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spookynat.bsky.social
just saw an author advertising their "short story collection" for $3... it's 90 pages... miss ma'am, that's only one short story
June 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
rude how this post read me to absolute filth
cobraandcrescent.com Whitney | Astrology + Fate Management @cobraandcrescent.com ยท Jun 3
A big and pretty immediate manifestation of Saturn into Aries for me is sudden bone-deep panic that I don't have enough time to do certain things or achieve certain goals related to the house it's now transiting
June 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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spicygemini.bsky.social
I was deeply grieving my Pop - who died in 2020 - last night and said before I went to sleep, โ€œyou can visit me tonight if you want.โ€

In my dreams he took me out to dinner and we talked ๐Ÿฅฒ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ’
May 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
spookynat.bsky.social
gotta have a designated pasta colander
walruslifestyle.bsky.social walruslifestyle @walruslifestyle.bsky.social ยท May 17
me, facepalming: how am i going to make spaghetti when all my colanders are overflowing with jewels and gemstones
May 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
spookynat.bsky.social
like i'm writing about alternative fantasy worlds and overcoming the oppressive system and breaking cycles of abuse and being human in an increasingly inhuman world. who tf cares if there are people of the same sex kissing or people deciding their gender doesn't match their bodies
May 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
spookynat.bsky.social
no because everything i write is queernormative <3
cjaralore.bsky.social ๐ŸŒˆCJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social ยท May 17
#QueerPrompts May 17: International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia: Do your characters confront homophobia, biphobia, or transphobia in your story?
Graphics: The background is a pale purple color with a flower design. The border has various flowers in each color of the rainbow, trans flag, asexual flag, and other pride flags. Text: "May 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is the prompt written above.
May 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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ceej.online
Our game offers a rich and detailed world and a story with no easy answers. Unprecedented player freedom makes every interaction a brutal choice between being the most annoying do-gooder in the realm, an insane psychopath, or someone exactly in the middle
May 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
another banger from the WIP. sorry for the narrow formatting - i was experimenting with book layout #WIPSnips
image of a text post with a snippet from a work in progress. the text reads: But from what he learned, thereโ€™s one way of getting more power. One way that can heighten his magic indescribably. Joining a coven. Just a single ritual with a coven is infinitely more powerful than anything Salem would be able to do on his own. He would need powerful coven mates, of course, but with the knowledge and power that would come from a completed covenโ€ฆ The idea is attractive. Salem canโ€™t deny that. Even just the thought of gaining enough power to heal his father fills him with the sort of hope he hasnโ€™t felt in months.
May 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
spookynat.bsky.social
a certain author posting about finishing her 32nd book being as emotional as the first... not to start drama but did she ever learn how to write compound sentences?
May 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
i imagine the people of hyrule keep calendars or tell the legends to their kids to keep track of roughly when the events are going to reset themselves.

"hmm... ten thousand years since the last shitshow... well, time to move to my sister's place in lorule. hopefully yuga wasn't reincarnated..."
aniceburrito.bsky.social journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social ยท May 14
The next Zelda game should make Hyrule normal, no evil goblin magic or whatever. Those people have suffered enough
May 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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ameliakayne.bsky.social
I don't even know why I bother outlining anymore....๐Ÿ™ƒ

๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š #WritersLife #WriterSky #Writer
#WritingCommunity
Distracted boyfriend meme: Offended girlfriend (wearing blue jeans & a powder blue tank top): My outline Distracted boyfriend whistling and tossing a backwards glance at a pretty brunette (he's wearing a blue plaid shirt & dark pants): Me Pretty brunette (wearing a bright red tank top): Making up everything as I write
May 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
spookynat.bsky.social
the way i would absolutely LOVE to do this but i have unfortunately read Too Many Books already this year, and it's only mid may
jackireads.bsky.social Jacki Reads @jackireads.bsky.social ยท Jan 27
2025 Crochet Book Blanket

This year I'm creating a starburst granny square for each book I read, this is a thread of each square as I go. ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š

(As a heads up, I am still figuring out BlueSky and the first four are reposts because I now think a ๐Ÿงตis better than individual posts.)
May 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
every day is a struggle and i live in an eternal hellscape
mid-skeets.bsky.social acab rangoon @mid-skeets.bsky.social ยท May 14
man everything kinda sucks but at least i donโ€™t have that cilantro soap gene thing my god that would suck
May 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
salem fr fr (you can bet i'm putting this in)
adriaandthepriors.bsky.social Adria @adriaandthepriors.bsky.social ยท May 15
Why isnโ€™t it Friday yet?!
There penguins running on a beach โ€œpeople who go on runs right after they wake upโ€ One standing behind them, vomiting โ€œme just trying to process being aliveโ€
May 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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adwills.bsky.social
when I say โ€œI'm plotting a new novelโ€ I really mean I'm hitting a certain song on repeat while visualizing a singular hyper-realistic cool scene until it becomes burned into my psyche
May 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
spookynat.bsky.social
there's nothing quite like posting your own writing in a public forum and THEN finding a fucking typo. smh
May 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
genuinely thought i had nothing for this and i am SO glad to be proven wrong #WIPSnips
post reads: And then he finds his thoughts drifting. A courage potion, that heโ€™d like to try. But first he would have to finish out the commissions that he and his father were hired for. A batch of headache remedy tea for Mrs Downey. A luck potion for Mr Murr. An illness protection potion for Mrs Gould and her young son, who is so susceptible to colds and flus from his school that Salem is fairly certain he has spent more time out of school this year than in it. Thereโ€™s also that pair of fertility spell jars for the Quinns, who having been trying for a baby for so long that theyโ€™ve resorted to magicโ€ฆ Salem sighs. So much to do, and heโ€™s not even sure they have all of the ingredients that they need for the commissions. Heโ€™s definitely got most of the common ingredients, like lemon and cloves and honey, but heโ€™s not sure if the ginger in the garden is quite ripe, and heโ€™ll have to make a couple of oils for the fertility room sprayโ€ฆ Shit, now that he thinks about it, what phase of the moon charged his moon water?
May 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
APPARENTLY I LIED
May 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
FUCK i got nothing for the writing prompt today smh
May 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
one of my WIPs includes babylonian gods, but there's so little surviving information about the pantheon that it's hard to include a lot of the myths - though the myth of enki creating humans certainly comes into it!
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธโœจ @cometkins.bsky.social ยท May 14
Do you incorporate any real-world mythology and legends into your book/wip? What did you pull from and what drew you to it? #WritingPrompt
May 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
damn. apparently people really liked the snippets of salem
May 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
btw if yโ€™all like that writing content, hereโ€™s the link to where the ongoing story is being published: archiveofourown.org/works/648931...
archiveofourown.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
#WIPSnips
post reads: No, he wonโ€™t do a reading, he decides. If he doesnโ€™t remember, then that must be for a reason. Perhaps the contents of his dream were so horrifying that his deity protected him. Salem stretches, then looks around his room, realising that heโ€™s left it in a disastrous state. There are clothes strewn all over the floor, a collection of cardigans and sweaters draped over the back of his desk chair, and his few pairs of shoes are all shoved together in some vague semblance of tidiness in the bottom of his little closet. Heโ€™s also managed to leave stacks of books absolutely everywhere, and there are green blankets falling from the side of his bed onto the floor, just adding to the clutter. The vines that crawl up the corners of his room to wrap around the wooden beams that criss-cross just under his ceiling. There are bookcases on every single wall, all packed with a frankly ridiculous number of books, and any visible wall is painted a dark brown to mimic wood. There are fairy lights draped all around the room, powered with crystals that Salem fills once a month so that they can be motion-activated. His bed nook itself is tucked into one corner of the room, draped with dark green curtains that circumvent the bed to grant him a bit of privacy when heโ€™s sleeping. There are books packed into the shelves heโ€™s installed above the bed, and a giant window is centred right in the middle of the wall above his bed, allowing for a gorgeous view of the forest during the day and the fairy lights that litter the grounds at night.
May 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
spookynat.bsky.social
first time posting a WIP, kinda nervous lmfao #WIPSnips
post reads: "For now, he gathers the ingredients for the luck potion. He'll need a lemon for it, so he quickly shuffles outside of the greenhouse, back into the dark of the night, to wander his way over to their little orchard. The lights of the house illuminate the path for him, and he can see his father wandering around the kitchen, a little aimlessly now that, as Salem assumes, dinner is in the oven. Or on the stove. Something like that. Salem turns away, not wanting his father to see him out in the orchard and remember his presence before dinner is ready. He strides over to the lemon tree and places his hand on the bark of the trunk, grinning up at the bright green leaves and plump yellow lemons. "My, don't you look lovely," he tells the lemon tree, which shivers in approval. This particular tree has always been his favourite out of the bunch, though he makes sure not to show too much favouritism. After all, he and his mother planted this tree. "How are you feeling?" The tree brushes a handful of leaves against Salem's face, and a branch reaches out. He holds out a hand, accepting a lemon when the tree drops it into his hands."
May 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM