Davinia Evans (Dee)

@cupiscent.bsky.social

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Author and avid reader of fantasy fiction. NOTORIOUS SORCERER ⚗⚔, SHADOW BARON 🎴🗡️ and REBEL BLADE💥🐉 out now from Orbit! (she/her - Australian - cupiscent on just about everything - website & newsletter at viscerate.com)

Portrait of the author at a funny angle in a hair salon, showing that the highlights in her dark asymmetrical short hair match her bluey-green sweater.
A serene and nearly empty beachscape, all sand and calm sea and blue sky, fringed with sheoak fronds.
Dark and atmospherically lit skeleton of a triceratops. It looks badass because it is.
A little tortie cat in the sunshine, looking prim and cute and like she doesn't deserve to be called any of those things, but don't be fooled.
Graffiti on a toilet wall, amongst other scribbles, reading "Being a white guy in a crop top doesn't make you interesting...".
View along the wobbly arm of a ghost gum toward the trunk, grey bark on a grey day, everything grey and green and peaceful.
The cover of Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans, featuring a silhouette in a red coat flourishing fire, while a winged woman soars in the background, within a ring of writhing stylised fire. Next to the cover, text reads: Get in, load up, get out... $2.99 Today only!
Portrait of the author's handwriting, demonstrating her perma-cursive s formation through the text: This is the new shit (not).
Within a plastic storage container sits the remaining two-thirds of a double layer mud cake filled and topped with light chocolate frosting. Also on display, the repurposed cheese knife we used to cut slices.
Screenshot of an Archive of our Own comment notification email, with the comment reading (with apologies for but honesty toward the errors) "sthis is so good?? and so underratex?? and written before I was born??"
A little dark tortie cat is half curled up on beige carpet, looking sweet and fluffy and like she's waiting for pats. This is a lie and a trap.
A nearly depleted small glass of beer (a West Coast Brewing IPA) half on a cardboard coaster advertising the 2026 Pint of Origin festival. There are whisky bottles in the background.
A black butterfly with white and purple spots hitching a ride on a green straw hat.
On a black tray on a black benchtop are twelve Easter cookies, in four shapes - bunny, chick, egg and basket of eggs - which have been haphazardly decorated with icing and sprinkles.
A foil-wrapped large Easter egg balanced atop a glass, with its top knocked off like a boiled egg, giving a glimpse of dark liquid inside.
A fancy glass of dark beer, sweating in the heat, with a little bug-eyed silhouette man painted on it.
One of the covers of the album "Sehnsucht" by Rammstein, featuring a member of the band with powdered white face and bandaged head in some sort of torturous industrial-looking head brace, on a stark black background.
ABC News blog update headlined: "Labor launches rapid-fire attach ads as Taylor wins leadership". A highlighted paragraph in the middle reads: "Two short ads dubbing Taylor "just another Liberal" have been placed online, highlighting his history as shadow treasurer under Peter Dutton and dubbing him "a leftover"." Not pictured: my chortling mirth.
A snippet of a screenshot from the ABC News website, noting that, 15 minutes ago, "Ben Small says Taylor will focus on 'traditional Australian values'".
A little tortie cat lies on beige carpet, half-curled on her side with front paws delicately folded over each other. She is looking up with a remarkably - and falsely - innocent expression.
An artistic close crop on a table of Christmas snackies, including a plate of mince pies and a bowl of chocolates, with a half drunk glass of champagne in the foreground. There's also a large red Christmas bauble in a silver vase.
A Webcomic Name panel with a pink person-blob saying "oh no"
A little tortie cat is scrunched up in the grumpiest loaf on a padded office chair. But she's not comfortable, get it? She's very, very annoyed.
A banner reads: "One year of the complete Burnished City!" alongside the angled and overlapping covers of Notorious Sorcerer, Shadow Baron and Rebel Blade by Davinia Evans.
A promo still for 1995 movie All Men Are Liars, showing the all-female punk band crammed into their car, en route to a sugarcane harvest festival to participate in shenanigans.
On a display shelf atop other spine-out books are five face-out books, including Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans (aka me) and Mistress of Lies by KM Enright.
Side view of a little cube of pale cake, showing crumb and currants and an occasional cheeky peek of a tiny smidge of rosemary.
Yard sign meme that reads: In this house, we believe: every time I'm denied a Kim Thayil solo, a fairy dies (and that's a promise!)
Over the heads of the crowd, sits a panel of authors: Kerryn Mayne, Grace Chan, S.K. Stapar and Holly Cardamone.
A stack of paperback books comprised of: The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen; Cinder House by Freya Marske; A Flame in the North by Lilith Saintcrow; and Queen Demon by Martha Wells.
Close crop of the page of a book showing only the text: "Fucking fuck!" I shrieked.
A purple conical flask of a bottle, sealed with golden runny wax, labelled "Ube cream liqueur", beside a little wineglass containing a dram of something creamy in a pleasant shade of lilac.
A slender glass of very dark beer with a caramel-coloured head sits on a table stenciled with the number 13.
A shelf display at Woolworths supermarket of two different kinds of mince pies, om nom, get into it!
On a white surface rest a black hardcover notebook (with black sprayed edges) and a black pencil. Every part of this pencil is black, the eraser, the metal cuff, the wood, everything.
Close-up of a disposable coffee cup, black with white text in all caps reading: Your day starts now. Make it happen.
A red poster with a white crown and text reading: Keep calm and fix it in revisions.
A serene beach scape photograph, with sand and gentle sea and a slightly cloudy sky marginally occluded by overhanging sheoak fronds.
Photo of a massive and ornately framed portrait in oils, of a woman swathed in pale turquoise silk draperies, sitting casually against a stormy backdrop, with one arm resting on a massive orb and one foot propped on a skull. Her expression suggests she is not having any nonsense, thank you very much.
Portrait of the author (complete with half pink hair) with a soft black draped cowl neckline, holding up one hand to show the slight belling of the long sleeve.
Two longstemmed cocktails next to each other, one lemon yellow and topped with a mound of frothy bubbles, the other rosy pink with foam and a dried citrus slice.
Above thinning red and orange leaves, a blue sky with patchy white clouds.
Close-up of a dark tortie cat curled up on someone's lap, displaying that one back paw is pale as though it has been dipped in very milky coffee.
A copy of THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh in all its pink glory atop a paper bag reading "Eat sleep read local".
Against a vibrant red wall and on black and white check tile stands a wildly ornate side table and big mirror. Both are cluttered with black cherubs amidst gilded decoration.
Screenshot of the bsky feed, showing KA Doore's post - reading "8yo: I love how I'm very calm but in my head I'm screaming." - followed by a reposted post about an Arizona road rage murder trial where AI has been used to "bring back" the deceased for a victim impact statement.
The top of a slightly fancy cardboard box of cookies, with broken fragments of one choc chip biscuit on top.
A tall balding man in a black puffer jacket and a child in a pink hoodie and rainbow skirt are walking along a footpath on a sunny morning.
The cover of Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans (featuring a figure wielding fire amidst magical symbols) next to text that reads: Get in, load up, get out... $2.99 Today only!
Photo of a few flowers on some manner of Australian native (possibly eucalyptus or related) tree, shaped like jam and coconut pompoms.
A dark tortie cat crouches precariously atop the back of a dining chair, looking about two seconds away from making a wild-eyed bad decision.
Relatively close shot of a black-bound notebook with grey elastic binder, showing the black sprayed edges.
A screenshot of a text message in progress, with "No" already typed. Above the keyboard, the predictive text options are HTML5, to, and a couple of emojis: sadface and thumbs down.
The cover of Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans, featuring a red-coated silhouette holding up a handful of fire, alongside text reading: "Get in, load up, get out..." $2.99 Today only!
A photo of what looks like a Lego shield turned upside down to turn it into a large platter, holding a jumbled collection of ten yellow Lego figure heads, one of which is smiling blithely up
Screenshot of a text message exchange. Last sent message reads "Well done" which has prompted a system suggestion to "Capture your joy".
Screenshot of a tweet that reads: My kid: What's a "brocade?" Me, inside my head: It's like a motorcade, but for bros...
A woman wearing a chainmail coif, long Templar tabard, belt and absolutely nothing else, crouches in a Gollumesque manner, diffidently holding a fancy dagger. Her face looks a little like Taylor Swift, turned up towards Heaven as though asking why. Her manicure, pedicure and lipgloss are all perfect. Pretty sure this predates AI image generation but it's very obviously computer generated