My name’s Ruthie. I’m an author and a screenwriter, and purveyor of fandom trash. Always have been, always will be. I’ve been publishing books since I was 19 (not all of them great), and got my degree at CSUN’s Screenwriting Program and am steadily working my way into the industry. Let’s go down my currently active projects.
If you don’t feel like scrolling thorough a huge post, may I offer you my personal website? I update it regularly and there’s a lot more in depth info on who I am and what I do
First thing’s first - Ladies of Fortune has a website! For those uninitiated, I developed a pirate show in 2017 centered around the life and times of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, my favorite historical pirate figures of the Golden Age. I approached Mr. Damien Gerard years ago to play the lead villain, Ben Hornigold, and got a resounding “yes!” Little did I know that in the Year Of Our Lord 2022, Damien would be in another little pirate show as a the fearsome father of Edward “Blackbeard” Teach in Our Flag Means Death.
Since then, LoF has gotten some major traction among the OFMD fan community, and even helped fund us through Kickstarter! We filmed a proof of concept--basically a shiny piece of pitch material for studios--and plan on pitching the show to execs sometime in the early spring.
(that’s me in the red wig as Anne Bonny~!)
Next up, let’s chat books📚
I write a lot of those. And hey, they’re all romance (for now)
Urban Arcane
In a modern magical New York City, half the population is imbued with magickal abilities, which keeps them under the thumb of the government. In this enemies to lovers mystery, a young Magi named Kasey teams up with a rogue government detective in order to find the truth behind cursed black market items, and end up entangled with each other in the process.
M/M 🌶️ 🌶️
The Kiss of 89
This Steddie inspired romance follows Wes Peters as he goes from Prom King to Pariah in his small town of Duffer Springs, CO, and his wild summer love with the town’s metal-head weirdo, Nicky Hoffman.
M/M 🌶️ 🌶️
Blood in the Golden Palace
Take 50 Shades of Grey, and make it readable. This is a spicy, BDSM mobster romance between the underboss of an Italian crime family, Angelo DiRossi and the (not so) innocent object of his affection, Penny Sweet.
M/F 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
The Railwalkers
When does justice become revenge? Follow Violet Donovan as she escapes a wrongful murder conviction, only to fall into the clutches of The Railwalker Gang; a notorious group of vigilantes who seek out only the most corrupt and vile men the west has to offer.
F/F 🌶️
Unscripted Act 1 and Act 2
A low stakes, bubbly duology between Mega Superstar and Neurotic Mess Ethan Teller and his hyped up, loving, overly affectionate secret boyfriend, Finn Phelps.
M/M 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️
Beyond my books, I also write screenplays and spec scripts, including a spec for Our Flag Means Death and What We Do In The Shadows, respectively.
You can take a look at what I’ve got on offer here, though most of my scripts tend to swing between horror and comedy.
I’ll be updating this pinned post fairly regularly. This is also a fraction of everything I got going on. For the time being, I’m still going to be tweeting until the Titanic meets the iceburg. Which will probably be soon...
“i never see you at the club” ok well i never see you on ao3 at 2am reading about the same two bitches falling in love for the 1000th time in the 500th way
Stop using it for fun, stop using it for story ideas, stop using it for art, stop using it for essays, stop using it for book covers, stop using it for book summaries, stop using it to bring back dead celebrities, stop using it for fake movie trailers, stop making memecoins with it, stop using it because you're bored, stop using it to see what you look like as a Disney character, stop talking to it, stop giving it your information, stop giving it your work
It exists off of stolen work, and participating in it is theft with extra steps. If you won't stop for moral reasons, stop because it is an insane level of electric and resource waste to our already hobbled global environment. If you won't stop for scientific reasons, it looks, feels, reads like absolute garbage. If you won't stop for any reason, at least have the decency of stop pretending to create when all you're doing is equal to a toddler shoving PlayDough in a cup trying to drink it like it's apple juice.
It looks bad, it looks bad, it looks BAD. Like I cannot stress this enough. And before anyone comes at me with "Oh, Chris Sanders' style doesn't translate to 3D animation--
YES. IT. DOES.
Note: Do not try to argue with me about the How to Train Your Dragon remake that's coming out. Chris didn't work on that one, either.
It doesn't look like a movie. It looks like a poorly lit AI generated "this is what Disney looks liek irl! 🤪" slop that some 13 year old generated at 2am slurping down a Mr. Beast slurpie or some shit.
I am so tired. So tiiiiired of Disney remakes. I am tired of the stale, repetitive, gray scale garbage that takes every last living piece of soul from the originals and stamps it down to fit an easily fungible mold so that CEO's can pay for their 13th yacht along side profit from the $500/day Disneyland tickets.
Do you know what kills me though? Is that I am not in the minority. This isn't a hot take. We're all tired of the garbage. In and outside of the Industry, we're sick and goddamn tired of the remakes, the reboots, the endless sequels, the 4th, 5th, 6th phases of some movie franchise that started twenty goddamn years ago. But they just keep making money hand over fist. So of course they're going to keep making them. (not all of them--Mulan was a huge flop but The Lion King grossed 1.6 BILLION. With a B)
Please support small cinema. Please go out and see smaller movies. Please enjoy small, weird, indie films. Shit that no one is talking about. Shit that you find interesting. Please search out what you can and support it if possible.
And look, I know--I know times are fucking hard. Trust me, I get it. I'm functionally unemployed and was offered a job that at 40hrs a week wouldn't even cover all my bills. There isn't a lot of wiggle room financially for a lot of us to go out to movies. Also the pandemic has thrashed the experience for a lot of people, granted. But you don't have to just spend money. Make posts! Make art! Talk about the obscure foreign film you spotted on Netflix! Find joy in art, I am begging you!
