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i write (and draw) stuff! it's mostly gay pirates and ancIent greeks!! you can find my fics on ao3 at archiveofourown.org/users/wrizard xox 🦔queue running 4pm-12am EST🦔

[wrizardhat-2023]

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well that was fast i have been unshadowbanned apparently and u can now find me at @wrizard! love u see u there xo

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howdy! i'm wriz, a hobby writer with strong interest in transformative work and fanfiction. you can find my work up on ao3 (wrizard), and if you want to say hi, i spend most of my time on twitter (@wrizardhat)! i'm a queer, disabled creator, and i mostly write gritty kink-heavy smut with occasional vacations in sweeter themes. i'm currently focussed on Our Flag Means Death, but i also highly enjoy hadesgame and heroic era grecian works, especially the iliad.

this is my lil writing blog. here's where i put up prompt ficlets, thoughts about writing, and reblogs about cool related things!

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT MY WORK OFTEN DEPICTS DARK AND DISTURBING THEMES, INCLUDING THE BIG FOUR AO3 WARNINGS (NONCON, MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH, GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, AND UNDERAGE SEX). i tag to the best of my ability, but you control your internet experience! this is a dead dove zone - you open the bag, you get what's on the label. (it's a dove, and it's dead!)

⭐ COMPLETE FIC LIST AVAILABLE HERE ⭐

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✨My writing tag: ficlets posted to tumblr, including kinktober and prompt fics

✨My art tag: i draw and paint a little!! enjoy <3

✨My process tag: writing tips, behind-the-scenes, and the practice of storytelling

[wrizardhat-2023]

hullo beautiful friends!!

ive been using the same main for uh. since i showed up on this godforsaken site and i have finally reached the point where i am very tired of lugging like... 13 years of reblogs and the experience of following 750 blogs forever, esp as i use a new pen name now! so i am shifting over to @wrizard as a main (NOT this account as this was a sideblog and i'd like to be able to properly interact under my own name 😮‍💨 ); i'm gonna see if i can queue this to post a few times in the next couple days so ppl will see it.

gonna try and set up in the next couple days also! will be attempting things like Posting, and perhaps even Following or Discussion. won't that be fun. ❤️

see you there!!

[wrizardhat-2023]

UNBANNED WITH MIRACULOUS SPEED. i'm over on @wrizard, hit me up, gonna try to be more social and less "dropping a post in the middle of the night and vanishing for 3 weeks" lmao <3

queueing this again for posterity; all my love!!

[wrizardhat-2023]

hullo beautiful friends!!

ive been using the same main for uh. since i showed up on this godforsaken site and i have finally reached the point where i am very tired of lugging like... 13 years of reblogs and the experience of following 750 blogs forever, esp as i use a new pen name now! so i am shifting over to @wrizard as a main (NOT this account as this was a sideblog and i'd like to be able to properly interact under my own name 😮‍💨 ); i'm gonna see if i can queue this to post a few times in the next couple days so ppl will see it.

gonna try and set up in the next couple days also! will be attempting things like Posting, and perhaps even Following or Discussion. won't that be fun. ❤️

see you there!!

[wrizardhat-2023]

UNBANNED WITH MIRACULOUS SPEED. i'm over on @wrizard, hit me up, gonna try to be more social and less "dropping a post in the middle of the night and vanishing for 3 weeks" lmao <3

queueing this again for posterity; all my love!!

[miametropolis]

the first episode of star trek tng:

hi everyone! meet the crew! wow, this guy's got a temper. this one's an android! uh-oh, a spooky alien has appeared!

the first episode of star trek ds9:

post-traumatic stress disorder

[intactics-deactivated20250505]

the way various Europeans literally did not believe it was possible for humans to drive a species extinct because "God wouldn't let that happen/Everything I get away with is the Lord's will" & spontaneous generation VERSUS the dodo & Darwin's theory of natural selection

[intactics-deactivated20250505]

for the most part, these days, you just have to argue with the freaks who think the Earth is 6,000 years old. and the vaccine people. you don't have to argue with freaks who believe that meat spontaneously generates maggots

[hermitknut]

“I feel very strongly that if historical romance can give women a happy ending, it can give queer people a happy ending. M/f historical romance doesn’t tie itself in knots over the likelihood of the rake having syphilis, the terrible dentistry, the lice, the prolapsed uterus after multiple pregnancies, the prospect of death in childbed, or the horrifying legal discrimination against married women. We don’t close the book on the wedding scene reflecting that the heroine can now be legally raped, has just lost all her property to her husband…and would be vanishingly unlikely to obtain a divorce. Historical romance readers aren’t stupid; we know this stuff, but we choose to believe our heroine will be one of the lucky ones. And I don’t see why we can’t extend that happy glow to other stories, too. If women’s lives don’t have to be blighted by social oppression in romance, neither do those of people of color or queer people. Moreover, human nature doesn’t change. A lot of what we read about LGBT people in history is appalling because the rec­ords we have are the legal documents, the newspaper reports, the accounts of people who were victimized. We don’t generally have the hidden stories of the people who lived under the radar…. But we know…people we’d now call gay, bi, trans have always existed and [that] as a matter of statistics plenty of them must have lived and died without ever coming to the law’s attention. Which is not to hand-wave the horrors of the past but only to say that horror isn’t the only story, and it’s not an acceptable reason to deny marginalized people their happy-ever-after.”

— KJ Charles (Library Journal interview)  (via bookgeekgrrl)

[wrizardhat-2023]

hullo beautiful friends!!

ive been using the same main for uh. since i showed up on this godforsaken site and i have finally reached the point where i am very tired of lugging like... 13 years of reblogs and the experience of following 750 blogs forever, esp as i use a new pen name now! so i am shifting over to @wrizard as a main (NOT this account as this was a sideblog and i'd like to be able to properly interact under my own name 😮‍💨 ); i'm gonna see if i can queue this to post a few times in the next couple days so ppl will see it.

gonna try and set up in the next couple days also! will be attempting things like Posting, and perhaps even Following or Discussion. won't that be fun. ❤️

see you there!!

[wrizardhat-2023]

UNBANNED WITH MIRACULOUS SPEED. i'm over on @wrizard, hit me up, gonna try to be more social and less "dropping a post in the middle of the night and vanishing for 3 weeks" lmao <3

queueing this again for posterity; all my love!!

[cock-holliday]

People do not see masculinity as being as fluid and complex and nuanced as femininity and it’s annoying as hell. Because of patriarchy’s stranglehold on masculinity and radfem theory’s stranglehold on queer spaces, people really think with their whole heart that only femininity is subversive or experimental, or frankly, queer, and that masculinity is only a power grab and nothing more. Embarrassing!

[cock-holliday]

Below is a bunch of writings from a variety of genders, cis and trans, on queer masculinity:

Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam (book pdf)

Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman (book pdf)

Understanding the Bear Movement in Gay Male Culture by Eric Manley, Heidi Levitt and Chad Mosher Mcoun (essay)

Site to showcase image collections and exhibitions<br />

How I learned to embrace my masculine queer identity as a Black woman | GLAAD

For Spirit Day, GLAAD Campus Ambassador Grace Ancrum shares her experience with bullying and coming into her gender expression.

Under Construction: Decolonized Queer Masculinity(ies)

This is something that I have been discussing with close friends and working on what this means for myself.  As somebody who is considered a

To Be A Trans Man: A love letter to trans masculinity  - Mermaids

Mermaids’ Luan meets writer Ezra Woodger to talk about his new book, To Be A Trans Man 

[sudaca-swag]

these days only a few fantasy books stand truly unique, most just seem to be following very strict writing styles and filling in the same plot points, maybe its because fantasy has been dominated by usamerican and european writers who tend to see the world in a very lineal way and who crave immediacy, these authors are honestly scared to "break the rules" (there are no rules in art imo) in terms of time-space and such because most of their readers will get mad if they dont understand everything the series stands for in 60 pages or less

[sudaca-swag]

some fantasy books i find to be uniquely written:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Nuestra Parte de Noche by Mariana Enríquez (english translation available)

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

La Nación de las Bestias by Mariana Palova (english translation available)

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Yumi and The Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson

100 años de Soledad by Gabriel García Márquez (english translation available)

Little Mushroom by Shisi

The Inheritance trilogy by NK Jemisin

[aplpaca]

i personally haven't really found the issue of the sameness being overwhelming, but i also tend to not read a whole lot of "main/major" popular stuff mostly for that reason, so that might be why? that said, off the top of my head these ones have interesting and unique writing styles and/or plotting and sense of time in them

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

A Stranger In Olondria and Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson

Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde

A Conspiracy Of Truths and A Chior Of Lies by Alexandra Rowland

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

Inda by Sherwood Smith

And This Is How To Stay Alive by Shingai Njeri Kagunda

The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells (also Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, but thats scifi)

the Realm Of The Elderlings series by Robin Hobb

The Golem And The Jinni and Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen

[roach-works]

Fledgling by Octavia Butler (amnesiac young black vampire has to figure out who killed her family and why)

The Scholomance Series by Naomi Novik (if hogwarts was powered by child sacrifice would that be fucked up or what)

The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones (you saw the guys that run reality and they noclipped you out of the game forever)

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (your grandma's god is still mad as hell)

Ghost Roads series by Seanan McGuire (teenage hitchhiking ghost misadventures)

The Witness For The Dead by Catharine Addison (what if being a psychopomp was a government job. and sucked.)

The Invisible Library series by Genevive Cogman (interdimensional secret agent librarian book thief adventures)

Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Morena Garcia (rich inlaws fucking suck, especially when their house is cursed as all hell)

The Ten Thousand Doors Of January, Alix Harrow (rich inlaws fucking suck especially when you are a mixed race adoptee with magic powers they want to exploit)

Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron (a college dropout does what she can to make rent. she dropped out of wizard school. her rich inlaws, who suck, are dragons.)

In Other Lands, by Sara Reese Brennan (swords? sorcery? HAVE WE TRIED DIPLOMACY. the world's most irritable jewish bisexual instigates i mean investigates.)

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North (what if you had to live your life over and over and over and o)

Gentleman Bastards Sequence by Scott Lynch (deeply fucked up heist situations in fantasy mediterranian renaissance only worse)

The Undertakers by Nicole Glover (black mystery solving crime fighting duo in post-civil war philadelphia)

Steel Crow Saga by Paul Kreuger (pokemon meets game of thrones)

Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw (a doctor for the undead just wants to study mummies and fix up vampires but apocalypses keep getting in the way)

Raven Tower, Anne Leckie (if you could hook an engine up to god that would be really useful. for awhile.)

The Sharing Knife, Lois McMaster Bujold (evil neromancers need a-wrangling' in fantasy post-apocalyptic america.)

A Companion to Wolves, by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (what if you could soulbond a gigantic telepathic wolf and then your dad disowns you because the gigantic telepathic wolf made you gay.)

The Scum Villain's Self Saving System by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (you just transmigrated into your favorite hate-read as your least favorite character ever. you're fucked!)

Ascendance Of A Bookworm by Miya Kazuki (an autistic librarian has just reincarnated into the dumbest most illiterate fantasy world ever as a baby commoner. time to reinvent the printing press!)

[favouritefi]

is bitching a commonly accepted practice and do people ever engage in it outside of as a means of punishment? are there trans omegaverse genders?

there are trans ppl in my omegaverse au but "bitching" is very much a punitive term and practice used by institutions like the british navy and army. the genders in this au are clownfish rules (aka people exist on a sliding scale of reproductivity and can move between them depending on their environment) mixed with lion rules (aka your gender presentation is not always tied to your genitals) but like in a setting where eugenics and extreme classism is still very much a thing so. its complicated. if hickey had been born into a wealthy family who had too many betas and decided their youngest would become an omega and undergo procedures for that process, it would be fine and honestly a fairly common practice to ensure that the family line continues. the problem isn't so much that hickey used to be an alpha, but that hickey got bitched. this has certain Connotations related to class and character and fertility.

[favouritefi]

thanks I am fortunate enough to have the kinda educational background for talking with victorianists and queer theorists at the graduate level but instead of using that power for evil (academia) I use it for good (inventing deranged aus for a six year old television program)

[wrizardhat-2023]

what is the POINT of making kink fantasy AUs unless you're going to end up worldbuilding and fucking around with new societies and gender stuff!! like!! isnt that the point!! well other than the kink i guess

[favouritefi]

the thing about the omegaverse little x hickey sole survivors au (god i really need a better name for this thing) is that little goes from "im under no illusions that you love me, mr hickey. im not certain you're capable of it." to "if we must be fugitives then so be it, if i must lose myself to be with you then so be it, i don't need you to love me but please, for the love of god, don't leave me. don't let me die alone." and hickey goes from "no one is capable of loving a man like you. how wonderful that you're following in his footsteps." to "you can't die now you utter moron, if you're going to die it will be by my hand. live, damn you! that's an order!" and ive just been marinating on the everything-in-between that gets them to that point instead of like, doing important work. ive cursed myself with an au thats too compelling. cursed says i. cursed.

[wrizardhat-2023]

soul stealer (hickey/tozer)

(also on twt here)

[wrizardhat-2023]

okay well. new account Instantly shadowbanned so that's fun.

will move there when i can use it i suppose LMFAO

[jordanbolton]

To The Person In The Newspaper - Jordan Bolton

[ponyboyfaceshopping]

Lestat is a character who instead of a brain has a porcelain powdered wig baroque figure that you have to reason with and that makes him commit atrocities. Other vampires try to peer into his mind to obtain information about him and it’s just this thing:

[wrizardhat-2023]

hullo beautiful friends!!

ive been using the same main for uh. since i showed up on this godforsaken site and i have finally reached the point where i am very tired of lugging like... 13 years of reblogs and the experience of following 750 blogs forever, esp as i use a new pen name now! so i am shifting over to @wrizard as a main (NOT this account as this was a sideblog and i'd like to be able to properly interact under my own name 😮‍💨 ); i'm gonna see if i can queue this to post a few times in the next couple days so ppl will see it.

gonna try and set up in the next couple days also! will be attempting things like Posting, and perhaps even Following or Discussion. won't that be fun. ❤️

see you there!!

[slyandthefamilybook]

events are probably my second favorite thing to set in motion

[slyandthefamilybook]

Rube Goldberg machine