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finn. writer. artist (allegedly). i mostly talk about writing, books, and games (ace attorney especially, but also whatever i'm into and you will put up with it) also attorneytrash on tumblr. header by ministarfruit

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kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · Aug 6

disgraced actor formerly known as America's Boyfriend VS. serial reality TV villain. three weeks, three fan conventions, and a whole lot of antics.

❤️romcom (com heavy)
📺celebrity hijinks
😈characters behaving badly
🌈mlm enemies to lovers
#questpit #W #R #LGBT

an illustration of two boys, pictured from the shoulders up. One is blonde with an annoyed expression, the other is dark haired and grinning, making a peace sign with one hand and poking the blonde's cheek with the other. below, superimposed over a smartphone, are the words THE VILLAIN EDIT (attorneytrash)

At twenty-six, Max Reilly is already ex a lot of things. Ex-star of Affinity, the TV drama he led for three seasons. Ex-fiancé of Holly Aveline, his costar, who hasn’t spoken to him since the scandal that tanked his career. And ex-darling of the show’s fan base, who went from love letters to death threats faster than the speed of cable.
Most of all, Max is exhausted. The last thing he wants is to be back in the public eye. But when offered a deal to get out of his contract for good, it’s hard to resist—even if the catch is a pre-season publicity tour with Affinity’s current cast. Even if that means weeks on the road with not only his former castmates, but also the show’s newest cast member: Nico Mariani, a scandal-happy reality TV transplant known for exclusively playing villains.
It’s only a few weeks. A few weeks facing crowds of people who actively hate him, of being hounded by gossip columnists, of being trapped on-and-offstage with Nico, who Max can’t shake to save his life.
Because as it turns out, Nico has his own deal with the producers—and soon angry fans and nosy reporters will be the least of Max’s problems.

EXCERPT:
Nico’s first thought on seeing Max Reilly in the flesh had been, damn, this dude’s tall.
He wasn’t sure what he’d expected. Rory Harper, maybe, that archetypal boy-next-door who’d bit the dust at the end of Affinity season three. There was this one publicity still of him—white t-shirt, jeans, flannel tied around the waist, artistically placed smudges of grease—that was pinned to the vision boards of church-and-chevy girls nationwide. Oh my god, so dreamy, fuck me in a hayloft, etc.
Max Reilly was a very different creature. Nico had him cataloged in one go. Indoorsy, sleepy eyes, hair unfortunately cut with the roots grown in. Skittish. Bad posture. Cargo pants (seriously). He didn’t dress like America’s Boyfriend, or anyone’s boyfriend, honestly, if we were being totally honest here, if we were being candid. He was, to put it nicely, nothing to write in your diary about.
Tall, though, damn. And those freckles. But that was the devil talking.

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · 7d

guiding light

Bill Hargrove, one of the teen protagonists of the YA series Blue Hollow, looks over at you in the dark with a faint smile on his face. He is lit hard on the front side by an orange candle in the chiaroscuro technique.

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actually it's shae's monster @vesperosy.bsky.social · Mar 6

art of my oc lucky i did for a jīngzhé themed zine! 🪲🪲🪲

digital illustration of a pale figure wearing glasses and a lab coat under a beam of yellow light. he's standing before an insect cage with a hand outstretched to look at a moth on his fingertip. there are various moths and terrariums in the foreground.

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Jasmine W. @ LA Printer's Fair B-69 @mythjae.bsky.social · 16d

Want to support your local bookstore AND indie publishing?

You can order The Traitor & The Wretch at you local bookstore!

Yes, even internationally! As long as they order through Ingram.

Hitting shelves Oct. 10th!

(Shout-out to my fave local bookstore @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social ✨)

The front cover of The Traitor & The Wretch paperback

The back cover of The Traitor & The Wretch

An open two page spread of the book showing off one of Rowan MacColl's lovely illustrations from a cooking scene

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Jennie🌷 @maobabie.com · 17d

It’s soup season!
#art

Illustration of little mice surrounding a soup pot making soup! The text reads “do not disturb.. I’m busy making soup”

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kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · 17d

for me it's Will Watt, every time i hear his voice i'm like oh well hopefully this book is good because we're In It now

kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · 17d

y'all ever listen to an audiobook for no other reason than that it has one of your favorite audiobook narrators. sometimes i will start an audiobook and gasp out loud like oh my god it's my friend. from audiobooks. i can't believe i'm running into them, here, in an audiobook

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kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · 17d

two months 35k words. this is what happens when you let the demons win

kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · Aug 22

sometimes you just need to become possessed and fling aside your other projects to spend an entire month writing nothing but fanfiction for a film that came out thirteen years ago. it's enrichment

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indui @monstermonger.bsky.social · Sep 11

A dream of the fields
study

a black cat stands in the middle of a path that winds through a brightly lit field.

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kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · 17d

definitely earned! how much of his villain persona is an act vs. his real personality is debatable, but his actions are still pretty heinous whether or not he really means them

kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · 17d

ohhhh this prompt is ideal for me. my boys are both public figures (Max being literally known as America's Boyfriend), but Nico especially has a capital-R Reputation

EXCERPT:

Nico Mariani. Clickbait in the form of a man. Max knew him only by reputation, of which he had plenty, mostly for being a platinum-tier bastard. Despite competing on at least ten reality shows and winning exactly zero, he had more name recognition than most Emmy nominees. For—it bore repeating—being a platinum-tier bastard.
Max hadn’t seen the newest season of Affinity—if so much as a teaser for it popped up he’d bolt from the room like it was the Ring video—but he had looked into Mariani a little. Just a little, okay, no one could say he wasn’t a dyed-in-the-wool masochist. It was the same doomscroll urge that saw him archiving his own hate mail. He’d read half a listicle titled Twenty Nico Mariani Villain Moments We Had To Watch Through Our Fingers While Screaming, and he’d only read half of it because he’d reached number ten and remembered that he only had one precious life.
Anyway, the guy sucked. The listicle was subtitled (Number Six Will Make You Say No He Did Not Out Loud), and it was true.

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kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · 19d

egregious thesaurus overuse. i will never change i will never improve that is a promise

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 19d

What are your writing sins, #WritingCommunity?

I overuse exclamation points!

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hand 📌 comms open @handsometimr.bsky.social · 22d

the gossamer-winged butterfly
#AceAttorney #DahliaHawthorne

Digital fan art of Dahlia Hawthorne from Ace Attorney. She is smiling at the viewer while holding her parasol. The underside of her parasol contains a bright blue sky with white clouds. Contrasting this is the solid black background with a grainy red light on the left. Blue gossamer-winged butterflies fly around her. Around the red light are loose doodles of black ants. Dahlia's eyes and necklace glow cyan.

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kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · 25d

at this point making fictional people fall in love is what gets me up in the morning. i'll lie in bed thinking yes it's another day but bestie... they cannot kiss without you. this is your destiny

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 25d

Since I’m still annoyed about yesterday, tell me about the romance in your book/wip and what it means to you! #WritingPrompt

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Dae Storm @d-author.link · 27d

This is also banning writing transgender characters!! Not only would erotic romance authors in Michigan be banned from publishing our work, but we would not be able to include transgender characters in our work.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 27d

Michigan lawmakers are proposing a total porn ban

The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" H.B 4938 would prohibit the distribution of "real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory" depictions of sexual acts.

www.michiganvotes.org/legislators
www.congress.gov/members/find...

Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers

Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.

www.fox2detroit.com

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kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · Sep 12

don't know why i still wait here like a war widow for ace attorney seven when at the end of the day i will not be buying the switch 2 no matter what. they could release an ace attorney dating sim that lets you romance all those old men and i will still not be letting that accursed thing into my home

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cj @ceeejus.bsky.social · Sep 3

paint marker cats

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Gianna Meola @giannameola.bsky.social · Aug 31

It’s a cat silently judging you in the nighttime

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · Aug 31

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

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S.S. Genesee @geneseedraws.bsky.social · Aug 28

🎸 COVER REVEAL of SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES 🎸

The cover for book 1 of my upcoming 1970s rockstar romance trilogy! I designed, drew, and painted this artwork 100% all by myself 💕
🎸MM Romance
🎤Singer x Guitarist
🎸Slow burn
🎤Best friends to lovers
🎸Double bi-awakening
a.co/d/5VH4EcV

Book cover for the novel Sympathy for the Blues by S.S. Genesee. The subtitle says "The Dusty Brooms: Book One". The illustration on the cover shows the main characters singing into a microphone, the one on the right playing guitar.

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rae! 🌥️ working on zines @zipsunz.bsky.social · Aug 28

death of the author 🐈

#tgaa #dgs #thegreataceattorney

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · Aug 9

Keep writing that stupid book

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🌱J. Scott 🌱 @drooliasnott.bsky.social · Aug 23

Since this is doing numbers this is what I draw that makes me feel good: BLUE HOLLOW! I’m building the Appalachian-gothic supernatural LGBTQ+ YA mystery graphic novel of my dreams! Follow for ghosts, cryptids, haunted houses, The Woods (uh oh), romance, heightened language and incandescent sadness

A short summary of the graphic novel project Blue Hollow by J. Scott.
“The year is 1997, in Mockernut, West Virginia…
Appalachian teen delinquent Onion Pendergrass discovers he is The One, a legendary nature cryptid, when the mystery of his father’s disappearance leads him to a crumbling blue house in a sweeping valley, sitting on a long- hidden supernatural family secret.”

For fans of:
-The Raven Boys
-Life is Strange
-mushishi
-Locke & Key
-Wizard of Earthsea
-southern folktales

Four teens sit and stand on an old muscle car at night, located in a crumbling parking lot on the edge of the woods. The two boys on the car hood appear to be having an intimate conversation.

A mysterious blue house looms in the forested distance as two figures with a suitcase look at it from the long grass. The POV is from the opposite tree line, as if someone is watching them.

Two teen boys, one in a camo jacket and one in a hoodie, kiss over a lit candle in the dark of a kitchen table. The windows are open and the curtains are billowing, unsettling the pages of an open book on the table.

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kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · Aug 24

THANK YOU MINI i just like it when they fuck with each other. i think no one should get along and everything should be drama is this so much to ask. it adds the spice

kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · Aug 24

nico realizes that max won't be so easy to manipulate... among other things.

EXCERPT:
The door to the greenroom flew open, ricocheting off the opposite wall. Nico whirled around to find one of the stage techs, looking like she’d just brawled her way out of a mosh pit.
“Your mic,” she hissed, close to tears, “is hot.”
Max’s head swiveled toward Nico, eyes rounded in gosh-golly-gee dismay. There was Rory Harper, in the fucking flesh. Oh my sweet lord, two-hundred something people heard you! Ain’t that awful!
Nico stood rooted to the spot as the tech rushed forward to switch off the mic box. His ears were ringing. He was practically fuming out of his skin. Maxfield Reilly—this mopey little mumblecore hermit crab with an attention allergy, this little nothing—had just played him like a five-string.
Shit, Nico thought, somewhere way down deep, under the layers of horror and outrage. What a fucking turn-on.

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kitaki cinematic universe @attorneytrash.bsky.social · Aug 22

my evil plan... it's all falling into place...