R. S. Mot

@motthepaladin

Colorado based spec-fic author, hobby photographer, voracious reader, and dice collector. Human created content only! aro/ace | it/they | Not-so-secretly a dragon 🐉

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R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· 26d

A screenshot that says doomscrolling thru the weather app

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· 27d

She will use literally anything as a pillow (and no, that is not her food dish) #caturday

A gray and white cat asleep with her head on a white cat toy.

A white and gray cat asleep with her head on a red food dish.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· 29d

One of my favorite micro hobbies is frantically grabbing new releases I really want from the library the second they become available. It's mine first! 📚💙

A screenshot of Libby showing the ebook the dragon has some complaints by John wiswell

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 13

The Merge x Alice Isn't Dead My Sister's Stolen Soul features: 💚 An aro/ace MC 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 A badass lesbian girlfriend 🏳️‍🌈 Actually, everybody is queer 🪽 A guardian angel willing to commit crimes 👀 The ability to see souls, ghosts, and more 🚗 An epic road trip [ #BluePit #📖 #F #PN #SP #Q #OV #LGBT ]

An Agent's Guide for My Sister's Stolen Soul Adult Contemporary Fantasy * 78k words aro/ace flag, pansexual flag, disability flag, Sapphic flag, agender flag

For fans of The River has Roots (sisterly love transcending death) When the Angels left the Old Country (it/its angel goes on an adventure) Rules for Ghosting (mortician who sees ghosts) Here We Go Again (drama filled road trip) What's Left of Me (sharing a body with a sister)

Playlist Unity - Alan Walker Take My Soul - ZHU Girlfriend - Icona Pop Anything for You - Ludo Memento Mori - Will Wood Even In Death - Evanescence Lonely Day - System of a Down Back From The Dead - Halestorm You’re Somebody Else - Flora Cash I Don’t Wanna Die - Hollywood Undead Let Me Be Your Armor - Assemblage 23 Anthem of the Angels - Breaking Benjamin

Excerpt “Who are you?” she asks. “My name is Melody, I’m Lyra’s younger sister,” I say. “You two are identical.” I wish I could ask Lyra if she’s okay with Annie knowing everything. Better yet, I wish I could make her explain it. Her girlfriend, her problem. But I’m here alone, Annie is the one who saw Lyra last, and I want any information she can give me. It’s not like I could pretend I’m Lyra and ask why she ran out last night. I kind of need to tell her. I’ve never had to explain us. I don’t know where to start. It’ll be easier since she can already sense Lyra and I are different people. Somehow. But it’s still going to sound insane to a normal person. “I’m six years younger than Lyra. She died when we were kids, and I… I don’t know what I did but I saved her soul. I kept it.” I press my hand against my chest, careful to avoid the burn. “We’ve shared this body—my body—for over twenty years.”

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 11

My husband bought me this copper wire crochet (how cool is that on its own?) sunflower to celebrate my story in NEED🌻 🩸📚💙

A large sunflower made out of crochet coper wire resting on the cover of the book NEED.

A large sunflower made out of crochet copper wire sitting on a book. The book is open to my story "Sunflower".

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 11

🌻

A wild sunflower with a ray of sunlight hitting its face.

A wild sunflower with the sunset in the background.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 11

What do you guys think of my accountant? #Caturday

A seal point cat lying on two grocery store receipts.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 11

#BluePitHype (Also a reminder that Bluesky has a setting so you can't post without ALT text! It makes it SO much easier for me and my Swiss cheese brain to remember when I literally cannot post without it. Also also I wrote ALT text for all my pitch graphics and I keep them with my pitches.)

A mood board that is a collection of 12 images: breakfast at a diner, women in the front seat of a car, a gas station at night, a cabin in a snowy forest at night, women holding hands, a road at sunset, an angel statue, a car in the dark with its headlights on, a car mirror with a sunset, a snowy forest at sunset, a paper map, a blonde woman holding a paper map, a purple orb, an eye with a purple iris, hands holding a rainbow flag, and a sheet of music. There is pink text in the center that reads My Sister's Stolen Soul.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 9

I asked the local wildlife and they're really excited to hear more about your deer

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 5

Nice 📚💙

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 5

Mood 🌈📚💙

A photo of a chapter header from the book Lemon Balm, it read That time I broke down in the cereal aisle

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 1

The Merge x Rules For Ghosting When Melody's sister is abducted from their shared body, she'll do anything to get her back. Including subjecting herself to an uncomfortable road trip with an angel inhabiting a corpse and her sister's very confused girlfriend. #QueerPit #F #A #CON #SN

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jul 1

A fake reach reading I looked up my symptoms and it turns out all I need is a queer road trip with an angel.
A road at night, an angel statue at sunset, hands at sunset, and a sunset in a review mirror.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 30

show me a picture (of yourself) that captures your essence (if you want)(I'm not your mom) CW spiders! My Ren Fair costume! All hail the spider queen 👑

A white person in a black outfit wrapped in fake spider webbing.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 29

I received this book in exchange for an honest review. Aliens in New Florida comes out August 4th and you can preorder your copy here: www.amazon.com/Aliens-New-F... 🌈 📚️ 💙

Aliens in New Florida by Carmen Loup
Rating: 5/5
Review:
If you’ve ever wished Florida was weirder, than this is the book for you. Mick is on a post-apocalyptic road trip to find her girlfriend, and it gets Weird. The journey is full of humor and characters you’ll want to chew on (but don’t, Rawr the non-binary alligator alien is toxic to humans). Five out of five Sals.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 28

Every time I say I have enough books I accidentally buy another book. I walked by FIVE book stores and/or booths today and only bought ONE this was good actually. Plus some other photos from today. 📚💙

DARE by Mimi Wahlfeldt sitting on a pink stroller with flowers in the background.

A black cat stretched out in a pink stroller.

A cookie decorated with a raccoon holding a pride flag with flowers in the background.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 27

Ajani would love for you to check out the NEED anthology, which contains my story Sunflower 🌻 mybook.to/wiDsfH 🌻

A black cat wearing a sunflower costume around his neck.

A black cat wearing a sunflower consume around his face and looking kind of mad about it.

A black cat laying in grass with a sunflower costume around his face.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 26

Introducing my cat to the arts.

A black cat with a purple harness and leash laying on in the mud. The book Beyond The Black Door is sitting on a blue blanket behind him.

A sculpture of a fox above a small waterfall in the background, a black cat in a pink stroller in front.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 26

Road trip not your thing? How about space ships, dragons, and magic doors? 🌈 📚️ 💙

Aces on Adventures

The Dragon of Ynys by Minerva Cerridwen, Kill Your Darlings by L.E. Harper, The Audacity by Laura Carmen Loup, Tell Me How It Ends by Quinton Li. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire, Havesskadi by Ava Kelly

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 24

It's summer which means it's road trip season! 🌈 📚️ 💙

Queer Road Trip!

Aliens in New Florida by Carmen Loup, Old Wounds
Logan-Ashley Kisner, Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert, Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun, Under The Dark Clouds by Shanna Alderliesten, Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 22

Reading about non-binary characters stabbing people is a Pride month essential actually 🗡️ 🌈📚💙

The Bloody and the Damned by Becca Coffindaffer
Rating 4/5
Review:
Non-binary! Ace! Assassin! This is the kind of morally gray rep I live for.
In a sci-fi/dystopian world where water is scarce, Val works as an assassin to provide for their sisters. When their sisters are kidnapped, they will stab anyone and everyone to save them.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 20

Uh sir, that's illegal. (Cats are not allowed on the counter! That does not always stop them though 😭) #caturday

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 19

Little free library drop off time! Went back to this one because it has a little free pantry next to it and I brought hygiene stuff to put in there too. I love the stained glass door. 📚💙

A little free library with a stained glass panel that looks like a Campbell's soup can

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 19

Don't forget to support queer authors of color! 🌈 📚️ 💙

Queer books by BIPOC authors

Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger and Rovina Cai (Illustrator), Year of the Mer by L.D. Lewis, The Grimoire of Grave Fates by Hanna Alkaf, Margaret Owen, Preeti Chhibber, Kat Cho, Mason Deaver, Natasha Diaz, Hafsah Faizal, Victoria Lee, Jessica Lewis, Darcie Little Badger, Kwame Mbalia, L.L. McKinney, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Yamile Saied Méndez, Candice Montgomery, Marieke Nijkamp, Karuna Riazi, Randy Ribay, Kayla Whaley, and Julian Winters, The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar, Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 19

Oh deer

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 17

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Not all of these are romance first but there is plenty of romance to be had. In my silly aro/ace opinion anyway lol 🌈 📚️ 💙

Ladies Kissing

This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen
This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham
Malice by Heather Walter

Dudes Kissing

The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E.M. Anderson
Last First Kiss by Julian Winters
Sweet & Wild by Alex Larkspur
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 15

A perfect summer read ☀️ As long as you like murder. 🌈 📚️ 💙

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
Rating: 4/5
Review:
High fantasy, cruise ship, murder mystery. You might be thinking huh those things don’t sound like they go together but I promise you they DO, especially when all tied together with a disaster bisexual main character. The vibes were a little funky but I thought it was a lot of fun.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 13

Throwback to last year when we first got the cat stroller #caturday

A black cat and a seal point cat in a pink stroller.

A black cat and a seal point cat peeking out of a pink stroller.

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 12

Already tired of summer even though the solstice hasn't happened yet? Enjoy some Halloween vibes with queer werewolves and vampires. 🌈 📚️ 💙

Queer Werewolves and/or Vampires

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella
Full Shift by Jennifer Dugan and Kristen Seaton
Unbury the Bones by Coyote J.M. Edwards
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Lemon Balm by Artemis Quinn and Auden Eris-Everen
Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

R. S. Mot@motthepaladin· Jun 11

That reminds me, I dragged my husband across a street to I could take this picture to show you