Griselda Gimpel
@griseldagimpel.bsky.social
Author of The Tyrant, the Fairy, and the Au Pair.
Married to calextheneko.
White, bi, pronouns are she/her.
Married to calextheneko.
White, bi, pronouns are she/her.
Pinned
The Tyrant, the Fairy, & the Au Pair: Gimpel, Griselda, Hutton, Zina: 9798470903303: Amazon.com: Books
The Tyrant, the Fairy, & the Au Pair [Gimpel, Griselda, Hutton, Zina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Tyrant, the Fairy, & the Au Pair
www.amazon.com
Welcome new followers!
I wrote a book! It's about fairies and is set in Florida.
www.amazon.com/Tyrant-Fairy...
I wrote a book! It's about fairies and is set in Florida.
www.amazon.com/Tyrant-Fairy...
I know all of my followers know what audio dramas are, but wow, there are a lot of people out there just oblivious that audio dramas are a thing that exists.
Which is a shame because there are some phenomenal titles out there.
Which is a shame because there are some phenomenal titles out there.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I know all of my followers know what audio dramas are, but wow, there are a lot of people out there just oblivious that audio dramas are a thing that exists.
Which is a shame because there are some phenomenal titles out there.
Which is a shame because there are some phenomenal titles out there.
I want to stress that if you are broke and want entertainment where you can find a community of people to enjoy it with, you can filter AO3's original works section to find a popular ongoing title that sounds interesting.
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I want to stress that if you are broke and want entertainment where you can find a community of people to enjoy it with, you can filter AO3's original works section to find a popular ongoing title that sounds interesting.
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I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
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We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
[High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.]
• • •
every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ssvkga34xug334b66hvrje/bafkreigp2f33rtfu62kqjygnsxhg3jxxs6udwuyisipmyqrh5ew4c6kbyi@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Last month, the Tule River Indian Tribe purchased 17,000 acres of their ancestral lands where they are reintroducing tule elk. The purchase was partly funded by California’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant, which funds tribal land return projects. www.latimes.com/california/s....
Elk are again roaming on lands that California has returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe
Tribal leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom gathered Wednesday to mark the return of 17,000 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian tribe.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Last month, the Tule River Indian Tribe purchased 17,000 acres of their ancestral lands where they are reintroducing tule elk. The purchase was partly funded by California’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant, which funds tribal land return projects. www.latimes.com/california/s....
I have some other methods for you!
www.gutenberg.org <- Online library of public domain e-books
archiveofourown.org/tags/Origina... <- Very sortable indie e-books and e-short stories, can legally be read for free.
www.gutenberg.org <- Online library of public domain e-books
archiveofourown.org/tags/Origina... <- Very sortable indie e-books and e-short stories, can legally be read for free.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I have some other methods for you!
www.gutenberg.org <- Online library of public domain e-books
archiveofourown.org/tags/Origina... <- Very sortable indie e-books and e-short stories, can legally be read for free.
www.gutenberg.org <- Online library of public domain e-books
archiveofourown.org/tags/Origina... <- Very sortable indie e-books and e-short stories, can legally be read for free.
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I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing
I'm getting contacted by a LOT of beta-readers. I don't know if they're all bots and/or all trying to use ChatGPT for beta-work, or if it's just a recession indicator that everyone's trying to make a buck where they can, but it's noticeable.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'm getting contacted by a LOT of beta-readers. I don't know if they're all bots and/or all trying to use ChatGPT for beta-work, or if it's just a recession indicator that everyone's trying to make a buck where they can, but it's noticeable.
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ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.
My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.
Someone introduced themselves on Pillowfort as a psycho who enjoys thinking about shooting people and uses AI to generate images of their kinks, and everyone in comments and telling them that AI is NOT welcome on Pillowfort.
*chef's kiss* A scripted comedy routine couldn't be this perfect. 😂
*chef's kiss* A scripted comedy routine couldn't be this perfect. 😂
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Someone introduced themselves on Pillowfort as a psycho who enjoys thinking about shooting people and uses AI to generate images of their kinks, and everyone in comments and telling them that AI is NOT welcome on Pillowfort.
*chef's kiss* A scripted comedy routine couldn't be this perfect. 😂
*chef's kiss* A scripted comedy routine couldn't be this perfect. 😂
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
I did a read through of the first episode of my audio drama. It came out to about 12 minutes. I expect to final time to be a bit longer, both because the script will get beefed up during edits and because the final recording will be less rushed, but this gives me good data.
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I did a read through of the first episode of my audio drama. It came out to about 12 minutes. I expect to final time to be a bit longer, both because the script will get beefed up during edits and because the final recording will be less rushed, but this gives me good data.
Y'all, I'm about to cry happy tears. I went from stressing because how can I write an audio drama if I don't know if I'll have the funds to hire acting talent? to having a pool of actors to choose from where all it's going to "cost" me is a bit of time as I voice act for them in turn.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Y'all, I'm about to cry happy tears. I went from stressing because how can I write an audio drama if I don't know if I'll have the funds to hire acting talent? to having a pool of actors to choose from where all it's going to "cost" me is a bit of time as I voice act for them in turn.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
I put together a Google sheet to connect audio drama creators for voice acting exchanges. It's gotten a number of people offering, but the only ones who need voice actors at the moment are the Station 404 kids. And I'm getting emotional that something I put together is supporting them. 🥹
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I put together a Google sheet to connect audio drama creators for voice acting exchanges. It's gotten a number of people offering, but the only ones who need voice actors at the moment are the Station 404 kids. And I'm getting emotional that something I put together is supporting them. 🥹
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Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
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Did the math. If I were paid for each download on that piracy website, I'd have at least 500+ USD more than I do now. I gave up counting after 100 tbh.
What's 500 USD to me? Business insurance, or therapy for my kid, or a gig I didn't have to take so I could write the books y'all steal
What's 500 USD to me? Business insurance, or therapy for my kid, or a gig I didn't have to take so I could write the books y'all steal
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Did the math. If I were paid for each download on that piracy website, I'd have at least 500+ USD more than I do now. I gave up counting after 100 tbh.
What's 500 USD to me? Business insurance, or therapy for my kid, or a gig I didn't have to take so I could write the books y'all steal
What's 500 USD to me? Business insurance, or therapy for my kid, or a gig I didn't have to take so I could write the books y'all steal
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“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
A mother shares the terrifying reality that her internationally adopted son, raised in the U.S. since childhood, could be detained or deported by ICE because he was never granted citizenship. 35-70k adoptees remain in this legal limbo. Urge Congress to pass the PAAF Act. 🥚
I'm A U.S. Citizen. I'm Terrified My Adopted Son Will Be Snatched By ICE Due To A Heartbreaking Loophole.
"I lie awake at night worried that he’ll be snatched off the street and taken to a nightmarish prison in some other country, and I’ll never see him again."
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
I'm aghast that people are not only telling authors, they're insulting authors who object to having their work stolen. Just WTF.
And if you do pirate YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ANYBODY ABOUT IT, ESPECIALLY NOT THE CREATORS WHOSE WORK YOU STOLE. fandom used to have a cone of silence that worked way better than this corporatization of fandom currently ongoing, which invites people in who don't know how to act and don't care either
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm aghast that people are not only telling authors, they're insulting authors who object to having their work stolen. Just WTF.
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People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
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My ready-made items aren't OFMD related, but I'm up for commissions if you have something in mind ko-fi.com/wasabipoptar...
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My ready-made items aren't OFMD related, but I'm up for commissions if you have something in mind ko-fi.com/wasabipoptar...
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And honestly with the number of free books available at any point now, there is very little defense I want to hear from people these days.
You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day.
Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.
You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day.
Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
And honestly with the number of free books available at any point now, there is very little defense I want to hear from people these days.
You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day.
Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.
You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day.
Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.