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Avid. Profile photo from one of my books' covers but I do kinda look like that after a jelly doughnut. amazon.com/dp/B0CMLN7MY9 'It's not your right to be so much my enemy.' - N.O.

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · Jul 19

#booksky #specfic

Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · Jul 19

Hello lovelies 💙📚

here's my review of Magic Flask by @fennelsteuert.bsky.social

Five star indy speculative fiction with a voice I loved.

#books #amreading #indybooks

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Review by jennygaitskell - Magic Flask

I thoroughly enjoyed this original, witty and insightful novel. I loved Evie's voice, and expl...

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 19h

A mound of ash ... bright feathers ... your friend missing. Some of the ash is scattered on the apartment floor, and in that there's footprints - and more feathers, like something molted. Drawers and cupboards ransacked.
Is this what it means to love a phoenix?
#horrorprompt #vss365 #ash

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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 2d

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 1d

'Pledge to help yourself,'
says the figure.
Somewhere in your insomnia,
you know you've pledged this
before - not in so many words.
But without ceremony,
without the scent of jasmine
to sparkle up a simple knot.
'Thoughts,' says the figure,
'clash with purpose.'

#inkmine #vss365 #clash #horror

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L. M. Shayle @skittishr.bsky.social · 2d

[1/2]
I've never seen the moon exert its power this way before. Beyond the tides, its pull invades realms deep within our souls, attempting to draw out the unknowable evil it assumes is plaguing us.

Artwork of cracked face glaring up, moonlight tinting it.

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 2d

Velak's followers are weathered in a way bolstered by corruption. By the need to do anything to avoid being alone with themselves.
Velak only associates with them when it needs worship energy. This is hard to maintain from any being close and alone with it.
#horrorprompt #vss365 #associate

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4d

'How? How ... when she's in the air ?'
The woman in white is right in front of you now. Her face is beautiful, her eyes are like whirlpools.
'Give her the green in your eyes.'
You hear the river, feel yourself losing balance.
You close your eyes, grab grass like your hanging on for life.
#fastprompt

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4d

The lady in white turns to face you, and it's like her head is the absence of light. But her dress...the blemished white. Some kind of pulse shimmers through it as she points to a glass coffin suspended in air. A woman's inside - her face covered by hair.
'Help her,' a voice says.
#fastprompt

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4d

The lady in white's dress wasn't unblemished. Your phone's light showed you as much. That's why you kept following her. But the light ... the path she takes you down seems to eat it. The closer you get to the river, the more the light stops at her neck. The more she appears headless.
#fastprompt

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine seeking asylum
and finding what they made of it -
Ruin. Sustained ruin.
#fastprompt

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4d

But you're heading toward the river they intend to fence off because of all the accidents. And there's no sign of anything but the woman...who slows down as you do.
'What's wrong?' she says without turning to face you.
You put on your phone's flashlight. She's still there.
'Nothing. Let's go.'
2/2

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4d

Are you elastic? On 1%, taken by surprise by a woman in white asking for help, do you look around for someone else; or, do you just go with her ... she seems to think you can help her even with you beaming 1%.
#fastprompt #vss365 #elastic 1/2

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H.A.L. Zaldívar 📚✏️🎮 [RAFFLE ON PINNED COMMENT] @halzaldivar.bsky.social · 7d

Want extra entries and even free drawings?

Rules:

-Draw any of these 3 OCs. 1 character = 1 extra entry

-SFW preferably

-NO AI OR NFT

-Draw more, win more:
1 char = B&W sketch
2chars = Chibi
3 chars = Fullbody Fullcolor

-Use the hastag #zaldivart so I can find it

Teresa Esquivel, Zaibatsu of Earth and the Butcher of the 186th, wearing the rags that remain from her lucky clothes; a yellow t-shirt, jean shorts, black boots, grey bandages bellow her right knee. She has brown skin, shoulder lenght unwashed dark brown hair, baggy eyes with chocolate irises. She has a pickaxe on her right hand. Her left lower arm is covered with a reddish black stone gaunlet, making a peace sign.

Carolina Esquivel, a healing witch.

An olive skinned woman with black straight hair, green eyes, wearing an oversized purple sweater, neon green leggings and white socks and sneakers. She has aquamarine auras in her hands

Helena Floris-Gorç, Zaibatsu of Water and heir apparent of the Serendipia Corporation

A young woman with white skin, blue eyes and black waist-leght hair. She wears a white blouse, blue skirt, leather belt and red beret. She has her right forearm and left lower leg covered in ice

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4d

Storms were a refuge.
But the hive watched you out there ...
Knows you didn't melt.

#inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4d

And you find a way to be super elastic for someone who's not kind, and suddenly you as you don't exist anymore in this timeline. You're in that bubble for a second, where you can see everything else that could have been; and that's it.
2/2 #satsplat #vss365

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4d

There's this bubble ... a kind of bubble ... a dream world on pause. That's where you end up when you go back in time only to find time takes where you felt the most pain. Not even where you'd want to be more elastic.
You're there where you were hurt most.
1/2 #satsplat #vss365

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H.A.L. Zaldívar 📚✏️🎮 [RAFFLE ON PINNED COMMENT] @halzaldivar.bsky.social · 7d

THE 666 FOLLOWERS #RAFFLE AND #DTIYS IS HERE!!!

Rules:

-Follow 👤, Like ❤️, Share 🔁 this post

-Comment/QRT your refs (SFW preferably)

-NO AI OR NFT

-6 winners:
🥇Fullbody Full color
🥈Fullcolor Chibi
🥉,4️⃣,5️⃣,6️⃣B&W sketch

-Closes on November 3rd

#artraffle #artmoots #OCsky #zaldivart

THE 666 RAFFLE +DTYS SPECIAL

From left to right:

Teresa Esquivel, wearing a yellow t-shirt, blue jeans, black boots, grey bandages bellow her right knee. She has brown skin, shoulder lenght dark brown hair covering the left side of her face, baggy eyes with chocolate irises. Her left lower arm is covered with a reddish black stone gaunlet, and she's holding a brown.

Carolina Esquivel, an olive skinned woman with black straight hair, green eyes, on her knees, wearing an oversized purple sweater, She has aquamarine auras in her hands and is levitating a turquoise 6

Helena Floris-Gorç, a young woman with white skin, blue eyes and black waist-leght hair. She wears a white blouse, blue skirt, leather belt and red beret. She has her right forearm and left lower leg covered in ice. She's sitting crosslegged on a frozen 6.

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 5d

Your talent for writing pulpy stories is rusty. AIs can now write them. Someone sent you a rare human-derived amalgamation of words and ideas that seem to have heart - only minimally aligned with an overlord.
How encouraging, if there was time and space to shake off the rust.
#scififri #vss365 #pulp

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 6d

In our twisted fairy tale, the grief gets you again. You are overwhelmed and will be for a while.
Because of the roles laid down by whose ancestors had giants with athlete's foot, there's no oasis for you. You long for a so-called reality less grimm.
#vss365 #oasis #writemap #fairytalepoets

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Mitchell Squid @mitchellsquid.bsky.social · 8d

Home from the sea
Mitchell P
#art

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 7d

Spell makes time go as a blur, but the curse is how much hollow voices trip you up - how they fit time like a glove it never replaces. The curse is how much you don't, and in this spell, you must still figure out how to utilize the time on their side.

#vss365 #blur #horrorprompt

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 8d

Stamina tested over and over again no longer looks like stamina to some people. It wasn't much of a conundrum - fall in line with their way of thinking, be just another one, or pan away to a scarcer view. Not scarce on downtrodden history. But scarce on you nodding along.
#inkmine #vss365 #conundrum

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 9d

Wouldn't sublimate
to the lack of just ...
kindness. Not easy
any which way but kindness
makes a way where
roads meet again.
Is lack of kindness
a kind of lack
of self-awareness?
People who lack that
are kind to themselves
in whatever way
sublimating to their own hype
is
#vss365 #sublimate

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 11d

'Does it matter where the navigator has the right to be, if they're too tired to ever quite get there?'
'Yes.'
#fastprompt

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 11d

Needless designs in quietude. You were taking it all in.
Did you think you could look at things without one showing up?
A watcher eyes you suspiciously. It's apparent to you the watcher looks as much as they could only be local via who they work for as you do to them.
#fastprompt

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 11d

Blink and the curtains stop being lifeless. They're billowing again. The air whooshes even though the window is closed.
It's not air-tight, but you once checked for hours till you realized it didn't need to be.
You're so tired ... whatever you are, billow.

#fastprompt #horrorprompt

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