ELLIE RENAE

Renae, they/them. My passion, my MUSE, is to write for my friends. I want to make them happy. I want to help them laugh at the tragedies we have faced together.

When no one is around to please and I’m writing only for myself, I create… knick-knacks. Glass bottles of “star shards” from a time traveler. Love letters, hand-written by immortals. A slice of the stump a magical creature resides within.

Hoarding is my second favorite hobby.

AVAILABLE WORK

Chinese Spoons - A poem within a collection by many artists.

The collection, RENAISSANCE, was published by Yellow Arrow Journal with the theme “cultural renaissance”. This concise poem captures the feeling of being torn between two identities, never fully acknowledged as one or the other.

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in paperback

Violence Without Plot - A chapbook / single short story.

This dark comedy shines a light on the lack of agency given to feminine people in fiction. Its Patrick-Bateman styled protagonist is tossed from woman to woman, never getting the chance to make a plot-driving decision. His “hero’s journey” is to realize that the story was never about him.

Available here

in paperback

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digitally

The Notebook of a Fictional Man - The photocopied notes of a time traveler.

The Notebook of a Fictional Man (a travel diary meant to impress historians), accidentally centers itself around the gentle giant with whom the writer is secretly in love.

Available here

in paperback

Available here

digitally

WIP LIST

Louise as Junkie #2 - A collection of related short stories.

The unifying theme is “Bunny”, a punk rocker who makes a ridiculous guest appearance in every protagonist’s life.

READ BEFORE THE SUN EXPLODES - Another collection of related short stories.

Stories which take place right before the sun explodes and wipes out humanity (with uncanny comedic timing).

Prose for Crows - A translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories… for crows.

A collection of fifteen stories that have been riddled with half-baked crow puns. Translation by Edgar Allan Crow.

The Mouth of Ouroboros - An erotic WLW romance.

Two immortals, one who drinks blood and one who drinks souls, consuming each other to the point of becoming a single entity.

Keep reading

from the newest wip (ok to rb!!)

i love looking things up on my silly little phone. i love researching and reading and browsing articles. did u know that the very first stuffed animal was an elephant in 1880? does the idea of people making little plush animals for the sole intent of being cuddled & hugged & loved make anyone else wanna cry?

I just love duos I love when characters are matched sets I love when you can’t have one without the other. Not necessarily in a romantic way. It often is but this also applies to besties and mortal enemies etc

Sometimes characters get pair-bonded for life like parrots and it’s so good. Makes me go insane every time

Go read an old fic.

There's such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what's new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It's just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.

So go on. Treat yourself.

Read an old fic.

I’d argue there’s a bias against like... middle-aged fics in particular. A lot of people sort by kudos or bookmarks, but that’s going to be strongly biased toward older fics, which have had more time to accumulate them. Then there’s people that sort by date and read the newest. But there’s so much good material in that middle area.

A friend taught me her trick for smaller fandoms, which is to sort by kudos and use the published date filters to go through the fandom in 6-month increments. Within a 6-month time span, you’re not really going to get the kudos-over-time bias. Basically, you end up reading the best fics of each 6-month period until you start hitting fics below your quality threshold, wherever that is. You’ll find so much good material that way that would never have crossed your line of sight otherwise.

i love you polls i love you democracy i love you funny tumblr jokes i love you vanilla extract i love you vanilla extract i love you vanilla extract i love you vanilla extract

And my personal favorite

Giving this website full of autistics obsessed with ranking and categorising stuff a poll option is like giving rats one of those buttons that makes cocaine

tumblr please give me the poll option you know im good for it

obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always.