Davinia Evans (Dee)

@cupiscent

Author and avid reader of fantasy fiction. NOTORIOUS SORCERER ⚗⚔, SHADOW BARON 🎴🗡️ and REBEL BLADE💥🐉 out now from Orbit! (she/her - Australian - cupiscent on just about everything - website & newsletter at viscerate.com)

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Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· 29d

I'm blue (da ba dee, etc...) Well, teal!

Portrait of the author at a funny angle in a hair salon, showing that the highlights in her dark asymmetrical short hair match her bluey-green sweater.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Jul 5

How your email finds me... (Or at least where.)

A serene and nearly empty beachscape, all sand and calm sea and blue sky, fringed with sheoak fronds.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Jun 23

It's not a visit to the Melbourne museum without popping in to see my buddy Horridus.

Dark and atmospherically lit skeleton of a triceratops. It looks badass because it is.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Jun 22

Zizou gets called "catty" so much she thinks it's her name; pretty sure she thinks her actual name means "stop doing that". Also gets called: silly face, wee beastie, numpty socks, disaster pants, twerpus maximus, felix muppetus.

A little tortie cat in the sunshine, looking prim and cute and like she doesn't deserve to be called any of those things, but don't be fooled.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Jun 21

I come to seedy small gig venues for the social commentary (and also for the solid blast of grunge metal noise, shout out to Earth Cadet)...

Graffiti on a toilet wall, amongst other scribbles, reading "Being a white guy in a crop top doesn't make you interesting...".

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Jun 8

Yeah ok looking at scenery might have fixed me a little bit

View along the wobbly arm of a ghost gum toward the trunk, grey bark on a grey day, everything grey and green and peaceful.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Jun 1

Dear USA, are you after a summer read full of scrambling shenanigans, but also kinda angry? Maybe a queer romance cherry on top? Been thinking of picking up NOTORIOUS SORCERER for these or other excellent reasons? Available digitally for $2.99 today (1st June) only! (Amazon, Kobo, maybe others!)

The cover of Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans, featuring a silhouette in a red coat flourishing fire, while a winged woman soars in the background, within a ring of writhing stylised fire. Next to the cover, text reads: Get in, load up, get out... $2.99 Today only!

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· May 29

*I* certainly mean cursive

Portrait of the author's handwriting, demonstrating her perma-cursive s formation through the text: This is the new shit (not).

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· May 24

Well, at least there's cake.

Within a plastic storage container sits the remaining two-thirds of a double layer mud cake filled and topped with light chocolate frosting. Also on display, the repurposed cheese knife we used to cut slices.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· May 23

Absolute HIGHLIGHT of being a fandom Old is getting ao3 comment notes like this one... 😂❤️

Screenshot of an Archive of our Own comment notification email, with the comment reading (with apologies for but honesty toward the errors) "sthis is so good?? and so underratex?? and written before I was born??"

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· May 18

This adorable menace thinks any hand even slightly close to the edge of the bed is an invitation for wild claws-out playtime. Especially in the middle of the night.

A little dark tortie cat is half curled up on beige carpet, looking sweet and fluffy and like she's waiting for pats. This is a lie and a trap.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· May 17

Having some Pint of Origin fun at Whisky and Alement

A nearly depleted small glass of beer (a West Coast Brewing IPA) half on a cardboard coaster advertising the 2026 Pint of Origin festival. There are whisky bottles in the background.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Apr 10

We acquired a stowaway in the butterfly house...

A black butterfly with white and purple spots hitching a ride on a green straw hat.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Apr 5

Happy Easter! 🐰

On a black tray on a black benchtop are twelve Easter cookies, in four shapes - bunny, chick, egg and basket of eggs - which have been haphazardly decorated with icing and sprinkles.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Apr 3

Getting on the (Easter) beers at Huzzah... 😂 Apparently this contains the Bridge Road Triple Chocolate Ale!

A foil-wrapped large Easter egg balanced atop a glass, with its top knocked off like a boiled egg, giving a glimpse of dark liquid inside.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Mar 8

Flatpack success. I earned this guy! (Loveshack amber. I love every beer from these guys that I've tried, which admittedly is only this and the brown. But they're both great!)

A fancy glass of dark beer, sweating in the heat, with a little bug-eyed silhouette man painted on it.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Feb 16

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19. (Yes, I went and found the specific cover that I had.)

One of the covers of the album "Sehnsucht" by Rammstein, featuring a member of the band with powdered white face and bandaged head in some sort of torturous industrial-looking head brace, on a stark black background.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Feb 12

No, seriously, ABC News needs a "ROFL" reaction option.

ABC News blog update headlined: "Labor launches rapid-fire attach ads as Taylor wins leadership". A highlighted paragraph in the middle reads: "Two short ads dubbing Taylor "just another Liberal" have been placed online, highlighting his history as shadow treasurer under Peter Dutton and dubbing him "a leftover"." Not pictured: my chortling mirth.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Feb 12

Nice to have some harmless, laughable politics to harmlessly laugh at for a change. And #auspol delivers. LOL. LMAO even.

A snippet of a screenshot from the ABC News website, noting that, 15 minutes ago, "Ben Small says Taylor will focus on 'traditional Australian values'".

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Jan 23

The little crossed front paws are an essential element of laying a proper cute trap. Maximum cute, plus poised to grab as soon as a patting hand comes near!

A little tortie cat lies on beige carpet, half-curled on her side with front paws delicately folded over each other. She is looking up with a remarkably - and falsely - innocent expression.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Dec 25

Merry Christmas 🎄

An artistic close crop on a table of Christmas snackies, including a plate of mince pies and a bowl of chocolates, with a half drunk glass of champagne in the foreground. There's also a large red Christmas bauble in a silver vase.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Dec 18

A Webcomic Name panel with a pink person-blob saying "oh no"

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Dec 3

Genuinely cannot overstate how cranky this loaf is. 🤣

A little tortie cat is scrunched up in the grumpiest loaf on a padded office chair. But she's not comfortable, get it? She's very, very annoyed.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Dec 3

Today marks a year since my Burnished City trilogy concluded. Still so proud of my desperate disaster trio and their story of defying the rules--in magic, in politics, and in love! Never too late to join the fun. Start with the "wickedly entertaining" NOTORIOUS SORCERER. viscerate.com?page_id=243

A banner reads: "One year of the complete Burnished City!" alongside the angled and overlapping covers of Notorious Sorcerer, Shadow Baron and Rebel Blade by Davinia Evans.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Nov 23

And it's even harder find something set in regional Australia (and not just "generic desert and/or bush"). Possibly closest for me is this one, at least set in regional Qld, even if I wasn't quite in cane country...

A promo still for 1995 movie All Men Are Liars, showing the all-female punk band crammed into their car, en route to a sugarcane harvest festival to participate in shenanigans.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Nov 21

Spotted at my library as I whizzed past to get my reservations - NOTORIOUS SORCERER sharing display space with @kmenright.bsky.social ! A double delight!

On a display shelf atop other spine-out books are five face-out books, including Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans (aka me) and Mistress of Lies by KM Enright.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Nov 17

Yet another winner from my favourite cake cookbook ever - Yossy Arefi's Snacking Cakes. This is the lemony currant and rosemary cake. So good!

Side view of a little cube of pale cake, showing crumb and currants and an occasional cheeky peek of a tiny smidge of rosemary.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Nov 11

I discovered this format just as Mr Dee said something hilarious, so this happened:

Yard sign meme that reads: In this house, we believe: every time I'm denied a Kim Thayil solo, a fairy dies (and that's a promise!)

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Nov 11

At the Leaf Bookshop in Ashburton celebrating genre fiction with a splendid panel of authors!

Over the heads of the crowd, sits a panel of authors: Kerryn Mayne, Grace Chan, S.K. Stapar and Holly Cardamone.

Davinia Evans (Dee)@cupiscent· Oct 29

Conducted a raid on my local bookshop, picked up a stack of fun things, am looking forward to the reading life ahead of me! What should I get into first?