Frankie Flaherty

@frankieflaherty.bsky.social

📮 Querying: Kennel Duty (Workplace Romcom) ✍️ WIP: Sapphic Sequel

From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, as held by me on an NYC subway car.

Final Exam x The Secret History Jess is walking home from her audition when she finds a dead body. When her friends begin turning up dead Jess has to figure out which of her ten thousand classmates is turning members of the student body into corpses #WIPPIT #A #H #R #T

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13 GOING ON 30 x ANNA KARENINA Kitty is ready to make a series of compromises to find happiness, but when a magic meteorite launches her 10 years into the future, she has a chance to fix her life. 🚀 Space Age 💜 Chaotic Bi FMC 🌌 Space Walk Date 🧡 Friends to Lovers 🤷 Why Choose #WIPPit #A #SF #R

Anna Karenina Retelling there is an image of the moon with a space station and the main character from 13 Going on 30 dancing with people in Space Age fashion watch. For Fans of:

Then from top left to right in the following order: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. The book cover features a white woman painting; the single image for Good Luck Babe by Chapel Roan with her dressed Medieval with a pig nose; 13 Going on 30 movie poster featuring Jennifer Garner dancing in a pink night gown; Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield, the book cover features two white individuals looking at each other; Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban, the book cover features two white women in gowns standing in a purple room; Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan. The book cover is an amusement park featuring people in costume with a girl in a hot dog costume; Girl Next Door by Rachel Meredith, the book cover is two white women in the library 

Then there are a series of characters and images: Mabel Pines, Adrien from Peacemaker, Luna Park from Futurama. A Foucoult pendulum in a science museum hitting Marge Simpsons, Jennifer Garner in a dress dancing, Florence and the machineA shot of feedback highlighting the time period and slapstick humor An image of Jennifer Garner from 13 Going on 30 dancing in a space station with space age people looking on and it says:
FEATURING

Anna Karenina Retelling
Chaotic Bisexuals
A very scifi romance
Retrofuturism
My love for 13 Going on 30
Space Walk Dates
That Diary Scene (iykyk) but it’s cool and apparently about as queer as real life


Crushes that cruuuush
Second Chance Romance
Friends to Lovers
Fake Dating
Make your own destiny
1960s Space Age Fashion
Olive Trees in SPACE
Wonky Time Travel/Overnight Age Up

TELL ME YOUR SECRETS AT MIDNIGHT ⏰Dual timeline 🔐Family secrets 💌Epistolary elements 💈Mental illness 🏡Homelessness 🛠️Home renovations 🧬Theoretical Physics 👩🏽‍🔬Women in STEM ⛰️Berkeley Hills Mrs Nashes Ashes x Love, Theoretically #A #R #WF #wippit

Photo grid with a mansion covered in wisteria, home renovations, an old man, a man and woman in romantic light, a secret passageway.

#WIPPIT #FantsayNoir X Files x Dark Souls Gelmir, a mage who can only dispel magic and a wayward graduate of the Cyan academy, Gina Spectre investigate a series of anomalies, outbreaks and mages gone bad, culminating in them trying to stop a plot to bring about the 3rd extinction of magic.

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#WIPPIT The Death of Evie Frobisher Time Out of Joint x Scott Pilgrim Yvette "Evie" Frobisher. Anglo-Quebecois, raised in Tokyo, bassist, singer, *static noise* singer, Bassist *heavily distorted music* speaks...French? Japa*static* Yvet-*static, furious retuning* #LGBT #R #PN? #SFF #OWN

Text of first reads
Yvette "Evie" Frobisher
-Anglo Quebecois
-Tri-Lingual
-Gaijin
-Budding musician
-Musical Theatre Nerd
-Autistic
-Lesbian
-Vlogger

... Isnt entirely sure she's real 

The Death of Evie Frobisher (coming soon

#WIPPIT #A #SF #R After 14 months, 2 parole hearings, & 1 suspended license, Ulu’zah & Nadine are finally starting fresh. Trading criminal acts & thankless bounties for domestic bliss should be the hard part — until a ghost from Ulu’s past reappears with a laundry list of unfinished business.

A collage on a black background covered in vertical pink binary code. The collage features a pair of purple hands, a purple-hued eye cutout, a newspaper clipping that says “Have you seen this woman?”, a sparkly pink flash drive, a blue swirl galaxy, a series of colorful starbursts, a paintbrush painting a blue strip of paint, a pair of lips wearing pink glitter lip gloss, some golden stars, a heart-shaped compact mirror with a rose in the reflection, a green and pink leafy plant, and a pink box full of makeup.

#WIPPIT #A #F #R WHAT RETURNS All her life, Selba's had smoky visions of the future, but they’re never useful. She can't predict weather, fate, & def not her BFF's tragic demise. But when her dead friend returns & asks her help to end a civil war, Selba's finicky Sight might just save the world.

A collage on a dark green background, featuring a lily-of-the-valley pendant and a ruby-and-skull mourning ring, a golden heart pierced by red arrows, a skull set in a golden sunburst plaque, a thorny rose vine, a flame-licked hand reaching for a ruby, an illustrated woman in a mourning veil, a rocky crag full of lava, a gravestone, an all-seeing eye, and a dried rose.

When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from magehunters, mathematicians, and the governor herself. #WIPPit #F #YA #LGBT

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing:
1. Always have an escape plan.
2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud.
3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark.
4. Never get involved with golems.

The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right:
A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs.
B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow.
C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards.
D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn.
E) A pocket orrery engraved with runes.
F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game.
G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks.
H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

HEARTLESS HUNTER x THE WITCHER 🖤 one haughty dragon prince 🖤 one servant masquerading as royalty (secretly sent to execute him) 🖤 forbidden gothic romance 🖤 a gritty world steeped in Slavic folklore 🖤 the ruinous passion destined to undo them both #WIPPit #NA #R #F #G

A gothic-style book cover titled "Root and Ruin." Centered is a glowing, cyan-blue dragon coiled into a circle, its scales etched with faint, runic symbols. Golden, gnarled roots extend downward from the dragon like branching veins against the pitch-black background. Text at the top reads "Enemies to Lovers," "Fated Mates," and "Fake Identity," with "An Agent’s Guide" in the top right. Subtitle reads "80k • NA Slavic Romantasy," and the bottom logline says, "She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation."A graphic titled "The Comps" in golden lettering. It displays four book covers arranged in a grid: "Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli, "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros, "Shadow and Bone" by Leigh Bardugo, and "The Witcher: The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski.
A gothic fantasy comic illustration of Iva’s and Konstantin’s sparring match inside a stone training arena with a sandy floor. She is wearing a sleek, dark grey military uniform, and is straddling Konstantin, who is pinned to a large, worn mattress. She holds a silver dagger firmly against his throat. He lies flat on his back, looking up at her with a confident, self-satisfied smirk.A gothic fantasy comic illustration of a magical ritual inside a stone dormitory chamber. A Rusalka is emerging from a water-filled rustic wooden basin placed on a large oval table. The Rusalka has pale, sickly skin, sharp fangs bared in a sinister grin, and long, moss-green hair like river algae, which she is brushing with an ornate bone comb featuring a sleeping swan handle. Standing behind the table, Iva,  in a dark military uniform watches in stunned awe, alongside her best friend Marina. They traded the comb with Rusalka for an important information as a part of an ancient magic ritual.