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@milothebard.bsky.social

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thank you to #Ranger Magazine for publishing my writing in Issue 8! The piece is called "Letters from Lab Equipment" and it explores how I imagine various implements would speak to me based on how they behave in the lab. It's very silly!
www.rangermagazine.net/brown_issue8

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · 21d

I love saiki k! #saikik #art

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Laurence of Suburbia @stargeezer.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yare yare... #art #artstream #sketch #ink #saikik #dlosk

An ink sketch of Kusuo Saiki from the Disastrous Life of Saiki K. The meme drawings around him show his girl version, his parents kissing like the blob kiss meme, his brother looking evil, his two love interests floating as an angel and a devil, him eating coffee jelly him eating pizza like the psychic pizza meme, and lastly his friends drawn in a JJBA style. There is text next to his head saying "YARE YARE"

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · 22d

Oh god I blinked and day 11 came... Arsyn begins as a very passive character, but as she grows up, she begins to express her desires, intentions, and boundaries more clearly. Her family hinders that growth because she will sometimes revert to her former ways when she is with them.

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 23d

#PlotTober Day 11: MC growth & change

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

11. What are some possible ways your main character(s) could grow and change over the course of the story? On the other hand, what are some ways their growth could be hindered?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · 28d

I'm a bit late, but still here! So far, the main setting of my WIP is a fantastical town named Mugwort Garth. Built from the ruins of two warring cities, Mugwort Garth's background in tea and espionage creates an atmosphere of cottagecore skullduggery that pervades Arsyn's hometown.

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Oct 4

#PlotTober Day 4: Setting for WIP

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

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#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

4. Is there a specific setting you'd like to use for your WIP? Would it work better in a contemporary world, secondary world, or a blend of the two? What characteristics of the setting are important for your ideas?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Oct 3

I'm definitely inspired by Terry Pratchett, and lately I've been reading short stories by Peter S. Beagle that are. tickling my creative brain. But this initially started as a DND backstory for a cleric, in case I ever got to play DND again! (I participated in a oneshot once and never got to again)

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Oct 3

#PlotTober Day 3: Inspirations from other media

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#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

3. Did other existing media inspire your ideas for your WIP? For example, any recent shows/movies you watched, books you read, games you played, or music you listened to?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Oct 3

I'm a little late but here I am! My initial ideas for this WIP involve the family of Arsyn (my main character) pressuring her into self-studying sorcery, and then sending her to wizard school when she doesn't show any magical aptitude. She isn't very passionate about magic and prefers daydreaming.

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Oct 2

#PlotTober Day 2: Initial ideas

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

2. What are your initial ideas for this WIP? Are there specific tropes, plot or character achetypes, and/or themes you'd like to explore?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Oct 1

Thank you!!!

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Oct 1

Thank you!!! Glad to be here!

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Oct 1

Hi everyone! My name is Milo, and I'm plotting a fantasy humor story about a girl who subverts her family's expectations of sorcery and learns to forge her own path. It's called "Clerical Errors." I'm looking forward to participating in #PlotTober!!

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Oct 1

#PlotTober Day 1: Introduce yourself & your WIP

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Oct 1

congrats on 100 tetos!!

MuZe @muzetrigger.bsky.social · Oct 1

いつでも I love you! // I will always love you ♡

Weekday #Teto 100!!

…honestly, I can’t believe I made it this far. I started drawing Post It Teto’s at the end of April. 5 months later and here we are ;~;

Absolutely in love with this Chimera <3

#fanart #sketch

Dailies: bsky.app/profile/cale...

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Aug 15

brief hiatus! I'm having another beach episode! (on vacation for another week or so)

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 29

Here's a #medium #article about community #writing competitions!

medium.com/@milobrownph...

The Hidden Benefits of Community Writing Competitions

Why you should participate in a community writing competition

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 25

God I love Mind's Eye I saw them live and they were so DAMN GOOD 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 25

The s word is only technically a bad word, but in my book, it's a very very good word

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 24

People who love Telemachus: do YOU treat your mother Like That? #odyssey #jkIlovehimtoo

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's my birthday!!!!!

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Jul 24

🚨🚨🚨 Indie website itch.io has just rolled out a major shadow ban of NSFW content. This drastic escalation in censorship already seems to affecting trans authors.

TRANS AUTHORS ON ITCH: Please check you pages.

I am going to report on this TONIGHT. To those affrcted, DM me with any info.

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 20

I just posted my weekly article early, because my schedule doesn't own me!! This article is about #grief and loss and also about how anti #trans groups leverage the idea of "protecting children" to harm trans youth. And there are also a ton of cool #biology facts! #writing
medium.com/@milobrownph...

How to be a Parasite

An exploration of grief and loss, and a discussion of how anti-trans legislature leverages the idea of children’s rights to harm trans…

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 20

Here's today's #whistpr for the prompt #spread! I wrote a #poem about taking up space. #poetry

Message in a Bottle

show me
how
to take
paper
uncurl it
from
the glass
reinvent
space
until I
don't
fit
until
it
fits
Me

Milo Brown

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here's today's daily #whistpr: a hopeful #poem about the new generation! The prompt was #bright. #poetry

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 16

Here's today's daily #whistpr: a #poem about #wolves and #dogs and #friendship! #poetry

Friend

I scramble
madly
to
the
door
joy
dusting
the air
behind me
& I am only loved
because someone
decided to
feed
the monster
& I am only here
because I
decided to
stay

Milo Brown

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 14

I wrote another #medium article! This one is about the adverse role of AI in (specifically, email) communication and how it reflects on us as a society. #writing

medium.com/@milobrownph...

Response to An Email: Contemplating the Role of AI in a Perfectionist Society

I was sitting on a writer’s block in the community center of someone else’s apartment complex, navel-gazing and “trusting the process,”…

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milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 13

For the daily #whistpr: the word is #chicken! I wrote a #poem about #anxiety! #poetry

Anxious Thoughts

Burrowing bugs pervade
The sweat soaked surface
of
my
brain

Dirty bugs, nasty bugs
Pick em, peck em, planted bugs
Baby bugs, asterisk sized*
*till they grow and burst and die

Chicken pecking at my brain
Chicken driving me
to
write

Still, in spite of all this pain
Do not blame the burrowing bug
But rather blame the brain

Milo Brown

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 8

Here's a fun little #poem about #childhood! #poetry #writing

Mud Tracks

Deep wood
We stood
Gorge deep
Childhood

Feet first
Slide down
Mud slip
Mud crown

Mud deep
Deep stick
Stuck deep
Deep trip

Went home
Made tracks
White rug
White black

No more
Deep wood
No more
Childhood

No more
Mud tracks
One day
Come back

Milo Brown

milo 🐌 @milothebard.bsky.social · Jul 7

I wrote an article about the role of the hero's journey in writing poetry on Medium! Check it out via this link:
medium.com/@milobrownph...

#poetry #writing #article #anthropology

How to Write Poetry Like an Anthropologist

The Hero’s Journey in Poetry

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