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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

When eating, you go, "this tastes like it was cooked with love." Buti na lang di ganun sa reading otherwise we'd go, "this reads like self loathing and the dread of being overwhelmed."

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Me: I seem to have found my short story niche at 6000-15000 words. Also me, proofreading myself: I am sick of proofreading, why is this story so long?

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Submissions are open until 30 November, with an extended window to 15 December for trans and BIPOC writers. This subs window is for issues #1 & #2 (Spring & Summer 2026). #writersky 🌈📚💙 Full guidelines on our website:

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Submissions — Bona Books

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I use deadlines to motivate myself to finish projects. Last July, I crammed 60+k words for the Epigram Book Prize. I didn't get long listed but that's ok. Finishing a novel is a reward in itself. /Sweetlemons

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a lemon with a smiley face on it is hanging from a tree

ALT: a lemon with a smiley face on it is hanging from a tree

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I have two pending manuscripts for publishers and I was told to expect news in October. And I am have been having a hard time resting because I KEEP FUCKING REFRESHING MY INBOX. I need to calm my ego. Delays and rejections are not a reflection of my skill or hard work. Exhale...

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I blame Emily Dickinson for my love of em-dashes

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I won't say that these personal essays that push soundbytes come from TikTok culture because I've certainly read preTiktok essays that have these "gems" that make you want to highlight them, or reblog them, turn them into tshirts... But maaaaaaaan, why do I feel like I am walking through sales talk?

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Rotc story idea. 5% of population are born with powers and they are obligated to join a reserve forces of the military as a semblance of agency but during times of crises they are mobilized to differing successes.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

As an atheist editor, I would occasionally run across Christian fic, and the text tends to explain their faith based realism. I don't see this in Buddhist or Muslim fic where things just happen. I wonder why.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

So... My Facebook got suspended and it's not looking hopeful. Si I might as well move to my existing socmed elsewhere

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

That was yesterday. Social battery depleted. Hybernate.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

www.facebook.com/share/p/19R5... This is the third draft of this workshop. I want to spread simplifying novel(la) planning to as many people who'd want it. I see myself adding more activities and games to pull in participants who might not be as confident in their work.

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Redirecting...

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I have an event at the Alfredo Tadiar Library in San Fernando, La Union this Sunday. Things are about to heat up so you will want to be there as at soon as it opens at 10 AM

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Alam mo yung "my boss is an inconsiderate slave-driver with no respect for my needs and boundaries" except I am writing, so I am my own boss atm.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

PEAK WRITER FEELS: Having my trilogy on the Fullybooked Bonifacio High Street Window.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

My newest story, They Wear their Truth like Mobile Battlesuit, pits the Doñas Victorina and Consolacion from Noli Me Tangere as tech powered trans women on different sides of the 1896 revolution, give or take a century. #fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #sff

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

www.goodreads.com/book/show/55... I have two sets of The Alipin trilogy for sale for 1000 pesos plus shipping

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Wing of the Locust

Tuan escapes his mundane and mediocre existence when he…

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Get started on the Alipin Trilogy for the price of a coffee. Napakamura. Kumusta naman royalties ko diyan? Nakakaloka. Ito link ng store: s.shopee.ph/2qIpDsYgj4 Ngayon din sa Shopee Store #sale #fiction #fantasy #filipino #youngadult #middlegrade #reading

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I prolly didn't plan that Livestream well BUT I got to rave about Priest's Faraway Wanderers (Word of Honor on Netflix).

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

This novel is not novelling. Juskolord. This is due end of July. So help me, universe.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Reinstalled bluesky. I want to keep bluesky about my writing. Today I finished revising a 233 word script for a picturebook and sent it to a publisher. Last night, I drafted a story for @bonabooks.bsky.social but it's a mess hahaha but 4000 rum fuelled words ain't bad. But revising is not fun.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Starting a poetry habit. It doesn't have to be good. It has to be written. Then we'll make it good.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Gusto ko magbalik loob sa pagtula pero di ko alam paano magsimula.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Hey #Writer Blue Sky, Let's help each other out by listing the grants, free residencies and free workshops in 2025-2026 as applications open.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Rumi was quoted in Dune Prophecy ep. 4 "What you seek is seeking you." Medyo scary yung context though hahaha.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Christmas is the worst season for my depression. I feel anxious around family gatherings. I am outraged by hypocrisy. I feel inadequate. I feel jealous. I hate Christmas so much.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Realism is so much harder than sffh haha. Whereas I've had to stop myself forcibly away from writing to do human being functions,writing realism feels like a chore and I don't want that to show on the page. Huhuhu

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Today in too much internet, some doctors need to superglue fungal infections so that the flesh doesn't crumble apart during surgery. :3

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Not really starting a new project, just self-translating an existing one. Still, excited to be writing again. Ang galing ko pala magsulat. Char.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Buti pa yung abangers ng palanca, may closure na. Kaming abangers ng <redacted> abangers pa din.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of the game. Ergo the objective is not to discourage optimization, rather to make crunch and fluff equally fun, right?

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

This is the difference between representation and perception. Anyone can write about anything but if you have a bipoc or lgbtqia+ character that you are not identified with, that shows your perception of that group, not representation of them obviously. Tread carefully, but with respect, it works.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Ang Langgam sa Hiyas Nása nasà ang sakuna Nang mahalina ng dakta. Walang hanggang titingala Sa gintong langit na mutya.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Whiskey is basically bread. So a whiskey sour is an open-faced egg salad sandwich.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Woman: Good morning po, sir. Man: Hindi ako po sir. Cpkk: ... *5 minutes later* Cpki: POSER!

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Ang pakikipagdigma Ay pakikipagkapwa: Huwag nang masikmurang May walang lamang tiyan, kumakayod nang maysakit, Sa utang sumasandig, O makakitang-hapis Nang "bahala ka diyan."

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Sinuwerte pala akong nakalibre ng Pen-G talong shots noong 2021. Bihira nang libre sa LGU ngayon.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

I love that Twitter is a descriptor to poor discourse skills now.

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Joel Donato Ching Jacob @cupkeyk.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Naisip ko sa lipsynch, I wish tayce performed it. Bagay yung slow smooth death drop sa gusto ko nang bumitaw

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