CrimCat

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Meow. Author of Blind Chaos and the Mage From Under the Mountain! Blind Chaos on Amazon/KU: Any/Whatever (Agender, I'm fine w/ any pronoun.) No AI! #writer #author #RoyalRoad #BookSky

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CrimCat@crimcat· Jul 13

Sell your book in five words "Lesbian has knife, will cut."

Blind Chaos book 1's cover. Cover art by Nozomi Matsuoka.

Available on Amazon/Kindle unlimited!

CrimCat@crimcat· Jun 30

Happy end of Pride month! I generally don't share nsfw, but this thread will be a rare exception. All content here is from my series, Blind Chaos, ranging from early book 4 to late book 5. First up, we have two SFW pieces by @nozomimats.bsky.social and @evanyell.bsky.social (respectively!) (1/3)

Book 4 (War & Worship)'s cover by Nozomi! The art shows Ranthia (on the left) joining hands and resting her forehead with her lover, Avyna (on the right).

Ranthia is a human with short brown hair and she's dressed in a simple tunic, a blinfold, and metallic bracers.

Avyna is an elf with spiraling horns and pointed ears sticking out of her long blonde hair. She's wearing a blue dress with protective leather.

Both women are kneeling aboard a ship made out of starlight, which is the only real indication that there's magical nonsense in their world. Past the ship a rich night's sky can be seen, with two perfectly ordinary moons directly overhead.

Eveninglight by Evanyell. This character art depicts Ranthia (on the right) sitting upright on a chaise, with her lover Avyna (on the left) lounging in her lap. There's a bowl of oil on the furniture's arm, and Avyna's horns are glistening with newly applied oil. Ranthia's fingers are gently rubbing the horns, but both women are a bit distracted with gazing lovingly into one another's eyes.

Ranthia's a human with dark brown hair, wearing a simple tunic and a pair of metal bracers.

Avyna's an elf with long blonde hair, spiraling horns, and pointed ears. She's wearing a blue-and-white dress made of folded layers of cloth held by a cinched belt at her waist.

CrimCat@crimcat· Jun 29

✨ quote post! introduce yourself! ✨ Name: CrimCat Pronouins: Any/Meh Fav Fantasy Creature: Mermaid Fav Book Last Year: ...I legitimately don't recall Fav Book So Far This Year: Splinter Angel Current Fav Movie: ???idk, how do people have these? Current Fav Show: See last Season: Autumn! And a gif?

CrimCat@crimcat· Jun 18

My web of trust should alarm all. Via: kojira.github.io/bluesky-lice...

CrimCat's Bluesky License. It kinda looks like a driver's license, but it's about my Bluesky metrics, measured... somehow.

I'm deeply sorry about this, but I'm not gonna type up all the deets. There's just too much. And most of it is pretty useless.

CrimCat@crimcat· May 25

Oh, no wonder I hadn't! Huh, neat.

A screenshot from the graphtreon site.

I'm in the top 2k of Writers? Somehow?

Ignore the patreon Rank. Rank 54,164th is probably fine.

CrimCat@crimcat· May 20

Been putting this off for too long, but finally setting the same avatar across all platforms! Namely, a close-up of my wonderful author portrait that Pennytail made for me.

A green-eyed mercat with a purple tail and tabby-like upper body floats, surrounded by bubbles. They're wearing a stylish red hat with a large, white feather stuck in it. An identical feather is held like a quill, used to write in a floating book above them.

CrimCat@crimcat· Apr 23

As you wish! My first three covers (each commissioned from @nozomimats.bsky.social and typeset by Miblart), and my favorite piece of character art so far (Eveninglight, commissioned from @evanyell.bsky.social ). Because commissioning art of my stories is one of the coolest parts of being an author.

Blind Chaos book 1, Budding Rhythm. Featuring art from Nozomi of a young woman wielding two large knives, captured in a moment while she was turning with a laugh-induced smile on her face. She's in a forest at night, and two perfectly ordinary moons are overhead, though one of them is unfortunately a bit cut off.

The cover from Blind Chaos book 2, Dancing with Chaos. This time Ranthia has longer hair and is wearing a form-fitting garment with blue and silver, illuminated by a spotlight. She seems to be in the midst of a dance, with other similarly garbed dancers in the background. The stage is decorated with hanging crystals, and there's a painted backdrop invoking a wintery scene.

The cover of book 3 of Blind Chaos, The Grace of War. It's dawn and Ranthia's looking a bit rough. Her armor is a damaged and patchworked mess and she's standing on a blood-stained battlefield in a wasteland. A tattered blindfold covers her eyes and there's a military standard painted behind her, which includes a basket where a mirror-polished shield rests. In front of the shield is a perfectly ordinary and not at all alarming crow.

Character art by Evanyell depicting Ranthia sitting on a chaise, with another woman lounging in her lap. The other woman has long, pointed ears and curved ram-like horns sticking out of her long blonde hair. Her horns are glistening with oil, sourced from the bowl resting on the chaise's arm, and Ranthia's fingers are gently rubbing her horns. The mood is plainly romantic, communicated through the gazes of both women as they look upon one another.

CrimCat@crimcat· Apr 11

Via: grids.fun/t/about-me-v... Some of these are kinda just... I couldn't think of anything else for the category? I'm sure the me of another day would move a few things around too, but here's what current me did. Details are in alt text.

Favorite Game: Final Fantasy VI
Best Story: NieR: Automata (narrowly, so narrowly)
Favorite Art Style: Legend of Mana
Biggest Personal Impact: Baldur's Gate II
Best Combat: Armored Core: For Answer
Overhated: Fallout 3 (still the best modern Fallout)
Underrated: Final Fantasy XIII-2 (a great game sandwiched between crap)
Overrated: Final Fantasy VII (somehow manages to be more forgettable than VIII, yet is somehow adored?????)
Needs a Remake: Dissidia 012: Duodecim (I played the heck out of that game, yet the Dissidia franchise has been a joke ever since)
Criminally Overlooked: Nexomon Extinction
Favorite Protagonist: Yakuza Like a Dragon (I know, it's weird that a dude won, but Ichiban's legitimately awesome)
Favorite Antagonist: Final Fantasy VI (One of two games to show up twice!)
Best Soundtrack: Legend of Mana (The other!)
Best Multiplayer: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
Not Usually My Thing, But...: Spirit City Lofi Sessions (Honestly, wasn't sure what to put here)
Turn my Brain Off: Pokemon HeartGold (any of the old ones, tbh)
Best With Friends: Pokemon Scarlet/Violet (I... couldn't think of many games significantly improved by multiplayer)
Best Retro Game: Mega Man 3
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Robotrek (So few people even know it, but I loved it)
Game Everyone Should Play: Cassette Beasts (Just do it)

CrimCat@crimcat· Mar 27

Made a version for authors (mostly aimed at webserial authors, but it should work for you saner sorts) because I could. I also filled it out, of course. A double bingo here, who can beat me?!

Bad Habit Author Bingo, as filled out by CrimCat. Evidence of CrimCat's many, many crimes against reasonableness.

A blank template for the Bad Habit Author Bingo:
Row 1: alskdjflk.docx (i.e., bad file names), I must use unique concepts for my setting ALWAYS (i.e., reinventing the wheel), One million abandoned WIPs (self-explanatory), Comes up with ideas, does nothing (for your CURRENT work, not new ideas), Forgot to sleep/eat/etc (self-explanatory).
Row 2: The urge to write at the most inconvenient times (self-explanatory), Hunched over desk like a gremlin (don't judge me), Forgets own writing style (self-explanatory), Nearly finishes chapter, hasn't saved the entire time (VERY NORMAL), Fuck, wrong draft / version (i.e., editing an older draft).
Row 3: Doesn't name minor characters (you monster), Too hard on self (self-explanatory), FREE SPACE (mark it), Spent hours finding references, uses none (look, it seemed like an important detail at the time), Great world building, no story (probably just the planning stage, hopefully).
Row 4: Where did I save that?! (i.e., saved in wrong folder), 100 empty note files / notebooks (barren .txts here), My name appears nowhere in this draft (i.e., you never said who wrote the story), Neck or shoulders ache from not moving (the zone is a dangerous place), Notes filled with details no one will ever know (this is normal, isn't it?).
Row 5: I tell myself I definitely have time to write yet another series (self-explanatory), My readers definitely will still remember this person (it's only been 45 chapters), Taste smut--why can't my characters start banging already?! (self-explanatory), Halfway done and [I] still have no title (I knew I'd mess up somewhere), I left a placeholder in the final release!?! ($WardenName, you were the best).

CrimCat@crimcat· Feb 13

I raise you with this, from the (dialogue) line: We’re a great team, but I’d feel better with one or two more party members.

Word telling me that the words work best with hyphens.

This part is fine. But the actual implementation Word suggests is... less fine.

"one- or two more-party"

CrimCat@crimcat· Feb 12

I may have misunderstood the assignment.

I have never seen It, but have a clown with three rows of teeth.

It is poorly drawn, because CrimCat writes words and is less adept at arting arts.

CrimCat@crimcat· Feb 8

For those that didn't see the alt text on the main post, my covers are all commissioned from the amazing @nozomimats.bsky.social and @neilak20.bsky.social is the one who does my awesome marginalia! And as an early announcement: Book 3's preorders should be opening later this month!

The cover for Blind Chaos Book 3, The Grace of War.
Art by Nozomi Matsuoka @nozomimats.bsky.social
Lettering by miblart.

The cover shows Ranthia, the main character, wearing heavily damaged and patchwork armor. A tattered and worn blindfold covers her eyes and her hair is back to a short length. She's standing in a barren region, at the site of a battle with damaged equipment and arrows left on the ground, and seems wary. The sky is dyed vivid colors from the setting sun. There is an army's standard planted in the ground behind her, with a perfectly ordinary bird of no note perched on it.

CrimCat@crimcat· Feb 8

Hey, since everyone's mad about the NYT amplifying a book grifter, this feels like a good time to remind the world I write books with no "AI" involved! Blind Chaos' first two books are available on Amazon/KU! 1: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK7T53L1 2: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6KM3WYN #booksky #lesfic #litRPG

An excerpt from one of my books that reads:

No Large Language Model ("LLM") or "AI" generated content appears within these pages. The words come from the author's imagination, the characters and locations and their respective names comes from the same (or Selkie Myth, in some cases). The editing was done through the author's obsession with quality, beta readers, and the occasional error report from readers. And, just as important, all art used was commissioned from talented artists and is used with permission.
Cover Art by Nozomi Matsuoka. https://linktr.ee/Nozomi_Matsuoka
Marginalia by Sarah "Neila" Elkins. https://sarahneilaelkins.com/
Author's Portrait by Pennytail. https://twitter.com/PennytailMoon
Cover Typesetting by MiblArt. https://miblart.com/
(C)2025 CrimCat. All rights reserved.

The cover for Blind Chaos Book 1, Budding Rhythm.
Art by Nozomi Matsuoka @nozomimats.bsky.social
Lettering by miblart.

The cover shows Ranthia, the main character, with a broad smile on her face in the process of turning. She is a fit brunette with short hair, wearing leather armor and wielding two knives. She is in a forest at night and two complete normal and not at all alarming dragoneye moons look down from overhead.

The cover for Blind Chaos Book 2, Dancing with Chaos.
Art by Nozomi Matsuoka @nozomimats.bsky.social
Lettering by miblart.

The cover shows Ranthia, the main character, in the midst of a dance. Unlike before, she has long hair and is wearing cosmetics and a form-fitting costume with a wintery theme. She is on an well-crafted stage with other dancers in the background and spotlights shining on each of them. Glowing crystals hang overhead and a wintery background is painted on panels.

CrimCat@crimcat· Jan 16

I followed your instructions (TWICE!), but... Alas, the people that lived inside apparently did not. There must've been another one inside, next to the houses. And yes, this amuses me like 80% less after having had to wait and redo it, but I felt obligated to finish what I started.

CrimCat@crimcat· Jan 1

I've done this THREE TIMES. WHY?!

swampy. My word for 2026 is swampy.

SWAMPY.

CrimCat@crimcat· Nov 22

Ooh my favorite four Final Fantasy games! FFVI has the top spot, but the other three are harder to rank. FFIX was a grand return to form. FFXIII-2 was a surprising gem stuck in a sea of mediocre from its prequel and sequel. And Dissidia 012 Duodecim forever has a special place in my heart.

Final Fantasy VI (6) cover art. Originally released on the SNES.

Final Fantasy IX (9) cover art. Originally released on the PSX.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 (13-2) cover art, originally released on the PS3.

Final Fantasia Dissidia 012 Duodecim cover art, originally released on the PSP.

CrimCat@crimcat· Nov 12

Not a game developer, but as a writer... well, my ebook for book 1 (releasing on the 16th!) already says everything that I need to say in response to that drivel:

No Large Language Model ("LLM") or "AI" generated content appears within these pages. The words come from the author's imagination, the characters and locations and their respective names come from the same (or Selkie Myth, in some cases). The editing was done through the author's obsession with quality, beta readers, and the occasional error report from readers. And, just as important, all art used was commissioned from talented artists and is used with permission.

CrimCat@crimcat· Jul 14

CrimCat@crimcat· May 19

I have no idea how to even parse this. -- Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Raj Koothrappali from the Big Bang Theory

Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show, not the movie)

CrimCat@crimcat· Apr 22

I've peaked as a writer. Government approval obtained, thanks @cpsc.gov!

A joke comment I made on one of @cpsc.gov's posts about their lack of a blue check. I pointed out that CPSC.gov could be anyone, and suspected that it would take great effort to confirm that it's the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

But the important part is THEY LIKED IT!

CrimCat@crimcat· Mar 24

Sure, have at thee. Source: tiermaker.com/create/ultim...

CrimCat's Fruit Tiering:
S: Pear, Asian pear, Raspberry, Tangerine, Mango, Pineapple.
A: Green apple, Raisins, Red grapes, White grapes, Strawberry, Cherry, Bananana, Plum, Blueberry, Blackberry, Nectarine.
B: Grapefruit, Lemon, Lime, Honeydew, Kiwi, Peach, Cantalope.
C: Date, Orange, Apricot, Papaya.
D: Cranberry, Fig, Watermelon, Red apple, Coconut.
Never had: Redcurrant, Starfruit, Whitecurrant, Mangosteen, Custard apple, Guava, Ground cherry, Kumquat, Rambutan, Jackfruit, Litchi, Sour cherry, Persimmon, Avocado, Dragonfruit, Durian, Gooseberry, Passionfruit, Pomegranate, Pomelo, Blood orange, Mulberry, Blackcurrant.

CrimCat@crimcat· Mar 18

Congrats! @dresdencodak.bsky.social Also, everyone should support Sen's Dark Science kickstarter. I backed it and I like to think anyone that enjoys Blind Chaos would love it. It has cyborg lesbians and numerous other completely straight and normal characters. www.kickstarter.com/projects/top...

The Dark Science kickstarter surpassing $100k.

CrimCat@crimcat· Jan 1

...Sure, why not.

acidulous - adjective - somewhat acid or harsh in taste or manner

CrimCat@crimcat· Dec 3

Not sure if I agree with it (also, hideous color, imho; plums are WAY darker). But damn that's weirdly flattering? Quiz source: quizini.com/quiz/657afbc...

Plum
Twilight mysteries. Hidden depths. Indulgent experiences.
Your soul is plum: a rich blend of sensuality, mystery, and indulgent depth. You navigate life with the lush and enticing energy of a ripe plum, inviting exploration and enjoyment. Your spirit is deep and alluring, sparking a sense of intrigue and a desire for deeper understanding in those around you. In your presence, there's a feeling of luxurious depth and a tantalizing allure, like the seductive taste of a sweet plum or the comforting embrace of a velvet shawl. You embody the richness of experience and the pleasure of the senses, encouraging others to delve into their emotions and to savor the depth of their experiences. Your approach to life is passionate and thoughtful, inspiring a love for the complex layers of life and a deep appreciation for the sensual aspects of existence.
(...And now that I'm done rewriting this I realize I should have copy-pasted instead. Sigh.)

CrimCat@crimcat· Nov 25

Authors (web serial or traditional)! Let's start a chain of posts of your FIRST published book. "Quote post" the cover, a link, and three words about it. Here is mine. Blind Chaos: Budding Rhythm (Tales Beneath the Dragoneye Moons) Chaotic Lesbian Adventurer. www.royalroad.com/fiction/9618...

The cover of Budding Rhythm, Book 1 of Blind Chaos (Tales Beneath the Dragoneye Moons) written by CrimCat.
The cover depicts a smiling young brunette holding two large knives that seems to be in the process of turning. There are trees in the background. In the night sky hangs two perfectly ordinary dragoneye moons that are not the least bit intimidating.

Cover art by Nozomi M, who is here on Bluesky. You should feel bad if you aren't following her, she is an AMAZING artist.
Cover typesetting by miblart.com

CrimCat@crimcat· Sep 16

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,046,860! ...Which is not at all impressive, honestly! I was invite era, but not fancy enough to get a badge. Sadface.

The celebrating 10M users Bluesky thing, I got #2,046,860, which is presumably not very impressive since I don't have a fancy badge saying I'm part of the first whatever percent.

CrimCat@crimcat· Jul 19

Dawns on me I've been pretty bad about providing updates here; I tend to talk to the people I rely on for support directly. Ranthia's story will be published! Selkie Myth, author of Beneath the Dragoneye Moons (the source) is providing a license for fans to use the setting! Writing is progressing!

A screenshot of my Word document for Ranthia's story, showing page 805 and 354,752 words. Which is a lot. Honest.

CrimCat@crimcat· Jul 18

Found her! She's hiding inside the artwork, using her cat magic power. Don't blame you for not finding her this time.

The same picture, except the well-hidden hiding place within the artwork has been circled (or some other shaped, at least) in red. Clearly that is the only explanation for where Tipsy could possibly be.

CrimCat@crimcat· Jun 24

Well, since it's mandatory... (Sorry, not sorry!) #makeaterriblecomicday2024 #bskyart

Panel 1: A mercat(? the art is very dubious) announces "Corporate America has gone too far!"
Panel 2: A close-up of the same(?) mercat(?? ohgods the art gets worse) continues "They will feel my feline wrath!" with glowing red eyes.
Panel 3: A very accurate and realistic rendition of a Mega Corporation (the corporation is boasting they have AI integration), with an ominous red light in the sky.
Panel 4: So much fire. Also disembodied text from the mercat (fortunately NOT shown) "One down, like one or two thousand-ish to go! Mewheheheheow!" The last bit is presumably supposed to be a cat laugh???

CrimCat@crimcat· Apr 11

Oh COME ON! ...Probably accurate.