Melissa Burkart
@mwithpen.bsky.social
Possible sea witch living by the Maine coast. Spec fic/fantasy writer of flash fiction, novels, and everything in between. Perpetually Exhausted Parent™. Forever a theater kid. Bi/demi she/her.
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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Foxes
Bobcats
Puffins
That one owl who tried to fly in my car window (many owls, but that one in particular)
Scarlet macaws (thank you, Ecuador)
Foxes
Bobcats
Puffins
That one owl who tried to fly in my car window (many owls, but that one in particular)
Scarlet macaws (thank you, Ecuador)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Black bears
Moose
Bobcat
Porcupine
Great Horned Owl
Black bears
Moose
Bobcat
Porcupine
Great Horned Owl
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild
Foxes
Bobcats
Puffins
That one owl who tried to fly in my car window (many owls, but that one in particular)
Scarlet macaws (thank you, Ecuador)
Foxes
Bobcats
Puffins
That one owl who tried to fly in my car window (many owls, but that one in particular)
Scarlet macaws (thank you, Ecuador)
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Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
Just found out a local community theatre is auditioning for Frozen the musical next month
So…mothers-daughter theatre time maybe???
So…mothers-daughter theatre time maybe???
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Just found out a local community theatre is auditioning for Frozen the musical next month
So…mothers-daughter theatre time maybe???
So…mothers-daughter theatre time maybe???
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Heyyyyyy everything in my kofi shop is half off until Monday. Tell your friends, tell your mom, tell your cat. (Code is GONUTS)
ko-fi.com/lyfaulk/link...
ko-fi.com/lyfaulk/link...
50% discount off Ly Faulk's Shop
Visit Ly Faulk at Ko-fi for 50% discount off Shop
ko-fi.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Heyyyyyy everything in my kofi shop is half off until Monday. Tell your friends, tell your mom, tell your cat. (Code is GONUTS)
ko-fi.com/lyfaulk/link...
ko-fi.com/lyfaulk/link...
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There are four (4) days until the submission window for the first issue will open. If you're into queer monsters and eroguro, check out the website below for more information on how to submit your art, prose, and/or poetry pieces.
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
There are four (4) days until the submission window for the first issue will open. If you're into queer monsters and eroguro, check out the website below for more information on how to submit your art, prose, and/or poetry pieces.
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Happy Wednesday to Manuela Borges, specifically.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy Wednesday to Manuela Borges, specifically.
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My online shop is open! I have handmade gifts that include hand crocheted scarves and wrist warmers, as well as hand-bound journals and sketch books. All proceeds will go toward supporting my future art and writing projects. Thanks so much for everyone's support! huxleyravenwood.com/store
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My online shop is open! I have handmade gifts that include hand crocheted scarves and wrist warmers, as well as hand-bound journals and sketch books. All proceeds will go toward supporting my future art and writing projects. Thanks so much for everyone's support! huxleyravenwood.com/store
I nearly put orange juice in my coffee. So that’s how my morning is going. How’s yours?
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I nearly put orange juice in my coffee. So that’s how my morning is going. How’s yours?
Reposting for the afternoon #WIPPIT crowd because I love this story so damn much, even though I still don’t have a clue what I’m doing with it 😂
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reposting for the afternoon #WIPPIT crowd because I love this story so damn much, even though I still don’t have a clue what I’m doing with it 😂
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#wippit #A #FR SWORDCROSSED X FAEBOUND
A cursed trans runaway prince is caught, deadnamed, given a 24/7 guard, and betrothed to his old bully. To cure his curse and live as his true self, he must work with the elf guard to escape before the wedding that none of them want, or die
A cursed trans runaway prince is caught, deadnamed, given a 24/7 guard, and betrothed to his old bully. To cure his curse and live as his true self, he must work with the elf guard to escape before the wedding that none of them want, or die
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Becky Chambers x THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT but #fantasy
Between the sunlit wastes and the madness-causing chaos beyond the night, the city of Nightfall thrives, but something is wrong. Neshri’s scars are counting down—perhaps to her true death, perhaps to the city’s destruction
#WIPPIT
Between the sunlit wastes and the madness-causing chaos beyond the night, the city of Nightfall thrives, but something is wrong. Neshri’s scars are counting down—perhaps to her true death, perhaps to the city’s destruction
#WIPPIT
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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When sickness kills a third of the kingdom’s people, including the king himself, the scepter is passed to the next heir in line. But there’s something off about the king’s only son—and someone’s hellbent on finding out what.
MULAN x DAWN OF YANGCHEN x APOTHECARY DIARIES x 🇳🇬 culture
#YA #F #WIPPIT
MULAN x DAWN OF YANGCHEN x APOTHECARY DIARIES x 🇳🇬 culture
#YA #F #WIPPIT
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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RADIO SILENCE is a queer coming-of-age drama about a British rock band’s rise to fame.
Forbidden romance between band members, rival rock bands, terrible people coming back from their pasts - so much drama for one tour bus! radiosilencecomic.com
#WIPPit #GN #YA #LGBT #R #Dis
Forbidden romance between band members, rival rock bands, terrible people coming back from their pasts - so much drama for one tour bus! radiosilencecomic.com
#WIPPit #GN #YA #LGBT #R #Dis
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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WISHAPON
A teen girl finds a capsule vending machine that grants wishes. She wishes to be rich, but the thing about a gashapon machine is that you don’t get to choose what you get.
✨magical realism
✨author illustrated
✨comparative to Free Piano (Not Haunted)
✨editing in progress
#MG #GN #F #WIPpit
A teen girl finds a capsule vending machine that grants wishes. She wishes to be rich, but the thing about a gashapon machine is that you don’t get to choose what you get.
✨magical realism
✨author illustrated
✨comparative to Free Piano (Not Haunted)
✨editing in progress
#MG #GN #F #WIPpit
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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THE INFLUENCER’S DAUGHTER
Wren returns to her childhood homestead to help film a documentary about her mother’s parenting empire.
But old video shows a toddler who isn’t her. And cellar ruins hide bones her mother can’t explain. Now the Hearth Mothers are watching her every move.
#T #A #WIPPit
Wren returns to her childhood homestead to help film a documentary about her mother’s parenting empire.
But old video shows a toddler who isn’t her. And cellar ruins hide bones her mother can’t explain. Now the Hearth Mothers are watching her every move.
#T #A #WIPPit
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
THE. TITLE.
Q: What’s the hardest part of writing a book?
Some thoughtful person: The inevitable gap between the dream and its expression — you stretch your human capacity to the fullest in composition but there remains something elusive and uncapturable you will always mourn.
Me: The goddamn title.
Some thoughtful person: The inevitable gap between the dream and its expression — you stretch your human capacity to the fullest in composition but there remains something elusive and uncapturable you will always mourn.
Me: The goddamn title.
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM
THE. TITLE.
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While folks are getting their chuckles at Trump normalizing his comedic presentation of fascism and Zohran was there to help, this is what is happening:
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
While folks are getting their chuckles at Trump normalizing his comedic presentation of fascism and Zohran was there to help, this is what is happening:
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Less than 2 weeks to go until rent needs to be paid and I still need 146 new sign-ups.
You get literally 1000s of posts, over 900 recipes for £5 and more added every day.
16% off if you sign up annually!
Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.
You get literally 1000s of posts, over 900 recipes for £5 and more added every day.
16% off if you sign up annually!
Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.
I'm a black trans woman fighting poverty and homelessness.
To support myself, I set up a patreon where you can get access to all my recipes, poetry, artwork and photography for just £5.
Something new EVERY SINGLE DAY. You won't regret it.
http://patreon.com/fightingpride93
To support myself, I set up a patreon where you can get access to all my recipes, poetry, artwork and photography for just £5.
Something new EVERY SINGLE DAY. You won't regret it.
http://patreon.com/fightingpride93
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Less than 2 weeks to go until rent needs to be paid and I still need 146 new sign-ups.
You get literally 1000s of posts, over 900 recipes for £5 and more added every day.
16% off if you sign up annually!
Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.
You get literally 1000s of posts, over 900 recipes for £5 and more added every day.
16% off if you sign up annually!
Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.
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This Thanksgiving, I ask you: how can you bring forward more gratitude and light for Native people, in this moment?
Spend it de-centering yourself and finding ways on how you can mend what’s broken, if you care enough. And I hope you do 🤎
Spend it de-centering yourself and finding ways on how you can mend what’s broken, if you care enough. And I hope you do 🤎
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This Thanksgiving, I ask you: how can you bring forward more gratitude and light for Native people, in this moment?
Spend it de-centering yourself and finding ways on how you can mend what’s broken, if you care enough. And I hope you do 🤎
Spend it de-centering yourself and finding ways on how you can mend what’s broken, if you care enough. And I hope you do 🤎
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I don’t come here to doomscroll, I come here to visit the weird little freaks that live in my phone. The doom just gets in the way.
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I don’t come here to doomscroll, I come here to visit the weird little freaks that live in my phone. The doom just gets in the way.
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Free Fiction Friday! Our last short fiction from the fall issue. Dark secrets and sweet freedom from R.J. Howell magazine.trollbreath.com/children-of-...
@mytherea.bsky.social
@mytherea.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Free Fiction Friday! Our last short fiction from the fall issue. Dark secrets and sweet freedom from R.J. Howell magazine.trollbreath.com/children-of-...
@mytherea.bsky.social
@mytherea.bsky.social
I read new writing at my critique group last night and, folks, it was objectively BAD. I cringed reading it. They cringed hearing it. My rough stuff is not usually *that* rough
I briefly considered dropping the project for something else. But now? I’m psyched to revise this
#WritingCommunity
I briefly considered dropping the project for something else. But now? I’m psyched to revise this
#WritingCommunity
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I read new writing at my critique group last night and, folks, it was objectively BAD. I cringed reading it. They cringed hearing it. My rough stuff is not usually *that* rough
I briefly considered dropping the project for something else. But now? I’m psyched to revise this
#WritingCommunity
I briefly considered dropping the project for something else. But now? I’m psyched to revise this
#WritingCommunity
Good night at 40, a haiku:
It isn’t that late
Why are my contacts still in?
I’m going to bed
It isn’t that late
Why are my contacts still in?
I’m going to bed
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Good night at 40, a haiku:
It isn’t that late
Why are my contacts still in?
I’m going to bed
It isn’t that late
Why are my contacts still in?
I’m going to bed