Arilin Thorferra
@giants-club.net
Author, teacher, giant cat woman • wantonly flits in and out of character • she/her (IC), they/them (OOC)
Ah, the wonder of starting the day looking for new job postings on LinkedIn, my favorite "social" "network"
About 1500 words on the still untitled sequel to "Drinking Game", so that helps make up for yesterday.
With "Big Trouble" now out, I have four books—noir mystery, period romance, modern magical school lesbian/trans romance, and epic modern fantasy with sharp-edged politics! Descriptions and ordering links: giants-club.net/books/
It feels like I did a lot today, but it was very unproductive in terms of story word count. Oh well. (I think I wrote more on a draft blog post for which I suspect I've written ~5000 words, even though the post is only ~1500 and may never be published.)
I am kind of feeling like my current WIP is my first furry story that approaches the “rabbits in waistcoats” category, except for the violent murder part
ok so important to note that "rabbits in waistcoats" and "possums in overalls" are sub-genres of animal fables, but not every furry story falls into these two categories.
I've just made one of the best Mai Tais that I've ever had! Also I've calculated its ABV and this is one stiff drink. 😵💫
Yeah definitely reach for help when you're the size of a gnat, always works!. ft @drakekangaroo.bsky.social
Unlike Patreon, FurPlanet won't blur the cover for being NSFW! (Note: neither the cover nor the work is actually NSFW.)
New eBook for sale! Big Trouble by @giants-club.net In this noir mystery novella set in a world of anthropomorphic animals and size-shifting magic, feline private eye Nora Mallory gets a new case baddogbooks.com/product/big-... #lesbian #macro #furrystore #furrywriting
The more I write about Ray the more I feel like she's engineered to hit all of my buttons. Whose idea was it to come up with an OC like that? Oh, right, nvm
An account I follow has been hijacked by a “save my children from war 💔” spammer, of which there are a lot on Bluesky. (Like, probably most of them, I suspect, sadly.)
Patreon has a shop page, but it seems very…quirky in its approach: you're basically just making normal posts with attachments and saying the post as a whole is for sale?
Hm. Gumroad has a minimum payout threshold of $100, which seems excessive. Also I seem to recall there's something unsavory about them.
This is apparently "get off your fuzzy butt and start putting ebooks up for sale" day for me
I'm not sure Ray is the most aggressively teasing character I've created, but I think she's up there
It continues to be too amusing to me to find opportunities to get just a little meta in a story
This feels like kind of a lost day, productivity-wise, although objectively I know I've gotten more done than I'm giving myself credit for. It's just not much *writing* done.
New post: “Swim Day” https://giants-club.net/stories/swim-day/ Nixie’s job as a lifeguard seems great for a shark, but being treated as an exotic danger wears her down. Then a new possibility opens up—but is it right for her?
Nice serendipity that I'm going to be publicly posting Nixie's story during #SharkWeek
Kendall the ringtail, on the phone with Ray the giantess coyote: I'm not sure how to ask someone I'm ankle-high to out on a date. Um, can you get smaller? Ray: Yes. I'm not *going* to, but I can, sure.
In my notes file for future stories, the newest entry is, in its entirety: "dominant sheep goth girl in black fishnet stockings"
Somewhat accidentally spent the day in the neighborhood of Disney World but never went near a park. Now at Lazy Dog finishing dinner; dessert would be a very bad idea. I am having the butter cake.
Seeing some discourse about authors claiming their work "contains no politics". I mean, it's possible some of my stuff gets a little political
I didn't expect LinkedIn to be the way I found out an old roommate I'd mostly lost touch with has transitioned, but I suppose it has to be good for *something* once in a while
I may find myself dreaming of a giant coyote bartender again tonight. (Not a complaint)
Apparently there is a "Christmas in July" golf cart parade happening now in Dunedin. Sure. Why the fuck not.
Whoo I am tipsy. Time to find food. Don't stand next to a tortilla unless, you know, that's your thing
I am at that crucial moment after the second drink where I suspect I shouldn't have a third but my judgement is slightly impaired. Also, my third drink is going to be a mango daiquiri
I'd like to believe this is an ingenious plot from Dave Wiskus to sell more Nebula subscriptions by reminding us why to avoid YouTube
YouTube algorithm brought me to a channel with no views but literally hundreds of videos claiming that every public figure, from presidents to the entire cast of Breaking Bad to Graham Linehan, are all secretly trans and secretly transitioned as kids, and imagine living in a world where that’s true