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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 18d

Need a Fall read? 🍂 Well look no further! 🎃👻

This Fall, you can pick up the first 2 books in the Leather & Lace Series on any platform! It's like early Halloween 🕷🕸

Full of action packed drama, romance, sass, & all the kicking ass... It's a rollercoaster ride for all!

Link in comments ⬇️

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Across top: Need a Fall Read?
2 book covers with arrows coming out from them illustrating tropes.
Left side:
Forbidden love
Lovers to enemies to lovers
Grump taming friendship
Break my heart and I'll break your face fem lead

Right side:
Second chance romance
Fem mc has a phd in sass and kicking ass
Grump vs sunshine & an amazing autstic kid
Family secrets. Found family. Family turmoil

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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 2h

*hugs*

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#Char_Roleplay @char-roleplay.bsky.social · 3h

#Char_Roleplay - October 19, 2025

Antagonists - Have you ever let your ego drive your decisions? What is the worst thing that has happened?

Wheel of Fortune/Page of Swords (reversed)
#WritingCommunity #writesky

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#Char_Roleplay - October 19, 2025

Antagonists - Have you ever let your ego drive your decisions? What is the worst thing that has happened?

Wheel of Fortune/Page of Swords (reversed)
#WritingCommunity #writesky

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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 11h

NOAH: wasting moments with the bad shit if you can avoid it.
3/3 ✅️

🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 11h

RIGS: lots in the past. Not much in the future or if there has been something I've ignored it completely.
NOAH: No sense letting someone else ruin your day and mood. You got a great life and you're happy.
RIGS: *smiles* I am. Very happy in fact.
NOAH: Run with it. Life's short, no sense
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 11h

18. #Char_Roleplay
NOAH: *shrugs* Axel and the guys used to say lots of shit behind my back and to my face... If I let every single criticism I've ever faced rub me the wrong way, I'd be a lot different person than I am.
RIGS: True.
NOAH: So not gonna rehash the past.
RIGS: *nods* Like you...
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• FULL NAME: Brigham Jake Ryan Pope
• NICKNAME: Rigsy (by wife), Rigatoni (by Jess)

• ROADNAME: Rigs
• CLUB: Devil's Henchmen- Secretary/Treasurer

• DOB: August 7th
• ZODIAC: Leo
• AGE: 36
• HEIGHT: 6'0
• EYE COLOR: Russet Brown

• BORN: Titusville, FL
• RESIDES: Northridge, NC
• OCCUPATION: Accountant
Retired Green Beret
• RELIGION: Catholic (Devout)
• SIBLINGS: Unknown (was a foster kid)
• KIDS: Brigham Jr. (3 YRS) (7/12/22)
Adrian Noah (17 MONS) (4/8/24)
• PETS: Chance & Newt (dogs)
• LIKES: Tanks. Origami. Dancing. Laser tag. Dog rescue with his wife. Motorcycles. Movies. Quality time with his family
• DISLIKES: His PTSD. Leg pain. Therapists. Watching his wife cry. Animal abandoners & abusers
• FAVE COLOR: Royal Blue, White, & Red
• FAVE FOOD: Anything Mia makes (especially Tiramisu)
• ORIENTATION: Straight
• STATUS: Married to Mia Tescardi (7/31)

FACECLAIM: Giacomo Gianniotti

• FULL NAME: Noah Samuel Indiana Faulk
• NICKNAME: Indy (by Mom only)

• ROADNAME: Trench
• CLUB: Devil's Henchmen- Hacker

• DOB: March 18th
• ZODIAC: Pisces
• AGE: 32
• HEIGHT: 5'11
• EYE COLOR: Pure blue

• BORN: Tallahassee, FL
• RESIDES: Northridge, NC
• OCCUPATION: Corporate Digital Security
Prominent darkweb hacker
• RELIGION: Spiritual/Unsure
• SIBLINGS: Hannah (Deceased), Aaron (half), Josie-Day (half, Deceased)
• KIDS: None
• PETS: Freddie (Russian tortoise) (10 YRS)
Zen (sulcata Tortoise) (5 MONS)
• LIKES: Computers. Coding. Muscle cars. Tattoos. Tortoises. Collecting obscure stuff. Motorcycles. Concerts. Glass blowing & Antiquing with wife
• DISLIKES: Watching his wife suffer. Seasonal allergies. Tuna fish. Growing his hair out
• FAVE COLOR: Sky blue
• FAVE FOOD: Brats & Sauerkraut
• ORIENTATION: Straight
• STATUS: Married to Aurora Tescardi (1/27)

FACECLAIM: Josh Mario John

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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 14h

BECKETT: closer and gives her a hug*
8/8 ⚠️

🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 14h

ALLYSON: realize that I do a hellva lot on my own. Sure, I have a lot of bad days but I show up to work, do my job well and my kids love me, and I take care of my daughter and cats and Marc the best I can... I think I do a pretty great job despite any limitations.
BECKETT: I know you do. *scoots
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 14h

ALLYSON: You're a stronger person that me. I couldn't take constant sexism like that. I have enough trouble with the rare blatant ableism from coworkers.
BECKETT: *frowns* I'm sorry.
ALLYSON: *sighs* Way of the world for me too. People think I'm helpless or I'm burdening Marc. Little do they
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 14h

ALLYSON: And if you win each season?
BECKETT: Then I win. And the fans come, flocking to buy tickets and merchandise and going to concerts cause they've been introduced to Serp or longtime fans. It's the way of the world unfortunately. I only have to prove my ability to myself and my fans.
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 14h

BECKETT: Walked away soon as I could. There isn't much I can say or do against Doug. If I tangle with him I'm gonna have bigger issues and that could cause issues for Scott and the guys. So I'll take the comments so his career isn't harmed in any way, and I'll keep going out there and kicking ass
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 14h

BECKETT: business to Leon and Ralph. If they make the same comments, at least they do it to each other behind closed doors... But it's common in the sport. You hear it from the drivers, management, owners. You have to have a thick skin, or try to.
ALLYSON: And what did you do?
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 14h

BECKETT: the creepiest smirk said, "God, imagine how much we'd make on ticket sales if she could just show a bit more tits..." I swear I could hear the growl in Scott's chest.
ALLYSON: *frowns* What a pig!
BECKETT: He is. Doug isn't much better most days, but thankfully they leave all the race
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 14h

18. #Char_Roleplay
BECKETT: *laughs* Well I know what sort of mood I'll go back to.
ALLYSON: *arches a brow* Why?
BECKETT: Well because the higher-ups recently debuted the end of the season banners of top drivers at the remaining tracks and one of Doug's little cronies stood last week and with
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• FULL MAIDEN NAME: Beckett Elizabeth Kader
• NICKNAME: Becks, Wheels, Bebe (by parents), "The Kader", Beckasauras

• DOB: July 3rd
• ZODIAC: Cancer
• AGE: 24
• HEIGHT: 5'3 1/2"
• EYE COLOR: Dark Sapphire

• BORN: Tunkhannock, PA
• RESIDES: Malibu, CA
• OCCUPATION: Race car driver with Team Argent
• RELIGION: Catholic (non-practicing)
• SIBLINGS: Emerson (identical twin)
• KIDS: None
• PETS: Cadence (Golden child python) (4YRS)
Fettuccini & Alfreda (fish)
• LIKES: Vintage & muscle cars (building & restoring). Baking & Cooking. Reading. Knitting. Board Games. Volunteering with deaf organizations. BDSM & Shibari (secret)
• DISLIKES: Losing races. Chauvinistic men. Abusers. Being underestimated
• FAVE COLOR: Purple
• FAVE FOOD: Gummy Worms & Coq au vin
• ORIENTATION: Straight Submissive
• STATUS: Married to Scott Prize (8/20)

• Character is partially deaf & wears a hearing aid

FACECLAIM: Thylane Blondeau

• FULL MAIDEN NAME: Allyson Mia Avery
• NICKNAME: Ally, Al, Allyoop, Munchie (by dad)

• DOB: September 21st
• ZODIAC: Virgo
• AGE: 22
• HEIGHT: 5'8"
• EYE COLOR: Hazel

• BORN: Buffalo, NY
• RESIDES: Los Angeles, CA
• OCCUPATION: Special Ed Teacher & Artist
• RELIGION: Catholic
• SIBLINGS: Shawn (Adopted brother)
Any biological siblings unknown
• KIDS: Charlotte Jessica (5 Yrs) (3/18/20)
• PETS: Potato, Annika, Soren, Mochi, & Iggy (cats)
• LIKES: Crafts. Painting. Sculpture. Drawing. Classic rock (1960s-early 2000). Vinyl records. Dancing (Lyrical & Contemporary). 80s Rom-coms. Flower Pressing. Cat lover
• DISLIKES: Autoimmune & pain flares. Fainting in public. “Kid Gloves”. Deep water. Balloons. Most dogs. The dark. Not being included or brushed off. Scary movies. Heights. Needles. The thought of death
• FAVE COLOR: Lilac
• FAVE FOOD: Oreos & Strawberry Milk. Pizza with extra pineapple
• ORIENTATION: Asexual Demiromantic
• STATUS: Married to Marcus Herrera (6/21)

• Character has ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, & Vasovagel syncope
• Potato is a medical service cat

FACECLAIM: Pheobe Tonkin

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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 15h

KASSIDY: cutting corners.
KANE: *nods* I can't see myself changing based on experience.
KASSIDY: *smiles* Me either. I'm stubborn like that. *chuckles*
7/7 ✅️

🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 15h

KANE: fixes. I know there's a standard textbook way to fix certain things but if I know there's a more efficient way based on what my granddad and mom taught me, I go that route. It's never been wrong before or unsafe.
KASSIDY: I say you do things how you're comfortable as long as it isn't
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 15h

KASSIDY: I wasn't going to let either of them win... I don't like losing. *smirks*
KANE: *chuckles*
KASSIDY: Has anyone ever rubbed you the wrong way?
KANE: Yeah, I'm sure in the moment they did but I try to not let any of it stick. There's little comments here and there about how I work through
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 15h

KASSIDY: I got the chance to see Morris again after I was promoted to O-3 and he was still a Sargent. He silently ate his own words... So point is, I worked harder after his criticisms. Not just to prove him wrong, but to prove the voice in my head that developed because of it wrong.
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 15h

KASSIDY: And HE was a slacker. Bottom scores, always having to be reprimanded, forever stuck on cleaning toilets. He finally passed and I got the pleasure of shaking Morris' retired hand at graduation and telling him how much work his kid had been.
KANE: *chuckles* I bet it was sweet revenge.
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 15h

KANE: That’s horrible.
KASSIDY: Turns out I excelled, got promoted quick to an E-5 within the first 3 years, applied for DS Academy and got accepted and lo and behold guess who I see come across the line in boot my first year?
KANE: *smiles* Can't wait to hear this one.
KASSIDY: Morris' son...
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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 15h

18. #Char_Roleplay
KASSIDY: There was this Drill Sergeant at boot by the name of Morris. He used to snicker as I took the wall.
KANE: *makes a face* Cause you were a girl?
KASSIDY: *nods* Used to say not to worry cause I might pass but most girls don't have the chops to survive in the corp.
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• FULL NAME: Kane Blaze Holder
• NICKNAME: K-man, Tiny Peanut (by parents), Kandy-Kane (by sister), Molly's Smooglybear, Howie Squeezums (By girlfriend), K-9

• ROADNAME: Marauder
• CLUB: Nightmare Assassins

• DOB: June 10th
• ZODIAC: Gemini
• AGE: 20
• HEIGHT: 6'2"
• EYE COLOR: Left: Baby blue with brown patch (sectoral heterochromia)
Right: Baby blue

• BORN: Coral Cove, NC
• RESIDES: Northridge, NC
• OCCUPATION: Construction worker
Student- Aircraft mechanics
• RELIGION: Catholic (non-practicing)
• SIBLINGS: JorDan Ruby Holder
Brian Finley Holder (Deceased)
• KIDS: Someday maybe
• PETS: Jellybelly (Pitbull) (4 YRS)
Ruby 2 Shoes (Doberman) (5 YRS)
• LIKES: Camping & fishing. Building stuff. Comic books. Drawing, Motorcycles. Vintage muscle cars. Destruction derby. Rollercoasters. Hobby pilot. Video games. Spending time with Molly
• DISLIKES: Getting The pity smile. Not having enough hours in the day. Greasy hair. Messy rooms. Bullies
• FAVE COLOR: Hunter green & Teal
• FAVE FOOD: Deep dish pizza & frito boat loaded nachos. Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
• ORIENTATION: Straight Demisexual
• STATUS: "Been licked" by Molly Shae (3/21)

FACECLAIM: Dominic Sherwood

• FULL NAME: Kassidy Nevaeh Jones
• NICKNAME: Kansas (by fellow Marines), Kas, Little Brass

• DOB: June 24th
• ZODIAC: Cancer
• AGE: 31
• HEIGHT: 5'6.5
• EYE COLOR: Darkest brown

• BORN: Wichita Falls, TX
• RESIDES: Northridge, NC
• OCCUPATION: Marine Captain- Currently working at recruitment office (& not happy about it)
Former Drill Sergeant
• RELIGION: Not sure of it all anymore
• SIBLINGS: Not even sure who my dad is, so not sure about siblings
• KIDS: I like other people's kids
• PETS: Never home but wants a dog
• LIKES: Guns. Anime. Staying fit. Braiding hair. Traveling. Hanging out with friends. Whiskey. Sex without strings
• DISLIKES: Physical therapy & PTSD counseling. The red tape the VA makes you wade through. Not being with her unit. Her mom's drama. Mashed potatoes
• FAVE COLOR: Army Green & Gold
• FAVE FOOD: Biscuits & Gravy. Vanilla wafers & banana pudding
• ORIENTATION: Straight
• STATUS: Single

• Character has a prosthetic leg (military field amputation)

FACECLAIM: Yaya Dacosta

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🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 16h

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 18. Saturday snippet

"Allyson, run!" she ordered.

My breath hitched in my chest. One of the creatures turned in my direction and snarled. Mrs. Woolman flung her aged body at the half-eaten young man who bore a striking resemblance to our neighbor from unit 15C.

"You won't hurt her!" she screamed. A sob caught in my throat when his rotting teeth sunk into the flesh of her wrinkly arm. Her scream resonated through the apartment. “Ally, go! Please save yourself!”

🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 16h

#QueerPrompts 18. Scary or danger line

A fissure developed and it caved outward. Growls filled the apartment as the first group of bodies tumbled in like a tidal wave.

🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 16h

18. #Caulktober has had sex in public?

Guillermo "Razor" Guzman (Leather & Lace series). Vice Prez of the Sons of Diablo. He regularly has sex with club girls in the front party room of the clubhouse. The more show the more go.

🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 17h

That block list was what I looked for. Dump them all and be done with it

🎃🕷 Amina 🕷🎃 @aminaleeds.bsky.social · 1d

Made me chuckle