Well considering Jaye has a habit of not turning on the lights in the morning when getting out of bed... yeah. Probably her tripping over something. XD (In the MMA cage: agile and graceful. Outside of it: her feet betray her)

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters You and all your characters are staying together somewhere! You hear a loud crash, then silence. Which one do you immediately suspect, and what do you think just happened? Are you worried or mad? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

How did I manage to miss this one??? Post canon, Jaye and Shaylock get a floofy black Maine Coon named Witch =^-^= Persephone also has a winged lion friend in the Beastiary. In a fun hockey AU I am writing, Matty doesn't just act like a cat sometimes... she can shapeshift into an orange tabby.

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Happy International Cat Day! Are any of your characters cats, or do they have cats? Please tell me about them! Alternately, please give me your character's most cat-like trait! 🐈 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Hilariously enough, wondering led to me writing more of Jaye's story and compiling Ink Stained Wolf. As for Guardian's Persephone... she lingers. Her world whispers to me still, even though I know I may never go back. And if I do, the words may not be as good as I want them to be.

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters How much do you think about your character's life after the current story? Do you move on after the story ends? Or play out much of their life in your mind? Do you plan to write it or is it just for you? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

.... *sighs* *holds up Jaye by the scruff* This woman. I swear. Could she please stop making her family and wife worry for two seconds???? Oh wait. She can't. (We love her anyway)

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Welcome to the Intermittent Character Award Ceremonies!👏 Amongst all your characters who gets the superlative? Today's award goes to: Most Worried About! Who stresses out the most people? Please award them!🥇 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

JAYELOCK :D Jaye and Shaylock. Beloved broken lesbian idiots in love. They are an utter delight to write. One of my early readers almost shipped Jaye and her rival Kit even though he is gay and they hate each other. Fun fact, this "fan ship" is canon now because of that reader. 1/2

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · last wk.

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters What is your favorite couple or romantic set in your work? Are they MCs or side characters? Do you think readers might ship a different pairing? Are there any ships you absolutely don't want to see? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Best. Ocean. Horror. Ever. (No you cannot stop me from yelling about this one)

Sad Monster@dyre.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you crave lonely, salty #horror starring an ocean what remembers you and desperately wants you back... or just wanna go a little nuts with a wet noodle here is #BeneaththeBrine. amberreinke.itch.io/beneath-the-...

Hard to believe it has been this long since I became one of the Rêveurs. From the first line I was hooked. "The circus arrives without warning." Such an enchanting novel, I will never stop yelling about it. The characters, the little callbacks, the prose, the Circus itself. A toast, to 15 years!

erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Night Circus turns 15 this year, somehow, and the US paperback from Vintage Books is getting a gorgeous new look for the occasion. Cover design by Madeline Partner with art by the incomparable @alexeckmanlawn.bsky.social (who also did the art for the US paperback of The Starless Sea) 🖤🎪🖤

AND PROMOS... Stop. It.

Beca ✨🌙@becadreads.bsky.social · last mo.

This is not a safe space if you use AI at any step in "writing" your book. This includes the cover.

... I am one of those adults. Wonderfully of its time, complete with exaggerated 80s accents and a baby Keanu Reeves. Such great time traveling fun. As the gif says: Be excellent to each other. And rock on!

Sad Monster@dyre.bsky.social · last mo.

Have introduced multiple adults to Bill and Ted this week, movies I thought universally known, so if you've not seen them...please...go find and watch these funny, sweet movies that encourage people to be kind, have fun and make friends through music.

Have finished a short, 9k horror spin-off of The Starsinger Chronicles. Horror! Me! o.O I blame @dyre.bsky.social. Her and that sad wet noodle pirate and little pebble getting me into this man-eating Meremayde mess. The crystal egg that hides in a dark, damp cave... is for you.

#backlistsaturday The Starsinger Chronicles Journey through time, myth and legend, guided by the voices of the stars. 🏴‍☠️ Pirates, air-sailors, & Meremayde 🎶Mysterious Star Songs 🌈Everyone QUEER ♠️Ace rep 🌊Sentient oceans, ice filled with memory ☄️Wait. Is that a comet??? Download link + info:

Ella Murphy - NosSumusStellae

NosSumusStellae

ellamurphy.carrd.co

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · last mo.

Authors, which of your books need more love? Share your older books, your backlist, with a comment OR quote post. Add the hashtag #BacklistSaturday Add a link to your books. [All images need alt text] #BookSky #AuthorSky #IndieAuthor #ReaderSky

Come be a wet noodle lost on a wretched sea of salty terror. It is on sale, with all my other #queer #horror #ebooks for the month! amberreinke.itch.io/beneath-the-...

Beneath the Brine by Amber Reinke

[Horror Novella] Follow a wet noodle of a man lost at sea

amberreinke.itch.io

Did the survey. It is RIDICULOUSLY skewed towards AI adoption. Utter blatant bias. This survey is pathetic. WE DON'T WANT OR NEED AI IN CREATIVE AND CULTURAL SPACES. This message has been said over and over, and still, governments refuse to listen. AI is only inevitable if we decide it is.

Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · last mo.

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

Oh I love this question. For Jaye, it has always been her distinct Newfoundland/New York mix of an accent 1st, then face, the sound of her vintage motorcycle, & smell of cigarettes. For Shaylock, the vibrancy of her red hair 1st, then voice, her blue/green eyes, hints of dance club lights. 1/2

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · last mo.

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Technical question! What aspects of your characters are clearest to you or solidify first in your mind? Their appearance? Personality? Voice? Skills? Other? Is there anything you have trouble picturing? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

A Melissa McCarthy gif? You spoil me! :D While I'm here. Go read Dyre's things. Do it. Highly rec her ocean horror Beneath the Brine.

Sad Monster@dyre.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm told we're appreciated self-pubbed authors this week. SO...recommendations: @vincentlore.bsky.social for gothic and Lovecraftian horrors @esteemedbastard.bsky.social for romantic smut (got me reading words I don't like, monster) @nossumusstellae.bsky.social for rhythmic, singing prose

Ink Stained Wolf has several, though they all tie back to the same moment: the bar fight, and the two bikers who die at Jaye's hand. The third biker never forgot, and takes his revenge... more than once. The first revenge involves murder, the aftermath leaving Jaye with lifelong trauma. 1/2

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · last mo.

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Is it time for the return of Antagonist Day? It is! How many antagonists do you have (per story)? One major one with many followers? A group/team? One powerful individual, alone? Several unrelated ones? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Without saying your age, what’s your favourite movie that came out when you were 18? There are many, but... this one takes the crown:

Carl Fredricksen's Happy Dance

ALT: Carl Fredricksen's Happy Dance

static.klipy.com

Sad Monster@dyre.bsky.social · last mo.

Without saying your age, what’s your favourite movie that came out when you were 18? (the first film >.>)

me every time a slop user calls themselves an author or artist and tries to defend the indefensible

Genvieve Archambaul: You're Getting On My Nerves

ALT: Genvieve Archambaul: You're Getting On My Nerves

static.klipy.com

Sad Monster@dyre.bsky.social · 2mo ago

me every time a slop user calls themselves an author or artist and tries to defend the indefensible

This post was MADE for Jaye. She's probably going to stay out of it... unless she gets dragged into it by someone knocking her over. Or she wants to help the person getting beat up. She'll do her thing, light a new smoke & sit right back down. There may be times she starts it. /2

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Your characters' evening at a bar/tavern has been interrupted by a bar fight. How do they respond? Finish it quick to get back to their meal? Ignore it and casually dodge furniture? Flee? Did they start it? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Ink Stained Wolf: Jaye -her 1969 Honda CB750 motorcycle -MMA training -everything Newfoundland Shaylock -music (she's a DJ) -learning Gaelic as a kid -cooking Guardian: Persephone -reading every book she can -the stories of the world -learning about the Spirits and their power

DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#ThreeBigFeatures This time lets go with interests. What are your MCs three big interests? Let's exclude lovers/spouses/friends/family for the moment.

You all know who I'm going to pick XD Jaye. Has both said (and done) things she regrets. One of those moments being one with Shaylock, shortly after they met for the second time. If not for Shaylock's stubborn persistence, this would have been the end of any hope of relationship between them.

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Welcome to the Intermittent Character Award Ceremonies!👏 Who amongst your characters gets the superlative? Today's award goes to: most likely to say something they'll regret. Please award them!🥇 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Ink Stained Wolf: Jaye -so much self-doubt -quick to anger -can & will sacrifice herself for family Shaylock -hesitant to show her true self -can be irritating as fuck -stubbornest lass you will ever meet Guardian: Persephone -naive as heck -trusts when she shouldn't -can't fight to save her life

DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#ThreeBigFeatures This time, describe your MC with their three biggest flaws! Go!

There are many of these for Jaye, will focus on just three ^-^ 1) Learning of/meeting real family- full of dread and really should not be 2) First wedding to Shaylock- smokes almost a full pack that morning out of terror- still feels unworthy 3) Renewal of vows- excited, truly ready- & should be!

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters What's something your character is looking forward to? Is it with anticipation or dread? Are they right to feel that way or will it be better/worse than they think? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Ink Stained Wolf: Jaye -haunted by the past -punch first, ask ? later -self destructive hermit (fights, smokes, trust issues) Shaylock -playgirl (a social mask- never lets herself be happy- until Jaye) -persistent and stubborn -sometimes a little *too* observant (sometimes on purpose)

DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So let's try another #ThreeBigFeatures What are your MC's three primary mental/emotional/personality traits? Let's go!

I have written THREE they/thems in collabs with friends, two of whom belong to those friends, the third I created. Meet Uncle Jack, relative of Jaye. They are a transmasc 70-year-old lives-in-the-woods hermit, non-binary, possible aromantic but never confirmed. 1/2

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters It's International Non-binary People's Day! Do you have any non-binary characters? Please share a bit about them! When did you know they were non-binary? From the beginning or did they tell you later on? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Happy International Nonbinary People's Day!!!! 💛🤍💜🖤 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Ink Stained Wolf: Jaye -twin black swirling tattoo sleeves -bright blue eyes -square, androgynous face Shaylock -sharp cheekbones -bright as fuck red hair -can't hide in a crowd (she's 6'2") Guardian: Persephone -skunk-stripe hair -is short (5'3") -draconic, purple/black glowing right arm

DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's a challenge for us writers: describe your MCs with their three most notable physical features. Are your characters visually memorable? Do they conjure up an image? So let's go... #ThreeBigFeatures

My #SmallPitch for Ink Stained Wolf! Best of luck to everyone participating :)

Uhh...... *thinks hard to 20 years ago* I think her name was Archer? She was some kind of swordswoman. Never wrote her again. And there was a story about people with a slow-kill virus that appeared as tattoos on the skin. I forget the names. Blackops army lady and infected lady.... both gay. :D

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Who is the first character you ever remember writing? What were they like? Are they still a character you use? Or have they influenced other characters you currently write? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Jaye. And she's the one who *started* the fight on the first place 🤣 (Very much a punch first, question later kind of woman)

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Welcome to the Intermittent Character Award Ceremonies!👏 Where you choose, amongst all your characters, who gets the superlative? Today's award goes to: Most likely to win in a fight! Please award them! 🥇 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts