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Oleander Craw
@oleandercraw.bsky.social
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Author of dark SFF novels for queer and trans readers who want to chew on something weird and evocative. Keep it monstrous, y'all || 🚫NO AI || they/he 🏳️‍⚧️ THE WARDS WILL FALL releasing 10/27/2025 https://oleandercraw.carrd.co/
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
Book cover release day!! I'm thrilled to share this absolutely fantastic cover illustrated by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social. I feel so incredibly lucky!

THE WARDS WILL FALL is a fantasy novel with a mm relationship releasing October 27, 2025. Read for free on my newsletter.

www.oleandercraw.com
Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 5m
I am also an exploratory writer, but the one thing I always have to have before I start is an idea of an ending, or maybe a few scenes I know I want to write towards. This way I am always writing towards an end goal even if I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to get there yet.
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 6m
I think same!! Like my stories always seem too boring when I try to outline. The fun stuff comes as I sink into a story
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1h
The fact that I have to work a full time job to pay the bills and ensure I have healthcare access while I desperately stuff my writing time in whenever I can is a perennial annoyance
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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d
idk man, isn't making things the point, isn't connecting and taking care of each other the point of it all
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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d
The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1h
i am not an outliner. I keep trying to be and my brain just does not work this way, but for a sequel I really think I need some more structure
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1h
I think I need to start seriously considering book 2 and maaaybe?? try an outline for this one??
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 2h
I swear this happens every time!! 😭
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 14h
💀💀💀 wishing you the best with your unfortunately cursed travel plans
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 14h
M3gan 2.0 was ridiculous and I loved it
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d
Yes yes yes
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d
Oh???
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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 1d
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 1d
Ahhhhhh ty, I'm so delighted to hear this!! I'm a huge Hobb fan and her books definitely made an impression on me when I was a teenager reading them for the first time. I hope you enjoy!
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 2d
I'm a SFF and horror writer, and am publishing a dark fantasy novel a chapter a week through my newsletter! It features a bi protag in a m/m situationship on an expedition to a lost city. Releasing October 27th!
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The home of the fantasy author, Oleander Craw. Here you can find the free serialized dark fantasy novel The Wards Will Fall.
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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 2d
Write shorter stories with harder words and less mass appeal
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David Anaxagoras (he/him) @davidanaxagoras.com · 2d
I am so tired of people equating "edge" with "good" writing, and people implying I can't be a serious writer because of the things I love. Bradbury himself inoculated himself early against such foolishness. Love what you love. Write what you love. Tell everyone else to fuck the fuck off.
“Friends made fun. I tore up the Buck Rogers strips. For a month I walked through my fourth-grade classes, stunned and empty. One day I burst into tears, wondering what devastation had happened to me. The answer was: Buck Rogers. He was gone, and life simply wasn’t worth living. The next thought was: Those are not my friends, the ones who got me to tear the strips apart and so tear my own life down the middle; they are my enemies. I went back to collecting Buck Rogers. My life has been happy ever since. For that was the beginning of my writing science fiction. Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” Ray Bradbury. “Zen in the Art of Writing.”
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 2d
They're begging to clean those bones
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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 2d
have we tried putting glue traps around the white house perimeter
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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
You can always count on the dentists to send birthday well wishes lol
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
Book cover release day!! I'm thrilled to share this absolutely fantastic cover illustrated by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social. I feel so incredibly lucky!

THE WARDS WILL FALL is a fantasy novel with a mm relationship releasing October 27, 2025. Read for free on my newsletter.

www.oleandercraw.com
Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
I feel this deeply lol
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 3d
Get those words
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kej ✨✨✨ @kejart.bsky.social · 3d
i dedicate this unhinged woman to @pejntboks.bsky.social ✨

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A digital drawing of my oc Zinthra on bright pinkish red background. She's a woman with ash-blue skin, dressed in gray and black clothes - a hat, veil that cover the upper part of her face, coat, vest, pants and gloves. She's wielding a sword with one hand, with the other she seems to be applying some magic to the weapon. Behind her there is a giant snake, in a ready to attack pose.
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