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Chris E. Sol
@telaranrhiod.bsky.social
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Fledging writer from 🇳🇴 Norway | 🌈 proudly gay | eternally single
Dog dad to Zazu | WoT, Trek, Who, Stargate, Cosmere
Debut novel «Earth’s Awakening» out now
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But my current repeat song…
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Oh what a #lode, I wish I had.
Riches isn’t necessary
Just enough to get by

This system isn’t made
for such as me
Who just tries to live

My only #addiction
Is Pepsi max
Or Pepsi zero, black or what you call it.

But for now
I’m just here
Lonely, cold,
Unworthy of all

#vss365 #vssmagic
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Amir is deep within the earth, far beneath the Giza plateau. Here is is told what his next step is.

#WiPSnips #system
#writingprompt
#authorsky
#queerauthor
#queerprotagonist
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A point in the center lit up, so he assumed it was to indicate where he should stand. When he reached it, a chair suddenly appeared behind him, as if it melted up from the floor itself. A floor that is beautiful, almost carved from the stone itself, inlaid with gold patterns… He almost got lost in thoughts examining the floor, and didn’t therefore notice as twelve figures entered: six from either side of the room. “Amir Al-Nassim, you have come before the council of elders to hear your fate.” Fate? What? He was unsure what they meant. Fate? “We see your apprehension, we wish you no ill, but our oracle has foretold your coming to us. By its decree, you must adhere to its words as you venture forth from this chamber.” Intriguing. What are they? He could see almost nothing, they all were veiled, and clad in those golden robes. Although – there is something about their feet… he couldn’t quite put his finger on what it was though. Another one continued, “the Oracle foretold of a young man, who would find his way into this holy city – the first in several thousands of years to do so – and when he came, he must be sent on a quest to see the oracle – one of only two left in this world.” Yet another one continued, “The road to the oracle is far from easy. Here in Al’Aratta we are far from the world of humans. The oracle however, lives in a cave system beneath Delphi. It is connected to us by tunnels and gateways – but for you, the path through gateways is not open. You must venture through the tunnels. Find your way, and when the oracle is reached, she will tell you about her prophesy as it pertains to you.” “One thing we can say. Through meditation – you might find the path to take with more ease. We have, however, concluded. On this first travel, we will set out areas for you to rest, which will have food and drink for you when, and if, you reach them. These places will be safe for you, though the rest of the journey, you must find your own way.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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In today’s vignette from Zhe’ra’s life, between India and the Ming Dynasty zeh’ra is travellingthrough the jungle of the Burmese empire.

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSMagic #vssdaily
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WeirdMicro

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1541 – Burmese Empire Following stone markers along a path through the Burmese jungle was harder than she’d imagined, but as long as she encountered no people she continued to travel by portal. In the deep jungle she could hardly see far enough to jump safely, so mostly she still walked. When night came, and impeded her progress, she made camp in a clearing beneath towering trees. She prepared to set up wards to safeguard from the local wildlife, something she’d got herself addicted to do. Suddenly, brilliance tore the night apart. She looked up, as a meteor arched across the sky. Blooming in silence, as a void blossom opening towards the stars. She slept soundly under its silent power, waking to find there were people nearby. A girl stood just outside her wards – a girl who could see the wards, have I been inattentive? A girl connected to the same power she had. The first person with power she had met since arriving in this age. The girl gestured adamantly for Zhe’ra to follow, so she packed up the few items she had used and followed the girl to the village. The village was small, several tiny dwellings surrounded an open area in between. The girl led her through the houses until she stopped behind one with two adults working quietly. Are they her family? She connected to her power to gain understand of their language. She asked them carefully wether they knew about their girl. They said their daughter had been blessed by the valiant thunder god and would live long and bring prosperity to her family. No fear! Amazing. “Are there other girls blessed so?” Zhe’ra asked them. The girls mother looked at the father, who nodded. “There was a woman. She died last year. She confirmed Hnin Thiri was dragon-blessed.” Zhe’ra relaxed. I might stay here for a bit. There are things here for me to learn! #VSS365 Addiction #Whistpr Valiant #VSSDaily Marker #VSSMagic Meteor #Emoetry Inattentive #WIPSnips Impede #BlueSkyRelay Adamant #WeirdMicro Void Blossom
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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2025, Al’Thul

Paolo and Amir are wandering the forgotten realms. Seeking the advice of the Odin.

Will their prophesy be fulfilled?

Will they find more than friendships?
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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2025, some town, somewhere
Bill is 17, but has seen strange things. Purple eyed monsters, a dragon. Things are strange. Rumours of Atlantis having risen again.

He wishes he can experience more than this small midwestern town. He feels he has an uncertain future.

Maybe tomorrow will be better
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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1503, outside London
Zeh’ra was lonely
In this new world.
People are strangers, with strange ways, strange customs. And the language is weird.

She will find a way, no matter how long it takes, make the world better along the way.

Maybe even find love again.
But damn, she misses Nerys.
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The forsaken
The dragon
The serpent

#TheWheelofTime
The eight forsaken statues stand in a semicircle around a red dragon, with a white and red cornsnake slithering on and around them
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I don’t mean to #gaslight anyone.
I just don’t feel very #giggly.
Life can be #hard sometimes
Like I’ll never make my #debut.

Nothing I do is #relevant
But that’s just life, I guess.
What to do, what to do?
I’ll not play #tennis either!

#BlueSkyRelay, #emoetry, #vssdaily, #vss365
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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In today’s vignette from Zhe’ra’s life, she’s on the run from witch hunters in the Italian mountains. Seeking escape, seeking to Newhouse she is.

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSMagic #vssdaily
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WeirdMicro

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1 527 – reaching the coast Climbing across the Abruzzo mountains she hardly met anyone, managing to hide or occasionally jump through a portal to avoid people. News had still reached her though, of a brutal murder of a woman up in Würzburg. The poor woman had been found with a twisted spine. It made her so irate! She hadn’t encountered anyone, man, or woman, capable of connecting to the power. Not knowing where she was going yet was hard, she might catch a boat to Dubrovnik, or Durrës – or maybe even Corfu. She knew ships left Pescara regularly, all she had to do was get there. I had barely debuted in the high society of Rome too! She thought, making her even more angry. Glancing across a small valley she gazed across and created a portal, causing a tree to explode by the pressure! She dashed through and dusted herself off while she continued her journey, adjacent to the road, Coming to another steep drop she formed another portal to a clearing she could just make out a bit down the other side. Passing through she heard gasps. Turning around, she saw a couple with rackets in their hand as a small ball thumped on the grass. They play tennis, here? I thought it was a game for the royals in London, not here! Before they could say something, she formed another portal, just to the other side of the field where she could duck through some trees and get away. Better they think I was a trick of the light, not actually there! From behind the trees, she turned to see the men examine the spot she had stood. Too close. She walked down to the road, smelling the sea before she saw it. The warmth, the breeze; it felt almost like home. But she didn’t dare stay here. Once again, she was fleeing from persecution because of who she was. Except, this time it wasn’t because she loved a woman from a forbidden people. It was because of the power she had been granted by the Light, a very part of her. I need to avoid notice, avoid any for for relevance. Disappear, become someone e…
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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#WIPSnips #Global

I didn’t have global, but many forms of world.

So:) let’s see what is being discussed here in Earth’s Hidden Realms…

#Authorsky
#firstdraft
#queerprotagonist
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Paolo wondered, “Al’Dearo? Is that like El’Dorado?” the dragon chuckled. According to the Others, El’Dorado is a myth spread after some humans from your word came to this place to shelter after a catastrophe. Some of their descendants still live in the city with the Others to this day. After the Spanish conquered these lands, the world was no longer safe for all those who lived there, some returned to us here. The true name of the city though, is Al’Dearo. One of the holy cities of the Others. “Who are the Others?” he asked, before immediately continuing; “So then El’Dorado wasn’t a city made of gold, but a city bathed in the golden light of this internal sun you have here…” He suddenly turned to face Temozin, “How do I know you?” he asked, “I feel like I have known you my entire life, but how can that be?”. Temozin looked at him quizzically. I forget Aludim, you haven’t heard me since we were both children.
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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These vignettes are slowly becoming longer… let’s see if it ever becomes a novella…

#writingprompts
#lgbtqauthor
#authorsky
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#writing
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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In today’s vignette from Zhe’ra’s life, we find Rome ready to explode in 1527. Tensions were high, and someone seems to be looking for her…

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSMagic
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WeirdMicro

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1527 The Holy Roman Empire Arriving in Rome had been spectacular. She’d spent almost five years in the city when the trouble started. Henry VIII had spread rumours among the nobility of a woman who did not age and had disappeared into thin air. The rumors had caught the ear of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, travelled all over the global empire it seemed to her, and his spies had started questioning people. Every angle she investigated, every rock she turned, she found evidence of a decay of craft. The city of Rome pulsed with power, but so much weaker than in her old time. As if the Light itself had withdrawn. She caught imperial spies looming around, a purple glint in several of their eyes. A sign of the dark one if ever I’ve seen one. The city felt on edge, as if it were a powder keg, ready to burst. Though. It also felt like she waited for someone, someone that will push me one way or another. Some girls waved at her, she smiled and waved back, which made the girls giggle. She was still smiling when a voice called “There! That is her! The emperor wants her questioned!” She didn’t wait to find out what they were on about, quickly ducking into a quiet area where she opened a portal back to her rooms. As the portal closed, she heard them call “Which!” She had been discovered. Quickly packing her possessions, once again, she winced as she heard shouts and footsteps thumping upstairs. A portal to the forest outside the city, as far as she had been. If King Henry the eighth, or even the pope wanted her it was no going back. She’d flee further east. The portal was open, she couldn’t see anyone through it, so she ventured through, just as her door was smashed in. They wouldn’t manage to capture her! Staying away until all of them were dead shouldn’t be too hard for her to achieve. I’ve got centuries left! #VSS365 Achievable #Whistpr windy #VSSDaily (n/a) #VSSMagic Angle #Emoetry giggly #WIPSnips Global #BlueSkyRelay wave #WeirdMicro Decay of Craft
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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The way you feel someone looking at you, out of the corner of your eye,

The way you see someone you want to avoid, yet greet silently with a side-eye stare

Or the way, a gentle view, not ferocious, just a stare

That seems to say, can I come out again?

#emoetry #ferocious #blueskyrelay #side-eye
My ball python, Zahra. Gently draped over a cork log, staring out at me. She is 5 years old, is white/yellow with almost purple scales on her head. She’s a big girl, loves to interact.
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Hmm.. Zhe’ra’s life has had its ups and downs. Being nearly immortal lands her many adventures, and much woe, from escaping Shara, after her seafolk girlfriend was brutally murdered by her own kind, being hunted by the Ayyad, escaping through time to London in 1503. Spending the next 500 years here
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The aftermath of death.

Family want me to take the house
I want the house
But I don’t think I can afford the house

Life’s realities on display

This society isn’t meant for a single loner with a dog, two serpents and a mind full of stories!
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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In today’s vignette from Zhe’ra’s life, she has chosen to leave a son behind, and venture to new lands across the western sea.

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSMagic
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WeirdMicro

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1819, Atlantic Ocean It had been almost two weeks since she boarded the longest ocean trip she’d taken in well over two centuries. America was well and truly open, colonized, carved, altered. Zhe’ra felt ready to wander west at last and confident she could live there for decades before needing to uproot again. She lamented having to leave St. Petersburg. Leaving my son for the second time. But he has wed and had children of his own. It’s time to withdraw from even his periphery. Her contacts would appraise her of his and his children’s lives through letters left in a spot she could portal to, The ocean was deeply blue, a stark aesthetic rival to the faces of some of her fellow travelers. The ocean looked to her as if it were made of dark crystal in the moonlight, glittering silently with reflections of stars. Sighing, she turned from the rails and headed in to find her bunk. It sounded like the noise had quieted. If not, she had a bone to pick with some of them to keep it down! Huh, maybe I can get an actual bo e from cook and shove it up his. She regained her composure before she continued towards the stairwell with measured steps. Out of the corner of her eye she saw something. It can’t be. A water dragon! The kind rumoured to exist in the east! When she turned though, the ocean was quiet once more. She slowed her movement, only seeing side-eyed at the ocean, but nothing more stirred. The creatures she’d heard about wasn’t ferocious though; they were supposed to be gentle guiding spirits. If they existed, and one was here she would take that as a good omen. #VSS365 Measure #Whistpr Bone #VSSDaily #VSSMagic Blue #Emoetry Ferocity #WIPSnips Crystal #BlueSkyRelay Side-eye #WeirdMicro Aesthetic Rival
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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I’m #blue - dabade dabadu…

Outside the snow is… snowing

Making me feel trapped, not #free

This #specific act of nature

Is the worst I encounter in a year.

Give me storms, rain or sunshine.

Just leave the cold and snow somewhere else.

#vss365 #BlueSkyRelay #whistpr
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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In today’s vignette from Zhe’ra’s life, follow her on a journey east… to lands unknown to her still…

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSMagic
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WeirdMicro

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1531 A journey towards India After leaving the ancient structures outside Cairo Zeh’ra boarded a dhow at the port of al-Qusayr, leaving the Ottoman Empire behind. The direction she had chosen was towards the far east lands of spice and silk. The journey across the blue oceans took months, stopping at many ports. In secret, Zhe’ra did what she could to entice fortune winds – skills she had learnt from Nerys in their youth. Along the ports she encountered so many people. In Mocha she had used flows of air to gently push two fighting men apart; one of them, seething with anger, were quickly subdued by the guards once he was free of his opponent. After the brawl she drifted through the market stalls near the port pausing briefly at a stall featuring a cracked geode; Dull on the outside, sparking, slowly pulsing with power on the inside. She picked it up and placed it in her bag before returning to the ship once more. When at last she set her foot on solid ground in Calicut, she found it a beautiful, bustling port city. Full of fragrant spices, fabrics, and wonderful people of all sorts. Colors she had not seen since she left her old life behind almost thirty years ago. The food here was so enthralling, a wonderful identity fusion of all things she could imagine! Zhe’ra didn’t have any specific plans for her immediate future. Maybe I’ll stay here, she thought. Maybe I’ll spend some time to educate myself of the ways of spice and color! It wasn’t like she didn’t have time. Those connected to the one power as she easily lived 1200-1500 years. She was barely 600 yet! Still in her prime! #VSS365 Specific #Whistpr Free #VSSDaily (not posted) #VSSMagic Geode #Emoetry Educated #WIPSnips direction #BlueSkyRelay Blue #WeirdMicro identity fusion
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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#emoetry #vss365

Neither one was taking #defensive #action, they are just curious.

Both relaxing, keeping an eye on eachother.
The head of my border collie zazu as he gazes down on my new ball python Zahra who has been with us for two weeks. Zahra is 5 years old, Zazu is 2.
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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In today’s vignette from Zhe’ra’s life, we feel her awe sitting on top of ancient structures - mirroring my own feeling in that same spot years ago…

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSMagic
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WeirdMicro

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1841 Teotihuacán Zeh’ra climbed the steps of the pyramid at the far end of the walkway. Her guide had called it «La Pirámide de la Luna, part of Teotihuacán» which bemused her at first; How something so grand not could be named for the greatest of the celestial objects. And he’d said that Teotihuacán itself was an old word that appeared to mean city of the gods. She could believe it! Looking out over the avenue below, she felt something stirring; as though the ground itself was repealing evil - no not evil itself - An echo. An echo of some future action; her eyes clouded as a vision of youths defending against strange beings…. She shook her head to purge the vision. Nothing to do with me! Back in the now she sat looking out over the clean expansive nature; she felt at ease. Away from the soot-stained world of the big cities. She hoped areas such as this would always be as beautiful. In front of her was another magnificent pyramid, the guide had said its name also though her mind had been muddled by the vision, where she saw the top of it bend inwards by the weight of those beings. La Pirámide del Sol — that was it! She wondered if the other smaller structures were also called for planets or stars in the sky above! These ancient structures, structures making even her long life feel transient were not mercurial like the rest of society seemed to become. It was permanent, ancient, and unmoving by design. She sat there for a while, meditating while filling her with the lights power. Feeling the flows, she connected too, and how this land was connected to it. So much history, preserved in rock and stone. She was in awe, remembering how it felt when she visited Egypt all those years ago. #VSS365 Action #Whistpr Bend #VSSDaily (not posted) #VSSMagic Bemuse #Emoetry Defensive #WIPSnips Special #BlueSkyRelay Mercurial #WeirdMicro Soot-stained World
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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My #options are limited
I’ve tried to #join so many clubs and activities in my life. I so often fail.
Life seems just to be #transient
Or a series of the latest #craze
Yet I live my self as a #casual man.
My uniform is jeans and a hoodie.

#vss365 #whistpr #BlueSkyRelay #vssmagic #emoetry
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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In today’s vignette from Zhe’ra’s life, follow her as she crosses into Mexico for the first time….

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSMagic
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WeirdMicro

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1840 El Paso crossing On the third day after she left her old life behind, she came to the Paso del Norte, the crossing which marked the boundary between the United States of America and the relatively newly freed nation of Mexico. The family joining her on this transient crossing were pleasant enough, though she casually left them behind as soon as she could. She didn’t know exactly where she was going — she thought she might just wander for a few years. Doing small jobs here and there, not making any attachments. Money she had accrued in bounds, but not something she spread knowledge of. She had a secret location she could reach by portal if needed. Mexico seemed like a catalog of wonders — food, culture, history — experiences she had yet to live! She’d also heard there were pyramids here, like those in Egypt — yet different! Everything Egypt was all the craze back in Europe, someone had found something or other again. Zeh’ra made her way onwards, hoping to find a nice inn she could rest a day or two at. Then she would go looking for ancient wonders! #VSS365 Option #Whistpr Join #VSSDaily (not posted) #VSSMagic Craze #Emoetry Casual #WIPSnips Third #BlueSkyRelay transience #WeirdMicro Catalog of Wonders
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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His #reality is that his mind is filled with #intrusive #memories, thoughts. States…

He knows he isn’t exactly #radiant, thoughts he tries each day to spread joy.

He isn’t a saint, though he masks well and most people things well of him. Except himself…

#vss365 #vssmagic #whistpr #weirdmicro
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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«We managed to convince the surface dwellers our kind feared #iron. We never meant to make them frightened of us. But frightened they became, and through time we were depicted as scoundrels and evil.»

- Tuatha elder to Paulo and Amir.

#BlueSkyRelay
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM