eliotdurandwrites
@eliotdurand.bsky.social
Writer of fantasy. Weak for scholarly gay angst, sapphic stuff, and cozy fantasy. She/her/hers. Other interests include: ☕️🧝♀️📖🌶️🏳️🌈🎮📺🐈⚕️🧠
Holy crap, I started #Legendborn (yes I am very behind, I know 🤣) and I think Tracy Deonn’s first person present tense is the favorite I’ve ever read. Like truly aspirational prose.
March 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Holy crap, I started #Legendborn (yes I am very behind, I know 🤣) and I think Tracy Deonn’s first person present tense is the favorite I’ve ever read. Like truly aspirational prose.
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I hope this email roundhouse kicks you right in the face
March 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I hope this email roundhouse kicks you right in the face
One of my favorite things about working on Project Magelight is the series of progressively pettier and more suspicious academic articles and books I’m making up for the chapter headings 🤣 #amwriting #WIP
March 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
One of my favorite things about working on Project Magelight is the series of progressively pettier and more suspicious academic articles and books I’m making up for the chapter headings 🤣 #amwriting #WIP
I get heated when people decide to trash talk Michelle Wu for no reason. Brings the angry Bostonite RIGHT out 🤣
March 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I get heated when people decide to trash talk Michelle Wu for no reason. Brings the angry Bostonite RIGHT out 🤣
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So K2 and I have been inventing the further adventures of Zelda and you'll be pleased to know the knights of Hyrule are unionizing and striking for better work conditions and better pay. And Zelda is helping them make banners for their demonstrations.
March 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
So K2 and I have been inventing the further adventures of Zelda and you'll be pleased to know the knights of Hyrule are unionizing and striking for better work conditions and better pay. And Zelda is helping them make banners for their demonstrations.
Okay lowkey Force Witches is such a cool concept to play with and I resent the hell outta people who couldn’t give The Acolyte the same breathing space they gave The Mandalorian (which I STILL haven’t been able to get into.)
March 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Okay lowkey Force Witches is such a cool concept to play with and I resent the hell outta people who couldn’t give The Acolyte the same breathing space they gave The Mandalorian (which I STILL haven’t been able to get into.)
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to the tune of shots:
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
EVERYBODY!
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
EVERYBODY!
March 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
to the tune of shots:
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
EVERYBODY!
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
smut, smut, smut, smut, smut,
EVERYBODY!
March 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
I’d be a terrible fantasy character because I get righteously pissed the moment I don’t have all the info I need right at my fingertips. If I had to travel from place to place to get info I would probably light something on fire 🤣
“the library is closed? Bet.”
“the library is closed? Bet.”
March 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I’d be a terrible fantasy character because I get righteously pissed the moment I don’t have all the info I need right at my fingertips. If I had to travel from place to place to get info I would probably light something on fire 🤣
“the library is closed? Bet.”
“the library is closed? Bet.”
Calling it now, The Mighty Nein animated series will be written like a romance novel, even though not everything about the stories involved is romance.
I will not elaborate 😊
(Jk, I always elaborate…)
I will not elaborate 😊
(Jk, I always elaborate…)
March 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Calling it now, The Mighty Nein animated series will be written like a romance novel, even though not everything about the stories involved is romance.
I will not elaborate 😊
(Jk, I always elaborate…)
I will not elaborate 😊
(Jk, I always elaborate…)
Sometimes you just gotta break out the glitter pens
January 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Sometimes you just gotta break out the glitter pens
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“Make good trouble.”
~ John Lewis
~ John Lewis
January 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“Make good trouble.”
~ John Lewis
~ John Lewis
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I love this thread. You never know what your actions, big or small, will manifest. We cannot know how small acts of kindness or creativity or bravery will send the ripples through our systems and shape the world. Not knowing the outcome doesn't mean those actions don't matter. Hold on to that.
January 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I love this thread. You never know what your actions, big or small, will manifest. We cannot know how small acts of kindness or creativity or bravery will send the ripples through our systems and shape the world. Not knowing the outcome doesn't mean those actions don't matter. Hold on to that.
Me when I realize I can’t renew the book I borrowed from Libby and it’s due tomorrow
a cat wearing a hat is sticking its tongue out
Alt: an animated cat wearing a hat is sticking its tongue out and reading a book very quickly (from Puss In Boots/Shrek)
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Me when I realize I can’t renew the book I borrowed from Libby and it’s due tomorrow
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I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
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RIP David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
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RIP David Lynch
THIS 💩 RIGHT HERE
Live your life so that when you die, some joyless schmuck is annoyed that his entire social media feed is a wall of people's posts talking about how much you and your work meant to them
January 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
THIS 💩 RIGHT HERE
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Sometimes you use a pen that turns out to write way better than you thought it would and oh man that’s the good stuff
January 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sometimes you use a pen that turns out to write way better than you thought it would and oh man that’s the good stuff
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one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
January 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
There is in fact, a perfect series and it is Derry Girls. That is all.
January 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
There is in fact, a perfect series and it is Derry Girls. That is all.
I can only outline in the morning and I can only vibey free write at night and you would think I would get around this by outlining one story in the morning and working on it at night.
But instead, my brain is like “Nah. It’s 1200 word side quest time.”
But instead, my brain is like “Nah. It’s 1200 word side quest time.”
January 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I can only outline in the morning and I can only vibey free write at night and you would think I would get around this by outlining one story in the morning and working on it at night.
But instead, my brain is like “Nah. It’s 1200 word side quest time.”
But instead, my brain is like “Nah. It’s 1200 word side quest time.”
Tfw you write an emotional hurt scene so good it cancels out the physical pain you are in 😅 like nope can’t feel my body rn, I’m too busy feeling emotional pain for the lil magic phd students in my brain 😭 #amwriting
January 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Tfw you write an emotional hurt scene so good it cancels out the physical pain you are in 😅 like nope can’t feel my body rn, I’m too busy feeling emotional pain for the lil magic phd students in my brain 😭 #amwriting
I’m somewhere between chaotic plotter and chaotic plantser. The chaos stays no matter what 😝
Where do you fall on the #DND alignment chart as a writer?
I am the entire Chaotic column, depending on the project. Or sometimes the phase of the project. Or sometimes my mood.
I am the entire Chaotic column, depending on the project. Or sometimes the phase of the project. Or sometimes my mood.
January 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I’m somewhere between chaotic plotter and chaotic plantser. The chaos stays no matter what 😝