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Emmaline Strange
@emmalinestrange.bsky.social
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PFP: characters from my upcoming novel Sage fall, art by @justmissart

A most peculiar mademoiselle.

Queer romance Author | she/her
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💕QRP with your cover + first page + link 💕
Cover of bright spring featuring main characters Auro and Alexios Ultimately, the head was to blame. Alexios had received it three mornings before, delivered with its own honor escort, in a chest of fine, dark oak, chased with finishings of gold. It had been a lovely chest, and the head inside, nestled in folds of velvet, was lovely too. It was the bust of a young woman, carved out of white marble to capture her refined, delicate features. Alexios had set the bust on a table in his private apartments, hoping that it was a symptom of the medium that made her face so cold. Alexios had posed for a sculptor, too. The woman had sketched his face, first, in charcoal. Then she had made the bust of simple clay, forming the raw, wet earth into Alexios’s cheeks, nose, and lips. She used the clay bust as a model for the marble one, and after a month it was delivered to the royal villa. Alexios’s parents, the king and queen, had praised the artist’s skill in capturing their son’s look so handsomely. Alexios had forced a smile, nodding and agreeing, all the while thinking that his own blank, sightless white eyes were unsettling, bordering on creepy.
November 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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QRP with horned art!
Digital drawing by me of Adair from crown of aster 🥰
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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📚💙 He went into the forest in search of food. Instead, he found a secret world.

Crown of Aster is my first Novel, a spicy queer romantasy romp.

Pay what you want on Itch:
emmalinestrange.itch.io/crown-of-aster

Cover art by the incomparable @crossroadart.bsky.social .bsky.social
Cover image for the novel crown of aster by me, emmaline strange. Features the two main characters in a romantic embrace while in a glowworm cave
October 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you 💕
Lightly colored digital drawing of a moody boy with freckles and turquoise hair
October 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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D’Aulaire’s or bust!! I don’t actually know if this counts as as non fiction but in school we used it more as a reference.
The cover of D’Aulaires’ book of green myths
September 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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May I offer you a smol Auro in these trying times?

#ocsky #artsky
Soft, not detailed picture of a pink haired man in a tunic standing knee deep in a lake beside a temple. A scene from Bright Spring by me, Em Strange
September 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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You/your favorite Pokémon
A selfie of Emmaline Strange BULBASAUR!
September 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Writers: do you ever put lines in a draft that are just *for you*, even if you know you’ll have to change or cut them later?

#writingprompt #lineshare
“Cedras, you can’t just bring a half dead man to someone’s doorstep in the middle of the night and say, ‘I need somewhere to hide my gladiator.’” “Why not?” Auro massaged his temple. “Because.” Genuinely surprised to find that there was an established social protocol in place for this scenario, Cedras said, “Should we leave?”
September 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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As a writer, one thing I really can’t resist is a call back 😊 #iykyk

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Cedras reached what must have been Prince Alexios’s working table, covered in stacks of parchment, books and scrolls. Some of these were diverting indeed—one appeared to be an exquisite, detailed map of the Papian Kingdom, overlayed with a delicate grid of roadways. He’d have to see if he could look more at those, later, but for now he swept them aside. At last, Cedras found a stack of fresh sheafs, weighted down by a fist sized piece of broken marble. He set the stone aside and seized a few pieces of parchment, a tablet, and pen. “That’s my nose,” said Queen Dafina suddenly, pointing at the piece of stone. Auro turned red and exchanged a look with Prince Alexios, who said, “No it isn’t.” “Begging your sorry excuse for a royal pardon, Alexios, but I think I would recognize my own nose.”
September 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I had to really hunt for anything purple in Sage Fall. Have some lovely bruises 😅
Line share from sage fall: This close, Cedras found at least a dozen more scars, and some fresh scrapes and bruises besides. Faro groaned, draping his arms around Cedras’s neck, leaning in, close enough for Cedras to smell his skin. It was musky and spicy, a little sour with sweat. Cedras liked that, though he could not have said why. Though, Cedras supposed lemons were sour, and he liked those. Perhaps it wasn’t so odd. Faro cleared his throat again. “Really…?” “Hmm?” Said Cedras, distracted by the smeared purples of half-healed bruises on the place below Faro’s ribs. “You said, you ‘just really…’?” “Oh.” Cedras leaned forward, pressing a soft kiss to Faro’s belly. He didn’t think about it first. “I just really…want this.” “Yeah?” Faro rasped. Cedras peered up at Faro, staring directly into his blown black pupils, and slid his arms around his middle. “Yes.”
September 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Hiya! I’m Em. 👀👀 been a while since I did one of these! I write queer fantasy and paranormal romance. High heat/high heart is my vibe.

My current WIP sage Fall is the third book of a sword-and-sandal fantasy quartet called harmony of seasons.
Book cover for sage fall by Emmaline strange.
September 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Only one use of blue in Sage Fall!
Line share: He sat, eyeing Faro boldly. Faro liked that. Faro liked a lot of what he saw, actually. The boy was nineteen perhaps, no older than twenty. He had fine silvery hair and big blue eyes. Faro was a short man, but this boy looked to be even slighter, and Faro immediately thought how easy he’d be to lift, how Faro’s hands would look wrapped around his trim waist. “What have you done to yourself?” the boy asked, indicating Faro’s leg. Faro grinned. “I had a slight disagreement with a lion.”
September 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Could not resist this #lineshare. Faro is very surprised to find out that Cedras’s carpet matches the drapes.

#sagefall #nsfw
Alt text (nsfw snippet): Now though. Now, he knew. He now knew that Cedras’s bare body was long and lean, wiry muscle padding his chest, his arms, the staggering length of his legs. He knew how warm and ruddy his skin looked, so smooth it gleamed in the firelight, begging to be touched. And, he knew the hair between Cedras’s legs was as green as the hair on his head. Faro knew people dyed their hair, or wore dyed wigs. He assumed Cedras was one of these, but what on earth moved him to dye his pubic hair to match? Seemed a lot of unnecessary fuss. How many people is he showing his cock to?
August 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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My beautiful idiot goat son.

#ocsky #booksky #humanart
Digital illustration of a horned man in profile
August 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Contemplating my next #fanfic project be like:
Dead dove meme where the bag says “google: best doomed ships” and when he opens the bag it’s a screen grab from YouTube about unlucky sea voyages
August 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Me when I finally download the recommended sketching brush for @loish.bsky.social ’s tutorials:
Shifting into soup mode meme with loish’s name over soup
August 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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An excerpt from Sage Fall, from Cedras’a POV

After performing CPR on a drowning stranger:
Sage Fall Lineshares It seemed to go on that way for a long time; Cedras eventually came to think he had not been fast enough. He did not stop, though. He couldn’t say why, until the muscled skin beneath his hands went rigid, and the man jerked up, retching and gasping. He sprayed Cedras with what felt like half the harbor.             Cedras rocked back onto his heels, waiting as the drowned man choked and coughed himself back to life.             “Fuck me,” the man said, bringing a shaking hand to his forehead. His voice was a strangled rasp.             Cedras had no idea how to reply to that, so he simply stared. Without his lenses, there wasn’t much to stare at. He waited, and waited, for the man to notice him. It took so long that Cedras considered simply getting up and going home.
July 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Every time I see this icon in an app setting or someplace else on a site I take psychic damage.
Collection of sparkle images that generally mean AI software is involved
July 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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My favorite thing in a height difference ship is the moment when the physically smaller one looms over the tall one, a force of nature, larger than life:
3 sketches with a “smol” character kneeling into a “tall” character’s space, seeming taller in the intimate moment.
July 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Satin (l) & Wire (R), fey-adjacent OCs of mine with birdlike traits based loosely on the satin bowerbird & the 12 wire bird of paradise. 🥰

#artsky #ocsky
A sketch of Two winged men flying/dancing together
July 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Refined three of these sketches so far!
A collection/collage of sketches of winged men
July 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Been on vacation with family 🥰 but here is a sketch of Satin. He’s a fairy-adjacent OC of mine, with bird like features based loosely on the Satin Bowerbird.
A sketch of a winged man with one arm extended, flying
July 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Refined one of the sketches a bit! This is Wire.

#satinandwire #artsky #ocsky
A slightly detailed sketch (digital) of a man with bird wings and wiry tail feathers flying upward
July 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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My art focus for July is on sketching. Hoping to improve confidence and line quality. These are two of my OCs Satin& wire. I’ll be focusing on sketching the two of them for this month. #artsky #ocsky
Digital sketches of mail figures with wings titled “satin and wire”
July 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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I like how this drawing came out! I’ve been working so hard on gesture and drawing the figure 🥰

if you see this post a recent piece you’re proud of & (optional!) share why!

#humanartists #artshare #artsky
A young man with pink hair floating through bubbles
June 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM