EmmyKtz 🐙 The Pink Hydra 🔞
@thepinkhydra
Emmylou Kotzé, she/her, demi-bi writer of SF, F, ⛓️🖤romance and poetry. Editor of The Pink Hydra. Author of the Forest of the Morning trilogy. Proudly 🇿🇦. Links at linktr.ee/emmyktz. Check out my Feeds! ✨⚔️ Oh... and fuck genAI. 🖕
#WIPSnips July 24 - "Cacophony" Going back to Forest of the Morning where I actually have this word 😅 A chapter ending in book 2, just before it all falls apart for Fish. 💔
For someone who dies before the beginning of the book Ash's father has an outsize influence on the narrative so I HAD to post this #wipsnip - "Family" 😭 #⚔️⛓️🖤
Meanwhile, those yearning for iffy consent, tormented men with deep psychological issues, and actually interesting relationship dynamics, feel free to check out my UNETHICAL romantic m/m sword-and-sorcery novella Runaway: 😈🚩 www.thepinkhydra.com/books/runaway
#SundaySnips "Smoke" #⚔️⛓️🖤 Ash and Karlan's first meeting. ❤️ This is a flashback and still soft from the oven! 🥧 (Written just this week)
#WIPSnips July 19 - "divine" This snippet was *way* too good to pass up. 💔 #⚔️⛓️🖤
#WIPSnips July 17 - "acquire" I am 20K words in and already I love Ash & Karlan so much. 🥰 These kids are literally taking over my life with their zany love story. Some suggestive thoughts here from Ash's side but nothing explicit 😏 #⚔️⛓️🖤
#AwesomeCharacters In my upcoming novella Partners in Crime, the MC, Kara, is non-binary and asexual biromantic. The entire story is about her figuring out these aspects of herself... and an opportunity for me the writer to talk about my own contradictions. 😉 Most of all, I love... 1/
#WIPSnips July 15 - "Coach" I have JUST finished the first iteration of the opening chapters of "A Warlord's Desire" and I'm DYING to share so here is a synonym for "coach" - *instructed* 😅 This is Karlan and Ash's first meeting after... y'know... that thing where Karlan razed Ash's city 😬 #⚔️⛓️🖤
My addition to the writing discourse today is to say that my files are actually... really well organized. If I had a trillion "final_final_draft.docx" files I would probably have a nervous breakdown. 😅 I don't wanna dunk on anybody so I'm not quoting that post - my file names are below. 💀 1/🧵
... don't be like Fish, kids. 🙏 #AwesomeCharacters (cw: self harm, smoking)
THE BROKEN KNIGHT is a mediaeval fantasy novel featuring: a warrior broken by battle 😔 the girl he finds in the woods 🌲 a magic sword blessed by the faeries 🧚♀️ the mystery of his own past ❤️🩹 www.thepinkhydra.com/books/bk
WHAT HAPPENS IN CAMP is a taboo erotic short story featuring: one peaceful young camp follower 👼🏾 two violent soldiers who are into him 🗡️ sex work, blackmail, and other shenanigans ⛓️ www.thepinkhydra.com/books/whic
FOREST OF THE MORNING is a multi-POV fantasy trilogy featuring: queer main and side characters 🏳️🌈 slowburn friends-to-lovers romance 💘 blood sorcery 🩸 giant carnivorous feathered lizards Start here: www.thepinkhydra.com/books/fotm Also available in ebook omnibus: www.thepinkhydra.com/books/fotmtri
RUNAWAY is an experimental sword-and-sorcery novella featuring: one closeted middle-aged gay knight 🗡️ his promiscuous secret lover 🌶️ a headstrong young princess looking for freedom ⚔️ sorcery, secrets, and shadows ✨ www.thepinkhydra.com/books/runaway
Name a movie that flopped at the box office but is actually great. #FilmSky Cutthroat Island. It tanked so bad it bankrupted an entire film company. 😂 It's one of my fave pirate movies. 🥰
New followers from DDMArket, I'm so happy to see y'all!! 😊 Fair warning... I yap a LOT about my OCs and various pairings on this account. 😉 Here's a low-effort moodboard for my all-time bestest blorbos, Nico & Fish. ⚔️✨
Don't sleep on this bundle! 👀 $40 nabs you 39 queer indie books, including the FULL Forest of the Morning trilogy - an epic fantasy adventure of 320k words. itch.io/b/3733/pride...
Okay, this is kinda cute actually 😂 kojira.github.io/bluesky-lice...
I read "Fulfilment" by @bisexualvending.bsky.social for @ddmarket.online and honestly this comic lives in my head rent free now 😭💔 Full heartfelt review & thoughts below 👇💖 There are only 3 more days to purchase this bundle so don't sleep on it!! 2026.ddmarket.online 1/
There is so much GREAT STUFF in this bundle and I haven't even gotten started with reading through most of the BOOKS! 😭 So here's just a few of the prose offerings I'm planning on checking out... (6/10)
THE DOGS' PRINCE by @moongieart.bsky.social is so dirty I can't discuss very much 🤣🤣🤣 but let's just say it involves a beautiful prince being put in his place by two ethereal & possibly supernatural beings. good stuff. love the fairy tale vibes. ✨ (5/10
ADHOCRACY by @boneyhag.bsky.social The uhhhh tenderness? at the end of this one surprised me (in a very good way) 😊 just all around hot situation kinkytimes! "don't mind if I do" just had me banging on the WALLS 👀 (4/10)
MALAISE by PhoenixRenaissance Came for the werewolf porn, stayed for the plot twist 😍 This was kind of haunting and tender and achy in such a GOOD way... like the messed up things that happen at world's end 🥂 (3/10)
IT'LL DO by @hartsichord.bsky.social I love these two & their "totally not gay" dynamic! 😂 There are also some banger lines in here that had me giggling all over... "hands of a woman" indeed 😏 And of course the ultimate CW: BURNT DINNER. 🔥 (2/10)
Tonight's mood is Beautiful Guys in Delicious Situations, brought to you by the talented comics artists of @ddmarket.online this year! Mini reviews below & just a reminder that you can get ALL of these and more in the DDMarket entry ticket bundle: 2026.ddmarket.online This is a long-ass 🧵 (1/10)
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Every five years or so, I tend to find a music album that resets my brain chemistry. 😬 This year, it's "Everybody Scream." I literally CANNOT get enough of these songs. Perfect & fucky & operatic all at the same time. The funny part? I wasn't even a Florence + the Machine fan before now. 😅
With just 2 MORE WEEKS of @ddmarket.online ticket sales to go, here's the second of 3 mini projects exclusive to marketgoers: SURRENDER CONTROL, a collection of kinky encounters between my fave pairing, the mercenaries Nico & Fish. Basically the AO3 epub with a pretty cover. 🥰 2026.ddmarket.online