Friday Summary 07/05/2021
Good morning!
Another late email, I’m afraid, as I was having such an excellent time at and in the aftermath of the Romancing the Gothic Tea With Monsters event, where we discussed everyone’s creations for the #MonstrousMayChallenge in the past week!
First, a fun little announcement, I’ve now set up my own website! It’s still a little sparse, but it does for now have an FAQ and a contact form, and I’ll be adding further guidelines for contacting me in relation to commissions, collaborations, and event or project invitations later on in the week.
The first seven days of the #MonstrousMayChallenge have been incredible, and I’ve been really enjoying the wide variety of creations I’ve been seeing each day of the challenge with every day’s new prompts. If you’d like to come along to some of the live events with RTG alongside your own creations, please do!
Still to come are:
- on Friday nights, we’re going to be running Tea With A Monster events - these will be casual check-ins and discussions of our current progress throughout the month
- on Monday May 10th, for the “… and add a monster.” prompt, we’re going to be running a Monster Mash(-Up) - we’ll spin some wheels and match up some random public domain characters and monsters, and run a guided writing session with that monstrous roulette in mind!
- on Tuesday May 18th, Angels & Demons, we’re going to be running a movie night! Movie is yet to be selected, but we’re thinking we’ll run a poll closer to the day.
- on Saturday May 29th, which is also the day of the #RomancingTheGothic Day of Creation, an INCREDIBLE all-day event RTG has centred around prompting celebrating and prompting new creations, I’ll be running another writing session centred around exploring and building cultural differences!
- Sunday May 30th is my BIRTHDAY, and as the ESTEEMED BIRTHDAY BOY, I’ll be giving a presentation exploring the themes of difference and isolation in classical minotaur myth, and discussing the ways in which the minotaur’s POV can resonate with queer and disabled readers!
- and finally, on Monday May 31st, we’ll be running a celebration of the hashtag, encouraging everyone to share their work, and a final wrap-up of everything we’ve done, and all the fun we’ve had!
You can sign up for any or all of the above at this link here. Even if you don’t come along to the events, make sure to follow Doctor Hirst on Twitter to see the updates from Romancing the Gothic and, of course, their own #MonstrousMayChallenge entries!
Summary of New Works Published
Personal Essay: I Want To Fuck The Monster
Monsterfuckery from a trans and disabled perspective. 2.3k.
Content warnings in this post for discussions of gender dysphoria, especially body horror and pregnancy, and some chronic illness talk such as descriptions of an asthma attack.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Personal Essay: Why I Give My Work Away For Free
Making a living as a writer in the 21st century. 2.4k.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Erotic Short: Shore Leave
A captain goes down on his sailor. Explicit M/M short between a cis naval captain and a trans sailor. Contains oral, overstimulation, crying, messy sex, and some sadomasochism. 588 words. Potential content warnings for the employer/employee dynamic and undernegotiated (but fully consensual) kink.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Serial Update: Powder and Feathers
Chapter Forty-Four: Ambassadorship.
Aimé and the angels go to the Christmas party at the church.
Content warnings: a lot of drinking, some mild racism (Fr. O’Flaherty making ignorant comments to and about Benedictine and Asmodeus), implications of familial abuse, references to mental illness, past suicide attempts
Read on Medium / / Read on WorldAnvil
TweetFic: Repressed Wizards
A very sexually repressed and difficult wizard enters into a battle of wills with the Dean’s new secretary. Rated M, a lot of sex discussion.
Erotic Short: Heat Wave
A secretary struggling to deal with the heat uses his vampire boss to cool down.
Explicit M/M short between a cis vampire and his trans secretary. Includes cockwarming, vampire biology, mild licking and biting, power dynamics, size difference, and rough sex. 733 words.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Erotic Short: Sweet Torture
Curt has a surprise for his boyfriend when he comes home from sea.
Explicit M/M short between a cis male lecturer in medicine and his trans boyfriend, set loosely in the late 1800s. 1384 words. Features nipple piercings, nipple play, chest play, rough sex, fingering, D/s, dirty talk.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Thanks for your time, see you next week!