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Lyra Is Writing
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She/her. Wannabe polymath from the PNW, currently working on a book about smoochin' a robot, and sometimes other things. Mother to three children (two cats and a baby). If you post GenAI, I will block you. 😘
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
Dear Santa:

All I want for Christmas is for the Oxford comma to be cherished, loved, and respected.
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Today in toddler life, I am grateful to have the type of neurodivergence that makes me well-prepared for listening to the same song over and over forever.
December 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Another evening, another load-bearing placeholder for my future self to deal with.

#WriteSky #BookSky #amWriting #amDrafting #Author
Light text on a dark background. A phrase in square brackets and all-caps reading "Some kind of dramatic display goes here"
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Finish the ending of my AndroidWIP, then go back and rewrite everything that needs to be changed in the zero draft (which is… most of it. ._.). Then, MAYBE, show it to some people!

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
#booksky
hiriadunning.com Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.com · 11d
#pretendpanel, I can't believe it's only been a week, it feels like longer! Tell me...

December 19th: Is there a tangible achievement you want to reach in 2026?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social December 19th: Is there a tangible achievement you want to reach in 2026? Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Hazel meets Jen, head of the robotics company interviewing her for a ~*mysterious*~ summer research position. (What would a robotics manufacturer want an anthropology grad student for? 👀)

#WIPSnips #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #amwriting #WriteSky #BookSky #romance #sciencefiction
Light text on a dark background, reading: “We have all the equipment to do our fabrication in-house,” Jen says conversationally. “Of course, we send larger orders to outside shops, but when we’re in the design phase it helps to be able to make incremental adjustments on the fly and iterate ideas as many times as we want. And I’m sure there are some employees who will try to tell you that I’m a control freak, but I prefer to think of myself as having high standards.” She glances back at me with a sheepish look. “I promise I’m not terrible to work for, and you won’t be doing anything with production, anyway.” “I actually wasn’t super clear on what I *would* be doing,” I say, almost succeeding in not saying it like a question. All of the materials that I’ve gotten during the interview process have been more than a little cagey about what exactly the project they want me for actually is, and the tasks they’ve had me doing seem almost totally random. I’ve submitted some writing samples, and completed a bunch of surveys and questionnaires—a couple personality tests, a weird moral questions test almost like they do for job interviews but way more intense, and then one on categorizing facial expressions and body language, of all things—that they paid me for, but have still left me scratching my head.
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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kohler.bsky.social
oh my god
Jeopardy answer: "A literate spider on a farm sends messages to her non-Japanese friend who is obsessed with Japanese culture" Jeopardy contestant gets the right question, which is "What is 'Charlotte's Weeb?'"
December 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
lyracurley.bsky.social
I really love the idea of Zeke meeting a dog for the first time and being completely smitten. Plus since this draft probably won’t include his POV it would be fun to do that.

#WritingPrompts #WriteSky #BookSky #amwriting #WIP #scifi #romance
zprospero.bsky.social Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 12d
For your WIPs or published stories, if you were asked to write a "bonus scene" outside of the main plot, what would it be?

#WritingPrompts #WriteSky
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Nothing even close to "clay" in current WIP, so went looking in the drive again today. This is from my first attempt at writing a fantasy romance.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #fantasy #romance #writesky #booksky #sff
Dark text on light background reading: *I guess I’m on my own, then,* she thought. *Not that that’s anything new.* She lowered herself down to a sitting position. Wherever she was, the floor was solid, although almost as cold as the empty air around her. She held up her hand in front of her face again and narrowed her eyes at the faint outline she saw there. If she concentrated… Despite herself, Alia closed her eyes, and tried to summon up what she could of her power. She tried to concentrate, to slip into what her grandfather always called the Open Place, where one could welcome in their powers. She imagined a hollow inside her chest, underneath her sternum, imagined shaping it, pulling the form of it out like clay on a potter’s wheel. Her power nestled there, swirling around in a whirlpool inside the space she made for it, growing as she gave it more room. Her power glowed, and when Alia opened her eyes, she was glowing, too. She held her hand in front of her face again, wiggled her fingers and gave a sharp laugh of relief to see the trails of light they made through the darkness. Alia stood up and looked around herself again. The darkness was still there, the void still pulled at her, the cold still leeched the heat away from her skin, but she could at least see now. She walked forward into the darkness, leaving a trail of light behind her as she moved.
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
lyracurley.bsky.social
"Soggy" was the closest I got, from a scene that will probably end up cut. I like it, but it doesn't really fit the plot, and also feels out-of-voice for Hazel. But you get to enjoy it anyway. 😜

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Light text on a dark background that reads: “I brought you your choice of water, apple juice, or Gatorade. Which one do you want?” *You are the most beautiful creature that has ever existed on this godforsaken planet,* I think, but all that comes out of my mouth is a wet gurgle. I clear my throat and try again, this time managing to croak out a petulant semblance of my regular voice. “What flavor of Gatorade?” “Blue.” I stick out a hand and make grasping motions in his direction, and am rewarded with a perspiring plastic bottle whose cap has already been loosened. Which is good because I’m reasonably certain that the slightest amount of adversity at this point would crumple me like a soggy toilet paper tube. I swallow half the bottle in one go, keeping my eyes closed the whole time. I bring the bottle back down into my lap, briefly uncertain if it’s all going to come right back up or not, but once I’m fairly certain that I’m not going to turn my bed into a Smurf crime scene, I crack an eye open and look up at Zeke. He’s got a pleasantly neutral expression on his face, but who knows what that actually means. *Like I don’t have enough trouble determining other people’s emotions.*
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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inkyblackfire.bsky.social
A meme of a cow by the sea with a caption "I can't go the rest of my life asking if it's AI or not"
December 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Me sowing: Man, it’s so great having a toddler who will eat stuff like chickpea tikka masala!
Me reaping: OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT SMELL???!
December 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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a-macaron.bsky.social
Losing a hyperfixation and leaving a fandom feels both like being dumped in a very embarrassing "why was I ever with them" way AND breaking up with someone you loved and losing half your friends in the divorce
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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charlie-sloane.bsky.social
Me trying to write a scene I dont want to
littleevil0ne.bsky.social Littleevil0ne *COMMS OPEN* @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 15d
Me: I want to challenge myself to grow as an artist
Me 5 minutes into challenging myself: this is awful I hate this why am I doing this to myself 😭😭😭😭
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
lyracurley.bsky.social
It’s meeeeeeeee! So excited to yell about this amazing book. 😈

#booksky #darkfantasy #urbanfantasy #romance #horror #preorder #coming2026 #seeyouinhell
stephwrites.bsky.social Stephanie Binx 😈 Pre-order HELLBOUND @stephwrites.bsky.social · 15d
Very excited to announce the Hellbound street team roster! These amazing humans are in for a hell of a ride.

#seeyouinhell
December 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
lyracurley.bsky.social
When you must un-cozy yourself due to drama.

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Light text on a dark background reading: “I—” I squeeze my eyes shut, tears leaking out of the seams, and I grind the heels of my palms into my eye sockets trying to clear my head. This is too much, too soon after my breakdown, and I can’t handle what he’s saying, can’t argue with what he’s telling me, can’t *think*— “I have to go, Zeke. I’m going to take a walk, and when I get back we can talk more about this. Please, just—just don’t do anything until I get back, okay?” I stand up and stumble blindly from the couch to the front door, shedding my blanket cocoon and jamming my feet into my shoes before shoving my way out the front door into the hostile world outside.
December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Repost because I quoted the wrong day! 😅

I don't actually have anything for this one from my current project, but I did a quick search of my drive and found this sentence hanging out by itself in an otherwise blank document:

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #YourGuessIsAsGoodAsMine
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December 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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adwills.bsky.social
manifesting:
🕯
🕯 🕯
🕯 ai bubble 🕯

🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯

🕯 for all involved 🕯
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December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Hazel is... not great at dealing with feelings.

#WriteSky #WIPSnips #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #amwriting #romance #sciencefiction #booksky
Light text on a dark background that reads: Of course, I chicken out after that. I tell myself that’s not what I’m doing—I’m finishing up some administrative tasks I’ve let pile up with the end of the semester, and organizing my research, and all kinds of little things that I pretend to myself are much more absorbing and time consuming than they actually are. But all it actually is is me avoiding confronting the fact that I kissed Zeke, while in full control of my faculties, and… I didn’t hate it. Oh, who am I kidding? I liked it. A lot. I probably wouldn’t mind doing it again. Which, naturally, terrifies me. So, I’m finding ways to keep “busy,” a state of affairs that probably would have continued until the heat death of the universe, except that, in the true spirit of Murphy’s Law, something even more terrifying happens.
December 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
lyracurley.bsky.social
If you like:

-Dark horror-adjacent fantasy
-Deals with demons
-Morally grey characters
-Disaster bi protagonists
-Shadow Daddies 😈🌶️

You should preorder HELLBOUND!
stephwrites.bsky.social Stephanie Binx 😈 Pre-order HELLBOUND @stephwrites.bsky.social · 19d
It’s TIME.

Pre-orders for my dark contemporary romantasy HELLBOUND are live! Link in my bio. 💜
Pre-order promo image Long wall of text (I’m sorry, it’s too much stuff) Why pre-order? It helps new authors for lots of reasons. And this author will refrain from devouring the sun.
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
lyracurley.bsky.social
When your best friend sees through everything.

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Screenshot of text reading: “So,” Ziya finally says after a couple blocks of idle small talk. “An android, huh?” “Uh—” I start, brain scrambling to come up with anything at all to say in response, but she cuts me off. “Oh shut it Hazel, we both know you can’t lie to me.” “But— I just— how?” I finally manage. My voice sounds pathetic, even for me. She starts ticking points off on her fingers. “You suddenly have a boyfriend who you didn’t tell me about, despite the fact that you tell me EVERYTHING. Said boyfriend looks like he stepped off the set of a Superman reboot, yet drinks half a bottle of soju without complaint or apparent effect. You’re interning for a robotics company that I know has been working on human-based models. And lots of tiny things that anyone who hadn’t spent the last five years working on robotic prosthetics wouldn’t notice. Plus I found his charger under the bed in my old room.” She pauses for a second while I make indignant noises about her snooping, then adds: “Also I’m pretty sure I designed his hands.” “I knew you were up to something when you demanded to read our palms!” “Yeah, well, you don’t spend a month working out a dynamic fractal generator to create unique palm creases without learning to recognize your own work.”
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Kill Bill Vol. 1. It came out when I was in high school and everyone I knew acted like I was crazy for hating it.

I never saw Vol 2, but I did watch about 10 minutes of Reservoir Dogs in college, which was when I realized that what I REALLY hate is Quentin Tarantino.
tprstly.com Theo Priestley @tprstly.com · 22d
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Innovations in anti-hostility architecture.
Two cats on a couch separated by a haphazard pillow construction. One cat has long white fur with a black mask, and the other is a grey and white shorthair with a cow pattern. Both cats look slightly bemused by the pillow arrangement.
December 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
lyracurley.bsky.social
Today’s out of context line where I made myself laugh:

“Come on, it’s not fair to compare *any* wedding to a fantasy wedding put together by two 13 year old girls.”

#writesky #amwriting #romance #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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junlper.beer
this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM