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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

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Writer. Feminist. LGBTQ+. She/her. Socialist. Whovian. Unapologetic bookworm, word nerd and lover of humour. Human rights, equality. Writing novels one word at a time.📚 Author contact: [email protected]

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · Jan 16

You can't separate the art from the artist when they're still alive because they're still benefiting from the financial leverage, access to platform and power through influence that art provides.

Supporting abusive artists makes you an accomplice to harm.

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1h

News reporter: The three men who are wanted in connection with an ongoing police investigation...

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 2h

Sorry. That's just shit. It shouldn't be like this. x

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 3h

*trans

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 3h

The best revenge is to live happily.

Keeping posting tans joy and ignore/block the f**kers.

Don't let them steal your joy!

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 3h

#LGBTQWriteAThon 9th October

There's no pride or LGBTQ+ representation in Tam Lin. While I've included a feminist interpretation, I decided against adding a LGBTQ+ interpretation as it's too far away from the feel of the original text

Feels strange, as I normally have LGBTQ characters🏳️‍🌈

#WriteSky

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 3h

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 9:

Share pride flags or pride flag inspired moodboards for your WIP today!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 9: pride flags/moodboards.
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 3h

#QueerPrompts 9th October:

Bad luck is the catalyst for the plot of #TamLin

Tam Lin falling from his horse among the hills where the queen of the fairies dwells is how he becomes her capture and is put under threat of being sacrificed as a tithe to hell.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing

🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 12h

#QueerPrompts October 9: Curses or bad luck in 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 9: Curses or bad luck in story?

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 3h

#PlotTober 9th October

Janet's determined and brave in the face of danger. She acts fearlessly even when she and others are in great danger and she's wildly independent, unafraid to buck expectation. She's also too stubborn which makes her undiplomatic and impulsive.

#WriteSky #Writing #TamLin

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 10h

#PlotTober Day 9: MC personality & behaviors

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

9. What are some personality traits and behaviors, both positive and negative, that you think would suit your main character(s)? How do these traits affect your main character's goals and motivations?

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

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 4h

'I wrote my thesis in 90 hours and got an A. AI can't do that'

No you didn't. No university is that shit it'd give an A to that thesis. You can't function properly after three nights of no sleep.

#AI can't reproduce the creativity and EI of humans but lets not enter into ad absurdum rhetoric.

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 6h

That's hilarious and makes the point really well. Unless it's enthusiastic, willing consent it's not consensual. Of course a Brit had to use tea as an analogy, we're practically pumping the stuff through our veins 🤣🤣🤣

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 6h

Sound up 📢

Brilliant bit on consent by Brit mum using tea as an analogy.

It's funny but gets the point across.

Always, always get enthusiastic, willing consent, or sex is not consensual.

#Consent #WomensRights

Lawrence Williams @ldwilliams-uk.bsky.social · 7h

An interesting way to get the meaning of consent across

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 13h

Not only have editors prevented me from showing my ass in public, so has hiring sensitivity readers. I’m a big fan of both. Having someone be honest with you while also keeping your best interests at heart is something to be valued not dismissed

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 16h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 17h

#PlotTober 8th October

Janet's conflict comes from both the mortal and spirit world.
The strict morals of the mortal world demand she conform; in the spirit world she must survive the trials she faces as the queen of the fairies tries to prevent her rescuing #TamLin

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 1d

#PlotTober Day 8: Conflicts for the MC

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

8. What are some potential reasons the main character(s) haven't, couldn't, and/or can't pursue these goals yet? Consider other characters, backstory events, circumstances, environmental factors, etc.

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

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 18h

#QueerPrompts 8th October

Most of my characters are LGBTQ+ but not in my current WIP. I'm working on a novelisation of #TamLin a 16th century Scottish folk ballad. As you can appreciate there were few out characters during that period so instead let me wish you a blessed #InternationalLesbianDay &

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 19h

It seems unlikely

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 19h

Other people being unable to understand that a critical analysis of text or an ability to critically think is the exact reason we need people who read English for their degrees as they can provide intelligent analysis of political culture wars which endanger our democracy.

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks, it sorted itself out after a bit. Who knows what shenanigans were going on. I have past prompts from our lovely host so I wasn't completely adrift.

Just a gremlin in the machine I guess.

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1d

For the pure hedonistic joy, who couldn't love animal ❤️

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1d

Yees!

Love him so much!

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair #PlotTober and #WritersCoffeeClub is also coming up with "no results found" so I'm guessing it's a BlueSky fault. What does it tell you that I immediately wondered if #QueerPrompts had been shadow banned because it dares to mention the Q word. This is the world we now live in.

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone else coming up with no results when they put in #QueerPrompts?

Not sure if it's that the connection here is particularly bad because we're out in the country, if there's a Blue sky fault or if the hashtag has been censored by the BlueSky team?

#WriteSky #Writers #WritingCommunity

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1d

Name your favourite muppet.

I'll cheat and name two!

Statler: Does this count as animal cruelty

Waldorf: Only if they're watching it

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:

What genre is your WIP?

#TamLin is Scottish folk ballad where our heroine saves our hero from the Queen of the fairies. It's a #Fantasy but there elements of the mythical, Scottish Folk, naturalist spirit and oral balladry

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:

What genre is your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1d

Again, it is not a zero sum game. We can do more than one thing at a time.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1d

It's really not about "winning" it's about being clear and concise. That's not beefing up against people, it it is about being clear that we can strongly comment and condemn (myself) on both of these things at the same time.

Being pro Palestinian is definitely not anti-Semitic.

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 1d

No one's "coming at you" just making the point that the barbarism occurring in Palestine does not mean we can't also see barbarism of a different kind occurring in home politics. My posts on my profile make my views on the current genocide clear.