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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 21h

Take care!

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 1d

Just saw an article about someone who hid a mother and 7-year-old daughter in their apartment, during an ICE raid.

Didn't want to repost it on that because that felt ghoulish, but here's an excerpt from "Until It's Done".

Just for reasons.

Ebook screenshot from Until It's Done:
"“Naturally, you took up running a criminal resistance movement,” I murmur, taking another mouthful of my drink and pouring a bit more. The warmth of it lingers, and spreads, heavy and swift through my gut and into my toes and fingers and cheeks.

“Naturally,” she giggles with a nod. “Yeah, that took a minute, actually, but- oh, I don’t know, you know how it is. First you’re protecting your book collection, then you’re protecting the neighbour’s book collection… then you’re protecting the neighbours,” she snickers with a shrug, and then swivels on her bar stool to face me."

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

A nice world then!

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

There’s an outing rather. Danny’s chapter opens with him packing a bag. He wants to run away because his parents discovered about his homosexuality and want to send him to therapy. To “help” him.
#QueerPrompts #WritingCommunity #queerauthors

🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerPrompts October 11: National Coming Out Day: Do any of your characters come out in your story?

Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters.
Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font.
Center text is:
#QueerPrompts October 11: National Coming Out Day: Do any of your characters come out in your story?

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure of it 💪

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds one of those bits where once the reader gets there, they’re all excited and inciting Av’ry 😎

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! I like that bit too! 🙃

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the dream! I liked this answer 😌 I think conveying messages while entertaining and being fun is a true art

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh I missed the s in #WIPSnips 🤣

Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 2d

One of the ways I like worldbuilding is subtle and natural.
I used rewarding ~ prize.
#WIPSnip #writingcommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #booksky #queerauthors

The querying ceremonies caused a lot more fuss. After all, it was their only shot at receiving tangible aid and Gods, as we all know, can provide a sense of relief, but they don't feed you, nor do they solve your problems.
Praising Karanat wasn’t rewarding. Nature didn’t provide solutions. Just breathtaking views and scenery, if one had the will to take them in.
Everyone wore their best dresses for the occasion. As much as they tried to appear tidy and elegant, there was an impressive polarity between the glitz of the walls, the draping, the light floors and the refined wooden sculptures, and the dirty hands of workers, the fuzzy hair of women who knew nothing but pure well water and handmade soaps.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 2d

One of the ways I like worldbuilding is subtle and natural.
I used rewarding ~ prize.
#WIPSnip #writingcommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #booksky #queerauthors

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 2d

So it was count Dracula, not a device?

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 3d

Vanessa gets rejected and god does she suffer when they disappear out of the blue.
This actually comes from real texts I received myself 😁
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #writingcommunity #WritingPrompts

I'm sorry, Vanessa, for disappearing. I've been quite busy, and at this time I have no social battery. You're a great person. I'm just not ready to commit.
The text had come out of the blue. A response to five of her messages asking why he wouldn't reply after their last date. He wasn't the first to do that.
She had drafted a response four times: the first as a calm, mature woman, the second as a wraith, the third as a sad lunatic and then, finally, no response. It wasn't her fault. Why did she think it was, though?

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! That gives me hope ❤️

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 3d

A fantasy novel with dystopian elements that puts autistic and queer characters with unconventional traits at the centre of a story. An exploration of the soul and its multiple traits that make us humans.
#booksky #writesky #queerauthors

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 3d

they end up each in a different world. Now they will enter a complex system of dimensions, once in balance, now separated by barriers raised using forceful repression and lies, which they can uncover only by mastering their nature and facing their insecurities.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 3d

Vanessa and Danny have always seen things that the others didn’t. Dreams, imagination, safe places where to hide from a world that doesn’t get them. But one day they see glimpses of one another and their connection feels too real. When they both get attacked by horrifying monsters,

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never shared what my WIP is about. I shouldn’t call it WIP but it is still nurtured before being queried or, who knows, self-published. If you’re curious, this is a thread 🧵 that will help you decipher better by #WIPSnips 😁 opinions about this blurb or other thoughts is welcome.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 4d

We’re at draft six and I have to edit this thing for the last time because I can’t do better than I have done in the last ten months. Or maybe I can. But there’s a point you need to accept that done is better than never ending perfect.
#booksky #writingcommunity #writesky

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 5d

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky

In the Tenement, people are scared of the Old Books, which are said to change your brain chemistry in dangerous ways. They're... not completely wrong 😈

From #Tenement, my dystopian mystery about people living in an infinite building.

Mr. Gellar led me back to the section where the Old Books were partitioned off. We went through the gate, and I followed him to a dimly lit aisle near the back. He pulled down a book from one of the highest shelves, brushed a thin film of dust off of its cover, and handed it to me.
Surprised, I took it gingerly, conscious of its age. The cover was dingy green, covered in a faded diamond pattern. And like all the other Old Books, the title was distorted, barely legible.
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“This was your mother’s favorite book,” he said. “I think it’s time for you to have it.”
“Wait—you’re giving it to me?” I asked in shock.
“Shh!” He pressed a finger to his lips again. “Not so loud. This is meant to be a secret, alright? I’m trusting you not to tell anyone else about it.”
“But—” My heart was racing. “Is it... safe?”
“Well,” he admitted, “I suppose that depends on what you mean by ‘safe.’ But it’s not going to make you go crazy or anything, if that’s what you’re worried about.”
“But what about Rule 84?” I didn’t know why I was arguing. I wanted to take that book home and devour it immediately.
“I think we can bend the Rules a little in this case.”
“Weren’t you the one who was just going on about how we have to follow the Rules so we don’t bring the Tenement down?”
He shrugged. “Some Rules are a bit more flexible than others.”

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 6d

Quite the warming legend, if you ask me.
Julius explains the Equilum and the scope of the Elp’da to Vanessa.
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‘When one Civilisation misses the cure, another one will share it. When one Civilisation does not know the meaning, another one will write it down and teach them. Not one kind will grow alone. Not one kind will be forgotten. The hands of Hope will come when needed, and all shall walk forward towards their next age.’

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K.A. Hela ✨ Prepping for edits...again✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 7d

Someone's first trip to a grocery store
From "Endlings"
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips

nothing could have prepared him for his first trip to the grocery store.
The doors slid open to reveal a paradise. There was so much here. So easy to acquire, one only had to reach out one's hand and take it. Fruit he had never imagined existed sat piled high, unprotected from the throngs of people, who mostly ignored the bounty before them. He reached out to grab an apple and Shasha nodded, gesturing for him to put it in the cart. He cradled it to his chest instead, refusing to let it out of his sight.
The meat section was truly what took his breath away. Animals already hunted, slaughtered and butchered. No blood, no skin, no mess, just pure meat waiting to be cooked and consumed. How was this possible on such a scale? It would take legions of hunters to produce so much. His mind was reeling as Shasha casually took a whole chicken and put it into her cart like it was nothing at all.

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Samantha Boo-reaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 7d

Spencer and Reggie go on a little adventure.

From my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Wrencer

We can rule out any of the large, well-tended graveyards, Reggie. Spencer thought the words at the ancient spirit, and as always, the skull inferred their meaning easily enough. We won’t find our necromancer creeping around Nazurine’s mausoleum or the Blood Raven’s ossuary.

In a city as large as Fenholt, there were dozens of places to store the dead. Even Spencer didn’t know them all. Peering across the Veil would allow him to visit every burial spot in a matter of hours. If there were remnants of necromantic work lingering somewhere, they would find them.

There, Reggie, beside that tumble-down building on the corner.

They turned, angling towards the small, shabby lot that tugged on Spencer’s senses like a hook under his flesh. Barely bigger than the rectory study and hemmed by a ramshackle wooden fence, the cemetery was a sad patch of neglected ground. It was empty except for a small ghost wandering between the worn-down stones. The shade of a girl child followed behind a glowing wisp of light that bobbed aimlessly in a lazy circle.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 8d

Are you a master ruminator?
Vanessa is. And as a person affected by RSD, being left without answers with no clear closure is messy. No worries, she’s about to kill monsters.
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts

“It seems, today, I am in the mood for feeling sad.” She declared loudly to herself. The clock struck 5 am. One and a half hours before the alarm. Sleep wasn’t an option anymore.
“Just because of another man who's disappeared on me…” She called, looking upwards at the ceiling. “I get to live these things again?” A cataloguer of unsolved and filed cases, her brain was on the hunt for all the events stored under the word shame.

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 8d

This sounds such an intricate layer of humanity to bring in a story. I love the sound of that 😍

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Alexein Colt 🎃👻🧛 @xeinale.bsky.social · 8d

🙇❤️ glad to join!

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