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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 11h

What, Lemon Balm? @lyfeisgr8.bsky.social and I are pretty proud of it :) It's also the first of a series, so there's definitely more to come.

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 12h

If my writing does anything, I want it to remind people that others often have entire wars they don't talk about. I want it to remind people that being kind is the strongest, most robust, and most important thing you can be in this world. Even when it's hard. Even when it hurts.

#PretendPanel

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 19h

#pretendpanel, I'm at a retreat over the next few days so I am incorrigibly absent! However, tell me...

October 10th: Writing and reading are kinds of necromancy. How do you hope your writing will hold/reflect your ghost after you're gone?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#pretendpanel
a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social
October 10th: Writing and reading are kinds of necromancy. How do you hope your writing will hold/reflect your ghost after you're gone?
Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts
New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 12h

I think that's an excellent idea! :)

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 12h

Thank you! I think more people should do that. Make your stance known, you know?

Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 12h

I'm not intersex (transmasc NB), but I think that it would be worth it as a topic. It would be difficult to do respectfully, outside of lived experience.

Like others have said, I think exploring otherness in horror is a good topic.

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 13h

#Repostober day 10 -

"Get out." This was a study that wound up going wild, and I'm still really in love with the result. I added the horror elements to push it into something new, and I had a blast painting this. I believe I did this May or June 2024?

#environment #horror #darkart #digitalart #art

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 13h

#LGBTQWriteAThon I talked about Lemon Balm last time (which is still on pre-order and comes out on Halloween!)

This time, let me talk about my art. I do commissions for bookish art, graphics, and formatting, and I keep my prices low in order to be more accessible to indies.

Check me out here!

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 13h

#QueerPrompts I'd say yes. It gave me the courage to share my own stories.

#QueerWriters

🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerPrompts October 10: Free Friday or World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health?

Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters.
Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font.
Center text is:
#QueerPrompts October 10: Free Friday or World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health?

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 14h

#PlotTober Rebecca has always been naturally curious, and her parents are incredibly supportive and nurturing of that. She's had a fairly supported, fairly easy life, all things considered. We meet her at one of her worst moments.

#QueerWriters #WritingCommunity

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 22h

#PlotTober Day 10: MC backstory & traumas

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

10. What are some potential backstory or contextual reasons for your main character(s) having this kind of personality or behaving this way? In other words, what could have caused them to be the person they are at the start of your WIP?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 15h

Other links of interest:

Where to commission: www.vampireantihero.com/commission-me
Info/where to buy Lemon Balm: www.vampireantihero.com/the-night-ga...
Where to support me: www.vampireantihero.com/support
Links: www.vampireantihero.com/links

My stuff is also on Patreon, Substack, and Ko-Fi.

VampireAntihero // Artemis Quinn Illustrator and Author

Conquer Thy Fear Studio LLC is owned by Artemis Burnett, AKA VampireAntihero. He's creating concept art, illustrations, and novels!

www.vampireantihero.com

Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 15h

Hey. I'm Artemis Quinn, I'm here. I'm queer. I'm exhausted. My contemporary dark fantasy, Lemon Balm, comes out on Halloween. It's available for pre-order. I also do bookish art, formatting, & am open for commissions. I have some pre-made covers available for cheap.

Info: www.vampireantihero.com

The Synopsis of Lemon Balm by Artemis Quinn and Auden Eris-Everen. It says: Cypress Borne is 22 years old, a dashing young non-binary lad with a fairly easy life in New York City. That is, until their routine is interrupted by a vicious dog attack. Their life turns upside down — blackouts, unexplained fits of rage and lost time plague him. Two years of medical tests, therapy, and a life that's spiraling down the toilet later, they navigate their way through the panic attacks and the hopelessness to an old, derelict, and a seemingly abandoned church in the woods. Little do they know, the church isn't abandoned; rather, occupied by a vampire hoping to die and rotting in a coffin.

Acanthus Sylene believes that a fine wine should never have an age attached, and neither should a fine being. Nonbinary in such a way that gender is completely irrelevant, Acanthus has lived a very long life and is frankly exhausted by it. Embroiled deeply into the politics of the World of Shadows, they have abandoned their duties to The Night Garden, a refugee path that they forged. But something changes when a lost, scared, ignorant werewolf shows up on their doorstep.

Both of these supernatural beings are looking for answers. Somehow, instead of finding their place in the world, they find each other. However, in the process of finding and growing with each other, they may have put their entire lives — and The Night Garden — at risk.

A pair of tables with an illustration on the tops that flows over both tops. The design has armored faceless people with their backs to one another, one with a sun faceplate and one with moons. Roses twist between them.

A vampire holds a candle, staring out at the viewer with glowing eyes.

A black and white drawing of a person in a chair, leaning forward with a little smirk.

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

If you prefer Substack:

open.substack.com/pub/vampirea...

All The Beauty That You Cannot See

Abyss and Ebony, from Tales From The Night Garden

open.substack.com

Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #QueerWriters #HorrorAuthor

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I think I'm going to start sharing my longer short stories on Patreon and Substack. Longer than 1k words, shorter 10k. I went back and made this one accessible. First 1k words is free, rest is paywalled.

I may share Rose this way.

All The Beauty You Cannot See | Vampire Antihero

www.patreon.com

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

You wouldn’t need to read them to understand the main stories/books, but they would add to/inform the characters’ backstories and stuff. I’m thinking of doing this as a reward for paid subscribers (ko-fi, patreon, substack.)

What do y'all think?

Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

If I started releasing short stories in the Tales From The Night Garden universe, would you read? The first 1,000 words would be free to read, but past that would be exclusive (or sold separately at a higher cost than the monthly tier on Patreon.)

#WritingCommunity #QueerWriters #TFTNG

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

People are interested in my art and writing. I can't really ask for more than that.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon Cypress: Demi, nonbinary, pan. (from Aloe)
Acanthus: nonbinary, gray ace, genderfluid, pan (from Aloe)
Rebecca: Bisexual (Such Sweet Sorrow)

#QueerWriters

A picture of a white masculine person with brown hair and blue eyes in front of a demi flag, a nonbinary flag, and a pansexual flag.

A picture of a person with red hair and green eyes in front of a nonbinary flag, a gray ace flag, a genderfluid flag, and a pansexual flag.

a picture of a woman with white hair and blue eyes in front of a bisexual flag.

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

#Repostober day 9 - some concept art for #TFTNG - the first church that Acanthus and Cypress meet at. (Granted, this is more #conceptart than illustration, but it's still a repost.)

#digitalart #isometric #interior

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

#QueerPrompts Aloe starts when Acanthus & Cypress are retreating, & a string of unfortunate circumstances start to afflict The Night Garden.

Such Sweet Sorrow centers on a woman who is experiencing big, crushing losses while being haunted.

Neither story has curses, but they're definitely unlucky.

🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 2d

#QueerPrompts October 9: Curses or bad luck in story?

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

When shit hits the fan, she forgoes sleep in order to keep researching, and that exacerbates the strange experiences she's having in her home. It also makes her work sloppy, which holds her back. But, she realizes when she starts to go too far, and pulls back enough to care for herself.

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

#PlotTober Rebecca is very discerning, serious, and quiet. She likes to think that she's good under pressure, but also, she's a workaholic and dives into her work when things get tough. She's emotionally illiterate, as well.

These things affect her goals in a big way — (1/2)

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 1d

#PlotTober Day 9: MC personality & behaviors

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

9. What are some personality traits and behaviors, both positive and negative, that you think would suit your main character(s)? How do these traits affect your main character's goals and motivations?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 2d

I have my LGBTQ+ contemporary dark fantasy, Lemon Balm, available for preorder! If two ace-spectrum non-binary leads going against a corrupt governmental structure sounds like your jam, consider grabbing a copy!

www.vampireantihero.com/the-night-ga...

#HorrorWritersChat

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 2d

#HorrorWritersChat The slow rattling of chains follows a long, low moan from the darkness just past your line of sight, just as the gate swings shut behind you. The gloom settles, permeating your very bones with its chill. Your skin prickles as a whisper warns, "Don't look him in the eyes."

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

Question Four

There he is! Baron Crescendo! Oh how the skies split open to his guitar, how more of us fly in the air! And look, a note from him, just for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Well? Go on! Word or rhyme, continue his Muse!

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 2d

I think my taste bends more towards ghosts that aren't traditional. Give me things that don't have a shape, don't have a voice, warp your mind or your guts or time. I want ghosts I can long for and be afraid of at the same time.

#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

Question Three

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

It is always a delight to see our violinists perform! How the living bend their splintering bones as they float above us all! Tell us, our ghostly compatriots – which of us are better? Of the folkloric kind? Or invented by our shadowy creators?

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 2d

Agreed! we can leave the backward thinking in the past 😂

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