Rascal Hartley
@rascalhartley.bsky.social
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I mostly make people cry dear stupid penpal - out now! 🪐🏳️🌈 The Miniscule Magic of Humans - 🔜 @duckprintspress.com 🐏🏳️⚧️ IWNSUA: querying!🐾🏳️⚧️ WIP: 1K 🧌🏳️🌈 unfortunatelyobsessed on AO3, 2019 Hugo award winner (iykyk), bestselling author (apparently?!)
![Discord chat screenshot.
Theoden: lol the kid can call you "father" "mother" or "captain"
Crime brulee: hehe [heart smiley] i like it.
Kestrel: the three genders
Theoden: in my game of lovecraftian horror and creepy occurrences, i have just... led a rat nation to victory against a guinea pig nation on a little island???? The rats have fixed my ship???¿¿¿??? I gave the guinea pig survivors food and they gave me uh [checks game screen] crate of human souls](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:omcky5bs2bexzfcu5dhjufpu/bafkreidiriixd2nsmlmndkerxepsmv5kye7gwbnbxw4rcset6wwuxs4yyy)
![Text of part of a paragraph, reads: bearings. If in constant use, the machine should be oiled two or three times a week. [In bold] Neglect to do this will shorten the life of your machine and cause you trouble and annoyance.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:omcky5bs2bexzfcu5dhjufpu/bafkreihbvc3o3lcwll42fnytlxch5jtnzrt3d5dwylhh6r2ao7s6rwofxm)
![In the middle of this is the cover of Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley, which is mostly dark deep space except the silhouette of a man at an instrument panel that's lit in rainbow hues that trail into space. Surrounding it, in terrible order and form, are the following:
Insipid flirting
People keep saying it's good (my discord DMs are filled with keysmashing)
Not gay as in happy, queer as in i love you
An author that definitely knows how to market
Queer [this is in all rainbow]
Oh also it's in space BTW
Aroace characters (this is very important to me
Written entirely in letters
An amount of queer that would make your grandma clutch her pearls (they're my pearls now gimme)
Comedy :)
Tragedy :(
Just kidding (or am I)
If I put queer on here one more time I get a bingo
Unknown whispers
Taco Bell
I had to look up multiple words while writing this
Horror romance
Homance, if you will
Rorror?
HORROMANCE (it was right there!)
End ID](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:omcky5bs2bexzfcu5dhjufpu/bafkreifb5vnw2d36cinah6ieskb5lwm23fucykrzfwuxgstwksxrdiq4bu)
![A picture of the first page of A Witch's Tale by Rascal Hartley. It reads:
There once was a witch who could cure almost anything.
She had a name, as most witches do, and she lived in the woods, as all witches do. She liked sunlight dappling through green leaves overhead, and she liked the thing shaped like a cat that would sit on her windowsill and purr. She liked embroidering her skirts and decorating her cane with crystals and pinecones. But, most of all, she liked the heroes that came through.
They didn't come through often, as heroes are not an everyday sort of thing, but at least twice a decade, some knight or another would invariably knock on her door and ask for shelter. On the few occasions they made it back, she healed their wounds and sent them on their way. She liked being a footnote in their stories, a fond remembrance. And I was healed by Lady Golgora, may peace rest fondly with her.
She healed broken bones and sprained ankles, arrow pokes and upset stomachs. She strained willow bark for headaches and harvested passionflower for ill memories. She knew how to cure the mumps, measles, mouth sores, and mange. There is but one thing that she" [end page]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:omcky5bs2bexzfcu5dhjufpu/bafkreiagdm3is2yruqi2vi5hpgwvrp5m5ptxn7xpjfvg7y5ip3z7zp6tsu)
