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Isaac X Isaac
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Strange trans man writing a very goofy book.
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Isaac X Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · Feb 26
Gay crimes!
Trans wrongs!
Enemies to enemies!

Here's my #Own #LGBT #Hu #YA(?) again for #WSPit! A romp through a colorful, heightened #Hi storical playground.

Can one defeat the patriarchs with the very weapons of masculinity? Well, one angry trans boy can sure try stabbing them a lot. #WSPitW
"L'entrée du prince de Ligne à Londres 1660", painted by François Duchatel in 1660, depicting the arrival of a great procession of ambassadors walking in fine clothes and riding in coaches, watched by a huge crowd of Londoners. Text over it reads: THE DUEL IN 1660: a queer swashbuckling farce. "The arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam, may 24 1660" by Lieve Verschuier, showing many ships with the Flag of Holland/States Flag. The grand ship bearing Charles II has his royal arms carven on the stern. Text over it reads: England, 1660: the restoration of the monarchy. In Charles II's triumphant wake, a Royalist family quietly returns, but not with their single daughter—instead, with their single son. 15-year-old Alexander—vain, hot-tempered, and warm of heart—expects to strut in as an aristocratic peacock. But when his ambitions are frustrated, he's sucked instead into intrigues of questionable honour and forced to reckon with what it really means to be a man. "Man Writing a Letter" by Gabriël Metsu, painted around 1665. A Dutch young man, beautiful and androgynous with long blond hair, wears black doublet, breeches, and stockings and a luxurious white shirt and falling band. His expression is tranquil and far-off as he writes a letter on a table draped with an imported carpet. Text over it reads: Pray enjoy this tempest in a teapot, crafted of the purest tropes and set in the Age of the Rakehells, featuring: glamour and grime of 17th century Westminster. goofy action punctuated by primal screams of rage. problematic characters for miles. petticoat breeches parkour. queer mentorship. romantic friendship (or maybe 'tis just gay, oops). boys who cry. a lot. and somehow, everything turning out all right in the end. Detail of "View from the Mussel Pier in Amsterdam", painted by Ludolf Bakhuizen in 1673, showing a peaceful sky over a ship with two gulls. Text over it reads: Alexander stood at the edge of the deck, one hand clutching the railing, the other fastened tight on the brim of his hat as he leaned out over the waves. He was not much afraid of falling in, though he had never swum anything choppier than a pond. Rather, he was afraid that his Acadian fur hat, the most expensive for sale in the shop on the Kalverstraat, might fly off his small crown and flap with its feathers all the way to water—which, like the sky, could not quite decide between blue and grey. There was no one to see him aside from the sailors and now Klein, climbing up from below. Still, he had meticulously dressed that morning, down to every last ribbon. He’d had a very specific vision of himself when the suit was being ordered: the azure he’d picked was not just brighter than everything around him on the fluyt but even the true sky itself, and he sparkled with silver, when the wind tugged his doublet and loose breeches, and gold, when the little light managed to catch on his sword’s hilt. It was imperative, one must understand, that he look extremely stylish doing battle, should pirates suddenly appear to satisfy his fantasies. And indeed, at fifteen, he thought himself quite the dashing young man—not the boy he was.
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

What's something (someone!?) your character(s) love that nobody else around them does?
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Would your character(s) still fall for their first love(s)?
If it doesn't make sense to answer for romantic love, you can talk about some other sort of "first love".
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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2/2 Two more beauties from the 1660s (one of them armed!) by Jan Mytens.
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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the reason "said" doesn't feel repetitive is because it's so commonly used, so if you have a favourite dialogue tag just make sure you use the same verb every time someone speaks and no one will notice
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Tomorrow is #WIPPit!

So for today's #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity, I'd like to ask:

What writerly activities do you love on BlueSky?
Pitch events, prompt games like these, bingo, meme chains? Just following others and seeing what cool things they do?
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Today's #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity, courtesy of my partner who always has better ideas than I do:

What does love taste, smell, or feel like to your character(s)?
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Just looking wistfully out over the landscape: a piebald horse in 1654, painted by Paulus Potter. Today was his 400th birthday.
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Is there a way of showing love that your character is particularly good at? 💕
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Have you memorialized a loved one in your fiction? Or used them as inspiration or inserted a reference to someone from your life whom you love somewhere in your work?
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Do you (or your characters, if you don't see yourself as making assertions) say something offbeat, unusual, or even controversial about love in your story?

Should I ask this one? 😅
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Today's #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity, maybe related to an earlier one:

Does/do your character/s grow in their ability to love in the course of the story, and if so in what ways?
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

What's something you LOVE doing to your character(s) that they hate? 😈
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

What's a place that your character loves?
Do they feel loved back?
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Gesina ter Borch, born OTD 1633: often served as model for her brother Gerard (as here in 1652), but was also fine artist in her own right.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Does your character believe in The Power Of Love™️? If so, what do they believe are its limits?
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

How motivated is/are your character(s) by love—romantic, familial, social (e.g. fame or approval), or otherwise?
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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WE'RE LIVE!!! GET IN HERE AND LET'S GET THIS BOOK MADE BABYYYYYY

SPACE DYKES. SENTIENT JETBIKES. EVIL TRILLIONAIRES. LET'S BLOW THIS GOAL OUT OF THE WATER
BOOM goes the Bride
A pulpy lesbian romance between an elven thief from another world and a corporate princess whose company is built on her clones. 300,000 and counting, and the woman they're made from wishes they didn'...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

What is something you love about a character of yours, that you would absolutely NOT love if you met them IRL? 😆
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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We've seen this one again and again for #WIPSnips already, but I still love it, and it's my favorite "shirt".
The man rose and turned, and Alexander saw now that he was not merely tall, but very, very tall. That near-black hair fell over a near-black doublet vined over with thread of purple and gold, glistering in the faint candlelight from behind Alexander; his petticoat breeches were not quite properly closed at the front, to show even more blousing of his pristine white cambric shirt, and his long, long, well-turned legs were clad in stockings of brilliant scarlet, massive rosettes atop his high-heeled shoes. He was as flamboyant as the three feathers spilling from his jeweled hat-band, though he did wear more beard than was by that time fashionable, perhaps to disguise a little the scattered scars that pitted his face, the proof that he’d already met the small-pox, long ago. But his eyelashes had been spared, and they stood out, dark and thick, against his slightly sallow cheek, as he met the boy’s challenge with penetrating, dark eyes set in a thin, long face, the most fascinating face Alexander had ever seen.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Carbon-neutral vehicles of the Golden Age: wind chariots at Scheveningen, as painted by Adriaen van de Venne, 1620s.
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Is there a love your character has had that's made them a worse person?
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Is there something your character (main or otherwise) deeply loves that isn't a person, animal, or other creature? A food, an object, a concept? 🤔
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Thank you for helping us reach a funding goal! To show we put creators first, we're doing a 5 emote comm for our Discord for $100!

To apply, reply to this post with by Nov 20:

1️⃣ Your emote portfolio
2️⃣ A bit about your art background

We'll pick by the 24th!

!NO AI!🚫🤖
An image with a deep purple heading which cuts to a purple-to-teal gradient. It says "Calling all emote artists! Conjured Ink is hosting a giveaway to celebrate hitting our subscription financing goal! The winner will earn $100 to make 5 emotes which will be used in our community Discord server! Read post for eligibility details". Conjured Ink's OpenCollective page which shows both how we spend money and how much we currently have in donations. Under Recurring is the number $700, which is more than our goal number. We have currently collected a total of $1371.89.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Marriage a-la-Mode, 1743: reception during Countess Squanderfield's morning toilette. Paintings on walls hint that she is not exactly respectable! By William Hogarth, born OTD 1697.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The requested Essence✨ for today's #Novmemeber:
Very minimal chibi sketch of a young man wearing an enormous scowl, with fluffy hair, a falling band, ribbons at his shoulder, and a faint grumpy blush.
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM