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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺

@eliseswritings.bsky.social

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I'm an Epic Fantasy author & Aussie on Wurundjeri country. Living my best ADHD, autistic, chronically ill, enby, aro-ace life! (Blog & Discords in 📌 post 🧵) 📚's Direct: https://payhip.com/EliseCarlsonFantasyAuthor All🔗's: https://elisecarlson.com/

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · Aug 17

There's no such thing as #1 Pinned Post🧵 to rule them all, but I shall post it nonetheless. It'll be gay, neurodiverse & beyond the binary.

For those who wander but are not lost & ponder "what if"?

It'll contain my books of the above, Final Fantasy +Narnia inspired, &invite All Writers to Discord👇

Left: Walking the Knife's Edges cover. Rarkin stands in foreground, wearing leather jacket and jeans, holding a stun gun raised to shoot to the left.

Miona stands on the right, smiling and with boxing gloved fists raised, ready to fight.

They both stand on a grassy slope, a patchwork of Farm Zone paddocks, fields and tree lined streams behind them, to a cloud covered horizon through which the yellow glow of the sun shines.

Text below cover: Make or break. Friends or fail. Monster containment.

Right: Ruarnon Trilogy Graphic with map background and a box of key points for each book.

Book 1, Manipulator's War: red glyph archway frames a smoky night sky, with fire arrows raining down on battlements on which a few torches burn. Ruarnon leans on a spear (left foreground), wearing fitted bronze armour and holding a bronze helmet.

Book 1 Text: Mystery, aro-arces, autism & ADHD, friendship.

Book 2, Secrets of the Sorcery War: blue glyph arch frames two extremely tall cliffs, through which a sailing ship sails across bright blue waters into sunlight.

Book 2 Text: monsters, forgotten weapons, adventure.

Book 3, War in Sorcery's Shadow: purple glyph arch frames a black cloudy sky, down from which a bolt of lightening strikes a shield around brown, crystaline towers of a castle. Castle sits atop barren plains of dead trees, a skull lying in foreground.

Book 3 text: resistance, secret organisations, save a mind & the world.

Text below: Direct from author & non-Amazon stores.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 4h

Apparently it was just my mobile because I never turn it off 🙃. Meanwhile my dinosaur laptop is becoming too old to run modern software and is starting to struggle. Time to replace it apparently!

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 4h

Cheers!

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 4h

Its Bsky's fault for not giving us a post edit function!

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, it just looks like I'm luring people to my website under a false pretext now 😂

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks. Its fixed, but my post saying so isn't circulating as well as the one saying I couldn't see it 🙃

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 5h

Writers & #AmQuerying Folks,
While Bsky's search function is broken, you can use this feed to find DVPit posts to support by quote reposting or replying.

NB: this is a 'likes are only for agents and reposts are only for editors' party.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 5h

Its pretty lousy timing. Though however long it drags on, nothing's stopping agents from browsing later, as they sometimes do anyway.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 5h

Its the Bsky search function. It isn't working at all. Hasn't been for nearly two hours.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 6h

a close up of a chocolate cake on a plate with a bite taken out of it .

Alt: Chocolate lava cake, consisting mostly of melted chocolate on the inside, which pours out as a piece is removed.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 6h

The post above yours on my feed asks the same question, and about 6 people said in reply to it that its not working for them. Not for me either.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 6h

Grim, well-researched reading
“Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than 1/3 of their adult life to get their 1st appointment at a gender clinic, & some will never receive care...Long waits increase distress, self-harm &suicide risk &push people towards potentially unsafe routes to treatment"

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 7h

A worthy read of the exceptionally grim situation for trans people in the UK. The US gets the media spotlight, but the UK's attack on us is more subtle but also more destructive.

medium.com/@geekonaleas...

The UK’s Trans Genocide

The slow machinery of erasure: courts, clinics and ministers weaponising our disappearance

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 7h

Cheers.

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 8h

My webhost makes managing my site to a high degree fairly accesible. Its more the laptop I'm operating the site on that's the issue 🙃

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 8h

Latest humanitarian effort to bring aid to Gaza has been intercepted by Israeli pirates in international waters, north of Egyptian waters.

Israel is behaving like the Mediteranean Sea has been ceded to it. When will the world rein in this rogue state?

freedomflotilla.org/2025/10/08/i...

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 10h

I can see it now! All I had to do was delete cookies, close my browser & wait 3 hours for my computer to reboot! 😂

(Yes, buying a laptop modern enough to run the latest browsers & software is on this week's To Do List. This one is 10 years old & loses functionality for 1 min when I open folders 😉).

Elise's website home page.

Text: Elise Carlson, a fantasy author's adventures in fiction & life.
Header: fire arrows rain down on castle battlements at night (left), a sailing ship sails between cliffs into bright sunlight (right). Art by GlintOfMischief.

Menu bar.

Home.

Same book graphic as Elise's Bsky header.

Side bar: Search. G'day! I'm an Aussise (they/ them) who graduated from playing imaginary games to writing fantasy.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks!

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 12h

🤣 Given global warming is off the charts, I'm somewhat sceptical of their confidence in hell freezing over...

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 12h

It's still going 😆. I checked the browser before then and it's an old version because my device is too old to run the latest one 🙃. It's also too old to run 2024 Microsoft office. All signs point to 'stop putting off getting a new device!'

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly!

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 12h

I'd say it's harder with phones, but I've just spent 4 mins waiting for my computer to finish shutting everything so it can start rebooting 🙃. It's OLD.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 12h

Seems to be everyone but me 😆

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 12h

Isn't that how 'foreshadowing' works? I've honestly never written it any other way 😆

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks! That fixed it. I'll have to bear that in mind, given I rarely turn it off because my poor dexterity struggles with the button combination to do so.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 13h

Cheers! My ADHD doesn't get on well with tech fails 😉

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 13h

Nah nothing lost. Weirdly I can access the back end fine to edit and tinker, but I can't get the front end view to load, to access my blog links. Though I'm desperately overdue to do a manual back up of my blogs, which I ought to do with the content updates I'm part way through 🤔