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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

How it started / How it's going (Nemo edition) I've finally started working in the second draft of Nemo. Things are finally moving. And even if I have a ton of editing and rewriting ahead of me, I can't wait to see where it all ends

The pain comes first.
Even before I open my eyes, I can feel every sore muscle and aching bone. I haven’t tried to move yet, but something tells me that it’s going to fucking hurt.
Maybe I should stay here, laying over the cold stones as my mind drifts away.
Maybe I should… just… sleep…
But as I’m ready to give in, everything changes.
A subtle breeze moves my hair, and even with my eyes closed, I can feel a warm light that turns the shades of black into a dull molten grey.
With a groan, I start rolling slowly, trying to escape that unbearable glow, but before I can turn around, I hit something solid.

The first thing I feel is pain.
I can feel it even with my eyes closed.
There are drums inside my head and lead inside my lungs. My muscles are like glass, ready to break, and my bones… my bones are screaming in every possible language.
Maybe I shouldn’t move.
Maybe I should… just… sleep… here… on the cold… floor.
Before my mind can drift away again, a breeze sweeps through my hair, turning the darkness behind my eyelids into something warmer.
Suddenly, the world around gets sharper.
I’m not ready yet.
With a heavy groan, I start rolling, trying to escape it, but something stops me abruptly.
I’ve hit something solid.
I’ve hit something that creaks against my aching body.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

That's so, SO real!! 🫣 Because let's face it, despite knowing that first draft shouldn't be 100% perfect, I've struggled with things that didn't make so much sense... or repeated things... or even when I didn't finish sentences altogether. But yeah, it's exciting when the new ideas come through!

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celine 🩷💜💙 @writewithcel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

dog collar scene you will always be famous (iykyk) 🌶️ 📖 HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE, out 03/31/26 with Berkley/PRH. preorders are available wherever you love to shop for books / my bio + you can now request an arc on netgalley and edelweiss! it means a lot to a debut like myself!

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It really is the hardest part! (Seriously, you have no idea how many times I wanted to smash my head against the keyboard in pure frustration) But I already have some ideas about how to improve the story, so at least that spite will be useful (?) 😂

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Finished my first read of the first draft of 'Nemo' and I've ended up with a 59 page breakdown of everything that's supposed to happen. There's a lot to do before I can start working on Draft 2. But hopefully, when the time comes, I'll get a better version... One can dream, I guess!

A sheet of paper is placed over a wooden table.

The page includes the following printed text:

NEMO DRAFT 1 RECAP

DAY ONE

1. CHARLIE

- Charlie wakes up feeling pain, sore muscles and aching bones HE WAKES UP BUT HE CAN'T OPEN HIS EYES.
- He has been laying over cold stones as their mind is starting to drift away.
- They are laying over cold...

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

My sapphic debut novel is about the return of a long dead cosmic god spreading a blight across the stars, and the chosen chronically ill saint and sword wielding Valkyrie trying to stop the coming apocalypse 🌸✨🌑 the-hallowed.carrd.co

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The latest episode of Critical Role campaign 4 has been a big rollercoaster of emotions. Seriously, I feel like it has had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I can't wait to see where the story and the characters go moving forward!

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It also has chaos, the stress of filmmaking, a group of friends that are the true heroes of the story and a big vulnerable heart. Also, this first cover, it's something that I've illustrated and designed myself. Maybe it will change, but for now I think it's a good fit for the story.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

YAMATPS is a romance, but it's NOT only a romance, because there are conversations about burnout and how some dreams may not fit us anymore, grief, depression, and their lingering effects. But most of all, this is a story of someone who can finally see that they can have a place on this stories.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Recently I finished the first draft of 'You And Me And The Perfect Scene', so I feel it's a good time to do an introduction post, share more about this story of mine and also do a small reveal of the first cover. Maybe it's still a long way to go before this one is out, but we are one step closer!

Portrait photography. JR stands in front of two big black shelves filled with book. On their hands, and hiding the lower half of their face, they are holding a small black e-reader that shows the cover of ‘You And Me And The Perfect Scene’ on its screen.

Flatlay shot. A white tablet is set over a pile of script pages, some old storyboard sketches and an old clapperboard. On the screen of the device appears the cover of ‘You And Me And The Perfect Scene’ by JR Bautista.

A more detailed look to the cover of ‘You And Me And The Perfect Scene’ by JR Bautista. The cover is set against an orange background. At the top of it, there’s a tagline: ‘Every Love Story Needs A Bit Of (Movie) Magic’.
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At the centre, there are two illustrations, a few sketches and the title of the book.
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The first illustration is placed right under the tagline, on the left side of the cover. It shows the character of Wes inside a red square, holding a book and looking down to the right. Beside this square, there’s one word: YOU. It has an arrow that points to the aforementioned illustration, the sketch of a mouse cursor set over the U. And near this word, there’s a sketch of a heart.
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Between the first and the second illustration, there’s a drawing a post-it with the word AND set at the centre of everything.
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The second illustration appears under all the this, on the right side of the cover. It shows the character of Dani inside of a green square, holding a few papers and looking up.
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Right next to that, on the left side, there’s one big word (ME) with an arrow pointing to the second illustration. Near that word, there’s a small sketched star.
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Under all this appears the rest of the title: AND THE PERFECT SCENE.
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And at the bottom of the picture rest the name of the author: JR Bautista

Before Dani Molina can reach his dream of being a professional film and video editor, he needs to graduate from film school.
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Things should be easy, right?
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He has a great group of friends with whom he can work both inside the school and outside of it, an okay eye for finding the right cuts and the beats to set a montage, and he’s ready to start their last project, the short film that stands between them and graduation.
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But life isn’t like a movie and Dani is not meant to be the main character. Maybe that’s why they hasn’t confessed their feelings to Wes, one of their friends and the screenwriter on their final project. But Wesley can’t like him back, that’s impossible… He’s too fat, too broken, too annoying…
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When a confrontation with another classmate makes Dani and his friends lose the cast for their short film, just a week before starting filming, Ari (Dani’s best friend and the director of the short film) will have a silly idea: Cast Dani and Wes as the romantic leads of the story.
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Reluctantly, Dani agrees.
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As filming approaches, chaos is assured and things will change in many ways, showing Dani that maybe his character on the short film is not the only one who can have a love story of his own.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

So... Hi! I know it's been a long, long time since I last posted anything here. But I thought I could try to come back and maybe try to be a bit more active here and all that. We'll see how long that last...

media.tenor.com

a man with glasses and a mustache is looking down

Alt: a man with glasses and a mustache taps a microphone. 'IS THIS ON?' appears at the bottom of the image in big blocky white letters.

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

🌸✨🌑 HARDCOVER PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE 🌑✨🌸 You can pre-order signed your signed hardcover of Name Her Holy through the end of September, books will ship mid to late October 🍂 There will be a new print and new stickers that come with your order! ko-fi.com/s/2d4dda2eb3

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Signed Hardcover Name Her Holy - PRE-ORDER - AubreyEnnis's Ko-fi Shop

*Signed Hardcover of Name Her Holy* This pre-order is for a signed hardcover copy of Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis. Your order will come with a print...

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If you're an EU citizen, please don't forget to sign this petition for a ban on conversion therapy practices. The deadline (May 17) is really close, but with the rate at which it's been gaining signatures these last few days it looks like it might still reach the required threshold!

eci.ec.europa.eu

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Very late to #sapphicsaturday but here’s to Kye and Jude who have been out in the world almost three months and I’m still reeling from all the love they’ve gotten 🫶🏻

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Trying to write a heated scene and I'm here giggling like a school kid, kicking my feet and feeling utterly silly. Maybe I'm too demisexual for something like this... Or maybe I'm just a plain and simple fool... Who knows... But I salute everyone who can get these scenes done in a beat

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A little Name Her Holy book two moodboard to keep me motivated— The working title has been Crown Her Ruin for some time now (but god knows I’ll change it six times before release sooo) This part of the story has been such a challenge already, in the best and worst way #Booksky #sapphicbooks

Mood board of nine images:
1. A woman with a long auburn braid looking away
2. A long sword, pointing down, held by two hands at rest among lily pads
3. A person standing at the horizon between a flat reflective water that mirrors the stars above
4. A crop of an angels wing from a classical painting
5. A hand holding up a simple flower crown of white flowers
6. An eclipse of the sun, a flare of light singing out from behind the moon and the clouds
7. Black and rocky shores in pale light
8. A woman laying in repose in the water, pale in white linen dress with flowers floating around her
9. A woman in silhouette, tilting backwards her short hair covering her face

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Have you ever written a line that just HURTS you? Because I've just done that and OOF (Or maybe it's the fact that I wasn't planning it but still fits with something that's going to happen later and... yeah... IT HURTS AND IT'S ALL MY FAULT)

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

There's still time before 'Nemo' can be out. But I'm proud of this cover. In many ways, 'Nemo' is a story about memory and identity. So a while back, I created this cover, inspired in the 'Narcissus' by Valerio Cioli. This Narcissus Denied is the best concept for this story.

The first cover of ‘Nemo’ by JR Bautista. This cover tries to emulate the design of old books. Set against different textures that give a stained paper impression, there’s a frame made by red lines (with four dots on each of the corners) and a red rectangle at the bottom.
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At the top of the cover, on a space with a cream background and still framed by red lines, there’s a line of text, ‘who am I?’, and right under it, there’s a sketch, a reinterpretation of the sculpture ‘Narcissus’ made by Valerio Cioli, with a stain of black paint hiding part of the character’s face. This ‘denied Narcissus’ is supposed to be looking down, he’s not wearing a shirt and his right arm is raised and on his hand, there’s a cylinder-like object. And on the left side of the sketch there are two faint echoes of the same figure.
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At the bottom part of the cover, set inside the red rectangle, appears the title of the story, ’NEMO’, in big block-y letters, and right under it, the name of the author, JR Bautista, contained between two cream coloured dots. All these texts are framed by cream coloured lines that create a rectangle with four curves on each corner.

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Thank you to everyone who has read and talked about Name Her Holy! It really means the world to me, and the word of mouth recommendations go such a long way for indie books 💖🫶🏻💖 #IndieApril #Booksky 🌈📚

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Bringing this back to say hey if you wanted to read about this little guy just doing her damndest to high-mask her way through the apocalypse (written by the high masking autistic who realized they were while writing her), uhhhhh have I got the itch bundle for you 🫡

Crop of the book cover for Name Her Holy, artwork is of Kye. She is facing forward, has tan skin covered with scars, pale gray eyes, dark hair, short and wavy blowing in the breeze. She is wearing a high collared dark jacket.

Text post reads: I was so normal and neurotypical today and hardly went to the shadow realm at all

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

First time rewatching 'Another Earth' (2011) in ages. This was a big influence on me as a storyteller. Something that still lingers on my writing. It's beautiful, raw and so achingly human. A larger than life story that breaths on a small scale. I love it to pieces. youtu.be/eOU0JhkHY3w?...

youtu.be

ANOTHER EARTH: The Russian Cosmonaut

YouTube video by SearchlightPictures

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This month so far has been tiring for a myriad of reasons, but if there's one thing that I know for sure is that maybe it's time for me to formally introduce YAMATPS. I guess it's time to scream about my ace-spec romance from the roofs

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Just a reminder as you’re making your picks for the upcoming #TransRightsReadathon if you want a trans sword lesbian MC and a genderqueer chronically ill MC, Name Her Holy might be for you 🌑✨ I’ll also be donating all earnings for the month of March to www.transyouthequality.org 💖 #Booksky 🌈📚

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Well, I've officially reached 60k on the first draft of YAMATPS.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

12/20 chapters drafted 8 more to go! Maybe this is one of those days when I need to remind me that first drafts don't need to be perfect... But at least I'm doing some progress with the first draft of YAMATPS and I'll take that as a win

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The Trans Rights Readathon starts soon! If you'd like to read a book from a trans author, then maybe give my book Mercy a shot :) It's about a priest with a boob window and a hothead angel who fall in love and then deal with so many problems lol. (Cover art by Soren Häxan) #Romancelandia 🌈📚 💙📚 🌈💜 🌶️📚

A book cover. This cover has a black background with tiny white stars. The title text at the bottom reads “Mercy” with the name “Ian Haramaki” underneath it.

The majority of the cover is a pale man with dark curly hair wearing intricately patterned priest vestments depicting saints, gold swirls, black suns, and black and gold teardrops. Importantly, the vestments have a circular cutout over the chest.

Behind the figure’s head is a circle of gold, surrounded by a ring of gray snake scales, further surrounded by a gray 8 point star with black lines radiating from the center. Around the 8 point star is another ring of gold with white angel wings surrounding it. A pair of dark gray hands with gold freckles emerge from the ring of gold to cover the face and mouth of the main figure in an erotic manner.

A trope map featuring the cover for Mercy by Ian Haramaki. The background is a blurred out foggy forest. The text at the top reads: Available in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audio. Books2read.com/Mercynovel. In clockwise order, the tropes are: Hurt/Comfort, Forced Proximity, Touch Him and Die, Hothead Angel, "Worship on the Altar" with three pepper emojis and one fire emoji, cozy -and- dark, taking "confession" with three pepper emojis and one fire emoji, Boob window priest, slow burn (for impatient people), and grumpy x sunshine

Two figures lying in a field of white lily flowers. The bottom right figure has pale skin, dark curly hair, and a dark shirt on with crying eyliner. The figure on the top left has long red hair and a dark red sweatshirt with darker skin and flower freckles.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I've finally started Oathbound and at 2% I already have reasons to scream into the void. I feel this is going to be a top favourite for me, but at the same time... I feel like I'll probably suffer along the way... and I'm welcoming that anyway... That's the power of Tracy Deonn's writing

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

That loss happen when I was 10 years old (two weeks before turning 11 in fact). It's basically one of the many foundations of who I am today. And 1 of my biggest regrets is that on the last years, we didn't get many photos together.... So yeah... This has definitely hit me with all the feels

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

And I know it's silly to add this but... I'm not sure if I can condense all my feelings in two single posts. Like on one side I'm happy to discover that, but on the other, well, it's a lot

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Finding a new-to-you photo where you appear with someone that you lost a long, long time ago hits you in a bittersweet way. Sweet because after all this time, there are still things to discover, new evidences of your time together Bitter because it brings that loss to the forefront again

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I don't think I have one single book of my heart. I tend to leave bits and pieces of my heart in every single story that I write, so I guess they're all the books of my heart. But maybe the biggest one to date is You And Me And The Perfect Scene. That's the story that I think I need right now

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

✨🌸💖BIRTHDAY SALE💖🌸✨ Kye and Jude have been out in the world for a whole month, and I can’t thank you all enough for the love you’ve shown them. To celebrate (and cause it is my actual birthday), Name Her Holy is $1 on itch.io for the next 24 hours 💖🫶🏻💖 aubreyennis.itch.io/name-her-holy

Artwork of Kye and Jude, laying opposite of eachother, surrounded by a ring of shadow and with a bronze long sword between them. Kye has tan skin, covered in scars, dark brown wavy hair cut short. Her eyes are pale gray. She is dressed in a finely tailored jacket with a long train, high collared, gold details and slit cut for sleeves. Tailored trousers and boots, a dark ring on each hand. In once hand black smoke billows, creating the shadowy gate around them. The other hand rests on the sword blade, a bright flame erupting from her palm. Jude is laying with eyes closed, one hand on the sword hilt, the other sheltering a small white snowdrop flower glowing golden in her hand. She has pale skin, freckles, auburn hair in a long messy braid with an undercut. A long scar runs over her nose and cheek. She is wearing leather armor that’s stamped and etched with delicate flower designs. Behind her the sky looks bright before the enclosing shadow and starlight.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

New snippet from 'You And Me And The Perfect Scene' ! One of these days I need to stop writing main characters that feel so close to myself. Because sometimes, writing things like this feels easy, but putting everything into a silver plater and offering to the world still feels intimidating

I try to smile, to hide all my doubts and insecurities because if I let them all out, I’m not sure I’d be able to contain them again.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I've been having some time off work since last week (basically for the weather). And I'm trying my best to keep working on YAMATPS, but no matter how much I finish (a chapter and a scene so far), I still feel like that isn't enough The weather is not exactly helping me focus or feel motivated

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My sincerest apologies to everyone who now knows what this art was about 🙏🏼 #Booksky 🌈📚

Artwork of Kye and Jude in a two panel layout. Kye is standing facing forward against a starry and black smoked background, haloed in light and broken stine that swirls around her. She is tan skinned, covered in light glowing scars, has dark wavy brown hair cut short and glowing white eyes. Her hands are smudged with black up to her elbows, she holds a blue glowing light in her upturned hand. She is wearing disheveled bed clothes.
Jude is in full golden plate armor with bright blue undercoat and trailing sash. She is wreathed with a golden firey crown and gold wings of light against a dark sky. She is white, has long auburn hair in a braid with an undercut. She has a long scar across her nose and cheek She looks terrified and is holding up a broken sword alight in pinks purples and blue.
Both are framed in gold leaves and flowers in an art nouveau style frame with stars above their heads.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

OH!!!!!! (Somehow I hadn't connected the dots, but now that I do... THIS HURTS. IT'S STILL GORGEOUS BUT IT HURTS)

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

2025 vs. 2016 The other day I found one of my first #sketches of the #EleventhDoctor from #DoctorWho (made in 2016). And I thought I could draw the character again and see my evolution. It's safe to say that even if I don't draw as much as I used to, progresses have definitely been made

A digital sketch, work in progress in fact.

A cartoonish rendition of the Eleventh Doctor from 'Doctor Who' as played by Matt Smith. He's contorted in a way that leaves one hand out of the picture and the other, that holds a sonic screwdriver.

The character is wearing a long coat, a vest, a shirt with a bow tie. He has long-ish hair that fall one side and a small smile.

A photo of a sketchbook that shows a pen sketch of the Eleventh Doctor (from Doctor Who), and let's just say that it could be better

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It's going to be great to see it there (and being able to do more photos with the paperback itself). Seriously, I can't wait!!

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Thought I could start on Flashes with this pic! I'm not sure how much I will use this, but it's great to have some alternatives to the other app... just in case

Landscape during sunset. There are multiple colours on the sky, and a few clouds that frame the top side of the picture, at the centre, there's the outline of the landscape, all filled with shadows, and at the bottom, there's a reflection, that mirrors everything described on the top half of the picture.

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is great! I can't wait to finally have a paperback copy in my hands!!

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Maybe I'll start using Flashes... Will I be able to keep up with all these platform? Probably not, but still, I want to try it anyway

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Finally finished the chapter of YAMATPS where things start heating up. Maybe it has taken me way too long to finish this, and maybe it's ridden with typos and many things that I will change, but I wanted to share a snippet of the first draft anyway

The shadows envelop them as they finally look at each other
in this new manner. In the deep of the night, they drink each other, start each other's bodies with both hands and eyes, as if the other's body was something sacred, something consecrated
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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

They definitely deserve those! As much as I love seeing them together kicking some asses and being epic, these two also need some time off, a good holiday, the chance to be domestic and cute... All of that!

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JR Bautista @jayrthemess.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Finally got a physical copy of Fated Winds And Promising Seas by @wordsofrablack.bsky.social. This book is a really warm hug, a spark of much needed hope in dark times, and seriously, I couldn't recommend it enough. (P.S: It looks amazing right next to Til Death Do Us Bard)

Close-up shot of a big black bookshelf filled with books. On the central shelf, two hardcover books stand on their own, with their covers facing the camera. These two books are: 'Til Death Do Us Bard' and 'Fated Winds And Promising Seas' both written by Rose Black

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