July 2025 Updates

Happy July! I hope you are doing well! I can’t believe I have an actual writing update to share this month. See my updates below!

• I actually wrote and published a fic! This is the first fic I’ve published since my Kingo one a couple of years ago. My new fic is inspired by Fire and Blood and is titled “Lavender.” It provides a glimpse into the end of Maegor the Cruel’s headsman, gaolers, and confessors. I definitely attempted to pack a lot into the fic’s 247 words. I had wanted to grapple with the dehumanization inherent in systems of violence and complicate the role of the child as a symbol of innocence. There are a lot of other complex dynamics that I tried to hint at in the fic, too. I wrote the fic as a way to wrestle with these subjects and not to analyze them, as I am very unqualified to provide scholarly critique of them. However, since the topic is extremely sensitive, I want to make it clear that I am very open to constructive feedback.

• Speaking of fanfic, the list of long-form fanfics I’m reading is slowly growing. Besides Ossuarium, I’ve been reading LeucisticPuffin’s we will make this place our home (which is making me cry) and TheChasm’s The Fairest Stars (which is the first bullet fic I’ve read and it’s amazing). Once I finish Fire and Blood, I’m hoping to start either timelessutterance’s Prayers to the Broken Stone (I’ve been reading her essays on Tumblr and it sounds like such a powerful story) or Leethevix’s Light Splintered and Sewn (I read one of his Tumblr responses and then skimmed through the fic and it looks like such an intriguing AU). I’ll end up reading both of them somewhere down the line.

Wow, that was the longest update I’ve written! Anyways, thank you for stopping by! Let me know what you’ve been reading and writing in the comments. This month, I urge you to support USCPR’s Water Is Life Gaza campaign, which is a Palestinian-led project that delivers clean water to families displaced by Israel’s ongoing genocide. I also encourage you to support Refugees in Libya, an organization advocating for refugees throughout North Africa and Europe. Finally, please support the Massachusetts Bail Fund, which is an abolitionist direct service organization that pays bail for those who cannot afford it. For more resources and organizations to support, please look here.