#PretendPanel On an impersonal level, T. Kingfisher, Stephen King, and Edgar Allan Poe (mostly for craft. First two for their prolific-ness) On a personal level, my indie friends. Seeing how hard they work to make their books shine and run their businesses. @allyxwood.bsky.social in particular, I -

Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 15h ago

Inspiration can come from many sources. Teachers and mentors, orher authors, various muses in our lives, and more. Tell me, #pretendpanel … 10th: Who inspires you (specific to your writing)? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#Octember I'd say that Milly would absolutely dominate in any one of these games that requires fighting, like Castlevania or Zelda, an she'd put Donkey Kong in the corner for a timeout. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · 16h ago

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character do transported into an 8-bit video game? You may eat a cherry and a ghost too, or a round plumber may stomp on you! 1/2 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Octember Weirdly swimmingly! Eleanor figures out how to exploit glitches, and she and Mick abuse that to survive. Jo brute-forces her way through levels, turning every game into a bullet hell for the characters. And Honeysuckle? Adorable bee *chaos*, let's just say.

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · 16h ago

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character do transported into an 8-bit video game? You may eat a cherry and a ghost too, or a round plumber may stomp on you! 1/2 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Octember Acanthus and Cypress from #TFTNG would do fantastic. Rebecca from #s3 would probably not do well at all, she'd hide from the monsters xD Phoebe from #YP would do totally fine.

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · 16h ago

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character do transported into an 8-bit video game? You may eat a cherry and a ghost too, or a round plumber may stomp on you! 1/2 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Octember Maira would do pretty well as Samus - though she'd wish for a sword arm in addition to the gun! Mario, pac-man, anything else... She'd hate the weird world and video game logic :') #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · 16h ago

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character do transported into an 8-bit video game? You may eat a cherry and a ghost too, or a round plumber may stomp on you! 1/2 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Octember Wren would be pretty good at this! She is already quite skilled at breaking into homes and spying on people. She loves making lists! The part where you leave things instead of taking them might trip her up a bit, but I'm sure Spencer could keep her on mission. #Wrencer #WritingPrompts

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · yesterday

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character handle becoming Santa Claus? A gift of new socks may be boring, it's true, but they'll keep the Yule Cat from eating you. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Octember I think Geni would consider it tiresome, but Kallista would actually love it. ... a rare instance of something I haven't already planned to have happen! But it inspires me to make it happen 😁

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · yesterday

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character handle becoming Santa Claus? A gift of new socks may be boring, it's true, but they'll keep the Yule Cat from eating you. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Octember Maira would handle it pretty well! She's already pretty much running a courier service - and Cannibals can be fast and stealthy when they need to! Delivering presents without being seen would be a game to them! #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · yesterday

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character handle becoming Santa Claus? A gift of new socks may be boring, it's true, but they'll keep the Yule Cat from eating you. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Evening. Finally getting around to puzzles I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 10th 2026 (Hard), in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟠🟩🟠 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟠🟩 cluesbysam.com

Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

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#Conlangity Nouns are pretty simple. They all pluralise the same - the "li" prefix - and Athan as a whole is an ungendered language. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 2d ago

#Conlangity Day 9 We're deep in the grammar weeds now! Today's question is: how do you modify your nouns, if at all? Do they take different forms (changed spelling, added affixes, additional words) when they become plural? What about different genders or cases? As usual, more info in the 🧵👇️!

A lynx-coopers hawk gryphon commission

@duckvalentine.bsky.social is truly one of the best reporters in this industry, and quite frankly, the only one I trust to write a story like this. Just a complicated, messy story that needed to be told

Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterday

Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755

#SpellFocus Acanthrus Minitaur draws glyphs with mazes. The inherent randomness of dead ends and false leads, solved by rats, mice, fungi... Every pattern unlocks another spell. He sinks hours into his research, cultivating slime molds, breeding the smartest rats, rewarding them all with cheese.

#Octember You get to find out in the sequel to "Hell Is Work" which is "Hail Santa"! Virgil tries to figure out how to pay for it all. Lucifer is very disturbed by the economic unfairness. And Blake's the only one not having a breakdown. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · yesterday

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character handle becoming Santa Claus? A gift of new socks may be boring, it's true, but they'll keep the Yule Cat from eating you. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#PretendPanel Do I have one? Lol I don't think so. I started writing really young. I decided to start sharing when my brother passed away. He still had drawings I did him 20 years before. He also enjoyed writing, art, and music. I dunno, maybe someone needs my work and I'll never know.

Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 2d ago

#pretendpanel Loved everyone's answers last weekend! Tell me more about how you got to this point (though maybe just the elevator pitch so we're not here all day) 🤭 9th October: What was your origin story/the spark that ignited your writing? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#Octember Emily would be fine with it~ She'd like just making kids happy :D Maybe she could even get a cute Christmas-themed outfit~

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · yesterday

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character handle becoming Santa Claus? A gift of new socks may be boring, it's true, but they'll keep the Yule Cat from eating you. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#pretendpanel I've told this before. I've always written. But what started me writing romantasy was a dare from my roommate. We were watching the anime isekai: In Another World With My Smartphone... which I quite like, and she does not... And she dared me to do better. So I did!

Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 2d ago

#pretendpanel Loved everyone's answers last weekend! Tell me more about how you got to this point (though maybe just the elevator pitch so we're not here all day) 🤭 9th October: What was your origin story/the spark that ignited your writing? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#PretendPanel I've always loved writing, ever since I was a kid. It started with coming up with stories for characters my sister and I made, and then I got into fanfics. I knew I wanted to be an author one day, so I made sure to learn more about writing technique with every fanfic I worked on~

Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 2d ago

#pretendpanel Loved everyone's answers last weekend! Tell me more about how you got to this point (though maybe just the elevator pitch so we're not here all day) 🤭 9th October: What was your origin story/the spark that ignited your writing? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#Octember D9 Well, first of, great surprise at Mr Clause for *being real*. Then calling for advice from roommate and people from the book on how to proceed (after realizing the importance of the event) and then knuckling down to do the thing, hoping no one notices Milly #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · yesterday

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character handle becoming Santa Claus? A gift of new socks may be boring, it's true, but they'll keep the Yule Cat from eating you. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

I've been writing for fun since I was ~8 years old. I don't remember what started it, but I have sparks for individual stories that I can recall☺️ For Rites of Departure, it was my annoyance with ghost hunting shows. I thought: What if we *could* see those spirits on tv? And make it a fantasy world!

Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 2d ago

#pretendpanel Loved everyone's answers last weekend! Tell me more about how you got to this point (though maybe just the elevator pitch so we're not here all day) 🤭 9th October: What was your origin story/the spark that ignited your writing? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#Octember #TFTNG - Acanthus would absolutely be filled with joy. Cypress would be overwhelmed with the thought of ruining Christmas. #S3 Rebecca is straight up not having a good time xD She hates kids. #YP Phoebe would straight up refuse and ruin Christmas.

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · yesterday

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character handle becoming Santa Claus? A gift of new socks may be boring, it's true, but they'll keep the Yule Cat from eating you. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Conlangity 9. As I mentioned yesterday, plurals in Kraslan are accomplished with suffixes: - Adding a -y to the end of feminine nouns (or -ly if it already ends in /y/ or in a diphthong or triphthong): arylo (wing) > aryloy - Adding an -(l)i to the end of masculine nouns: 🧵 #ChroniclesOfTheRealms

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 2d ago

#Conlangity Day 9 We're deep in the grammar weeds now! Today's question is: how do you modify your nouns, if at all? Do they take different forms (changed spelling, added affixes, additional words) when they become plural? What about different genders or cases? As usual, more info in the 🧵👇️!

#Octember Mick would take to it beautifully, because he's kinda used to having shittons of responsibility dumped onto him. At the very least, this would make kids happy and is relatively low-stakes compared to what he already does, so he'd enjoy it more. Hell, I can see him *getting into it*. (1/2)

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · yesterday

Please try to remember the 9th of #Octember! TODAY'S QUESTION: How would your character handle becoming Santa Claus? A gift of new socks may be boring, it's true, but they'll keep the Yule Cat from eating you. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

I'm not an artist, but I'm also not going to steal from artists, so here's proof that you can do promo images without using AI!

#AwesomeCharacters The only thing I write about is Geni's St Seraphina pendant, which she uses as a spell focus. Her parents gave it to her when she was initiated as a nun. That being said, Nush put so many beautiful trinkets on them in her interpretation that I kinda wanna write those in now 🥹

💀🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊👻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters Character design question! Does your character wear jewelry or similar decorative items? Do they wear something special all the time, or do they change it up regularly? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“Lamb chop, it’s finally #friyay.” - Jolene Have a good day. #cats #CatsOfBluesky #gato

#PretendPanel I've been writing since I was old enough to read. I can't not write. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 2d ago

#pretendpanel Loved everyone's answers last weekend! Tell me more about how you got to this point (though maybe just the elevator pitch so we're not here all day) 🤭 9th October: What was your origin story/the spark that ignited your writing? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

X and Substack are run by edgelord fascists and there is zero good reason for anyone to continue using either platform whilst plenty of alternatives exist www.theverge.com/report/10066...

Doxxing Jane Doe

X and Substack aren’t doing anything to stop users from harassing women they believe are connected to the rape case — and the women who aren’t.

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I know several trans people who have fled the U.K. over the last few years because of its sharp descent into transphobia The most recent is the parent of a trans child - who I have personally known for 10 years - who are uprooting their entire family to move to Australia.

Leaving the UK with a heavy heart

Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…

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