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

I thought Forgotten Island was good. It was nice seeing a fun, lighthearted story with Filipino characters in it. I only have complaints with the pronunciation of some words and the "tayo na" feels kinda unnatural for me lol

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's already Forgotten Island discourse and I'm not going to participate in it

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Seems like I'm sensitive to common toothpaste now? Lol. Never spent so long in a grocery store reading the ingredients of toothpaste.

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I now have the urge to update all of the wraparound covers of my books 😂

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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.

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

Found a place to play table tennis and wow, I missed the sport so much 🥹

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

✅ Attend a concert I don’t have an extravagant bucket list. Just one more thing and I’ll be happy with this life.

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Attending my first concert this Saturday!

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

God, my debut novel came out almost ten years ago and it gives me sporadic bursts of embarrassment 😅 *Begins to plan tenth anniversary edition* 👀

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's gonna feel weird not being near my usual spots ngl.

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Moved out of my hometown... to the neighboring community lmao

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"I should post here more often," she said for the umpteenth time.

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I hate how retaining your maiden name after marriage is still culturally taboo even if it's completely legal. I saw someone got married on Facebook, and one of the top comments was, "Congrats! But why are you still using your name?"

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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 · 21/02/2026

Mosquitoes are brutal this time around. Can't wear sandals :(

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'm kinda getting tired of wearing running shoes everywhere. Haha

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'm very picky with shoes and swore off ordering them online, but I found these cute ones and I just had to get them. I hope they fit 😞

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I wrote three chapters this month. I'm so happy 🥹

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

And the wife didn’t take her husband’s name. *gasp*

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I have a married couple in my current WIP and I show them taking turns doing domestic labor. I wonder how many conservatives I’ll offend?

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I’m loving that this WIP is in third person because it allows me to explore multiple POVs. I’m a nineteen-year-old and a woman in her forties at the same time. It makes me feel more flexible as a writer compared to my previous books, which were exclusively in a sixteen-year-old’s POV.

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

Reposted because the images didn't upload in the correct order 😅

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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 · 27/12/2025

Social media has gotten so overwhelming, but how else do I share my work? 😭

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

I plan to release this novel in 2028, marking the 10th anniversary of my debut novel, Quinn and the Metropolis. Nothing’s set in stone yet, but it’s nice to have a goal.

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

This book will be a standalone, but if you’ve read my Metropolis Series, Charli’s story will take place roughly 30 years after Quinn’s. I’ll admit that I haven’t made so much personal art this year because I chose to devote my free time to writing something new.

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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 · 11/12/2025

Words. 52k words. Should have specified lmao

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Just realized that my Charli Project (Metropolis Spin-Off WIP) is at 52k. AAAAAAAAA

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

First time using Wise with a client, and it displays my complete, long ass legal name AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I should try to be more active here 😅

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Why are conservative videos appearing on my YouTube feed? e__e

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Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A jaded woman falls for her sunshine neighbor in this cozy Christmas romance with a touch of magic. Magically Generated will be out on October 21! Cover artist: @jaypillerva.bsky.social

Illustrated cover of Magically Generated by Jackie Lau. Large Asian man with beard and glasses, wearing red winter coat and gray hat. White woman wearing green jacket and hat with pompom. He has an arm around her, and they’re looking at each other. Background: snowy city park, including snow sculpture of a rabbit holding a mug. Subtitle: A Christmas novella.

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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

More context on my new WIP bsky.app/profile/jayp...

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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 · 11/07/2025

KPop Demon Hunters lead me to replay my KPop playlist from my corporate slave/pandemic era 🫠

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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

IT'S QUINN'S FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR

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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 · 30/06/2025

My next novel (The Charli Project, working title) may be within the Metropolis universe, but I want it to be a standalone. My current alpha readers can't give me feedback on that since they've all read my books 😅

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Jay Pillerva 🌆 @jaypillerva.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I want to find another alpha reader for my current WIP. It should be someone who hasn't read my Quinn and the Metropolis trilogy yet 🤔

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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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