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[eurydices-rainbird]

A Sister's Care is being put on hiatus, & commissions are open

The short version:

My wife and I have become suddenly homeless, and so I need to shift my attention towards anything that will help keep us going. I'm accepting donations as well, but it's hard to ask for anything for free.

I'm going to be charging $0.01 AUD per word, and will be willing to write anything I feel capable of matching the quality I would want to present for that price point. (more details + how to commission me [here])

The long version:

Some of you know that I recently moved, it was why one of the chapters of A Sister's Care took so long to come out. Well we were asked with very little warning to temporarily leave for around a week. But we have no guarantees that it will actually be temporary. The only thing we know is that if we are let back we will still need to find a place in June and move out everything.

Moving was expensive. Right now we have $700 total between us and are desperately trying to figure out where to live and how to stretch what we currently have until possible scholarships come through for my wife's degree. We're already relying on the generosity of the people around us to not be sleeping in our car, but this money won't last very long. A week at most (with a vast chunk of it going to hotel accommodation.)

That means if we are let back we would be completely broke anyway.

So I'm opening commissions!

If you like my writing, and have an idea for a short story you'd like realised, follow the link to my sub-post about commissions to get all the details about it.

I hope things will work out, but I have to assume they won't because otherwise we could be blindsided again and be in an even worse spot. I can't let that happen to us.

I'm really sorry that I have to do this. I love A Sister's Care and desperately want to write more of it, but I'm just not in a position to do so. Ivy, Sofia, and Madison have my heart, and I'm not abandoning them. I hope you can understand.

& If you'd just like to donate, instead of commissioning:

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Eurydice's Master Post

I have a backup bluesky for in case everything goes pear shaped here! I hope I don't need it soon, but I might post links to my AO3 chapters if you want more specific notifications.

Commissions open!

Hi there, I'm Evelyn! I'm trans, lesbian, and disabled and have found a love for writing gracefully early in my life, and I'm chasing it with everything I have. I gravitate towards stories of fortifying self identity and biological rule-bending, set in an array of all kinds of settings.

This blog, while promoting my stories as I wade into the terrifying waters of publication, will also serve to document my thoughts and keep me sane and able to share creative projects that don't need the same channels. My stories you can currently access include:

PRINCESS OF THE FOREST: A queer-first adaptation of the Studio Ghibli movie Princess Mononoke, which features lesbian romance, an enhanced spiritual flavour to the world, and a conflict with fate so central to the plot you knowing what happens in the movie is the intended way to read

A SISTER'S CARE: A siscon story I will be posting both on AO3 and here on tumblr. Focusing on disability recovery and the importance of close support for all moments in life, as well as some therian wish fulfilment thrown in for good measure

Chapter 1: Recovery

Chapter 2: Changes

Chapter 3: Surf

Chapter 4: Steam

Chapter 5: Tension

Chapter 6: Rain

Chapter 7: Chase

Chapter 8: Caught

Chapter 9: Wind

Chapter 10: Coil

Chapter 11: Spring

Interlude: Flower - (non-canon)

Chapter 12: Grind

Chapter 13: Ring

Chapter 14: Cruor

Chapter 15: Date

Chapter 16: Action

Commissions I've done!

Threshold

Dear Lil Hellspawn

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If you like my writing and want to help me keep going with it, consider supporting me here. Every donation will be appreciated, and make a difference. <3

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Thankfully the changes got reversed, but it has gotten me thinking about how I want to share my writing in future - primarily because tumblr have said they still think reblogs can be 'improved,' and I'm not sure what that means.

I have a backup bluesky for if I suddenly disappear (willingly or not) but it doesn't quite feel like the right space for my writing. I unfortunately designed how I interact with everyone a little too much around how tumblr feels to use.

Making a Discord server came to mind, and the amount of work that would take came to mind immediately after. The workload of managing a server is nothing to sneeze at, and while I'm sure I'd be able to find people willing to become mods I either don't think I'm big enough to warrant the space or it would become a safe haven for a big chunk of the yuricest&other community.

That would be far outside my reasonable scope and also possibly fall afoul of Discord TOS and waste all the setup.

One other option is a Patreon, with a $0 minimum. I like it for how straightforward it is for getting tier rewards to people and general communication, but I don't like it for how spaghetti-fied the internal structure is, and for its historic treatment of porn.

I'm going to keep thinking about things, and I'm very happy to hear feedback or other suggestions.

I sincerely hope I can stay on tumblr but as we all know things are sometimes just out of our hands.

[eurydices-rainbird]

Update! Again!

We have found a new home, and have settled in to it. All our boxes are unpacked and the space is starting to feel like ours. We have a contract for six months that will turn into another contract for six months basically every single time we want to extend.

We're safe!

Thankyou so much to everyone who supported this sudden and shaky move. Every donation or commission (including the ones that aren't public) made such a difference to this going as well as it did!

So what's next?

Well, I've been enjoying commissions a lot, so I'm keeping them open! I didn't know what to expect when I decided to open them, but the response was amazing, and was really good practice! So keep the ideas coming!

However that's not to say I won't be abandoning ASC. Far from it. I love the story, and I want to show everyone what happens next.

So I'm going to be writing ASC while I have no commissions in my to-do list. (Though if that's too long to wait I'm very happy to write it at half-price so I can put it on that list!)

But let's look further to the future for a second!

Writing has been a wonderful boon for my mind in the boredom of the increased shifts my wife has had to take to keep us afloat, and I have plenty of ideas about what I want to do once ASC is finished, so I thought I'd share some snippets here.

A few of you have read Princess of the Forest, but not a lot of you know that it was a project that took three years. The version on AO3 is not the final version, either. I'm currently getting a cover made and am going to be formatting it properly, so that an .epub version of the final edit will be available.

Since it is what it is I will not be able to sell this version. So instead it will be a free sample on a website that will hold all my novels.

But that immediately leads us to the question of what other novels will I write?

I have a very good idea of the emotional spine of that next book - centred around dimension-hopping, mechanical girls - but I have very little practice writing my own plot to then follow. (PotF was, obviously, not my own plot at the start.)

I'm sure I could muddle through, but why when I could write a different story, released much like ASC, that helps me refine my plot-following skills!

So, once A Sister's Care is finished I will be diving into a world of Arthurian-political intrigue that starts with a plot to put a knight into her half-sister Princess' position of next in line.

But that's not going to hit paper for a little bit :)

I hope you'll stick with me, and I'm so grateful you did while I struggled so much!

Thankyou, from the bottom of our hearts 💖

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Well, yeah, all little sisters are delicious

[eurydices-rainbird]

Wow, moving house sucks and hurts a lot... I'll still be working on the next chapter as things go! But, it's taken a lot longer than I've wanted. Thankyou for your patience, I hope it's worth it when it comes out.