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Loved the Most, ch. 1

Hope ZaneNovels

It’s Lynx’s 24th birthday.

Come out to the bar, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.

Despite managing to make it 24 revolutions around the sun, Lynx had never actually done this kind of thing before. Oh, he’s had drinks, but he’s had them back in the dorms with his friends, or on nights out at the KTV, or just generally in settings other than this.

But this is fun. It’s nice. The bartender is cute and smiles at him with dimples, and his friends have been having fun going up to the bar to order Lynx a steady stream of increasingly outlandish drinks for his tender cat’s tongue, all of them sweet but some of them fruity, some of them tasting like chocolate and cream.

Lynx still has the taste of heavy chocolate lingering in his mouth, clinging to his lips, when Adia presses himself close.

“Hey, my baby. Are you having a good time?”

Adia smells like leather and the new perfume he’s trying out. It’s cooler and a little more open where Lynx is standing, but Adia has been dancing like mad in the middle of the crowded dance floor. He’s dripping with sweat, and Lynx can feel the heat wafting off of him when he gets in real close. He’s wearing leather pants, the material wrapped tight and snug around his vulpine hips, his dancer’s thighs, and Lynx can feel one of those hips nudging into him with how close Adia is standing.

“Pretty good,” Lynx agrees, tipping the last of his chocolate pudding-tasting drink into his mouth and crunching on the ice cubes.

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Dog bite?! More kpop, more kdrama, and a new serial

Hope ZaneGeneral

I’ve been straight up obsessed with Devil by the Window by TXT for a couple of days now. I’m also neck deep in watching the kdrama Secret Relationships, which I clicked on purely by chance, but god I saw the twist coming, and yet it’s still so fucking good.

I got attacked by a dog the other day? So that was less than awesome. My foot hurts, and I can’t really walk on it, but it’s okay with meds and keeping off it. I’m on antibiotics and really hoping that ish doesn’t get infected. Ughhh.

I’m still not convinced this isn’t a very stupid idea, but I’ve been serializing one of my new BL books here. I’m having a really good time writing it. I hope you’ll have a good time reading it. I agonized so hard over the pricing structure because I really honest to god do not want to feel like I’m ripping anyone off!! I’d make it cheaper if I weren’t already getting murdered on the payment processing fees at $0.99.

I’m… trying things. Undoing things, trying them again. Thinking long and hard and then trying not to think because I still want to be more of a writer than a… what. Marketer? I don’t know. Trying to make it out alive, like we all are. Rising costs of living are murder, huh?

It is almost time for more pain meds, and then I think I’m going to try to write again. Wish me luck with crossed fingers, if you can.

Back from the dead

Hope ZaneGeneral

And a bit sick, so this blog is probably going to be short. I’ve been so busy lately. I started taking qi gong classes, which I’ve been loving a lot. I went STRAIGHT off the fucking deep end for the entirety of October. I got really, really into Kpop. Stray Kids, specifically.

Stray Kids, the rabbit that led me down the rabbit hole

There is a truly terrifying amount of content in Kpop land. I’m enjoying it a lot. I also started learning Korean, which is a real “don’t look at me, let’s not acknowledge how far I’ve gotten down this rabbit hole” kind of vibe. 재밌어요!

I’ve been working on a new story and also had to pull back for a second to kind of take inventory of all my WIPs. I hit a real wall with writing this month, partially because of some life changes that have been going on, partially because I’d adopted a kind of workflow that really didn’t work for me.

We’re working it out, working out the kinks.

Anyway, maybe that’s all for now. I’ll probably elaborate on some of this… later.

For now, I’ve been continuing to serialize stuff on Wattpad, including the new story. Time will tell if this is a mistake or not. Sometimes it feels like it is, sometimes it feels like it isn’t. For better or worse, I’m currently too sick to agonize about it.

I’m going to go… be sick and try not to do things that are too labor-intensive. Maybe I’ll finally watch the survival show that made Stray Kids. I keep putting it off because Felix is my bias, and I don’t know if I can handle seeing him be sad.