Kelsey Lynn Clarey 📚🎲🧶

Hi! My name is Kelsey and I am a writer, editor, Crafter, and TTRPG designer. I moved to Toronto, Ontario in September 2025 and am trying to turn some of my time spent unemployed into time spent focus on my creative projects. Follow me here and on @ko-fi.com to keep up with what I'm working on!

The reason we bus is for Child's Play Charity. @childsplaycharity.bsky.social donates video games, toys, and books to children's hospitals and domestic abuse shelters worldwide This year they donated an epic pile of Avatar MTG Collector packs! Find them at childsplaycharity.org #db20 #db2026

#FirstDraftFall: A lot of the details are things I am still working out, but I think the stakes are largely around the character's freedoms and being able to live their lives on their own terms. Though what they think they actually want that to be does change a lot.

Big Shout Out to the @lakesidebuoys.bsky.social ! They took time out of their day to rock on by the Moonbase and troop the Two-Spirit and Trans Pride colours. Trans Rights are Human Rights! The Buoys are alright!

My scarf is officially up for auction over on @desertbus.org!

HEY EVERYONE THE SCARF MY WONDERFUL GIRLFRIEND KNITTED IS UP ON SILENT AUCTION FOR CHARITY. Go look at it and tell @islanderscaper.bsky.social how beautiful it is.

I have an upcoming release! thecrowshoppe.com/products/ble...

No equate but lots of comparing. When a boot's on your back, it doesn't matter how fancy it is. From my sci-fi conspiracy story. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#FirstDraftFall: This story definitely has a lot of common tropes from both scifi and romance stories (and reality tv), and I think part of the fun of it is just trying to work out how all of those elements are going to interact with each other. #weeknightwriters #writingcommunity #writesky

#QueerPrompts Oct 21 No. But that’s because I write queer normative fantasy and part of my personal fantasy is that everyone just inherently knows everyone’s pronouns. 😅 I totally get why people write it! But I wished I lived in a world where everyone magically knew my pronouns.

find something beautiful and protect it from everything that isn’t

Definitely not walking into a bad situation. Don't worry about it. From my sci-fi conspiracy story. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#WIPSnips, 10/3: Petal

#FirstDraftFall: It's a bit of both, I think? The external is driving things forward a lot, but the internal is kind of the main focus.

#WIPSnips 10/20: no peddle, so a more vibes based snip about a marketplace area from my portal fantasy game. #writingcommunity #writesky #ttrpg #ttrpgdesign

#QueerPrompts Oct 20 My favorite part of the writing process is developing characters! I love figuring out what makes them tick! My least favorite part is hunting down overused words. Oh, to live in ignorance of how many times I use the word “just” … 😆

#QueerPrompts Oct 20 ❤️: Coming up with ideas, which is why I have a ridiculous amount of story ideas I never get to. 🤦🏼‍♂️ 👎: The summary. I swear it takes longer than the book! 😅 Also, I love writing endings and loathe writing beginnings. Beginnings are why I don't have a dozen completed stories. 🫠

#QueerPrompts: Favourite: getting lost in an idea, connection with other writers Least Favourite: imposter syndrome, submission mines, revising. #writingcommunity #writesky

It's our second spring in Mistria, and I am determined to completely crush Celine. 😂 #FieldsOfMistria www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qZQ...

We've got more demos to play, and I can't run that late tonight. So let's get started! #SteamNextFest twitch.tv/asteyni

Behold! Two shirts, both alike in dignity. One, celebrates the past, 20 bus routes of stamps adorn its back. The other, a cream colored vision of the present that demands you adorn your 3-D glasses now.

#LGBTQWriteAThon: I guess you could take the scifi and dystopia-adjacent parts out of SpaceBachelorette and just make it a standard romance with a reality TV angle. Which would probably work, but not be nearly as fun. #writingcommunity #writesky #queerwriters

#LGBTQWriteAThon Oct 20 The Bird and the Blade is a queer fantasy romance in a medieval-ish setting. Switching it to a modern AU! Wilder and the other bandits are hacktivists or the like, they still end up kidnapping Callum right before his wedding, but is an even WORSE impulsive plan.

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall one of my WIPs is set during the festivities of an Indian wedding! this first pass doesn't have as many descriptions but subsequent passes should hopefully bring across the vibrancy and colours of a (North) Indian wedding.

#FirstDraftFall #WeeknightWriters I'm actially doing some brainstorming for the soulmate story today and I've finally fixed on names for the love interest and his sister. 🤣

#FirstDraftFall: I'll be honest, I haven't given much thought to food in this story. Though now I'm wondering if maybe I should. 😅

Oh, you know, the usual stuff. Since they live in the greater Portland metro area, it's dry hops and cumin with a drizzle of tzatziki. We jest, of course, but there are a lot of food trucks, and some weird fusions. Though, at some point, they figure out how to make a cartoon donut dispenser.

#FirstDraftFall: Hopefully finishing my minor character summaries! (And trying not to get too carried away with them).

#QueerPrompts Oct 19 🐝 Micah feels safe in the forest with Terran. 🌼 Galen feels safe in the temple. Sasha feels safe at his parents’ house and with Galen. 🪾 Milo used to feel safe in Hatwick Wood before it was cursed. 🐓 Felix feels safe in his cottage. 🌄 Fionn feels safe at the shrine.

#QueerPrompts: Callum feels safest on his ship, currently. Which isn't very safe given the nature of his job. He wants to find a more stable, peaceful place to live. Evadne feels the most safe when she is left alone to take a hot bath. #writingcommunity #writesky

@desertbus.org #ffxiv #mtg My deckbox for Desert Bus! Get a good look inside, learn how it was made, and maybe make your own with my FREE pattern! youtu.be/2tAYgL8VUUQ?...

#LGBTQWriteAThon Finished up adding onto Holiday Project last night. Gonna do one more editing pass. Vitrified comes out tomorrow. Gots to get everything ready for that. Next will be hardcore crunch editing of WIP 2 because I'm realuzing I have less time than I thought.

#LGBTQWriteAThon Goals day!! ⚰️Finish comm #1, start color for comm #2 ⚰️Finish line art for comm #3 ⚰️Focus on marketing BK campaign ⚰️Get Aloe stuff ready for launch party ⚰️Start fulfilling Aloe for backers (Waiting on hardcovers, got paperbacks yesterday!) ⚰️keep moving on #s3 edits ⚰️Website 😅

#LGBTQWriteAThon Oct 19 - Goals! 🦄Finish writing the unicorn short story 🪶Write at least one chapter in The Bird and the Blade

#LGBTQWriteAThon I would like to potentially finish this flash fiction draft so I can get some people to read it for me. Beyond that, just get a little writing done each day.

The story takes place in the mid 1920s, so those kinda clothes. Nice suits and dresses, flapper outfits, etc... I actually found this cool website with pictures of vintage clothing for inspiration. vintagedancer.com/1920s/1920s-... #FirstDraftFall #WeeknightWriters

So get yourself over to desertbus.org, donate a couple bucks and if enough of you wonderful people do that, I'll be rocking a STRKING new hairdo 😀⚡

But really, it's all about the very silly thing. Next Friday I have a haircut scheduled for 6:00PM. If we hit our goal, my barber will shave some sick lightning bolts into the side of my head for the run. I'm hoping it will give me the energy to get through this years run :P I'm no spring chicken.

We're a week away from @desertbus.org, donations are open, time to challenge chat. Keeping it nice and simple this year with something old, and something very silly. If we raise $29,999 before we start next week I will buy everyone working Desert Bus a Dilly Bar.

#SFFChat Q4: The intro to chapter 17 of Serenity. My favorite creature, and yes Dane named it "horse" in French lol

#SFFChat Q4. Speaking of the elbhyr, this is a nice one, I think: #ChroniclesOfTheRealms

#SFFChat Q4: Here's a sneak peak from For One Night Only, featuring Raccoon Lady! Inherent, general *SPOILERS* for TETK

#SFFChat Outro: Thank you for hosting, PJ 🙏💛 I’d like to share the link to @geekyjules.julessherred.com ‘s kickstarter for his novel, “Chasing Cars” 😊 www.kickstarter.com/projects/jul...

#SFFChat Outro. Thanks for hosting! One day left in the LGBTQ+ Gothic, Fantasy, and Horror Bundle, so hurry up if you want it and haven't grabbed it yet! itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...

#SFFChat: Since I referenced this flash fiction in the last one, I'l answer for that. Bridget believed for grandmother's faerie stories as a kid, less so as she grew up. Now she is having to face just how true they actually were.

#SFFChat: I definitely have a lot of faerie lore that pops up in some of my work. I'm working on a flash fiction piece currently where that is a major part of the story.

Hey, I'm Anna. I write across the SFFH spectrum. I have a great fondness for Black Shuck. #SFFChat