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Malibu Darby

@malibudarby87.bsky.social

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Writer. Artiste. Queer. Romani. Disabled. One half of @donenotperfect.bsky.social He/Him. I still draw rats and butts sometimes. Much love, always

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · May 5

🖤🏚️ HOUSEKEEPER is out today! 🏚️🖤

A psychological cosmic horror about identity, memory, and what might be lurking beneath the wallpaper.

For fans of Shirley Jackson, Jeff VanderMeer, and slowly being taken apart one cup of tea at a time.

Physical and ebook out NOW! #IndieAuthor 📚💙
amzn.eu/d/gQdV3iT

Housekeeper: A Psycho/Cosmic Horror eBook : Machin, Darby: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

amzn.eu

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 10d

Late night/early morning writing fuel in my little bear bowl

A brown metal and plastic bowl with a handle and a sculpted cartoon bear and fish on the lid

A bright and colourful Japanese chicken curry with rice in a metal bowl

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Maki @makiokuta.bsky.social · May 16

A colour drop commission for a client on vgen! I'm really happy with how the overall composition turned out.

vgen.co/MakioKuta

#FFXIV #FFXIVart #VGenComm #MKart #Commission #Art #CommissionArt

An illustration of a Miqo'te, Sai, done in a lineless style with a limited colour palette. He is standing against his lance, which is used to divide the image diagonally, and holding a falling flower between his hands - a tribute to his love of gardening.

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Tess Fowler Gutierrez @tessfowler.bsky.social · 15d

Announcement! $5 art books! I also have listed a book of inked art. You told me you like to learn from Tess's work so I'm putting together some fun books of her art I love. Check them out and let me know if you have any book requests. Thanks friends!

Tess Fowler Gutierrez @tessfowler.bsky.social · 16d

Announcement!
I've listed a $5 book of Tess's pencil art at:
For those of you who told me you like to learn from her penciled pieces, I got you.
tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com/product/digi...

Digital- Pencils

Digital- Pencils Featuring over 50 original pencil pieces by Tess Fowler This is a digital copy and not a physical copy of the book. *COPYRIGHT...

tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 15d

Artists, QRP with you favourite portrait ✍️

A 90s style witch~

Purple toned portrait of a white woman with a black bob cut, glowing eyes, piercings, black lipstick and a general casual goth aesthetic surrounded by candles animal bones and various 90s paraphernalia

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 15d

Got some killer queer and class focused horror in the works right now… stay tuned 🍄🦌🔪

Cover art image mockup for a novel called Vicuous Young Things. Cover shows a young man with a black eye and dark hair. The portrait is segmented, with strange, fungal like connective tissue between the segments.

Photograph of some mossy rocks and trees in Devonshire, England

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · May 5

Housekeeper: A Psycho/Cosmic Horror eBook : Machin, Darby: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

amzn.eu

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 16d

Cartoon: Big things in small packages. Enjoy :)

cartoon: Sam has walked in on Frodo and Gollum in bed together. He's scandalized.
Mr Frodo!!
Sorry, Sam. He comes in pints!

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16d

🤍 estranged husbands
🥺 close brothers x2
🗡️ an mc who is 100% done
🐺 a love interest ready to grovel
🏫 a haunted, gothic school
🔍 buried secrets
❄️ snowy setting

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-strange-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. Text is gold and greyish-white.

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 16d

I appreciate it, but I’ve asked for and received too much help already haha

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feral streep @seanpaulmahoney.bsky.social · 16d

Glenn Close saying “giving cunt” is the best thing you’ll hear all weekend

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 16d

Waiting until payday on Thursday so I can afford to eat more than one meal a day for like, two weeks max, at which point it all starts again. Woo…

I’m so fucking hungry 😩

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you!

Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 20d

In positive life update news, one book I’m working on was long listed and is up for shortlist consideration for a big fiction prize, and the other won me a huge mentorship opportunity with Curtis Brown. So, that’s pretty neat!

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 20d

From the Larchives. More RHPS art :) Enjoy!

cartoon of Scar and the hyenas in RHPS costumes

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 20d

I haven’t promoted it for… *checks notes* ever, but I wrote a weird horror book about identity and labour. Check it out!

#indieauthor #horrorwriter

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Goodreads

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

www.goodreads.com

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 20d

Oh, ya know. New season, new diagnoses. But still kicking! 🧡

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 20d

Hello, hello! Hope you’re well~

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · 20d

Fnerff (Still alive. Sort of.)

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · Aug 12

I paraphrased slightly, but the full conversation was actually worse.

Like, why comment on someone’s looks at all, but not even specifics? I get a blanket “you look rough”? Much as I’d like to, I can’t fix that I look old as balls 🙃

Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · Aug 12

Cardigan, eventually! And thank ye 🧡

Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · Aug 12

Notice to people in general and the delivery driver I just had in particular: “You were born the same year as me, why do you look *SO OLD*?” is likely to get a response of “go fuck yourself” rather than… whatever the hell you thought it was gonna get.

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · Aug 10

Old yarn, new crochet project. Can’t wait for the cold to come so I can wear this 😩

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · Aug 2

Still (sort of) alive. Got a tumour on my adrenal gland, pre-diabetes, a writing mentorship (yay) and negative £60 to my name. It’s been a weird old time…
If you can help me eat today, I’d appreciate it 🧡

ko-fi.com/malibudarby

Photo of a bald, bearded, bespectacled Roma man in a grey vest staring in love and sad desperation at a mug of tea

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Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · Jun 14

Really glad you liked it!

Malibu Darby @malibudarby87.bsky.social · Jun 14

Sorry for the radio silence. Been going through it. Added an update on JustGiving:

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £2600 to prevent disabled adult becoming homeless. – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to prevent disabled adult becoming homeless.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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