Emrys Francys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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(they/them) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺ENG Queer fantasy writer and reader Owned by 2 cats 🚫 genAI User picture and banner by the amazing @felinefero.bsky.social

A pattern made with acrylic paint pens. It begins with a central dodecahedron of royal blue, framed and crossed with metallic gold. Out from that, stretch 12 elongated pentagons of varying shades of blue-green, each grounded with an open arrowhead of gold spitting two dots of gold. At the tip of each pentagon is a teardrop of silver, the trailing point of which is followed by two more dots of silver, nearly meeting the gold dots in the middle. Running down between each pentagon, towards the blue and gold centre, from squat pentagons at the top, are lines of silver. The squat pentagons are silver, too, with teardrops of gold in their centres. Above the squat pentagons are 12 hectagons shaped like pentagons with blunted shoulders. These are various shades of yellow-green. From the bottom two corners of each to their crowning points is a V, 8 of silver and 4 of gold, with 2 of the gold ones shooting a gold line off the page. Each heptagon sports 6 dots of gold, 3 in each blunted corner, and a run of 3 silver dots within the spread of each V. Between the bottom corners of each heptagon are tiny sharp coffins of gold. In the 4 page corners, those coffins stretch up into lines that meet 2 lines coming from larger gold coffins. In the space between the split of these larger coffins is a yellow kite (4 in total) framed and split by silver lines. In the 2 yellow segments are 3 dots of gold. Bursting from the blunt-shouldered heptagons, down the outermost left and right side of the page, are teardrops of silver and gold. All is on a white background.
16th July 2026 12:39 I'm never more hydrated than when I'm talking to you. I put the straw to my lips when you chat shit; take a sip every time you do a racist bit; swallow like I'm aerophobic when you bash the queers; and when you misgender me it's like I've not drunk in years. Without you, my kidneys might not be so healthy. My lips would be crispy and my hairline, stealthy. I wouldn't have the energy to do what I do. So thank you, simply, for just being you.
The photo shows two black cats seemingly facing each other but actually staggered in placement on a light wood and glass coffee table. The closest one sits on a pile of books, the top of which is Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James (a great book). This is largely obscured by her butt and tail curling over it. She looks out of a window which is not in the frame of the photo, though its light pours in. The farthest cat lies half on his side, paws loafed, in a shallow cardboard box full of (invisible) musical tools. He is not a musical tool, though he appears to be deep in the throes of an existential and/or identity crisis as he looks away from the window and into the room. Behind the cats is a blue curtain with a million pulls from claws because these particular cats know how to open curtains to get to the windowsill where they watch and chatter at the local crow population.
A wood statue of a woman holding her belly with one hand and reaching up to the sky with the other. The sun shines down through the trees and lands in her hand.
Black cat (previously described as elegant) looming over a pillow, mouth wide open, tongue twist-lolling to one side, appearing goblin-like and quite unelegant
The shadowed shape of a house cat (features indiscernible) looms towards the camera, dominating the frame. The feral beast (note: he is only feral when he wants pets, such as now) is silhouetted by barred beams of a streetlight pouring in between the blinds of the living room window, and a rainbow-lit keyboard (because the human inhabitants of the house are gay af).
Horizon of Memories - Bianca Ban (Eternal Eclipse) Festival of Light - Audiomachine The Outer Worlds Main Theme - Celestial Aeon Project Awakening - Johannes Bornlof Waltz for the Wicked - Eneide Altostratus - Franz Gordon History Maker (From Yuri!!! On Ice) - Celestial Aeon Project The Antique Store - Johannes Bornlof Something Familiar - Johannes Bornlof
"Oh, Quincy," Lilyana sighed. "My entire reasoning behind keeping him with me was that my parents would be able to help with his upbringing but they... they simply refuse. If the problem can't be solved with hard discipline or emotional blackmail, they are at a loss."
Quincy laughed quietly. “I have been busy, you see, with the ins and outs of learning my role.” “You’ve been doing it on the quiet, then,” Winterbourne decided to interject. “The engineers I speak to on the regular say they’ve seen neither hide nor hair of you.” Quincy couldn’t help a sharp glance aside to his traitorous neighbour as he furiously formulated a reasonable excuse. He made sure to screw up his eyes in amusement to go with his subsequent chortle. “Quite so, friend, quite so. I confess, I’ve yet to visit the terminal. I had some books delivered to the Manor and I’ve been reading quite avidly.” Winterbourne narrowed his eyes and half-opened his half-hidden mouth. “In any case,” Quincy began loudly, turning back to Petra, “my sincerest apologies for not letting you know sooner. I didn’t want to write you. I thought in person would be best.” He darted a quick and admonishing glare aside at Lilyana. “Though I knew in public would be worst.”
William explained how the elevator worked as they descended through darkness, but Quincy would never remember. His breathing was coming fast and short and he was fighting not to succumb to panic as they plunged through such darkness that he couldn’t even see his hand in front of his face. The low drone of William’s voice, however, provided something else to focus on which Quincy sorely needed. Then, suddenly, light. Glaring daylight.
“I tell you,” Rovena began as the temporary trio’s heels tapped hollow, staggered noise on pied tiles, “the other nobles certainly noticed you were gone.” As Quincy smiled proudly to himself, they passed glass doors in which each pane was a puddle, the muffled clinks of teacups and hum of conversation and laughter behind them growing louder and quieter as each one went by. “I suppose there were plenty of chins wagging,” he said. “Oh yes very much so!” Rovena’s sly sidewards glance had Quincy’s smile losing the fullness of pride. “At first, anyway.” At the top of a gently curling staircase was a curving mezzanine overlooking a tea garden with trickling fountains and gold faelights. “I’m afraid you were gone for so long that they have grown utterly bored of being without you and moved onto other, more interesting topics of conversation.” “I was gone little over an accord,” Quincy complained. “Quite so, old chum, quite so. You were gone for a ball, a masque, and a whole season of feastdays.” Quincy tutted and rolled his hand through the air, saying, “Well, no matter. I suppose they simply have shorter attention spans than I expected,” while trying to smother the nugget of hurt that turned his tone petulant.
“Danger?” Enna laughed. “They’re no danger, Taru, they’re just bigots. Got gobs bigger than their fists, they have. Brains smaller than the top knuckles of their little toes, too. They’re no threat to no one except them-ruddy-selves.”
1. Introduce yourself & WIP 2. A few books from your TBR 3. Free Friday or your/MC's hobbies 4. Saturday Snippet: Pride 5. Superstitions in WIP 6. MC sense of humour 7. Best & worst writing advice 8. WIP fancast 9. Something MC would like to try 10. Free Friday or your writing strengths 11. Saturday Snippet: Fight 12. Describe WIP using emojis 13. Favourite childhood books 14. Illness and injury in WIP 15. 2025 book releases your excited for 16. Things your characters would rather forget 17. Free Friday or are you a procrastinator or a planner 18. Saturday Snippet: funny 19. Favourite type of scenes to write 20. Religion or spirituality in WIP 21. WIP subgenres 22. Do your characters like to plan or make it up as they go? 23. How does your MC deal with confrontation? 24. Free Friday or what scents do you associate with your MC and/or WIP? 25. Saturday Snippet: emotional 26. How many WIPs do you work on at one time? 27. Travelling in WIP 28. MC Goals 29. WIP playlist 30. Preferred reading format 31. Monthly Wrap-up
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The image shows the book The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin, illustrated by Charles Vess. The cover image is an embossed line-art of a young person stood with a staff, looking up at a dragon who is coiling around the person and looking down at them. Well, it's more of a wyrm than a traditional western dragon, but it does have big wings and little legs.
The image shows the book The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien, illustrated by Alan Lee. The cover image is a huge dragon sat on an even larger pile of gold. Spoiler, ig.
The image shows the book Peter Darling by Austin Chant. The cover image shows illuminations of a open window with light streaming in hanging in the sky over a turbulent ocean in which there is a kraken-like creature to one side and a three-masted ship to the other. Over the kraken flies the silhouette of Peter Pan-esque figure, arms out to either side like a plane.
The image shows the book Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo. There is a quote from Ali Smith that says, "Bernadine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life." The cover image is of a smiling, kind-featured older Black man in a well-fitting, plain three-piece suit. His waistcoat, by contrast, is jacquard and his tie is checkered. Hanging loose over the waistcoat is a medium-to-thick gold chain. The man's hat is narrow brimmed, with a ribbon running around the dome. Feathers jut out of the one side which is curled upwards. Behind the man is a brick wall.
This images shows the spine of the book Moonstone by Sjón.
The image shows the book Little Gay Reykjavík: Queer History and Anecdotes by Gudjón Ragnar Jónasson. The design of the cover is simple: the bottom half shows the title and the author against a blank background. The top half is a rainbow drawn with oil pastels or crayons.
The image shows the book Literature as Exploration by Louise M. Rosenblatt with a foreword by Wayne Booth. The cover illustration shows some kind of abstract painting that the original poster cannot make heads nor tails of. There is what at first seems to be a marble statue, but upon closer inspection it's wearing grey trousers. In front of that, and in the middle of the image, is an easel with a technical sketch/illustration of the intersection of some buildings. It is all lines and no colour. On the other side of that is a shadowy archway and above that is... I don't even know how to put this without getting flagged... it looks like it is possibly something that one might find at the tip of the external primary sexual characteristic of a person for whom testosterone impacted the majority of their pubescent development. Or it could be the back of a bald person's head.
The image shows the book The Inferno by Dante, published as part of the Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. The cover is illustrated with an illumination of a great and powerful figure looming over a slighter, yet incredibly muscular one. The slighter one is facing away from the camera and wearing a crown, though their face is in profile. The great and powerful figure faces the camera but looks down at the slighter one with tilted head.
The image shows the book The Fairy Queen (part 2) by Edmund Spenser. The cover shows a painting of a woman who, if she is not Elizabeth I, looks very much like her, with curls piled high upon her head as well as tumbling around her shoulders. She has a tall peacock-tail-shaped, stiff lace collar, pearl and ruby necklaces, and a quilted cape over one shoulder.
The image shows the books Sebastian O by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, published by Vertigo. The cover shows four figures: one large figure at the back reading a small book; another wearing a suit with a thigh-length overcoat and a bowtie, looking into the camera; a third sits in an armchair with a pipe, wearing a sport-style suit. The final figure stands front and centre, wearing a three-piece suit with a bow-tied cravat and a flower button-hole, hair styled in curtains, smoking a cigarette in a cigarette-holder, and holding a thin walking cane.
The image shows the book The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, published by Panther Science Fiction. A fake sticker says, "Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for the year's best S.F. novel". The cover art shows a brutalist-esque structure - a palace or city - with lots of hard angles juxtaposed with gradual curves rising out of still water or, more likely, a lake of ice. The structure stands stark against a starry night's sky and a giant moon.
The image shows a book containing two stories from Tales of Narnia by C.S.Lewis: Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The cover of the book shows a teenage boy with mid-length hair, dressed in fine velvet and jacquard clothes, a horn and a cloak, riding a horse as his cloak blows in the wind. He looks nervously to the side.
The image shows a book called The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. It is noted that it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007, was an international bestseller (at time of print), and is thought to be 'Beautifully written... more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' by Philip Pullman. The cover illustration is of a man looking out over a city skyline from within an archway. He wears long thin clothes, suited to a hot climate, and is holding sunglasses in his hand.
The image shows a book called The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. The tagline says "It's never too late to follow the dream" and there is a fake sticker with an endorsement from V.E. Schwab saying "Simply perfect". The cover illustration is of a large, fancy brick house with a patina roof and a tall chimney. It sits atop a cliff, the underside of which has been worn away by the sea so that where the house sits at its peak hangs precariously over the water. In the gap between cliff and sea, the sun is sitting neatly on the horizon. The top of the cliff is covered in grass, there are a couple of leafless trees, bending away from the house as if they have grown constantly blustered by strong winds. Between them and the house is a square car and a narrow drive. To the side of the house is a round pavillion.
The image shows a book called Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov published by Everyman's Library. The cover image is a head and shoulders photo of a man with a narrow face and long features looking into the camera. He is wearing a narrow rimmed hat and a heavy coat over a scarf and a suit. He looks a little tired or maybe sad, but mostly he looks simply blank. Behind him, on an otherwise plain wall, are chunky marker doodles of butterflies and leaves, with some lines sparking off the man's hat.
The image shows a book called A Whore's Manifesto: an Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers. It is edited by Kay Kassirer, with a foreword by Clementine Von Radics. The cover is decorated with an illustration of an umbrella.
The image shows the cover of a book called Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson. It is the first of a trilogy. The cover has a suede-ish matte finish and is delightful to touch. It shows a skull, a simplified London skyline, the silhouettes of a duck and a dog, and three tombstones. On the only non-cross-shaped tombstone is written: a dark queer fantasy.
The image shows a large old copy of The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter , the original and authorized edition published by F Warne & Co. The cover is decorated with various watercolour illustrations of woodland and domesticated animals in human clothes and doing human activities. A hedgehog in a pinafore, 2 mice, a cat, and a rabbit all read or hold books; 2 squirrels carry jute sacks; one frog or toad in trousers and a jacket, sitting on a lily pad, fishes using a rod; a kitten has their face washed with a sponge by their fully-clothed mother cat while standing on their back legs on a wooden chair, in front of a ceramic washing bowl; three rabbits in capes receive baskets from their mother rabbit while a rabbit in a jacket looks away.
The image shows the penguin edition of a book called Maurice by E M Forster. The cover shows two photos. There is a different handsome, well-dressed man in each, both looking intensely past the camera, as if staring at one another. The cover also says "Now an exquisite Merchant-Ivory film."
The photo is of a book called The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. There is nothing else visible. The cover shows a screeching dragon, its tail wrapped around a high tower, jaws open in a screech, and wings spread high overhead. Below is a city of steep, terracotta-tiled roofs.
This picture shows the corners of an intersection of 2 wood desks in the foreground. The desk on the left has a laptop and a mess of wires, along with a mechanical keyboard and comfort-shaped mouse. Facing the camera and half tucked under one of the desks is a leather chair with a large, soft blanket thrown over it. Behind the chair are two bookcases. The one on the right is fairly modern and made of an arched metal frame and wood shelves. The other is an older, solid wood corner unit. To the left of the corner unit is a matching open display unit. The bookcases are full of books, various knick-knacks, and handmade items. The display unit has a row of matching hardback books along the bottom shelf with various ornaments on the narrow display shelves above. (The contents of all these units will be described in the alt text of the detail photographs.) Behind the display unit and one side of the corner unit is a plain painted bare brick wall. Running perpendicular to the wall and over the other backside of the corner unit and the metal and wood bookshelf is an exposed beam, the paint peeling. The beam sits under a slanting ceiling, making clear that this is an attic room. We call it "the up and up" because you have to go up two flights of stairs to get here. This is not clear in the image.