Hi! Welcome to Pia Foxhall’s Tumblr! (Also the Tumblr for my AO3 not_poignant / thespectaclesofthor names too)

I’m a queer writer in Western Australia who writes queer m/m fiction across genres like romance, fantasy, science fiction, omegaverse, contemporary, and literary. Almost all my fiction is FREE to read.

Feel free to scroll, look through the tags, and ask any questions you might have. This is where I’m most active online, and am happy to talk about writing, editing, upcoming stories, I also frequently share excerpts, talk characters, and more.

You can find my original and freely available Fae Tales series and Rise of the Guardians fanfic here at not_poignant, and all the rest of my fanfic over at thespectaclesofthor

I’ve published books as Pia Foxhall, and you can find the Perth Shifters series here:

Blackwood (Perth Shifters #1) - Buy links
The Gentle Wolf (Perth Shifters #2) - Buy links

Please feel free to support my AO3 original serials here at Patreon or Ream (these are identical mirrors of each other, pick the one you like more!) or at my Ko-Fi account!

This is my main writing income, and the Patreon and Ream account are what allow me to write freely available serials. If you want to see these stories continue to exist and get access to extras in thanks, please feel free to sign up!

If you sign up to the Gary+Efnisien tiers or higher, you also get access to the exclusive, complete m/m romance e-book/novel Tradewinds, which is a Fae Tales Verse romance story featuring an entirely new cast of merchant trader characters!

You can also join my mailing list here! (It’s not very active, I will – at most – bother you 2-4 times a year, but at the moment it’s much, much less).

Daily excerpt from chapter 89 of Underline the Black:

Enris was silent for a long time. ‘I respect and admire Dr Gary, but he is a peak alpha, and I feared that you would be treated the way…people are treated in standard ORFs. I don’t know why I- Because Hillview is partly his vision. But he’s a peak alpha. Biologically they’re just different. You know the saying, don’t you? Just like an omega can’t resist their heats, peak alphas are slaves to their ardolphogen.' 

'I…haven’t heard that one before.' 

'Haven’t you? Oh! You should look into it, since you’re living with him. There are some areas where peak alphas can’t…make informed choices. Just like an omega in heat. Their ability to consent to what’s happening is removed from them. With peak alphas, it looks like they’re making choices when they’re still victims to their own hormones. The same thing happens to alphas too, you know. Many of those stories of alphas duelling to the death… That’s why the legal system is so lenient. But of course that gets exploited by alphas who want to murder someone and consciously choose to do it, and then fall back on their hormones. At any rate, I’ve heard you like learning, so you might want to look into peak alphas. Dr Gary has a whole host of books. I know most of his material is on omegas, but quite a bit is on all the secondary genders.’

Daily excerpt from today’s writing, chapter 26 of Palmarosa:

‘Sir, please,’ Astarion murmured, reminding himself to use the honorific. What could it hurt, at this point, just to try?

‘I have infinite mercy, darling, you need not beg, though it is sweet.’

Astarion’s hands hurt where he clutched at the wood of the cross.

Arousal crept up, his cock actually hardened, and Raphael made it seem so easy, the way he pressed a warm hand flat to his sternum, then stroked, then rubbed as though absently over Astarion’s nipples before brushing his fingertips over them. Astarion realised all too soon that he was being immersed in some overly hot sea of sensation, the pleasure was becoming as inescapable as the pain.

Raphael’s hand quickened on Astarion’s cock, and nails dragged into the bruising and heat at his shoulders, scratching him, and Astarion wanted to swear, shout, instead moaned in despair.

‘How utterly predictable,’ Raphael said.

Somehow, that seemed one of the worst things he could have said, and then Astarion was crying for more than just the pain and trying to hide it in the side of his arm.

Title: A Stain that Won’t Dissolve

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Alex/Sebastian

Tags: Hurt/comfort, aged-up characters (mid 20s), minor character death, angst, injury, grief, miscommunication, bullying, enemies to lovers, dubious consent, internalised homophobia, closeted character, past child abuse, dyslexia, antagonist farmer, unrequited love, pining, acceptance, top!Sebastian, bottom!Alex, power dynamics, happy ending.

Summary: Alex hates Sebastian – which is great because Sebastian more than returns the favour – and what starts out as revenge fantasy turns into unironic lust, which evolves into unrequited love. Alex gets a job, Sebastian marries the farmer, and both of them lose almost everything before finding each other again. A story of two mutual bullies who learn how to messily grow up.

A Stain that Won’t Dissolve (Alex/Sebastian) - Chapter 38 - Relentless Intersections

In which Alex visits Haley for her birthday, and she spots a hickey on his neck, which leads to a deeper conversation about his relationship with Sebastian. Later, Robin visits, and asks if he can clean her house, which leaves him feeling odd about still being closeted and, well, fucking her son in secret.