all things whimsical and absurd.

My writing regularly features:

✛ Queer, non-monogamous, and/or atypical relationships

✛ Themes such as grief, interdependency, otherness, trauma, gender, and sexuality

✛ Extremely soft/unexplained/cryptic magic

WIPS under the cut:

↠ Last updated: 17/02/26

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tlirsgender

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

tlirsgender

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

toastyglow

the backrooms are simply not as scary conceptually if there is Something In Them

toastyglow

the whole reason why they're so unnerving is BECAUSE there's nothing in them!! because they're unrelentingly liminal and lonely and uncomforting. there shouldn't be a monster guy in there chasing you. you should glimpse other humans (?) from a distance but they walk away before you can close the gap and then they're gone. things should run away from YOU. do u get it

toastyglow

"and there was a MONSTERowooowwohhhh" the monster is isolation and banal beige sameness and uncanny valley architecture. you fool. you rube. you're putting a hat on a hat and the second hat is not only unnecessary but it ruins the first hat!!!!!!! "there's a monster in there" great so now it's just another place for a monster to be. ridiculous

#100000% agreed. thank you

thehumantrampoline

This is your reminder today that Irene Adler in the original Conan Doyle story is literally not a criminal. She never commits a crime.

thehumantrampoline

Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.

Irene Adler is not a thief, femme fatale, or blackmailer. She's just a cool lady that wants to be left alone.

thehumantrampoline

@delphi-star You do recall correctly!! She does not give a shit about that man! She's happily married! She tipped him for being a witness at her wedding!

If your Sherlock Holmes adaptation has a character whose identifying qualities are that she is a seductive criminal in love with Holmes, you have created a character that is basically the literal opposite of Irene Adler and you should name her something else.

tzikeh

She's also -- and I cannot stress this enough -- from New Jersey. IMO this is the single most important detail missing from all the adaptations -- IRENE ADLER IS FROM NEW JERSEY.

Please just once in my life I would like to see this adapted faithfully it would be the funniest fucking thing ever.

#she's from New Jersey in the RDJ movies!#but that's the only way in which that version of her is faithful to the character lol

paranormal-taters

hang on i need to review my entire post history from all time and make sure i haven't said anything embarrassing

paranormal-taters

awful news guys

codes-and-stuffs

i do think we should normalise being like. platonically enamoured with someone. perhaps i love and admire you dearly and there's nothing romantic about it

alwaysbeenjessica

hopping around bookstores in my new city, before the fall semester starts 🍂

nothingbutloveforyou

the fact that laughter is contagious is so beautiful to me. like oh that made you smile? that made you happy? well then, i have no choice but to be happy with you!

brofisting

helpful tattoo reminder: they are technically Injuries so u have to eat a lot of calories drink a lot of water and sleep a lot after so your body can Heal The Injury

brofisting

another helpful tattoo reminder: the 24-48 hours after you get a tattoo your brain can not be trusted in regards to whether or not you should have gotten that tattoo, if you have somehow ruined your life, if it turned out ugly, etc. ignore that

brofisting

finally, while i am at it: always bring a candy bar and a sugary drink to your appointment for blood-sugar reasons (worst case scenario) or so you can have a treat (unilaterally applicable)

brofisting

this has been your friendly neighborhood haver of 19* tattoos (assorted sizes and placements)

*not totally sure here. bad at counting

parasocialanxiety

Can I just emphasize that not everyone reading this has yet encountered the information that injuries require food, hydration, and sleep? I think the way many people associate rest and injury is that you rest the injury itself to avoid making it worse, but overlook that the healing process itself requires rest regardless of if not-rest directly injures it further.

Also exercise is a form of controlled injury so that as your body heals it heals stronger. You also need food-hydration-rest for strength and cardiovascular improvements after exercise.

#this all applies to piercings too!#whenever I'm healing a new piercing and I come down with a cold that shit just Stops healing #my body is like woah there. hang on. there's something else wrong with you we need to redirect our resources

bigskycastle

barn owl

#art

belovedgamers

The BEST trope is when a character tells another “let’s run away together, we can leave all of this behind and start a new life somewhere” and gets rejected. And then the rest of the tragedy unfolds

#black sails :'-)#so many moments where characters suggest this to each other #max to eleanor. amanda to james #anne and jack Almost Leave!!#but there's always one person who just can't do it

natalieironside

If I can be a hater for a second: I find the mystique around the phrase "wine-dark sea" to be rather tedious. Like. It's clearly referring to shade rather than hue. Idk if it's different in ancient Greek but I don't think Homer ever said "the wine-colored sea." It literally has the word "dark" in the thing, you guys.

natalieironside

If I said that something black was "as black as the night," would you take that to mean it's a sort of dark blue spangled with stars and planets? You would not.

#didn't madeline miller talk about this once #bc everyone was mad at her for saying a character's skin was like freshly pressed olives (which are bright green)#but ancient greek/homeric writing apparently used descriptions like this A Lot. evocative rather than literal #I might be misremembering! I'm no classicist