L. Lacerta Winters 🏴🪳 ΘΔ
@antarcticempire.net
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Mantis therian • she/her • taken Poet & author specializing in horror, sci-fi, bugs, and inner space. OG posthumanist socialite Writing comms closed Website: www.antarcticempire.net PFP by @space-salaman.bsky.social
![Real Talk!
So are we going to [redacted] the fucking government or what?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3uvhblt5c4ytjdxliscyhg42/bafkreihoc6ajusckwtasyh3nu26iacvoq5rfs2r4kz4al4atkzc55fphhe)
![L. L. Winters Writing Commissions ~ SFW/NSFW ~ Price Sheet!
Hello! I'm a praying mantis at a typewriter. For more than 15 years, I've had a passion for pretty words, and the deep thoughts & feelings one can paint with them. So, I'm offering paid services! I specialize in the horror, sci-fi, and inner-space subgenres. My style is intimate and metaphorical, while my comfort zone centers on bugs (since I am one) and other "alien" creatures within abstract, mysterious, or esoteric settings.
In addition to SFW pieces, I do offer NSFW comms, however I can be picky about that specifically. Please make sure to check with me beforehand on whether I'm willing to take something on as a project.
Thank you! Remember to cause good trouble and be kind to small creatures <3
If you would like to know more, you can contact me on my discord. I don't bite, usually! :} [dot]monteverdi
Poetry
Traditional: 20USD for 4-16 lines, an additional 5USD for each additional line
Free verse: 20USD for up to 100 words
Prose
15USD for every 500 words
All Products are 100% claw-typed, void of any Abominable Intelligence
[mantis photoshopped in front of typewriter] Me hard at work (artist's interpretation)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3uvhblt5c4ytjdxliscyhg42/bafkreia7wumvwiqraae5b3x4nh4sv2vfcvynlcccgnsaa3rwacpt43hoce)
![L. L. Winters Writing Commissions ~ SFW/NSFW ~ Price Sheet!
Hello! I'm a praying mantis at a typewriter. For more than 15 years, I've had a passion for pretty words, and the deep thoughts & feelings one can paint with them. So, I'm offering paid services! I specialize in the horror, sci-fi, and inner-space subgenres. My style is intimate and metaphorical, while my comfort zone centers on bugs (since I am one) and other "alien" creatures within abstract, mysterious, or esoteric settings.
In addition to SFW pieces, I do offer NSFW comms, however I can be picky about that specifically. Please make sure to check with me beforehand on whether I'm willing to take something on as a project.
Thank you! Remember to cause good trouble and be kind to small creatures <3
If you would like to know more, you can contact me on my discord. I don't bite, usually! :} [dot]monteverdi
Poetry
Traditional: 20USD for 4-16 lines, an additional 5USD for each additional line
Free verse: 20USD for up to 100 words
Prose
15USD for every 500 words
All Products are 100% claw-typed, void of any Abominable Intelligence
[mantis photoshopped in front of typewriter] Me hard at work (artist's interpretation)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3uvhblt5c4ytjdxliscyhg42/bafkreiaifgkevybr4vni6rxxqejyneyfwbjj5vmeha4ezs3aokli4mz7hy)
![Screenshot of white and green text on a black background. It reads:
Tonic Immobility
A Short Story
I'm a soft thing. You know me. Tapping on your windowpane every so often, always at intervals. Falling into a rhythm of life. I become a pattern in yours, just as you are in mine. This is normal, isn't it? I'm not sure because I'm not thinking about it.
A flight of a pale young glimmer, showering its milky white scales over me. I'll be like that someday. If you'll permit me to dream and imagine what I work towards. It's beautiful, isn't it? Don't you think I'm beautiful? Don't you think I'm doing fine for myself, despite how soft I am? Despite the way people look at me?
[Italic text]
I think you outshine me ten times over. You're positively radiant. I used to struggle to understand why you love me. A grain of sand in the oyster of your joys. You told me once that you could make a pearl out of me. It leaves me wondering what I should do. How I should respond to you.
I see you traveling out along the lines of life. Outside. Making strides through your foolishness that's somehow endearing to me. I'm pained by your patterns as much as enthralled. When will you protect your heart? Please protect your heart.
[End Italic text]
Look at the way this leaf glides in the wind, even though it's tied down! Rooted on its plant, but still flying. I feel like that leaf. Sometimes I'm sad that it'll be gone. I'll eat it. A good leaf. Was that the leaf's dream?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3uvhblt5c4ytjdxliscyhg42/bafkreigjs32qr6p4rxbmzwqrw6ed4zuabcmi63iphenjus3gewzi5ct2ga)
