Antoinette Van Sluytman

#mswl instead of taking down the evil king, give me a linguistic fantasy where the plot is recovering the indigenous magic of a dead language that colonial powers tried to erase

· Feb 27

ria 🏮 @rianghiem

“gojo glasses” this and “gojo glasses” that. vietnamese soothsayers have been rocking this for centuries. https://twitter.com/rianghiem/status/1761430254910939227/photo/1

#mswl give me SFF with a soothsayer mc that has more rizz than Gojo

· Feb 26

Martial Arts in space🌌🥋#mswl

· Feb 15

Give me tortured artists cursed by magical paintings - Grumpy architects tasked with illustrating evil fortresses - Language as a magic system - Magical toy makers! I eat this up

Magic

· Feb 15

Listen I know fantasy loves its mages, assassins, warrior princesses, and knights but please give me more scholars, shamans, mapmakers, artisans, and bards - I would love to see more creatives having adventures in SFF! #MSWL

· Feb 8

Here's a fun #MSWL visual

Top themes: historical fantasy, queer, anticolonial, badass women, adventure, dark speculative, social horror, atmospheric

· 21 Dec 2023

I think now's a good time to add Blue Eyed Samurai to my #mswl

· 18 Dec 2023

hayley ☼ ☽ add THIS RAVENOUS FATE on goodreads!! @pagesofhayley

gothic horror making a proper comeback in fantasy just in time for me to pitch my southern gothic dark academia horror that follows BIPOC uncovering lost history and intergenerational trauma, and for me to draft my frankenstein x carmilla retelling

#MSWL

· 23 Oct 2023

Craving some suspenseful action thrillers as well, especially after binging The Glory and Ballerina

Thriller

· 23 Oct 2023

General themes that are not for me: Fae/Witches/Demons vs Angels/Elemental Magic/Space Operas

Of course there are exceptions to all of this ^ Never know what might surprise me