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Val Tarra

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9'6" Dragon Mom. Award-Winning Author & Designer. http://bridgetfan.itch.io http://patreon.com/bridgetfan https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1760589/all-that-remains/ https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1325679/i-wanted-a-second-chance-but-not-like-this/

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Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · Nov 30

my webnovel, "I Wanted a Second Chance, But Not Like This" is available to the public for free in a per-chapter format. it updates at least twice a month; more if I have time. www.scribblehub.com/series/13256...

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 5h

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Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 6h

every genre can be a romance if you try hard and believe in yourself

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 6h

you like Herdsplitter, don't you chat?

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Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 20h

new All That Remains update! "Part 8: Setting My Heart on Fire to Keep My Body Warm" is now available on Scribblehub!

In the wake of V's romantic encounter w/ Herdsplitter, how will the rest of the polycule react to their violent liaison? Read to find out!
www.scribblehub.com/read/1760589...

All That Remains - Part 8: Setting My Heart on Fire to Keep My Body Warm | Scribble Hub

www.scribblehub.com

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 9h

I don't really cry over stupid things, but I do feel stupid when I cry

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 20h

new All That Remains update! "Part 8: Setting My Heart on Fire to Keep My Body Warm" is now available on Scribblehub!

In the wake of V's romantic encounter w/ Herdsplitter, how will the rest of the polycule react to their violent liaison? Read to find out!
www.scribblehub.com/read/1760589...

All That Remains - Part 8: Setting My Heart on Fire to Keep My Body Warm | Scribble Hub

www.scribblehub.com

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 1d

"back to the wolf" me when I'm done being Empress of Realspace and want to go see my wife

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Alecto @alecto.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7 - Lingerie

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 1d

"Herdsplitter get iPad" had to be such an incredible moment

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 1d

english being Herdsplitter's third language is really funny to me every time I think about it

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you're enjoying Yoru's Wild Ride, and don't forget you can also read All That Remains from my series list (or the full text for free on my patreon) 😌

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Nastart02 @nastart.bsky.social · 1d

commission

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 1d

new All That Remains chapter tomorrow

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 1d

Good try, Chiitan! Do your best!

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

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Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

obviously this stupid fucking mundane and mortal body will never be something I'm ever comfortable in, but I want to dream of a world where even I could be beautiful. (10/10)

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

thus the appeal of werewolves, women who are monstrous and yet celebrated for it, depicted as powerful and sexy in sublimely athletic and bestial forms. they are received as creatures of feral grace and noble bearing, and being three feet taller than their love interest is a positive (9/?)

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

like I have Reika say in Not Like This,

"I can’t feel like I’m something precious the way other girls are. It makes me feel so stupid, wanting to be held in someone’s arms, when I’m too monstrous to even fit."

(8/?)

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

Even after I found meaningful, intimately physical relationships with other women, it fucking stung knowing that I was a good head taller and eight to ten inches broader than everyone else. it was fucking miserable! (7/?)

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

secondary sex characteristics that I fucking loathed. I hated feeling monstrous while my body rebelled against the idea of everything I wanted to be, morphing into something I despised so greatly that for two decades I let it fall apart, and even actively sought its destruction. (6/?)

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

the reactions of my peers. despite only taking the game as seriously as anyone else, the looming figure of that pose was a source of ridicule in a time where I was grappling with the fact that literally no one would see me as a girl, on top of having to contend with developing (5/?)

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

And I specifically have a memory of playing Ultimate Frisbee where I was guarding against another girl's throw, and I genuinely felt like someone in a rubber suit trying to menace the Last Girl in a slasher flick. I felt grotesque and shamed by the comparison, which was only worsened by (4/?)

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

But I bring up that pose because one of my absolute worst (and thus strongest and most memorable) recurring moments in highschool was feeling like I towered over all of the other girls in my school, sometimes in a frankly comical height gap that would make size-difference artists jealous (3/?)

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to skip over the obvious metaphors that you can find in like the film "Ginger Snaps", particularly the scene where Ginger is trying desperately to shave the hair off her legs and contend with the stubby tail in her underwear that for all the world looks like a budding erection, (2/?)

Val Tarra @valtarra.bsky.social · 2d

I think the reason why werewolf girls are so attractive to me thematically and conceptually is that the visual language for monsters in film share that same hulking, looming pose which is iconic to everything from Alien to Frankenstein, is exactly how I felt as a trans girl in highschool.🧵(1/?)