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Davinia Evans (Dee)

@cupiscent.bsky.social

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Author and avid reader of fantasy fiction. NOTORIOUS SORCERER ⚗⚔, SHADOW BARON 🎴🗡️ and REBEL BLADE💥🐉 out now from Orbit! (she/her - Australian - cupiscent on just about everything - website & newsletter at viscerate.com)

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · Oct 18

Come to the Burnished City, home of wild magic, sword-fighting street gangs, bad decisions, worse manners, high society, and one defiant alchemist.

Trilogy begins with NOTORIOUS SORCERER, continues with SHADOW BARON, and ends (in Dec 2024) with REBEL BLADE

More: viscerate.com?page_id=243

The covers of three books by Davinia Evans, labelled "The Burnished City". The covers are for Notorious Sorcerer (with a red-coated figure brandishing flame and surrounded by mysterious squiggles and symbols), Shadow Baron (with a masked woman holding her cards close to her chest) and Rebel Blade (with a woman brandishing sabre and dagger).

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 3h

My kid, struggling with very crusty bread, just complained about the "bread shell" and honestly I'm never calling it anything else ever again

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 14h

Actually this is a pretty good rendition! But there are many cultural nuances to fairy bread, and the most visible one here is that it's the wrong sprinkles. Needs to be the tiny round ones. (We call them hundreds and thousands.)

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 14h

I am so delighted to see fairy bread out there in the world! And yet the fairy bread is WRONG. 🤣 But YAY for the powers of sugar!

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 15h

OMG fairy bread. I am having such a complex Australian reaction 😂

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

there have always been people who like to write, and people who like to say they have written, and the latter really love the idea of AI and the former can not understand why you'd let a computer do the fun part.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 1d

Love writing in the library because any time I need a name I can just look at the nearest book display and grab one.

Though today I did that, and in fine print below the author's name it says "a new era of Australian storytelling" and I'm like... all by himself??

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 1d

I struggled for weeks on third-year essay, rage-quit at 2am, changed my topic entirely, read Wild Swans and wrote an essay on it in two days. Got the highest mark of my whole degree.

And then I knew I could do that. You learn when you do. Which is the real part genAI can't help with.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 2d

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 2d

We are thrilled to announce that Titan Books will be publishing THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS by Mike Brooks! ⚔️

A brand new fantasy adventure that follows a smart-talking bunch of rogues and dropouts who are thrust into the destinies of empires.

Coming June 2026! 🐝

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 2d

I clicked that link so fast; I am so excited to see these new stations

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 3d

I assumed exams were to blame. Fiendish things. I shake my fist at them. Exams then holiday time?

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 3d

Completely unrelatedly, we missed you at Conflux!
But yes, you clearly need to take leave. HOLIDAY TIME?

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 3d

That is an amazing assignment. Also, I love your Australia. Like, the shape of the continent is amazing, you've got it so much better than most people draw it, it's just you rotated it 180 degrees and I'm so fascinated by it 😂

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 3d

I'm not saying I've got Lists of Queer Adult SFF for Bookshop's free shipping days, but
bookshop.org/shop/queerad...

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 5d

So much list solidarity. It is the way.

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 8d

Arguably what the sport needs. I find your angle compelling, at least 😂

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 8d

Awwwww! 🥹

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 9d

Yes definitely!

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 9d

Excited to be off to Canberra tomorrow for Conflux! I'll be talking editing on Saturday afternoon, the path to publication on Monday morning, and probably nonsense in the bar at most other times. 😆🥂 www.conflux.org.au

CONFLUX INC.

Conflux is Canberra’s longest running speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy and horror) convention, an annual gathering that features an eclectic range of panels, discussions, launches,...

www.conflux.org.au

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 9d

Honestly, I already feel like everything I do in microsoft office programs, especially the online versions thereof, is only a rough approximation of what I wanted to do, so I'm not sure I'll notice any difference...

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 10d

Which novella?
And what did you drink to accompany this decadence?

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 10d

I mean, yes. But also while I love gene kelly I'm imagining the paso-doble father from Strictly Ballroom reaction to this and it's making me giggle a lot.

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 11d

New personal definition of hell unlocked: having to make small talk with documents.

Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 11d

Chat... with PDFs...?!?

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 11d

Hadn't truly appreciated how totally K-pop had become mainstream until my kid got a cartoon-BTS happy meal toy.

Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 11d

Wow. Angry and dismayed yes, and just so tired. Barked a bitter laugh at the housework dig.

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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social · 12d

Seems like a small market though... 😂