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Holliday Vermont
@hollidayvermont.bsky.social
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South African Writer.
Transfemme.
Anarchist.
Turning my personal panic into your entertainment since day one!
The Knowing Doll available now!
All my links: https://linktr.ee/hollidayvermont
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I am in on this!
Share the final sentence of your first three chapters! Can be a WIP, published story, anything!

These are from my newly released debut novel, The Knowing Doll, which you can pick up at the links below!

Itch: hollidayvermont.itch.io/the-knowing-...
B2R: books2read.com/u/m0ZvYl
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Firstly, ABSOLUTE HYPE at being a part of a bundle for the first time!

Secondly, 64 indie books for $45 is a really good deal. With the end of the year coming, it's time to support some indie authors!

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December 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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By the end of the launch stream I sold 4 copies! Considering my goal for the whole first 24 hours is 5 copies that's already a great start!

SUCH AN AWESOME STREAM!

Grab The Knowing Doll on Itch for 34% off!
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November 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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4 books sold, 2 chapters read! The livestream reading of The Knowing Doll continues as we celebrate launch! My wonderful partner, Cinder Script, is reading a cut chapter right now! AND HER VOICE IS GORGEOUS!!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClRa...
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Prepping the background for my launch stream tomorrow morning! Just a few more hours!

Stream link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClRa...

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November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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My final day as an unpublished author begins!

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November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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THIS IS MY BOOK
It has:

- ANARCHISTS PUNCHING COPS
- A NUDIST ASEXUAL DOLL PROTAGONIST
- A LESBIAN TIGER IN COWGIRL COSPLAY WHO KEEPS COMING BACK FROM THE DEAD
- A POLAR BEAR IN A SUIT WITH DYSPHORIA
- RICH PEOPLE GETTING PUNCHED
- A POST APOC DYSTOPIAN WEIRD FANTASY SETTING
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November 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Until now, this was the project I was the most proud of. Once, I was part of a studio called Stable Tec Studios, who were trying to make an animated adaptation of the 650 000 word fan fic "Fallout Equestria."
I directed this documentary about how poorly that went.

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November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Untypical is probably the largest project I've ever worked on until The Knowing Doll, which is appropriate given that The Knowing Doll is a prequel, featuring many of its characters! Looking back, this shows me the MOST how much I've changed as a writer.

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November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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My first major project was an audio drama, Terminal Secrets, set in the Fallout Equestria universe. It took 5 years to finish its 6 episodes of 7h30min. I learned how to work with other people and I gained a bit of a reputation for being a BRUTALLY DARK writer!

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November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Okay so The Knowing Doll is releasing in, holy shit four days, AAAAAA, and it's by far my favourite thing I've made! But I wanna take some time to talk about the other cool things I've made over the years and give some appreciation to their roles in my creative journey!

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Delilah, a wooden doll covered in TV screens which display eyes, tries to reach out of a lake toward a falling pack of cards.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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8 DAYS LEFT!
As we get closer and closer to launch I get more and more hyped! And more terrified that I missed something, HAHA! In the meantime, have some fun banter between Jessica and Delilah!

Pre-Order doodly-doo here --> books2read.com/u/m0ZvYl

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The book cover to the left depicts a wooden doll covered in TV screens depicting eyes surrounded by static as she sinks into a lake. She is surrounded by stars and water. On the right is a quote and a countdown.
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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WE'VE ENTERED SINGLE DIGITS!!! The Knowing Doll is around the corner! I HELD THE PHYSICAL COPY IN MY HANDS TODAY! It's ALMOST TIME! I'M LOSING MY MIND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Pre-Order here! books2read.com/u/m0ZvYl

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A wooden doll, covered in TV screens that display eyes, reaches up into the night sky as cards surround her. The text beside her reads, "The Knowing Doll. 9 Days Remaining"
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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He fucking cooked.
Walter White is edited to hold up a copy of the poster for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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This scene is 14 years old and it still gets me. Red vs Blue is the single biggest inspiration in my writing, there is no contest

To this day I consider it one of the best written most heartwrenching yet funny shows I've ever watched. And to say it has the best action would be a HUGE understatement
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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With the day's admin out of the way and most of my Knowing Doll print stuff in other people's hands right now, I finally had a chance to write the very first page of my new book this morning!

This one's gonna be scary, folks!

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A notebook and pen on a table.
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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An edited version of a meme where a Kara Buchanan (whose avatar is a magical girl with purple hair) slaps the roof of a car, with text reading, "This baby can fit so much flaming yuri in it!"
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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The Knowing Doll is releasing this month! I've started a newsletter where you can learn more about The Twisting World!

Sign-up here! preview.mailerlite.io/forms/188172...

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Cover art for a book featuring a doll woman with screens covering her body as she tries to climb out of a lake surrounded by stars.
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Jessica teaches a lesson to a new friend.

If you liked what you read here, you can pre-order The Knowing Doll here: books2read.com/u/m0ZvYl

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"That sounds nice, like something my mother talked about when I was younger. But you can't take every day to help me, free of charge. I don't see how that works." "'s true,” Jessica admitted. She grunted as she leaned forward, back aching from the day’s effort. "But then someone else takes one of the days I can't, And a third person takes another day. Soon enough you've got every day covered with plenty of people to spare. And after that... what you've got there is a community."
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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First album I ever bought with my own money was a CD of The Offspring's Splinter, first record was quite a few years later, I found a copy of Def Leppard's Hysteria unopened at a flea market.
Album cover for Splinter by The Offspring, depicting a marble statue shattering. The album cover for Def Leppard's Hysteria, depicting a series of faces twisting into each other within a triangle in a psychedelic art style.
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Pre-Orders for The Knowing Doll are open!
Set in a weird fantasy world with heavy political themes fueled by a burning rage at fascism and hierarchical power this story centers on community, mutual aid, and resistance.

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The cover of a book, titled "The Knowing Doll" featuring a wooden doll with screens around her body. There is a blurb, reading: "The Knowing Doll delighted in idle cruelties, held Nadir City under her wooden thumb, and at the height of her power, beholding the desolation she created, the great spymaster walked away saying: “No more.” Now she is only Delilah, struggling each day to be a good woman. Even though her new friends question her motives, they’ve given her a second chance and a new home in Stonetown. Delilah has dedicated herself to this town, a rare oasis of trust and community in The Twisting World, hoping to make up for what she broke in Nadir. But Nadir learned its greed from Delilah, and stretch their hand out hungrily toward her new home. War lingers on the horizon. To stop it, Delilah is faced with a cruel choice… remain the woman of peace or become The Knowing Doll once more and abandon the moral progress for which she's struggled."
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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If the protagonists of The Knowing Doll had their own Magic: The Gathering cards, this is probably what they'd look like!

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A custom MTG card showing a doll woman with TV screens wrapped around her body. The rules text reads: Whenever Delilah, The Knowing Doll deals combat damage to a player, you may look at the top cards of the opponent’s library equal to combat damage dealt and place them at the bottom of your opponent’s library. You may not look at the top two cards of your opponent’s library. A custom MTG card showing a doll woman with TV screens wrapped around her body. The rules text reads: Jessica, Anarchist Gunslinger gives all tokens you control Riot. If this card would be destroyed this turn instead create a token that’s a copy of it at the beginning of your next end step. A custom MTG card showing a doll woman with TV screens wrapped around her body. The rules text reads: Players may move any number of counters from the permanent onto any number of permanents they control during their turn. Players may play more than one land. {x}{x}{x} - Players vote on a single creature not under your control, the winning creature's power is increased by the number of +1/+1 counters on all creatures until the end of its controller's turn. Partner.
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Jessica has a message for you.

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An anthropomorphic tiger woman with blue feathers running down her head within a red ring. Around the ring are the words, "Punch fascists, kiss women."
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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I've finally set up a mailing list!! I'd be super appreciative if you joined it! Alongside updates on The Knowing Doll I WILL infodump academically about my latest hyper-fixations!

Signup: preview.mailerlite.io/forms/188172...

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Three women in a wood-panelled room. One an anthropomorphized polar bear in a suit, the other an anthropomorphized tiger with blue feathers on her head and tail - she sits on a table holding a gun. Beside them stands a wooden doll, whose body is wrapped in TV screens that hiss static and display angry eyes as she waves papers in the air. One of her screens is broken.
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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To bw fair, Benoit Blanc was pretty clear that no one has actually read Gravity's Rainbow
October 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM