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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them)
@carmenloup.com
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🪐 Humor Sci-fi Writer & Artist
🌈 Space hippie mystic
💕LGBTQ+ and BLM
👽 Agender (They/Them) 30
😍 Married to @straysongdog.com


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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 (they/them) @carmenloup.com · Nov 15
The Audacity series follows speed-junkie rocket racer May and her life partner Xan, good-natured alien with a horrific secret, across the universe (and outside it) as they try to avoid that indefatigable force of nature, Chaos itself.

Get all 4 novels (with audiobooks!) at CarmenLoup.com
Tarot Illustrator | Author | Carmen Loup | Savannah GA
Carmen Laura Loup is an illustrator and author in Savannah, GA with a degree from SCAD. She has published Tarot in Space and The Audacity Humor Sci-fi Book Series
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The first law of thermodynamics states that Tiny Tim is NOT destroyed, and can only be converted from one form to another
December 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth."
~ Buddha

All matter is vibrating. Our world has a frequency. You can change it. Be the light. Be the love. Have a beautiful night ❤️
December 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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5 perfect movies?
- Spiderverse
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Lion King
- Young Frankenstein
- Prince of Egypt
jdbuffington.com J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 1d
5 perfect movies (in no particular order):

-Monty Python & The Holy Grail
-The Breakfast Club
-the Blair Witch Project
-jackass films; yeah, all 4 of ‘em
-Killers of the Flower Moon
stinasdemons.com ⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 1d
5 perfect movies (in no particular order):

-There Will Be Blood
-All About Eve
-Groundhog Day
-One Cut of the Dead
-The Silence of the Lambs
December 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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My orange Subaru because I have to be on theme always 😆
Car front license plate says the Audcaity racing rocket
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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And happy winter solstice from May and Xan 🧡
May speeding down an asteroid in a sled and having a ball, xan is behind her, not quite as enthused Close up of same
December 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Happy winter solstice to my friends who celebrate! May you have plenty of time to do nothing at all this upcoming week.
December 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The 2004 Christmas Carol Musical with Kelsey Grammar feels like a special dream-sequence musical episode of Frasier that's also somehow a 30 Rock/Seinfeld crossover and it's bad but like in a really good way.
December 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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The actual scariest thing about this is that I wasn't THAT surprised that some billions thought they could buy and move the sun.
rodger.bsky.social Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 6d
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun
December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Wait, shit, if that isn't MY circus or my monkeys, and it's not YOUR circus or you monkeys, whose circus and monkeys is it? We've got to find them, stat.
December 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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I actually have a tab-size limit instead of a count. This is the smallest I'll let my tabs get. At this point, if I need to open a new tab, I must close an old one. Method. System. Success!
tab bar with many tabs open but not TOO many. Each tab is exactly an inch in length on my screen, and that's all that matters.
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Which part of the quid is the front?! I always thought the tentacles were, but they're kinda like its legs, right? And they move in both directions pretty equally. Do squids have fronts or am I asking a nonsense question?!
squid, for reference. He is either facing left or right. I DON'T KNOW
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Beloved friends, I don't know half of you as well I should like etc., etc. so let's have a #AuthorInterview thread! Answer whatever questions suit your fancy.
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Ohhh here's a fun one. Spoilers for The Audacity 4 and 5 below...

Porgord scratches can't kill an immortal outright, but they never heal and slowly begin to rot, leaving an immortal stuck in a corpse until they learn to throw their consciousness which usually takes a few thousand years. #WIPSnips
"Keep the stitches small?" Xan requested, miserably as May poked the needle into his face.  "Xan, we've only got red thread. Doesn't matter how small I make it, you're going to look like a blue baseball." He groaned in a way that reminded May, uncannily, of the Night of the Living Dead and a sudden rush of panic electrified her nervous system. She'd seen what the venom had done to Listay's arm over just a season, and Xan had said it was worse now. She stopped sewing, leaving the thread and needle dangling from his cheek. "Jesus, Xan. Your face," she whispered, holding her hand over the damage to pretend for just a moment longer that he was fine as her vision blurred and swam.
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Any of the A'Viltrian species (Rheans, Tuhntians, etc.) are aware of a kind of pulsing, confusing conglomeration of everything called the -Ness when they sleep. Some can make some sense of it with great effort, most just ignore it!
#AwesomeCharacters
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 7d
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Does your character dream?

Do dreams play a role in the story? Do they tell us about the character? Foreshadow the future? Are the literally prophetic?

Does your character enjoy their dreams or dread them?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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When the nice boomer you're friends with uses AI art and Chat GPT and you have to very gently explain to them why it causes you so much psychic damage 🥲
December 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I just love making goofy little guys and destroying them just to see how long their goofiness holds out. What a delightful way to spend an evening.
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Had a discussion with an older queer friend of mine about how important campiness is for a healthy mindset in trying times. Things like Rocky Horror actually saved people lives by lifting their spirits. Camp, play, humor, and fun are vital to survival!
December 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Is this how you do the TikToks? Would the kids over there like this sorta thing?
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Anyone I know have a podcast for readers? I just had an inspiration for a radio ad for my audiobooks and now I need places to run it!
December 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Repeat after me: Today I give myself full permission to do the scary things that bring me great delight!

In my case, writing really indulgent, weird stuff.
December 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Is an mp3 audiobook that’s just one long file accessible for readers? I want to be able to sell my audiobook on Itch, but Im not sure a if multi-hour mp3 is a good idea 😅
December 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Maybe fear underlies all the bad behavior. Greed stems from fear of lack, power grabs from fear of irrelevance, isolation from fear of rejection. Life would be really different without fear.
astoldbynai.blacksky.app nai THEE People's Princess 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · Mar 24
10. If you could summarize all humankind problems in a single one, what would it be?
December 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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A list of little changes you can make to do a little good:
Spotify -> Tidal
Chrome browser -> Vivaldi
Amazon (books) -> local bookseller
December 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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For #WIPSnips today, a bit of certified May lore! She is, indeed a Capricorn. She has a lot of Aries and Gemini in her chart, though. She was born in January. July was her great, great, grandfather's chosen last name (Jack July) and her father named her May June because he thought it would be funny.
She woke up cold, uncounted hours later, to the sound of a chewing chainsaw outside. The fire had finished its work, nothing but pale grey ashes left.  "Which one of my boys you gonna marry, huh?"  Olga's query thrust May out of her groggy mist and into a cold, wet dread that reached deeper than the Pacific Ocean had, moistening her very soul. She cringed. "None," she said forcefully.  "Well why not? They're good boys. You should know that. You been with them the past few weeks."  "They're fine," she said, rolling around and pretending to go back to sleep.  "Jake is especially fond of you, you know. He'd make a good husband. Strong, simple. Not the brightest bulb in the batch, but he's a hard worker." May pretended to snore.  "What about Leif, then? Handsome boy, isn't it? He's a real softy, too, when you get to know him better. That boy's a Cancer through and through. What about you, hon?" "Capricorn," May muttered.  Astrology talk typically annoyed May, and romance talk always did. Once, Xan had taken her to an astrologer on NotTuhnt for entertainment. It had been quite entertaining watching the astrologer try to suss out the chart of someone born in an entirely different star system, but in the end, he'd managed it with an accuracy that had May a little suspicious.  "Really? Not a Scorpio?" "Capricorn," she said again, forcefully. 
December 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Just 11 more chapters to edit and The Audacity 3 audiobook will be complete which means once I edit the short story the OMNIBUS audiobook will be complete and you can listen to me read the whole damn thing 🥰
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM