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Septimus Brown

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Senior editor at the DarlingAxe.com. Blogging at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Author of WHEN THE SKY BREAKS. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️‍🌈

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

On Oct 23, a small sassy dragon is coming to brain-theatres everywhere!

Join Glimm as he manages a band of blowhards set on breaking into Frostvale and toppling the government in this satire about the US-Canada trade war.

Kindle pre-orders are live 🐲
mybook.to/dragoneggs

We've Come For Your Eggs book cover (dragon flying across the sun)

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Robert Vinson @robertvinson.bsky.social · 6h

Loras College Library: Banned Literature: Index of Forbidden Texts

Research and information on censorship and banned literature

library.loras.edu

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 7h

“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”

- H.P. Lovecraft

A hand holding a dripping wet, bulging-eyed, flat-faced cat looking sadly at the camera.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 9h

Roke has always been a bit disturbed, but it just makes him more lovable 😍

Happy #Caturday !!

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"There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before."

—from A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 22h

True story

Artists all day: depressed, smoking
Artists at 3am: chipper, coffee in hand

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

True story 😄

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Here's Tom with the weather!

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I really want to get her an all-black harness because she has so many great bandanas and pretty much none of them go with this shade of pink 😄

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

Please caption our conversation 🐶😎

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

As Bill Hick's once said
matter is dense energy
and we are all one.

#haiku

a photo of a sign: we're not really strangers

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

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Dolly Parton: I ain't dead yet!

PBS reply posts: Same, Dolly, same.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 19d

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"Most Canadians will love this book. And maybe... about 50% of Americans."

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We've Come for Your Eggs
Launches: October 23

Pre-order: mybook.to/dragoneggs

Book Cover: We've Come For Your Eggs (And Other Reasons to Annex the North)

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

Awesome! Thanks :) :)

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 1d

Unfiltered Narrative: Strengthen Your Fiction by Minimizing Filter Words

"Filter words are verbs that refer to a character's senses or cognition, such as seeing, hearing, or thinking."

darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/f...

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Unfiltered Narrative: Strengthen Your Fiction by Minimizing Filter Words

By reducing unnecessary sensory and cognitive verbs, you allow your audience to slip into the shoes of the protagonist and experience events as they unfold, without redundant reminders that the scene…

darlingaxe.com

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 1d

"Fizzle" comes from Middle English "fis," which was an imitation of the sound of breaking wind 💩 💨

#etymology

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

"The future was with Fate. The present was our own."

—The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Dana 🌀 @danaarroyo.bsky.social · 2d

thought + action = change 🦋

Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 2d

"Action may not always be happiness," said the general; 'but there is no happiness without action."

—from Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli

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