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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛

@xeinale.bsky.social

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Writer of autistic and queer characters. Editing Barriers of Lies. Painter 🎨 Witty or Deep. Depends on the mood. LGBTQ+ #writing #reading #painting #fantasynovel #author

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 6h

3/3 if you have questions or want to talk writing I am always happy to. Thank you #WIPSnips authors for lifting me up once a day with your posts and your support. It means a lot to me!

Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 6h

2/3 Getting the story from my Snips is not easy. I see other authors posting and talking about how they know and care for the characters already thanks to the Snips. Not sure how you guys do that but I’ll learn. Meanwhile 🧵

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 6h

1/3 Appreciation post: the community within #WIPSnips is super supportive and I want to thank you all. I am writing my first novel officially since December 2024 and sharing bits with you and receiving even just one like means a lot. It’s not perfect but it’s me, sharing is scary. I know 🧵

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🎃 Samhain Vimes 👻 @reaper-man.bsky.social · 1d

I managed to get a screenshot, before they were all suddenly deleted for some reason.

Tweets--

Sir Scruffsalot: GUYS I'M MAKING WAFFLES! COME OVER!
Sir Scruffsalot: SMALL DELAY WITH THE WAFFLES! MINOR ISSUE. NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
Shorespine Fire Dept: The blaze in the lower tiers has been contained. Damage is
being assessed. Source of the fire has been pinpointed to a bar. Suspected cause: volatile batter. The runaway geese have been
contained, though not pacified. There's syrup everywhere.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

I got you. It shows it seems after my quote.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPSnips

Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 1d

‘Eventually’ instead of ‘Ultimate’ for today.

From ‘The Big Feat’.

#WiPSnips

(If someone that *is* showing on tag searches could quote post this with the WiPSnips tag, I would be grateful. It only needs one. Thank you!☺️)

Through cavernous rooms and twisting corridors, dark backways used mostly by servants and the like, the man led Murple a heady path, but she took note and knew exactly where she was. Long ago she had memorised the layout of the Palace, just in case. It always paid to know where the exits were in any given place. Eventually, they returned to carpeted and furnished surroundings, the man bobbing his head in greeting to people that could very well be identical siblings, until they emerged right where Murple had surmised they would. Right outside the door of the most powerful man in Bruta(1).

It seemed she had an appointment with the current leader of the Rhug Party, member for the Borough of Vaneintern, First Counsel of the Partliment of the Kingdom of Bruta, and they were usually the biggest scoundrels of them all.

Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

I cheat a bit with Final. First battle scene in my WIP Barriers or Lies where the caretaker Yusef has turned into a monster.
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts

That was not the danger now. Yusef was. Her guts told her so. She stumbled on a cable.
Classic me.
On the floor now, she crawled, kicking out her leg to break free. Finally, she reached the spot.
She pushed her right foot behind, face towards Yusef, and readied for a possible attack. The caretaker, or what was left of him, walked towards her slowly, entangled by the cables and the vines on the floor.
Oddly, she thought about the boy of her dreams.
I feel him.
The veil she used to see in her dance classes wobbled next to her.
Not now.
"Take this," the shadow beside her said. She saw now, clear as day, the face of a man who looked at least twenty years older than her. Pale white beard, long silver hair, a brownish hide armour and a longsword peeking from behind his neck. Her jaw opened in disbelief. She forced her senses back.
His hand held a tiny necklace.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

Looks stunning!

Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon girl with long hair covering her face with her hands

ALT: a cartoon girl with long hair covering her face with her hands

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

Not perfectly written and a bit of a spoiler but I like this moment between Danny and Jay. Jay is adamant on joining him in a dangerous quest. Danny’s not used to men who care for him.
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #queerauthors

He was pleased to see he was. "Does it amuse you, the fact that I am so... argh...weak...?" Danny said while pushing the last centimetres until the door made a closing sound that echoed in the room.
He stood straight up again and cleaned his hands on his pants. "So... training, uh?" One shy step towards the boy from Glaetter. "Good, good. I'm making sure you'll be prepared. I don't want to die, you know?"
He hoped he was being funny, but in truth, he had just realised he was talking to a boy whose mother had died at the hands of those who would threaten him the same way.
"Sorry. I'm sorry about your mom," he added immediately.
His companion kept silent; their eyes didn't meet on purpose.
"I thought you were only good at making baskets and jokes with strangers. Look at you instead... all armoured up!"
Jay's arms, now fully visible and fatigued from the training, caught the Elp'da's attention more than he would have thought.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 2d

Oups 😅 siblings.

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 2d

#WIPSnips 13. "Push"

Surely this is just a normal blacksmith shop.

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She shook those thoughts away as she arrived at The Flaming Hammer, a thin building of dark bricks, four floors tall. There were no doors, not of the common kind: a sign depicting the smithing tool wreathed in flames stamped a section of the wall with a small window above it. Inspecting the drawing, Qinyang found a circular hole in the middle of the hammer’s handle, big enough only to fit a coin in… or a ring. She took Neven’s bronze ring and pressed it into the slot.

A click, and that part of the wall detached from the rest, revealing itself a door. Qinyang pushed it open.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 2d

Fun read! How do you explain something like that really? Quick note: Took me a minute to understand ‘int hat pod’ is ‘in that pod’ 🥸

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 2d

Oh-oh I can feel the tension of a child fearing they upset their mother 🥲

Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 2d

Well, poor boy!

Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 2d

This is where Vanessa begins to learn what is this world of Noor really about and that the word Elp’da, used for people that can do the weird things she apparently can do too, means Hope.
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

“I don’t think she truly expected what happened. But the guards caught her right on time when she did the ritual, and intense lights covered all of Noor. Everyone who heard of the Legends was then aware of what might have happened. When they discovered it was Hanna’s doing, they started to praise her, you know? For a while. Something like this never happens in Noor. They call her the Hope of Noor. Elp’da. The word I told you before means Hope. But they were not helping when she was in need. And they soon forget. People in Noor… they're indifferent. Always indifferent.”
His head bent downwards now, his jaw clenched and biting. Vanessa could tell he cared about her. She then asked,
“Why did she need help?”
“This is a question…” but before he could finish the question, Vanessa completed it for him, making a deep voice, trying to imitate him with a deep rusty voice, “I cannot answer for her… yeah, yeah, got it. Fair.”
“You are a strange woman.”
“I am.”
“It suits you.”

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 2d

Awww 🥰

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 3d

Take care!

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 4d

Just saw an article about someone who hid a mother and 7-year-old daughter in their apartment, during an ICE raid.

Didn't want to repost it on that because that felt ghoulish, but here's an excerpt from "Until It's Done".

Just for reasons.

Ebook screenshot from Until It's Done:
"“Naturally, you took up running a criminal resistance movement,” I murmur, taking another mouthful of my drink and pouring a bit more. The warmth of it lingers, and spreads, heavy and swift through my gut and into my toes and fingers and cheeks.

“Naturally,” she giggles with a nod. “Yeah, that took a minute, actually, but- oh, I don’t know, you know how it is. First you’re protecting your book collection, then you’re protecting the neighbour’s book collection… then you’re protecting the neighbours,” she snickers with a shrug, and then swivels on her bar stool to face me."

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 3d

A nice world then!

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 4d

There’s an outing rather. Danny’s chapter opens with him packing a bag. He wants to run away because his parents discovered about his homosexuality and want to send him to therapy. To “help” him.
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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 4d

#QueerPrompts October 11: National Coming Out Day: Do any of your characters come out in your story?

Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters.
Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font.
Center text is:
#QueerPrompts October 11: National Coming Out Day: Do any of your characters come out in your story?

Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sure of it 💪

Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds one of those bits where once the reader gets there, they’re all excited and inciting Av’ry 😎

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks! I like that bit too! 🙃

Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 4d

That’s the dream! I liked this answer 😌 I think conveying messages while entertaining and being fun is a true art