Harrow the Ninth x A Dowry of Blood In the shadows of Gilded Age Manila, an artist’s muse wakes up from death and must solve her own murder feat. 🫀 anticolonial revenge narratives ✨monstrous men & divine abominations 🫀 tropical gothic ✨ doomed siblings #QuestPit #Q #HF #H

Hearts and Half-Measures, my trans manananggal story from @pseudopod.org made the BSFA longlist!? This is a dream come true 🥹😭 Vote if you can!!

contract signed! if you like trans rage and folkloric filipino horror, then you might wanna stay tuned for HEARTS AND HALF-MEASURES, my blood-soaked story featuring a trans girl solving the serial killings of her fellow manananggals 🫀 coming soon from @pseudopod.org!

🌌🎪 x Sapphic Moulin Rouge Raised on war and lost love, Carina acts out revolutionary stage plays in colonial Manila. Dissent is a death sentence, but she’s willing to risk it all when a familiar face from her past sits down one night to watch her perform #QuestPit #WIP #novella

hello, everyone! it would mean the world to me if you could come to the very first book launch of a book i contributed to! it’s at sunday, feb 16th, 2025 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET online, hosted by firestorm books. i’ll see you there 🫶🏼 registration 🔗 below 👇🏼

Resurrected by a dark power, muse Aleida wakes without her memories in a strange house lorded over by a man who sees visions of the holy and the damned. Slowly, she begins to piece her past together and in doing so, comes closer to solving her own murder. #QuestPit #WIP

Between Nathaniel and Arsenia lie three corpses, a curse that spans generations, and the love that ruined both their lives. When she dies married to someone else, he steals her back from death. Only, she’d found peace in her grave—and now she wants revenge. #QuestPit #WIP

so excited to share that the anthology which published the first short story i ever wrote is in the locus recommended reading list 🖤 as an avid reader of sff and all things speculative, this is a dream come true ✨

for some reason, i always think of the “a face, a false memory, a feeling” line. (this is from deadmuse, my 1920s manila gothic horror in which an artist’s muse wakes from death intent on solving her own murder)

#meetmymcs trapped by a life she doesn’t want to live and spurned by a man she doesn’t even want to love, arsenia finds solace in death. but after she’s resurrected by the one who spurned her, she seeks revenge, and in doing so awakens an ancient curse art by nicoledealart

#meetmymcs aleida wakes from death in the dark devoid of her memories. whilst dealing with a ghost who haunts her and a husband who keeps secrets from her, she reckons with the one thing she knows about herself: she was murdered. and now she has to find out who killed her art by @alamangoes

finally back in the kitchen (cooking)

my 25 for 2025! in all honesty, i’ll probably read these all in january then go into a reading slump for the rest of the year 😅

Born to an exiled heron lord whose folk are imbued with the gift of prophecy, Mercy is forced to become a conqueror’s bride. With her gift used to wage war against her own people, she’s faced with a choice: live and be used as a weapon or die and save them all. #ShortPit #F #OnSub

i only had one publication this year, but i made it count 🖤 maiden, monster, muse, my short story set in 1920s manila about an artist who traps his muse in a cycle of murder and resurrection is out now in the death in the mouth 2 anthology! check it out: sloane.bigcartel.com/product/deat...

you know, i still wait at the edge of town, pray straight to god that maybe you’d come back around | made a #timebomb #arcane edit ⏳

if you liked Arcane, you might want to check out these books! #booksky

i am now on tiktok! with my only video being an arcane timebomb edit i finished 10 mins ago 🙈

my most anticipated reads of 2025! #booksky

if you guys are into beautiful animation and media that really makes you think, may i recommend mononoke: the phantom in the rain? it’s on netflix and i’ve been thinking about it all day. beautiful movie, compelling story

my next wip is a horrormantasy featuring a vampiric woman who makes her confessor fall in love with her on the eve of her execution, stripping him of the notions that the church and the Spanish colonizers currently massacring their people are good and just.

🇵🇭 Wuthering Heights Between Nathaniel and Arsenia lie three corpses, a curse that spans generations, and the love that ruined both their lives. When she dies married to someone else, he steals her back from death. Only, she’d found peace in her grave—and now she wants revenge. (resharing my pitch)

bringing back my trope/plot point map for my filipino wuthering heights reimagining 🦋

the author // the character me smiling right before the eras tour vs. my main character arsenia sad post-husband murder. sometimes i feel kinda bad for putting her through all of That art by alamangoes

hello #booksky and #writersky! i’m cath, writer of historical horror and fantasy, short stories, and more. i’m studying to be an archaeologist, and i’m writing a filipino gothic wuthering heights retelling. nice to meet you 💛

i wrote an archaeological fantasy flash fiction piece a while back, and watching a video about the oldest depiction of a human face reminded me of it. it features someone who was loved enough to be remembered through the millennia, and i really hope to share it with you soon 💛

a reader’s guide to The Dead and the Beloved, my loose Wuthering Heights retelling 🦋