Artemy Mandus (Ec) | in my horror era
@artemymandus.bsky.social
^ Pen name. Author of sci-fi, horror, and dark fantasy. Usually go by he/him, but call me whatever. Queer & AuDHD. NIN fanatic. Profile pic by @juniperlake. Find my work: https://www.patreon.com/c/artemymandus/about
I dreamed that there was a manic and deadly little scorpion skittering around my kitchen and I was shooting at it with a gun
Feeling frenzied cause I'm trying to reread my stuff right now and I can't focus for shit. Keep switching tabs for something more immediately satisfying. Who wrote this boring shit tbh
The greatest argument against the existence of media literacy is a five minute conversation with the average reader
Seeing someone in the wilds unironically calling themselves an "A*I ''''''AUTHOR''''''" has me sincerely hoping the nukes drop tomorrow 🙃 People like that have as much right to call themselves authors as the greaser asshole in a taco bell drive thru has to call themselves a michelin-star chef
You ever just wake up feeling like you lived an entire second life in your dreams
You don't even have to buy it! You can read a fully completed cyberpunk web serial about violent anticapitalism and a gay ass idiot here! It's free!
The Blade/Dancer
This is The Blade/Dancer, a character-driven cyberpunk adventure with a blend of absurd action and satirical nihilism. This is chaos. Earth is on the brink of a new age, with the city of Silverhold a...
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It’s national Yaoi day, tell me about your Yaoi and where people can buy it! #WritingPrompt
#LateNightWrite I will return to working on Chosen?, I swear. But in the meantime there are teasers and even full chapter drafts on my Ko-fi and Patreon you can look at, if you'd like. If you're one of the nice people who donated recently, those are all available to you. ko-fi.com/blackbirb
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Got a startling reminder of just how long I was working on B/D for, because I'm rereading it rn and there are a few parts early in the story where I use the word "goon" in its original, intended form. Because I started that story before that word became slang for masturbation lol
I find that doing amount of reading or editing my own writing temporarily, entirely destroys my ability to read like a normal person. I suddenly can't read even the most basic sentence without thinking about how you could cut out all the filler words. Including this very post. Then I get grumpy.
I feel like July was somehow both gone in the blink of an eye, and also more drawn out and prolonged than trench warfare
In which we have both a perspective swap and some trippy bullshit #writing #booksky
Chapter 9: A Promise to Keep - Congealment
Oskar struggled back up to his feet, grasping his throat. His breath burned in his lungs, mouth dry and brain foggy. It took him a moment to reorient—to reassure himself that he wasn’t at the brink of...
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Reluctantly clawing my way out of bed, groggy and sand-eyed like an eldritch doom waking from the eternal dream
For those who follow me, take a fucking guess
Name an artist/band who's whole discography you've heard.
Realistic take on Spec Ops: The Line featuring a chilling moment where, during a routine white phosphorus bombing of civilians, the player accidentally kills an enemy combatant
I feel the word "ragebaiting" has become so disgustingly overused these days that it's officially lost any meaning it ever had. I mean basically the entire internet is designed to monetize ragebaiting you, so it's redundant anyway because literally everything is ragebaiting (See what I mean?)
I know exactly who needs to hear this, but if a specific tag on something bothers you, you can just not read it lol. Nobody's forcing you. Feeling personally affronted because the author is expressing tastes that don't align with your and interpreting that as patronization is fucking bizarre
My treat was frozen yogurt bar and a sprite! Simple pleasures! Have you picked up my newest book yet? You should at least check it out, see if it's for you! books.earlronove.com/whenyesterda...
When Yesterday Ends
Nettles Hollow is as good a place as any to restart your life. At least, Ambrose Howl hopes so after his life falls apart. The town’s got everything he needs: a general store carrying his favorite cig...
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My book came out today, but i have to work. Boooo Maybe I'll pick up a treat on the way home...
Not as bad as last month but I'm $30 or so behind on my fucking bills at the end of this month. And you know... I don't even wanna think about what August is gonna look like. I do not want to be doing this again but wtf is anything right now. ko-fi.com/blackbirb
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Make bad game? Layoffs. Make good game? Layoffs. Make a whole bunch of basically okay games? Layoffs. Make multiple award winning games? Layoffs. Make games that flop? Layoffs. Make multiple financial successes? Layoffs. Go indie and break free from publishers? Believe it or not, also layoffs.
WHEN YESTERDAY ENDS, my cozy fantasy about moving on from your yesterdays, is out now in ebook & paperback! 🌿 a slow-burn mm romance 🌿 grumpy herbalist 🌿 flirty fey 🌿 curses to break 🌿 lost in yesterdays Buy today! Uni: books.earlronove.com/whenyesterda... itch: earlronove.itch.io/whenyesterda...
Fortune cookies should really be called platitude cookies. I swear not a single one of them has any actual fortunes inside - it's always just the kind of pretentious advice you'd get from a ripoff motivational speaker
Me: Okay, my headphones are charging and I don't have anything else to distract me, so now's the perfect time to get some writing done! Agreed, brain? Brain: Me: Hello? Are- Brain: DIAL-UP NOISES
Feeling weirdly left out of writer stuff on social media lately, cause a good 90% of it is people talking about their OCs, but there's just not much to talk about with Congealment because the MCs are just... dudes lol. There's very intentionally not much to them, which works for this kind of-
Oye. If you wanted a version of B/D that was more easily readable, you can now download a compiled version of the whole story for free off itchio. Link below, loser. #writing #booksky
The Blade/Dancer: A Cyberpunk Action Disaster by Artemy Mandus
This is The Blade/Dancer. This is chaos.
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