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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Got bored, so I checked how many times I've used the F word in my WIP.

Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's been three years since I wrapped up Quinn's story in my Metropolis Series. Happy birthday to my youngest, darkest child, "Quinn and Cassandra" 🪞🔪

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Sharing an excerpt from The Charli Project (Working Title), my upcoming urban fantasy novel 🐠 #amwriting

An Excerpt from The Charli Project (Working Title)

Coming 2028... hopefully

CHARLI TRUDGED AROUND the streets of the Metropolis with a backpack slung over her shoulder. The weather was just right for an evening out in the city; it wasn’t too hot that she would die from the humidity, nor were there heavy rains that would sweep her away. It was on those nights that she pursued her journey of self-discovery. She didn’t know where the destination was or what it was like, but she couldn’t just sit around and watch her life disappear with each passing day.

She knew that the Author wasn’t coming back soon to fix any of this. Those who still put their hope in her return were like stupid kids who believed in Santa Claus. In reality, it was the Persona’s choices that perplexed her. With all the power she had, Charli often asked herself why the Persona had to stop at making the Metropolis safe when it could be fun, too. The important Archivist people might claim that Metropolitans could be whoever and do whatever they wanted, but looking around,

Charli knew that her choices were limited. She didn’t want to graduate from college just to become a cog in the capitalist machine. Plus marriage? Kids? She didn’t want anything to do with those, either.

She dropped her bag by a big empty wall. It was on the side of one of those high-end condominiums that seemed to be popping up everywhere.

And it was gray, too, which was the worst part.

Things should have been easier for her now that Metropolis was stable, which meant she had no right to complain about the life she already had. However, she had an uncontrollable itch that wouldn’t go away, and she needed to find a way to satisfy it somehow.

Painting on gray walls—adding color to the world—was the solution Charli had found.

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Art vs. Artist - 2025 💖 I didn't make a lot of personal art this year, so decided to add my writing progress, too XD

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas 🎄🌟 Here’s a year-end drawing of my new characters, Charli and Kai, for my ongoing spin-off novel.

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I seem to doodle angry Charli whenever I put my writing on hiatus 😅

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Welcome to the Metropolis 🌆🐈‍⬛

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Charli (main character of my new WIP) is NOT happy that I stopped writing again 😂

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I'm also so proud of the background 🌆✨

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Drawing Julio and Quinn like I didn't make them miserable in my books 😔👍

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Working on something personal again 🌆

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I changed my phone to Spanish to make this silly little doodle (my LI's name is Julio lmao)

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Small rant, but I feel like I wrote something so niche that idk where and how to promote it 😅 Especially in the local scene. "Is it romance?" Kinda, but it's not the main thing. "Promote your fantasy books..." Yeah? "...based on local folklore or history" ...Oh 😅

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

...with the boys behind the lens 📸

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Soooo I've been working on a new book for about a year now 🐠 These are my new characters, Kai (left) and Charli (right).

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I wrote a one-shot of these two 😅 I don't know how to share literature in this social media landscape, but I'm trying. themetropolisseries.carrd.co#extras

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

*Mostly* straight girlie tries to write about her sapphic OC's going on a date 😅

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

My girly bag vs. my bf’s manly bag

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I finished my Metropolis Series with Quinn and Cassandra two years ago!

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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f. painted - ₱6,050/$110

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a. line art - starts at ₱2,750/$50
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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Building my characters' houses in the Sims is part of my writing process. This is a WIP of the main family's house in The Charli Project.

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

✨ quote with your: cover + first page + link ✨ jaypillerva.com/books 🌆

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My Charli Project (working title for my new YA book) already has 14 chapters, a prologue, and an interlude 🥹

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Today was… definitely something. That’s a story to tell for another day.

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Get in, loser, we’re posting lock screens. I made this simple drawing of my character, Quinn, in late 2022. All of my devices have this wallpaper 🌙✨ Also featuring my Duolingo streak xD

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

When you're both the author and fandom of your OCs, you gotta make all the content yourself. Looks like I've crossed "cosplaying" off the list 😅

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

…just trying to navigate the white default in literature

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Here are some doodles of my main girls and guys showing their dynamics XD 1st gen - Julio and Quinn (2019) 2nd gen - Charli and Kai (2024) #WritingCommunity #amwriting

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Welp, looks like I can’t lie down 😅

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

And hence the birth of these snippets at the toward the end of Book 2:

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

When I finished my YA trilogy last year: I will not spoil my books. I will not spoil who gets together in the end. Me this year: But look how cute they are??? 🥲