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Mallory Wilde
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writer, fangirl, witch
Mallory’s a pen name, but you can still call me Mal

https://mallorywilde.carrd.co/
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Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · 13h
My very first book ever (🥺) is now out in the world.

Get it from your favorite digital store here: books2read.com/u/bxlNjP
A dark blue book cover floating on top of a smoky blue background; the book title, "To Break Such a Bond", is written in large letters in pale blue, and the author's name "Mallory Wilde" is in the same color in smaller letters at the bottom; a hand is reaching across the cover, and a shimmering white ribbon is looped around the wrist, with the rest of the ribbon falling down to wind through the letters of "Bond", and the end of the ribbon is stained with and dripping a drop of blood Glowing white text on a smoky dark read background: "1980s, London Val has spent decades carefully controlling his desires – the desire for blood, and for human connection. The past has taught him that indulging in one will lead to losing control over the other, and he can’t let himself hurt anyone else. So he stays in the shadows, the world slipping by as he watches – until the day Margot strikes up a conversation with him. He becomes attached to her before he can stop himself, and in a moment of weakness he invokes magic that binds them together – the supposedly eternal, unbreakable kind of bond. Finding a way to release Margot from the bond means reestablishing ties with vampire society that he’d long ago severed and risking the solitude he’s come to see as his salvation – not to mention trying to explain all of this to a human who thought she was just engaging in a little flirtatious banter. But Val won’t let his own foolishness ruin Margot’s life, even if that means he has to do the one thing he fears the most – letting someone else into his world." Glowing white text on a smoky dark read background: "Vampires can be very persuasive. If they want something, they usually get it, one way or another.” “And you?” He frowned. “What about me?” “What do you want, Val?” It felt like a test. He desperately wanted to pass, but he had no idea what the right answer was. So he settled for the safest true thing he could say. “I want to get rid of this bond, so we both can move on.” She sat back in her chair, arms crossed again. She seemed to do that almost subconsciously when she was contemplating something. Finally she nodded, stood up, and put the lid on the ice cream carton. “Okay,” she said. “Let’s take a vampire road trip.”
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Happy winter solstice ✨
A large tree covered in snow, at the beginning of magic hour when the light is just turning pink and gold A snowy bank where a Japanese maple tree is covered in snow, each branch coated like the snow is icing; in the background, more snowy trees and the beginnings of a sunset in the sky
December 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
withwildeabandon.bsky.social
My very first book ever (🥺) is now out in the world.

Get it from your favorite digital store here: books2read.com/u/bxlNjP
A dark blue book cover floating on top of a smoky blue background; the book title, "To Break Such a Bond", is written in large letters in pale blue, and the author's name "Mallory Wilde" is in the same color in smaller letters at the bottom; a hand is reaching across the cover, and a shimmering white ribbon is looped around the wrist, with the rest of the ribbon falling down to wind through the letters of "Bond", and the end of the ribbon is stained with and dripping a drop of blood Glowing white text on a smoky dark read background: "1980s, London Val has spent decades carefully controlling his desires – the desire for blood, and for human connection. The past has taught him that indulging in one will lead to losing control over the other, and he can’t let himself hurt anyone else. So he stays in the shadows, the world slipping by as he watches – until the day Margot strikes up a conversation with him. He becomes attached to her before he can stop himself, and in a moment of weakness he invokes magic that binds them together – the supposedly eternal, unbreakable kind of bond. Finding a way to release Margot from the bond means reestablishing ties with vampire society that he’d long ago severed and risking the solitude he’s come to see as his salvation – not to mention trying to explain all of this to a human who thought she was just engaging in a little flirtatious banter. But Val won’t let his own foolishness ruin Margot’s life, even if that means he has to do the one thing he fears the most – letting someone else into his world." Glowing white text on a smoky dark read background: "Vampires can be very persuasive. If they want something, they usually get it, one way or another.” “And you?” He frowned. “What about me?” “What do you want, Val?” It felt like a test. He desperately wanted to pass, but he had no idea what the right answer was. So he settled for the safest true thing he could say. “I want to get rid of this bond, so we both can move on.” She sat back in her chair, arms crossed again. She seemed to do that almost subconsciously when she was contemplating something. Finally she nodded, stood up, and put the lid on the ice cream carton. “Okay,” she said. “Let’s take a vampire road trip.”
December 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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THIS

All AI can do for me is limit the things I will discover about my writing and myself as I do the work.
kijjohnson.bsky.social Kij Johnson @kijjohnson.bsky.social · 1d
I will never use LLM for anything to do with my writing. Even my research is driven by good research practice, not AI. Why would I? I like the work. If you don't like doing the work, ask yourself why you're not actually doing something you do like to do, instead.
December 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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popsci.com
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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"A Greener Path" 12x16 inches, oils on copper panel. A painting about taking your time to notice the small things, staying calm, and remembering that progress takes patience. 🌼⁠
An oil painting of a girl riding on a box turtle
December 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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At my parents’ house until Christmas and they are very respectful of my night owl schedule except they have this habit of going to opposite ends of the house and then holding conversations by no-quite-shouting at each other.
December 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Shahobiddin Rustamov.
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Genuinely quite upset that I now have to live the rest of my life asking if things are AI or not actually.
December 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Librarians and whoever it was that engineered the Trader Joe's checkout system should be in charge of all logistical things.
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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A gorgeous tarot deck caught my eye at the thrift store a while ago, and I've decided to get to know the cards a bit by doing flash fiction for whatever card I pull. This is the first one (and yes, the fact that it was The Artist did feel like A Thing).

Deck: Ethereal Visions by Matt Hughes
The Artist card from the Ethereal Visions tarot deck; the card features an Art Nouveau style illustration of an artist, naked with wings on their ankles, drawing on paper while looking off into a vision of another world, featuring stars, clouds, a castle, and a huge, beautiful tree Black words on a pale blue background: "It was always best to unroll the paper slowly, carefully - just in case. As magic objects go, it was certainly not the most volatile, but it was powerful, and it is always best to be careful with power. Even in its potential form. The paper was old, and worn, and yet somehow smooth and new - blank, waiting. It held all the stories that had ever been told but it held them in secret, just beneath its surface. That was part of the task, to draw them up to the world again. The artist started with a line, nothing more than a dark curve across the plane of the paper. Drawn up, and then split into two, and split again, and suddenly there were branches. Suddenly, it was a tree." Black words on a pale blue background: " The artist paused, and looked up, to the world hanging in possibility just out of reach. Something small pushed its way through the earth there, broke the line of the horizon, and began to grow. More strokes now; more branches, blossoming into leaves. And in the other world, the dreamworld, the tiny thing grew higher, reaching towards the sky and the idea of itself that the paper held. It was harrowing work, if you did it properly. Making something that has never been before. Even if trees have grown for millennia, not this tree, the only tree like this that had ever existed. Called forth from the stories before it and yet made anew -" Black words on a pale blue background: "a form that can only exist once, for the sunlight that feeds its leaves and the earth that feeds its roots will be different soon. Will be different tomorrow, in an hour, in a moment. This tree can only be grown now, can only be called forth by this hand, wielding this brush, drawing now in short strokes that pulse on the paper as leaves tossed in the wind, as patterns in the bark. The artist drew the tree as only they could, and in the dreamworld it stretched its branches until they were wide enough to offer shade. And it was good."
December 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Well, I have to brag about this.

REVEALED: Nov 24, 2025

History & Society:
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I solved it in 0️⃣ Reveals & 0️⃣ Hints!
Revealed, a Daily Puzzle Game | Britannica
Uncover something interesting: Guess the topic using the fewest Reveals and Hints. Topics include People, Science & Tech, History & Society, and more.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Decided to start sharing some of my short fiction on Tumblr, because why not
Post by @withwildeabandon · 1 image
💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · a short story Dak hops over the crunched vinum can and then scoots backwards with his feet apart until they sit on either side of the battered aluminum tube. He eases his feet inw…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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My editing brain when I'm trying to just get a draft done: "This is the wrong word and you should spend 40 minutes trying to find the right one."

My editing brain when I'm ready to edit: "Okay but maybe we should check our phone one more time, someone might have sent us a very important message."
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I want to read All of the Things and yet I have time to read Only Very Few of the Things.
a young man is sitting on a couch with his head on his hand and making a funny face .
Alt: BTS member Jung Kook leaning against the arm of a couch with his head on his hand, pouting cutely.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I just pulled down the last note card, oh my GOD the dopamine hit of finishing a first draft.
withwildeabandon.bsky.social Mallory Wilde @withwildeabandon.bsky.social · Oct 16
I map out scenes I need to write by taping note cards to my kitchen cabinets and I just need everyone to know that I only have one cabinet left to write for this draft.
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Here’s some Sam Kalda art to make your Tuesday a little better.
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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It all comes at once. Everything starts with a scene, and I go into that scene, and beyond it is another one, and then another one. The further I go, the more I discover - about the story, the characters, the world.
weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · Oct 16
Q1: Do you build your world to suit your story and/or characters or does the world come to you first? #WeeknightWriters
Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters: Do you build your world to suit your story and/or characters or does the world come to you first?"
October 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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I map out scenes I need to write by taping note cards to my kitchen cabinets and I just need everyone to know that I only have one cabinet left to write for this draft.
October 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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#SFFChat

October 14: Snippet - Night

"Past the bridge, a faint path made its way to the house, but it all but disappeared once the car headlights went off. The moon, barely a sliver as it was, had passed behind clouds, and the dark wrapped around them like a welcoming embrace."
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · Oct 3
Apologies that the October prompt list for #SFFChat is so late! When I wasn't able to get it done for the first I wasn't sure if I should do it, but in the end I made one.

Hope the continuation of the spooky theme isn't a bother--interpret the prompts as broadly as you need to (including snippets)
1. Introduce yourself! 2. First Costume you ever wore 3. Share something positive 4. Snippet: Haunting 5. Character fear 6. Favourite spooky or horror book! 7. Snippet: Orange 8. What are you reading? 9. Have you ever scared yourself reading or writing? 10. What are your characters dressing up as for Hallowe’en? 11. What would your mc do if their doppelganger showed up at the door? 12. Snippet: Blood 13. Share something visual (character art, moodboard, cover, etc) 14. Snippet: Night 15. Does your world have any spooky holidays or traditions? 16. Do ghosts exist in your world? 17. Character most likely to survive a horror movie 18. TBR Check-in! 19. What’s your opinion on Bigfoot? 20. Is space inherently spooky? 21. Snippet: Hunt 22. Favourite monster 23. Reimagine your book as a horror story (or, as another genre if alreadu horror) 24. Ask a question of your own to #sff participants! 25. Share some writing advice 26. A story you hope to write but haven’t 27. What’s the value of horror? 28. Snippet: monster/creature 29. Friendship(s) in your story 30. Reading plans for November 31. Snippet: Share a scary scene!
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Val is lonely and having a very bad day.
A screenshot of the following text: He slumped against the wall and slid down to sit on the floor, giving himself up to his morose mood. Tomorrow he would figure this out; tonight, he wasn’t prepared to do more than regret his entire existence. Somewhere not far away, thunder clapped. The sky had been threatening a storm on his way home earlier, and now in the depths of night it made good on the threat. Rain followed soon after the thunder, sheets of it breaking against the house, pummeling the window in waves. The force of it felt like a relief, like his life and all his stupid choices and their consequences could be swallowed up by the storm. He pushed himself up and went to the window, watching for a long time as the sky repeatedly cracked open and then returned to itself, and the rain threatened to flood the garden. It finally began to abate, and he shook himself from his trance, wondering how long he’d stood there. He often lost time in moments like that. He preferred it, honestly - to come untethered from the world. To let time slip past with no consequences, because he had no ties to anything that time could take. Except now you do, a voice in his head whispered, and all the calm he’d found in the storm deserted him once again. He sighed, and felt a spike of hunger. He wasn’t in the mood, but it would be bad to ignore it. This was part of how he kept things under control – careful, measured care of his needs. No chance for anything inside him to get desperate.
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

✧ current read(s): Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

✧ newest adds to the tbr: books two & three of Katherine Ardens' Winternight Trilogy (adored book one)

✧ eagerly waiting for: Behind Five Willows by June Hur
bookspotlight.bsky.social Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Oct 11
bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)
October 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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cknightwrites.bsky.social
You know the voice in the back of your head that says no one wants to read your book?

Drown it.
Burn it with fire.
Get a bat and start swinging.

Don't let it exist and lie to you. Destroy it and keep writing.

Keep. Writing.
October 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Today's fight against the darkness is sponsored by Frog and ORC

(my skyline did this all on its own)
A screenshot of two BlueSky posts; the first one is by Orcspiration, which says "HANG UP YOUR GREATSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN."; the second one is by Frog and Toad Bot, which says "I saw the sun coming out, said Frog. I saw birds sitting and singing in a tree. I saw my mother and father working in their garden. I saw flowers in the garden."
October 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM